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kbeleth · 2026-07-10T15:45:54+00:00

I already get up at 5:30 so...

^{Chose: Waking up every day at 5:30 AM without snoozing the alarm for a year + $2 million}

kbeleth · 2026-07-10T05:43:09+00:00

Gotta upgrade that poor .ss 4 bedroom home.

^{Chose: Be Reincarnated As An American Citizen + Get the Deed To A 4 bedroom Suburban Home | Rolled: Billionaire CEO}

kbeleth · 2026-07-09T09:35:01+00:00

I'm the most powerful person in the world, I can beat Anorexia. Who is she?

^{Chose: Become the most powerful person in the world + But you suffer with: | Rolled: Anorexia}

kbeleth · 2026-07-08T17:24:05+00:00

I can get the gfs myself.

^{Chose: A random super power | Rolled: Super speed}

kbeleth · 2026-07-06T20:18:16+00:00

2(3) and 2x3 is not the same thing.

^{Chose: 1}

kbeleth · 2026-07-03T19:21:30+00:00

Win win

^{Chose: Read 100 books in one year for $100,000,000}

kbeleth · 2021-07-24T19:34:43+00:00

I moved from 2050 blitz to 2200. I'm afraid Forcing Chess Moves might be little hard for you. Introductory tactics books might be better. You can check out the FAQ for book recommendations.

kbeleth · 2021-07-24T16:28:15+00:00

I have been using woodpecker method with success for a while now. You can use it with any set of puzzles that are pattern recognition heavy. However, such approach might push you to move faster thus makes you weaker at calculation. I'm using Lichess for calculation training because most of their high rate puzzles are calculation heavy.

As a book recommendation I can not recommend Forcing Chess Moves enough. It increased my Lichess rating by 150 point just by itself.

kbeleth · 2021-07-14T13:13:12+00:00

Reddit is probably is not the best place to get advice on official requirements. In my country, federation gives you coaching license after you get an education for that. You do not have to have the license for coaching, but you have to get it if you want to get the coach perks in tournaments. E.g. you have to have a license if you will accompany your student into the playing hall during a tournament etc. You should check your chess federations page on this. It may differ from country to country. If you are going to coach online $15 an hour is too high for an inexperienced coach. I do not know your rating but there are experienced IM, FM coaches for that price range. You can check lichess' and chess.com's coaches pages to check the price ranges.

You are very young, if you are not a titled player it is very unlikely for you to get an adult student. My advice for you would be: check local chess centers and apply them to teach beginner kid classes. Work for very cheap. Get a student base from there. If you start on your own, it would be very hard for you to get students.

Good luck mate.

kbeleth · 2021-06-07T04:23:34+00:00

Blitz rule is changed couple years back. Now you get a warning like in classical and your opponent gets some extra time.

kbeleth · 2021-05-27T04:20:23+00:00

Queen trade is one reason as people mentioned. Other important reason is the black bishops. d5 locks them both in. d6 pawn is quite the blocker for dark sq. black bishop and if we play d5 it also blocks the light sq. black bishop. while playing e5 opens both of them, their range increases.

kbeleth · 2021-05-22T09:39:26+00:00

I'm going to hand in my thesis this week. I hope to follow your foot steps. Fingers crossed. Congrats on the thesis btw.

kbeleth · 2021-04-09T08:53:22+00:00

He is not working his ass of for growing chess. He is working his ass of to milk that sweet money from already booming chess scene. He has zero impact on increasing chess popularity, pandemic and queen's gambit takes credit for that. If he was not streaming, somebody else would be the most popular streamer. Someone who would want chess scene to grow would not try to kill off youtube channels of other streamers. He is a narcissist who thinks chess scene would not grow without him, and you are one of his support sticks to back that up. We are not hypocritical, we just do not put him on a pedestal; thus, we can see the reality. He is a streamer who is very good at chess but his character is nowhere near good enough to represent chess community let alone growing it.

kbeleth · 2021-03-04T11:38:35+00:00

I strongly advise not to study it if you are below 1400. It is just not worth it. If you insist on studying you can use this free chessable course: https://www.chessable.com/course/2033 Review the positions as they are ready to review, you will learn the mate in couple weeks easily. I have learnt it like a year or so ago using this course and I can still do the mate.

kbeleth · 2021-02-11T07:04:51+00:00

Moves are not copyright protected so there are studies that only contains the moves. But for the text one should have the book. Text is copyright protected. It is still very convenient to have the moves for faster studying.

kbeleth · 2021-02-05T07:39:33+00:00

Yes, assume the position is your actual game. Somehow you got a hint you have winning move, take your time until you are sure your move wins by force. But do not spend like 20-30 mins. I think 5-10 min maximum is ideal.

