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It's tempting to start memorizing opening lines, but honestly this rarely helps. Chances are you won't get to play your memorized lines. You might consider doing the study of a few exciting games with…

You created too many weaknesses in the opening. The combination of e6, g6 and c5 just creates too many holes on the dark squares. White could have played an early e5 and exploited this. With the e6, c…

15... Nxc3 would have been good, but it's not the only good move in that position. It does have the draw back that it allows white to take the initiative. 15... c6 followed by 16... Nc4 was something …

Creating a queen+bishop battery on the second longest diagonals is very common in fianchetto positions. Part of the plan is to remove the fianchettoed bishop in order to make the squares around the ki…

This is a strange position because of the timing involved. But as both pushwood and thendrey pointed out, the idea is to restrain f4 and prevent the white king from remaining on e3. The tricky thing i…

I think it's high rated because the desire for white appears to be Qxd4 Qxe1, Bh6 which is met by Ne6. But the better plan is to play Nd5 opening up the move Bb2. That plan just isn't obvious, and the…

I don't mind doing one rematch, just so that we can play with colors reversed. But I'd rather not have a psychological opening battle when I just came here to have fun. I suppose if I keep on winning …

Honestly, I think that the server should abort all games currently in progress with no rating change when the server goes down. Don't know how hard that would be, but that is the fairest way to handle…

It's a bit of an antique, probably made between 1950 and 1970. Ursus (read from the logo on the front) is of spanish origin and they used german clock movements. I found some auctions for both a woode…

@BrazilBear this isn't even your post, why are you saying people are missing the point so often? People are discussing the different ways they see the issue.