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Your articles are consistently top tier and a true gift to the chess community. You give so much to us and I'm inspired by your abundance mentality.

It's scary how specifically accurate this is. A lot of advice I'm reading from prominent teachers, i.e. Avetik, Noel Studer, Nate Solon, etc. advocates for playing a set number of blitz games in each …

3.Nf3 allows black the option of avoiding the Catalan by playing 3...b6, entering the Queen's Indian Defense.

It's genuinely hard to tell. On this site at time control 15m+10s my rating is only 2030s but I can play 0/0/0 game around 1 in 5 games. I do believe that I am underrated as I seldom play games here a…

I don't believe it is possible to be legitimate 2400 classical and 15 blitz. If I met someone like that, report and no play list.

Adding more to this list, I frequently encounter this issue. I have always thought it was due to a poor connection from my Chinese ISP.

I would like to add to this info about packet loss as today I encountered a potentially related bug. During my blitz game my opponent made a move and I responded. After playing my move, there was a bl…

So much disdain for chess.com. We all agree that lichess is amazing, but let's have some perspective. Chess.com provides stable income to a lot of professional and semi-professional chess players all …