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@DeepHuman_95 said in #9: > The question you should ask yourself is why you want to do something that is not fun. If training isn't fun and the only goal is to improve your playing strength, I don't t…

Interesting article - I think it's also useful for those who want to improve to know what it is they enjoy about improving, if anything. Because if an activity is ultimately not enjoyable in any way, …

@Sarg0n yeah, all good points. What's more, even if the puzzle's rating was increased it would still be a similar situation and probably the solution shouldn't be to take the puzzle out of the puzzle …

@HPC10411038 sorry if I didn't manage to explain well what I meant. @mkubecek I agree there is no easy way around it. Perhaps if there was a way to add rating points to puzzles which have resources fo…

I'm not sure if this is an issue as such and maybe this is already common knowledge, but it's something I've noticed in a few puzzles and it seems unfortunate. Take this puzzle for example: 3r3k/6bp/6…

@KevinWeinberg said in #470: > It was designed to do so. The article was written for no other reason than to bring division and anger in a CHESS COMMUNITY of all places. I guess that's why it had the …

I find it fascinating how this thread turned into a debate about whether misogyny is relevant for topic X or Y and whether car accidents are more relevant for safety in society and the online chess co…

@Jade-1 said in #253: > As if this situation was unique to girls/women. > > Boys/men are also bullied by big meanies on the internet. Does not seem to phase them much. > > The internet is full of big …

@QueenRosieMary said in #213: > Thank you for bringing this up. I didn't mention it in the blog, but I think probably on a few occasions, the apparent mental illness of the person harassing me was lik…

Thanks for this article. Unfortunately I can't say I'm surprised although as a man I haven't personally experienced it. But it's easy to imagine given how prevalent sexist attitudes are. As for what c…