| General Chess Discussion - Statistically Sharp Openings#31 @hangrad I think you're perhaps a little bit causelessly negative towards engines. After all, engines do a lot of good, and people with fresh eyes on openings are the ones who see fresh things. It's o… | Linsolv |
| General Chess Discussion - Statistically Sharp Openings#8 I'm not sure that OP's definition of sharpness is what most people would define as "sharp." Sharp (as I've heard it) means something like "aggressive" or "tactical"; in some cases, the most aggressive… | Linsolv |
| Game analysis - why is this a draw?#5 R+K vs K is an important checkmating pattern. You should try to make an effort to learn it, because it will totally come up in games (as you saw here). In short, use the Rook to box the King down to a… | Linsolv |
| General Chess Discussion - help!#13 Didn't I see this exact post a few months ago? | Linsolv |
| Game analysis - Very happy with this game in the Spanish#1 I'm not familiar with 3... Nge7 so I kind of winged it. Ended up with everyone piling up on an advanced pawn, and involved a lot of waiting moves. I looked a little, but to be honest my head hurts too… | Linsolv |
| Game analysis - Never experienced this line of Ruy Lopez#4 Is 4. O-O not the preferred move against 3... Nf6? For the first time you see it, I don't understand, but all this talk and no mention of castling? | Linsolv |
| General Chess Discussion - Rematch Button please just remove it.#43 I play single matches 80% of the time. Maybe, and I know this is a crazy thought, but maybe most people who aren't accepting rematches are doing something other than immediately hitting "new opponent"… | Linsolv |
| General Chess Discussion - New Player & The Sicillian: Theory Overload#18 @Convenient There's tons of material out there, but I enjoyed Seirawan's lecture at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJmjt9GGhA8 It was the thing that turned me on to the very idea. Before that, I'd never real… | Linsolv |
| General Chess Discussion - New Player & The Sicillian: Theory Overload#15 @Convenient #13 Have you considered the Pirc/Modern 1.e4 d6 or 1.e4 g6? Neither is incredibly strong at the ~2800 level, but to borrow a quote from GM Seirawan, since Fischer used it in game 17 of his… | Linsolv |
| General Chess Discussion - Would players at the World Cup ever consider?#2 There have been surprises at high levels of play before. Not with Super GMs of the like to make top-16 in the World Cup, that I'm aware of, but there are many cases of high-profile (relatively speakin… | Linsolv |
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