Guides

These are the durable reference pages: ideas and instructions meant to stay useful, get tested, and improve over time.

Playing and improving

• The Five-Step Blunder Check — a repeatable scan for checks, threats, loose pieces, and the safety of your intended move.
• Five Chess Openings Worth Knowing — five foundational opening families, what they teach, and why beginners should still stop memorizing lines.
• Hide the Ratings. Get Better. — how to remove rating numbers from Lichess and put attention back on the game.
• Lichess vs. Chess.com: An Honest Comparison — what each platform does well, why my preference changed, and why I now use Lichess.

Tools

• Chess Engines — what Stockfish is, what an evaluation means, and how I use engines for analysis.