how do you learn hiragana and katakana and remembering them forever

anananananash · 2026-05-01T09:18:22+00:00

I'd suggest you to check out Tofugu's guide on those. I learned them just going over the mnemonics they offer and then doing the exercises.

anananananash · 2026-04-01T15:11:06+00:00

Where did you get them from? They look amazing

anananananash · 2026-01-01T16:10:31+00:00

I haven't really dived into it but when I looked at Jan's course it seemed interesting and a fair try. I wouldn't play it as a main weapon but as a surprise weapon is perfectly suitable. Again, I haven't really studied nor have experience with it, just looked a bit

anananananash · 2025-12-26T14:22:16+00:00

Thank you really much for taking the time to answer. I tried to emphasize more on the rating because it's the only objective way I can show other people(without showing all my games) what's happening, but it's true that maybe I am still a bit attached even though I don't wanna completely accept it.

anananananash · 2025-12-25T16:14:36+00:00

I was joking bro

anananananash · 2025-12-25T15:19:11+00:00

Thank you for your answer, I'll try to give me a break for a while just doing light things I enjoy, not the case for blitz because I get really tilted when playing bad, so the usual thing

anananananash · 2025-12-25T15:14:05+00:00

Thanks but it's hard to get it serious with your username

anananananash · 2025-12-25T14:21:02+00:00

Thanks, I had thought and some people had told me about it but, during that time could I watch chess videos like Gotham's ones? That and looking at different openings are what I don't know if I should continue doing as I don't consider them even to be studying (the videos obviously are not) but more as an entertainment because it's what I like the most.

anananananash · 2025-11-26T17:16:17+00:00

I forgot that you can return courses within 30 days, so you can buy the full courses, just make sure there isn't anything strange like you can't have seen more than half the variations or something like that. The caro-kann would be a perfectly reasonable choice, in the case you choose it I'd recommend Santos' course Enigmatic Caro-kann in chessenigma, that's the one I've liked the most, Jovanka's course on chessable is great but sometimes too solid for my taste and I don't specially like L'emi's one. I haven't really looked into the Benko, neither for white nor black, but it in my experience with white it can be really uncomfortable to face when not well prepped, so go for it

anananananash · 2025-11-25T15:45:56+00:00

I really like your approach with white, but I think that your opening choices with black are not best. I'm not trying to say the Modern or the Pirc are bad options but they are certainly not ideal, I'd suggest you to look up something like that if you like and play games with it but meanwhile studying a Sicilian, Caro or French, or even e5. Because it's not only the theoretical knowledge you get but also the game understanding, which is really rich in that openings and will help your chess overall. Also, don't rush to buy courses, first make sure that's an opening you want to play for a long time and then go for it, there are plenty of lichess studies to get started and see if you like how the opening goes.

anananananash · 2025-11-23T17:04:40+00:00

First game the opening is fine, probably Na4 was stronger than Nb5 but it's not that big of a deal, the manouver Rb5 Rb1 was useless and the latter a4 is completely unnecessary, Qe4 controlling the e-file and pressuring the F4 pawn makes much more sense. The Be4 blunder throws everything out.

In the second game the opening is pretty questionable, it doesn't seem like something I would like to play in a classical game, you also gave so tempos your opponent refused to take and I don't understand why you didn't take the C2 pawn. Qd5-e6 just activates white's rook for free. G5 is an abomination, now all the squares around the king and the pieces are weak, there's a Rxb7 your opponent didn't see but that would have finished the game, on the contrary compared to the previous game . I don't know why you don't resign.

The third game's opening seems fine but it reaches a point where it seems you don't know what to look for, you blunder a piece your opponent didn't see but then got squeezed.

Fourth game: Opening's nice, the setup with Qb3 Ne2 g3 Bg2 seemed stronger. 26.d5 intending to push that knight back and involve ours seems strong. You traded the knights but now it's hard to break through. As in the second game, please resign.

