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QT: Chess My spin: the question every chess player asks ----------------------------------------------------- Some personal IRL story, maybe TMI I learned to play chess back in late 70s. Played in primary school, maybe a year into high school. Just the basics, a few simple tactics like fork and pin, and was never that good. Perhaps my desire was squashed by my younger brother. He learned at the same time and took to it like the proverbial duck. In our province and smaller city, Eastern Cape and Port Elizabeth, he became the strongest high school player, winning both primary and high school provincial titles, and one of the storngest national players. Best national place of 2nd. Fast forward 45 years and I resumed playing chess. I signed up on chess.com and have been playing what they call Daily Chess ever since. Daily Chess is like old school correspondence, in that you have 3 days to make your move. That suits me as it gives time to think, and best supports learning and pursuit of mastery by not having time pressure of a realtime game. I did it for fun and to have a shared interest with my brother. He lives in Brazil and we video call weekly. With his chess coaching I have improved way beyond the player I was in those school days. My personal best rating is now 1561. Of course that is a positive outlier, having broken 1500 in Oct '25. Will I break 1600 - I think in time I may. ----------------------------------------------------- https://budgetpixel.com/p/26430

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