Big fan of your efforts in social data collection, I wish we got more of your thoughts.

This is your best post I have witnessed.

Late game chess is a whole other game. Most players learn the early and mid game and develop many gambits and strategy suited perfectly based on opponents past play. Those players frequently struggle in late game play as the board opens up with less peaces on the board and by then the opponent has adjusted.

This is what the Q team looks like to me atm.

Q team needs encouragement to pull the triggers and make the moves right in front of their face. A open board creates so many possibilities that its impossible to see them all, even with a looking glass.

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"Instead of learning the different opening moves, how to trap your opponent in the fewest turns — Josh was taught the end game first, just a king and a pawn. He mastered the end game, worked backwards and learned the starting moves last. This allowed him to thrive in chaos. When the board didn’t go according to plan, when none of his plays worked — he remembered the end game and like a north star, it guided him through the chaos while everyone else faltered because the game didn’t follow their well-defined move sets."

Qs opponents have played very well but now all they need to do is walk down the KING