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  2. Campaign for lichess to add in… ummmwhatever My natural conclusion is that you need to manage your time better.
  3. How do you read a chess book? elky_chess It can be difficult in this era I suppose. Its always good to keep not…
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  11. QUEEN SAC! ♕ Roesch vs Schlage… Vgm1 QUEEN SAC! ♕ Roesch vs Schlage ♔ Chess Traps in the Ruy Lopez opening!…
  12. To the players who keep sendin… finlip You don't have to decline every request. You can just ignore subsequen…
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  16. Embarrassing but I will post a… FordCVPI https://lichess.org/We56J8jU/black#33 Beyond stupid
  17. Anybody checkmated with 0.01 … ex_5_libris did it again boys... :P https://lichess.org/8KY59o4chSw0
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