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29 Questions

A purely self-trained chess AI

Rules: en passant and draw by triple repetition

Why do masters open 1.d4 more often than 1.c4?

A new AI wins at go. Can a similar AI win at chess? Can it achieve pure self-training?

Bird's Opening and the Dutch Defense

Wrong lines of play to illuminate right lines

The history of the 175-move draw rule

Understanding the Tarrasch defence to the Queen's gambit

The theory of pawn breaks

Draws, castling rights, and the FIDE's 2014 rulebook revision

Because of the distortion of the computer era, is it preferable to study mainly old opening lines?

Draws, en passant, and the FIDE's 2014 rulebook revision

Quintuple repetition and the FIDE's 2014 rulebook revision

Threefold repetition in view of castling rights

Against Alekhine's defense, can White avoid 2. e5?

Pieces, pawns and chessmen

Why does Caruana kick Aronian's bishop?

How can an Elo 1300 player improve his or her endgame?

Chess strategy versus positional chess

Do chess AIs still use old-style opening books?

Is a candidate master considered a master?

Simltaneous checkmate and draw claim on the 50th move [duplicate]

Do the new chess AIs play gambits?

Rivals to the FIDE

What ambiguities remain in the laws of chess?

Karpov's Queen's Gambit beats Kasparov. What is Karpov thinking?

Steely, grim perseverance in the face of certain destruction

How can Elo be unofficially estimated?

In the middlegame, can one avoid compromising the balance one's opening has achieved? [closed]