| General Chess Discussion - The eval bars in live games decrease the fun don't they?#9 Yeah, I enjoy watching commentary without the engine. I basically love the drama and suspense of seeing strong players trying to get a read on what's going on in real-time, rather than knowing what's … | RamblinDave |
| General Chess Discussion - Is learning openings that important and how can I create my own opening repertoire#35 @kindaspongey said in #23: > "... To play chess competitively, you need to develop an opening repertoire. ..." - Learn to Play Chess Like a Boss (2019) by GM Patrick Wolff Maybe a pedantic point, but … | RamblinDave |
| General Chess Discussion - Is learning openings that important and how can I create my own opening repertoire#12 Chess Dojo did a series on how to study openings (according to them) with some decent advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG878S2A3sY My general feeling is that it should be treated as a necessary… | RamblinDave |
| General Chess Discussion - Defensive opening#21 @OctoPinky said in #15: > That's the feeling I got with Sicilian: it is defensive/passive in the sense that you are usually going to have to defend just from the start, but I would call this the oppos… | RamblinDave |
| General Chess Discussion - Defensive opening#8 @FourtyTwoFields said in #7: > The Petroff is defensive, the Caro-Kann is quite aggreesive contrary to what people believe. Here is why: I think there's a point that a lot of people miss which is that… | RamblinDave |
| General Chess Discussion - Winning / losing endgame practical vs theoretical when playing to improve#11 @sjcjoosten As people have said above, obviously if you don't know and you think the endgame is actually good for you, or that the middlegame you're in is losing anyway, then go for it. OTOH if you're… | RamblinDave |
| General Chess Discussion - Top 10 best players.#35 Basically, if you're rating people by how much they dominated their contemporaries (ie people who had access to basically the similar resources and the same base of knowledge as them) then Fischer is … | RamblinDave |
| General Chess Discussion - Top 10 best players.#34 @The_ThreeChecks said in #30: > why do you like Fischer so much? XD Basically, the Soviet chess system was a massively effective machine for finding and developing chess talents, to the extent that it… | RamblinDave |
| General Chess Discussion - Top 10 best players.#24 I always find it weird how highly people rate Tal in this sort of thing: he won the World Championship in 1960 and lost the rematch a year later he didn't appear in any other WC match according to Che… | RamblinDave |
| General Chess Discussion - I am sinking in the sea of openings and variations...#7 A thing that I think is kind-of helpful to do at some point is to actually draw out the tree of variations in its entirety, at least to include all the "named" variations. You can then go through it a… | RamblinDave |
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