General Chess Discussion - Winning / losing endgame practical vs theoretical when playing to improve#5 Yes I'm aware that I don't have access to stockfish during games, but I often analyze games where I have something as low as 75% accuracy, and in analysis I can try to play more like stockfish or try … | sjcjoosten |
General Chess Discussion - Winning / losing endgame practical vs theoretical when playing to improve#1 This isn't a game analysis question but more of a high level question. Sometimes, stockfish tells me I blunder (and go from winning to losing) when I try to force the position into an endgame that I (… | sjcjoosten |
Community Blog Discussions - Why You Should Never Offer A Draw#50 @ApplePieGambit said in #48: > I like the article, but I don't understand how after a few losses in good positions the confidence of the student grew tremendiously. I would start losing confidence. I … | sjcjoosten |
Community Blog Discussions - Why You Should Never Offer A Draw#46 Two draws got offered, both for good reasons, in this game: https://lichess.org/mkGwukuk/black#82 I played black, clearly not knowing how to win the endgame, and I didn't want my opponent to repeat mo… | sjcjoosten |
Game analysis - Help needed learning 'endgame theory'#11 @Alientcp said in #10: > Im not advising you anything Please advise me something. Also note I was playing white, not black. | sjcjoosten |
Game analysis - Help needed learning 'endgame theory'#9 @Alientcp said in #8: > That was not a missconverted endgame. It was a plain blunder, you were a knight and a pawn up. > > Tactics or fundamentals is what you needed there to secure the game. The endg… | sjcjoosten |
Game analysis - Help needed learning 'endgame theory'#6 @AsDaGo said in #5: > I didn't realize 3.7 seconds was considered a long time. Fair point, I thought it was much longer. Must have misremembered | sjcjoosten |
Game analysis - Help needed learning 'endgame theory'#1 Not my best game, but it illustrates all the things I struggle with: https://lichess.org/db4DfMuT/white#120 I believe my opening is fine, I even considered dxe5 for a long time on move 10 (computer's … | sjcjoosten |
General Chess Discussion - How to improve: Classical line of the Caro-Kann#6 @ChessMathNerd That's a very concrete plan that makes a lot of sense to me, thank you! @ryan121 I have looked at some, but I don't know what to look for: all I see is a sequence of moves. I fail to se… | sjcjoosten |
General Chess Discussion - How to improve: Classical line of the Caro-Kann#1 I play really badly in the classical line of the Caro-Kann: FEN:rn1qkbnr/pp2pppp/2p3b1/8/3P4/6N1/PPP2PPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 3 6 From this position, I have lost 68% of my games as black, and all four ga… | sjcjoosten |
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