(04-01-2020, 09:29 AM)rollerjag Wrote:

(04-01-2020, 07:47 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: A picture is worth a thousand words.  Anyone know how to post a jpg that exists on my desktop?  I've tried, and I can't figure it out.

You have to upload the photo to a image hosting site like Imgur or imgBB, then grab the URL where it's posted put it in the popup box you get when using the "Insert an image" button in your post editor.

Thanks!  Got it!

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(03-31-2020, 10:01 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(03-31-2020, 04:17 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: Yes, I do know a few openings.  I know the most popular ones for at least 5 or 6 moves, and I can usually refute the more obscure ones.  

On that website, you can have your game analyzed, and I've started doing that.  And what is really amazing is how many times I fail to notice something that is obvious, and how many absolute blunders there are by both sides.  They rate the moves as best, good, inaccurate, mistake, blunder, and show you what they think you should have done.  I usually just look at the blunders and they are so obvious it's really surprising and humbling.  

My main weakness in chess is carelessness.  Carelessness which is caused by laziness.

Openings are just memorization and it sounds like you're comfortable with the common ones.  I assume the middle game is your weakness.  How far do you typically get before things start to fall apart?

Here is an example of my main weakness.   I won this game, but I did not see that I could have had that rook for free until I ran the analysis.  Unbelievable.  The "??" is the computer telling me the move I made was a blunder.  And the arrow is the computer telling me the move I should have made.  How do I miss stuff like that?  

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