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Carlsen and Kasparov are the GOATs but Fischer deserves a shoutout. He was something special.

I think he’s the best ever. Every year there’s some new chess prodigy that you think will overtake Carlsen — Firouzja, Abdusattarov, but it soon fizzels out.

I think Carlsen will retire soon. He hardly plays classical chess anymore because he can’t stand losing. Reminds me of Ulf Andersson who was a brilliant player in his youth but hated to lose so much t…

I’m also losing many seconds per move.

My games fail to load unless I refresh. I was blocked for 7 minutes because I had failed to start too many games. I also use ipad. It has been working before but for a weak now it’s not working.

I am in.

Some guy calling himself Erling_Haaland48 created an account a couple of months ago to play crazyhouse and quickly got a rating of ~ 2850, playing some high quality games. Then closed the account. I s…

First I looked at a mating position. The Q on e4 would be mate. How can I move the Q to e4 without letting out the King. Hm, Qf3. But what if he plays f5? Then I can’t mate on e4. Hm, but look, I can …

@DERG_CHESS said in #32: > Ofc, and tht is completly fine. It was just a warning, that just learning the main line won't be enough That’s the Czech defense.

@DERG_CHESS said in #26: > Yes, but in case someone learns it, be careful against the f4 variaton ;) What do yoy mean? Isn’t the knight on f3? How does the f4 variation occur?