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Han Schut
@hanschut.bsky.social
Chess coach, Chessable author, CM/NM
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@HanSchut
Chessable: https://www.chessable.com/author/HanSchut/
Lichess Blog: https://lichess.org/@/HanSchut/blog
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Very interesting!
Is the theme-based position evaluation heuristic (mobility, space, king safety, and other positional and tactical factors) the same as the one in the Lichess tools?
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Yes! I 100% agree.
Great that he took the time to watch the video and provide feedback without being defensive.
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Thanks!
I need to delve deeper into Monte Carlo to fully understand your point. So far, I have not found it helpful in developing my chess skills.

Matthias Wüllenweber, CEO of ChessBase, was kind and open enough to reply to my video.
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Yes, 4...d6 is rarely played.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I never came across a correspondence game in my local Mega DB.
My chess tools:
- CB and Hiarcs as DB programs
- Mega DB with weekly CB updates
- Corr DB with monthly ICCF updates
- Hiarcs openings book
- SF and LcO
- Forward Chess
- Chessvision.ai
- Qchess.net
- Lichess
- Chessable
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Correspondence players spend days analyzing a position with the strongest engines. You can still find interesting ideas as L’Ami showed in the NIC Yearbooks.
I only look at games post SF-NNUE and use the corr DB to see if there is consensus on the strongest move and any new ideas from top players.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
23... Nf6 24. d6?
(24. Rg4+! Nxg4 25. Qxg4+ Kh8 26. Qd4+ f6 27. d6 Bxg3 28. Qd2 Rf7 and wins.)
24... Bxg3
(24... Qc8! with equality.)
25. Rg4+ Nxg4 26. Qxg4+ Kh8 27. Qd4+ f6 28. Qd2 Rf7 29. Bxf7 Kg7 30. Qd3 1-0
Aronian saw the idea but chose the wrong move order but won after all.
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The knight came from g6.
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
33. Bf6! Bxf6 34. Qxf4 and mate is unavoidable.
October 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Second introduction video: variations without Bf5 and Early Deviations
youtu.be/aTL4NKZbVUY
Alekhine's Defense Four Pawns Attack: Part 2 - Variations without Bf5 and Early Deviations
YouTube video by Han Schut
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM