"I can see the combinations as well as Alekhine, but I cannot get to the same positions." Rudolf Spielmann, chess master and contemporary of Alekhine

simplify the position!

Did you know? 🧐 The Tata Steel Chess Tournament began in 1938 as the Hoogovens Tournament in Beverwijk, Netherlands. 🌍 From a small local event, it has now grown into the "Wimbledon of Chess." As the 2025 edition kicks off today, let’s enjoy some games from the world's greatest

2025 Tata Steel Masters! 🤩🤝

4 rounds to go and Gukesh has very good chances to already leave the club of World Champions who never won Tata Steel

We need more puzzles like this!

And this was the stepping stone for the arrival of the most glorious chess move in history: En passant!

Who said classical chess had become boring and predictable?

Gukesh probably watching the game looking like this

FIDE’s latest position on the Freestyle Chess Tour sounds quite reasonable for once

Such a shame… Although I can see where you’re coming from, I don’t believe that’s the right way to address it. Is there hate speech on X? Yes. Misinformation? Absolutely. But it is not X, this is simply the world we are living in and all the more reason to continue posting,

"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made." - Savielly Tartakower, about me playing chess

A lot of subreddits have now become Soviet style, over-moderated echo chambers where dissenting voices get removed instantly. Everything is micromanaged by these power mods to fit a narrow set of "acceptable" posts and viewpoints. The only true public forum is here on X.

We like it even more the other way around 😉

So true

Nothing like reading a chess book at 1:30am while waiting for my 1‑month‑old daughter to fall asleep. Parenthood and chess study, both exercises in patience.

Why is this a brillant move? From one of my very own games

I used to keep my chess goals and training plan in the iPhone Notes app, game notes in a paper notebook, training drills in a folder on my computer, and analyses and openings on Lichess. It was a bit all over the place. Now I keep it all in one notebook, printable because I like