| Game analysis - A beautiful endgame of a paralysed queen#1 I have just played an endgame where my opponent's queen was essentially paralysed. So I can just slowly improve my position, push kingside pawns, and march my king to eventually force a winning king a… | Entharex  |
| Game analysis - Please critique my thought process.#1 Hey, this is a game I played recently which I found quite interesting. I have annotated and explained my thoughts at the key moments of the game, and I would hope to get some critique on my plans/ches… | Entharex |
| Game analysis - High accuracy suffocation (with my own annotations)#1 I played this nice game a while ago. I would like to share it with you guys as it is one of my most accurate games ever played, and I kept on adding positional pressure on my opponent without letting … | Entharex |
| General Chess Discussion - Are players suddenly playing better?#45 @Artem-Kozirev said in #41: > Absolutely false statement all chess players IN THE LONG TERM play worse and have to fight their own decay. > Do not post nonsense trying to destroy a good thread ! you w… | Entharex |
| General Chess Discussion - Are players suddenly playing better?#35 I think people in general are getting stronger in the long-term. This is evident from the elos of bots like @maia9. Even though these bots are playing at a consistent strength over time, their elos ar… | Entharex |
| General Chess Discussion - Some opening please?#8 A bit more on why I like the English opening so much as an intermediate player. Firstly, most players of our level don't face 1.c4 much, so they are unlikely to play the most critical responses agains… | Entharex |
| General Chess Discussion - Some opening please?#6 @bobflanagan1 said in #5: > When white, play the English > > When black, play the French (1..e6) against the king pawn opening (1.e4). Against the queen pawn opening (1.d4), play the Horowitz Defense … | Entharex |
| General Chess Discussion - Random Chess Rant: People not using their clock in longer time controls#1 So I have observed in online chess that quite a lot of people tend to blitz out the whole game and rarely spend any time thinking about their moves in longer time controls such as 10+15 and 30+0. Why … | Entharex |