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TheQuietMove - thequietmove.com - A calm place to learn chess. See our articles, reviews and blogposts on chess to help you, as the developing player! @TheQuietMove

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Happy Christmas to all our followers. Enjoy the festive break!

thequietmove.com/steinitz-v-zuk… the first world championship between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort - check out the minitiature against Anderssen too! Chess was fun in the 1880s!

@EugenePerel JH Donner?

Guest this chess player!

A very special mate in 3 - white to play. Don't just look at the obvious - play unconventional chess!

thequietmove.com/carlsen-v-caru… The 2018 world chess championship - all the games. Magnus and Fabiano fought it out for a cool €1m - I think Fischer would have expected slightly more :)

@allanbeard Very cheeky one! 1. Qf2

thequietmove.com/carlsen-vs-car……/ who will win the Carlsen - Caruana world championship?

thequietmove.com/country-most-c… - a short look at the countries with the most GMs, IMs and active players above 2000 ELO (data from FIDE October 2018 list)

thequietmove.com/how-to-solve-c… how can black exploit white's weak back rank?

A puzzle in the theme "loose pieces drop off" - white to play

thequietmove.com/the-dance-of-t… for the answer!

A famous study - black has a plan for all of white's moves, so how can white make progress? A classic in Zugswang!! #notyouraveragepuzzle #endgamemastery

thequietmove.com/how-to-solve-c… did you solve all our tactical puzzles? If you're new to tactics, maybe this page will help!

We strongly endorse this page - digital visual timeline to support children's understanding of their routine. Why not add "play chess" as one of the daily routines? @mypicturepath rocks!

thequietmove.com/opening-guides… the Sveshnikov / Pelikan Sicilian is a super-sharp system where both sides must play accurately - the link is a high level summary for players interested in starting in this line! We feature two classical games from Kasparov and Kramnik!

The Sveshnikov Sicilian is known to be super sharp. In this game from 1991, black finds an absolute killer move - what is it and who played it?

@elgransenor1 would you do the cheesy bingo adverts? :)

If I was a chaser, my chaser name would be "the bastard"

thequietmove.com/how-to-solve-c… a brief look at how to solve some nice tactics and some of the common themes

thequietmove.com/ruth-montgomer… Friday Chess Fun. An obituary to one of the greatest female chess players who never lived :)