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YouTube video by Han Schut The Joy of Creating Chess Tools with Claude AI

I haven't written a line of code in 40 years. In less than 2 days, I built two advanced chess software tools entirely through conversation with Claude AI.
In this video, I share the joy of "conversational coding" and demonstrate the two powerful tools we built from scratch.
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Any chess position with 8 pieces on the board and at least one pair of opposed pawns has been solved! Lichess can now tell you definitively if it's a win, loss or draw with no engine required. Read about the massive technological undertaking to accomplish this partial 8 piece tablebase on our blog:

Netflix Releases 'Queen of Chess', Bringing Judit Polgar's Story To 300 Million For Streaming GM Judit Polgar's extraordinary career is in the global spotlight as Netflix released its new documentary, Queen of Chess, on Friday, February 6.

The documentary on the rise of Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time, is out now on Netflix!

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Did you know that you gain more and lose less rating points for results with the black pieces on Lichess? 💡

To account for White's first-move advantage, a standard game between, for example, a 1500-rated player with White and a 1511-rated player with Black is treated as a balanced game.

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Screen grab of some sad thing you can buy tickets to and probably photograph yourself at to let your followers know how badly things are going in your life

Magnus Carlsen is doing the business influencer circuit. The kind of thing they sell to people who aren't going to make it. The kind of thing they host in Dubai and advertise on YouTube. The kind of thing where chess is used as a metaphor by people who do not know how to play chess

YouTube video by Dina Belenkaya In Loving Memory of Daniel Naroditsky

I wasn't really ready to watch this when it was posted, but GM Daniel Naroditsky's friends at the Charlotte Chess Center shared this fine lecture after his passing, on the myths (mostly) about the Russian chess school.

Smart and entertaining. Will miss him.

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FIDE World Cup Finals: Sindarov Wins All, Esipenko Qualifies to Candidates GM Javokhir Sindarov won the 2025 FIDE World Cup, defeating GM Wei Yi in the rapid tiebreaks. Meanwhile, GM Andrey Esipenko has qualified to the 2026 FIDE Candidates after defeating GM Nodirbek…

GM Javokhir Sindarov won the FIDE World Cup 2025, defeating GM Wei Yi in the rapid tiebreaks!

➡️ Read our final recap, with annotations by IM Nitish Belurkar for 20 of the most important World Cup games: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...

Average chessable opening course... lol
#chessable #chess

YouTube video by The Chess Revolution The Chess News Podcast Ep 06: FIDE World Cup, Candidates announced, Carlsen vs. Caruana in the SCC

Week 6 of The Chess News Podcast is up! Lots of FIDE World Cup but also the SCC and... chessboxing.

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suppose you would have your chances if your opponent deviates somewhere around move 27. there are no games in any of this for as far as the eye can see

it's a repertoire for white, I should have added. he proved equality for white in the benko gambit in 34 moves.

I beat a high-rated kid in a tournament yesterday in a wild game where both kings were under constant attack and I did better at playing defense. Conventional wisdom about how to beat kids at chess (bore them to death with quiet positional middlegame and endgame grind) has not been my experience.

looking at a professional opening repertoire. the line goes to move 34. the GM is apologetic and correct that basically all of the last 15 or 20 moves were forcing. what to do.
the evaluation was +0.6 at low depths. it's dead equal now

and it's a benko gambit

GOTD. The wonderful Zagorovsky was not only a c.c. legend - he was a fine player over the board as well. A forgotten gem.

asking for a community wellness check on Thibault over at @lichess.org who probably has been laughing so hard all day he is unable to breathe

post from actual chess grandmaster Vasif Durabayli complaining about how lichess, a nice free chess website, is too nice and too free. h/t mr dodgy, of the twitter chess discourse "Providing so many features for free makes it very hard for any chess business to charge for its services" https://x.com/durarbayli/status/1989831281056592037

oh, no, i can't leave twitter, all the chess people are on twitter

all the chess people on twitter:

yeah I was secretly hoping one of them would sneak in. would be happy for aronian as well

Very happy for him. Rooting for the class acts in chess these days

Lodici Lorenzo vs Sevian Samuel - FIDE World Cup 2025 Follow the game from round 04-07 between Lodici Lorenzo and Sevian Samuel from the FIDE World Cup 2025 on Chess.com with live analysis, engine evaluation...

queen endgames, don't even try: part ii

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Sindarov Javokhir vs Yu Yangyi - FIDE World Cup 2025 Follow the game from round 04-04 between Sindarov Javokhir and Yu Yangyi from the FIDE World Cup 2025 on Chess.com with live analysis, engine evaluation...

chess is hard

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Watching two of the world's best players play a relatively basic queen endgame and feeling vindicated in my belief that they are basically unknowable and not worth the effort. we're just going to give some checks or run from them and hope for the best

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This sort of finish never gets old. Black to play.

Do you know who Lorenzo Lodici is? All I know is he has a great hockey name. Tell me, who are his seconds? What does he eat for breakfast? I want whatever he’s having. #2025FIDEWorldCup

I agree. And also would be great fun to see Jospem, for sake of capillaries in face of Kramnik

Curious detail from chess World Cup. Ivanchuk is asked about Naroditsky. His answer is rambling, not of great interest, but he mentions he had discussed the game he lost to Naroditsky with Kasparov by Skype.

I am surprised they still speak. Great respect to both. Shame there was no match