| General Chess Discussion - Greatest chess quote ever?#40 "Deux foux gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!" - Alekhine It really doesn't translate, but literally: The two bishops always win, but the two bishops and a fool, won't. | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - What is Your Favorite Opening#16 What else could it be, but the King's Gambit? | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - How many World Champs have you seen in person?#17 I met Karpov in the early nineties. I very much hoped to meet Smyslov in the 1996 Finnish Open Championship. I carried his 125 Selected Games in order to ask him to sign it. Unfortunately he decided n… | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - King's gambit#24 Ivanchuk and Carlsen have played and won with the King's Gambit, for example, so it's playable even among the modern super grandmasters. 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 is good for Black, but it's very … | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - What is your favourite chess player?#7 Tigran Petrosian, the late World Champion. Obviously, it's not easy to choose a single player, but I did grow up with players like Petrosian, Smyslov, Keres and Tal. If I was a bit younger, I would ha… | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - Would u resign in this ending position?#2 Black is Winning, yes, but he still has to show he wins. I've wait for a few moves, especially in a fast time control game. | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - What chess youtubers do you learn from and what do you do to get the most out of the lectures?#25 I like many of the allready mentioned like ChessNetwork and Finegold. I would like to add Daniel King's Powerplay Chess. | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - So what is the origin of your username?#34 I'm a Finn and one of Finnish national heroes is Tove Jansson, who was a multi-talented artist. She's best known for the Moomin stories and one of the characters is called Grandpa Grumpy, Ruttuvaari i… | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - FIDE#13 Well, lichess "classical" has similar time controls as OTB rapid. The motivation is also different compared to, for example, a league OTB game, where one really has to avoid losing because one's team … | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - Book: How Ulf beats black, by CYRUS LAKDAWALA.#6 Kasparov changed his winning system 1. d4 because he was not very successful with it against Karpov. Just like Karpov stopped playing 1. e4, because he was not successful against Kasparov's Sicilians!… | ruttuvaari |
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