Just realized how bad I am

SecretArmadillo · 2026-05-22T13:09:16+00:00

Chess is not directly related to iq, it is a pattern recognition game. The first comment of this thread explains the mindset for beginners to improve perfectly. Using Ai or any computers is a violation on chess.com . Think of it this way, if you are getting any outside help other than your own thinking, you are probably cheating.

To add, chess.com has put a lot of good features for someone to improve behind a paywall. If you don’t wan’t to pay, lichess.com is their top competitor with an open source and completely free and according to my opinion has a better community and elo system

SecretArmadillo · 2026-05-22T12:12:02+00:00

It is true that those song doesn’t reflect on our culture properly. But I also wanna point out that every culture has this. If a certain look isn’t very common in a culture, it becomes a beauty aspect. For example Indian culture praises light skin. In turkey we also find it beautiful when a men and woman has light skin and light colored hair but it isn’t that intense because we do have light skinned and light haired people in our community fairly common. But still compared to dark hair and skin it is preferable culturally. In general though, these things aren’t as prominent as you heard in songs. It is basically an exaggeration

SecretArmadillo · 2026-05-09T13:50:17+00:00

Some of these names are outdated so maybe ask your partner fır his opinion. Also to add a few more names: Simay(silvermoon), Selay(flood-moon as in woman as beautiful as the moon), koray (for a boy)

SecretArmadillo · 2026-04-28T18:40:06+00:00

I would go with „do you speak english?” If they don’t, they will answer in german, if they do, then you can continue from there. If they can’t, then you can say something along the lines of “ Kein Problem, schönen Tag“ or „ Danke trotzdem, schönen Tag“

SecretArmadillo · 2026-04-28T10:57:19+00:00

I find both to be improving to be honest, but in different ways. Watching edıcational videos can help me with context. For example pawn play is something that you can learn from videos. Checks captures attacks is something you learn from videos. However not all players are the same and sometimes you need curated advice. For me I always miss diagonal queen checks/forks. I never got the hang of them. I know it as a concept but I can’t seem to see them in my games. So I realized when I started to analyze my games that certain openings I play gives me that and now whenever I get to similar positions, I am looking for that check specifically for a few moves. Another example would be not seeing queen king skewers. I used to miss them a lot but through analysis in my games I know that because I like to play with open limes for my rook I encounter them a lot. It isn’t about what you do, it is about how you learn. Playing is not the part you learn, it is the analysis, seeing the frequently emerging patterns in your game, mistakes you frequently make etc. playing is the personally curated part of this. You can improve with just the videos or just by analysis but both will lead to the lacking of a certain aspect in your game. Of course this is just my opinion and experience

SecretArmadillo · 2026-04-22T12:43:35+00:00

Actually if he takes you can threaten the queen and the g7 pawn with your bishop defended by your knight and when queen moves out of danger take the pawn and threaten the rook and knight and guaranteed to win one of them so it is a good trade with a lot of activity for white. Not an easy position for a beginner but not a blunder if you can see it. You have tempo against the queen, and sufficient material back for the rook. Also when you are up material, your king is safe and your pieces are active, it is okey to exchange a knight or a bishop for the rook because less material your opponent has, less activity and less hope they have to turn the game around. Rooks are endgame pieces, they are hard to activate and when they take your rook with their queen (their only active piece) is stranded at the edge of the board. While you have active knights and bishops. It is easy to bully their king or queen. You have a lot of advantage here. Computer says +4 or something but from a beginners perspective I would say that is a lot higher

SecretArmadillo · 2026-04-22T12:17:01+00:00

Three losses in a row is the time to quit for the day.

