Reevaluating my openings - Am I weird for memorizing lines?

so i was running stockfish 16 build 2024.06 on lichess analysis mode rn and it keeps spitting out error code 0x03 saying "illegal move detected" whene

So I was playing in this online chess tournament the other day and I got paired against this guy who insisted on playing the King's Gambit. Like, come

I've been noticing something that's been bugging me lately... when people do calligraphy, they often focus so much on the flourishing and ornamentatio

just had a match where i kept getting trapped in a loop of bishop pins rn... like i know i shouldve just castled but idk lol cant believe i lost to a

so i’m looking for a chill place to pitch a tent just a couple hours out, not too wild but still feels like an escape. any hidden gems or state parks

I've been playing a lot of mobile games lately and I've noticed that some of them are super laggy on my phone, which is a couple years old. I'm wonder