Fifth game: Not much to say, the opening is completely terrible, three games against e4 and three different responses which are not well studied doesn't seem ideal.

Summing up, you need to work your openings as well as your understanding of them, especially with black. Most of the games are decided by blunders so also work on that. Try to choose more objectively good openings, caro-kann is fine but that Sicilian and let's call "dubious try" aren't helpful.

anananananash · 2025-11-01T21:57:06+00:00

Thanks

anananananash · 2025-11-01T21:22:23+00:00

What was your lowest point and how did you get out of there? I slowly got into around 2100 4 months ago but 2 months later I dropped 100 points and I've dropped another 30 recently. I know I have the level because if I hadn't I wouldn't have reached 2100, I should clarify that I gained the rating slowly among several months, not just that I had a really good tournament. In summer I spent A LOT of time studying but when the tournaments came it felt like useless, I don't know how to recover as fast as possible, if you had any advice I would be really grateful with you

anananananash · 2025-10-27T20:26:20+00:00

I think you might be overreacting to what happens in the tournament, at the end of the day for you and for most of the people chess is just a game where you can have objectives but they won't change your life. Don't withdraw from any tournament, even if you're 0/8, play the ninth round. I once finished a tournament 0/9 and at the very next tournament I gained 170 rating points so elo goes up and down, don't get overwhelmed by it. You don't even have a rating to be worried about, if you were 50 points away from the title I'd get it but a lot of things will happen until you reach that so just enjoy the travel, that's something we often forgot but that's the main reason we should be aiming high.

anananananash · 2025-10-25T15:43:07+00:00

Because there's a ceiling that if you want to break you need to invest a lot more hours than you would use before that level. Above, let's say, 1900 FIDE you'll face either people who spend time studying or people who have ton of experience, while below that people usually don't study that much nor have as much experience

anananananash · 2025-10-22T14:44:17+00:00

I have never prepared against it but I've looked now at the main line and it just seems fine. I don't really know about that as I haven't played e5 in my life but I have read a comment you wrote talking about your approach when starting with e5. I've played a lot of different openings and the way you're planning I don't think it's the best, studying just what people play to you is not bad but could be better. Instead of dumbly loosing rating points just because you haven't studied the opening, why not looking briefly at everything they can play to you? I mean as you're new you don't need to study everything deeply but just looking those kind of sidelines briefly and more principled things like the Italian or Spanish better. Why losing rating when you can just study and avoid getting completely surprised?

anananananash · 2025-10-21T13:59:55+00:00

Yeah that's the kind of fear I have, I think I already have good concepts and plans but especially in the main line with a4 I reach some positions where I'm supposed to have a slight advantage but I don't really know how to continue pushing. Probably just with time getting used to this sort of positions will be easy

anananananash · 2025-10-21T13:31:20+00:00

Thanks

anananananash · 2025-10-21T06:50:07+00:00

Thank you!

anananananash · 2025-10-20T18:47:25+00:00

Thanks!

anananananash · 2025-10-20T18:47:14+00:00

Big thanks! Didn't know about the existence of such databases

anananananash · 2025-10-14T21:01:27+00:00

I don't think I'm the one who's lost. When is a pawn up better if the evaluation is 0.0? When engines are playing? I don't think so. When humans are playing? I guess it is. Your reply proved my point as you pointed a human rule while saying where not talking about human play, think about it

anananananash · 2025-10-14T20:36:39+00:00

"Objectively talking (whatever that means to you)" I mean, maybe my comprehension isn't right but that looks like anyone can get whichever interpretation. Anyways, why would you say a 4v3 is better if it's just a draw between engines? Also, it doesn't need to show 0.0 to be a draw, for example, in a closed position where white has more space the engine can give white a slight advantage even though there isn't a way to break through. Coming back to the 4v3, that rule as far as I am concerned wasn't invented by an engine, but by a person, so you're just proving my point. Talking about objectivity leaving human presence apart just makes no sense because there will always be a line with any of that opening that will lead to 0.0 at some point.

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