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Impressive – very clean game

@krobbi cool to see a fellow data scientist here! i admire the work the author put into their study and i didn't want to be too nit picky about the author's analysis but there's lots of issues using o…

The quality of the time you spend on chess matters too, not just the amount of time you play. The hard reality is that playing short time controls online won't improve your chess understanding beyond …

The Great Escape (1963)

In a 3+0 blitz game, I would probably briefly analyze 14.Qa4 and see that black cannot stop me from taking a7 next because 14...Qd7 15.Nxa7, and then go for it. As with many puzzles, when you know the…

The way I try to avoid tilting is to play only a few games at a time everyday and study my losses.

Given your rapid and classical ratings, there is no way you would lose every single game. There's nothing wrong with being a beginner either— everyone has to start from somewhere.

I don't get the point of the title except to attract attention. You're comparing accomplishments for different things in chess. Why should it be a surprise that IMs, FMs, NMs and the occasional untitl…

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Personally, I started playing chess from a young age, but probably hindered my improvement substantially by playing mostly bullet and blitz online, and hardly ever focusing on tournament or classical …