Chess 101

Explore simple yet insightful resources to kickstart your chess mastery in this category.

November 26, 2025

AlphaZero is one of the most famous chess engines ever created, even though almost no everyday chess player has ever...

November 24, 2025

Ceres (short for “Chess Engine for Research”) is a modern, open-source chess engine that blends Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)...

November 23, 2025

A friendly, easy-to-read guide to every chess rule beginners and club players should know. Learn the basic moves, special rules,...

November 21, 2025

Caissa is a modern, open-source chess engine that has earned significant respect in the computer-chess community. Written in C++, Caissa...

November 20, 2025

PlentyChess is a modern UCI chess engine that has risen quickly in the computer-chess world. It’s a C++ engine that...

November 20, 2025

Berserk is an open-source UCI chess engine created and maintained by Jay Honnold. Since first appearing in 2021 it has...

November 19, 2025

Obsidian is a modern, high-performance UCI chess engine that rose very quickly into the top tier of computer chess. It’s...

November 16, 2025

Komodo is one of the strongest and most popular commercial chess engines (its “Dragon” line is the neural-network/AI flavour). This...

November 14, 2025

Online chess ratings are more than just numbers. They represent your progress, your consistency, and your ability to perform against...

November 13, 2025

When a pawn reaches the farthest rank. it promotes. Promotion is one of chess’s most decisive rules. It transforms a...