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https://lichess.org/nYQcDu7Gm7IQ I spent a ridiculous amount of time analyzing this endgame (around move 36) from an ongoing correspondence game and eventually came across a couple of interesting Rook…

Openings are the most important. They occur in 100% of games and knowledge can make the difference between winning and losing. In comparision, endgames only crop up 50% of the time and most of the tim…

Je regarder chess24 français de temps en temps. C'est assez bon pour suivi le compétitions internationales.

I would say that under the worst possible circumstances I probably perform 300 points below my actual rating. Beyond that the skill difference is just too huge to cause any further damage.

@Ameershahul29 I think you might have misunderstood me. I am not talking about chess improvement but rather the ratings changing in value, call it inflation if you like. @tpr I had the same thought bu…

I observed that my own average rating, as well as the average rating of all my opponents who have had their accounts for at least two years have increased by about 100 points since the start of 2020. …

I always accept the takeback in these situations. I am here to play some chess and hopefully learn something. I think by not doing so you are usually wasting both your own and your opponent's time and…

@thomassowell123 I highly doubt that this "visualization" learned from B+N vs K translates to any useful skills and I don't think that "chess maturity" is even a real thing.

@tpr I really wonder where you get these quotes from. I searched the internet and couldn't find anything confirming alleged Capablanca quote. What is more it seems completely nonsensical to me. KBN vs…

yes In fact I even had it in a tournament game a few years ago.