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I always play the sicilian because it gives me the most confortable setup to play with, and I don't need to worry about much cheap tricks from white as much as if I played e5. Also i'm pretty much use…

So sometimes the position is closed and either player can open up the whole thing using a pawn move. Are there any general rules and/or studies about when is this a good or a bad thing? When is it goo…

I would be willing to play 2v2 on a 4-way chess board, now that would be tactical =]

I was wondering if there are those things for sale. Anyone knows if they are?

Meh... 13 women out of 100 players and she just happens to get 7 women in a row? Talk about lack of luck. They can tell what they want, I don't believe such coincidence. Easier to win the lottery, pro…

Haha this training is so fun. I wasn't aware of it. It kinda reminds me when I used to play osu! I still need to think to know where the squares are thouh (so needless to say, my record is lame) but o…

Thanks guys, that's the one =)

Hi. I'm trying to find a certain kind of famous checkmate i read in a random book very long ago... The problem is: I kind don't remember how it is done. I just know it happened when the opponent didn'…

I asked in other places and they recommended Chesstempo which is a PAID site. If one wants to train freely then there's this bullshit of number of movements allowed... restarting takes a long while am…