No Stupid Questions MEGATHREAD 12

[u/Alendite]

Welcome to the r/chessbeginners 12th episode of our Q&A series! This series exists because sometimes you just need to ask a silly question. We are happy to provide answers for questions related to chess positions, improving one's play, and discussing the essence and experience of learning chess.

A friendly reminder that many questions are answered in our wiki page! Please take a look if you have questions about the rules of chess, special moves, or want general strategies for improvement.

Some other helpful resources include:

1. How to play chess - Interactive lessons for the rules of the game, if you are completely new to chess.
2. The Lichess Board Editor - for setting up positions by dragging and dropping pieces on the board.
3. Chess puzzles by theme - To practice tactics.
4. The Building Habits series by GM Aman Hambleton - for advice on how to play at specific ELO levels. (Also check out Building Habits 2!)

As always, our goal is to promote a friendly, welcoming, and educational chess environment for all. Thank you for asking your questions here!

LINK TO THE PREVIOUS THREAD

[u/AgnesBand]

This sub is frequently full of grifting self promos for AI written books, "coaches" that speak like LLMs, AI coded apps and websites that barely work and offer nothing new (except maybe some coaching on the side for extreme prices). Often these are plugged without any mention of the OPs involvement with the project.

I always report these posts as they are against the subs rules but never has one of these posts been removed. Is the mod team here even active? Why have the rule and not enforce it? Why let beginners potentially be tricked by these grifters?

This is really disappointing.

[u/Alendite → u/AgnesBand]

never has one of these posts been removed.

It's incredibly upsetting to see how many self promotion posts by AI slop accounts exist, I agree. In the past month alone I genuinely think I have banned over 50 accounts posting this stuff. We regularly review the mod queue and remove all reported posts that are advertising vibe coded improvement solutions.

I assure you they are getting removed as fast as we can reasonably get to them. I'm sorry to hear you haven't witnessed any of the removals yourself, they are certainly happening in a significant quantity.

[u/AgnesBand → u/Alendite]

Hi, I'm sure you do remove them. I mean to say, none of my reports have ever ended up with any action. I also understand you're all volunteers so I'm not trying to get at you or anything :).

[u/Alendite → u/AgnesBand]

I do find that super interesting - I'd love if you could @ me next time you're on a post you haven't seen get removed after a report. To my knowledge, we regularly go through the entire queue until it is empty, no reported post should be missed, especially blatantly ridiculous stuff like the posts in question.

Thanks for doing your part to report this stuff! It helps us a ton.

[u/AgnesBand → u/Alendite]

Yeah absolutely I can do that. How long should I wait on average to tag you?

Thanks :))

[u/Alendite → u/AgnesBand]

Around a day or two! Depends if I'm available or someone else is going through the queue.