/fa/ edition>Play online:https://lichess.org>Join our team and weekend's tournaments:https://lichess.org/team/vietnamese-basket-weaving-forumlast thread>>505961881
post your sickest /chess/ driphard mode: no Sneedi, no Rapport
>destroys the #1 again
>>506664002based MVL
>>506664447Reservoir Chess
Should we make a special christmas tournament for this weekend?team battle or a normal arena?Anyone has a nice idea for a theme?Christmas vs hanukkah just to shitpost in the chat?
>>5066644472006 esserman
>>506664907Just a normal arena with a Christmas theme, chud. Not everything needs to be a competition.
I can't watch a single second of these .cum meme tourneys. The commentary is insufferable.
>>506667492if you are ESL or know other languages, there are a bunch of other streams, I just realized it myself
>>506667492Yeah, I'm with you. I can't watch a single second of it, but I am listening to it in the background.
Canty actually made me laugh with his 'start the procedure' comment
I just took a trip to the chess subreddit and found some insightful political discussion.
>>506665495ok, can a team leader make it?
14th for crazyhouse, the best version of chess.
Post yfw this is on the board
if you prefer playing on chesscom instead of lichess, why?
>>506673683Put the gun down, anon.
>>506674313because lichess = no gay and chess.com = gay
>>506674790im gay and i play on lichess therefore lichess is gay
>>506674313flags make it easier to avoid indians and muslimsmore likely to ban cheaters, probably like 1% vs 0.1% but still>>506674790>>506674893accurate captcha
>>506664447>>506664897>Yeah but Mr. Brown, that's little too close to Mr. Shit.
>>506664002I can't believe chess com made them participate in this ridiculous fake gift exchange segment. At least Magnus managed to veto it.
>lose game>hate my play>win game>hate my playGetting into this game past age five is a humiliation ritual
>>506674313i like the look & feel better. if it wasn't so locked down to neg you into being a paypig, it would be the best site. i only use lichess for puzzles and studies.
>>506676273I've come to believe that the best way to enjoy chess is to only play otb rapid Fischer random and never analyze your games with a computer.
>>506677084> if it wasn't so locked down to neg you into being a paypig, it would be the best siteEverything is slowier and glitchier on chesscom, lichess is just better written software.I do wish lichess had a nice blue and white (technically barely yellow) theme. Or a good icc clone theme like chesscom has.I guess you can't trust commies to have good aesthetics though
Hello /chess/.How do I get good enough to consistently beat my smug relatives at family gatherings?I'm not seeking to be a global champion. I just want to consistently win against my relatives and some friends who occasionally play chess with me during holiday gatherings.
>>50668116310k bullet games is all you really need.
>>506681163Read chess for dummies (second edition). I'm not memeing. It is easily understandable and explains more than you would need to know to crush normies. I only recommend second edition because I'm not familiar with the newer ones. If you want something more rigorous, then soviet chess primer. But thats overkill for your purposes.
>>506681163Read chess for niggers (coloringbook edition). I'm not memeing. It is easily understandable and you can color in the lines. I only recommend coloringbook edition because it actually makes some sense If you want something more rigorous, then try Davonquavius' best games from beside the basketball courts. But thats overkill for your purposes
>>506681163https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=72111&yearcomp=ge&year=1499Play through these games. Imitate Greco when you play.
>>506681163First of all, reading a beginner's book or taking a look at classic games like anons recommended will absolutely be helpful, having even a basic understanding of chess will already give you a good edge against people who don't study at all.Second, make an account on chesstempo and practice tactics puzzles for at least 15-30 mins a day. If you can reliably spot checkmate in 1 or 2 every time the pattern is on the board and can see forks, skewers etc. without effort (which this will help you do), then this should already put you pretty much automatically at a 4-digit rating level on chesscom (some 1000-1200). Not high at all for serious chess player standards, but enough to blow most normalfags off the board in a humiliating fashion.
