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Yeah, as we get older, those pesky disks ruin all kinds of things. It is one of the reasons why I am reluctant to comment on video sometimes. So always caveat these pieces of advice as limited perspectives. Basically, part of the reason your forehand stroke comes across your body when you...

When playing matches, your stance is almost always a backhand stance, in that you are set up to play a backhand. When you need to play a forehand, your legs core doesn't do any of the necessary preparation to play a forehand. If you look at how you stand at the table in the warm up, that is not...

So what you are doing looks and feels like a footwork exercise but is it really? To be honest, learning technique as an adult is a complicated thing, especially because there is no 100% technically correct and approved way to learn table tennis. There are just some guidelines that quite a few...

Footwork is a complicated topic - as someone who had crappy footwork almost for all my playing career, and even when I tried to develop good footwork still had it crappy (and let everyone remember, I started serious training in my mid 30s for context and got round to fixing footwork in my 40s...

Hi, Loertig. As funny as it sounds, the problem with your forehand swing is first and foremost your left foot and to a lesser degree your right foot which should be a bit more side on (it should point a bit more outwards than it currently does, or at least, twist as well with your left foot into...

I think the use of slower blades to coach beginners is a bit overrated with one exception- adult learners who do not have good feeling. I know many juniors who just used fast blades with Chinese rubber or fast blades period. I would go the fast blade with slower rubber for the 40+ ball. I...

The one thing I will add here is that Boll's switch to the Primorac Carbon was also related to his switching to Dignics 09c (slightly tacky rubber) on both sides. Sometimes these decisions have to be understood in the context of the whole setup, not just in the context of the blade.

The nonsense claim isn't as straightforward as you are making out...

Modern computers have more sophisticated valuation routines as well as better processing power. Your main point is correct though, and it takes a more sophisticated view of chess to realize that there is no real calculation without evaluation, and it is really the speed and level.of nuance of...

I very much agree - it is sad to see someone playing so well and getting injured.

Lim Junghoon too good off the bounce - Quadri can't play at that speed close to the table so he had to try something else but doesn't quite have the skillset.

Good comeback, but not sure it is amazing when the attacker doesn't make you move to the ball or reach for the ball and never pushes it short. Maybe she truly attacked Han Ying's middle a few times.

Well he needs to "revenge" Lim Junghoon first. If he does that, I can see him being a clear favorite over both Gacina and Karlsson, but Gacina looks extremely solid in this tournament and Karlsson played him tough in Houston (which I watched live). Regardless, this has been an Aruna tournament...

I have my own engineering and analytics background (no masters in Statistics though too many courses). But I watch too much online chess and in blitz chess, one can think of Nakamura and Carlsen as being a version (and this is not a perfect analogy) of Fan Zhendong VS Ma Long where you know...

"Many Times". Since you love "Bayesian analysis", which is based on probabilities and not absolute claims, you should post about Nakamura's success vs Carlsen at all time controls in terms of probabilities and expectations. And there is a difference between saying "calculation is all that...

Just to be clear, you have factored Diaz's continental advantages and potential for improvement into all this? Don't want a revisionist history in a year's time (assuming no injury/pregancy etc.)

Since this isn't a chess forum, I will let you have the last word on this. It has been shown many times, that Carlsen' superpower isn't so much his calculation but his ability to evaluate positions more quickly than others based on nuances that others may not value as heavily.

Ah okay. It is cool that someone's ranking 4 years ago impacts your perspective more strongly that her play and RC rating in 2022. You have a lower opinion of her than I do. My point though is that this is why we play the matches and it is easy to put too much into strength measurement...

Yeah, but the strongest player is more often revealed by the longest time control, no? We should be playing best of 7 not best of 5. No, we should be playing 21 point games not 11 point games? I am just trying to understand how you square these kinds of tradeoffs with making statements about...

This is a very selective view of things. Why do they use Blitz matches to decide more and more things now in classical tournaments when blitz used to be the pariah of chess? Why are they using time controls with less increments in standard time controls in order to control the length of...