Anyone know if timeseal is automatically installed with Xboard on Linux(specifically Debian)? I'd like to use Xboard with FICS but I'm struggling to figure out the timeseal. I've looked on Xboard site and I may have overlooked it but didn't see anything about it. When I look into the repos I may have missed it.

If this needs to be in the Linux community my apologies and I'll post the question there.

Description: "Featured is a playthrough of a blitz chess game between Rodrigo Vasquez and Vladimir Kramnik from an Early Titled Tuesday event which was held on October 17th, 2023. Kramnik recently admitted, via a YouTube comment on this topic of fair play surrounding him, that he played several tournaments under someone else’s chess.com account. This act violates chess.com’s Fair Play Policy. Kramnik played under Denis Khismatullin’s account, “Krakozia”. I share reasons why this is a violation of fair play policy, how a player can be negatively impacted because of it, and provide Kramnik’s YouTube comments where he attempts to explain it all."

It wasn't a very long game but I had 0 inaccuracies, 0 mistakes and 0 blunders!

The London is the first opening I've learnt, I've been practicing it for a while now and I'm feeling like I'm getting good at it.

Maybe it's time to learn another opening. Any suggestions?

What do you all think?

For black, between QGD and Slav/Semi-slav, which do you prefer and why? I am trying to understand what is appealing on both sides and why you make the tradeoff of potentially blocking in the your light square bishop. Personally, I respond with the Nimzo Indian as black, and when playing as white I hope for QGA or Catalan.

Showed up in my feed on another site.

I'm assuming it's expecting Qxb5, Nxc7+ with a royal fork. But what's stopping c6 or Nc6 instead, keeping the black Queen in a position to protect c7?

For those of you that haven't come across him, GM Sadler is active on mastodon (@[email protected]), and posts some really exciting and interesting content on his YouTube channel (https://m.youtube.com/@SiliconRoadChess/videos).

I'd summarise his videos as using a variety of engines to produce unique, engine approved yet human comprehensible attacking ideas, often in opening/middle games, but he's also analysed some famous human endgames with these engines. While they're not necessarily good videos for beginners, I think anyone over ~1200 OTB will get a lot out of his videos.

If you want a good example video to see if it's for you, his/Dragon's Qd2 idea in the Pirc is a great example (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DuFfJwBgMD8), though I'd encourage you to flick through and find a video on an opening that you play.

I'm sure many here are already familiar with the Chess Page 1 youtube channel, but I've been watching them lately and figured I'd make a post for anyone else who might be interested. It's entertaining, and I love how they lay out the information. The editing and short format is easy to digest, and I find myself retaining more info from this than anything else I've watched.

Has anyone found a good online shop or had any luck at thrift stores, maybe?

I'd like to get a nice chess board without spending tons of money for something highly-stylized - I don't care for those sets that are so stylized that you have a hard time identifying the pieces at a glance. I think my ideal board would be simple, but nicer than one you'd find at a Walmart or something.

Maybe I need to hit up some Goodwills or antique shops. If any of y'all have found one that you really like, I'd be very interested in hearing where you looked.

When I play chess I always take one of two roads which both lead to defeat.

Either I play very carefully, leaving my opponent open to all of the attacking. With carefully I mean I only move important pieces to spots which are defended.

Or I play too recklessly which makes me lose important pieces to the stupidest of decisions. Seriously, I lost tons of queens to spots which were very clearly defended.

Either way I always lose. So:

Does anyone know of: tactics, videos, rule of thumbs, anything. Which can help to find a good balance?

Also: When should you start strategising about check-mating the king?

Just thought I'd take this opportunity to double-check, but how do you feel about chess memes/comics/etc in this community @[email protected]?