>>506687624Lmao pic unrelated. No idea why it was still in my upload box
>Take break of like 2 weeks>Come back and puzzle elo is now 300 points past old high (1908) and up to 1516 rapid after 3 daysIt's cool to see yourself improve and learn but fuck me is it frustrating
I like playing rapid. It's my favorite time control. This is why i don't like playing rapid online. Any train climbing monkey can steal 9 minutes of my time. At 15 10 it would be the full 15 minutes available to steal.
>>506690253they should change how the timer works online so it ticks faster if the score is highere.g. +2 -> ticks twice as fast
>>506681163There is a book titled How To Beat Your Dad At Chess. Author is Murray Chandler. It's excellent for beginners in general and this purpose specifically.
>>506680873You can get pretty close with the hue slider in the board color settings.
>>506690253damn, that sucks. you had to sit there with your thoughts for 9 whole minutes??oh my zoomer, how did you survive without subway surfers or skibidi toilet running in the background frfr
>>506690924oh cool, I didn't even know they added that. thanks
Whats your favorite gun; a, b, or c?
>>506690253retard
>>506693616Fuck
>>506690253playing rapid otb sounds like so much fun. Too bad there's no chess club near me
>>506693989Oh I'm sorry did I insult the traditional Punjabi time wasting ceremony?
>>506693995Queen second or queen last. Queen first is less flexible as the gun shot might need the queen sack to work.
>>506693995b for sureit just werks
>>506693995Assuming it’s pointed up, I like A because the rooks are most disposable so you can launch a couple of them off to explode your enemy’s fortress before sending the queen down to clean up.
>>506690620>scoreModern chess education was a mistake.
>>506693995I like C 'cause it usually leads to tactics and that makes shitters seethe
>>506690924I noticed something gay and homosexual about lichess’s sliders: it is under the board settings and yet when I change it, it alters the pieces hue as well! I want to change the board’s contrast, not the pieces you fucking idiots.
If I see an indian flag I abort and report for cheating just to be safe
>>506696073the implementation is lackluster desu. I'd prefer a full color wheel with hue, saturation and value controls for both square colors.It would be very easy to implement, they could just use some open source color wheel widget
I'm learning the KID ama
>>506702252What variation of it do you play?
>>506702252Just learn how to manage early h4 g4 h5 etc stuff. If you know that you can get by without knowing so much theory. Unless you're high rated. If you're high rated, have fun it's a lot of stuff and white only needs to know their thing while you need to know all the things.
>>506674313just for playing games. overall more and better players
>>506702252>learning a unironically dead openingjust play the grunfled anon, it's the same thing and literally better in nearly every way
>>506708138>better playersI think you mean more skilled engine users
https://www.chess.com/member/jackruddhow does it feel to know that this tranny would destroy you in any time control?
today r/chess is seething about chess960
>>506660857>or allow her to reconsider her move if I think it was a positional errorYou must be fun to play against.
>>506715487*pauses the clock*>my dearest beloved, I simply couldn't help but notice that your decision to advance the b pawn has left you with an immutable and irreconcilable backwards pawn on the c file. Would you perhaps, if it does suit your desire, consider revoking this move and searching for a move that doesn't leave you with a long term positional weakness that will undoubtedly lead to crushing defeat should you dare enter the endgame?
>>506715487kek, I thought that was kind of funny. Like his wife makes a pawn advance that weakens a central square, and anon arches his eyebrow.>Hmm... perhaps you'd like to reconsider that move? Positionally, it leaves something to be desired - for reasons beyond your understanding>Try to make a move that doesn't let your position fall apart... you've got this, babe
>>506693995For me, it's a
>>506714194He's barely over my peak chesscom bullet rating, and I've beaten lots of 2300-2400sIt would tilt me to see that profile picture after losing though
>>506708392Also yes this. Grunny is an extra AT LEAST 200 points of buffer room before you run in to players who know exactly what to do. When I play KID I get a player who knows their preferred thing for white pretty well about 80% of the time. When I play grunny it's not more than 25%. Most play the exchange because those are the obvious reasonable moves. The exchange is this:1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3
>>506715442why would you ever read anything on that jeet infested shithole
>>506715487NTA but I think it is OK to give back oopsie blunders that drop material when playing noobs but yeah the positional stuff idk.Basically imo there's no great way to play noobs.
