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Does the design of chess pieces affect professional chess players at all?

answered 11 hours ago Ángel 121

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Material value of the Berolina pawn

analysis chess-variants point-value unorthodox-pieces

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Is the Grand Prix Attack a poor response to the Sicilian?

opening sicilian-defense database

answered 18 hours ago Savage47 3,304

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After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3, is 2…Nf6 safer and easier to learn than Nc6?

opening 1.e4 petroff-defense

answered 19 hours ago Savage47 3,304

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What will/should the arbiter do if the side which cannot theoretically lose resigns?

rules resigning sportsmanship

answered 21 hours ago Brian Towers♦ 41.6k

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Why aren't early opening moves generally given exclamation marks?

opening annotation

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Pinned Vs. Checkmate

rules checkmate pins

modified yesterday Rewan Demontay 9,821

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Is the Evans Gambit declined good for black?

opening theory evans-gambit

answered yesterday Savage47 3,304

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Why don't masters prevent the pin after Bg4 in the modern Italian game?

opening italian-game pins

answered yesterday Savage47 3,304

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What are some good books on the Italian game, including the Evans Gambit and Two Knights Defense family of openings?

opening books italian-game two-knights evans-gambit

answered yesterday Savage47 3,304

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Vienna Gambit vs King' Gambit

1.e4 kings-gambit kings-indian-attack vienna-game

answered yesterday Phischmaster 1

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Check for checkmate

checkmate programming

answered yesterday Grim 21

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What makes a chess puzzle hard to solve? [closed]

tactics puzzles

answered 2 days ago Acccumulation 736

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Easy to use, MS Word-like tool to record chess games

software scid

answered 2 days ago Savage47 3,304

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Shortest game controlling a single square 16 times?

problems records

modified 2 days ago Rewan Demontay 9,821

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32 pieces protected once: How many moves?

problems records

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Playing Crazyhouse OTB

chess-variants otb-chess crazyhouse

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Can I place my rooks upside down at the beginning of the game?

rules rooks

modified 2 days ago Laska 6,637

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Is memorizing tactics a sign of improvement?

learning tactics

answered 2 days ago yobmamamam 1

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Why don't people develop a annotation symbol for “best moves”? [closed]

annotation

answered 2 days ago yobmamamam 1

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Is there a forced win in CastleChess?

chess-variants solving

modified Sep 18 at 5:35 Glorfindel♦ 19.1k

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On a glass board, which is “white”?

beginner

modified Sep 18 at 2:23 Rewan Demontay 9,821

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Helpmate of arbitrary length

rules checkmate problems

modified Sep 17 at 20:19 Rewan Demontay 9,821

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A position with the only legal move resulting in checkmate

checkmate famous-games

answered Sep 17 at 19:57 Robert Gamble 141

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How to counter white's attempt to get a massive center in the Giucco Piano?

opening italian-game

modified Sep 17 at 19:38 quantum physicist 31

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Owen's Defence playability

opening engines analysis theory

answered Sep 17 at 19:34 quantum physicist 31

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How do I get a well-rounded understanding of chess openings?

opening learning training

answered Sep 17 at 19:27 quantum physicist 31

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Is it true that amateur players tend to choose the advance variation after 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5?

statistics caro-kann

answered Sep 17 at 17:23 Doug Grant 21

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What is a pure checkmate?

checkmate problems terminology

modified Sep 17 at 13:03 Rewan Demontay 9,821

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Why does black have an advantage here?

beginner center

answered Sep 17 at 7:29 Savage47 3,304

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Are there moves in chess that are considered unsporting?

sportsmanship

modified Sep 17 at 1:16 Reinstate Monica 2,086

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How to make an AI chess engine which can play like a human of similar rating?

engines human-versus-machine

modified Sep 16 at 23:06 benrg 129

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Listing engine evaluation of each game after opening to track my opening skill level

opening database scid

answered Sep 16 at 18:38 user24723 21

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Does the MacBook chess game program not allow castling?

software castling

modified Sep 16 at 13:07 Rewan Demontay 9,821

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Retrograde problem websites

problems retrograde-analysis websites

answered Sep 16 at 5:15 Étienne 491

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Prove that White is not allowed to castle here

problems castling retrograde-analysis

modified Sep 16 at 1:47 Ellie 11k

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Which openings lines are both sharp and drawish?

opening two-knights

answered Sep 15 at 22:59 friscodelrosario 1,811

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Can a player capture en passant two times in a row?

rules en-passant captures

modified Sep 15 at 13:24 Rewan Demontay 9,821

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Why did Black allow White to capture en passant two times in a row?

analysis tactics positional-play en-passant

modified Sep 15 at 13:09 Rewan Demontay 9,821

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What should be defined as an en passant checkmate?

checkmate history terminology en-passant

modified Sep 15 at 13:06 Rewan Demontay 9,821

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Does anyone knows how to use the “replay training” feature of chessbase for tactics training? [closed]

software

asked Sep 15 at 12:36 bretlee 1,743

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Latvian Gambit recommendations

opening latvian-gambit

modified Sep 15 at 8:21 Glorfindel♦ 19.1k

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Playing Reversed openings

opening reversed-openings

answered Sep 15 at 8:14 emdio 865

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Concerning a chess problem generating program

software problems composing

modified Sep 15 at 6:46 Ian Bush 2,989

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Problem: Find White's second-to-last move

problems retrograde-analysis composing

modified Sep 15 at 3:36 Rewan Demontay 9,821

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Opening creation-is it ever possible?

opening

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