Samuel Tonini tonini

Finished Common Chess Patterns

I just finished the course Common Chess Patterns by Benedictine on Chessable. It came with 779 well-composed exercises focusing on spotting these foundational tactical patterns in no time and solidifying that fundamental pattern recognition skill.

Although I’ve been doing my daily dose of tactics without any pause over the last two years, some of these exercises showed me that there are some holes in my pattern recognition, and with some positions, I needed longer than expected. What I liked about the course is that the author decided to remove all the pieces on the board that aren’t needed to benefit from the exercises, training these important basic patterns.

I highly recommend this course to all who consider themselves on the verge of becoming beginners or intermediate players and want to test their basic pattern recognition ability.

In my opinion, for

Chess Games January 24

White - Nf3 https://lichess.org/R0dniToi/white

Don't trade active pieces
Don't move a piece twice in the open stage, if you can't see another development move of minor pieces, think about the rooks or a piece improvement

Black - Caro-Kann https://lichess.org/gw1M7lge/black

Don't be scared of O-O-O, White was definitly start the pawn storm on the king-side, so just easy queen-side castling and then to for the king-side, DON'T OVERCOMPLICATE THE THINKING!

The Chess Lounge - Community Server Features - Checklist

Add moderators (Fouracle first; Nose, Nike, and maybe Bonobo later)
Add FEN bot (to create diagrams)
Add rating bot (to allow users to register their accounts and receive rating roles)
Add betting bot (to allow users to make bets)
Create announcement + channel for Tata
Create first event (TCL Studies; create the best study and win prizes)
Organize TCL studies ('TCL Wiki'; one big document to find studies at a glance)
Add more emotes

When you analyse your games ideally you wanna do

First analyse without engine, then check your analysis with the engine to see if your thoughts were "correct" (considering that stockfish is the strongest chess entity and can be seen as somewhat close to a chess god, or the absolute truth about chess).
When you analyse without the engine your goal is to try and find improvements over your gameplay. These improvements can be really anything, as long as you find an improvement over the way you played, as long as you learn something from it, its a success.
You can start with looking at the opening phase of your game. Check how far you followed your preparation, when your knowledge of the opening ended. You can compare what you played with a resource on the opening. For example if you use christofs 1.e4 course then you can compare how you played in the game with what he gave in his course and his comments in the course about the line. Cause often times we dont remember our opening or dont play it c

Chess - Open Files Resources

Types of Files | Chess Terminology - Beginner to Chess Master #4

This is video #4 from the "Beginner to Chess Master" playlist. Presented are the definitions of the 3 types of files in chess along with some examples of what that looks likes. Understanding file types will be especially useful for our major pieces and knowing where they function well. Another term, pawn break, is given a definition as well. An incomplete example game, only 14 moves deep, is shared where we can observe the moments at which the file types change, along with what it is that creates this change. Sharing these terms along with their definitions is a start to developing a very important part of a chess player's game, namely his/her "internal dialogue". By NM Chess-Network

**[Understanding the importance of Open- & Semi-Open Files | Chess Masterclass](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRhK33nr5ok&ab_channel=Chessfacto

Chess - Piece Activity Resources

Piece activity is everything in a chess game

Activity of our pieces is a primary goal in chess, but newer players commit lots of mistakes around this theme. By GM Irina Krush

Grand Master RB Ramesh - Learn Chess the right way! - Improving pieces

In this live stream video, I explain the concept of "active" and "passive" pieces. Under what circumstances a piece becomes passive, how to identify a passive piece, how to improve the position of passive pieces are explained with examples in this video. By GM RB Ramesh

THE LUO-CONNECTING POINTS

i. treating disorders of their interiorly-exteriorly related channel or zangfu ii. treating disorders in regions reached by the luo-connecting channel, and iii. treating psycho-emotional disorders.

Treating disorders of their interiorly-exteriorly related channel or zangfu

The Guide to the Classic of Acupuncture states "the luo-connecting points are located between two channels ... if they are punctured, symptoms of the exteriorly-interiorly related channels can be treated"20. In clinical practice, many of these points are used to treat disorders of both their corresponding zangfu and channel as well as their interiorly-exteriorly related zangfu or channel, for example:

	# YouTube Chess Channels

	## GM Talks
	https://www.youtube.com/@BadBishopChess/featured

	## GMNeiksans Chess
	https://www.youtube.com/@BadBishopChess/featured

	## Bad Bishop Chess Channel
	https://www.youtube.com/@BadBishopChess/featured

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