| General Chess Discussion - Book recommendations?#15 For a truly beginner, "How Not to Play Chess," by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky. For example, he teaches you that you must "Never omit to blockade an enemy passed Pawn." This is the kind of thing that many o… | Pechmerle |
| Game analysis - who is your inspiration in chess#12 Mikhail Tal. Tal: "All my sacrifices are unsound!" (said with a smile, because they were so stupendous hat they often caused opponents to defend inaccurately.) | Pechmerle |
| Game analysis - Rook "Box"#1 Have a look at this position. Can't say I've seen something just like this ever before. (Position after move 34) (White went on to win anyway.) https://lichess.org/UOZYFlxX/black | Pechmerle |
| General Chess Discussion - Learning An Opening Is Frying My Brain.#7 Lots of good advice above. You need to know a few moves of the main openings that you play, and that you often see from opponents. But at this early stage, memorizing long lines of openings will not s… | Pechmerle |
| General Chess Discussion - When playing a game, how come some people don't move at all or continuously abort games?#9 This happens to me some times. My impression is the opponent either didn't like my opening move (leading to an opening they don't like to play), or they didn't notice that my rating is somewhat (or oc… | Pechmerle |
| General Chess Discussion - Strange chess games#8 I've never had this happen in one of my games. | Pechmerle |
| General Chess Discussion - Where are you when you're playing chess ?#15 I play on my laptop in the late evening, with music streaming to my wifi-capable hifi stereo. Right now I'm listening to "Palace of Nostalgia," a retro jazz program from a Dutch internet station. | Pechmerle |
| General Chess Discussion - Openings For White#6 You can try the Danish Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 d4 exd 3 c3 dxc3 4 Bc4 cxb2 5 Bxb2) This will give you an exciting attacking game - IF Black does not defend accurately - but you are down two pawns from the s… | Pechmerle |
| General Chess Discussion - The Buddha HATED Chess, and told his disciples to avoid it at all costs#48 @ContrabassFlute said in #37: Wanting to win is suffering. Wanting to lose is masochism. | Pechmerle |
| General Chess Discussion - The Buddha HATED Chess, and told his disciples to avoid it at all costs#29 @ibrahimmoiZOOS said in #25: > My Elo and average games/day have steadily been declining, proportional to an increasing love of the Buddha. Nothing is black and white. I'm trying to be a better person… | Pechmerle |
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