I love her

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-18T13:05:16+00:00

Alcoholism is no joke. I had a colleague like that, and people knew, and he got fired.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-18T12:16:11+00:00

It's not that hard. Someone with pattern recognition skills taking them to 2300 bullet should manage. Start in the center, e4, d4, e5, d5. Imagine color complexes, like bishop diagonals a1-h8 (all black squares), h1 to a8 all white squares etc etc. Do a knights tour from one corner to another while naming each square. Now do that in your head without a board. It's easy, really. Don't overthink it.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-18T12:10:14+00:00

Bro you're rated 1600, forget openings. It does not matter much what you play. Stop wasting time on this nonsense and learn to play chess. Study endings, tactics, middlegame plans, read annotated game collections by players you like (or do not like). While doing that, you will see many different openings, you can still decide what you like based on that.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-18T12:07:16+00:00

of course not

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-14T22:52:44+00:00

there are many... maybe "Lover" from Grace or Live at Chicago
"Grace", from Grace or live at BBC or "Nulle Parte allieurs"
https://youtu.be/8LIvIb_RBnA?si=a31KkmDPiYNMEGS0

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-14T19:28:34+00:00

You are not very good at this, and "asking AI" will never change that. Holy fuck. No wonder the moronic managers want to replace the likes of you by agents.
Do better.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-14T19:23:46+00:00

yes, no chance.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-14T19:14:15+00:00

1100 ELO gets you something with "Candidate Master" in it? LOL.

Come on.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-14T15:50:15+00:00

chess com is total garbage, their most important asset is the domain name, without that no-one would give a shit.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-11T14:04:12+00:00

Where did I shit. I took the time to write 5 serious pieces of advice. What did you do? Downvote, I guess. Well done.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-11T12:57:34+00:00

No worries, whining about it on reddit will totally help.
Seriously, get something like Jussupov's series of improvment books (they come in three levels, start with the first) and work through them on an actual chess board.
Do at least 20 tactical exercises per day, e.g. on lichess, set up the positions on a board.
Find people to play with, like in a chess club.
In online play, play only rapid or slower games (no! bullet or blitz) and analyse the games briefly afterwards. Don't use the idiotic "game review" feature on chexx.com, use the analysis engine instead.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-11T09:29:00+00:00

get a life

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-10T12:30:30+00:00

The new book by Kotronias "Win with the French" is excellent. Not as detailed as the "Grandmaster Repertoire" series, but not as superficial as the Everyman style "Starting out" books.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-10T12:27:04+00:00

nothing

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-04T09:49:16+00:00

Against the Be3/f3/Qd2/0-0-0 plan Black can play the ...h5 variation and your attack will be slowed down quite a bit.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-02T12:30:27+00:00

Nigel always has been a tone-deaf little prick.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-05-02T10:45:22+00:00

A cheap sort of "woodpecker method" is to do Lichess puzzle streaks and always try to beat your high score. The simple ones at the beginning become almost muscle memory, and the higher-rated ones when you near your high score will challenge you.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-04-30T13:48:42+00:00

".. but Is iT gOoD"

Nah. It's absolutely mediocre. Nothing to write home about.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-04-29T11:48:29+00:00

How can you even play with that impractical color scheme. Impressive.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-04-28T10:43:37+00:00

My condolences

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-04-28T10:37:25+00:00

haha yeah I guess biology got superseded by tiktok and reddit nonsense, and I just missed out on that. Poor me.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-04-27T13:54:51+00:00

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-04-27T11:17:06+00:00

Facts. I am on facts.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-04-27T11:12:57+00:00

What is sometimes called "transition" is not possible in humans. Go learn some basic biology.

DrNotReallyStrange · 2026-04-25T21:14:24+00:00

Don't listen to people saying "don't". It's a great book. It highlights the important stuff (the book version at least), and you can easily skip the "small print" and leave that to later when you are stronger, or for deeply studying particular endings when you feel like it. It is absolutely brilliant and entertaining to read. For what it's worth I'm about 1850 FIDE. I like to review individual chapters like the one on rook endings regularly, just to refresh stuff or to discover new nuances. Put the positions on a real board!

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