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General Chess Discussion - How do you really feel about chess?#6

My highschool had enough people that sports teams were only looking for people over 6 feet tall and in football 180 lbs. I don't get that big in either dimension. I'd played in team sports since I was…


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General Chess Discussion - What's Your Most Useless and Hopeless Chess Endeavour?#8

Becoming decent at tactics seems to not be within my reach.


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General Chess Discussion - Englund Gambit is a BLUNDER?!#7

It most certainly is a blunder, but sometimes people who play it get lucky that their opponent doesn't know the refutation.


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General Chess Discussion - What do you think of Anatoly Karpov's statement?#33

@philodendron68 said in #26: > @Whitsellf and @MDA22 Why do so many people write that the USA elected a dementia patient?! Only because Joe Biden is already 79 years old and had an opponent who simply…


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General Chess Discussion - What do you think of Anatoly Karpov's statement?#23

@MDA22 said in #22: > Sports should be separated from politics. Nothing is separated from politics. This happens when the world is filled is incompetent leadership that gets to the point of siphoning …


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General Chess Discussion - Carlsen has trashed the reputation of this sport.#56

> @DERG_CHESS said in #55: > And yet, it doesn't mean tht every women wants to marry the wc, which means, tht the women he groped(never seen video evidence tho) could have beena gainst the woman's wil…


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General Chess Discussion - Carlsen has trashed the reputation of this sport.#53

@DERG_CHESS said in #42: > So ur saying women all women tht hang around with the world Champion are crazy for him? Tht is pretty sexist, imho Actually, that's not what I'm saying. Women are opportunis…


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General Chess Discussion - Carlsen has trashed the reputation of this sport.#18

Please. As if women hang around world champions of any sport because they're "just friends". Please tell me you aren't that naïve to the ways of the world.


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General Chess Discussion - Carlsen has trashed the reputation of this sport.#16

@LegendaryQueen said in #1: > Chess is not exactly a "Noble game" anymore. > > What do you think? > > He has groped a woman on stream-- Wait.... he found a way to make people watch chess so we can fin…


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General Chess Discussion - Defensive openings for black against 1.d4#6

Tarrasch defense you start with d5, e6, c5 vs any d4 opening. A knight is going to c6 and one likely to f6 in most cases. Given the natural flow of the material, it is one of the system openings for b…


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