The 2,000,000th post game

Novice's Guide to Improving in Chess.

1. Get a good book.
2. Learn the rules.
3. Keep in mind the main objective.
4. Learn the point value rating system.
5. Learn the algebraic notation for recording moves.
6. Practice problems, puzzles, and tactics.

Tip of the Day:

Ask yourself what your OPPONENT's best move would be before making your own move.

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Teaching Probem

Pause and you might realize how fast White's game will end in the following case if he DOESN'T consider the guidelines and advice given above:

i cant ****ing believe this post is halfway there

15 years, mind boggling

My chest is killing me.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7WRv9hJE7D/?hl=en

Madeleine Leander and Josefine Ahlfors practice partner-assisted one-arm chin-ups.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B79BzJtnWJw/

Josefine Ahlfors' home set-up; swipe page shows why she had it installed.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tv1GuH3wi0

Ben Shapiro praises Donald Trump's current attempts to broker peace in and around his wife's home region.

Glean-worthy random.

Also a glean-worthy random.
I think the woman's name is Renee Maven.

Game against a lower-ranked that proved interesting and challenging.
The unique strength of a knight on crowded boards is displayed in the checkmate victory.

[WhiteElo "1715"]
[BlackElo "1683"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1. d4 {[%emt 0:0:5]} d5 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 2. Qd3 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 3. Bg5 {[%emt 0:0:19]} Ne4 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 4. Bh4 {[%emt 0:0:12]} Bf5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 5. Qb5+ {[%emt 0:0:14]} Nd7 {[%emt 0:0:15]} 6. Qxb7 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Rb8 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 7. Qxd5 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Bg6 {[%emt 0:0:31]} 8. f3 {[%emt 0:0:35]} Nd6 {[%emt 0:0:18]} 9. e4 {[%emt 0:0:27]} Rxb2 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 10. Bd3 {[%emt 0:0:20]} Qb8 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 11. Nc3 {[%emt 0:0:22]} e6 {[%emt 0:1:4]} 12. Qg5 {[%emt 0:0:12]} f6 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 13. Qg4 {[%emt 0:0:19]} Qb4 {[%emt 0:0:54]} 14. Qxe6+ {[%emt 0:0:7]} Be7 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 15. Kd2 {[%emt 0:0:11]} Bf7 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 16. Qg4 {[%emt 0:0:35]} Rg8 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 17. a3 {[%emt 0:0:16]} Qb8 {[%emt 0:0:17]} 18. Nd5 {[%emt 0:0:39]} Bxd5 {[%emt 0:0:15]} 19. exd5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Nf8 {[%emt 0:0:53]} 20. Re1 {[%emt 0:0:24]} Qd8 {[%emt 0:0:20]} 21. Re6 {[%emt 0:0:36]} Nxe6 {[%emt 0:0:15]} 22. dxe6 {[%emt 0:0:9]} g6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 23. Nh3 {[%emt 0:0:10]} c6 {[%emt 0:0:10]} 24. Nf4 {[%emt 0:0:12]} Qa5+ {[%emt 0:0:9]} 25. Ke3 {[%emt 0:0:17]} f5 {[%emt 0:0:12]} 26. Qg3 {[%emt 0:0:25]} c5 {[%emt 0:0:48]} 27. Bxe7 {[%emt 0:0:10]} Kxe7 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 28. Nd5+ {[%emt 0:0:5]} Ke8 {[%emt 0:0:14]} 29. Qxd6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Rb7 {[%emt 0:0:21]} 30. Nf6# {[%emt 0:0:8]Mate} 1-0

I opened the above game playing my queen as early as possible, which nearly every good authority will tell you should NOT be done.
Appropriately enough, I afterwards spend what seems like half my moves having her chased around the board ...

My opponent recognizes the threat posed by knights on such a crowded battlefield. His attack allows me to open up the e-column/aka the King's file for my rook to hopefully pin and win, but I decide my King's pawn will do a better job. I allow myself to go back to having my queen chased again, but now I force some trades to make sure his king gets properly harassed as well ...

Queen and knight combinations with my King's pawn advanced so far prove unendurable pressure. My opponent is very soon swept up in a mating net:

Donald Trump, our Head Coach ...?

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/donald-trumps-super-bowl-presidency/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0IutT5PqDzw

Excepting the blue, which is her in 2002, Romina Paoli of Austria, circa 2001.

The actual performances of the shows I've seen like this are a bit too hyperkinetic for my tastes. They do make for some marvelous stills, however.