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The various positional knight sac lines in the Smith Morra can be brutal. The setup looks a bit dull and Italian-ish but beneath the surface it is super sharp. I almost feel sorry for my opponent blundering into this ridiculous attack

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The opponent messaged me "GG" with only 20s left on my clock in 2+1 bullet after I sac'd my knight to stop their passed pawn marching the entire way down the board. Can you see the way to refute their celebration?

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Inspired by someone making fun of all the recent boss top 10 posts including Midra, here’s my top 10 including Midra

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This position is a personality test. There’s only two moves that punish the mistake (left as a puzzle but shown in image 2 and 3), and engine eval is pretty even between the two. Which move calls out to you?

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Mini Endgame puzzle I found interesting - how do you checkmate here?

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Took 9 months but I’ve finally defeated the DLC and can unmute this sub again (was avoiding spoilers)... that last fight was gruelling!

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Looks like Martin has studied a bunch!

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1330 opponent playing a 38 move Italian at 97% accuracy in 3+2 Blitz. Sus or am I missing something?

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Accused of cheating, but I actually just watched Finegold's video on the Greek gift a couple of days ago. 96.3% accuracy and checkmate on move 20!

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My ‘objectively correct’ iRacing track tier list

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To the young’uns and newbies: AC and ACC were both pretty glitchy and poorly optimised at launch. Kunos have good form for tweaking and improving until their sim is arguably the best in its field. ACE looks very promising, so let them cook

Assetto corsa : your driving simulator

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Really cool tactic I found in a match. Can you calculate the different variations to find the winning move?

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Found this novel 9 move checkmate in the English that has never been played before (according to the the Lichess database) :)

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Indycar at Nords is the most intense and fun combo in iRacing - and I'm not just saying that because I just got my first formula license win there! Here is my 6:42 quali lap at 141mph / 227kph average

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I've had a pretty good winrate against the Caro in the last couple of months. Cheers Gotham for making it so popular!

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It’s 13 moves into the Kings Gambit and Black is aggressively trying to get your king. You just punished 11. … Bg7 with 12. Bf7+ Ke7 - but things are very sharp. It’s time to punish their aggression and win the match, can you spot the one winning move?

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I think I'm switching my main opening to the King's Gambit (from the Scotch). Am I mad?

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Found this brilliant rook sacrifice with 11s on the clock to save the draw - then won the endgame when they got greedy! (also beat my highest rated Blitz opponent and setting a new Blitz ELO PB in the process)

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Found this brilliant rook sacrifice with 11s on the clock to save the draw - then won the endgame when they got greedy! (also beat my highest rated Blitz opponent and setting a new Blitz ELO PB in the process)

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My opponent stopped in disbelief and took 15 seconds processing what had happened before they resigned when I didn't take the queen and threw away mine instead! Pretty happy with this one

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I've made a generalised theory of everything

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My progress over my first year of chess in Rapid and Blitz as an older beginner in my 30s

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Can you spot the move my *cheating* opponent used to destroy me in this even material position? There's lots of good moves, but one is very brutal

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Tale of an obvious cheat... a lesson to cheaters everywhere - we can tell because you don't understand chess well enough to hide it!

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Challenge: best possible setup?

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