National Master: Ask Me Anything
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Abtectous
3 days ago
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#41
#39, that’s great to hear! I started playing almost a year ago now and plan to be real serious about it for at least 6 more months before maybe focusing on other things. I truly believe that passion in chess is more important than most people think, it can help you improve quicker, teach better, and play better!
3 days ago
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#42
Abtectous wrote:
#35, for example I was reading a book on the King’s Indian yesterday and the book said nothing else about the move Qc2 for white except (Qc2, Na6) I looked at it for a minute trying to understand why, then I realized it’s because black would be able to jump the knight to b4 and attack the queen, white should most definitely block this of course by a3, but I realized the move deeply weakened white’s position because of black’s bishop on g7 lazering down the a1-h8 diagonal that was clear of pawns except the near backward one on b2 which was only a weakness.
Generally, White's queen doesn't go to c2 in the KID as far as I know of. It might have been a book for Black, and skipping unusual opponent's ideas is pretty typical when writing, not explaining ideas of a move that doesn't have much bite seems ok to me. When doing editing for "The Ambitious Berlin" on Chessable recently, one of my beta testers wanted me to explain some substandard or non-threatening opponent's moves, although that didn't really seem needed to me at the time. I added a little bit of notes in the discussion with him though, some people might read the comments and learn from those. Some other moves got further annotations after feedback.
3 days ago
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#43
#42, it was for black, it was in the Smyslov. The move order is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g7 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.Bg5 c5 5.d5 h6 6.Bf4 d6 7.e4 Qb6 and here it said 8.Qd2 (although Rb1 might be a move the book should’ve consider, of course I can analyze that on my own) it then said (8.Qc2 Na6)
How long did it take you to get there. All years, since you started playing chess. And lets play a game of chess,. blitz or rapid. I want to improve abit on slow times.
What are your most unique tips for chess(tips that worked for you). Also I don't mean to be rude or disrespectful but I would appreciate it if you didn't tell me things like "practice often" or "study a lot".
Thank you =)
2 days ago
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#47
hey guys heading to the blitz tournament at St louis chess club, I can reply after
ElijahLogozarStudent wrote:
hey guys heading to the blitz tournament at St louis chess club, I can reply after
good luck! hope u win =)
2 days ago
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#50
How are brilliant moves possible if a computer calculates millions of moves every second?
2 days ago
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#51
#50, I can answer that for you, the computer does not calculate millions of moves every second. Also, brilliant moves mostly don’t happen when playing the engine. That’s how
Based on the fact that I went from 800 to 500 then to 1200 in blitz and rapid, and I went from 800 to 200 to 1400 in bullet all in around 4.5 months, do you think I can make it to 1600 in blitz, bullet, and rapid by the end of the year?
How to get to 2400 blitz without otb
2 days ago
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#54
asertyuio wrote:
How are brilliant moves possible if a computer calculates millions of moves every second?
It just means "brilliant, for one of you pathetic organic meat-bags".
2 days ago
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#55
smiley_face10 wrote:
ElijahLogozarStudent wrote:
hey guys heading to the blitz tournament at St louis chess club, I can reply after
good luck! hope u win =)
Tied for second, just about tied for first with IM Eric Rosen, who I scored 1/2 against.
2 days ago
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#56
BigChessplayer665 wrote:
How to get to 2400 blitz without otb
Honestly, that sounds totally realistic. How do you think? 
also how old is the player
2 days ago
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#57
Dantex00 wrote:
How long did it take you to get there. All years, since you started playing chess. And lets play a game of chess,. blitz or rapid. I want to improve abit on slow times.
Several years. We can play in a trial lesson: https://bookme.name/chessknight/free-trial-lesson
2 days ago
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#58
asertyuio wrote:
How are brilliant moves possible if a computer calculates millions of moves every second?
The move is brilliant according to the computer based on ideas like "you moved your piece on a protected square, but it works anyways" translated into code, basically.
2 days ago
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#59
smiley_face10 wrote:
What are your most unique tips for chess(tips that worked for you). Also I don't mean to be rude or disrespectful but I would appreciate it if you didn't tell me things like "practice often" or "study a lot".
Thank you =)
Personally, I think marching your king down the board is a great idea, when it works.
https://www.chessable.com/300-spartans-the-secret-life-of-kings/course/49869/
ElijahLogozarStudent wrote:
smiley_face10 wrote:
What are your most unique tips for chess(tips that worked for you). Also I don't mean to be rude or disrespectful but I would appreciate it if you didn't tell me things like "practice often" or "study a lot".
Thank you =)
Personally, I think marching your king down the board is a great idea, when it works.
https://www.chessable.com/300-spartans-the-secret-life-of-kings/course/49869/
Ty. I'll definitely try that from now on =)