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Not sure it will impact my local club or my local county scene within my lifetime. Think I have about 25 years of play left in me at best and the amount of beer we seem to consume will surely countera…

@R3-D3 and b6 but I hate facing both. Do not want to promote either. But now I am forced!

Apart from e6, nf6, nc6, d5, d6 and c6. I agree.

All you need is a playable middle game. The best player wins. Magnus could play a3 every opening and wipe us all out whilst blindfolded. The only theory needed is that which people at your/my level mi…

@Erosann_in Not that I good enough but I expect it must be intensely satisfying to play against a suspected cheat and still win!

Any time white starts with a with b3 or g3. I know as black I am just supposed to grab the centre but I do not come across these openings very often and there are tricks of play that seem to allude me…

Not a charge I ever expect to be levied in my direction. The suspicion I am playing whilst drunk may have merit. I just do not understand cheating. No money or birds in it for the cheater as far as I …

Just play from what I gather. Slower time settings. Stick with limited openings for a good while. I made the mistake of going down an openings wormhole this year. On Chess.com for my first year I play…

@iPlaychess2 Not really. It is one of the ways a game can end within the rules. I respect your personal preferences and if I knew them in advance would surely accommodate them. However, online, agains…

Blundering is always possible, particularly at my level but being some type of Trumpian man child in the face of things is something I actively try to avoid. Life is too short.