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General Chess Discussion - Should I report people who start playing poorly on purpose when losing instead of resigning?#18

@windy2 said in #13: > resigning soon and fast also contributes to rarely playing end games. Does this lead to a mass of players who have no experience in end games? You are right. And I want to point…


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General Chess Discussion - Watching Chess Videos = Reading Chess Books?#35

> @kindaspongey said: Really? > . I'm not sure, in fact, and I certainly could be wrong. My impression was formed based on the books and videos I had in my hands, let's say at the level of the classic…


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General Chess Discussion - Watching Chess Videos = Reading Chess Books?#23

Reading is a much more active mental procedure than listening and watching. It engages the brain in harder processing. From a purely practical point of view, a video chess lesson is more effective due…


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General Chess Discussion - Survey for French Players#2

@DillWithThePickle said in #1: > > I am curious about the opinions of intermediate-advanced French Players on a few questions. Answer a few, or all of them however you want: > > Why did you choose the…


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General Chess Discussion - What's going wrong?#9

@Wodjul said in #1: > No progress in one year of honest effort (I am thinking of 20 hrs a week minimum) would certainly signal time to quit for any sensible person. The question is: do you continue to…


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General Chess Discussion - A miracle#7

@Cyncko-3000 said in #5: > Eh I bet u can get 100% accuracy is your opponent is trash. It happened to me once. My opponent had lost his Queen right away and resigned on the 9th move.


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General Chess Discussion - A miracle#4

Yes, yes, like I said there's nothing out of the ordinary about that game. What amused me was seeing 0 0 0 in a blitz game, where I generally make mistakes in industrial quantity. Something more uniqu…


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General Chess Discussion - A miracle#1

My first blitz game with 99% accuracy. ( ??? !!! ) . I think it will also be the last. And the opponent also played quite well (89%). Considering that I really suck at fast chess, it's an event to be …


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General Chess Discussion - Serious question: are you an e4 or d4 person??#13

I only play 1.e4, but only because I am not yet able to master the closed game, which is deeper and more difficult to understand. If I could understand it better, I'd gladly play 1.d4 as well.


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General Chess Discussion - e4-d5-exd-Qxd5 why do people play this#11

@polyakoviv said in #6: > I play for fun. (...) This is kind of disgusting and has nothing to do with beauty of chess game (...) The boring openings people play most of the time are not fun. (...) it'…


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