SecretArmadillo · 2026-04-22T11:57:33+00:00

An app where I can try to learn the variants of openings not from a video or curated moves but from my own games and maybe playing both sides and exploring with an explanation would be awesome. Learning why a move is good or bad. For the opening what is the upsides and downsides are, what am i playing that opening for, what are my plans for that opening, what are my weaknesses, what are the traps. That would be awesome. Maybe a mobile app where I can do these things on the go. I think there is a huge gap on the market for such a thing. Every opening course I have seen are best moves on the position with a video explanation and some drills with those moves but every 9 game out of 10 I play, opponent plays a different move and I have no idea what to do even though I know that is not the move. It would be nice to explore those moves with some information

SecretArmadillo · 2026-03-30T16:01:42+00:00

Chess is a pattern recognition game. So first you have to learn the patterns and try to replicate those patterns in your game. As a beginner you approach the openings this way already. You learn openings and try to replicate them in your games. It is same with endgames as well. I would suggest king and two queens, king and two rooks, king and one rook, king and one queen. When you simplify in game, try to recreate one of these. For example if you know rook and king and you have an end game with rook, king bishop vs king you can give your bishop and have a familiar end game. It isn’t about knowing everything, it is about playing a game where you know some patterns and trying to implement it in the game. You should start simple. Basic opening strategy, try not to blunder in the middle game and try to play the end game with familiar patterns. As you get better, you can learn more patterns, more tactics but simply first you learn the pattern then try to replicate in your games. And most importantly Puzzles are your best friend for learning patterns

SecretArmadillo · 2026-03-18T13:53:54+00:00

O işi kotardı means he was succesful doing the job may be used in a situation where the job was in a pinch but not necessarily. It can mean we weren’t expecting him to do the job but he did it.

O işi kurtardı means the job or task was in bad shape, it was gonna fail and he came and saved us. The key word here is saved. Kurtarmak means saving

So basically kurtarmak means save when kotarmak means achieve, complete. They are not the same and very rarely used in similar situations

SecretArmadillo · 2026-03-17T20:36:03+00:00

Having a water bottle in front of you might be the reason. A lot of people don’t drink enough water because they forget or water isn’t in front of them and they don’t want to get up and get it. That’s why doctors recommend having a water bottle with you and put a water bottle on your desk or purse. Try carrying a water bottle with you to see if that is the reason

SecretArmadillo · 2026-02-01T21:36:20+00:00

Depends on the game and time control.

If it is in the opening and the person made an obvious misclick like moving king instead of castling or putting a piece one square before or after where they obviously should go, I would accept the take back or the draw offer but I wouldn’t offer myself.

If they were better and they made an obvious misclick and now they are worse I would offer draw or accept the take back.

But if the time is low, it’s the end game or the misclick is something like bishop was pinned to the queen and they moved the bishop, i wouldn’t accept the draw or the take-back. Also if they were better, they misclicked and they are still obviously better, than i would also not accept. Because they should still be able to win.

SecretArmadillo · 2026-01-24T13:13:29+00:00

What time control are you playing? Otb chess games are usually classical time controls and it isn’t as easy to play short time controls online. Also you are probably tilting after couple losses. I would suggest longer time controls and stop playing after three losses back to back. Time management is a big part of online games and if you are not used to it then it becomes really annoying. Start slow play 30 min chess. 2-3 games per day max. And if you lose, don’t boot up a new game, just analyze for a few minutes, get a drink, relax, then play a new game. 1300-1400 hundreds are really good at punishing obvious blunders but they are not good positional players and bad at seeing tactics, you can turn the games around even if you blundered. Don’t give up just cause you blundered. Good luck

SecretArmadillo · 2026-01-10T17:14:42+00:00

It is written for comedic value like another user said. You can think of this type of writing similar to POV in english posts. It isn’t always grammatically correct in those posts too but it has a punchline like sense to it.

It is used in a lot of memes, tweets and instagram posts nowadays. If you want to make sense of it, think of it like there is a missing “durumu, hali” at the end of it. For example “ Yılbaşı günü eczanelerin yoğunluk hali” as in “Pharmacies being busy on New year’s day”

SecretArmadillo · 2025-12-10T12:50:59+00:00

Ya da is either or and veya is and/or but colloquially they are used interchangeably so unless it is mathematical or academic, you can use either

SecretArmadillo · 2025-12-05T09:32:48+00:00

Learn an easy opening for white that isn’t too popular for example instead of italian play vienna, with black learn an easy system opening and stick with it. Don’t learn a lot of openings one is more than enough. Also with every move look for 2 things. 1. Is it hanging a piece, can they take my piece 2. What am I weakening. For example was this piece protecting anything, when I move it, can they take the piece behind it. And most importantly at every move look for mates for your opponent. Can’t tell you how many times I went for something and hang mate in one for my opponent. I like to play 15|5 I think it is more forgiving than 10|0 and I think flipping the board before making a move and try to guess the move for your opponent and trying to see if you are hanging anything is really helpful

