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How to find only-winning moves in the endgame?

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I have 1092 FIDE Blitz rating , but I am not a Blitz rated player . So am I a blitz rated player or not? [closed]

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Rating system (glicko, elo, etc): is 'predict the outcome of games' the same thing as 'reduce the number of upsets'?

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modified yesterday BCLC 1,546

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Why don't these statistics disprove white's supposed larger (practical?) advantage in chess960?

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modified yesterday BCLC 1,546

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Is such a draw unsportsmanlike? [closed]

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(practical) Endgame resources: What's next after josh waitzkin's series in chessmaster?

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Why are some chess championships defended while others have the champion starting from scratch?

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Engine's 2nd best move

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When should white prefer a Maroczy structure vs. a Kings Indian structure?

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Game drawn - timeout vs insufficient material

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What is white's increased advantage in chess90 as compared to chess870? (Chess960 can be split into 2 subsets, chess90 and chess870)

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How to import a game into XBoard from the command line

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Three Knights vs one Queen, which is better?

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Who was, or is, the oldest WGM?

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Python Efficient Board Scoring Function To Use As Placeholder

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Piece values on nonstandard boards

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Elo disadvantage due to one pawn move in Indian Chess

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What are the piece values in chess.com's four player chess?

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Where can you play against AlphaZero?

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A special "dead" position

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How to understand which positions result from certain opening

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Is there an origin or story of where the pieces that make a chess game got their name from?

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On a glass board, which squares are "white"?

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Opening positions where declining a gambit is a blunder

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Can Black draw by perpetual check?

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Can I move a piece somewhere else if I left it but didn't press the clock?

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What to do when your opponent doesn't play along in the opening?

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How many windmills types exist in chess?

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Maximum number of quiet moves in a position

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modified Jan 16 at 21:12 Rewan Demontay 15.6k

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What is the longest current tablebase mate with a unique optimal line?

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What would be the ELO of modern-day centaurs?

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Moving a game up or down the SCID database list

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What is the highest possible number of pawn captures in a game?

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Illegal rook move? [migrated]

rooks illegal-move

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Is this move illegal?

rules fide

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Analyse a blunder

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Pawn went forward, capturing pawn that stayed parallel. Chess.com bug?

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