Community Blog Discussions - How to Train Chess on Bad Days: Tips From a Grandmaster#3 Sometimes you're just in a bad mood and don't want to do anything. There's no reason; it's not sleep or sickness, just a general poor feeling. On those days, I remind myself of a saying: "when you don… | SmithyQ |
General Chess Discussion - Middlegame strategy books?#6 "The Complete Manual of Positional Chess" has two volumes that cover basically every topic. It's available on ForwardChess for easy reading. Stein's "Simple Chess" is excellent as well (don't confuse … | SmithyQ |
Lichess Feedback - Puzzles are too often wrong#11 @Davesmith17 Can you post an example? Almost every puzzle that I think has a "dubious solution" is in fact the only solution, with near-looking alternative failing to an exact response by the opponent… | SmithyQ |
General Chess Discussion - What do you recommend against the English Reversed Dragon (tactical)?#5 1.c4 e5 2.g3 h5!? is the highest scoring system in both the lichess masters and regular databases (small sample size, but not nothing, either). The 2...c6 idea mentioned in post #2 is the best scoring… | SmithyQ |
General Chess Discussion - King's Indian Attack#2 I enjoyed Neil McDonald's KIA: Move by Move. Great format, great author, plan focused, and it's aimed around your rating level. If you don't mind digital, it's on both Forward Chess and available from… | SmithyQ |
General Chess Discussion - Help with King's Indian Attack#5 Bassem Amin hit 2700 playing, predominantly, the KIA via a 1.e4 move order. He is the modern expert on the system, so if it's good enough for him, it's probably fine for you. I'd strongly recommend lo… | SmithyQ |
General Chess Discussion - Puzzlers on the Storm#304 Would it be possible to have a button, toggle or setting that, after the round is complete, to only show the puzzles I got wrong? I currently have to scroll through all the puzzles to find the few tha… | SmithyQ |
General Chess Discussion - How do I learn to go from the opening to the best attack?#4 I would strongly suggest to NOT think about specific openings at the beginner level. Rather, you should be focusing on the basic opening principles: putting your pawns in the center, developing all yo… | SmithyQ |
Game analysis - Why does White lose advantage after what looks like a harmless move?#2 After 9.Bd3, the computer really wants to play 9...c5. With the Bishop on d3, White has less control over d4 (the Bishop blocks the Queen), and White needs to spend a tempi to do something. The advanc… | SmithyQ |
Game analysis - A cunning opening trap that has snared many a player...#4 @Sarg0n Agreed that this Sicilian line makes little sense, but the critical position can be reached via the Advanced Caro-Kann [where Black wastes a tempo on playing c5 in two moves instead of d5]: 1.… | SmithyQ |
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