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General Chess Discussion - QGD Exchange - move order question#11

to add a bit of extra info to #6 (which is already a really good explanation): you want the bishop to pin a knight on f6, so you wait until black develops a knight to f6. Some black players will even …


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Off-Topic Discussion - Forum Game: Letter on Letter#34

East


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General Chess Discussion - Why is Lichess so good?#11

The impression that I get from the lichess developers is that they are very very good at focusing their energies on the right things. a) not implementing features just because they are fancy or becaus…


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General Chess Discussion - How do I prevent the Caro Kann?#5

Can you show us some of the games?


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General Chess Discussion - There Should Be Bans For Cheap Wins#5

Play with increment


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Off-Topic Discussion - Coffee or Tea?#8

Coffee, but also Tea


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General Chess Discussion - does firouzja use kb?#5

there is a browser extension used by ultrabullet players which allows to use keyboard and mouse at the same time to go really fast (keyboard selects piece, mouse selects destination square). the quest…


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General Chess Discussion - Players with multiple brilliancy losses#6

Topalov (against Kasparov, Karpov and Shirov).


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General Chess Discussion - India and Russia won chess Olympiad 2020 (Your views)#11

This is absurd. If FIDE wants to organize professional chess tournaments online, they should have worked out detailed regulations on how to handle lost connections in advance. Making a situational jud…


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General Chess Discussion - Do you think studying theory can be detrimental?#5

It really depends. I ardently believe that you can go a long way (until 2000 at least!) without studying opening theory and still be perfectly fine. You'll get perfectly playable positions by playing …


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