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Today I played six games against Stockfish level 8. I believe that these six games represent most of my strengths and weaknesses in playing chess. Any pointers for how I could improve my playing based…

I looked at this, and concluded that the king would not be able to break into my position: b4/b5 are defended by my pawns, b3/c3/d3 defended by my king, and c5/d4 defended by my bishop. Am I wrong?

My chess program (Lucas Chess) shows exclamation marks, but about half of all moves have such exclamation marks. For example, here's the beginning of a game: White: engine Black: me 1. e4! c5 2. b3 Nc…

I just finished a correspondence game in which the position at the end appeared drawn, and my opponent and I agreed to a draw: http://en.lichess.org/qg7MTvvH/white#65 . [It was also a good game in tha…

There are hundreds of hobbies besides chess. One of the reasons I'm not very good at chess is because I have other hobbies which I devote my time to, even though I started chess at a relatively young …

This isn't possible, but there is a workaround. Suppose you want to make 'critical positions' at moves 10, 20, etc. You could create multiple chapters in your study: chapter 1 displays moves 1-9 but t…