Move by repetition is actually key in evaluation some positions though. If you are winning except your opponent found one move to get repetition then your position is not winning. Think king queen end…

It is unfortunate to lose ratingpoints this way when it happens by accident @DmitryOnishchenko . But if you don't change the ratings, players could use it to skip a game for free (e.g. when paired aga…

There are several purposes for doing tactical puzzles: a) to increase a scope of tactical patterns and tactical ideas; b) to enrich own games with learned patterns and ideas; c) to deepen and to im…

Playing until you have no pieces left is something only beginners and children do. It is a waste of your and your opponent's time to continue playing a game which you will clearly lose. The difficulty…

A lot of players use a game engine like Aurora and they don't think it's noticeable!

dear all, I have seen that some players use colours in their studies. Can anybody let me know how to use colours in the circle and arrow annotations on the board ? Thank you in advance, SRDNKWKW

Team tournaments are available now. Swiss is on the list of things to do. If you know how to code hit up github they can always use the help

Ok, RoepStoep, I understood that before integrating the code into the website, you have to use the back button ⏮ to bring the position to the start. So, we get # 0 at the end of the code.

You can always change the theme. Looking at the iframes in your link there is the same problem with incorrect url. Anchors like "#20" (for movenumber/ply) belong at the end of the url, after the para…

The first phase of the Christmas Marathon 2020 held from Dec. 21 to Dec. 23, 2020, has ended. During the 3-day qualification phase, 4887 games were played by 339 players from all over the world. Th…