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@dboing said in #28: > is there not another way. to reduce the relative proportion or mere number of good enough moves left, slowly, without relying on material threat emergency possible acting with t…

@IgorKarkaroff03 said in #16: > What is USCF compared to FIDE rating? I'm 2000 fide and I don't make such blunders Seems +50/+100 compared to fide, so we're talking about 18xx FIDE range here - sounds…

@vlad4719 said in #8: > why people with rating 2000+ blundering bishops and 1200+ played with 95+ accuracy?!(USFC rating) Also you force people into making more mistakes by being aggressive towards th…

Words to live by, I tell this to anyone who listens and who's in a place to learn from me. For most of my chess life I've been relatively weak at most endgames, positional concepts, openings, everythi…

@Lichess Minor error in the text ? The last sentence of the Open section commentary reads > Some players have continued to drop; [...] also Nakamura, given his draw with the white pieces against a pla…

Loved the in-game commentary :D Should we praise lovlas for it ?

@Toadofsky said in #8: > A few times, but never seriously enough. Eventually I discovered shogi and lost interest in competitive chess, despite knowing quite a bit about it at an amateur level. This g…

@dboing those fluffy terms make some sense to me, I can try to explain and others may differ. A position is "understood" when one can "recognize" it quickly, and determine a good plan for it, possibly…

@cFlour I feel like we need your expert opinion on the crêpes vs pancakes question. Or are you biased in favor of cRêpes ?

This is great