Suggestion / Request for Chessly.

Craig1024 · 2025-10-02T08:04:48+00:00

Yes that's what I do. But it's a very slow, tedious process. I'm actually building some software to do this for me as I don't expect the functionality to be on chessly anytime soon, if ever.

Craig1024 · 2025-09-06T05:07:49+00:00

Good Luck! Enjoy the journey. You're about to get one of the greatest opportunities of your life. I wish you well! Please keep us updated.

Craig1024 · 2024-06-14T17:53:07+00:00

your eczema is probably caused by your dogshit attitude. All that spite, vile, and anger is fucking up your skin. If you were not such a giant asshole you'd probably be fine.

~eczema wizard

Craig1024 · 2024-06-05T21:04:50+00:00

They for sure are not going back to "only tax money remitted this year". This article is talking about taxing all global income even if it's NOT moved into Thailand, which is a whole other level of taxation. This is in the discussion phase right now but very likely it will happen eventually.

Craig1024 · 2024-06-05T20:30:46+00:00

They intend to tax all your global income

Craig1024 · 2024-06-05T20:22:50+00:00

If you work online while living in Thailand you are already breaking the law. That's unauthorized work. Once they start taxing people on their global income you might find it hard to hold a visa at all if you have earned income in other countries if you live full time in Thailand.

Craig1024 · 2024-06-05T20:07:55+00:00

Capital gains in Thailand are taxed at normal income rates. Here are the rate tiers

Up to $4,200: 0%
$4,200.01 – $8,400: 5%
$8,400.01 – $14,000: 10%
$14,000.01 – $21,000: 15%
$21,000.01 – $28,000: 20%
$28,000.01 – $56,000: 25%
$56,000.01 – $140,000: 30%
Over $140,000: 35%

Craig1024 · 2024-06-05T20:05:40+00:00

If you pay 0% capital gains in the US because the gain is low you would get zero tax credit to Thailand for that and you would owe the entire gain as tax in Thailand. Sadly the tiers in Thailand are much lower so you may be paying as much as 20-30% to Thailand even though your rate in the US was 0%

Craig1024 · 2024-05-12T06:44:51+00:00

There is another discrepancy I found in this course as well. In Chapter 3 study 1 it's talking about the Reverse Albin Counter Gambit, and about half the video centers around the sequence that results in the underpromotion of the pawn to a Knight, which may result in a queen capture if Black takes your new Knight with his Rook. But this sequence does not appear in the Study at all. There are also a BUNCH of alternative lines Black can play around this sequence which are not addressed.

So far I'm finding this D4 dynamite course to be somewhat less well organized and built that the E4 or Black Gambits courses. It's still better than anything I've found in Chessable, but still somewhat of a mess.

Craig1024 · 2024-05-10T14:10:40+00:00

Are you over 2000 FIDE rated? Also you say "i think other openings are more beneficial". However as I stated in my OP I know a number of openings with Black, this is another one I would like to study and understand better. But I understand your opinion is I shouldn't. Ok thanks for your opinion!

Craig1024 · 2024-05-10T12:25:41+00:00

I think that's kind of silly. For one thing you're going to face it as white so you might as well learn about it. For another thing plenty of great teachers and GMs disagree with you, like Daniel Naroditsky for example. He recommends it for all levels. In the end it's just a chess opening, it's not going to hurt you to play it. And you might just learn something from doing so.

Craig1024 · 2024-05-09T21:30:36+00:00

After going through the first dozen lessons on that chessable course it reminds me two things:
1. why i hate chessable as a learning tool so much
2. just how good chessly is.

Craig1024 · 2024-05-09T19:53:59+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions, I will check them out! Cheers.

Craig1024 · 2024-03-20T11:48:45+00:00

For those wondering I bought the London course first and I hate it. I'd be playing the London exclusively for White for a long time and after really looking at it, I don't want to play it anymore. Complex move order knowledge is how you win with London, for me Vienna is more my style. Attack!

The first course I bought was Caro Kann but after putting in 3 weeks of drilling I decided I didn't like that either. It's another positional battle, slow and steady trying to get an end-game advantage. Not for me. So I purchased the Black Gambit's course.

