1/ The Queen's Gambit is apparently causing demand for chess to surge!

I play daily and coach at my kid's school, so I love seeing the interest

If you're want to learn about chess, here are some great free resources (thread)

2/ How to play & basics

Great YouTube videos

https://t.co/zK2DS5vXa3

https://t.co/ENvayynpFF
3/ Opening principles

https://t.co/DGpYH4FzY2

@thechesswebsite -https://t.co/v9cYU9vSiP

https://t.co/z9SpYV932d
4/ Common beginner mistakes

https://t.co/ZRPIIPeRyg

https://t.co/UdT12KOXzW
5/ Advanced topics

Chess Holes:
https://t.co/hBwFFjV7RC

6 Power Moves of Chess:
https://t.co/K8QRZnDI1y
6/ Recommended YouTube channels

#1 Chess Edge
#2 Agadmator's Chess Channel
#3 GJ_Chess

These are all great too:

ChessBrah
Chess with Suren
Chess Talk
Eric Rosen
GingerGM
GothamChess
GMHikaru
GMBenjaminFinegold
PowerPlayChess
Saint Louis Chess Club
The Chess Website
7/ Favorite players of the past to learn from

Jose Capablanca
Bobby Fisher
Paul Morphy
Mikhail Tal
8/ Apps

I use https://t.co/oBza2I5rBU mostly

LIchess is also excellent
9/ If you want to learn just how much better GMs are than you, watch this video

Probably my favorite game ever

https://t.co/S3EaQ2Rn7i
10/ DM me if you want to challenge me to a daily game!

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#swfc are finally back in league action tonight 8pm GMT away to Coventry #pusb

A relegation six pointer to kick off our second half of the season with 7 points separating us in 23rd and them in 16th.

A look of our numbers and theirs below and what they can tell us.

[thread]

I looked at the survival prognosis for teams in our position yesterday (
https://t.co/rmVT8b5sFl).

Thankfully a prognosis is not a prediction, but it does bear out just how important tonight's game is.


Can we quantify match importance then?

Well, @FiveThirtyEight have given it a right good go and how they've done it is explained here: https://t.co/ObjB079Fjw

Their match importance rating ranges from 0 to 100 for a team.

In a game with a high match importance vs. a team with low match importance, a team's likelihood of winning increases: All else being equal, if match importance is 100 for the home team and 0 for the away team, the home team's odds of winning drop from Evens (50%) to 8/11 (58%).

If we look at the combined match importance ratings for both teams, tonight's game ranks 14th of the 317 matches with match importance ratings. Pretty important then!

Of our matches only the win against Bournemouth had a higher combined match importance than tonight's match:

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