This is extra frustrating in daily games.

Martin’s hustling us. He’s holding back for something big.

You can’t expect her to move the bishop all that way.

The lesson is forgotten the moment the next match starts.

You’re not wrong

So… psychedelics?

Great advice, but I can’t find the m8 square. What should I do next?

Lol, there are just so many random variations of every opening that it’s virtually impossible to know them all. It’s sometimes helpful to see what an opening is called so that you can potentially look it up later, but 99% of the time I feel like Michael in the meme.

I’m lost and genuinely can’t tell if you’re joking or mad.

I’ve still not tried it. I should probably turn off chat and give it a go.

Well I’ll be damned.

Also, if you’re going to tell me that an opening is called either the “Polish Opening” or the “Orangutan Opening”, it’s no contest which one I’m going to remember.

Haha, bullet just feels like a game of trying to make legal moves as quickly as possible until my opponent or I run out of time.

I’m such a slow player. I feel like I’m learning a lot from daily games, but I’ve also been trying to do blitz lately to practice openings over and over.

I keep hearing people mention “bughouse” but have yet to check out what it is. I’ll look it up!

I mean, maybe the super GMs like Magnus can complain about memorizing certain opening lines to some outrageous degree, but even they still have competitive games. For the remaining 99.99999% of players like us, it’s not even close enough to solved to be an issue, imo.

I’ve been pretty into chess lately, and it’s such a deep and wonderful game. Even if computers are better than us, there’s still a huge ladder to climb between learning how the horsey moves and becoming Magnus Carlsen.

Ugh, I’m so bad at the post game though.