These moves were nice but I will say I also blundered a knight to a pin and tilted for a few moves and missed a free knight of my own. I was so locked in on the discovery against the queen that I forgot to blunder check. Rollercoaster game but I found these

In his autobiography, Mikhail Tal compared learning chess to catching the flu: "Such a man walks along the street, and he does not yet know that he is ill. He is healthy, he feels fine, but the microbes are doing their work. … A few days pass, and suddenly you involuntarily begin to sense that, without chess, there is something missing in your life. Then you may rejoice: you belong to that group of people without a natural immunity to the chess disease…" In other words, when did you get hooked on the game? I always enjoyed playing, and learned the rules as a young kid, but didn't really get into it until the summer before my final year of high school. I was on YouTube one day and randomly discovered some chess analysis videos. I had no idea that they had existed before, or that chess was even a thing that people seriously studied! They were interesting, and before I knew it, I was watching them regularly and playing online as well. Incidentally, a chess club started in my high school that same year, I joined my town's chess club, bought some books, and well, the rest is history! 🤣 I'm not exactly sure why I caught the chess bug, but I did, and I am very grateful for those early chess videos on YouTube! If I had not sumbled across them, my life might be very different now! What's your story? When and how did you catch the chess bug? Cheers!

So before I got chessly and worked on my Dutch I had a 34% win rate as black at the end of November. Now I have a 40% win rate and a really high win rate in the last month. I don't even have all the theory down by heart but even knowing where to place pieces and ideas to follow has improved my game a ton Instead of being in a losing position in most of my Dutch games I now have a equal or winning position in most games. Well worth it in my opinion. The drills and quizzes also help me a ton in terms of actually understanding the opening

Check out this #chess game: Fatalness vs HopewellChessNB - https://www.chess.com/live/game/164554132152

This was so funny I've been studying the big center variation and this guy blew it. This was the final position https://lichess.org/RW7lkqpx/white