Danya, Alexander Kosteniuk, you and a lot of others helped me through how lonely being indoors was during Covid. Danya was one of the best chess ambassadors. The sparkle in his eyes just explaining and teaching some chess concept on stream to faceless viewers was amazing.
Which kind of points to despite it being theory heavy, it has to either be intuitive or Grunfeld players don't know how to handle it.
Theory is something you learn along the way imo. You start off with the starting moves and then build knowledge from your losses and actual games and checking master moves on Lichess. And adding knowledge that way. The Russian System has something like 53% winrate for 1600-2000 when Qb3 is played.
The Russian System against the Grunfeld is the best answer to it for improving 1.d4 players.
Narrow. I think it is more important to master strategic plans and keep things familiar at my level. Rather than try to broaden out what I play.
And the cheating thing on chesscom is of course they're much bigger. But I also think their cheating policy is garbage, because they give cheaters second and third chances. When they need to be for a year or more for first offenses and much longer for repeat offenders.
Not really. There's more cheaters on chesscom. That's the only thing I've ever noticed with quality. And the UI is bad on there. It freezes up. I reported someone for abandonment on it, and they pm'd me their screen had frozen. Which I felt bad about, because that's happened to me before.
Being MAGA just means you are willing to create recessions for no reason other than you're stupid, start trade wars with allies because you're stupid, fly home a pair of sex traffickers because you're stupid. See the trend?
You need a real clear idea what to work on. For the first few years I started to play chess again, I was often doing stuff out of order.
The Step Method books are very good. At 1000, you can probably start with the 2nd one. They teach everything rather than one subject. Winning Chess Exercises for Kids is also a fairly good book for adults despite its name.
Soundtrack to studying chess: Momentary Lapse of Reason by Pink Floyd, Dawnrazor by Fields of the Nephilim, and Miracle by Blackmill. #chesspunks #chess
Have you considered the Advanced over the Tarrasch? I feel more at home attacking with the Advanced than I did when I tried to play the Tarrasch. Also, feel like I am capable of restricting black much better. And as a French player I'm always happy to see Nc3 or Nd2, because 3. dxe4 with solid game.
Playing is one of the best forms of studying.
Hit 1700 rapid on Lichess. It came relatively fast after setting my mind on seeing how far I can go, rather than any specific rating.
My white repertoire is loosely based on this.
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d6 looks the most natural to me. But there will be some annoying checks to escape.
There's really one man to thank for the current mess in the US. Chief Justice Roberts. #politics
Things I've changed to see progress: simple openings. Ulf's 1.Nf3 lines and Hammer's First Opening Repertoire for Black. I'll tweak it soon though. I recommend it for low rated people. And refining my training plan as I go. Replacing stuff with more practical things. #chess #chesspunks #chessfeed
Here. Let me help you out since you seem to want to troll uselessly.
What a useless comment. The part of ChessTempo he's showing is free to use by anyone.
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I tried this out, and I think he might be actual good advice. I found myself thinking about the position rather than looking for cheapos. #chesspunks #chess
*for calculation
Pattern recognition. I think books or courses are better than computer generated puzzles.
I've always agreed with Danya on this. I think chess itself is all about patterns more than anything else, whether they're tactical or positional. And openings kind you into these areas better than the "just develop" methodologies. #chesspunks #chess
It's actually a real good stat. It tells you how clean, or not clean your endgame technique is. If you're doing Lucena position problems in 16 moves and the average is like 12, you should be objective and see where you're erring even if you get it right. It's ChessTempo.
Not even close to what I meant how. How is this problem averaging 2.9 moves? It's not even a normal puzzle where someone might blitz out an obvious move that just doesn't work.
Look at the picture then. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out what "How?" is asking.
If you look at the picture and understood the site, you would see I got the problem right.
Look at the picture again. That's not why I asked.
How? #chesspunks
Grandmaster Chess Strategy: What Amateurs Can Learn From Ulf's Positional Masterpieces. I like the book because it covers a positional concept each chapter. So it's like a two for one book.
