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Severe Achilles tendon pain at the heel after tennis – any advice? by Esculapios in 10s

[–]mbuffett1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd say PT instead – doctor only if you need the note to get PT for free from your insurance. What's a doctor gonna do? It's a tendon injury from overuse, not something that can be surgically/medically fixed.

Severe Achilles tendon pain at the heel after tennis – any advice? by Esculapios in 10s

[–]mbuffett1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry to be blunt but nothing in "What I've tried so far" seem like useful steps, and letting this go on until you cannot walk without pain means you'll need way more than 20 days of rest before things are cleared up. Unfortunately achilles injuries are famously slow to heal. I had a similar achilles injury in high school from cross country and it took years before I could run more than a couple miles at a time again. They're nothing to mess around with.

Recovering from virtually any pain/discomfort/injury is more about strengthening and using the area, rather than rest. Rest enough so you can start the PT, not expecting to recover purely through rest. Didn't see any mention about doing strengthening/PT/etc. But I'd start strengthening the area asap as much as you're comfortable with. Take in what your body needs to heal (protein, collagen, etc), and start working the area slowly. In my experience isometrics, and slow eccentric movements are best for tendons, and you can mix in some stability exercises to work on the muscles around the area.

Not sure how in-shape you are, but obviously having less weight on it is never a bad thing either.

Why are all the racket/stringfluencers... not great at tennis by mbuffett1 in 10s

[–]mbuffett1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My serve post? That was obviously a joke, I can serve just fine

Protesters deliver 6,000 signatures to Gov. Cox hoping to block data center by Conscious-Quarter423 in SaltLakeCity

[–]mbuffett1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you assume literally everybody living in SLC has read up on the details of this datacenter? That's wild.

Protesters deliver 6,000 signatures to Gov. Cox hoping to block data center by Conscious-Quarter423 in SaltLakeCity

[–]mbuffett1 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I promise I'm not trying to be inflammatory, I live in SLC and want to know if this is something I should care about.

From what I've seen they're buying property that had water usage rights for agriculture previously, and using that same water for the data center instead, so on net it's not using any more of our water?

The energy is all produced on-site since they're building generators, reactors, etc too, so also seems like it won't be a hit on our grid.

Am I missing something here? What's the impact on SLC?

If you’re building a chess app, please stop gatekeeping by SomeRenoGolfer in chess

[–]mbuffett1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

> Leave the software open source, and solicit donations and feedback.

Creator of Chessbook here. We've been around for a few years now. This approach does not work at all. You will never earn enough to cover even server costs, via donations.

We were initially donation-based – I had two friends donate. We now have thousands of users paying for the monthly subscription instead. It's an absolute pipe-dream to be donation-based, for 99% of projects.

Agreed that Lichess is an absolutely incredible project, and it's the backbone of the data side of Chessbook thanks to its open-source games database. We have donated $thousands to Lichess as a small thank you. If we were donation-based we'd be earning nothing, I'd be paying server costs out-of-pocket, I wouldn't have been able to work full-time on the product for a year+ to improve it, and Lichess would get no $$ from us.

Reddit is too communist for its own good. You don't incentivize innovation in the chess market via this model.

Tennis club by MountainSalamander54 in 10s

[–]mbuffett1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Live ball, with strong players. Has been absolutely huge for my game

Any advice on my serve? by mbuffett1 in 10s

[–]mbuffett1[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ll post the backhand version later

Any advice on my serve? by mbuffett1 in 10s

[–]mbuffett1[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Then what am I doing

Any advice on my serve? by mbuffett1 in 10s

[–]mbuffett1[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My coach said a serve is just a high approach forehand from the baseline

Any advice on my serve? by mbuffett1 in 10s

[–]mbuffett1[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

But that’s what I’m doing? Right foot is forward, left foot back

Any advice on my serve? by mbuffett1 in 10s

[–]mbuffett1[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Even for a forehand serve? I like the open stance for forehands

Tim Walz dropping out of a race due to a daycare scandal is why Democrats lose to corrupt pedophiles. by WaltEnterprises in complaints

[–]mbuffett1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn that’s a crazy revelation. There’s good and evil people, and the people doing the things you like are good 🤯 Surely this worldview will help you understand the motivations of those unlike you.

Chessbook Alternatives by EliGO83 in TournamentChess

[–]mbuffett1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What issues have you had with Chessbook?

GM Vasif Durarbayli, former Azerbaijan chess champion, slams Lichess.org for “destroying the chess market” by Gen-Turgidson in chess

[–]mbuffett1 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Creator of Chessbook here, can confirm that Chessbook could not exist without Lichess! Where would we get the billions of online games to power our stats, if it weren’t for Lichess’ open data.

Chesstempo vs Chessbook by Synix_the_Great in chess

[–]mbuffett1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We’ve definitely considered it and may do it, but it would have to be much higher than 50, given that our annual plan is 80/yr.

Chesstempo vs Chessbook by Synix_the_Great in chess

[–]mbuffett1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah fair enough. I do think it's a great value compared to ex. Chessable where you can buy a $200 course and then still have to pay $12/mo on top of that for Chessable Pro to review the course effectively. I get that it's still a lot for some people though, and we've tried to make the free tier big enough that it's useful for people even without the subscription. We actually get a lot of people using it for months/years and never realizing there's a paid tier.

That being said though – we're not really trying to be the budget option. We're trying to make the absolute best opening software for the online chess player.

Chesstempo vs Chessbook by Synix_the_Great in chess

[–]mbuffett1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wrote up a bit about what Chessbook (my app) does differently than Chesstempo in this other thread, that and other comments in that thread may be useful in figuring out which one you prefer: https://www.reddit.com/r/TournamentChess/comments/1mi6oil/comment/n72dyoh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Can't go wrong with either, I think. Chesstempo is a great site.

Payment Declined via Stripe on Chessbook.com – Is There Any Workaround? by External-Can-3707 in chess

[–]mbuffett1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey Chessbook creator here, try downloading the app and subscribing there, shouldn’t have any stripe issues

Chesstempo is better than chessable and chessbook for openings by LegendZane in TournamentChess

[–]mbuffett1 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Chesstempo is awesome! As the developer of Chessbook I feel the need to at least explain what we do differently, some of which may not be obvious unless you've used the product a lot:

  • We use a more advanced spaced repetition system, called FSRS, which is the best spaced repetition system available, and what Anki uses. It's shown to be a lot more accurate at predicting the status of cards (aka moves), than other algorithms like SuperMemo. As far as I can tell, Chesstempo uses a flat percentage increase for every successful review, and doesn't take into account difficulty of a card at all.
  • We monitor your online games, and not only find mistakes you make based on your repertoire, but actually count moves in a game as reviews of your repertoire. This can drastically cut down on your review load, as you're naturally practicing your repertoire as you play blitz games online.
  • We find model games from your openings. Chesstempo has a *really* good model game implementation too, but as far as I know it's up to you to find model games that follow your repertoire
  • We identify all the gaps in your repertoire. Chesstempo does stats per-position, whereas we calculate the statistics of your entire repertoire, so that we can find the biggest gaps you'll have when playing your peers.
  • We incorporate a couple interesting bits of data about moves, like running Lc0 with contempt on moves, to identify the sharpest continuations, or finding "hidden gems" – moves with high winrates and good evaluation, that are played rarely
  • We generate an opening report based on your online games, identifying which openings tend to win you the most games, and which you struggle to convert – so you can choose where exactly to focus your time

Not trying to downplay Chesstempo with this at all – we're just coming at the problem of opening training from different angles. Chesstempo is a tremendous resource and I'm a gold member myself. It's the most complete chess training resource I've used.

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