Let's say you are in a period of stagnation with your chess rating, and you cannot improve. Take 15-20 days off, and learn to play XiangQi, solve XiangQi checkmating problems, play everyday few XiangQi games, and then after 15 days go back to chess, and see what happened! (I'm ad...
"when my opponent is a programmer, we are doing the same thing. we can talk to each other. but when i play against a professional and he explains the moves to me, it is too high level. i can't understand, and he can't understand what i am doing. the densei-sen -- it is ...