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Why must I lose to this idiot?

@wmiltti.bsky.social

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Post mainly about chess, sometimes serious, often slightly silly. Around 2000 FIDE.

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · Nov 14

Here’s me playing online chess before it was cool

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 21h

Also “School for the Gifted” is a common phrase in our household.

Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 22h

My dad (a science teacher) had this one on his lab wall for many years.

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty much nothing we call a nut is actually a nut: www.reddit.com/u/pfobwpfo/s...

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk in an office and saying hello .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk in an office and saying hello .

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 2d

5x5=25 so if you want a nice square you’ve got to lose one... If you’re desperate for a W you can always use U twice?

Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 3d

I could get behind that line - lots of play for a couple of pawns! After Bd7 Qc4 compy says cxd4 Bxb7 Be6 Qb5 Nd7 is still equal - not sure I could quite get there analysing over the board…

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 3d

Was pleased to find Nxe5 instead of the obvious Bxd1 - although taking the rook is fine I think Nxe5 made my life so much easier.

Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks a lot! Yes that was where I got to in my (admittedly fairly brief) thinking - I didn’t particularly *want* to play Nd7-b6 but wasn’t quite able to convince myself that Bd7 was working. Given the position again l’d go for Bd7.

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 4d

Can you rate my Grunfeld? OTB game played last night, seemed to go well. bsky.app/profile/wmil...

Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 4d

Last nights OTB game in full - watch the Black light-squared bishop going Bc8-f5-e6-g4-d7-a4-c2-b1-e4 - quite an adventure in a 30-move game!

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 4d

But isn’t that the beauty of it - if your repertoire is fundamentally sound then you can play it at any level because you always just need to know a little bit more! (Specific preparation is a bit different - don’t want to be an easy target - but that doesn’t happen much at our level)

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 4d

In case it helps (and appreciate you’ve got a great answer from Peter) I’ve played the Grunfeld at the 2000-ish level for a while and I really enjoy it, even though sometimes it doesn’t make much sense!

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 4d

Country squares!

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s birthdays!

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not really a coder but my Excel skills are pretty good - put together my Grandmaster Birthday spreadsheet as well as something to visualise the sizes of countries as concentric squares based on a suggestion on Twitter.

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Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 4d

Last nights OTB game in full - watch the Black light-squared bishop going Bc8-f5-e6-g4-d7-a4-c2-b1-e4 - quite an adventure in a 30-move game!

Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti.bsky.social · 4d

It is, though 1…Nxe5 2.dxe5 Qxd3 3.Rxd3 Bc2 4.Rdb3 isn’t great - but after 2.dxe5 the rook on d1 is completely free because the Black queen controls the square, so 2…Bxd1 just wins material.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 4d

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Cartoon of man at a table with a book, a plate, a knife and a jar in front of him. He is touching a blob on a page of the book. Caption: I've got jam on my autobiography! Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 4d

I am also really struggling to see how this qualifies as “news”. It happened millions of years ago.

Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 4d

Though the BBC has it wrong. Although dinosaurs are skellingtons nowadays they wouldn’t have been at the time of making the footprints (another clue comes from the word footprints if you’re still flummoxed)

Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re struggling the picture is a big clue.