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  • Never give up! (Also.. cheater?)

    So I played someone who seemed a bit below my level and blundered mate-in-one. They challenged a rematch and I accepted (free rating points?).. I did not play particularly well, especially after blundering my bishop, then losing the exchange. Some moves in the middle game seemed pretty suspect.. strange moves that were top or excellent, and…

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    • Yeah. They didn’t know how to finish off the game. Good job getting the stalemate!

    • Okay guys, I’m super proud of this one.. I think I probably had a personal record for # of pins in a game! Crazy fun game…

      https://www.chess.com/game/141461848494

    • I’m about 850 Blitz (1200 Rapid), and in the past 10 games I’ve played, two people have clearly not known that en passant is a rule.. very obvious situations where they thought about what to do and played some very inferior move instead.. kind of blows my mind that you wouldn’t first learn all the rules, especially at a reasonable level (not…

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      • I see it from time to time (and I forget about en passant myself occasionally). It is a good thing that when a pawn is taken en passant Chess.com pops up a little bubble that says en passant is a legal move with a link to the tutorial. Just think of it as doing a good deed by teaching other players about the rules of…

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      • Tim posted an update a year ago

        a year ago

        Wow, kind of an up and down game – I don’t think the end ratings were very fair, but also.. in this game (I’m black) I somehow spent 2 mins and still missed an M2, and I had M6, did a pawn *check* of all things, and that switched the eval to the opponent leading with +2.0! I scrambled out of it, but this was a bit of a crazy/fun…

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        Gaurav G and Paul S
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      • Tim posted an update a year ago

        a year ago

        Hi Nelson, excited to learn and improve! Do you have a preference of where to send feedback on the content? E.g. typos, etc.. I would imagine that’s something you’d like to know. 🙂

        Ken and Adam
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