When I get badly murked early on, I look at the opening I just failed at and learn a few moves but I'm having real trouble remembering the lines when it's time to play them later on. I'm not looking for advanced theory, just the ability to remember a decent range of ideas for the common openings and be able to maintain those memories over the long term. Any ideas on how to do this?
I think its weird that Gary Chess Jr. calls himself Patzer Gary on all his socials when he is clearly the son of the great Gary Chess and a Super Mega Ultima GM. Why is he trying to pass himself off as one of us?
This is a long shot, but are there any old timers here that remember Patzer's post on the old forum about Letting Money Sit?
It was linked to often, and I'd like to share it with someone, but I never saved a copy of it before they shut the old forum down.
I can't remember it well enough to restate it as eloquently as he did, but it was eye opening for me.
Anyone have a copy they could share?
ETA: u/nolesrule I think I've seen you around recently and I'm pretty sure you'd remember Patzer. Any chamce?
The 50th book review by Dr Patzer is out now: The Reassess your Chess Workbook
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So you have the world No 15 player Sergey Karjakin, FIDE rated 2765 (Chess.com blitz rating over 3000), playing an adoption match against Nikola Stojsin, who has no FIDE rating (Chess.com blitz rating 1952).
10 games 5+2, one attempt. What are the chances of Nikola to avoid the adoption by Karjakin?
The match will happen on Tuesday, 12pm EST, on Mr. "Too old, too slow" channel
UPD: mathematical solution added
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While watching the Magnus Carlsen Invitational finals, yesterday, I found the Chess24 commentators a little hard to follow, so I switched to Ben Finegold and was really appreciating his low-level explanations of what was going on. E.g. what Nakamura was trying to do in the game he won and what moves were probably going to follow given his general strategy. It was super helpful, but I'm sure that stuff was obvious to most of you good players.
Finegold's not everyone's cup of tea, and even though I enjoy him, I do get tired of his repetitive jokes and need a break, occasionally. It would be nice, though, to have more entertaining IMs and GMs who would be willing to commentate matches as they're happening and focus on explaining what's going on for low-level players like me.
Now that I think about it, I'm probably begging Jerry to do more live commentary. His explanations are right at my level.
