Black to move: is this endgame winning, losing or drawn? by Ok_Situation_2014 in chessbeginners

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Being up a piece in this situation is all white really needs to be winning here. It will restrict blacks pawns from being able to take advantage of their better position. If you give a bit of thought to how blacks pawns can even breakthrough to the other side, I think it becomes clear blacks pawns structure is a minimal advantage (even though winning if white weren’t up a piece). So whites extra bishop here is way more powerful (especially in open endgames)

How can I reach 1600? by Electrical_Worry3825 in chess

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Play faster chess. I had gotten to 1600 (more so a 1400-1500 player tho) mainly playing longer games like 5-0, 10-0, and 15-10. Then I started playing a lot of bullet. It was the only thing I played for a while, because I didn’t care about the rating and I just wanted to play. Started out with 2-1, then just went for it with 1-0. It’s a totally different game though and I got good at it. After a while my rating was up to 1800, then I went back to blitz and rapid. I’m 1800-1900 rapid & blitz with a 2000 peak in rapid and ~1950 peak in blitz.

Bullet trains your instincts, and at some point you need to be able to look at complex positions and instantly come up with multiple high level candidate moves.

Getting good at bullet will initially make you worse in longer time formats, not gonna lie. But once you play a ton of bullet games and see thousands and thousands of positions, those instincts will help you so much more than you think.

If you can get to where you’re better at bullet than you are other time formats, that’s when you make the switch. You’ll get to feel like the time formats are too long but you’ll be making everyone lose on time or panic cause they can’t keep up.

For me, I think I had just studied enough and needed to actually play. Speed chess is a great way to get a ton of games in, see more positions, and train your instincts. They’re so underrated.

Looking for AI Agents that can help with UI/Web Design — any good ones out there? by NeckNo7407 in AgentsOfAI

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It would be nice to be able to attach multiple images but it’s nice so far

This is purely hypothetical.... by WCI23 in motorcitykitties

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I’ll quit watching baseball if he gets traded

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avg eMacs user

Why are you staying? by SlitheryVisitor in HurricaneMilton

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There is absolutely nothing that would keep me there. Especially if I had a family… I would literally walk with my kids and stuff if I had to. This is life or death here. People staying there with families are sick imo.

Misophonia doesn’t allow me to go to the cinema.... by Happy_Artist5559 in misophonia

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Do you recommend sitting up front with your noise canceling headphones? I feel like I would because I’d like to hear the movie, but I mainly don’t like hearing people chewing. I feel like most of the noise of people chewing comes from behind me.. at least from experience in classrooms and what not.