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You followed Beth Harmon’s rise to prominence in The Queen’s Gambit and made an account on Chess.com, but you just can’t wrap your head around the game at a fundamental level, let alone play like a ...

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Chess might seem like the game of old men in parks and nerds from high school movies, but once you learn how to play you might discover a passion for checkmates. Chess is played on a black-and-white ...

The mid-game in chess is one of the toughest portions for beginners to learn due to how unpredictable it is. This is particularly the case for beginners, who will likely have run out of book moves in ...

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Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...