| General Chess Discussion - What about this even RARER idea, then? (Opening; Vienna Game)#1 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 (or Nc6 or Bc5) 3.Rb1 Has NEVER been played OTB (!); According to the engine, it makes *less* sense vs. the Falkbeer Variation (any idea(s) why?) – but it's okayish vs. the Max Lange… | Neverness  |
| General Chess Discussion - Oldest *active* GM#3 @V1g1yy Yuri Averbakh is the oldest *living* GM. He is 100-years-old. | Neverness |
| General Chess Discussion - Oldest *active* GM#1 With a little bit of research, I was able to come up with this list: Vlastimil Jansa (born 1942); Heikki Westerinen (born 1944); Mišo Cebalo (born 1945); Ján Plachetka (born 1945); Iván Faragó (born 1… | Neverness |
| General Chess Discussion - The Year of the Super-GM#1 Super-GMs born in 1990 – NO other birthyear has produced as many Super-GMs: Magnus Carlsen Peak rating: 2882 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Peak rating: 2819 Ian Nepomniachtchi Peak rating: 2792 Sergey Karjak… | Neverness |
| General Chess Discussion - Is this RARE idea good? (Opening; Four Knights Game)#1 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Rb1 According to ChessGames, the FIRST time it ever got played over-the-board was in 2017; It seems, GMs Savchenko and Moiseenko *both* have played it thrice OTB; Accordi… | Neverness |
| Game analysis - Check out this Ruy Lopez#4 I'm too lazy to read what the NM wrote above, so I'm sorry if I'll repeat something: I'd like to just pin-point ONE detail: In the Ruy López, *if* Black has pushed his a- and b-pawns (in the manner ju… | Neverness |
| General Chess Discussion - Lichess rivalries of 500+ games#2 Off the top of my head: IM @opperwezen vs. LM @JannLee. It absolutely has 'classic' status! | Neverness |
| General Chess Discussion - Favorite FM on lichess#4 The FMs I have beaten are my favourites (!) :-P "Who are those?" (Look at my bookmarked games – instructive games, BTW!) ;-) | Neverness |
| Game analysis - 1st time ever playing the French Defense.#7 On @Checker99's defence: White played the weak (yet confusing) Qf3, very rare move – but it guards the c3 square of having its structure damaged. Take what @billypilgrim11 has said as a rule-of-thumb:… | Neverness |
| Game analysis - 1st time ever playing the French Defense.#2 Keep in mind I didn't look at the engine: I) I don't think you should have taken that Knight on your 4th move, you only want to do that *if* you can double White's pawns, II) In the French, the c-pawn… | Neverness |
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