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No Daniel Naroditsky? Not even in the top 16?

@Carote said in #16: > plus it's very bad for your chess because a) you learn nothing technically and b) since you are playing lost positions for a long time on a regular basis, you end up feeling lik…

@MrPushwood said in #6: > So if you already know that it's "not cool"...why is this even a question? I just find it to be a curious dynamic. Logically, it makes no sense at all to continue clearly los…

@sammgus said in #4: > That's called resigning. If you're clearly losing heavily, there is nothing "not cool" about resigning. Just resign and try to correct the mistake in future. Playing on is if yo…

I do this myself sometimes, and I know it's not cool... When I blunder, and I'm clearly massively losing, sometimes I will play on. Sometimes it's worth fighting on, if you have chances for counter-pl…

@aescht said in #23: > If you cannot solve a puzzle with 100% confidence, you will always stay in a blurry bubble of uncertainty. It looks good, but you will never develop that sense that you are comp…

Before you can answer 'Am I good?', surely you need to know what 'good' means? How do you define or quantify what good at chess means?

I think it was the world Blitz final, a game between Alireza and Magnus, where Alireza ran out of time, in a winning position which seemingly Magnus could not win. However, the rule states if mate can…

Agree with #32 (and probably others, didn't read the full thread). I'm not sure that infinity exists anywhere in nature (in the universe), other that conceptually within the minds of human beings.

@Neustart While walking down the street, you don't go out of your way to step on dog 'chocolate'. So why even interact or respond at all to unpleasant people? I don't disagree with you, many times, it…