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What are the chances that a 19yr old beginner can gain a title ?
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Any tips to help with the London system mid game?
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Making stupid people famous or famous people stupid?
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Is this a good read?
Resource
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blitz suggestion
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A parent pays me to save chess puzzles in a certain format for their kids. The puzzles are rated 700-900 elo but the parent says they are too easy. I was suspicious, so I upped the puzzles to 2500 elo. The parent still saying too easy. Advice?
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Any idea what this chess board is worth?
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Aim chess is down #aimchess
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For IRL chess (eg tournaments), is there software that can read in a photo of my poorly scribbled handwritten chess notation and return a PGN?
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A drug made me better?
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Find the best move for white, mate in 13.
Puzzle/Tactic
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Am I just crazy or this guy from a netflix documentary looks like some chess dude
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Does anyone have any general opening principles that they use to decide when to develop bishop to b5/c4/e2 for light squared bishop and similarly g5/f4/d2 for dark squared bishop?
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Help a beginner out!
Game Analysis/Study
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Chess is just beautiful
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Anyone else go through this 😭
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The best male and female player in the world have no interest in competing for the world championship
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Renier Castellanos becomes GM at 41, inspiring us to continue training!
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What's your longest win streak and why did it happen?
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Why +30min on move 40?
Chess Question
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What is more important source of improvement for modern engines: the evaluation function, the pruning strategy, or the speed of the evaluation function
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Insane pawn checkmate i got in rapid arena
Game Analysis/Study
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Stuck at 1300-1400 need a plan to Improve
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How are the bots on chess.com rated?
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I can’t improve and I want to cry
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