Bros, should we read the Chess Dojo book?
>>506716317>>506716320I’ve been playing my neighbor and I unironically do this. But mostly for one-move blunders like hanging a fork. I’ve also tried offering piece or time odds but he rejects both whole-heartedly. And sometimes I do give positional advice like that but now I’m worried that it comes off as smug. That said the score is now 14-0, I told him to do tactics on chesstempo for a week or two then we can reconvene. He plays the London btw, not sure if that’s relevant.
>>506720962>He plays the London btwKEK
>>506720962I have had a lot of autistic interactions with people playing chess like that. I am really good by normie standards, and it is just the perfect recipe for me to make social faux pas.Better to just play chess online.
How is one to feel about about being unplayable to casuals?
>>506720495that cover looks like shit so no
>>506722860How do you feel about this cover?
>>506723307better
>>506722257This is where is gets a bit touchy. First, let's define casual as know how pieces move, maybe watched some WCC coverage, read a biography of Bobby Fischer but doesn't play other than once or twice a year on holiday with family member or friend. That kind of casual. The trouble is some of these people believe they should be decent at chess because they are intelligent and/or otherwise successful in life and business. They believe that chess is the kind of game where a clever person can improvise their way to good things without any particular experience playing the game. If you crush this kind of person it can be a little awkward. Any jackass 1000 com rapid is more than strong enough to beat a casual of this type without any effort.
>>506723307It looked like shit but I fixed it.
>>506720495I still don't really know how to analyze my games. I focus on missed tactics for either side but everything else hardly sticks (if I even draw the correct conclusion for those murkier ideas). Until missed tactics become less frequent there probably is little point in looking at anything else.
>>506725593LOL
>>506664002Hard to imagine this nerd was world champion once
So everybody agrees that Stjepan is the ultimate adult improver?
>>506725593gem
>>506726043>ultimatequintessential, yes. He perfectly demonstrates the pathos, the blindness, the apparent inability to improve on aspects he and everyone around him know are critical weaknesses.
>>506725593There’s something to be said for this art style. “Read between the lines,” that sort of thing.
>>506727458https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BMicvaYMMUCan apply this patience to chess btw… if you are open minded enough
>>506664447
>>506725593KEK saved
>>506728283Nonce
>>506664447The dignified beauty drip
>>506725593top kek nice one
>>506674313Lichess interface is soulless with no flags or pictures. Also their mobile app and mobile site are complete shit. I do blitz and bullet on com and variants on lichess.
>>506735426>bullet on .scam>wanting pfp on a chess siteretard
>>506728283is she winning?
>>506670826Which day do you guys want it? Friday or Saturday?
I only analyse games when I win.
>>506746376I only win when I analyze whole I'm playing.
>>506746564t.Naroditsky
>>506746294saturday
>>506746294weekend. never weekdays. the ding vs gukesh thing didn't work because someone made the tournament on a friday. people are tired on fridays after a week of working. no one wants to come home and play tryhard sweaty chess on a friday evening after wageslaving all week.
ATTENTION! ATTENTION!There will be a Christmas 3+2 arena tournament on 21 December at 16:00 GMT.https://lichess.org/tournament/UFTEPiIwCome share the cheer and play some festive chess with us!
>>506748992based
What's the lichess watchlist cooldown when getting two sub 10 acpl games in a row?
>>506761835>lichess>caring about cheaters
>>506762140Should have mentioned my skin color is white
>>506762350I have serious doubts about that, huwite people play otb instead of engaging with the online circus.
