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Game 7: chess is hard, I prepared a line that gave me the advantage and my opponent comes up with this: how do you continue pushing with white?

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Game 6: playing unrated kinds is always tricky, you don’t really know if they are gonna destroy you or the other way round… black to play and be better.

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Game 5: I was winning a big part of the game, but the position is tricky and I should not allow counterplay, what is the only move that wins here for white? 🤔

If you are interested in the FEN please ask for it

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Game 4: white to play and mate in 3 (really beautiful) 🤩

rqb3kr/1pNp1ppp/p2Q1n2/2p5/1nB5/5N2/PPP2PPP/R1B1R1K1 w - - 4 16

Game 3: black to play and hold a difficult draw (not like I did) 🤡

8/8/8/2K1p1kp/3r4/1PR2PP1/8/8 b - - 6 57

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Game 2: white to play and destroy de Scandinavian defence 😎

rn2kb1r/ppqbpppp/5n2/2p1N3/3P2P1/2N2Q2/PPPB1P1P/R3KB1R w KQkq - 0 10

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 24/06/2026

I'm gonna share some positions of the games I played last week, one game per day, classical 90+30 time format. Game 1: Black to move and be better than a FIDE Master 😅🥹 #chesspunks

r2r2k1/ppp2pbp/n4np1/3Pp1B1/4P3/5N2/PP3PPP/2KR1B1R b - - 0 12

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I recently really enjoyed @mschav.bsky.social's talk at #ZuriHac so I tried to reproduce this chart in Sabela (a Jupyter-notebook-like project for #Haskell) seems like this Mbappé guy is not so bad either! 🤭

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 10/06/2026

Had a great time this year at my first ever #Zurihac 🙌🏻 It was nice to meet new people and connect with some colleagues from Scrive as well! 😊

Yevgen, Francesco and myself at the main Aula, at the end of it all

Me presenting my haskell chess project at the last talk of the event

Carlo, Lorenzo and myself talking informally in a corridor

Some Scrivers talking and discussing Haskell things at lunch time

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 03/01/2026

The Candidates I wanted 🥹🥹🥹

Keymer instead of bluebaum
Abdusattorov instead of Sindarov
Arjun instead of Esipenko

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 22/11/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 13 (the double bishop sacrifice) completed! Interesting chapter, I did not know this pattern and also that Lasker was the first to discover it! #chesspunks

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 18/11/2025

After reading “50 mistakes you should know” I started to categorise my errors in tournament games. One that came up often was “failure to find the silent defense” or also “prophylaxis”, but in one of my latest games I was able to play these amazing moves, chess improvement is subtle! #chesspunks

Only prophylactic move that gives black an advantage

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 18/11/2025

many more websites down, I guess it is some @cloudflare.social thing in Spain?

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 18/11/2025

Wow @lichess.org is down?!?! This is how the website looks without CSS... 😧

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 17/11/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 12 (dont be too hasty!) This endgame chapter was challenging and in this particular ⭐️⭐️⭐️ puzzle, the author expected me to find a move that even the great Petrosian could not find 🫠🫠🫠 To my relief, I played the same as he, even if its not the best #chesspunks

T.Petrosian - M.Botvinnik
World Ch (15), Moscow 1963

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 17/11/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 11 (black against the Reti, white against the King’s Indian) completed with good score! 😎 This time I’m a little pissed: my idea in this puzzle, Nb5! is not even considered as a possibility in the authors solution and SF even prefers it! #chesspunks

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 17/11/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 10 (the lawn phalanx) completed! Luckily the author also features some game he lost, even if they were against such legends as Karpov! White to move and win, not easy at all! #chesspunks

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 12/11/2025

Very sad I actually considered both Qg4! and Bc7! but ended up going for something worse… 🫠

2q4k/pr4pp/2pB1p2/8/n1pP4/P1P3QP/1P4P1/4R1K1 w - - 2 28

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 08/11/2025

My wife made me a homemade spicy pumpkin latte because the city’s Starbucks run out of them too soon and I was sad about it, I don’t deserve her 🥹☕️🎃

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 06/11/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 9 (better pawn structures) completed! 😎 Can someone explain why in this game of Yusupov vs Aagaard Bg5 wouldn’t be a valid answer? SF only considers it slight worse to Bf4 🤔⭐️⭐️ #chesspunks

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 04/11/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 8 (calculating short variations) completed with Excellent score! 😎 This and the previous chapters were very tactical and fun, I guess my calculation is improving? Let’s see if it shows up in this Saturdays league game 🤞🏻 black to play ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #chesspunks

L.Blumenoff - P.Keres
Estonian Ch, Tallinn 1933

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 02/11/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 7 (exploiting weaknesses) completed! 😎 This chapter was very interesting and felt very practical, some of the moves required first identifying the weakness and then calculating a way to exploit it, which happens very frequently in real games!! ⭐️⭐️ #chesspunks

I.Gutierrez Castillo - R. Vera Gonzalez
Bayamo 1989

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 31/10/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 6 (a lead in development) completed! Another difficult chapter, most of the exercises were taken from Alekhines games! 🫠 (come on there’s no way I can calculate like him…) white to play in this ⭐️⭐️⭐️ puzzle I failed. Agadmator would have succeeded! #chesspunks

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 28/10/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 5 (don’t allow counterplay!) completed. 😎 This was a very difficult endgame chapter, lots of calculation involved and I spent like 4 hours on it and also pulled up SF to check my solutions. Failed this ⭐️⭐️⭐️ puzzle, black to play and hold the draw #chesspunks