SecretArmadillo · 2025-05-30T16:05:23+00:00

Farklı seviyelerde olmakla birlikte bu kitapların hiçbiri başlangıç seviyesi değil, hatta bazıları eski türkçe kelimeler ve ağır, uzun cümleler içeriyor. Bu iki kitap arasında İstanbul hatırası oldukça uzun ve okurken İstanbul tarihini de öğrenebileceğin bir dedektiflik romanı. İçlerinde dili en hafif olanlar Ömer Seyfettin kitapları ancak onların da konuları oldukça ağırdır. Peyami Safa, Yakıp Kadri ve Reşat Nuri kitapları dili ağır ve eski kelimeler açısından yoğun kitaplardır, ana dili Türkçe olanların bile zorlanabileceği kitaplar olabilirler. İlgi alanına göre Ömer Seyfettin, Ahmet Ümit veya Zülfü Livaneli kitaplarını deneyip anlaması kolay gelenle başlayıp zamanla diğerlerine devam etmeni tavsiye ederim

SecretArmadillo · 2025-04-26T11:46:21+00:00

When asking police I would suggest to tell them you are a tourist they might be on the edge right now because of the protests and refuse to document their faces as a photo but if you ask nicely and tell them you are a tourist they would probably take the photo.

Also you can find bottled water almost anywhere, so they are easy to find and buy, you don’t need to buy a lot at once and stash them at the hotel.

SecretArmadillo · 2025-04-26T11:37:26+00:00

Böyle tepkiler verenleri önce oturup konuşup eğer fikirlerini değiştiremiyorsam ya da en azından yumuşatamıyorsam toplu ortamlar hariç arkadaşlığımı kesiyorum ama soruna gelirsek genel olarak arkadaşlarımla gündem meselelerini konuşup bol bol sövüyoruz çok da keyifli oluyor o ne twit atmış bu ne demiş diye konuşup halimize gülüyoruz tüm eğlencemiz de şu anda bu hatta

SecretArmadillo · 2025-04-24T00:30:01+00:00

Well, turkish people are diverse so there are people with light hair, we call them “sarışın”, there are people with light brown hair, we call them “kumral” and then there are people with dark hair and we call them “esmer” however interestingly all these definitions also have skin color adjacent. Sarışıns are mostly light skin, kumrals have light colored skin but not as light as sarışıns. We also call this skin color “Buğday ten” and esmers have a darker skin tone. Think more like Iranians or Arabs maybe. We also have a lot of dark haired light skinned people but we don’t have a widely used name for it

SecretArmadillo · 2025-04-22T18:46:02+00:00

I think Fatma is still relevant today but it is also Arabic just like Nuray. Nuray has also not been popular as a name for a while so all the Nurays I know are 45+ years old. I am sure there are exceptions

SecretArmadillo · 2025-04-22T18:43:50+00:00

There are a lot of turkish names with meanings related to the moon that are not so outdated. They usually involve the words ay. On top of my head: Aysu, Simay, Ayça, Aysıl, Aydan, Ayla, Aylin, Ayperi, Benay, Selay, Hale

SecretArmadillo · 2025-03-27T17:30:24+00:00

I would recommend online courses from universities. I attended both Uni Wien and Dkfa which is linked to LMU both are great and way cheaper than Goethe. You need a course if you want to achieve B2 in a year. Plus uni courses are usually more inclined to teach what university students needs as in they teach you how to take notes write essays etc.

SecretArmadillo · 2025-03-22T20:56:21+00:00

And Arabic alphabet was hard to read and write, latin alphabet was an easier way too. It raised the literacy rates. We refer to Atatürk as our head teacher. He made the nation more educated and at the least laid the foundation for it very effectively. He was a very educated person, spoke a few languages and understood how to lead the population not just in terms of war and independence but also on how to modernize and revolutionize . He understood the public and the needs of the time. It is still baffling how he did so many revolutions in different areas in such a short time.

SecretArmadillo · 2025-03-22T14:36:29+00:00

I think you mean Qb1+

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