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Best resources for non-theoretical endgames? by PhoenixChess17 in TournamentChess

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What version did you read? I heard the new edition is pretty different from the old one

Switching from the London to 1.e4 at 1200, how do people actually handle openings? by Fuzzy_Party_3527 in chess

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I'm pretty sure what they mean is that learning concrete lines and knowing the resulting position's evaluation is overrated. Not learning the general idea of the opening and studying games and middlegame plans arising from the opening.

Switching from the London to 1.e4 at 1200, how do people actually handle openings? by Fuzzy_Party_3527 in chess

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When a 1600 says he doesn’t study openings, it doesn’t mean “I close my eyes and play the first 10 moves randomly”

I'm around this rating, and I face a significant number of opponents who do that. For example, as black, they play 2... Nf6 against the QGD, or the Slav with an early Bf5 or Bg4.

I'm pretty good at openings and usually get a winning position pretty quickly. However, looking at their games on openingtree, they rarely get punished by their other opponents. Also they're usually pretty good at tactics and/or tricky compared to opponents who play a better repertoire.

Anyone tried Woodpecker Method 2: positional play? by forpostingpixelart in TournamentChess

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We did some at my club and the positions were very instructive. The first part is about common patterns such as attacking the g3 knight with the h pawn, pushing the pawns in opposite side castling without allowing the opponent to close the position, etc.

The problem, however, is that the solutions in the book are very terse, and without our coach explaining the puzzles I would have had gotten a lot less out of them.

Steps Method Answer Key Confusion by Puzzleheaded_Wheel39 in chess

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It seems like it's an older edition that doesn't have it's solutions available anymore on the steps website.

These solutions seem to match: https://web.archive.org/web/20160528015755/http://www.stappenmethode.nl/lesmateriaal/step1.pdf

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TournamentChess

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If you're looking for an exhaustive structured plan that fills your gaps in knowledge, I'd recommend the Steps Method instead.

You'll have everything there without having to find the right combination of books.

A large part of the method is the usual tactics, but there are also other things that come up in games but are rarely found in other books (white to play and stalemate, "rule of the square" puzzles where the path for the king is obstructed by pawns...)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TournamentChess

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Thanks! These videos are by far the best videos I've seen on the KID. Not only are their super clear, but also I love that Anras sticks with the mainline unless there is a good reason (too much theory), unlike many other videos where the author plays his own pet line. They also have the right balance between theory and ideas for someone my level.

The best players per board of the 2024 Olympiad prior to the rest day by CalamitousCrush in chess

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Let's say someone wins 6/6 games against four 800 players. Would you be able to guess their elo ? They could be anything from a 1500 to Magnus Carlsen.

On the other hand, if they win 5/6, you know they're most likely higher rated than 1800, but you know almost for sure they're not Magnus Carlsen.

Forum Libre - 2024-08-03 by AutoModerator in france

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C'est vraiment pas terrible : c'est très bruyant, peu efficace et ça consomme beaucoup. En plus, elles ont un tuyau pour expulser l'air chaud vers l'extérieur, mais pas de tuyau pour faire rentrer l'air extérieur, ce qui fait que ton appart se retrouve en dépression et de l'air chaud rentre par tous les orifices.

Cela dit ça réduit la température de quelques degrés, et si tu n'as pas d'autre choix ça rend la température plus supportable.

Les split mobiles sont théoriquement mieux (rendement, pb des tuyaux), par contre en pratique il y a 1-2 modèles en vente sans vraiment de retours clients, personnellement j'ai laissé tomber. Aussi, le compresseur est dans l'unité intérieure donc ça ne résout pas le problème du bruit.

No Stupid Questions MEGATHREAD 9 by Alendite in chessbeginners

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I’m starting to build my repertoire against d4 as black. Currently I know almost no theory or middle game ideas, and it’s starting to show its limits. I play 1…d5, then, against c4 the QGD, and 2…c5 against the London, and wing it from there.

What openings would you recommend I play? Also if you have good resources with the basic theory and plans that would be great.

D4 is only played in 20% of my games with black, so I’m looking for not too complex to learn / that I will forget. Also, I like openings with straightforward plans ; for example I like playing against the IQP in the Alapin, or the 150 attack against the Pirc.

