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Often times when you get a puzzle like this the best thing you can do is to put the position into an engine and see what happens. After a few seconds, StockFish 5.64 gave the puzzle continuation -9.29…

As many of you may have noticed, lichess recently changed the hourly Bullet Arenas by lengthening the tournament duration from 30 minutes to 45 minutes. This was done largely as an attempt to highligh…

Cynosure - "In which other sport can one player decide the venue, the referee, the judges, the gloves, literally micro-manage everything? " I think Bobby Fischer gave it a solid try in 1972 :P

If we are talking about a practical game of chess, then I'd say that there isn't really a difference between a mate-in-1 and a mate-in-2. Tactics puzzles are different though, if your reason for compl…

This is kinda interesting, instead of playing Ba6+ I very nearly played Bg2+ Kg1 Bxa3# but saw the faster mate just in time. And if we're aiming for style points I think a discovered-mate trumps a dir…