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What is the earliest possible age to start teaching children how to play chess?

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What are examples of very aggressive openings?

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Why are rooks better than knights?

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How do I learn to understand the middlegame?

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When and why was en passant invented?

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Why is there a craze of becoming chess grandmaster?

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The path of learning chess

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Free learning material

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What is the easiest possible way to start teaching children how to play chess?

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What are some examples of promoting a pawn to a rook or bishop?

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"A knight on a rim is dim", but a knight on a corner is ... excellent?

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Do you find websites like chesstempo useful for improving tactical skills?

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What are the main ideas and goals in the Queen's Indian Defense?

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Giving up a knight and bishop for castled rook and pawn

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How did castling originate?

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Is it possible to get a professional degree in chess?

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How should black meet the Halloween Gambit?

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What are good openings for White during a blitz game?

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Are there any examples of high-level games in which the game was resigned or drawn without any captures?

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How do I find players to play in person?

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What openings are good for the repertoire of a tactical player?

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Good openings for a beginner (for white)

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How to deal with the Cochrane Gambit

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How to play for a draw

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Which classic chess books are in the public domain?

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Chess program for Linux/Unix console

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How to play the Albin Counter Gambit

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What's the correlation between FIDE rating and online rating?

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How can I generate legal random chess setups?

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When and why was the notation changed from descriptive to algebraic?