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Community Blog Discussions - Raise Your Rating by Cutting Your Losses#10

Sounds good, except all my games are in tournaments and have to be arranged well in advance. I play for teams, and can't just chicken out.


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Community Blog Discussions - Why Losing At Chess Hurts So Much (And The Antidote)#7

You don't mention the peculiar intimacy of chess. Your king represents you. When he dies, you suffer a small death. You endure being hunted down and killed.


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Community Blog Discussions - Why You Should Reject Draw Offers#3

This advice is the usual over-simplified mush which is covertly an ad for paid services by the master.


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Community Blog Discussions - Why You Should Never Offer A Draw#98

This article is just a piece of attention-seeking self-promotion by a pro player/bs artist. His stooges pop up saying how wonderful his blog is. The content of the article is naive bs, harmful to inex…


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Community Blog Discussions - Why You Should Never Offer A Draw#34

Some positions are naturally drawn, you would think a GM would know this. He is just being an attention-seeker.


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Community Blog Discussions - My Favorite Chess Advice: Talk To Your Pieces#25

Stockfish thinks, vacillates, plays g4. It must think all the pieces are happy! I tried Rxe4, but SF refutes it easily.


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Community Blog Discussions - The World Championship(s)#12

It's possible that expecting the champion to defend every two years is what caused the Carlsen burnout. Maybe we should go back to every three years? Carlsen is self-obsessed, and we shouldn't allow h…


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Lichess Feedback - Forefeit the players who don't stsrat their game in Swiss tournaments!#5

www.lichess4545.com/lonewolf


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General Chess Discussion - Candidates Day 14: Nakamura and Ding battle for... possibly nothing?#33

The other ramification are vague threats by Carlsen not to defend his title. It's bs, but it gets these guys thinking 2nd place may be important. But then it may not. Carlsen will defend, in my opinio…


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General Chess Discussion - Candidates Day 14: Nakamura and Ding battle for... possibly nothing?#30

He means that Nepo had already won before the last round started.


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