Adult Improver. Older guy. Fmr Ultimate Friz Wrld Chmp and HoF, now trying my hand at #chess. So far I've learned that chess is hard #chesspunks
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chess-com says that this is a KID, Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Panno. But doesn't that opening have a knight going thru c6, rather than b6. Could you clarify? @askavrukh
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Also: if the knight were on a5, almost everybody responds with Nd2. In this position, with knight on b6, responses are either Nd2 or Qd3. Why the difference? (cc @askavrukh )
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Re-upping this one, noting I think I found a regulation set, but with a lot of color options.
Thoughts?
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My 6 yo g-daughter really wants a chess set as a gift (she knows how all the pieces move, and enjoyed (attempting) to play at a local library event. Any recommendations? (Should I get triple-weighted so the pieces don't keep falling over? Or is that over-kill?)
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My 6 yo g-daughter really wants a chess set as a gift (she knows how all the pieces move, and enjoyed (attempting) to play at a local library event. Any recommendations? (Should I get triple-weighted so the pieces don't keep falling over? Or is that over-kill?)
Nice article here
The Algorithmic Cruelty of Statistical Witch Hunts
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Italian. My opponent forgot to play c3. I have three ways to take back the pawn, why does the engine prefer one so much over the other two?
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Played a fairly drawish game (which I lost due to mistake at end) but I had a chance of winning here. I needed an engine to help me figure this out -- how does black win here?
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That’ll keep the numbers down!!
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Why is Nc3 so standard here and then Nf3, instead of the opposite order? To my amateur eyes they seem fairly interchangeable.
@askavrukh
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Kids these days . . . at my very informal chess club (held at a bar) I sat down to play a young teenager. While I was setting up the pieces he was playing bullet on his phone (even into the first few moves of our game).
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In the position below, Masters play ...Be6. Mid-level players play ...Be7. Why the difference? Why is one preferred over the over?
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No tactics here. Looks like approx 0.0 to me, but engine thinks (depending on who's to move) one side is up by a 1/2 to a 3/4 of a pawn. I don't get it. (This comes from an f4-Vienna where I forced an early Q-trade). So, genuine question to y'all: who's ahead and why?
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Weirdness in @lichess -- anyone notice this before? Any way around it? On left is my position from a game I entered from last night. On right is the same position, but entered by FEN. Identical except for move #, and that on left, lichess tells me the opening. Thoughts?
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From a Vienna. Engine really wants black to play 7...Qh4+ and 8...Qe7. I never would have even thought of that. What's going on?
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From a game last night at club. It's black to move (I was white), and I completely utterly don't understand what the engine is telling me regarding potential king moves. Let's ignore king-to-the h-file - which king moves win? Which move(s) draw? And, most importantly, why?!?
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At last weekend's tourney, on the board next to me, an interesting position arose. White to move: should she retreat the queen (Qf4)? Or trade it for two rooks? I had no idea, but thought I'd pass it along.
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It's all in the delta waves (or something like that). scientificamerican.com/artic…
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