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[-] [+] weakpawn63 PRO 28 mins ago

I have gone for the same combo - keep it simple and 1.... d6 - enjoying learning them both. In the past I played Dutch Stonewall and French as black which complimented My Nimzo-Larsen Attack as white. I like the stonewall position, you can play it in a quite positional manner rather than the Gung Ho Greek gift fashion (which is also fun!)

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[-] [+] weakpawn63 PRO 43 mins ago

The 1.... d6 against everything - available on Chessable but I have the paper copy too is a fascinating repertoire - take a look at the video review on this site. I used to play the Czech Benoni in my youth and I see it is still unfashionable, but it avoids lots of memorisation and favours those who understand the middle game plans better.

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[-] [+] Stormfogel PRO 46 mins ago

I had a break from chess. A friend got one of the early Chessmaster software, he wasn't interested and gave it to me, he knew I had played before. My first Fritz was number 6.

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[-] [+] weakpawn63 PRO 53 mins ago

I had Fritz 2 programme back in the nineties... It was on a floppy disk! (Kids, ask your parents... )

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[-] [+] weakpawn63 PRO 55 mins ago

Interestingly, I went to my first chess club night in years last night and there was someone else there also new who was saying he was struggling to adjust to playing with a board as he has become use to the Internet chess he has played for years.

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[-] [+] weakpawn63 PRO 58 mins ago

Thanks for the welcome (and all the other comments here too). Yes, I went all in in getting several books at first but see the rationale of being selective. I am focussing on two repertoire books and reading a paper copy of Thomas Willemze's The Chess Toolbox. I went to my first chess club night in over 20 years last night. It was great to play over the board. It's a world away from computer blitz. I had forgotten how tiring it is (or may be I am getting old!) and I got 2 wins and a draw and a warm welcome and an invitation to play on one of their league teams!

thanks for the advice about settings, I have not quite mastered the nuances of Chessable yet but think using the real board helps. If nothing else, it slows the process down. As in life, you can use Chessable in either a mindful or mindless way. Who hasn't made a mistake and then mindlessly repeated it when prompted!

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[-] [+] Jklenear 2 hours ago

My topics
How do I find old topics I posted ?

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[-] [+] Slormgorm PRO 3 hours ago

Yes - 'messing with my head' is exactly what it feels like. A totally dispiriting, frustrating, annoying and ultimately almost totally useless and wasteful thing currently. Makes me want to stop using Chessable when I am in the clutches of a seemingly endless review session.

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[-] [+] dramstats PRO 3 hours ago

This also annoys me a lot! I do like to see how many moves to review I will get points for, but I do also want to know how many variations I have left in a session. Perhaps I don't spend as long as Slormgorm reviewing every day, but it's about 90 mins- 2 hours and I'm currently trying to get down from 1000 back to 0 and it really messes with my head when I think I have only 50 left to do, but that is really 50 variations and so nearer 300 moves. :(

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[-] [+] Milliern PRO 4 hours ago

As a matter of ethics, it is not just a tactics book. I'll pass. Many others will, too.

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[-] [+] styx PRO 1 hour ago

Topical game going on the moment - Magnus Carlsen is using Christof's Scotch Four Knights against Ding Liren at the European Club Cup! :)

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[-] [+] Eucatastrophe PRO 7 hours ago

It did get a lot of students pretty fast. I’m really happy about that

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[-] [+] Eucatastrophe PRO 7 hours ago

Thank you Han. Amazing. Looks like I have my work cut out for me because Feingeist passed the million points mark already.

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[-] [+] zaeemalam PRO 14 hours ago

Sshhh! Don't say that! And its at least top 5 though! Plus, I think it took them longer to get more students!

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[-] [+] Theoryhack PRO 14 hours ago

Not sure I follow.

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[-] [+] Goke09 16 hours ago

cool book thanks john for making a free Scandinavian book!

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[-] [+] Goke09 16 hours ago

I mean 75% complete of the whole book

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[-] [+] NM HanSchut PRO 16 hours ago

So I gave Eucatastrophe 200 rubies for his quest to reclaim the number 1 spot on his book's Leaderboard and suddenly ended up with a new badge 'Who needs them?' (Donate more than 125 rubies) :-) Pretty rare badge: only 2 in a 1,000. #GivingIsFun #chesspunks

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[-] [+] Eucatastrophe PRO 16 hours ago

John Bartholomew's free Basic Rook Endings has over 8000 students, and his free d4. repertoire over 12000. But, you know, he's an IM YouTube celeb and co-owner of this platform. I can't compete with that...
And, there are a few more books that have more than 1500 students, I think. But, this one is definitely up there as far as total amount of students go. Maybe, it's a top 10 book? But, you know, it's free, so that helps ;)

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[-] [+] Theoryhack PRO 16 hours ago

For you? free.

For everybody else? Also free.

In terms of content, 130 delicious, easy to learn variations.

In terms of elo you can expect to gain? At least a point. Maybe 2. The sky's the limit. All depends on your powers of extrapolation.

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