Adult Improver. Older guy. Fmr Ultimate Friz Wrld Chmp and HoF, now trying my hand at #chess. So far I've learned that chess is hard #chesspunks
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29 Dec 2025
chess-com says that this is a KID, Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Panno. But doesn't that opening have a knight going thru c6, rather than b6. Could you clarify? @askavrukh
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29 Dec 2025
Also: if the knight were on a5, almost everybody responds with Nd2. In this position, with knight on b6, responses are either Nd2 or Qd3. Why the difference? (cc @askavrukh )
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Re-upping this one, noting I think I found a regulation set, but with a lot of color options.
Thoughts?
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My 6 yo g-daughter really wants a chess set as a gift (she knows how all the pieces move, and enjoyed (attempting) to play at a local library event. Any recommendations? (Should I get triple-weighted so the pieces don't keep falling over? Or is that over-kill?)
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My 6 yo g-daughter really wants a chess set as a gift (she knows how all the pieces move, and enjoyed (attempting) to play at a local library event. Any recommendations? (Should I get triple-weighted so the pieces don't keep falling over? Or is that over-kill?)
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22 Oct 2025
Nice article here
The Algorithmic Cruelty of Statistical Witch Hunts
medium.com/@ZombieCodeKill/c…
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Italian. My opponent forgot to play c3. I have three ways to take back the pawn, why does the engine prefer one so much over the other two?
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Played a fairly drawish game (which I lost due to mistake at end) but I had a chance of winning here. I needed an engine to help me figure this out -- how does black win here?
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18 Feb 2025
That’ll keep the numbers down!!
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13 Feb 2025
Why is Nc3 so standard here and then Nf3, instead of the opposite order? To my amateur eyes they seem fairly interchangeable.
@askavrukh
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Kids these days . . . at my very informal chess club (held at a bar) I sat down to play a young teenager. While I was setting up the pieces he was playing bullet on his phone (even into the first few moves of our game).
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29 Jan 2025
In the position below, Masters play ...Be6. Mid-level players play ...Be7. Why the difference? Why is one preferred over the over?
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24 Dec 2024
No tactics here. Looks like approx 0.0 to me, but engine thinks (depending on who's to move) one side is up by a 1/2 to a 3/4 of a pawn. I don't get it. (This comes from an f4-Vienna where I forced an early Q-trade). So, genuine question to y'all: who's ahead and why?
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17 Dec 2024
Weirdness in @lichess -- anyone notice this before? Any way around it? On left is my position from a game I entered from last night. On right is the same position, but entered by FEN. Identical except for move #, and that on left, lichess tells me the opening. Thoughts?
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From a Vienna. Engine really wants black to play 7...Qh4 and 8...Qe7. I never would have even thought of that. What's going on?
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From a game last night at club. It's black to move (I was white), and I completely utterly don't understand what the engine is telling me regarding potential king moves. Let's ignore king-to-the h-file - which king moves win? Which move(s) draw? And, most importantly, why?!?
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At last weekend's tourney, on the board next to me, an interesting position arose. White to move: should she retreat the queen (Qf4)? Or trade it for two rooks? I had no idea, but thought I'd pass it along.
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15 Nov 2024
It's all in the delta waves (or something like that). scientificamerican.com/artic…
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15 Nov 2024
Chess is only mentioned once in the article (in the opening paragraph), as their tests involved math solving. But it's an easy leap to think it applies to any deep thinking that involves expertise.
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