Bold move by Dan
@boldmovebydan
Dan Bock from Durham, NC. Three-time chess podcast guest. 114th best chess player in North Carolina. I have a Substack called the Chess Improvement Lab. Web and mobile app developer, runner and dad in my spare time.
Copa America scheduling is even more inconsistent than the world chess championship
I’m pretty sure @chess.com is juicing the ratings because I just made 2200 blitz for the first time.
Yo dog, I heard you like Swiss tournaments, so I put Swiss tournaments on your Swiss tournaments
Names my teenage daughter has called me, within the span of one screenshot: • Bro • Girl
People need some perspective on this. I’ve been using scripts, macros and spreadsheets to automate parts of various jobs I’ve had since 20 years before ChatGPT was released. Does that make me bad? I say no.
I think it’s pretty forgivable if people think “average” means “mean”.
This puzzle kinda stumped me for a while, which is funny because if I got this position in a game I would definitely play the right move.
Playing against the Winawer is SO much fun. I played 3. Nd2 for far too long before discovering this.
Game Review, but it’s just these guys coming out to sing a song about why you lost.