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I used to play e5 in response to e4, but I decided that was too boring. When I switched to Sicilian, it was good but as I got better I started losing more games. What other openings do you guys know? I was thinking Caro-Kann or maybe the French? I don't like the Scandinavian because it allows white to gain a huge developmental advantage and if white plays it correctly, white wins.

I won a 30 minute hyperbullet arena with a time control of 30 seconds. I got 1st place out of over 500 players with a record of 21 wins, 4 losses and 1 draw! It required a lot of work and nonstop play throughout the 30 minutes. To be perfectly honest, I didn't think I would win 1st place because I had been in the Top 10 for most of the arena, and with about 4 minutes left in the arena, I took 1st place. When I lost one of my final games, I was scared out of my mind. But it didn't affect my placing

I'm looking for people who might be interested in playing a game called "deception chess." In this game, a player who doesn't have much experience with chess plays against a medium-strength engine, while getting advice from three stronger players. The twist? Two of the advisors are actually lying to them and trying to make them lose the game, and they don't know which one is really telling the truth. The player has to talk to the advisors over the course of the game and try to figure out who's giving honest advice in order to win the game. The idea came from an analogy about AI - if someone is doing AI research with the help of a potentially malicious AI, are they going to be able to distinguish good advice from bad advice? There's currently an informal experiment going on to see how often the player is able to win the game. But not very many people have signed up, particularly people who are skilled enough to take on the advisor positions. If you're interested in being an advisor (or a player), here's the form to sign up. If you have any questions, you can contact Zane at zaneglowfic@gmail.com.

Please post all puzzles that you created here, in the comments below. Any puzzles posted in the comments will be added to the Wall of Puzzles. Feel free to try these puzzles out! So far, these are the puzzles that members of Checkmate St Louis have created: https://lichess.org/analysis/5rk1/p1r1bppp/1p3nb1/2q5/8/2B1PQP1/PP1N1PBP/2KR3R_b_-_-_0_1 https://lichess.org/analysis/r5k1/1qpp1pbp/1pn3p1/8/5NP1/2P2PQ1/PPPn1B1P/K1R3R1_b_-_-_0_1#1 https://lichess.org/analysis/1k1qr2r/1pb2pp1/p3p3/2n3p1/1Q6/1P1BP3/PBP2PP1/R4RK1_b_-_-_0_1#10 https://lichess.org/analysis/r2q1rk1/ppn1nppp/2p1p3/8/8/1PN2N1P/P1BBQPP1/1K1RR3_w_-_-_0_1#0 https://lichess.org/analysis/r2qk2r/pbn2ppp/1p2pn2/8/1bPP1B2/2N1PN2/PP3PPP/2RQ1RK1_w_-_-_0_1#0 https://lichess.org/analysis/r1q2rk1/pbp1p1p1/1pn2pP1/8/8/2NP1P2/PPPB2P1/1K1RQ2R_w_-_-_0_1#0 https://lichess.org/analysis/r2q2k1/1pp1n1b1/p1np4/6N1/8/3P3P/PPP3B1/3Q1RK1_w_q_-_0_1#1 https://lichess.org/analysis/3bk2r/1ppp2pp/pnb5/8/1qPP4/1PN3N1/PB2BPPP/R2QR1K1_w_-_-_0_1#0 https://lichess.org/analysis/r2r3k/1p4pp/2p3n1/1pb1p1N1/1N1qP3/PQ1P3P/1P3PP1/3R1RK1_w_-_-_0_1 https://lichess.org/analysis/7k/1p4p1/p1p2n1p/4BBN1/r1QP4/4P3/r2q1PPP/6K1_w_-_-_0_1 https://lichess.org/analysis/r4rk1/ppRR2pp/2n5/5p2/8/6P1/P4PBP/R5K1_w_-_-_0_1#1

Sometimes I beat CMs

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