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15 Jan 2026
HollowLeaf
Suspicious Chess App Idea?
Suspicious Games, Engines, and Paranoia
13 Jan 2026
OnePunggol
Using Math and Stockfish to find the sharpest Opening Lines
A simple method to find sharpest (sensible) opening lines with Math, Python, and Stockfish, and nice…
12 Jan 2026
Toadofsky
Hope Chess Is Better Than Hopeless Chess
"Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack." - Wilhelm Steinitz
6 Jan 2026
Nanajoon
Why Lichess Works When Most Donation Models Don’t
Why Some People Donate to Lichess (and Why That’s Hard to Replicate)
4 Jan 2026
DuncanClotfelter
Is Blindfold Mode TOO EASY? New Free Chrome Extension Makes It Harder
Lichess Blindfold Mode is a great first step in practicing visualization, but it doesn't quite scrat…
3 Jan 2026
TotalNoob69
LiChess Tools - a review of 2025
... featuring appearances from ChatGPT
2 Jan 2026
HollowLeaf
Repertoire Builder 1.4 (Jan 2026 Release)
The Chessboard Magic Repertoire Builder is now officially eight months old
2 Jan 2026
c4Polo
How to Code Your First Chess App (for beginners)
New chess apps are being releasaed all the time. Even Vidit Gujrathi released https://tactics.viditc…
30 Dec 2025
AGM-Potuzhniy
Ukrainian Chess – an Open Chess Community for Europe!
Chess has no borders – Ukrainian Chess is open to Europe
28 Dec 2025
matstc
Review Your Best Games of 2025
A tool to view your most accurate games.
27 Dec 2025
Noobmasterplayer123
ChessAgine Neural Net Integration
I go over how I integrated popular Neural Nets in ChessAgine
27 Dec 2025
dirkster99
Making a Discovery in Chess
Discovered Check puzzle theme, related patterns, and the lichess.org puzzle pipeline
24 Dec 2025
Toadofsky
Ratings Science is Hard
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
24 Dec 2025
Toadofsky
What is Creativity?
Are we creative at using technology, or do computers have a mind of their own?
21 Dec 2025
Cliburn_Orbe
From the Philippines to the World: Why I Built a Different Kind of Chess Trainer
A personal journey to create an all-in-one training tool focused on the one skill that matters most:…
21 Dec 2025
matstc
Exploring the Narrative Arcs of Chess Games
Using engine evaluations to find representative story arcs from a player’s history.
21 Dec 2025
HollowLeaf
Opening Inaccuracies Tool
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
21 Dec 2025
RuyLopez1000
AI Slop is Invading the Chess World
Claiming that AI can teach chess is the latest fad
19 Dec 2025
desillusionist
VANTAGE: Your Private, Offline "Single File" Database for OTB & Master Games
LiPulse tracks your online chaos. VANTAGE is for serious study. A separate, privacy-focused command …
18 Dec 2025
NM
ZugAddict
People are actually Playing Molechess
An overly ambitious project of mine has actually been hosting regular games over the last month
12 Dec 2025
HollowLeaf
Using Maia and Leela Chess Zero to Find Repertoire Gaps
A novel idea for chess developers
11 Dec 2025
TotalNoob69
Did you know Lichess can do this?! Commands
... yes, Lichess has a command line
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…
7 Dec 2025
HollowLeaf
Integrating Maia2 (The Human-Like Chess Engine) into My Chess Application
A beginner-friendly look at human-style AI, neural networks, ONNX models, opening books, and everyth…
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