Got to use the expression "time to dust off the old chess pieces" today. But only because i was sanding down plaster and I forgot to tidy my antique set...

Which, when translated literally, means "adult chess improver"

Thumbnail fixed! The Chess Coach Ono podcast episode is live.

Thank you @theonozone.bsky.social for joining me and discussing topics around adult improvement. I really enjoyed it!

Video below. #chess #chesspunks #podcast

Love Stjepan Tomic, but he has made it pretty tough to find information on actual hanging pawns.

Impressive.

Cool that you are doing this as well. I think this is one of the most underrated things. Where did you hear about it? I stole it off of NM Matt Gross when I heard his Perpetual Chess interview...

I like giving my custom model games movie-like titles. Helps me remember them. #chesspunks

Ho ho ho! You lose 1 Christmas cookie for dodgy coordinates, but otherwise have won all of your siblings presents.

Black to move and win. White pawns coming towards you.

I couldn't solve it, but jingle bells...

What an absolute Christmas tree of a puzzle.

Merry #chesspunks

Well done dude, what a steady grind!

Just played this memory game with my kid and it almost convinced me to quit chess.

So I told my designer to create a thumbnail for my upcoming episode with @theonozone.bsky.social .

And here is what he gave me. #YokoOno #chesspunks

Nice! 😂

Definite improvement.

This was obviously written using stockfish.

Inspirational #chesspunks quote of the day.

No. 2: Chess love and self love are like Harry Potter and Voldemort. Neither can live while the other survives.

😂

Thinking about sharing daily inspirational quotes for the #chesspunks

No.1: The ego catches up to the rating just before happiness sets in, confining the chess player to eternal misery.

I'd love my opening repertoire way more if we could just all agree that the King's Indian is banned.

Imagine my surprise reading the Guardian's recap... I'm thinking woah, 1. Kf3! Ding must've fallen off his chair.

Should probably get my chess news from chess websites...

Not really sure honestly. I'm playing my OTB chess in evening leagues. @meermaurits.bsky.social is probably more qualified.

10,000 hours? Understanding the conditions for expert learning An introduction to key ideas about the expert learning process

Hey #chesspunks, @benjiportheault.bsky.social latest post is a cracker:

The other day I went through my entire white repertoire. Every line. Took me three hours. I thought this was a nice example of how you can train and mimic the intensity of a classical OTB game. Any other ideas?

It's my 4th chess birthday (and 33rd actually birthday) today. Won my first game for Team 3 last night to draw the match 4-4 which was a decent gift. 👨‍🚀

Nice! Pretty good here. Won my OTB game :) we drew the match 4-4.

Good side note that black king can't leave g7 or h7.

This is helpful but I'm going to ignore this and start posting gifs that don't work and describe how I won in a masterful way.

My dutch wife still takes personal offense to my choices against d4.

TheOnoZone, but I keep the account I play on private for rating anxiety/to keep my openings secret...

Yeah it's just last week. Still... not a great week! But you make a good point -online games it's nice to focus on some part of the process.

Sometimes you need the reset though!

How is your week going #chesspunks?

Also if anyone has any confidence I can borrow that would be fantastic.