| General Chess Discussion - Advice on breaking plateaus.#7 If you can afford, a coach can give you much better answer then most random people in the forum. | negative_infinity |
| Off-Topic Discussion - Hello, I am Joseph Saelee (JdMfX_) the 2 time world champion at NES Tetris. How to play chess?#10 As others said, lichess.org/learn and lichess.org/practice first. Then given your expertise in Tetris, I think you will enjoy bullet chess a lot :). Pattern recognition in short time could be a valuab… | negative_infinity |
| General Chess Discussion - Does anyone know a fun aggressive opening to play against the Italian game as black?#3 You can try 2 Knights and see if your opponent plays Ng5, but it will still be slow game if he/she chooses to play d3 instead. Is there any reason you must play e5 vs e4, instead of something like c5? | negative_infinity |
| General Chess Discussion - Lichess vs chess.com rating#2 Very rough estimate is about 300 pts. Better to just play on both sites and find out. | negative_infinity |
| General Chess Discussion - rapid over the board tournaments#3 I started playing OTB tournament in USA occasionally about 2 years ago. * It will be faster than online 20+0 if you are required to notate your moves. * Be aware of rules on touch move/chess clock/etc… | negative_infinity |
| General Chess Discussion - how do people play like trash in the opening and later proceed to find the only good moves#31 @TheJeromeGambit said in #1: > people play some random garbage opening that's proven to be bad by common theory Do they play Jerome Gambit? | negative_infinity |