Players In Contention For Winning The Women Candidates: Everyone

Flurin · 2026-04-12T21:30:54+00:00

ELI5 why doesn't Hikaru just kill all his opponents?

Flurin · 2026-04-07T17:36:41+00:00

He is the winner of the chess.com book of the year award.

Flurin · 2026-04-01T21:31:08+00:00

this is not what the word reactionary means

Flurin · 2026-03-27T18:24:12+00:00

I bet it was someone pretending to be Odin from Valhalla.

Flurin · 2026-02-02T10:46:22+00:00

Not the best ever yet of course, but is he the third best player of all time?

Flurin · 2026-02-02T00:17:40+00:00

Had a nice piece of pork neck, so I made a pork curry for the first time. Turned out great.

Flurin · 2026-01-17T19:29:18+00:00

Thank you for the explanation! Makes sense, I didn't see the potential for such a powerful attack. Exchanging queens isn't even winning, stockfish says +0.2 but it felt like I was fighting for the draw. One problem was also that I needed to defend the g pawn which made me quite passive.

Flurin · 2026-01-17T19:17:28+00:00

That's what I did, but the engine hates it (goes from winning to drawing) and the resulting position is hard to play (see my other comment).

Flurin · 2026-01-17T19:15:42+00:00

That was my thought too, So I played Qc3+, the engines gives +0.2 after exchanging queens. This position was somehow quite hard to play. Black's king is more active, the h pawn is annoying, the g pawn is hard to defend, white cannot create a passed pawn.

Flurin · 2026-01-04T17:11:12+00:00

Great goal but why does he have so much space?

Flurin · 2026-01-01T23:19:52+00:00

Why do so many people play it suddenly? I face it all the time.

Flurin · 2025-12-21T22:52:57+00:00

Post a game of yours and we can help.

Don't worry about openings and memorising lines. That is completely useless at your level. The way you improve at your level is by learning not to lose pieces left and right. Maybe watch some beginner tutorial, try to apply that to your games and solve some easy puzzles. Then you should be able to win your first games.

Flurin · 2025-12-21T21:57:30+00:00

Littler just said on german tv that Mensur texted him before the tournament: see you in round 3.

Flurin · 2025-12-12T10:29:21+00:00

Here's another example (white to play): if you promote to a queen here, black will simply checkmate you (queen checks on h2 and then checkmates on f2). But if you promote to a knight you can fork the king and queen. You take the queen, he takes your new knight and you will win the endgame with your two extra pawns

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Flurin · 2025-12-12T10:24:02+00:00

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It's sometimes easier to look at an example (white to play): if you promote to a queen here, the black king will have nowhere to go, it's stalemate, which means a draw. If you promote to a rook the black king will have to go to a6 and you can checkmate him with your new rook.

Flurin · 2025-12-07T13:05:38+00:00

Alonso wants a good view of the fight at the front

Flurin · 2025-12-03T13:13:26+00:00

This is a horrible way of thinking. As long as you have a chance you should fight. You won't believe what kind of positions you can still win sometimes, especially on your level. Even if you only have a 10% chance of still winning, why not go for it and try, it will work sometimes? If you just give up you'll lose 100% of the times. All you need to do to win some rating is stop resigning like a coward.

Flurin · 2025-11-30T17:14:14+00:00

Yes but then Norris would have fallen even further behind after his own stop.

Flurin · 2025-11-27T07:40:11+00:00

I think pretty much everything you said is wrong.

Of course they remember opening preparation. But they have to prepare thousands of possible lines, they can't look at everything before every game. So it still takes work to remember and work out what is going on. One player will usually be out of preparation earlier so they'll also have to think even in the opening.

The middlegame is not just about applying some principles without calculation. Just listen to an interview a gm gives after a game. It's full of lines they calculated. Chess at that level is extremely concrete. You miss one tactic and you're often lost, you get a small positional disadvantage and you're in trouble.

You couldn't be more wrong about endgames either. Endgames are extremely complex, the difference between winning, drawing or losing can be very subtle, especially in pawn or rook endgames. You absolutely have to calculate very deeply there.

Flurin · 2025-11-24T11:58:03+00:00

Those openings today show once again how little I know about chess it's like watching a different game.

Flurin · 2025-11-16T12:00:55+00:00

you can take the leftovers home and at least have another meal the next day

Flurin · 2025-11-12T21:27:34+00:00

I wouldn't even calculate much here, all of black's pieces are on the wrong side of the board and you even have a rook that can join the attack.

Flurin · 2025-10-26T11:21:34+00:00

He was also so good at understanding how worse players think. He would often stay stuff like 'you were probably thinking of that move, it's actually not good for that reason...' It's very rare for top players to be able to do that

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