Game analysis - undeveloping in the French Defense#1 I recently played White in a game that began 1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Ng8?! reaching this position: https://lichess.org/mXf0MHDi/white#8 Stockfish at depth 40 now prefers the move 5.a3 (and sugg… | James_J_Henderson |
Lichess Feedback - Puzzle error#1 Puzzle #aoDb1, at https://lichess.org/training/aoDb1, incorrectly marks an alternative, valid solution as wrong. The official solution, 30...g5, is indeed winning. But so is 30...Rf5, which is apparen… | James_J_Henderson |
Off-Topic Discussion - Female Heroes#35 Katalin Karikó | James_J_Henderson |
General Chess Discussion - An interesting observation, is it a trend?#3 One possibility is some sort of recall bias. "Every time I forget my umbrella, it rains." (Those being the only occasions that stuck in my head.) This is why careful statistical analyses are important. | James_J_Henderson |
General Chess Discussion - why am i playing so bad#9 At the time of this writing, you won your last three rapid games. So *you* should be telling *us* what you did to break out of a losing streak. | James_J_Henderson |
General Chess Discussion - One hundred million dollars#6 When you file a lawsuit that has a 1/10^8 chance of success, try for an expected value of $1. | James_J_Henderson |
General Chess Discussion - Am i improving slowly?#3 @Foxmc It sounds like you're making nice progress. I don't see any reason to be concerned about the pace of improvement. | James_J_Henderson |
Game analysis - najdorf sicilian what an opening#5 Nice game, @CHESSPRODIGY_NKR ! If you like the Najdorf, the games of Kasparov and, more recently, Gelfand and Vachier-Lagrave may be worth studying. | James_J_Henderson |
Game analysis - Why so many blunders in this master game? Kosanski, Stanko (2425) Jusic, Zdenko (2345)#2 First of all, are we sure of the authenticity of this game? I don't see it on chessgames.com, although they do have some other games from CRO-chT Makarska 1994, which are reported as being at classica… | James_J_Henderson |
Game analysis - Queen's Gambit Declined theory: where to develop the king's knight?#1 In some lines of the QGD, White develops the knight from g1 to e2 instead of to f3. I'm trying to understand when one is preferable to the other. For example, in one of my recent games I had this posi… | James_J_Henderson |
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