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Is Chess a Sport?

Is Chess a Sport?

NotSomalip
| Feb 24, 2023
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Chess is a sport. And I'm here to tell you why. Chess has been a part of humanity for a long long time and people have been torturing their minds to be the best. But, it never got more than being a very intense tabletop game. It was set in the re...

Winning on Time

Winning on Time

NotSomalip
| Feb 9, 2023
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This is a topic that has popped up a lot more recently... For those who don't know, "flagging" is the idea of winning on time in Chess... And there's somehow toxicity embedded in this nowadays and I wanna talk about it.  Flagging is considered un...

Grinding Chess

Grinding Chess

NotSomalip
| Feb 7, 2023
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Many people, including me, play chess when our bodies and mind don't want to. And I think we should change our strategies when we play chess to increase our ELO. Chess is addicting but keeping on playing despite losing is a bad way to progress. B...

Phases in Chess

Phases in Chess

NotSomalip
| Jan 30, 2023
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There are a bunch of "phases" a chess player goes through during their career. Be it a beginner, intermediate or advanced player, this applies to almost all of them. Let's start with the first one, the learning phase. This is when the player lear...

About bullet...

About bullet...

NotSomalip
| Jan 23, 2023
| 155
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Most people think bullet chess is just playing random moves and winning on time. But since I have been playing a lot of bullet lately and have found out that it is a lot deeper than that.  So here are a bunch of things I've learned in the past few...

About Mittens...

About Mittens...

NotSomalip
| Jan 16, 2023
| 530
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So what's up with Mittens? I mean, it is just a regular bot which just happens to be a cat and its display ELO is 1. But why is it getting so popular? One thing might be that it's a cat. Another reason might be that a ton of content creators are s...

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