Usually, but I love the optimistic fanfare of the TNG intro, and it has a habit of drawing me in.

Yep, according to wikipedia.

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This is extra frustrating in daily games.

Martin’s hustling us. He’s holding back for something big.

King can’t take because a bishop is looking in her direction from half a mile away.

This is great! Followed.

Oh my god, this is dark.

Same. I can’t tell a huge difference between 1080p and 4k, if I’m being honest.

I’m so nostalgic for it. I played it over and over on the SNES Mario All Stars cartridge.

I’ve gotten into chess for the past year, and while I used Lichess for a little bit, I wound up going with chess.com primarily instead. The app is great. The learning modules are really helpful, and I love the puzzles.

It also has tens of millions of users on the platform, so your matchmaking is going to be more accurate, whether you need to be matched with opponents who just learned how the pieces move, all the way up to the top professional players.

As for outside resources, I’ve been mostly learning from random masters/GMs that have youtube channels.

You can’t expect her to move the bishop all that way.

We need a fourth, derpy-er dragon.

I’ve always heard that until you’re master/GM level, it’s better just to play it out. Your opponent might blunder too, or accidentally stalemate you. At the very least, it’s good practice playing at a disadvantage. I know I’ve blundered huge leads myself, so who knows what’s going to happen?

There’s a psychological thing where we always assume that our opponents in games will never mess up, which makes it feel easy to give up the moment you make a mistake.

This is great. I have a new daily game to play. Thanks for sharing!

The lesson is forgotten the moment the next match starts.

You’re not wrong

Yes, this one was tragic.

I’ve found that doing a metric ton of puzzles has greatly improved my tactics when I’m playing “recklessly”. It helps your board vision and you’ll generally have a better feel for what you can safely attack.

As far as playing too defensively, maybe finding an opening that leads to a natural attacking plan would be helpful. I’ve been really enjoying Queen’s pawn openings that point all of your pieces toward the opponent’s castled king, so even though I’m playing “safely”, I’m still creating threats.