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I know you said declined, but the QGA is really not a bad opening - and you tend to get White into positions they may not know quite quickly. Just throwing it out there.

You can't control anyone else but you can control what you do. Create the world you want by your actions. You keep being friendly, and who knows, you may pass it on to others!

What triggers "left the game", in my experience, is my opponent just dropped a piece to a 1 move blunder and is sulking... but I get that's not really in the spirit of what you asked ;)

Trust me, I'm marvelling. :) Sincerely though, I think you may be stretching if you think your initial argument was "a deep description of psychological mechanisms". On the plus side you have indeed b…

Funny how that works, @MrPushwood! I've been watching with some (limited) amusement. At the end of the day, yes, cheating is a PITA. And yes, randomly opining on how bad it is isn't likely to move the…

So in the Dragon Black is looking for the d5 break, but often ends up with a pawn on d6 for a bit (the hyper-accelerated is another matter, though the DSB is a thing of beauty there) so the best way t…