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• pmk@piefed.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Playing chess against people who have read chess books is the worst… you make one move and they go “ah.. the Toledo-Salamanca opening, I can checkmate in 34 moves.”

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But that is my favorite way to play chess!

    I just haven’t actually read any books and an making up the names of moves. I hope my wife hasn’t caught on (she caught on the first time didn’t she)

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  • Kanda@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have yet to experience that even when playing against a fide master, but talking at the board is bad form. They do however know their way in the opening and it usually ends in disaster sooner or later

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  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That move’s worth about a million bucks.

    I find it’s best to play ridiculous moves then that don’t show up in any books, you may end up in a strategically worse position but they have to work for their win now instead of just doing memorised plays. It’s better to burn out, than to fade away!

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Heterodox style. It’s the only fun way to play left

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