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So this season's top 5 leagues are starting soon. Here you have to predict the top 5 spots for top 5 leagues.Closest predictor gets reward "Soccer Appreciation " and will be proclaimed " Top 5 league prediction champion 2025-26."

What do you think? Surely Zimbabwe and Namibia are favourites.But DO NOT sleep on Uganda,Tanzania and Kenya especially Uganda.Zimbabwe would remember what Uganda did to them last time around.Anyone with other thoughts? My prediction: Group A : 1.Namibia 2.Kenya 3.Nigeria 4.Malawi Group B: 1.Zimbabwe 2.Uganda 3.Tanzania 4.Botswana

Put your group stage predictions here. After the group stage super 4 then the final. Best prediction gets award and will be proclaimed "Asia Cup Prediction Champion 2025".

Give your predictions in this order: 1..... 2.... And so on for the group stage.After groups knockout stage prediction will be taken.Pls put it by 29 September.

This thread will regularly be updated with my favorite football club: Luton town news and matches. Come to this thread if you hate us to death or love us to life! NEXT MATCH Tomorrow 10 AM EST we play against Doncaster Rovers!

Link: https://www.chess.com/live/game/143273119198 The game ended with resignation.

Today Sarvesh Kushare made history by becoming the first Indian to qualify for a high jump final at the world level. All eyes will on our Star Neeraj Chopra in javelin who will be in action on 17 th (3:40 IST).The Olympic champion will be eager to once again qualify for the final and subsequently win a medal for India.3 other Indians will also be there in that event. Others can also write about results,surprises,etc about the World Athletics Championships here!

you practice. and you just get 36. thats all to it.

For a U.S. open for table tennis. It's home team so I might have a better chance of playing well. The last tournament was playing with metal table so it was a bit faster. I'm a All-around+ player so I'm going to be focusing on hook serves. Wish me luck plz!

WHO WILL WIN NOW LIVE MATCH...........

Since the Europe leagues are very long,the prediction contest will be held only for knockout games.The rules for the same will be anounced in a seperate forum.This forum is for the league phase only.You can make predictions,share best moments,say what matches you felt were the best etc. here!

3? 5? 10? but not more than that then it will be too much.

1.F.C.Bayern Munchen 2.F.C.Barcelona 3.Manchester City 4.Real Madrid  WHICH IS BETTER...

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I had black and my 2000 elo opponent playing white in a 10min rapid game. The opening was pretty smooth so I’ll skip this because openings are not helpful in a chess journey that much. Skipping to move 16. hxg3 we enter the middlegame and I’ll discuss all my plans here. 16. Nb6 is played after you ask What is a good square for my inactive knight and developing the rooks here is equal in how good the move is just doing my plan because I like it. 18. a3 allows white to play c4 because I would have done Nb4 getting the good bishop. 19. Nxf7, this is what I saw, but I didn’t worry because I would have 2 minor pieces for 1 pawn and 1 rook which is good for the side who has the 2 minor pieces., but my opponent probably did this because of my isolated pawn on e6 so I wanted to remove the weakness as soon as possible my trading it off. 24. e5 was a bit tunnel visioned because I missed Rfe1. 26. Nf8 removing the queen away from the defense of g3. Moving to 29. Qxg4 generally speaking speakingIn any kind of endgame I usually asses all assets of the opponent and and my assets and my opponents weaknesses and my weaknesses and check for a move that attacks my opponent’s weakness and defends mine and if there is no attacking and defending move then attacking will be my suggestion to go with and you should do this on one move which is probably 15sec, but then every move you can use 5 sec for the weaknesses check after check what changed and what weaknesses you can take advantage of or your weaknesses you should defend or prevent from happening. I first supported the knight on g4 and didn’t want to lose it from that square and I saw no weaknesses in my opponent’s position, but I was scared of the passed pawn so I brang my king closer with 32. Ke6 to defend and I can’t attack anything so I just tried to defend against the passed pawn. There were no weaknesses in my position, but attacking/putting pressure on stuff might make a weakness or make my opponent do a mistake so my move 33. Nd7 had the plan of Nb6 Nc4 to put pressure on some pawns. 35. b3 stopped Nc3, but not 25. Nd5. Always think that when you have a plan always think what if they stop it and if you have a good response to their stopping of your plan then do it. 26. Nd3, now, I wasn’t sure what I was doing here, I think I thought that the knights looked cool so I put it there, but I had time so I should have considered other moves. They attacked my knight with 37. Rfe1 and if I didn’t retreat then they could trade and my knights couldn’t help block the pawns and then 38. Nfe3 and I thought Rfe1 Nf5 and repeat, but I didn’t see 39. Rd3 and now here I thought I was losing because of the pawns, but I could kinda hold maybe I didn’t check the engine with my knight blocking, but it’s hard to defend here. 43. Nfe3! Here I was relieved because I forked the king and the pawn and if they take I win the pawn anyway as shown when they take on the board. 47. Rxe6 and I was confused because my opponent was down one pawn, but I enjoy the win. On the pawn endgame where I got the passed pawn on move 51. hxg4 and I noticed I could waste a tempo which made this much easier, but I could also have sacrificed my pawn to distract the opposing king and get those pawns.

