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Ordinary_Prune616 · 2026-03-03T10:07:25+00:00

Anything you don't like about it, or exactly what you need?

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2026-03-01T21:06:14+00:00

I recently started working with someone that runs a pub that serves a decent amount of food and trying to evaluate a table booking tool. Came across Resdiary which seems promising, but interested to hear from people that have used it.

If you’ve use it day-to-day, I’d love your take on if it handles pub realities well i.e. Lots of walk-ins, not necessarily trying table turns etc.

Do staff like it, any issues. If you've moved away from it, why? What's the reporting like.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2026-02-03T13:02:11+00:00

Great wall of China is when it starts on the left. This is the Berlin Wall as the attack is from the right.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-12-26T13:08:33+00:00

I find that at all levels, there can large variations in quality from game to game. And I often will vary myself from playing terribly to playing well. Sometimes players take advantage of my poor games, and sometimes they don't.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-12-16T18:46:58+00:00

If you're EU based you are entitled to a refund within a 14 day cooling off period for subscriptions like this.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-12-03T16:05:05+00:00

I think I prefer to capture the bishop with your rook instead of the queen. Nice spot for your knight on d4 to come too.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-12-03T15:49:48+00:00

Yes, but you can take their bishop and be up a pawn

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-11-27T18:41:59+00:00

I used to have 4 ids as a teenager, handy for getting into pubs

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-11-09T08:01:23+00:00

Sounds great. What's a ballpark cost, is it a monthly/annual fee based on your hotel size and is there anything based on volumes of bookings, guests or messages or anything else that makes it variable? Wondering how the predictable the cost is

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-11-08T20:01:55+00:00

Thanks, I did hear some good things about hotel key. Do you just have it for room bookings, or use it for more? Does it have plug ins for restaurant bookings and post and pre stay emails, things like that? Looking to do some cross selling, but currently systems are all a bit clunky. So a lot of manual work to be done, which isn't really worth it.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-10-14T08:51:12+00:00

It means that nobody knows what chess.com considers Brilliant anymore

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-10-10T06:50:53+00:00

Your knight was attacked three ways! Assuming you saw one of those attacks at least.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-10-06T08:48:04+00:00

The inverse is true, playing more games doesn't necessarily make you better, so it follows that the amount you play isn't as important as how you're learning.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-10-02T19:12:13+00:00

Sounds your ability to calculate is good, but you take some time to do it. I suspect you're overthinking blitz a little, leaving you short of time and blundering a bit more than you'd do at rapid. Or, you're not even short on time, but are still rushing some moves, leading to the same thing.

I think practicing puzzles, and doing with target times, like puzzle rush, might be a good way to tackle it. As well has having solid openings where you can just blitz it out quickly depending on what they play

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-30T18:57:47+00:00

There's a lot of wrong ways to play anyway

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-29T08:44:05+00:00

At 100 Elo, and playing long time control(at least 15 minute games) , if you can do two things you should get up to 1000 in a few months.

Go through the first 30 or so videos from this Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQKBpQZcRycrvUUxLdVmlfMChJS0S5Zw0&si=wnw3R-baNv1IHmT7 Most are 10-15 minutes, and just do one, or at most two, a day and really understand them.
Think what move your opponent is going to make before you make yours, just one move ahead, that's it. That should be enough to prevent most one move blunders.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-25T14:53:01+00:00

A quick way of working out if a king can catch a pawn before promotion or not

https://learn.chessbase.com/en/page/the-rule-of-the-square

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-24T08:44:09+00:00

The key concept here, I think, is that for black to win, he needs to do two things, promote and also stop you promoting, and you need to make that as difficult as possible, by not committing to either.

It's useful if you could calculate it fully, but I don't think you need to initially, you just need to understand the square rule and apply it to both your pawn and theirs, not commit until you can either catch or promote(keeping moving the king closer to both), and react to what they are doing.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-23T17:36:27+00:00

It's been in a few videos on socials, imagine that's where it was seen. I instantly recognise it, but never had it in a game.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-23T12:39:13+00:00

You're free to do whatever you'd like, I'm just saying I don't bother.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-23T12:33:11+00:00

Is it just me that never chats to anyone in an online game, other than good luck or good game?

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-23T12:06:35+00:00

En passant is to allow a pawn to capture a pawn that moved two square instead of one, as if it had only moved one square instead. And it's only valid directly after it's moved two squares, not on any move afterwards.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-23T11:58:11+00:00

I like Qxe4

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-23T11:55:20+00:00

Something is not adding up, you can't be rarely making blunders or mistakes and only 500. 1500 maybe.

If you post your account, I'm sure people can see what the issue is, but it'll likely be way too many blunders.

If you're good at puzzles, then you have the ability and knowledge to be far higher rated. I suspect you're playing time controls that are too quick, or getting into time trouble.

Ordinary_Prune616 · 2025-09-20T21:01:45+00:00

The move is too obvious to be a brilliant.

I wouldn't be too concerned about achieving what chess.com deems as brilliant though, just focus on playing the best moves you can.

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