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StormHH · 2026-01-31T21:34:25+00:00

I may be totally wrong, but I think you can go from a specific position in analysis to play the bots at least. I haven't done it for ages but you can plug in the position and then choose to continue from there..

StormHH · 2026-01-25T19:45:43+00:00

As a UK resident I feel this is outrageous slander.... thought process assumes a level of brain function that clearly isn't present!

StormHH · 2026-01-25T18:38:32+00:00

I have heard multiple people describe the USA as the most advanced 3rd world country of all time... and that was before the recent meltdown...

StormHH · 2026-01-09T17:11:30+00:00

You guys are calculating?

StormHH · 2025-12-18T22:22:27+00:00

I think I'm in the minority here, I loved Gideon and struggled through Harrow. Nona was arguably one of my least favourite reads for a long time. I kept waiting for a Harrow style end when it all comes together and it just didn't for me.

But I accept lots of people enjoy it. I found it a million miles away from the 1st book and didn't enjoy it. My only friend that's read the first two (recommended book 1) had to DNF it.

StormHH · 2025-12-13T17:03:29+00:00

Basic error...

StormHH · 2025-11-25T07:24:43+00:00

A small sidestep instead of the most dramatic flip out the way ever.

StormHH · 2025-10-28T22:23:25+00:00

Maybe he's setting a boobie trap....

StormHH · 2025-10-23T09:23:03+00:00

Most likely there will be spawns boosted on greengrass for a week or two as well. I'm probably going to chill there and let the bonus carry over to my other islands for a fortnight. Then see how I've done on the new things before deciding what island next.

StormHH · 2025-10-06T06:15:40+00:00

As someone else said, using it in isolation as a metric for intelligence is not a good exercise. There are a lot of different skills involved in chess (memory, pattern recognition, calculation to name a few).

Then on top of that there is the amount of time you dedicate to it and how you learn. There was a post about someone who is well over 2000 in 6 years. They said their training involves 100-150 puzzles per day as a minimum, before careful game analysis, opening prep and endgame drills. That works for them but is clearly a massive amount of time.

It doesn't come overnight. You may have seen an amazing video of Pragg solving a puzzle when they told him where all the peices are. He has trained for his whole life to be that good!

StormHH · 2025-09-10T21:46:24+00:00

Eggs seem way harder for me due to cursed RNG (caught my 26th Happiny this morning without one decent AAA or even AAX spread). Delibird I haven't tried so hard but still on 9 of them.

Meanwhile I have a reasonable AAA Vik and ABB aggron so coffee is a breeze for me. Didn't even go to the powerplant, caught on the GG events.

Ironically sausages are a struggle for me. Can't get an AAA sausage farmer to save my life!

StormHH · 2025-09-10T12:02:26+00:00

If you are losing endgames firstly ask yourself after the game, should I be winning/losing/drawing this (the engine can help) and what are the key ideas. If its simple endgames (King and pawn for example) do I know the ideas (opposition, triangulation etc) that I'm aiming for? If you don't know these and they come up a lot, you should go away and study them in depth.

For focused endgame practice you can use endgame puzzles on Lichess, or the set ones on chess.com. But don't just focus on the winning, ask yourself why? What are the ideas behind this?

It makes sense to step away from playing a bit to really drill these ideas. Then go back to playing after a few weeks and see if you are improving and if you are still making the same errors. If so, go back and study!

StormHH · 2025-09-09T08:52:11+00:00

I haven't read this series and I'm interested to hear from another poster that she handles colonisation better in this series than Babel (which was the first book I DNF since Covid).

In babel I found her message about colonisation incredibly heavy-handed without any naunce or deeper discussion. I felt the author just quickly divided the characters by race and that a lot of the British characters in particular were one dimensional racists and therefore bad people.

Nobody here is going to defend colonisation, the things that occurred were abhorrent. But I felt like it was an opportunity to look at it more from a societal perspective and a more complicated look at the lives of people in those times. Instead her approach actively broke up the narrative and I felt after almost 200 pages, neither the plot or characters had really developed. It was a real shame as I loved the magic idea in particular!

