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Re:Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy by chongli on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @12:23PM (#39919411)
If you’re 800 FIDE rated over the board you’re not going to be 800 online. You’ll be way above that. I haven’t played in years but I was beating 1200 rated players online as a total beginner. The ratings are not comparable.

A sub-1000 online rated player is frankly a very poor, total beginner at chess, not an enthusiastic club player.

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Re:Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy by anamexis on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @12:27PM (#39919460)
No argument there, but that has nothing to do with my point that novices at chess aren't just playing constant blunders when playing each other.
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