| Community Blog Discussions - No More Excuses: Improve Your Chess Today!#12 @LanceFairfield said in #11: > And your post completely misses the point. I look at anyone who's at NM level or above and is actually active, and I see they hardly ever them blunder in such a manner i… | Sarciness |
| Community Blog Discussions - No More Excuses: Improve Your Chess Today!#9 @LanceFairfield said in #7: > I've come to believe I'm simply too stupid. I'm simply blind and have neurons misfire in a game where consistency is key. It doesn't matter the time control, I simply ove… | Sarciness |
| Community Blog Discussions - No More Excuses: Improve Your Chess Today!#6 People believe "work-life balance" or "chess-life balance" means having it all, but as you point out it's all about trade-offs. Are you willing to sacrifice time on social media or with friends or fam… | Sarciness |
| Game analysis - How to avoid getting checkmated in ten moves#8 As black, you played the Sicilian, where typically you get behind in development and are willing to face an assault on your king in exchange for a better pawn structure and counter-chances on the quee… | Sarciness |
| Game analysis - how did I lose this match !!!#8 FIDE rules state that you lose if there is a way to lose on the board, even making the worst possible moves, including helpmates. So imagine you use those pawns (or promote them) and purposely go into… | Sarciness |