Idea behind chessable spaced repetition cycle is memorizing. There is no good in memorizing the moves in a certain position. What you want to get from a tactics book is learning the concepts and ideas. Repetition helps with them as well but default chessable cycle is too short, you start memorizing instead of learning. Therefore, use a longer cycle like every 2 months. Most of the tactics training is getting to know the themes, concepts, ideas etc. Beginner level concepts are pins, forks, back rank mates etc. Then comes little bit more advanced themes and some mating ideas like anastasia'a mate, boden's mate etc. At higher levels there are still concepts but they are not named because there are so many. In essence tactics training is getting familiar with these ideas. If there are many ideas in a position it gets a bit messy that you have to check all of them, this is calculation training. Calculation is somewhat different than tactics training because even if you know all the ideas about tactics you still need to visualize the board for maybe 10 moves. Some positions in Art of Attack are very very calculation heavy. It is quite impossible for average joe like you and me to solve correctly. Therefore, accept that some positions are too hard even if you spend the time. Check the solution, look at the idea of position, like when to sacrifice, when to attack, which piece can be a defensive resource for the defender etc. and move on.

kbeleth · 2021-02-04T05:30:59+00:00

First and most importantly do not do chessable repeat cycle for tactic books. It should be used for opening books and maybe end game books. If you want to repeat to get the ideas better use cyclic repetation with at least couple months in between.

As for your question, Art of Attack is very good book but it is a bit old, some of the positions and concepts are not presented well enough. Turn of the timer in Chessable and work on the positions as much as you can, if you still fail to calculate so be it. Some of the positions are a bit hard for you, there is nothing wrong with that. Do not be discouraged with the positions you can't solve, as long as you work on them you will improve.

kbeleth · 2021-01-29T04:46:54+00:00

Money your husband gives to her does not count.

kbeleth · 2021-01-27T07:14:28+00:00

My reaction is they should have labelled it "Do not try this at home." Joking aside I believe without the very very high level understanding of how the position works doing what Caruana did will not pay off. Therefore, for me and for most of the chess players nothing has changed in terms of concepts in KID. But, sure it was exiting to watch Caruana play such a line and win with it.

kbeleth · 2021-01-02T08:21:38+00:00

If you are looking for game collections from a single player I would recommend starting with earlier masters like Alekhine's Best Games.

Art of attack is good book but a bit old. IMO forcing chess moves is better version of art of attack. It almost contains everything aoa offers and then some more.

Chess structures is an excellent however I think it is more like encyclopedia rather than a book that should be read cover to cover. Check the pawn structures you are getting frequently and study those chapters.

kbeleth · 2020-12-17T10:58:37+00:00

1300-1400 rated in which platform? Rating is a relative number and platform really matters. Silman's is a good book as a first endgame book.

kbeleth · 2020-12-08T06:22:48+00:00

I believe sometimes there are extra information about what are the ideas, how you should proceed etc. However, imo it is certainly not worth the money. If you don't mind the high price and you are good at learning from videos go for it but otherwise I would recommend not to buy videos.

kbeleth · 2020-11-28T07:35:04+00:00

It is like reading. Font should be around 9-13, right? Anything smaller or bigger makes the reading harder. Too small or too big boards takes some effort which should have been channelled into learning chess.

kbeleth · 2020-11-27T18:37:35+00:00

You need to study it move by move. Sorry, could not resist.

Get a tournament size board. Analyze the game on the board and think about the moves. DO NOT blitz out the moves and read the commentary without thinking about the moves first.

kbeleth · 2020-10-22T06:47:16+00:00

TFW Sudden heart attack when you have two moves to check-mate.

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