At last weekend's tourney, on the board next to me, an interesting position arose. White to move: should she retreat the queen (Qf4)?  Or trade it for two rooks?  I had no idea, but thought I'd pass it along.

From a game last night at club. It's black to move (I was white), and I completely utterly don't understand what the engine is telling me regarding potential king moves. Let's ignore king-to-the h-file - which king moves win? Which move(s) draw? And, most importantly, why?!?

From a Vienna. Engine really wants black to play 7...Qh4+ and 8...Qe7. I never would have even thought of that. What's going on?

No tactics here. Looks like approx 0.0 to me, but engine thinks (depending on who's to move) one side is up by a 1/2 to a 3/4 of a pawn. I don't get it. (This comes from an f4-Vienna where I forced an early Q-trade). So, genuine question to y'all: who's ahead and why?

In the position below, Masters play ...Be6. Mid-level players play ...Be7. Why the difference? Why is one preferred over the over?

Kids these days . . . at my very informal chess club (held at a bar) I sat down to play a young teenager. While I was setting up the pieces he was playing bullet on his phone (even into the first few moves of our game).

Why is Nc3 so standard here and then Nf3, instead of the opposite order? To my amateur eyes they seem fairly interchangeable. Boris Avrukh

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Played a fairly drawish game (which I lost due to mistake at end) but I had a chance of winning here. I needed an engine to help me figure this out -- how does black win here?

Italian. My opponent forgot to play c3. I have three ways to take back the pawn, why does the engine prefer one so much over the other two?

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