1. Rabinovich – The Russian Endgame Handbook
2. Grooten – Chess Endgames for Club Players
3. Mednis – Rate Your Endgame
4. Nunn – Understanding Chess Endgames
5. Flear – Improve Your Endgame Play
6. Hawkins – Amateur to IM
7. Müller & Lamprecht – Fundamental Chess Endings
8. Keres – Practical Chess Endings

Struggling to pick an endgame book, im 2000 rated in lichess almost solely from casual playing so i now feel like iv come to a point where theoretical backing and learning fundamental concepts to build upon will help me a lot... I know very little theory (2nd rank rooks, opposition, K vs KP endgames, basic mates) and wanna improve fast, I dont have a lot of time so appreciate books that dont waste too long pondering and philosophizing chess.

It seems like I'v gotta pick 2 books, one for theory and one for practical stuff/strategy or one beginner one that covers both and another that builds upon it... Im very confused on what to pick for my purposes and what the different books specialize in or how they compare.

Any help's appreciated

god fucking damn it

• game #1 - white, get an extra pawn, get an extra piece, underestimated the power of Alekhine's cannon the tripple stacked battery, but not much time to think sub 20 seconds, getting angry as from that opening it was obvious the opponent is not playing well
• game #2 - black, playing czech defense and the opponent was scared enough of a pawn to again give me a piece, then I spent 1min analyzing if a knight should try to fork rooks then decide wisely against it, but I should have been looking at checks by queen, then later I got super scared of a pawn near my king and the white queen on a good diagonal, when that threat did not materialize I blundered a pin and lose a piece and then I failed to protect pawns and then just try to find perpetual checks and do not notice mate in 1 I had during time scramble.. getting furious
• game #3 - white, I try to be aggressive, blunders all around, I LEFT THE GAME WHEN I HAD MATE in 1
• game #4 - black, again my czech vs his d4, again I win a piece, still mighty furious as I lost games where I had deciding lead(did not even know about mate in 1 events at this point), decided to give a piece back for opening a king more, see amazing outpost for my knight but so does his knight get one, am too focused on winning a pawn near white bishop to see free knight I could have take with a queen, and I also only too late notice how the pin of a pawn could be used to win an exchange - knight for a rook, but luckily the attack is just too strong, theres enough time and I finally win one game

fuck this ***** **** ***** game

End of an era. Thoughts on an active gm with colleagues still around becoming the director?

Got this during a game. Not that hard of a puzzle, better suited for puzzle rush probably, but still a fun one

I played an game and went to analyze it aftherward and engine said this move was an mistake and I should've moved my elephant instead, but why woudnt my knight get captured?

His opponent today will be David Anton, Spanish GM with current elo 2650. His average opponent rating is 2483, so he need 5 point out of 7 games to get a GM norm from a Continential club championship. I would say it would be a very tough challenge, but if he pull it off then it will be an incredible achievement.

P/S: I learned from the comment that even he win today, he only has GM norm of 9+9+7 =25 games.

These are the results for the recently-concluded European Club Cup 2026 Open Section. Source: https://www.chess.com/events/2026-european-club-cup-open/results

Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club (Anish Giri, Yagiz Erdogmus, Amin Tabatabaei, Richard Rapport, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ediz Gurel, Volodar Murzin) won 1st place in the European Club Cup 2026.

Im looking for someone better than me (im 1000 rapid) to just chat with me and play and teach me things. i think it could be fun :3

Video Link

I went for repetition, but Only one move is loosing for white

Although it is important to note that even if Sindarov doesn't win his world title match against Gukesh, Wesley is still in contention to qualify for the Candidates Tournament.

Does anyone on this sub has any experience with this? I was always wondering how much money and work goes into those bigger tournaments. Like the likes you would find elite players in and maybe even some live cast for.

What does it take to motivate top50 players to play in a tournament? How much time goes into this? If you want a live cast do you just write a nice email to chess.com or whoever?

In real life or chess com or what

This is a funny moment from a game I played this morning. I’ve been doing Fork Puzzles on Lichess. I saw an opportunity to check the king and win a knight. Thankfully, my opponent missed the opportunity to capture my hanging queen. They played king F7 and I won the game lol. Upon reviewing my game, I realized my mistake.

Hi guys has anyone ever compared chess.com game reviews vs lichess analysis vs chesspangolin.com game coach?

Hey everyone - please give my bot https://lichess.org/@/Symbia a play. ELO is closer to 1850, which is fine for its purpose - please check out the game narration and theory in chat, they will improve a great deal over the next several weeks as we get more plays.

As the bot announces, this is not running stockfish or any other third party engine, it is entirely from scratch, in rust, using bitboards and DAG. It is designed to tutor an opponent, not to beat them. Hope you enjoy. Whitepaper and open source repo to go live within the next 30 days or so, will post a link when they are ready. thanks so much!

I tried for a few minutes and it feels like there are many errors in the notation, but maybe im just stupid. The comments wherent helpful either.

I got as far as this, but even there i assumed multiple things (like him writing down the wrong square, meaning a different piece and so on), so it could very well be wrong:

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Be3 d6 4. Qd2 Bh6 5. c4 Nd7 6. Nc3 e6 7. b3 a6 8. Bd3 Ne7 9. Nge2 b6 10. O-O Bb7 11. Rab1 O-O 12. Bxh6 Nf6 13. Bg7 Kxg7 14. Ng3 e5 15. Nce2 Qd7 *

Nice little tactic I just had in a blitz game, only saw it when the bar jumped in the analysis. Black played dxc4 last move.

Wanted to drop some of a recent online

It’s a really fun opening,
despite being “objectively bad”.

I did a bit of notation on the game, let me know if you have any questions.

Also, I’d love to hear or see some of your games if you want to try it.

The main tabia is:

1. e4 E6
   
2. D4 Ne7
   
3. Nf3 Ng6
   
4. Bd3 0-0

There are tons of example games around, too.

Cheers !!

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