<?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/@/Benedictine/blog</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/Benedictine/blog" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://lichess.org/@/Benedictine/blog.atom" /><title>Benedictine's Blog</title><updated>2026-07-29T09:17:00.337Z</updated><entry><id>https://lichess.org/@/Benedictine/blog/i-tried-quitting-theory-chess-experiment/8Od0TyWc</id><published>2026-07-29T09:17:00.337Z</published><updated>2026-07-29T09:17:00.337Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/Benedictine/blog/i-tried-quitting-theory-chess-experiment/8Od0TyWc" /><title>I Tried Quitting Theory (Chess Experiment)</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="Opening" label="Opening" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Opening"></category><category term="Strategy" label="Strategy" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Strategy"></category><category term="Chess_Personalities" label="Chess Personalities" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess_Personalities"></category><content type="html">&lt;img class=&quot;ublog-post-image&quot; 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