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The "Monster Declined" as the lichess database calls the position after 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4 4. Qh5 Nd6 5. Bb3 Be7.

If it's your first OTB tournament, then the only 1. d4 opening you will encounter is the London System, so better focus on that.

Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond (part 1 - as many as are allowed)

For getting used to a physical board: Do what Sarg0n said. For getting used to the time control: Play correspondence and do some puzzles. Take your time there!

I guess wearing them at OTB opens generally attracts more amateurs than elite players to the site. Which in turn results in a deflation of the rating pool. So, yes, it does improve your rating then.

@Sarg0n said in #2: > I still have no clue solving this puzzle: > > lichess.org/editor/rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1 > > In fact it is quite important! How's that position i…

The "Frankenstein-Dracula Variation" (1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4 4. Qh5 Nd6 5. Bb3 Nc6?! 6. Nb5 g6 7. Qf3 f5 8. Qd5 Qe7 9. Nxc7+ Kd8 10. Nxa8 b6) and the "Monster Declined" (5...Be7).

Correct. I was expecting a bunch of "wrong setup"-replies first. ^^ But indeed, the setup is correct (black's queen's rook on a8), the colouring of the squares is wrong. :D

(Found this picture in an article about Abhimanyu Mishra's record as new youngest grandmaster in a German online news magazine...) Can you find the mistake in this picture? (It's not as obvious as you…