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General Chess Discussion - How to Deal with Losses#12

I long ago accepted that I am a moron. If I win it is a worse reflection on the talent pool of humanity. But outside of Chess I am paid very well, so, swings and roundabouts. If there is money involve…


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General Chess Discussion - UK Lockdown Road Map and Chess clubs#1

I had just joined a club for the first time a few weeks prior to all this Covid stuff kicking off and basically shutting it all down, now we seem to be emerging out of an reopening things, I was wonde…


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General Chess Discussion - Defense against 1.d4#27

QGD is not boring. QGA is a war zone, Exchange Slav is the bane of Slav players but the Slav has a huge following top down. d5 is not boring. Unless you resign after move one every game. Then sure.


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General Chess Discussion - Why is rating so important for everyone?#24

It is only important to me because it makes keeping track of if I am improving or not super easy. Not sure how I would work it out without that number, gut feeling? Getting better is important to me, …


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General Chess Discussion - Feeling stupid#10

I would also add that when we play somebody online we can have no idea how much time each person spends studying this stuff compared to us. We could be playing somebody who spends every waking hour ye…


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General Chess Discussion - Feeling stupid#5

I know it is hard sometimes but it is best not to look at it through too harsh of a lens. This is supposed to be recreational fun at the end of the day. I am trying to think of it in terms of- "Am I b…


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General Chess Discussion - How can I win?#23

Should add that winning or losing comes with no addition or loss of money. A rating gets no honey's on the arm. Just enjoy every game and ask "why did they do that"?.


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General Chess Discussion - How can I win?#22

Pick one opening as white, one defence against e4, one defence against everything else. Then play them to death.


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General Chess Discussion - Rating difference between Lichess and chess.com#4

@duststormq8 Interesting. Are there any active (play lots of games on both platforms) GMs, IMs etc we can compare I wonder. See if they are much different.


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General Chess Discussion - Rating difference between Lichess and chess.com#2

@duststormq8 Would you say the competition you are facing at the Lichess rating you are is better/worse/level?, if you took a gut judgement on it?. are you finding Chess.com more/less user friendly? I…


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