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I have a question about my Chess Stack Exchange post: you would like to learn the Amazon siberian attack?

I noticed that my question was closed due to being opinion-based. I didn't realize that at first, but I have already made the necessary changes. I believe it's now more educational and fact-based. I kindly request that the question be reopened. If there are any further issues, please feel free to leave a comment on the question directly.

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It has now been deleted as spam. This is a Q&A site, not an advertising platform

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  • Did you happen to see the post? Didn't you notice that I asked several questions throughout the text? And only at the end did I leave the study as an option for those interested? This is not spam, I just asked questions about an opening and vaguely left some material about it. Commented Feb 12 at 19:28
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    "I asked several questions throughout the text" which is itself a reason for closure
    – Brian Towers Mod
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I was actually going to start a meta question about your post yesterday before it was closed. I do agree with the closure, but I wasn't sure if review of opening studies is potentially of interest to the community.

Overall, there were two primary issues that I had with the question:

First, it read as a promotion of your opening study disguised as a question. Such promotion is generally frowned upon at StackExchange, but I think it would be a bigger offense if you were promoting a money-making endeavor rather than your own ideas. However, the primary issue with such questions is that the person asking the question doesn't actually care about the answer, they just are posting the question for exposure. Whether or not this was your intention, the impression I got from your question was that your primary motivation was to direct more eyes to your opening study.

Second, the review of an opening study is rather broad. There are a lot of different things that may or may not warrant comment, and we generally want to keep questions narrow and specific. However, different communities at StackExchange have different standards for this. E.g., the Code Review StackExchange is specifically for reviewing code, but people still usually will only post code there if there is a specific concern that they have about their implementation (i.e. they only post specific bit of code that they want reviewed, not a whole project).

Here on the Chess StackExchange, there are more open-ended questions that may have a variety of acceptable answers (e.g. asking for examples of positions or lines with a certain characteristic). Given that, I could see this community being open to more open-ended reviews of studies so that somebody such as yourself can get feedback on their analysis process. However, that is not the currently accepted standard here, and that is the primary reason that your question was closed.

If you had specific questions about certain positions in your opening study, you could ask a question about what you're struggling with. At present, the direction for you would be to go to a more discussion-oriented forum such as Lichess.org Forum, chess.com Forum, talkchess.com, or various communities at reddit.com to ask for feedback on your thinking.

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