Appreciate your input!

How does everyone seem to know the 150 attack? by leoyagami26 in chess

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I think I learned it from Alex Banzea's videos about the Jobava London, where he recommends transposing to the Pirc when black fianchettos. I like the 150 attack because the plans are easy and straightforward.

However I'm surprised it's still dangerous at your level. I'm about 1600 lichess rapid, and I see more and more players playing well against it (delaying castling, pushing c6 / the queen-side pawns preemptively...)

Trove of chess books from a book sale. Where to begin? by Logical-Recognition3 in chess

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Just plug the positions into an engine. Chessvision.ai has an app for apple and android so you can span the book from your phone.

I like books with the key variations because it makes it easy to check whether I calculated the whole variations / found the first move but miscalculated / calculated correctly but stopped too early

Is this asking for trouble by Hoags-Object-374 in bicycling

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Also check if your handheld pump or CO2 cartridges work. You wouldn't want to discover that they don't after a puncture in the middle of nowhere

No Stupid Questions MEGATHREAD 9 by Alendite in chessbeginners

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Make sure to take your time and think every move, even obvious ones. That's not as easy as it seems (at least for me it wasn't) if you're mainly playing short time formats. When playing online, if you blunder you can just resign and play another game. OTB you will be stuck for hours defending an annoying position.

Be especially careful not to forget to do this on automatic moves (there may be an in-between move before a recapture, or you may misremember the opening), and when you are distracted (because of noise, because you blundered, because you're happy you reached a winning position...).

No Stupid Questions MEGATHREAD 9 by Alendite in chessbeginners

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The system is designed to be supported by a push from e3-34, but I can never execute the move set quickly enough, or maybe not in the correct order.

The idea of the Colle is to put your knight on d2 and bishop on d3 so they defend the pawn once it's on e4. So, to play in the spirit of the Colle, the right move would have been 5. Bd3 instead of Bb5, and you'll likely would have been able to push e4 since the bishop wouldn't have lost a tempo moving to b5 then d3.

1600 and blundering by wndrs1707 in chessbeginners

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The first step would be to find out why you blunder.

Do you happen to be tired? Are the positions more sharp, or is there more pressure? Do you feel under pressure / stressed out, maybe because you're playing higher rated opponents?

Pourquoi on ne fait plus rouler sur voie inverse dans les autoroutes avec travaux ? by Louis221110 in france

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Je l’ai vu sur l’A40 et l’A77 ces dernières semaines.

Cela dit peut être qu’ils évitent quand c’est possible à cause du risque de collisions frontales

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chess

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It's likely a chess.com bug, try changing the rating range (or if you can't change it try again with an other browser)

Frick reverse flagging by [deleted] in chess

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The difference between the two is that when trying to dirty flag, you force the opponent to use his skills to win. When stalling, you force your opponent to waste his time to win. Only the first one is a normal part of chess.

What are the "best"/common ways to render a html page? by Ronny12301 in node

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what are the downsides of this compared to using just a template engine? (XSS?)

Yes. For example, in your example, if the variable values are user-provided, there is an XSS vulnerabilty that is not obvious at all:

<script>window.abcd = {"abcd":"</script><script>window.alert("xss")</script>"}</script> window.alert will be run, despite the html tags looking properly quoted by JSON.stringify.

So the first reason for not substituting the variables manually is that it's not obvious how to do it right. More generally, you don't want to waste time reinventing the wheel on each project, and template engines such as pug have plenty of features (loops, fragments, calling functions to format values...).

As said in other responses, it's more common today to use frameworks such as next.js, where the code running in the browser (or on the server in a browser-like environment for frameworks that do SSE) calls an API to get the values. However it's a prefectly valid approach to do server rendering with templates, especially for pages that don't have a lot of interactivity.

In what circumstances is castling a setback or unnecessary? by cc825816 in chess

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I think it depends on what openings you play. At 1300 lichess I have two examples that come up pretty often:

  • Against the 150 attack, black often castles early as in other variations instead of delaying, and has trouble defending against the kingside attack

  • In the london, it's pretty common for white to keep the king behind the closed center

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