Ono
@theonozone.bsky.social
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Chess Player, Chess Coach, Chess Blogger + Chess Podcaster
https://linktr.ee/TheOnoZone
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...
6 months ago
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Which, when translated literally, means "adult chess improver"
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reposted by
Ono
Dr. Can's Chess Clinic
9 months ago
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
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Love Stjepan Tomic, but he has made it pretty tough to find information on actual hanging pawns.
10 months ago
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I like giving my custom model games movie-like titles. Helps me remember them.
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10 months ago
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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
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10 months ago
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Just played this memory game with my kid and it almost convinced me to quit chess.
10 months ago
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reposted by
Ono
Dr. Can's Chess Clinic
10 months ago
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
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This was obviously written using stockfish.
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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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.
10 months ago
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Thinking about sharing daily inspirational quotes for the
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No.1: The ego catches up to the rating just before happiness sets in, confining the chess player to eternal misery.
10 months ago
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I'd love my opening repertoire way more if we could just all agree that the King's Indian is banned.
11 months ago
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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...
11 months ago
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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?
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10,000 hours? Understanding the conditions for expert learning
An introduction to key ideas about the expert learning process
https://lichess.org/@/BenjiPortheault/blog/10000-hours-understanding-the-conditions-for-expert-learning/a7Q1Eh3a
11 months ago
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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. π¨βπ
11 months ago
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My dutch wife still takes personal offense to my choices against d4.
11 months ago
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How is your week going
#chesspunks
? Also if anyone has any confidence I can borrow that would be fantastic.
11 months ago
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A good amateur repertoire should give extra importance to the weird stuff Joe who picks his nose plays.
11 months ago
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Hey
@boldmovebydan.bsky.social
remember that rapid game we played? Gukesh either stole my prep or Ding nabbed yours... Either way, very suspect.
11 months ago
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NEW BLOG POST βοΈβοΈβοΈ What's the point of puzzles? Thanks
#chesspunks
for helping me get over my writers block.
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What's the Point of Puzzles?
βChess is 99% tactics,β is one of the most misleading chess quotes.
https://lichess.org/@/TheOnoZone/blog/whats-the-point-of-puzzles/biZe93DT
11 months ago
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Haven't published a blog in a while but new
#chesspunks
twitter has me inspired. Coming this Thursday: What's the point of puzzles? You can tell me what you think it is but I already wrote it so it's too late.
11 months ago
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Lego has really been eating into my chess time lately, but I've taken the same diligent improvement strategies that I learned from chess and applied them to Lego and you can't argue with the results.
#chesspunks
11 months ago
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What will the final
#chesspunks
tweet be on old twitter? I think it'll be a picture of Nigel Short and Elon Musk analysing a game of polytopia in their underwear.
11 months ago
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Hey
#chesspunks
, is this where we are at now? Didn't tweet in a while because twitter. Last 3 months update: Learned 3000 moves of opening theory and worked hard on my openings. Crossed 2000 Lichess Rapid... π OTB record this season 1/2/8... βΉοΈ How is chess life for everyone else?
11 months ago
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