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Drew posted an update a year ago
I need help. I find when I’m playing games I cannot see tactics or understand the position that well. However, if I watch someone else playing it’s easy to see tactics or evaluate the position. I was just watching a game and I saw a tactic to sac a knight to set up a discovered check and win their queen. I am positive I’ve had similar tactis in…
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Well chess isn’t just about spotting one tactic here and there, you need to keep track of a lot of different things at once. Not blundering checkmate, not blundering any pieces, what’s your plan going to be for the next few moves, etc. When you watch someone else, you probably don’t think about all that and just look at one thing “I wonder…
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For me I have a hard time sacking piece in my games but when watching others I am always like why don’t you just sack your rook. Get over the fear that if you sack a piece you are lost. I now always look at opportunities to sack piece first and if I cannot see the outcome I move on to another safer move. Also doing lots of puzzles help me…
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I’m a GM when I’m not playing. Lol
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James E posted an update a year ago
Never too late to blunder: https://www.chess.com/game/live/123300586437
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Chess: crashmondojr vs Nirvado3
crashmondojr (1287) vs Nirvado3 (1411). crashmondojr won by resignation in 29 moves. Click to review the game, move by move.
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Way to hang in there!
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Nice one!
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That is my motto, although I am usually the one doing the blundering! Good perseverance.
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Michael V posted an update a year ago
11 for 12 as white using the Stonewall!
Hello All!
I’m taking a moment to comment on how well I like the course.
I first “learned” chess as a kid; you know, how the pieces move, the rules, etc., but I never learned about strategy, openings, tactics, none of that. As an adult, the only thing I had was a vague understanding of trying to control…
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Awesome, Michael! Thanks for sharing!
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James M posted an update a year ago
I played an interesting G90/30 game last night, OTB rated game. My opponent was a bit dodgy when I asked his rating, he said he was new to rated OTB classical play, but disclosed that his chess.com rapid rating was 1800. If it’s any gauge, my chess.com rating right now is 1128, with a peak of 1147. So we settled on the idea that he has an…
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Chess Analysis Board and PGN Editor
Analyze games with the strongest chess engine in the world: Stockfish. Improve your game with the help of personalized insights from Game Review.
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Stockfish is cruel criticism!
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Mark L posted an update a year ago
up to section 4 discovered attacks, really enjoying it. im 870 up from 600 a year ago
hoping to get to 1000.
also enjoyed the stone wall opening, played a game with it the other day and won
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James B posted an update a year ago
How important is it to learn board coordinates? I’m not very good at it and unable to read PGN notation. Is this something I should be learning now or after 1500?
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When I start teaching adults as soon as possible. It’s part of my first lesson. Its learning a new language and when it comes to learning, improving and understand that language (notation) comes handle. Granted, there are many strong players that do not care about it.
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Take a look at Hercules Chess. Nelson provided a link to it in one of his videos. https://herculeschess.com/
It has a simple puzzle with a chess board. You are given a coordinate like d3 or h7 and asked to point to the spot on the board. I do at least ten of these daily.
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Chess.com as the same coordinate training call Vision
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Thanks guys… My question is should I spend time on this or concentrate on the courses principals or both? I already do 15 minutes of puzzles every day, should I add in some Vision? One last question, do these coordinate actualy trainers work?
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Given tools like the chess.com analysis page I don’t find reading PGN notation that important because you get to see moves graphically. I guess it’s like reading music scores. If you understand the basics then you can figure out what’s what in your own time. For me the most important part is figuring out *what* to do, as opposed to how to… Read more
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Roberto posted an update a year ago
Here is a game I filmed playing the stonewall. (Apologize in advance to Mods, if this is not allowed). Just wanted to share a game against a stronger player (around 1500) using the stonewall.
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Andrew W posted an update a year ago
I love this website about tiny chess bots.
https://sebastian.itch.io/tiny-chess-bots
The rules of the competition are basically the code can have no more than 1024 tokens of code.
As a programmer myself, I know this is tiny… about 3 pages of double spaced text. About one million of these bots would fit into 4GB of…
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Tiny Chess Bots by Sebastian Lague
A selection of tiny chess bots, from beginner to grandmaster level. Can you defeat them all?
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PS. I have no affiliation with anything I mentioned
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Also since they are so simple I think it might be constructive to look at their code as to how they function. Boychesser cheats a little in that it uses a neural network so is a bit incomprehensible to read but many of the others do not and still achieve respectable ELOs. All code is open source I think and it is easy to understand the code,…
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Paul P posted an update a year ago
I have been on chess.com since March 2012. I mostly play daily chess with time control of 1 to 3 days. When I started I hovered around 1500, but over the years I have slowly declined and am now about 1265. Would I be better served to play live chess with 10 min or 15 min controls? I am usually playing in tournaments 10 – 15 games at a time. …
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I improve more when I play shorter periods of time, but not too short (!). So 10-15 minutes is perfect. Because you are really in the game and don’t interrupt the thought process.
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Yes. On the correspondence type games, especially when playing multiple games, you forget what the plan was and often blunder. Especially when you rush the moves.
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Charles posted an update a year ago
Stonewall. Still not sure what I was doing right but it worked.
https://www.chess.com/game/computer/170203881
98.1% accuracy on the opening!
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ChasKenyon vs. Tomas-Bot Chess Game
ChasKenyon vs. Tomas-Bot. ChasKenyon won by checkmate in 72 moves. See the game, move by move.
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I love it when the bots start making random king moves at the end. That’s how you know it’s almost over.
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