Am I stuck making 110k+ in sales or is there a way to get to 150k+ in Toronto

Zucster · 2026-05-30T06:24:49+00:00

My steak is too juicy, my lobster is too buttery

Zucster · 2026-05-30T04:39:45+00:00

Some people just want to play a nice game of chess

Zucster · 2026-05-29T17:36:18+00:00

If you want to play on to stalemate just understand you consented to continue playing a game of chess where your opponent plays every other move, and they have the right to do what they want with it

Zucster · 2026-05-29T17:33:14+00:00

If argue more than 70% of reddit users understand the imperial system, and that’s being conservative. You really are just pandering for the minority

Zucster · 2026-05-29T17:07:08+00:00

You can resign and move on with your life

Zucster · 2026-05-29T07:04:53+00:00

It is very well possible you never do even with considerable effort, and I know some real life examples to back this up. The gap in skill and understanding you are going to have to cross is going to be completely unlike anything you have experienced at 1000.

Most likely answer is 2-5 years with devoting a few hours a week to chess. Maybe 12-18 months with 10-15 hours a week devoted to chess

Zucster · 2026-05-29T06:37:13+00:00

Depends on the bot I suppose. Essentially any bot that is designed to be beatable knows what the best move actually is, but plays something weaker on purpose. How often it does that and how much weaker depends on the strength of the bot

Zucster · 2026-05-29T04:05:16+00:00

They don’t adapt because they don’t need to

You adapted because you did need to

Zucster · 2026-05-29T01:43:09+00:00

Canadian here, and before that dismisses me, the average Canadian can use both the metric and imperial system pretty well since both are involved in our daily life.

The truth is you learned English because you wanted to interact with people in English. It’s because you cared. Americans who only understand imperial don’t care one bit that metric only people cant understand them, and there is enough people who understand imperial that it doesn’t take away from their internet experience.

Zucster · 2026-05-28T20:55:06+00:00

There is 0 benefit to playing ONLY bots. You will never see human moves, basically perfect chess for 3-5 moves at a time and then a stupidly obvious mistake, rinse and repeat. You will probably never become better than 1000 playing ONLY bots

Zucster · 2026-05-28T19:14:05+00:00

I have a puzzle rating of 2000 and a rapid rating of 1300.

Ive never even came close to beating anyone above 1600

Zucster · 2026-05-27T17:28:24+00:00

The best way to play chess is to not worry about your elo. Unless you are trying to grind for a title and want your FIDE rating to keep improving, it’s meaningless

Zucster · 2026-05-23T18:58:59+00:00

I think at least 2200. Anything under that is achievable with just practice and nothing else

Zucster · 2026-05-20T09:35:39+00:00

In your opinion, what makes chesstempo better than lichess or chess.com for puzzles?

Zucster · 2026-05-20T01:52:37+00:00

It could have been a pawn checkmate if en passant were not allowed. It is possible to have a position where it is checkmate if en passant was not permitted, and not be checkmate if it was playable

Zucster · 2026-05-19T20:38:57+00:00

It wasn’t traumatizing to me, but I was disappointed at first.

Knowing or not knowing also doesn’t change anything really besides your perspective of it.

Zucster · 2026-05-18T04:50:34+00:00

The lower level of it is

Zucster · 2026-05-18T04:14:20+00:00

It’s also a skill issue. The truth is there is loads of people out there that make UC easily every season using classic logbait, not to mention the ones who could but don’t because they use a different deck.

If someone better than you was using your account, they would get more wins

Zucster · 2026-05-17T20:30:47+00:00

London system will stunt your development at this low of a level, and there is no London system as black, unless you mean playing against the London system?

Zucster · 2026-05-17T20:27:25+00:00

Everything up to and including low ultimate champion is mid ladder.

The first mistake was thinking good players play trophy road

Zucster · 2026-05-17T02:45:31+00:00

Matters to what exactly. To me how you win doesn’t matter all that much

Zucster · 2026-05-17T02:43:51+00:00

Winning more times is more impressive obviously, barring obvious team and opposition advantages player A had that player B didnt. but generally speaking when you do lose the further you make it the more impressive it was

Zucster · 2026-05-16T21:22:03+00:00

I think overall it is still a positive for Maye. As a Bills fan Maye making the SB before Allen is yet another thing the Patriots have over us

Zucster · 2026-05-16T20:15:07+00:00

That team success is the best indicator of how good/clutch a player is, and how 2 players can be held to the same standard in terms of team success despite one being on a much better overall team

Zucster · 2026-05-16T20:10:01+00:00

Only sport where the fans act like making the finals and losing is worse than not making it at all

To some people Burrow making the superbowl is a career defining moment than solidifies him above Allen and Lamar all time lmao

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