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Flavio 🏴‍☠️

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Software Engineer 🦥 Haskell & 🌳 Elm @Scrive ♟️ First #chesspunks on this app 🏯 日本語を勉強中(N3) On a mission to reach 2000 FIDE before 2031 🏁

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · May 17

Guys, the impossible just happened... I DREW A FIDE MASTER!!!!! 😎🙌🏻♟️ #chesspunks

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 17h

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 2 (exchanging) completed! 😎 I loved all the classical games between Tal and Botvinnic in this chapter, lots of great model games to learn from! Black to play in this ⭐️⭐️⭐️ puzzle I failed #chesspunks

Y.Pelletier - A. Yusupov
Basle (rapid) 2005

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 18h

@janiczek.cz 👀

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 20h

Since like a good research study for cognitive scientists @drcanchess.bsky.social 😜😜

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 20h

Yes!! 😎

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 20h

Nice post! Thanks for sharing the not happy path as well, that is really relevant! Also, I’m not an expert but maybe having too many opening options is counterproductive? “Jack of all trades; master of none” kinda vibe? I’m not sure either but I’m trying to improve my repertoire somehow differently!

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Congrats!!

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Hahaha interesting suggestion!

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Yes, when analysing I noticed I could have blundered mate there very easily 😅🤣

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Thank you! 🥹 Yeah the warning is definitely in place here! 🙏🏼🫶🏻

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Yeah I did not calculate properly actually, when I played Nxa1 I noticed Rf7+! And I was screwed, but I was lucky I guess because my opponent was already lost psychologically 😅

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Yes, that's why I believe I can play openings that are WAY beyond my level (Najdorf, KID, etc) but I don't mind the suffering and I think my overall chess will improve in the end, at least that's what I hope for! 🤞🏻

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Well it is not actually a transposition, is just that I remembered that Giri recommended to go for the Benoni when white played the f3 Anti-Grünfeld, it turned out great! 😅

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

posting as an image due to character limitation, thanks for your interest! 🫶🏻 (in the alt text you can copy the whole PGN)

[Event "Interclubes 2025: Ronda 1) Paco Fernández - Flavio"]
[Date "11/01/2025"]
[White "Francisco José Fernández López"]
[Black "Flavio Corpa Ríos"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1878"]
[BlackElo "1658"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[ECO "E60"]
[Opening "Indian Defense: Anti-Grünfeld, Alekhine Variation"]
[StudyName "Interclubes 2025"]
[ChapterName "Ronda 1) Paco Fernández - Flavio"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3 c5 4. d5 d6 5. e4 e6 6. Bd3 exd5 7. cxd5 Bg7 8. Ne2 O-O 9. Nbc3 Nbd7 10. Bf4 Ne5 11. Bc2 Nfd7 12. O-O Nb6 13. a4 f5 14. a5 Nbc4 15. b3 Nxa5 16. Qd2 b6 17. Bg5 Bf6 18. f4 Bxg5 19. fxg5 fxe4 20. Nxe4 Bf5 21. Nf6+ Kg7 22. Nf4 Rxf6 23. Ne6+ Rxe6 24. Bxf5 Re8 25. Be6 Nxb3 26. Qc3 Nxa1 27. Rf6 Rf8 0-1

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

I understand, my best game so far is a win with black against a 1880 where I played the grunfeld but had to transpose to a Benoni! Neither of us knew what was going on, but you just need to understand the position a little bit better than your opponent… I see value in chng reperts depending on lvl!

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Awesome thanks very much for the honest response! 🙌🏻

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Would you recommend the Grünfeld or the KID to a 1700 FIDE? I have your course but I’ve been also learning some KID pawn structures and I’m learning tons!!

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

It's time to finally get that free course! 🤞🏻 @chessable.com #PuzzleConnect #chespunks

a missed tactic of one of my online games, featured in PuzzleConnect from chessable

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Amazing, well done! Always feel impressed when people do great stuff with baked in solutions! 👏🏼

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 1d

Programming still feels like a super power, you have an idea or you feel like learning something new and BAM! You can code it yourself if you don’t want to pay or there is no existing solution already 😎

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 2d

A friend contributed some changes and now it looks amazing! 🤩 the magic of open source! ✨