C.Lutz - T.Luther
German Ch, Bremen 1998

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 27/10/2025

Last game: the provinces of Spain! 🥘Have fun: elm-spain.vercel.app

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 23/10/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 4 (opening repertoire against 1.c4) completed with good score! 😎 These QGD positions are not my style but at least the ideas are not that difficult. I’m happy with the symmetrical English for now. I failed this ⭐️ puzzle which is not that easy! #chesspunks

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 20/10/2025

My game from Saturday as well… 😅😅😅 I thought it was only us 1600+ that play terrible chess! 🤣🤣

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 19/10/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 3 (attacking the king) completed! 😎 I almost nailed all the exercises in this chapter, except for the ⭐️⭐️⭐️ puzzles like this one where I would find the first move, but not the best defense by the opponent (thus missing the remaining points)! #chesspunks

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 15/10/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 2 (exchanging) completed! 😎 I loved all the classical games between Tal and Botvinnic in this chapter, lots of great model games to learn from! Black to play in this ⭐️⭐️⭐️ puzzle I failed #chesspunks

Y.Pelletier - A. Yusupov
Basle (rapid) 2005

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 14/10/2025

posting as an image due to character limitation, thanks for your interest! 🫶🏻 (in the alt text you can copy the whole PGN)

[Event "Interclubes 2025: Ronda 1) Paco Fernández - Flavio"]
[Date "11/01/2025"]
[White "Francisco José Fernández López"]
[Black "Flavio Corpa Ríos"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1878"]
[BlackElo "1658"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[ECO "E60"]
[Opening "Indian Defense: Anti-Grünfeld, Alekhine Variation"]
[StudyName "Interclubes 2025"]
[ChapterName "Ronda 1) Paco Fernández - Flavio"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3 c5 4. d5 d6 5. e4 e6 6. Bd3 exd5 7. cxd5 Bg7 8. Ne2 O-O 9. Nbc3 Nbd7 10. Bf4 Ne5 11. Bc2 Nfd7 12. O-O Nb6 13. a4 f5 14. a5 Nbc4 15. b3 Nxa5 16. Qd2 b6 17. Bg5 Bf6 18. f4 Bxg5 19. fxg5 fxe4 20. Nxe4 Bf5 21. Nf6+ Kg7 22. Nf4 Rxf6 23. Ne6+ Rxe6 24. Bxf5 Re8 25. Be6 Nxb3 26. Qc3 Nxa1 27. Rf6 Rf8 0-1

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 13/10/2025

A friend contributed some changes and now it looks amazing! 🤩 the magic of open source! ✨

Playing screen of the game showing a flag, current streak and guesses and game score

Initial menu screen of the flag quiz game

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 12/10/2025

I played 4 games yesterday in an under 1700 tournament: I ended up 3/4 and played the ones I won with accuracy >= 94%, why can’t I be happy about any of them because I just lost one to a kid? Is it because I expected to do 4/4? Is anyone else experiencing this? Why is chess so hard? #chesspunks

Won with black, 94% accuracy, no mistakes

Lost with black, 1 blunder, 3 mistakes, still 87% accuracy

Won with white, 97% accuracy! 0 mistakes

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 10/10/2025

I missed a beautiful mate in 5 but still won this game 😎 enjoy! #chesspunks

6Q1/pppkNp2/4b2Q/n5B1/2p5/2Pp1N2/q4bPP/7K w - - 1 27

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 09/10/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 6, chapter 1 (attacking combinations on the 7th and 8th rank) completed with excellent score! 😎 Good start, I only failed this ⭐️⭐️ puzzle for white. I have a tournament this weekend and if I do well I could finally reach 1700 FIDE! 🚀🚀🚀 #chesspunks

Blatny — Mokry
Czechoslovakian Ch, Prague 1986

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 07/10/2025

Bought this with the company learning budget, looking forward to learning a bit of Elixir! 🧪🚀

Elm in Action book
Elixir in Action book
On my desk, both by Manning publications

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 03/10/2025

UPDATE: I lost terribly to a weird move order in the Sicilian, I need to pay more attention to the sidelines! White to play and win 🥹 Chess is hard! #chesspunks

r1bqr1k1/pp2np1p/3p2p1/3Pb1B1/2B5/2N5/PP3PPP/R2QR1K1 w - - 2 14

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 03/10/2025

This is what not-tilting and focused practice does to your rating 😉 #chesspunks

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 26/09/2025

Sometimes chess is really poetic 👌🏻 #chesspunks

4k1r1/pp2n3/1b2QP2/1P6/4KP2/B3r3/4B3/1R3R2 w - - 5 30

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 25/09/2025

I’ve removed ALL the css 💅🏼 in my blog in favor of Tailwind 🍃 and now I feel FREE 🥹 github.com/kutyel/kutye...

66,4% HTML
26,1% Haskell
7,4% Nix
0,1% Shell

Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 23/09/2025

My blog now has tags!! 🙌🏻 Thanks @doscienceto.it for helping me nail the issue 💪🏼

How to add estimated reading time to your Hakyll blog post displaying tags: Haskell, FP and Hakyll

List of posts labelled “Haskell” in my blog

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 18/09/2025

Time control was blitz 3+2 and here’s my prize! Haha

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 18/09/2025

Today I played a Masnou tournament in the neighbouring city and ended up second! Won agains a WFM a nice game 🏆 The first prize was a digital chess set and second and third Colombian coffee beans! ☕️ #chesspunks

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 12/09/2025

Firouzja escalates to top #6 while Gukesh leaves the top 10! 😱 #chesspunks 2700chess.live

Current top 12 in classical chess as shown in 2700chess.live

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · 11/09/2025

#YusupovChallenge update: book 5, final test completed with good score! 😎 I failed this ⭐️⭐️ endgame puzzle for white. Now onto the final book of the blue ones and ready to push to 1800 FIDE! 🚀 #chesspunks

Ask for the game PGN if you are interested