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Dan Bock from Durham, NC. Three-time chess podcast guest. 114th best chess player in North Carolina. I have a Substack called the Chess Improvement Lab. Web and mobile app developer, runner and dad in my spare time.
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Well, you know how cautious they are about making permanent changes
Chess tip: don’t bother developing your pieces. Just attack.
Think of all the sexual assaulters Elon Musk hasn’t endorsed!
Older kid: constant whining and appeals of our “must be 13 to ride in the front seat” rule and endless comparisons to her friends’ parents’ rules

Younger kid: turned 13, still wants to ride in the back like a VIP being driven around by her chauffeur
It’s 2021. I have a random thought about chess. I post it on Twitter, because that’s where everyone is.

It’s 2025. I have a random thought about chess. I post it on X, Bluesky, Substack Notes, and a half dozen Discords and group texts, because that’s where everyone is.
That’s correct, Bc1-g5-f4-c1 variation.
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It's Halloween. I am taking my kids trick or treating. So far I have seen eight couples dressed as the couple from the Coldplay concert and six dads dressed as Azel Chua
Took me a minute but I figured out why the previous move cannot be Nb5-a7 or Nc8-a7. Thinking backwards is hard.
Ng3 fxg3 Re2 blocking the queen
I have no idea how black is supposed to play in these Keres Attack type middlegames except sit back and hope white screws it up
Didn’t the legislature make it illegal for him to sue the Trump administration?
Good example of why checks/captures/threats is a dubious calculating technique. Are you going to look at every check, capture and threat, on every ply, for both sides, on every line you calculate? Or are you just going to be aware of the diagonal leading to your king.
A Taylor Swift song is playing in the hotel lobby. “This is the one where she says ‘checkmate, I couldn’t lose,’ I say to myself. I am wrong. It is a different song. This symbolizes all the chess games where I mistakenly thought I had a winning position but didn’t. In this essay I will
ALTO. I wasn’t sure what it would feel like to be at a chess tournament in Charlotte this weekend, but it’s good to be here with everyone.
First two rounds at ALTO. I played an IM and a 2100, both Catalans, and had the same story: White gets an advantage out of the opening, goes on to win a pawn, and grinds out a win in the endgame. Luckily I had the white side in one of these games!
In December I wrote a blog post called “Vladimir Kramnik is the most boring person in the chess world” and then stopped thinking about him entirely, which felt like the right thing to do at the time. Now I’m not so sure. Ignoring problems doesn’t make them go away.
I think AI chatbots would have a better reputation if, instead of being 80% right on factual questions, they just refused to answer them. You’d be like “who was president of the United States in 1954” and it would just say “ERROR: factual question detected. Please try again.”
Good news, I asked ChatGPT if it can help with NFL officiating, and it said yes.
Roger Goodell says the NFL is looking into how AI can help officiating in the future.