Nova Daily - 7 July 2025: Online beef
Hi!
Today we were a bit scared in BC. As it is, a member who's written a forum post containing lots of important and useful tools for us found their account closed for abuse. With it went all their content, which also meant that our toolbox was gone.
Fortunately, one bright soul had the clarity of mind to copy it and use it for a different group, so we weren't completely bare-handed. But it did leave me wondering what had happened to the originator of the issue. More importantly, what can I take away from this?
Online beef
Last year, one of my family members got into a pretty big Twitter fight with what I can only describe as people who have a questionable stance on human issues. The beef got so far out of hand that my family member was faced with police at their doorstep. It turned out that the other person had deliberately spread disinformation in an attempt to incriminate my family member, and let's just say that more than one of us was doxed with malicious intent.
To my knowledge, nothing evil has happened yet. But it's not a good idea to engage in fights on Twitter. It's one gigantic cauldron of resentment, and you don't know who is on the other side of the wire. Even if you believe that your cause is right, it could potentially be dangerous. You're not gonna get through to anyone on Twitter that their behaviour crosses the line. You're not gonna convince anyone who refuses to be reasoned with.
No matter how tempting it is to engage in such online beef, picking trifles is hardly ever worth your energy or the personal danger that you might be putting yourself and your loved ones into.
https://www.theexceptionalskills.com/arguing-on-the-internet/
Here on chesscom, there's an even stronger reason to keep your tone civil. All your hard work might be gone in a flash.
Fortunately, many chess-players I've come into contact with are quite well able to open up their eyes, ears, hearts, minds and souls, and are interested in what someone else can bring to the table.
Today's game
The game today was a remarkably one-sided enterprise. I have a hunch that my opponent mistook the opening for a regular Sicilian with reversed colours and a tempo down that may or may not have mattered much. But it's already at least equal for black in the regular Sicilian. And in this particular flavour, the extra tempo would've been a castling move.
I don't think that the game will be particularly interesting for an extensive analysis, so I'll be using the time to explain on a more basic level what's happening in this opening and what's happening between this version and its analogous line in the Accelerated Dragon.
