me, I'm told, "developing bad habits"

dont sweat it too much, just play to enjoy

always

I play hard and I play to win but, at the end of the day, I know that it's all for fun. If I win, great. If not, "gg, well-done, congratulations.... next!"

Fantastic gameplay! Hope to see you reach 1000 one day

thanks!

…. That gets a double exclamation mark from me.

Life Review agrees too.

Provided you calculated the nuances of the sacrifice (ie responses to 17. bxc5, 17. Ne1 and 17. gxh3) this is a seriously impressive find for an 800 rated player and is a great sign to see. Sacrifices for no reason or ones where you hope your opponent blunder are completely different than this type of sacrifice where it can't even really be accepted and pretty much ends the game immediately. Again, provided you claulcated the aforementioned, this isn't building bad habits but rather developing the killer instincts necessary to close out a game, as some else similarly commented. Nicely done, you should be proud of this game!

thank you very much!

My friends meant well, but I was disheartened, no joke. They've been helpful getting me this far (not that far, I know), and I've started trying not to just keep my eye on the piece count, treading water till the endgame, and actually have a plan, poor or not. In that game, it worked so well and then looked so nice when I reviewed it, I went straight to a thread we were all in and posted it. Ugh.

The good news is that I understand positions better than ever. The bad news is that I am still often moving before I've checked things out enough, so blundering. I know what I want to play and get too anxious to play it.

But I'm still having fun, more than ever, win or lose.

And I'm getting better.

@MaetsNori and this kid, @DeepSeekPlaysChess were not involved in that... both have been a great help. The two that were ended up being annoyed, more or less, and felt unappreciated, I believe. I have an entire new defense against the Englund, for example, which is supposed to be weak but used to give me headaches, given me by @MaetsNori. Now I look forward to 2... e5. Lots of help from both, on openings mainly, a new interest of mine, though I'm happy with just three and am not trying to go ten lines deep or anything.

@blueemu also helpful, but not exactly a friend ::: cough :::

yes, i will hush now

I prefer it because that's what I'm used to, When I finally realized what I was playing, someone suggested playing a regular London, Knight on d2 instead of c3. I did. I didn't like it. I'm not trying to build that little pawn pyramid, not at all.

I'm liking Ben Finegold more these days. I watched a video of his on the Jobava London yesterday. It starts slow but it's excellent. It includes games by GM Baadur Jobava himself.

"I think if you like boring chess and solid chess and incrementally increasing your advantage the Jobava London may not be for you, but if you like craziness and weird positions then that's your game. If you're always playing the Jobava London and you get positions like this you're not as perturbed as I would be in the opening, if that's the kind of play that you like, playing aggressively and getting out of opening theory, then okay, the Jobava London."

-Finegold