I have been going over Kasparov's games and jesus christ how did this man find this stuff before engines existed?! Between his d5 pawn sac in his octopus knight game, his Bc2 novelty against Anand in 95 and many others I am just amazed at how he found all these vicious correct continuations. The better I have gotten at this game the better I think he is. His chess is beautiful!
I'm not. I'm not even coming up with real ideas anymore. What is the point of all the work i've done if the ai just does it for me? I am seriously considering becoming a farmer
I'm an young adult improver (1800 uscf on a good day) and by far the weakest part of my game is my inability to nurse a small positional advantage into a winning one. I love to attack and am booked up far more than I need to be for my level and as a result am often winning out of the opening even in classical time controls. I love my gambits but I'm talking engine approved ones (marshal, 2 knights, dubov tarasch as black and frankenstien dracula vs e5 , the MVL milner barry vs french, fantasy vs caro and all kind sharp open sicilains)
The point is my coach said while what I'm playing is objectively sound i'm pingenholing myself into positions where offense is always the answer and potentially hurting my long term development. He told me to pick up some quiet d4 system and just suffer for a bit to force myself to learn how to play positionally and I trust him, but like, do I even need to play positional chess? Nothing wrong with it but if my openings are sound and give me the positions I want, why change it up? Kasparov and karpov stuck to their styles their whole lives and had great success. Both styles work, why not focus on your strengths?
I avoided social stuff for a long time cause I really cared about school and sorta had ingrained in me that if you partied you couldn't be smart or successful but as i've gotten older i've realized that is completely wrong? Like the coolest and prettiest women I knew in college would join me for our PDE study group and then we'd party till we couldn't remember our own names on the weekends. You can do both. You can be both smart AND pretty. You don't have to choose one