What rating system does Lichess use? When you first start using the site, your rating starts at 1500 ± 1000. The 1500 represents your rating, and the 1000...

And there are many other considerations for both cash games and tournaments. But in general, you should only go all in preflop with a strong premium hand ...

In a general sense it’s always better to get a bishop and knight instead of rook and pawn, as you will have more flexibility in moving your pieces, as bot...

Just 37 of the more than 1,600 international chess grandmasters are women. The current top-rated female, Hou Yifan, is ranked 89th in the world, while the...

Can I Play on PokerStars.it if I’m not an Italian resident? No. Unlike dot.fr networks where the rest of Europe can join as a second site in addition to t...

The odds of hitting quads on the flop are a minuscule 0.2 percent or 407 to 1. By the river, it goes up slightly to 2.1 percent but the odds are still ver...

Today, the very top chess players in the world can make good livings from the game. Magnus Carlsen and Vishy Anand, who will play this month’s world chess...

e4, which is the most popular opening move and has many strengths—it immediately stakes a claim in the center, and frees two pieces (the queen and king’s ...

Is there a better app to play FICS on Android? Mobialia Chess Free includes an FICS interface; it supports premove and interfacing directly with the conso...

Stockfish working on 4 CPUs of an average local computer considers around 5,000k nodes per second, which is insufficient for in-depth analysis. Can humans...