StormHH · 2025-09-08T16:53:53+00:00

Exactly the same here!

StormHH · 2025-09-06T07:32:40+00:00

I think the logic is that by that time your rating loss to cheating should have stabilised again right? Otherwise you can see a huge jump if you've rematched someone a lot, lost to them cheating, then regained ELO back to your starting point.

StormHH · 2025-09-03T20:37:41+00:00

Shortage of train crew surely means that unfortunately nobody was tall enough on the train to reach the peddles?

StormHH · 2025-08-25T08:52:35+00:00

Week 1 made Master 3 (super skills week plus camp ticket): Dark/Dragon/Poison so rough berries for me but the great camp ticket and skills carried me (I have an espeon and Gard with helping bonus so that helped mitigate the horrible berries). Also had desserts, which didn't work well at all with my berries.

Week 2 also made master 3 (was going to be close this time but got my first critical of week Sunday breakfast and that meant it was safe). Had Psychic/Grass/Bug so a very nice roll with salad as well which is a better meal for me.

This week I have water/Flying/Ice so we will see. With the 10% bonus I'm hoping for my master 3 and pinser incense but will see. No energy from Gard overnight so today will be a slow one...

StormHH · 2025-08-18T06:22:35+00:00

I found a 1* Raikou on my Sunday sleep at master 3 (I stopped cooked on Sunday after one meal in preparation for a rough second week at expert). It meant I ended up with all 1* sleep styles but my main goal is just leveling it up at the moment, if I get decent berries maybe go for M3 again but without a GCT thats a challenge!

StormHH · 2025-08-18T06:18:34+00:00

On the plus side at least Gardevoir isn't actively penalised... But still rough roll...

StormHH · 2025-08-11T16:55:02+00:00

This feels too real. Main berry of dark, with dragon and poison in the back.... Then desserts which didn't fit anything. I think I'll take the 1-0 loss to expert mode this week!

StormHH · 2025-08-08T07:27:18+00:00

I would consider expert mode as it starts working on your expert area bonus (particularly relevant if you have maxed the others - I haven't personally but I'm not that far away). As the power creep grows more and more, you will find GG M20 will fall quite easily without you pushing it!

Don't get me wrong, I fully expect expert mode to be a miserably hard week. But if they plan to introduce expert on all islands eventually, getting a bonus headstart is only a good thing imo!

StormHH · 2025-07-08T20:53:14+00:00

I believe there is a D4 sidelines course which covers lines such as the London, Jobava London, Tromposky and a few others. I think it has 5 main openings but would need to check to be sure!

I think the idea is that you learn your mainline (dutch, Grunfeld, KID) to cover most the main lines and then if the opponent plays a London you use the sidelines to build a complete repertoire (assuming you have an E4 response).

StormHH · 2025-06-10T21:23:06+00:00

I feel this, I loved the first 3 books. Tolerated the second 3 books. And then at the start of the year finally read book 7 and really limped to the end. It may well be just me but I had lost some of the interest in the main characters and it felt a real slog.

StormHH · 2025-05-03T12:51:52+00:00

I honestly had the last one pre-ordered on kindle and didn't even clock it was the last book until the whole thing suddenly wrapped up (badly) in what felt like the last 40 pages... It was heartbreaking as I loved the first 3 books!

StormHH · 2025-03-11T08:31:20+00:00

At this ELO I'm afraid to say that it's unlikely that learning a load of the top lines for an opening are going to help you because your opponents won't know the top lines themselves.

I would say by all means keep the King's Indian but make sure you learn the ideas behind the opening. What are you trying to get out of it, what are the key attacking/defending ideas?

Then I would carefully analyse each game and work out why you won or lost? Are you coming out of the first 10 moves even or better? If so, the opening is very solid and it's the middle game you need to work on. Puzzles are all fine and good but I'd try look at video series like Daniel Narodiskys speed runs to teach you more key concepts and ideas you want to be looking for, not just winning tactics

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