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Here I had black and this was a 10min game with no increment and I played against my friend a 1900 and won again and for some reason the games that I won against them are instructive because all my other games against them is just me blundering a piece, but I went all in! My opponent played the Spanish which is very complicated to play, but with my knowledge of the Spanish by study and online vids talking about white playing the Spanish I somehow remember it, but I took some stops to make sure I remember so I lost some time, but not gamechanging. Move 13 is pretty much the end of theory and the start of the middlegame and since I know white’s plan I tried to stop my opponent from playing Nf5 and considered g6, but I was too scared about weakening my king so I went with Bc8 instead. On move 15. Nh4 I remembered about the quote “if you’re opponent attacks on the side, then attack in the middle, but then after the game stockfish didn’t like it, but stockfish will always see these crazy things so I didn’t care. On move 16. d4 I didn’t care about my bishop because it’s not active and I can trade it for my opponent’s good horse. On move 20. Nc6 was played because of supporting the d4 pawn. I can’t explain 21. Kh1 other than trying to attack by bringing the rook to g1. All the moves that were before move 22 and above and some moves after move 22 that seemed useless were useless because we’re playing random move to not lose on time. On move 24. Rf1 my plan was to put my knight on f4, but didn’t see f4 and I was scared of their counter play. On move 26. Bb3 In my analysis I thought that c4 would be good, but after Bc2 white is fine. On move 30 I felt attacked and was scared of their attack and tried to defend by attacking back a amazingly coordinating my pieces in an accidental manner. 36. Bxb4 was played because of low time, but I’ll still discuss if they didn’t play it. If they didn’t sac any piece or no big blunders then the weaknesses of e4 d3 and b2 will fall because my knight is nicely placed and my pieces are good and if my knight and bishop was traded here then I probably would have lost. I also sacrificed to keep the position simple, but on move 62. Qxh3 was played in time pressure.   

I had the black pieces here and the opening I chose is what I usually play against d4 which is called the KID/King’s Indian Defense and the setup my opponent played challenges my opening because of the pawn storm that’s about to happen. 7. Bg4 was a mistake according to stockfish because I had Bxh6! Qxh6 Ng4 Qh4 d5! To trade queens and remove the defender of f2 which is the queen and I would win a pawn with center space with d5. 10. exf3 is a mistake in my opinion because if gxf3 then the g file is open and white can just go with the h pawn and win by opening up the whole file. Remember when you’re doing a pawn storm, remember to always try to get tempi on pieces with your pawns, not push pawns in front of your king, and always remember to remember your goal in doing a pawn storm which is to make an open file for your rook to attack the opposing king. You may think that finding 18. Rxa2+ is hard, but one way I find out is too see the circumstances of the position and see if I have to do my attack fast and if I need to do my attack fast because my opponent is also attacking, I will consider sacrifices.