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August 4, 2026

Four new educational articles are live

Stalemate, en passant, chess notation, and the back-rank mate join the free article catalog.

The club's article catalog keeps growing: four new topics have just been published, in French and English, each illustrated with an interactive diagram.

On the menu: understanding stalemate and why it ends the game in a draw, mastering en passant (one of the rules beginners misunderstand most), learning to read and write chess notation, and the back-rank mate, one of the most common mating patterns in real games.

All articles are free to read, no account required, from the Articles page.