| General Chess Discussion - Getting nice instructive games... at what rating?#24 Well, OTB tournaments are usually classical time control, where suboptimal openings (or offbeat moves, which is worse) are likely to fail miserably. If you play blitz they will play whatever tricky st… | NiceAndFlowy |
| General Chess Discussion - Getting nice instructive games... at what rating?#22 I wasn't talking about opening choices, i was talking about early deviations from theory. If your concern is to not play against dubious gambits i hate to break It for you but even at 2200 rapid you c… | NiceAndFlowy |
| General Chess Discussion - Getting nice instructive games... at what rating?#20 @wornaki said in #17: > I don't care to learn how to refute what is objectively a substandard move. I have better things to do with my limited time. :) But the thing is, if your opponents play unsound… | NiceAndFlowy |
| General Chess Discussion - Getting nice instructive games... at what rating?#15 But if your opponents play garbage or unsound you should be able to beat them frequently and reach higher ratings in no time. So what's the problem? however i think this might help: https://www.youtub… | NiceAndFlowy |
| General Chess Discussion - List all possible advantages that one can have in chess (one per post)#28 Center control, of course. | NiceAndFlowy |
| General Chess Discussion - Scandinavian defence changing bishop to knight ?#4 Sargon is right, but I also believe that in some variations where you pin the knight, retreating the bishop to h5 is actually losing for black, many books on 1.e4 talk about that. Here's probably my b… | NiceAndFlowy |
| General Chess Discussion - Starting to hate chess#6 Chess is a battle of ideas. Understanding the moves you're playing is extremely important, logical thinking is extremely important.. Pure memorization is not relevant unless you are playing at a very … | NiceAndFlowy |
| General Chess Discussion - Keyboard cheating?#22 @jdwhite42 said in #21: > there is a keyboard option in the settings that is perfectly fine because you can use it > > but there is also a keyboard extension that people download to give them multiple… | NiceAndFlowy |
| General Chess Discussion - Keyboard cheating?#20 #18: Well, since the definition of cheating is "having an unfair advantage" and this is clearly an unfair advantage, it SHOULD be considered cheating. I find funny that lichess disabled multiple premo… | NiceAndFlowy |
| General Chess Discussion - Keyboard cheating?#18 Using an external program that allows multiple premoves on a site that doesn't allow multiple premoves by default, it's cheating. Simple as that. | NiceAndFlowy |
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