u/javilasa

Hello. I will move to Italy in September and I am already trying to learn the language. Went there for the first time last week, and I could understand the vast majority to what was being said to me, and I even improvised well in dialogues in appartment viewings.

Since my native language is closely related to Italian, I find it hard to find useful learning materials, since they all feel too basic for me. I've been watching Italian series with Italian subs, and bought a book in Italian. Has anyone experienced a similar experience to me (maybe with another language, doesnt have to be Spanish vs Italian), and if yes, what would you recommend to do? What are useful resources for learning a language based on a very similar language? How do I avoid confusing the vocabularies of both languages? Thank you in advance

Hello. I will move to Italy in September and I am already trying to learn the language. Went there for the first time last week, and I could understand the vast majority to what was being said to me, and I even improvised well in dialogues in appartment viewings.

Since my native language is closely related to Italian, I find it hard to find useful learning materials, since they all feel too basic for me. I've been watching Italian series with Italian subs, and bought a book in Italian. Has anyone experienced a similar experience to me (maybe with another language, doesnt have to be Spanish vs Italian), and if yes, what would you recommend to do? What are useful resources for learning a language based on a very similar language? How do I avoid confusing the vocabularies of both languages? Thank you in advance

Hey. I was looking at lines for the Queens Gambit Accepted and I came across this variation. It has been played 98 times, and players like Hikaru and Andreikin have played it. Its this:

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 b5 4. a4 c6 5. axb5 cxb5 6. Nc3 a6 7. Nxb5 axb5 8. Rxa8

Does any of you regularly play this line? What are the ideas behind it?

Hey, I've been wondering about how to improve as black: My winrate from the last 90 days for white is 55%-40% (which I am quite happy about), but for black its 45%-49%.

I guess that this could be due to opening choices; but I feel like I have an okay repertoire as black. vs italian I play the 2 knights, vs ruy lopez I play the modern steinitz, against d4 I switched recently from the Dutch because I felt I couldn't play it accurately and now I go for the Albin or Budapest gambit (still can't really decide).

Apparently I lose more games vs e4 than d4.

My question is; If you've had the same issue as me, what was your solution?

here's my account if you are curious: https://www.chess.com/member/javilasa/stats/rapid

Hey, i was wondering if there is a water heater around here. At FASOS there are some small kitchens that have a water heater; theres also one at the Tapijn Learning Spaces.

I was wondering if theres something similar here, i am not too familiar with this faculty. Thanks

help. i am losing game after game for two weeks now, I was 1960 and now i am below 1800. I forgot how to play chess. Just blundered a queen on move 8, i feel so stupid and angry i want to hurt myself. I really cant with this, what happened in order to be such a bad chess player from one day to another. I feel worthless and stupid when i play the game now, I am kind of considering quitting this game because of anger management issues. Maybe this is not the place to rant about this, but really really i feel so worthless, stupid, dumb when I play.

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