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Hello everyone,

I wanted to share some feedback regarding the new videos accompanying the monthly updates.

I've been a ChessPublishing subscriber in the past and recently re-subscribed after several years away. While I have always appreciated the quality of the written analysis, I sometimes found it demanding to extract the most important practical lessons from a d...

I think every game you play, or play through, will advance your understanding and confidence. I'm attracted by these chaotic positions and I think that is part of the appeal of the French Defense.

Breaking up white's center, as here, is a significant accomplishment. Black's king is currently safe behind a wall of pawns and with good piece development. White's king bishop ...

Hello,

I like to play the french defense and tried to play it like it is recommended by Krykun in his chessable course. In several of his lines, he recommends to push ...g5, ...h5 etc. while the black king is still in the centre. But I have difficulties playing these kind of positions, because I am always worried about my king stuck in the centre. I constantly fear my kin...

Thank you all for your answers. They were all very helpful indeed! .

Antique that I am, I often use Stockfish in the Arena (3.5.1) chess GUI -- and rightly or wrongly I sometimes leave it running at 40 moves in 2 hours on its Demo setting, when the engine plays itself (how many GUIs can do that?) ...

I've just got a new laptop, spec as below. When 'analysing' with Stockfish as above, how many cores should i use (and reduce them to for shor...