Say Chess
Martin B. JustesenChess writing for the chess improver crowd. Free puzzle book to new subscribers.
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Have a Little Fun: Mortal Chess
Hi!
Just want to share a little fun chess game I have made. It is part inspired by Mortal Kombat and part Diablo. The idea is actually to make it fun to practice middlegame positions. The goal is to survive and play accurate moves. Yo...
New Chess Site, The Tactics Ladder Update, and The Checkmate Pattern Collection
Just an update from me.
I’ve tried to clean up a bit and make a small place on the internet for the different things I have built, written, and created. So I have bought a little piece of land called: saychess.net
The Tactics Ladder
R...
Which Opening Offers the Highest ROI to Study?
In my last newsletter, I tried to build a puzzle-generator based on a method used by DeepMind, I only partly succeeded. The model I trained made only one puzzle in 10,000 tries, which was to be expected with my limited compute. But try to s...
Vibe Training a Chess Puzzle Model Like Deepmind
On the 27th of October, DeepMind, the creators of AlphaZero, shared an interesting paper (https://arxiv.org/html/2510.23881v1). They had succeeded in training a model that could compose rather creative chess puzzles.
If you want a taste, w...
Building a Systematic Checkmate Pattern Book
Hi! Even though I have taken a break from writing the newsletter, my curiosity for exploring new ideas doesn’t go away. Back in February, I wrote about my efforts in trying to discover new checkmate patterns with the help of math and comput...
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