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📊 Weekly Recap 🎯

This week was all about improvement—more games, more lessons, and steady progress♟️

📈 Progress:

✔️ Games Played: 125
✔️ Rating: 🔺 1033 → 1155
✔️ Win Rate: 🔺 41% → 53.6%
✔️ Accuracy: 🔺 72 → 73.35

Refining the approach and building momentum! 🚀

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📝 Chess Fact of the Day:

The classic light and dark squares design on the chessboard, as we know it today, was introduced in Europe around 1090 ♟️✨

A timeless design that has guided players for centuries!

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📝 Chess Fact of the Day:

Blindfold chess is an incredible skill that tests memory and visualization 🎭♟️

The record was set in 1960 in Budapest by Hungarian GM Janos Flesch, who played 52 opponents simultaneously while blindfolded—winning 31 games🔥

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I finally got around to starting a newsletter—a space to share thoughts, lessons, and progress from my chess journey

No spam, just chess content

Interested? Feel free to subscribe. No pressure. 🙂♟️🔥

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📊 Weekly Recap 🎯

This week, I overplayed—more games, less quality, and a bit of tilt

Tough lessons, but valuable ones♟️

📈 Progress:

✔️ Games Played: 81
✔️ Rating: 🔻 1132 → 1033
✔️ Accuracy: 🔻 73.25 → 72
✔️ Win Rate: 🔻 50% → 41%

Adjusting the approach and moving forward! 🚀

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The first chess-playing computer program was developed in 1951 by Alan Turing. 💻♟️

No computer was powerful enough to run it, so Turing manually calculated each move, taking several minutes per turn! 🤯🔥

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📝 Chess Fact of the Day:

The Queen wasn’t always the strongest piece. Initially, she moved only one square diagonally, then later two squares diagonally

It wasn’t until Reconquista Spain, inspired by Queen Isabella, that the Queen gained her full power♟️👑

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You can research as well; I'd be glad to know more about this case

Actually, later I found a few more sources discussing a higher number of moves without a capture.

Still, it's so impressive to play 100+ moves with no captures!

Hi!

Read about chess on the web, found an interesting fact, and wanted to share

📝 Chess Fact of the Day:

The second book ever printed in English was about chess!📖♟️

"The Game and Playe of the Chesse" by William Caxton was published in 1474

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📝 Chess Fact of the Day:

The longest recorded sequence of moves without a capture is 100 moves, played in a match between Thorton and M. Walker in 1992 🤯♟️

A true test of patience!

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📝 Chess Fact of the Day:

The first mechanical chess clock was invented by Thomas Wilson in 1883 ⏱️

Before that, sandglasses were used, first appearing in London in 1862

The modern push-button clock was perfected by Veenhoff in 1900♟️🔥

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Thank you for your question!

I’ve been interested in chess for a few years.

But I started seriously studying, analyzing, and playing since last August

Excited to keep improving! ♟️🔥

📝 Chess Fact of the Day:

The two-square pawn move was first introduced in Spain in 1280, allowing pawns to advance faster in the opening♟️

A small rule change that forever shaped the game 🔥
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📊 Weekly Recap 🎯

Observation: When diving into theory, games initially decline—but after a few iterations, quality skyrockets 🚀♟️

📈 Progress:

✔️ Games Played: 36
✔️ Rating: 🔺 1112 → 1132
✔️ Win Rate: 🔻 52.2% → 50%
✔️ Accuracy: 🔻 74.65 → 73.25
✔️ More blunders, but lessons learned

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📝 Chess Fact of the Day:

The Elo rating system, created by Hungarian-American physicist Arpad Elo for chess, is now used in soccer, basketball, and even online games

A universal way to measure skill—born from the chessboard♟️🔥

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📝 Chess Fact of the Day:

(for Puzzle Solvers)

Otto Blathy (1860-1939) is credited with creating the longest chess problem—mate in 290 moves 🤯♟️

Sounds like a true test of patience, calculation, and endurance

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📝 Chess Lesson of the Day:

Understanding how to position and structure pawns can define the entire game—weaknesses, strengths, and long-term plans

Small pieces, big impact ♟️🔥

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Exactly!

Chess is the perfect blend of creativity and precision—art and science

Glad you liked it! :)

📝 Chess Lesson of the Day:

What makes a good move?

A good move = Idea + Calculation.♟️🔥

Creativity finds the plan, calculation makes it work.

Master both, and execute with confidence

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Chess is a great intellectual game

And it’s a game that demands respect if you aim to achieve mastery♟️🔥

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Studied French Defense & Stonewall 🏰

Leveled up puzzles—solved 83.33% of 1100-1200 rated ones on the first try🔥

Challenging day in games—3 losses in a row. A perfect opportunity to test my "3-loss rule"

Games reviewed, journal updated, session closed till tomorrow.

Progress continues ♟️🚀

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Thank you for question! :) 23 games in total

📊 Weekly Recap 🎯

🔥 Updated chess journal with new metrics—still some friction, but the data is better!

♟️ Started playing the French Defense. The win rate skyrocketed 🚀

📈 Progress:
✔️ Rating: 🔺 1091 → 1112
✔️ Win rate: 🔺 46.9% → 52.2%
✔️ Accuracy: 🔺 72.85 → 74.65
✔️ Fewer Blunders!

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Chess lesson of the day:

If you follow the opening principles, tactics will eventually work in your favor.

If you violate opening principles from the start, don’t be surprised when even the simplest tactical maneuvers lead to defeats.

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Accuracy as a standalone metric is questionable.

When you use it as a part of your development strategy it becomes super useful.

Quick example:

If you learn two new openings and play 50 games with each, the average accuracy will indicate which opening you understand better.

Chess lesson of the day:

In chess, there are no random moves.
Every move must have a purpose—make sure you know yours.

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