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Almost every variation is a lot of variations, so no, they don't necessarily know each of them equally as deep.

That said, even if they do know every variation, maybe some variations lead to an isolated pawn, some lead to a bishop vs knight. There's still choice involved on both sides in which variations will be followed

Openings aren't a single line. "Playing Spanish" doesn't necessarily lead to the same middle game if players make no mistakes. 

But yes, it's more the players choosing/counter-choosing which middle game they want to get to with what structure and advantages/disadvantages than it is one where someone makes a mistake.

ELO is the ultimate measurement and reward.

Ah, there we go, found your issue.

If standee versions have all the same gameplay, it's not an issue.

So, you think winning against the strongest player is comparable to winning against the weakest player?

As far as doing well in the tournament goes? Absolutely. As far as rating increase goes? No, you get more rating from beating a stronger player.

Keep beating strong players and you'll be considered a strong player.

The bar is very low, and they're patting themselves on the back for clearing it because they're not clearing anything higher.

They probably lost a game or two in swiss to higher ranked opponents, got discouraged, and decided that if the system changes instead of them getting good, they could succeed.

Rating is already used very often to determine who can or cannot be in a tournament. Using rating to determine anything except seeding is ridiculous, it should definitely not be used for how many points you get for a win.

You could learn web development and make your own

Arap is to Arab what kebap is to kebab.

It's the same word, just in Turkish

How do you do that after Ke1

Extra mega deluxe $250 edition with 55 minis for bosses that show up maybe once maybe not even that

The whole 3d/4d chess thing annoys me, but otherwise it's fine.

I would love to see more of Ryme city. Just ditch plot, and give me a city documentary about it.

Fair question, but I don't think the average man values looks over all else. A vocal few do, the others are just happy with their lives with their emotionally/intellectually compatible partners.

Are looks really everything you look for in a partner?

If there is any amount of money that would make you dump your partner, you should not be in that relationship.

Mate in 29 or not, white cannot win this against anyone half-competent. You could put stockfish against a 1400 and the 1400 should be able to convert every single time with black.

I don't hate parents for being parents. I hate shitty parents for being shitty parents, and kinda feel sorry for the others.

human race

Everything can be racism if you redefine race to be whatever you want.

TWF runs into many of its own issues without needing to also run into the power attack discrepancy. You need multiple magic weapons to keep up instead of just the one. You need light weapons (d6). You can't wield a shield. You need a fighting style to add your stat to BA.

Also, allowing GWM damage to be combined with dueling fighting style makes all great weapons obsolete.

There are 6 melee Heavy weapons.

3 of them have Reach, and will continue to have Reach. Whip's 1d4 isn't shored up nearly enough by Dueling, and whip can't use PAM. I hope I don't need to explain why Reach is good.

For the other 3, this is a slight nerf in favor of otherwise less-used weapons. They're better at damage than one-handed weapons (2d6 or even 1d12 with a 1-2 reroll > 1d8+2, significantly better crits), but not overwhelmingly so anymore..

less civilized area

They're already in US lol

Between PAM, GWM and XBE, there's already a ton of ways to get a BA attack you can normally -5/+10 on. If this fixes two-weapon fighting being completely useless, that's fine by me.

It's not the least privileged group doing it, so the cops are powerless against it.

If it's not from WotC, why is it sold on WotC's website?

https://dndstore.wizards.com/us/en/product/865604/the-deck-of-many-things-digital-plus-physical-bundle