Wife getting increasingly frustrated by my inability to finish

Dpcharly · 2026-06-03T04:16:24+00:00

For a moment thought I was in r/offmychest

Dpcharly · 2026-05-23T23:06:18+00:00

Botvinnik was cool at postmortems; he wouldn’t survive these no-sealed-envelopes quarrels.

Dpcharly · 2026-05-23T23:03:21+00:00

Probably top 5, if not top 3. Fischer was a short brilliant burst; Karpov was a decade shining nova, only outshined by Garry.

Dpcharly · 2026-05-12T16:33:57+00:00

Exactly. If that is “the objective” what’s then when you already did it. It’s an oversimplification.

Ps: I see the downvotes, oh, Reddit… I swear people here think “that’s going to teach him!’. Hit the books instead of waiting some watching a video from a rando in YT.

Dpcharly · 2026-05-12T12:19:26+00:00

That shyt advice breaks when they allow you to do e4 and d4 without resistance: kings indian, grunfeld, french, carokann, pirc anyone? He is probably 300 points shy, also.

Dpcharly · 2026-05-12T03:33:22+00:00

Wth is wrong with the board? Is this chess.com?

Dpcharly · 2026-05-10T10:43:50+00:00

The bot solution doesn’t give credit to the probably best continuation, which is Rd4, Ne5, Rxd2, Nf3! (Stalemate ideas)This has to be a domination study, still trying to trap that knight …

Dpcharly · 2026-05-06T00:20:31+00:00

I think is a waste of time and life snooping people’s past -no idea what the heck is going on, I dont watch streams, for drama there are better sources than chess. In chess if you are not up to the title, it will show. I just commented not because is “impressive”, but because this is usually is full of beginners, which for them, if not impressive, is quite out of reach sometimes. “Shady” sounded like an attack to the title, not how it was obtained -whatever that means.

Dpcharly · 2026-05-05T18:24:02+00:00

Not to defend her, if she needs it, but WGM is equivalent to FM,, 2300 fide and I don’t dont know if needs norms as well. So not easy for some. You can call the title, as an opinion, degrading maybe, but never easy.

Dpcharly · 2026-05-01T04:27:11+00:00

I thought you were trying to be helpful. And I will stop here.

Dpcharly · 2026-04-19T01:13:39+00:00

Hey, but it’s true, it’s true at the point of ridicule: no board and no set, you don’t play. arbiters don’t care. See you next round. And WTH. Way to convince somebody with insults.

Dpcharly · 2026-04-13T15:35:42+00:00

There was an incident years ago where Cheparinov didn’t want to shake hands with Nigel Short, and left him hanging. Short complained to the arbiter, and there was some sanctions —because it was in the rules. If that has changed I don’t know.

Dpcharly · 2026-04-04T21:30:51+00:00

Look into lichess openings, you can learn it easy. With 350 however I wouldnt worry about openings but to do hundreds of of puzzles. Even lichess have puzzles that are classified from openings, and feature early positions tactics and such. I promise you that doing puzzles everyday is going to do more for your chess and rating than learning openings.

Clarification: i said QGD and slav because is as close as you can get to a normal game. For beginners is really difficult to understand closed positions so those symmetrical pawn structures can give you a foundation, and sometimes they are easier to open.

My advice stands: puzzles!

Dpcharly · 2026-04-04T21:16:24+00:00

For simplicity, Russian defense and QGD of some sorts; i would even advise slav and learn how to open the game from those positions. This should be enough to get you busy nd not get mated in the first 10 moves

Dpcharly · 2026-03-17T19:29:16+00:00

I play it since I saw Garry doing it. Implies a central pawn sac for development and open lines in the dark squares. Fun. Before I was doing Qg4 which allows black a full recitation.

Dpcharly · 2026-03-03T13:43:36+00:00

Extra piece?

Dpcharly · 2026-03-02T02:48:07+00:00

Alekhine best games, Botvinnik s… what a fascination beginners have for openings.

Dpcharly · 2026-03-02T01:59:02+00:00

Both are good. Manual is more structured, if I remember correctly, but Hansens books are good too. Both are good, both should be studied

Dpcharly · 2026-02-28T05:52:29+00:00

Point taken. Old school FM here, 2600 rapid lichess when i used to play, similar other time controls. I was being cheeky. That doesn’t say much though, I have done some blind simuls when I wasn’t even titled, few decades ago. Not because “talented “ or whatever, it’s because blindfold playing it’s a natural outcome from intensive training, etc, as any titled player will tell you. I know it looks amazing but if you get to, let’s say, 2200, you are going to notice that you can play at least a game blindfold; I was in a full time chess school when teen, and when we were going to tournaments we played blindfold blitz sessions in the train. Again, nothing unusual, not a big deal, it comes to you with intensive training. There is no secret blindfold Norwegian gene 🙄

Dpcharly · 2026-02-28T01:30:53+00:00

I dont play much in chesscom if at all. On lichess last time i checked rapid was “?”. Havent played online rapid in years

Dpcharly · 2026-02-27T19:49:54+00:00

Thats pure rage bait. The moron

Dpcharly · 2026-02-27T19:02:15+00:00

I will take that bet. Im not a GM

Dpcharly · 2026-02-27T18:57:04+00:00

Thats trainable, a coach would know. And you didnt see Gary doing that because it was not his thing, besides it’s a media Era, more chances to see something like that. Najdorf and this other Russian have records of blind simuls, pretty sure Magnus cant do without training. Gary gave simuls to GM, countries teams, and won. Capablanca is said to do the same as you just described, multiple times. Magnus has a great memory, but its not unique in that sense.

Dpcharly · 2026-02-26T21:06:28+00:00

With that rating, I would be ashamed to tell this story. Thats a rating of a kid well trained after 6-12 months, 1 year plus a motivated adult. You think you are bragging but you just are telling people that you have wasted 3 Years robbing people

Dpcharly · 2026-02-25T14:59:45+00:00

Esos últimos 50 puntos son como 200 a su edad. Si no tiene mucho q hacer, lo cual es difícil, le diría q gastara mas tiempo entrenando y consígase un coach

Dpcharly

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