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Ryan posted an update
I came to this course as a primarily London player as white, so the Stonewall has a lot of familiar elements. Did a few test games vs the 1415 and 1350 bots and, though they didnt allow for the ideal line from the course video (both opened Nf6), the resulting positions were easy to play and i was pleased.
Great suggestion on the opening Nelson. Definitely going to try it for the 10 games vs actual opponents to see how it goes.
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Awesome, Ryan, let me know how it turns out for you!
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Oh this is a nice, easy opening to play…
Just rolled it out against a similarly rated player (1131) and resulted in a comfortable 0 blunder, 0 miss, 0 mistake checkmate on move 30 (he resigned on move 29)
The game:
1. d4 d5 2. e3 e6 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. f4 Bd6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O c5 7. c3 c4 8. Bc2 b5 9. Nbd2 b4 10. Ne5 Bxe5 11. fxe5 Ne4 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Bxe4 Nc6 14. Bxc6 Rb8 15. Be4 bxc3 16. bxc3 Qh4 17. Rf4 Qh6 18. Qe1 g5 19. Rg4 f5 20. exf6 Rxf6 21. Bf3 Rf5 22. e4 Rfb5 23. e5 Kf7 24. Rxg5 Qf8 25. Qe4 Ke7 26. Qxh7+ Qf7 27. Rg7 Qxg7 28. Qxg7+ Kd8 29. Bg5+ {1-0}
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I’ve played thousands of games…
My first game ever using the Stonewall was my highest accuracy ever. I think my previous high was like 92 or 93.
Lichess rated it a 97%.
I know that accuracy can be artificially high when an opponent blunders, but I think this was more due to the straightforward nature of the opening.
I know your course isn’t magic…improvement will take work…but it’s very clearly presented. Your approach to instruction is outstanding
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97! Way to go!!
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Actually got the Chess.com free daily Game Review on it this morning…only a 90.1…which is still awesome for me but not “best ever”. Funny how inflated all things Lichess seem to be (player rating, game accuracies, etc) because I really like their site structure a lot.
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