Now it's 'this month'!!

Except you’re wrong. Where do you want ‘having’ in the title? Manic friend *having* and blast and manic friend (is) a blast are very different. This is how headlines are written!

I'm glad that you're passionate about chess, but is it really responsible for a beginner/lower intermediate to sell instructional books on it? Generally it is expected that (for books other than fiction) the writer is experienced or an expert.
Regardless, good luck with your chess journey.

It's not really my area of study, but we were taught in uni that increasing housing supply doesn't necessarily lower prices (or help to an adequate degree).

Shrinking those you've beaten...?

Chess progression is weird; a lot of people are in a zone where they'll easily beat almost any random person they play, but still get obliterated by more serious club players. And that's true for everyone except the top few.

I still don’t like it! I want to play a good game. If i play badly but still win, I’m still generally unhappy (depending).

I disagree, chess is awesome when my opponent is stupid and sucks when I’m stupid

And then you have to check if the parody account is a real publication

Yeah lol. Even the theory aside I just like to play a solid game where I feel comfortable. Im proud when the dame seems logical start to finish, win or loss.

This just happened to me in that French game - I assumed I was still in theory and played something else, I wasn’t but fortunately it still worked haha

To be honest, I’ve never really played. I feel it’s too chaotic for me, removes some of the elements I enjoy in normal chess in terms of how I feel I improve and recognise structures etc and play a solid game.

Exactly, I checked lichess’s database and even that was tiny for 960. Also recently I saw a GM blunder a queen in one move in the opening. It really messes with your pattern recognition because you’ll notice normal chess is so “perfect” - there’s always a way out, everything is always protected

I was mostly joking, but for top players it's totally possible to do very basic study for each position, or just starting with difficult positions! You may wonder if this is worth it, but Fabiano made quite a significant blunder on move 1 last year against Magnus in a CLASSICAL game!