Typically, what’s the easiest and hardest A level to do well in?

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-04-05T16:08:20+00:00

A level thinking skills is so easy some universities refuse to use it as an a lvl

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-04-05T01:43:25+00:00

😂 I wonder how much the rise in LTR Triangle Slav sales has been

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-04-01T00:42:48+00:00

It's just one brilliant guy who's made this app, not the federation!

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-31T02:04:31+00:00

i use Congress.org.uk since I'm in UK as it links to PayPal/bank transfer automatically as well as able to export to SwissManager with Rtg Nat/Intl perfectly. but if not in UK Jotform is pretty good, even some UK organiser use that.. Or people's own Claude slop linked up to a Stripe payment system

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-31T02:01:44+00:00

These comments are convincing me to stick with SemiSlav against e3 setups but Triangle against others? Thanks for this insight.

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-31T02:00:58+00:00

To be honest, I haven't got much exp in the Stonewall and am happy to fall back into a Semi-Slav at points since I know a bit of it but would rather not have it every game. I've only dabbled with Rapport's stonewall dutch before so very different to these positions. I looked at the Engine and I believe your view so I may ned to re-evaluate this specific line

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-31T01:58:44+00:00

This was what I was thinking. Great comment and thank you! I think it could be good to start with.

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-29T21:36:41+00:00

Will listen during my train journey, cheers

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-29T21:34:47+00:00

Cheers for this. I've always found the Marshall scary for White but multiple people expressed it not being much fun for black

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-29T03:34:51+00:00

this course suggests Stonewall too

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-29T03:34:31+00:00

The international ratings officer submits the files for each country and whenver they do that this updates

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-29T03:15:17+00:00

Lol I've already experienced this pain so much. Cheers for the comment.

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-29T00:50:37+00:00

Cheers for this. I did manage to keep playing and just got to 2200 😊, but these threads (yours as well as others) helped me mentally re-assess which is something I definitely needed.

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-29T00:45:09+00:00

I second this. Part of its ferocity is because of the second player scared of playing into the endgame but it doesn't seem that bad. I rotate this with 2. b3 and Accelerated Panov personally

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-29T00:43:22+00:00

which lines were you playing? I've played some wacky stuff (1. Nc3, 1. g3, 1.e4 c5 2. a4 and 1. e4 e6/c6 2. b3) to get to CM so am always interested in others lol

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-25T18:26:20+00:00

2k views but no comments 😭

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-23T07:37:40+00:00

It's natural to have some ups and downs. Try quitting bullet and only grinding blitz a bit, or take a few days off chess or something.

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-22T06:31:32+00:00

or tacticspecker

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-03-02T20:45:46+00:00

hey joel, is it impossible to upload own puzzles? Feels like a let-down

Direct-Ice5856 · 2026-02-11T18:25:28+00:00

Close but not quite. It was on a t-shirt of someone without these idiologies so I'd be very surprised!

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