<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><id>https://lichess.org/@/Fins/blog</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/Fins/blog" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://lichess.org/@/Fins/blog.atom" /><title>Fins's Blog</title><updated>2025-12-07T21:58:56.739Z</updated><entry><id>https://lichess.org/@/Fins/blog/what-i-learned-from-spending-1000-hours-writing-an-opening-course/HIf968rn</id><published>2025-12-07T21:58:56.739Z</published><updated>2025-12-07T21:58:56.739Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/Fins/blog/what-i-learned-from-spending-1000-hours-writing-an-opening-course/HIf968rn" /><title>What I Learned from Spending 1,000+ Hours Writing an Opening Course</title><category term="Opening" label="Opening" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Opening"></category><category term="Analysis" label="Analysis" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Analysis"></category><category term="Off_topic" label="Off topic" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Off_topic"></category><content type="html">&lt;img class=&quot;ublog-post-image&quot; width=&quot;880&quot; height=&quot;550&quot; src=&quot;https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;amp;h=550&amp;amp;op=thumbnail&amp;amp;path=Kp8bV8YwbpIF.webp&amp;amp;w=880&amp;amp;sig=ac3380e8f6b3099850de364c671102e8850aec48&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reflections on a 2+ year journey (and 25+ year career) with the 3...Qa5 Scandinavian</content><media:thumbnail url="https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;h=550&amp;op=thumbnail&amp;path=Kp8bV8YwbpIF.webp&amp;w=880&amp;sig=ac3380e8f6b3099850de364c671102e8850aec48"></media:thumbnail><author><name>IM Fins</name></author></entry><entry><id>https://lichess.org/@/Fins/blog/what-i-learned-from-playing-lonewolf-league-season-37/19yaMKfW</id><published>2025-08-28T22:35:05.499Z</published><updated>2025-08-28T22:35:05.499Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/Fins/blog/what-i-learned-from-playing-lonewolf-league-season-37/19yaMKfW" /><title>What I Learned from Playing LoneWolf League Season #37</title><category term="Chess" label="Chess" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess"></category><category term="Analysis" label="Analysis" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Analysis"></category><category term="Tournament" label="Tournament" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Tournament"></category><category term="Lichess" label="Lichess" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Lichess"></category><content type="html">&lt;img class=&quot;ublog-post-image&quot; width=&quot;880&quot; height=&quot;550&quot; src=&quot;https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;amp;h=550&amp;amp;op=thumbnail&amp;amp;path=ublog:19yaMKfW:oorcL9Ui.webp&amp;amp;w=880&amp;amp;sig=94e99fc5a9425b55040c27cb18357240aa07e7c8&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reflections from an International Master's debut</content><media:thumbnail url="https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;h=550&amp;op=thumbnail&amp;path=ublog:19yaMKfW:oorcL9Ui.webp&amp;w=880&amp;sig=94e99fc5a9425b55040c27cb18357240aa07e7c8"></media:thumbnail><author><name>IM Fins</name></author></entry></feed>