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@TurboRanger Take a look at some Catalan games by masters and see if the QID suites your style of play! When I messed around with the QID way back when I found it worked sometimes but I'm not great at…

@derkleineJo Oh for sure I still lose because I'm bad at chess, lol. It's an extremely gate-keeper mentality and not healthy. Nobody should listen to other people's opinions about what opening they pl…

This is a tricky question because there is no one decent catch all response to d4. I am sure systems work well for some people, and for d4 you can certainly do a g6 type of idea, but it falls short to…

Super cool way to present this concept. Props

That is helpful, thank you TBest

Good suggestion! My browser was already fully expanded, but that made me try to hide the Windows task bar, which is blocking it. I think it's a problem with the aspect ratio, ultimately, because on ot…

Hi, I'm using firefox 91.0 (up to date) on a laptop (16:9 aspect ratio, sadly) and I cannot see the Friends box that is typically in the bottom corner of the home page. Any ideas? I don't think it's a…

I recently broke through the 2000 blitz barrier and I credit most of that to using chessable and studying openings. The biggest revelation was just getting really good against e4 (so prepping my e5 re…

Hello, Have you ever been on the analysis board and accidently used your scroll wheel when the mouse was hovering over the board? Typically this happens to me when I am trying to scroll to adjust the …

@MrPushwood As I said, some of the lines are dated, but there are plenty which are still actively discussed by players of all strengths. For example, 11 of the games include the 4. e3 mainline Nimzo w…