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December 5, 2025

For any serious student of the open games, holding a monograph written by the 12th World Champion, Anatoly Karpov, feels...

December 5, 2025

For generations, the Petroff Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6), also known as Petrov Defense or the Russian Game, has carried...

December 1, 2025

Middlegame play is the most complex and poorly-charted phase of chess, demanding creativity and deep assessment. Unlike the opening, which...

November 24, 2025

If you thought giving up one piece early in the opening was gutsy, try the Double Muzio Gambit: White willingly...

November 24, 2025

Since its first publication in 2003, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual has been universally recognized as one of the greatest chess books...

November 7, 2025

Amateur to IM by Jonathan Hawkins is a 372-page endgame and thinking workbook that helped the author gain 400 Elo....

July 22, 2025

This Volga Gambit (also known as the Benko Gambit) is a beautiful demonstration of how Black can generate lasting queenside...

July 12, 2025

Among the major opening lines in chess, few are as daring, or downright outrageous, as the Muzio Gambit and especially...

July 10, 2025

11 brutal middlegame puzzles from real games so tough even grandmasters struggle. Masters might never solve them. Can you crack...

July 10, 2025

10 insanely hard checkmate puzzles, all from real games on Lichess. Can you find the mate before the masters did?...