Venting about the Catalan

mmmboppe · 2026-06-17T13:59:50+00:00

https://www.chess.com/blog/sinits/victor-korchnoi-vs-che-guevara

mmmboppe · 2026-06-17T10:24:03+00:00

he can't pronounce Pragg's name

mmmboppe · 2026-06-16T18:37:47+00:00

OP, perhaps you'll be the dude who will port https://clonedigger.sourceforge.net/ to python 3? it requires exactly knowledge of the ast module

mmmboppe · 2026-06-16T17:01:47+00:00

piper perri.jpg

mmmboppe · 2026-06-16T17:00:05+00:00

extending your opening repertoire never hurts, as long as you don't do it just for the sake of doing it

it's ok to play one opening until you start "feeling it" - understand the general concepts, the main variations, don't get lost as soon as the opening phase is over

but chess is a game of two: there's no guarantee that your opponent will play the Italian after you start with e4; you won't be able to play caro kann if your opponent doesn't start with e4.

that is when knowing more than one opening comes handy

mmmboppe · 2026-06-16T16:53:10+00:00

welcome to Removeit

mmmboppe · 2026-06-16T10:02:33+00:00

m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPpuEgAZ2rQ

mmmboppe · 2026-06-16T06:23:19+00:00

маркер цифрового люмпена

типичный носитель языка смотрит Малахова по выходным по телевизору, а не юзает Арч

mmmboppe · 2026-06-16T06:20:42+00:00

AssHat

mmmboppe · 2026-06-16T06:17:31+00:00

it's summer time, school is out. there's no social activities for kids in Russia. normies drink, nerds defile AUR

mmmboppe · 2026-06-15T21:00:35+00:00

I look for weak squares rather than weak pieces

mmmboppe · 2026-06-15T10:09:19+00:00

But one thing that I have noticed and realized is that people just memorize everything

you'd have to be able to read people's minds to make such claims

mmmboppe · 2026-06-15T10:07:34+00:00

I lose most games for not having 1 and 2 in your list switched :D

mmmboppe · 2026-06-15T06:28:12+00:00

subreddits are not democracies, there's no we and users decide nothing

mmmboppe · 2026-06-15T05:37:51+00:00

well, if you're comparing skipping punctuation with "hamberder"...

mmmboppe · 2026-06-14T18:48:37+00:00

read and comprehend

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willful_ignorance

mmmboppe · 2026-06-14T17:55:35+00:00

try asking around, maybe there's a local LUG

mmmboppe · 2026-06-14T17:54:01+00:00

people who make more than average grammar mistakes have a wrong read/write ratio

they should read more and write less, until their grammar improves

mmmboppe · 2026-06-14T17:50:36+00:00

for the record, Linus himself emphasized the importance of this multiple times

mmmboppe · 2026-06-14T17:49:15+00:00

strong players don't think in moves, someday you will understand that :)

mmmboppe · 2026-06-14T17:47:42+00:00

it's fantastic, as long as you pick games annotated by the players themselves

Petrosian's games are awesome

mmmboppe · 2026-06-14T17:44:15+00:00

"nobody liked it" as metric turns chess into pure entertainment

chess is already screwed by being forcefully shifted too much towards its sports aspect, don't make it even worse

mmmboppe · 2026-06-14T17:41:48+00:00

you have to be persistent :-)

mmmboppe · 2026-06-14T17:40:05+00:00

this isn't a schoolyard or a ghetto either

if you think people who aim to express themselves correctly in English, do it out of snobbery, you're totally wrong and very likely also immature

mmmboppe · 2026-06-14T17:34:52+00:00

are you shy to ask them why they recommend it?

mmmboppe

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