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What is the longest known sequence of forced moves leading to a checkmate for one side?

What is the theoretical limit for the number of consecutive checks?

Are there positions which cannot be properly analyzed by any computer?

Is the result in mini-chess known with perfect play?

How can the moves from this pawn endgame study be found without a computer?

Full board with full point mutual zugzwang

Engine not necessarily playing strong but "attractive"

What is the maximum DTM with K+J vs K?

From a full board to a pawn endgame in the shortest possible number of half-moves

Did black have a chance to save the rook endgame?

Can the bishops and knights triumph over the queen?

Top player with the lowest drawing rate

Could white have won this game?

Complete game Ojanen - Ridala , Helsinki 1959

Longest period with each piece "hanging"

Could black have saved the rook-endgame?

Adjusting parameters in the engine stockfish 6

Complete game Troitzky-Vogt?

Is there an online database for the endgame KRPPKRP?

Would it be a decisive advantage, if the opponent would not be allowed to castle?

What is the result of this pawn-endgame with perfect play by both sides?

Which openings offer the best chances to reach an endgame quickly?

Who wins in the game "knight" if both players play optimal?

Longest DTC in the endgame KQPKQ depending on the place of the white pawn

Mutual Zugzwangs & Longest Checkmates (DTM, DTC and DTZ) in the endgame KRPP vs. KRP

Maximum DTC and maximum DTZ in the endgame KRPKRP

Complete game Szabo-Groszpeter, Kecskemet 1984

What happened actually in the game Kreschmer - Laue, Aisenach 1951?

How big is the advantage for white in the "back-rank-game"?

Is Rubezov still alive?