Nick

Many years ago I played Sunday football. We were an ok side, but had an awful goalkeeper - literally every shot the opposition took, it went in the goal. We would start well, nearly score, then concede, without fail. It was so demoralising.

Anyway. Man Utd play Burnley at 3pm today.

Much better

People who offer one move of an entire line deserve special criticism, imo

Pleased with this one. Only really have time for blitz these days, but it's really helping my instincts - would not have made those kingside pawn pushes 18 months ago.

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YouTube video by LionChess - Chess Coaching Rook Endgames: The Two MOST IMPORTANT Positions!

Rook Endgames: The Two MOST IMPORTANT Positions!

Link --> youtu.be/gZMD5F4gi_U

Enjoy! 😍
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I used permanent marker by mistake 😬

Took a bit of persuading, but in the end I successfully managed to convince my son to go to school for World Book Day dressed as the iceberg from Jan Markos’ “Under the Surface”.

#worldbookday #chess

I will learn from this

Ha!

A certain Russian might find this “interesting”

Exactly that - Kf6 keeps “M” on the board whereas pushing the pawn seemingly changes the eval to a sizeable plus 🤷🏽‍♂️

Apparently pushing a passed pawn here is a "miss". Never change, chess.com Game Review:

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That’s great! I have it cued up for my commute home from work:

And what’s worse is that you no doubt played the move with such confidence…

Oof, that’s rough stuff!

Pattern Recognition Recognition Rita: Oh Phil, why weren’t you like this last night? You just fell asleep. Phil: It was the end of a very long day. – Bill Murray/Andie MacDowell, Groundhog Day The consensus among the …

Hello. I’ve written something again.

It’s called “Pattern Recognition Recognition” 🦫🦦

Read it.

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A dog after my own heart! Welcome Bertie!

Nice.

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I mean, of course, but blunders notwithstanding it’s still my favourite

Red rag to a bull

It just destroys the Caro, it’s absolutely incredible. Even if black knows how to respond, the positions are so challenging for them you often win anyway!

What do you play against 3… c5? I’m a 4. dxc Nc6 5. a3 guy

1. e4 c6 might be my favourite opening to face in all of chess.

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Touché

There’s a lot of crossover in London vs KID setups involving white pushing g- and h- pawns, exchange sac’ing the h1 rook for the black knight and going for the neck, but they’re often premature and ultimately ineffectual… very threatening at the time though 🤷🏽‍♂️

That’s Not a Knife “That’s not a knife, THIS is a knife. That’s not a knife, that’s a spoon. Alright alright, you win. I see you’ve played ‘Knifey Spoony’ before” – The Simpsons, “Bart vs Australia” Many years …

Hello.

I have a chess blog about chess. I wrote about how to respond to threats (in chess).

It’s called “That’s Not a Knife”. 🔪🗡️

Please read it. Thanks.

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Thanks! Some are calling me the Luka Doncic of chess, the way I collect those triple doubles… 🏀

Sometimes, I am Good At Chess.

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Rather than uploading the gif as an image, do so as a movie and it should work 👍🏼

(did for me: bsky.app/profile/whim...)

A great idea - it’s blitz for me, I only really use the study features on lichess (perhaps another thing I should change moving forward)

Glad you enjoyed it!

That’s just for our private conversations