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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

The history of the 175-move draw rule

The theory of pawn breaks

Wrong lines of play to illuminate right lines

Understanding the Tarrasch defence to the Queen's gambit

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?

Threefold repetition in view of castling rights

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

What ambiguities remain in the laws of chess?

Quintuple repetition and the FIDE's 2014 rulebook revision

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

Pieces, pawns and chessmen

Chess strategy versus positional chess

Why does Caruana kick Aronian's bishop?

Is a candidate master considered a master?

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

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

Do the new chess AIs play gambits?

Do chess AIs still use old-style opening books?

Rivals to the FIDE

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]