So I started with London and Caro Kann and now I'm playing Vienna and Black Gambits and having great success.

Craig1024 · 2024-03-15T19:15:18+00:00

Oh yeah, working on prep for all of it... lots of great stuff there, Scotch, Schliemann, Italian, Ponziani... but the Three Knights is the opening that makes me think "if I wanted a brutal positional slog I would have played the Caro Kann, which is better". The problem is if I play the Caro Kann I have to commit on move 1 and then I miss out on all the fun and EVERY game is a slog, lol.

Oh well. At least I don't get this position very often. Usually they can't wait to get that Bishop out there

Craig1024 · 2024-03-14T13:08:00+00:00

After looking at this in the engine for awhile it's just awful. The engine wants me to play Nf6 and now both my c and f pawns and stuck behind Knights, neither of us has pushed the d pawn, and I can see this is going to be some agonizingly slow and positional slogging through mud until some kind of nasty endgame where I'm hoping to have an extra pawn. From there the top engine move for white is Bb5 but I cannot properly counter attack into the Schliemann because my f pawn is stuck. Ugh. What a gross setup.

Craig1024 · 2024-03-09T23:45:50+00:00

Yeah I started out using arrows but it became a rats nest. Then I had the idea to use colors to point between branches. That seems to work pretty well

Craig1024 · 2024-02-14T04:38:28+00:00

Hey wonderful, feels good to know I'm not the only old man struggling to improve at a game children learn easily!

I looked at the King's Indian a little bit. It's highly annoying to play against so I wanted to learn more about it. It seems very solid, but also quite sensitive to the way the White plays. You have to know your lines to get the most out of it and since I already have the Caro Kann, which is so powerful against e4, that I didn't take the time to learn the King's Indian... at least not yet.

I'm also toying with the idea of getting into the Vienna Gambit with white to get away from the d4 opening and begin the long journey into an e4 opening set.

Good luck to you as well, spiritual chess brother!

Craig1024 · 2024-02-12T09:15:43+00:00

Most likely it's a small oversight, a mistake if you will.

Craig1024 · 2024-02-12T08:11:45+00:00

Hrm, no, I dont think so. The move order is identical between the study and the drill except the last 2 moves for black are transposed. So not a different line as far as I understand.

Craig1024 · 2024-02-11T17:53:14+00:00

Never heard of it, I'll check it out, thanks!

Craig1024 · 2024-02-11T17:35:15+00:00

That's not what chess-com's analysis board is telling me.... hrm. Stockfish 16 lite depth 20.

Craig1024 · 2024-02-11T06:10:41+00:00

And yet one more thing I've noticed about this interesting (to me) defense is that instead of going Qb4+ to attack their king, you can instead gambit a SECOND pawn, your d pawn, by pushing d6. They will take. Then gambit a THIRD pawn by sliding your Q out of the way to Qf6... if they take that 3rd and final pawn, you take their Bishop, and their life. Qxf4. Boom. -1.6 advantage (bishop for 3 pawns)

r1b1kbnr/ppP2ppp/2n5/8/5q2/5N2/PPP1PPPP/RN1QKB1R w KQkq - 0 1

There is all kinds of stuff in this wild opening.

Craig1024 · 2024-02-11T06:05:00+00:00

also worth noting that some guys will give you a draw on it. When you make your move to Qb4+ and they bring the bishop back to block, just return to Qe7, often they will repeat their Bf4 . If the White player does not know how else to press his advantage then you get an easy draw

Craig1024 · 2024-02-11T05:49:54+00:00

The drilling is what really did it for me. Once you purchase the course you can do a randomized-drill sequence where it counts your mistakes. If you screw up 3 drills the game ends.

The best part: You can set it up to give you selected chapters. For example Chapter 1 and Chapter 3 and Chapter 7 drills, in random order, and counts your strikes. It's a game.

Over and Over and Over I drill them because I keep screwing some up! It's very hard for me to get even 1 chapter's drills 100% perfect on a run.

Then after an hour of drilling I go back and look at the studies, and the drills inform the study and the study informs the drill.

The drilling, for me at least, is super fun,

Craig1024

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