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@pointlesswindows said in #5: > No, you are not. Find the best move for yourself. I always try and find the best move for myself, but I am talking about finding my opponents best reply, that's where I…

Helpful, thanks Shark.

Hi guys, I know during calculation I am supposed to find the best move for my opponent, but I really struggle with finding a good move for my opponent without flipping the board, and seeing it from my…

@Rookitiki said in #8: > €2: now that i kinda got the grasp of the question at hand: chess is very complicated. some of the core concepts of it drive against deeply rooted irrational fallacies we impl…

@EmaciatedSpaniard said in #12: > @lion20133 Please consider deleting your post since it doesn't belong in this forum. I guess something went wrong. Thanks! It's a shame that as the OP, I cannot do th…

Oh I realise it's entirely irrational and so I don't know why I feel this way about it. I am quite competitive in other things and so maybe I am thinking that I need to get rock solid (with openings e…

I used to play a lot of correspondence chess on another website, and for some reason I have always feared playing live online chess, I'm not sure if feared is the right word, but I take it all too ser…

@RamblinDave said in #22: > This is an interesting thing about how much of a risk "booked up" opponents in "highly theoretical" openings really are: > zwischenzug.substack.com/p/what-really-happens-in…

@ThunderClap said in #5: > I would say that under 1000 & not wanting to learn theory means yes you have less time so ok I will make a suggestion . Play 2 Nf3 & after black responds with d6 you can pla…

@Ahmadinejad said in #7: > # 5 -----> << I would reccomend.....a Basic Chess book or two like Logical Chess Move by Move by Chernev & Neil Mcdonald ... Chess The Art Of Logical Thinking From The First…