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Community Blog Discussions - Is a Chess Coach Worth It? - A perfect Guide!#5

Chess coaching is great regardless of how much you improve from the coaching. You can access active professional players as coaches. Imagine trying to get tennis lessons from an active pro playing in …


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Community Blog Discussions - The Bootleg Spacebar#2

I bootleg spacebar as a 2nd pass to all my files taken from serious sources. This process also reveals which openings people are terrible at playing by hand. I think my Jobava London Black file has th…


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Lichess Feedback - Remove names from Personal Opening Explorer#5

I really like this feature to look at my own games and my coaches but whenever I look at a specific opponent the games take way too long to index.


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Community Blog Discussions - My Favorite Chess Advice: Talk To Your Pieces#19

You're a good horsey


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General Chess Discussion - Why is the Bowdler Attack the 2nd most popular response to the Sicilian Defense?#21

Most people barely know anything at all and are just playing by hand. Bc4 looks decent by hand.


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General Chess Discussion - Cheating is increasing significantly in Classical and Rapid#6

It depends on the nature of the game. A 2000 can easily get 99% accuracy playing 1. e4 trappy openings if black blunders in the opening and the blunders people make are repetitive.


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Community Blog Discussions - Dealing With Your Opponent's Preparation#6

I originally planned to be a "Sicilian Main" but now think that is too much work. I plan to only play Sveshnikov for life now and add a couple jukes such as playing both Bg7 and f5 vs Bxf6 gx and play…


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Community Blog Discussions - Studying Chess Openings: 10 tips#6

@peppie23 said in #5: > hard work done weeks/ months in advance. So everyone is prepping full openings to play them for only one tournament? How many different openings do you consider adequate in a h…


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Community Blog Discussions - Studying Chess Openings: 10 tips#4

@peppie23 said in #2: > In Europe most players therefore continuously change their openings (at least the players of whom regularly games are stored in the databases). Do you prepare new openings for …


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Community Blog Discussions - How Grandmasters Memorize Opening Variations#5

I have a mnemonics system to memorize move orders. Each square is assigned an object and an action and I use trees of related people for branching variations moving the people through a memory palace …


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