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| | "I think I made you up inside my head." -Sylvia Plath Dream:I'm hearing voices in a triangular pattern. One concept is pinpointed, rationalized, and dematerializes as I'm on to the next one. It appears schizophrenic in nature. I hear the voices reverberating like Gregorian chant. I am simultaneously aware and unaware of the meaning behind...
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| | I recently came across a very nice example of White's winning strategy in the Stonewall structure (Chapter 6). After a relatively subtle opening mistake Black was forced to lose control of the c-file and lost the game without a fight. Andreikin,D 2723 - Potapov,P 2471, TCh-RUS 2015 1. Nf3 f5 2. d4Nf6 3. Bg5 e6...
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| | This opening is not my invention. Many top players have used it and Miodrag Perunovic recommends it in his Butcher the Sicilian courses. GM Vitaliy Kiselev played it a lot and so on. However, it is an incredibly simple answer to the Sicilian and bypasses most theory. Moreover, statistically it seems to be the best weapon against the Sicilian on Lichess.
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| Lichess makes over 100GB of chess games from 2017 available on their website. This post shows how this data can be transformed with Apache Spark and analysed. Something for Data Engineers and Chess Enthusiasts alike!