My first blog: Understanding everything in chess

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I wrote my first blog, and was wondering if more people could look at it? Right now it only has about 100 views.

https://www.chess.com/blog/Cherub_Enjel/1-how-to-understand-everything-in-a-chess-game

 

I am pretty sure my ideas are good and consistent, because I can't challenge them.

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Do we need another wheel design?

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"Another" wheel design? 

Every beginner I have met has either never had a "wheel", or has had a very bad one that falls apart easily/contradicts many other established chess ideas and is inapplicable to too many positions to be practical. 

That's the thing - if there were some well-known, universal wheel in chess, I wouldn't ever post something like this. 

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That's what I said....

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No - you asked a meaningless, vague question.

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Cherub_Enjel wrote:

No - you asked a meaningless, vague question.

Crap, it's the forum sheriff....quick stash the smuggled chess pieces.... Thank you for your opinion, it'll be taken at its full worth.... 🖒😎

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That's ok - it doesn't matter if one 800 player doesn't care about my opinion.

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Cherub_Enjel wrote:

That's ok - it doesn't matter if one 800 player doesn't care about my opinion.

It's also ok if one snob stalks me..You want to be the president of my can club?

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No thanks. I'm only here to discuss chess. 

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Then by all means, do so.

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I could have blocked him, but responding periodically (without escalation) helps me keep this "advertisement" at the top. It's fine - there are many worse. 

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Stop tryharding.

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I don't have time now, maybe later, but wanted to comment that the title made me chuckle... your first blog and you already explain everything? You should pace yourself, just explain a little at a time, keep people coming back for more tongue.png

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Haha I was definitely tryharding a lot...

and by everything, I mean that although many players will not be able to understand/calculate a lot of details/variations behind ideas and moves, they'll understand the generalities and see that chess has a surprising amount of "structure" to it, and is not just a collection of coincidences. 

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 Nice blue bird. Here's another.

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Your article should be useful for helping players achieve the transition from beginner to intermediate level... although you left out one of my favorite maxims:

Knights should move forward, but Bishops can be used sideways.

Or to put it another way:

You can hear a Knight coming, but not a Bishop.

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Thanks - it definitely helped me get there. 

 

The main advantage of my system is that it's so simple - a lot of beginners are bombarded with information these days. And a lot of that info is useful, but they tend to forget the big picture, which causes confusion and poor moves. It should be the other way around, of course.

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Whip_Kitten wrote:

Will, you are one of the reasons why the chess.com forums suck now.  Go away.

lmao.

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I updated the blog! It's gotten a bit more comprehensive, and I added some practical material to it. 

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Cherub_Enjel wrote:

I wrote my first blog, and was wondering if more people could look at it? Right now it only has about 100 views.

https://www.chess.com/blog/Cherub_Enjel/1-how-to-understand-everything-in-a-chess-game

 

I am pretty sure my ideas are good and consistent, because I can't challenge them.

What's the point when Stockfish exists.