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Game analysis - My fastest win!#2

Not familiar with the opening. No offense intended, but just about any opening works when your opponent makes serious blunders.


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General Chess Discussion - I almost lose every single game#16

Standard advice is play someone better than you and you will learn from the game, but if they are way better AND you do no post-game exchange with them, then it is likely you will learn not much - jus…


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Game analysis - ZERO Inaccuracies, Mistakes, and Blunders!#13

Also, if people are thinking "zero mistakes" based on the lichess computer analysis, it is necessarily limited - it doesn't spend hours of computational time - more like a few minutes of computer time…


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General Chess Discussion - I almost lose every single game#9

Try some correspondence (or at least longer time control real-time games) and treat it as a research/training exercise. Spend a lot of time on each move - hours if need be. During the opening, there a…


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Game analysis - ZERO Inaccuracies, Mistakes, and Blunders!#11

I've lost more than one game where I made "zero mistakes" - just don't know how to deal with the slow slav.


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General Chess Discussion - Spotting Tactics More For My Opponent#7

I once resigned a correspondence game because I didn't see my way out of a 5 move deep problem. post-game my opponent said they were not even thinking of that! So... sometime, just take your chances.


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General Chess Discussion - who else uses chess.com?#4

Everyone knows kaynight, unless you are one of the dozens pretending to be kaynight :)


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General Chess Discussion - Cheats, cronyism and Frankenstein's Monster.#90

RE: Blitz (or any real-time) v. Correspondence. Always take that difference with a grain a salt. The few real-time games I've played here I was so drunk I literally nodded off banging my forehead on t…


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Game analysis - How do I punish this kind of play.#5

I don't play the Sicilian as Black (but see it a lot as White). So maybe I should not have commented - If not played well, I've had success as White overrunning Black on the Queen side. After 4. Bc4 N…


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