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Game analysis - The ending tactic: combining promotion with clearance sacrifice

https://lichess.org/Fz8qgirT/black#46


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Community Blog Discussions - Candidates Round 14: Sindarov and Vaishali Are Officially the WCC Challengers

Ju is one title away from breaking historical record.


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Community Blog Discussions - Castling in Chess Is Overrated

April fools.... No wonder haha! Nice work. Bodhana-Muzychuk proves that even if you are one of the top representatives of the entire sport and you face a 10-year-old, you need to castle in time.


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Community Blog Discussions - Women's Candidates Preview

It's not safe to predict with so much reliance on historical facts that go nothing beyond mere correlation. After all history were all written first to make those correlations start to exist. Especial…


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Community Blog Discussions - Women's Candidates Preview

A Zhu-Ju match would be an exciting replicate of Xie-Maia.


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General Chess Discussion - Who might be in the next candidates that isn't in this one?

Who will be the difference between this candidates and the next? 1. Those who may make it next time in Open: Abdusattorov, Keymer, Arjun, Alireza, So (also possible: some old masters around 2710-2730,…


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Game analysis - How absent-minded two players could be

https://lichess.org/49tUSjZw/black#8 Atomic. Two unrated players. Casual. 3 blunders each out of 4 turns (exchanging forced mate), centipawn 1366 vs 1068, accuracy 10% vs 8%. A miniature.... in compet…


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General Chess Discussion - Humpy will likely withdraw

@mkubecek said [^] > > You cannot just replace for someone because that person did not have any time to prepare for anyone. > > That's what I meant by pointing out there is not much time left. > > > T…


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General Chess Discussion - Humpy will likely withdraw

@mkubecek said [^] > According to the [Candidates Regulation] (articles 2.2 and 3.4), the replacement would be next yet unqualified player of [FIDE Women's Events 2024-25]. As far as I can see, that w…


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General Chess Discussion - Humpy will likely withdraw

Maybe different from popular view but I personally regard Humpy as the clear sole favorite of the women's candidates. Reminds me of Radjabov, who turned out to be absolutely correct. However this time…


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