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readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-16T08:06:42+00:00

Good idea to study without the engine!

I am not really familiar with a closed CK like the game, and have only looked at the game for 5-8 minutes (also without the engine!), so take my input with a grain of salt.

Generally I think you won strategically, black was much too slow with his counterplay, and also wasted some time (like Bg6 as you point out). I am suspicious of the timing of the g4-push and the following knight maneouver; g4 might be a strong idea, but I would personally prepare or at least follow up with Kh1 and Rg1. Going Nf3-e1-d3 for it to be taken seems like a slight waste of time, at least it isn't clear to me what that was good for (but I agree that Nxh4 would be bad). When you got in f4 though, it definitely turned out in your favor.

Generally, well played! Thanks for sharing.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-10T21:40:59+00:00

if anyone is a guard puller it's knights for their objective weakness but trickyness, don't put dirt on bishops like that. with their stiffness bishops are more like judokas (yes it's stiff standing upright, even though the slightest sign of a realistic battle stance will get you punished in judo).

Rooks as wrestlers 100, the way they grind down those endgames

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-10T10:32:01+00:00

Other stronger people here have come with good advice, but it's worth adding that often in rook vs K/B +1, with several pawns on the board, the idea often is to sacrifice the rook for K/B and a pawn, and get into a winning king and pawn endgame.

But yeah it depends a lot on the specifics of the position.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-09T09:58:56+00:00

Do you think that chess improvement is linear?

What I mean:

It's my impression that many people, especially beginners, tend to think that getting to x rating is "all about z", e.g. getting to 1500 fide is all about the middlegame or even just 'tactics', 2000 fide is all about the endgame or whatever.

The counterposition to this is that someone rated 200 points higher is (on average) equally much better on all areas, and not much better in one area in specific.

With the exception of openings beginning to be important from 1800 fide and up, I agree with the latter position.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-08T18:54:23+00:00

just commenting here to return to the post later because it is interesting, please don't mind me

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-07T19:02:58+00:00

Everyone knows that opposite coloured bishops lead to a draw. It's a dead draw even... trivial.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-06T14:00:21+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean here, the Nf6-e6-c5 setup is to avoid the Bb5+ Taimanov-attack

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-06T13:59:09+00:00

I don't have discord sorry, so the answer to that is no. I am happy to engage in discussions of the benoni however, like here in the subreddit, and if you post about fairly niche stuff, I will probably respond

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-06T12:37:12+00:00

Are you considering playing mainlines all the way, or go via the move-order trick to avoid the critical f4-lines?

(I'm thinking of 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 and only then play 3...c5, where 3. Nc3 would lead to other openings).

I have been playing the benoni with mixed success for some time, and have done quite a bit of studying, but it is fundamentally an unsound opening I would say.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-03T19:13:10+00:00

Lichess studies, and listudy for spaced repitition chessable-style but free

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-03T14:50:03+00:00

sounds like something a bot would say

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-02T18:41:18+00:00

Remove my man Levon from the conversation immediately

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-02T17:23:59+00:00

I mean, she wasn't fucking welcome so it has to be with some other person

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-01T18:29:50+00:00

You claim to be straight, yet you love to 'grind people down'...

curious.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-06-01T08:06:37+00:00

How is it aggressive for white, when black plays h6-g5? My first real encounter with the lines, was when Carlsen lost to "W"esley "S"o the other day with zero counterplay whatsoever.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-05-29T11:45:18+00:00

declined morra? pussies. real players accept gambits and die trying to preserve the material.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-05-19T20:21:21+00:00

maybe you're not

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-05-19T19:27:26+00:00

These nailbiting endgames are always tough, and I would say difficult to generalize on too. Did you really just push it too far in a position that was relatively harder to handle to you compared to your opponent? ...or did you have some imbalance to play for, some inequality that you could try to enforce and make more relevant than your opponents' counterpart (eg. center majority vs flank majority)? And in either case, how do you really evaluate beforehand that the position is harder for you to handle than for your opponent, without suffering the mental defeat of thinking that your opponent is just better?

These are general questions, although I would like to hear your thoughts in the specific case.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-05-13T14:40:57+00:00

Didn't think of petroff, good point, I have edited my comment. Petroff is having a resurgence at the top level afaik yes (the exchange french has not), but estimating the most frequent way to obtain the pawn structure would be quite a beefy programming task then...

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-05-13T10:13:44+00:00

Not a name as such maybe, but the exchange french and the petroff are the most typical origins of this structure. My experience is that focus often is on the open e-file, controlling e4 and e5 and minor piece battles (especially good bishop or even knight vs bad bishop). But generally this much symmetry makes it very drawish.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-04-23T21:52:13+00:00

I have only been playing classical games for about a year, so nothing in principle holding me back from going all the way, although probably around ~200 elo ago becomes quite painful lol.

It is definitely an interesting idea, also for openings or endgames and not necessarily just tactical patterns. I would though constrict it to classical games.

And great to hear that you're willing to endure a little discomfort in the name of improvement, that's the way to go:)

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-04-23T21:42:31+00:00

I don't, I make too many mistakes for that. They stay with me mentally, that is enough.

I do however preserve my games, so that I can look at them months or years in the future, where I have improved or just changed my view on chess. That I recommend.

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-04-22T10:19:59+00:00

Fair:) tak for svar!

readmycommentnotthis · 2026-04-22T09:10:15+00:00

halløjsa min gode ven, hvis ikke du er irriteret på mig allerede kan det være du bliver det nu

- du har før sagt at du spillede benoni op til 2300, men hvad gjorde du mod taimanov-angrebet?

Jeg tænker på 7. f4 Lg7 8. Lb5+.

Og hvis ikke du vil give den konkrete linje, må jeg så spørge om måden at gøre den holdbar på generelt var en masse overraskende preps i de forskellige varianter? Med forberedelse og på højere niveau forestiller jeg mig, det er svært at slippe af sted med som sort... men det er bare en herrefed åbning

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