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1 Oct 2021
thibault
How to ask technical questions
Simple guidelines to get quick and actionable answers
8 Mar 2024
BlindfoldBlunderer
Play Live on Lichess With a Real Board
A tutorial on how to play on Lichess using your own board
30 Mar 2025
StockfishNews
Stockfish 17.1 is here + quick survey
Stronger, with a new speedtest command, improved hardware support, and bug fixes for tablebase suppo…
5 Jun 2022
FM
ubdip
Finding the value of pieces
What are the piece values in chess? The answer is 1 3 3 5 9. Is it? How do we know?
21 Dec 2025
RuyLopez1000
AI Slop is Invading the Chess World
Claiming that AI can teach chess is the latest fad
27 Feb 2024
Lichess
Lichess Broadcast Updates
Following the loss of Chess24 as a platform to follow live chess events, and spurred on by community…
12 Jul 2023
oortcloud_o
I'm berserking!
should you?
18 Jul 2023
oortcloud_o
3+0 vs 3+2 the difference?
a brief time analysis
29 Jan 2023
alperkarayaman
Connect your ordinary board to lichess.org
You can connect your electronic board to lichess.org via the easy to use mobile app that comes with …
8 Aug 2024
jk_182
Finding Pawn Breaks automatically
Difficult concepts like pawn breaks are best understood when looking at many examples. But finding t…
10 Dec 2025
tolius
Antichess: 1. e3 Wins for White in #79
The title of this blog is a reference to the 2016 article by Mark Watkins, “Losing Chess: 1. e3 wins…
1 Oct 2024
HollowLeaf
Chessboard Magic: October 2024 Update (Halloween)
Hello, chess lovers! After spending close to 520 hours of coding and continuous development on Chess…
21 Jul 2023
oortcloud_o
How long is an opening?
A new approach on where opening ends
23 Mar 2024
jk_182
Using LC0's WDL to Analyze Games
I always like to look at the analysis graph of a chess game. It gives a nice overview of how the gam…
7 Nov 2025
matstc
A Chess Metric: Ease (for Humans)
“I know the engine evaluation but how easy to play is this position, really?”
20 Nov 2023
oortcloud_o
Which openings are related?
simulating opening connectivity graphs with known techniques
26 Sept 2025
HollowLeaf
Open-Source Chess Pieces for Everyone
Free, open-source chess piece icons for developers and creators
4 Nov 2024
Lichess
Meet the Lichess Team in Berlin! Triff das Lichess-Team in Berlin!
Meet the team! German version also available below – Deutsche Version weiter unten
25 Oct 2025
micshafes
Chess Memory - An opening explorer for Danya's speedrun games
A project built to honor Daniel Naroditsky’s incredible speedrun series
12 Oct 2024
Toadofsky
Lichess ratings are not Glicko-2
Ratings shouldn't be stable achievements. Glicko-2 ratings are volatile after upsets.
27 Aug 2022
rdubwiley
Using Lichess's Public Data To Find The Best Chess 960 Position
Engine evaluations aren't the full story on 960 positions
6 Jul 2025
Everdell
How Do Chess Engines Really Work?
Have you ever wondered what was the logic at work in a chess computer program? If that's the case, t…
30 May 2024
jk_182
Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares
How can an engine be used to answer positional questions?
28 Aug 2024
BlindfoldBlunderer
Digitize OTB Games with ChessCam
An update on ChessCam, the free app to digitize your chess games
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