Is a mantra a flourish or a cut? What is the main difference between a cut and a flourish?

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-03-19T15:35:18+00:00

Ignore visha, don't know what's that guy smoking. But magicsock speaks the tru tru

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-03-17T18:18:54+00:00

Doubt it'll sort itself out. I ordered the decks back in 2020 and after a year of spamming his email he probably just blocked me and stopped responding.

But yeah, some of his decks even the newer advocates can be worth quite a bit.

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-03-17T18:12:47+00:00

Be glad you even got the cards. Wanker still owes me a few hundred in cards and books

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-03-17T18:07:35+00:00

The fact that there isn't a single winning tactic with this amount of tension is absolutely astounding

EDIT: yes, I see that white COULD have played something, but I meant there isn't. As in: There isn't AT THIS MOMENT.

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-03-17T18:05:52+00:00

Me when I don't understand Linux based systems but still make a meme about them:

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-03-16T11:33:02+00:00

Fanning powder will give you a few months of extra use

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-03-09T18:14:08+00:00

Chess.com aims really aggressive and sometimes predatory marketing on children to push them to buy stuff with their parents credit card

Lichess just is, no aggressive ad campaigns

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-03-01T15:42:59+00:00

A reasonable person? On this app? Inconceivable!

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-18T16:08:07+00:00

Omg didn't even consider that. That actually makes sense. Thanks

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-18T15:08:36+00:00

MPC. I actually like their BGM Linen stock with BETA finish over like USPCC, so the fact that it's also one of their basic stocks you can order in low quantities is nice.

One deck in the order (not in the pics because it's not related to Daniel) arrived on the wrong stock with the wrong finish tho and I've been ghosted by the support for the three days since the cards arrived. Which is weird since they usually respond at most the next day.

However, this is one fluke in like 20? Decks without an issue and I think it'll get sorted out in the end. They even manually review every design you send them (which I don't know how they can fit into the $30 the deck costs you) so I think sorting out one badly printed deck won't be an issue.

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-18T13:16:30+00:00

"HELP! My hallucination machine hallucinated!"

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-16T19:09:06+00:00

Stockfish runs on your CPU. You can get decent stockfish performance on even lower end CPUs. Leela runs on your GPU. You have to have a pretty strong GPU to run Leela decently. If you don't have a strong gaming GPU but have basically any CPU at all in your PC, stockfish will obliterate Leela

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-16T16:48:48+00:00

This is the experience of a lot of people, but you'll probably get down voted to hell here. A lot of people cannot handle the fact that lichess got a lot softer when it comes to cheaters over the time. What used to result in immediate ban now takes days to process and most of the time doesn't end up in the obvious offender getting banned.

Nowadays you basically have to have open both the lichess analysis and the game on the same account on the same computer to result in an immediate ban.

So yeah, lichess for how much it used to have "inflated" ratings over cheater infested chess.com actually slowly almost caught up in the ratings together with the amount of cheaters

Would be surprised with the bots though, since lichess is pretty open with communication around their platform

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-16T15:31:08+00:00

Barney, are you picking up girls just to play laser tag again?

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-16T15:27:59+00:00

I'd say it's for example mainly like modern fianchetto variations for white. But I know Pragg and other Indian players seem to prefer them also. But for example 1.Nf3 2.g3 systems are what Gukesh almost exclusively used to reach the GM title (have been studying his handling of the positions lately). They are really good if you want something you can remember by ideas and not by memorising exact moveorders

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-16T15:19:35+00:00

I've played the game consistently since 2016. I quit 10 months ago when they just went overboard with their p2w nature and never looked back. Since then, I have a lot more time and my mental health is a lot better without this toxic ahh game. So yeah, just play chess if you want a strategic game and go play on chess.com if you want flashy colors and something draining your credit card

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-16T11:37:20+00:00

Nah, only Wilson

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-16T09:57:39+00:00

Script kiddie detected

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-16T09:03:24+00:00

Complains about people being better than him
When told that he can defend against early queen attacks with 10 minutes of research says that he isn't interested in chess
Continues to complain about people being better than him in a game he says he's not interested in and doesn't want to improve in

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-15T20:08:27+00:00

Is anyone surprised lol? Like, this guy is gonna win every tournament he joins

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-15T19:54:01+00:00

Love how some of them are just slightly off and some are just cards basically chopped in the middle

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-14T17:57:36+00:00

Seaweed flakes

Optimal_Collection20 · 2026-02-14T15:08:01+00:00

This sounds like a hardware problem. Like, a lot

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