>>506761835>>506762350https://lichess.org/iz5IP3Q0/blackThis guy is still not banned despite playing only top engine moves for entire games and having only one loss in his last 70 rapid games, many people here reported him and lijannies somehow did nothingI don't think it's possible to get banned for cheating there anymore but make sure to never say anything rude to a cheater cause they will mute you in 5 seconds
>>506716317How dare you make me the basedjack. This is an outrage!What is wrong with you people? Do you all not love your wives? I will continue to make sure she doesn’t lose and then agree to a gentleman’s draw after 50 moves of solid play.It is time for you to reevaluate how you play casual over the board chess with women. Women like a man who is a supreme gentleman, on and off the chess board.
>>506763962Lord Bentham is based.
You know how if you watch a broadcast of a big tournament on lichess, names appear under the chat. Those names are the names of active mods. I know this because during the WC, thibault's name came up and NoJoke too. Thibault is the creator of Lichess and NoJoke is a known mod/janny who does it for free. Anyway, during the WC, I clicked on one of them "LinuxBrickie" and looked through his teams. He's a member of this team:https://lichess.org/team/modsquadIf you look through the team, you'll notice that most of the members are G*rman. A professor of mine once said that G*rman philosophy was the worst thing to happen to mankind. Wherever there's a problem, there are G*rmans behind it. Just thought I'd let you guys know that Lichess cheat moderation is done by G*rmans. Direct your anger accordingly. Good day.
>>506763962Average 2180 rapid lichess player
>>506764718https://www.deccanherald.com/world/german-court-gives-woman-harsher-punishment-than-convicted-rapist-for-calling-him-disgraceful-pig-3086695Lmao it all makes sense now, cheat/gangrape a 15yo=not punished, insult cheater/rapist=harsh punishmentWhy are germs like this?
>>506764718oh i wondered how it decides what names to show therethat makes sense
>>506764930https://lichess.org/Emrlf4hh#85Lmao this guy>>506766159They are eternal cucks, they lost their identity and masculinity a looong time ago. They are just dead people walking and breathing our precious air.
BANKAIYATTSU NO RENKETSU PON
>>506763962Yeah, I was the one who reported him and was sure he'd be banned in 24 hours. It was because I spent a while going through his games and linked them in the report, highlighting inhuman moves, talked about the disparity between his rapid and blitz, etc. I thought there was no way he'd not be banned.But here we are. You can cheat on lichess freely. All you have to do is make sure you vary the time you take to play your moves. That is the only kind of cheater they will ban.
>Let's keep fighting! Let's be like Gukesh 22:07few minutes later > It's getting a bit disrespectful now so I'll just resignhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-UuKYmD_SI
>>506774160needs more poozles from book, me thinks
>>506776367Stjep is hardcapped, 2k fide is about as good as it gets for adult improovers.
>>506778586no :(it can't be.... there has to be a way to break through bros
>>506778973A real coach could get him to 2100. Not his FM buddy and the other hard stucks at his club. He needs a man who will dismantle the entire house of cards Stjepan has put together and rebuild. Then 2100... tops.
>>506779840Do you think the london and caro irredeemably handicapped him or is 2k fide end of line regardless, even had he played into the open sicilian from day one?
>>506778973Right, like I am in my late 20s and maybe if I start taking tennis more seriously I could compete in the US OpenI actually could because I am that naturally talented, not to bragAs for you all, consider yourselves lucky if you ever get to 1800 USCF. Don’t worry, that’s still an absolutely fantastic achievement.
>>506781089If he had started his repertoire with the King’s Gambit for white and the Latvian people for black, he would undoubtedly be 2500 FIDE minimum by now
>>506781414Latvian Gambit*
>>506781641How does the aborting limit on .scam work exactly?I know at some point abort turns into resigning because I once got a free win like that but when?
>>506781192yeah, but in tennis and other sports you're limited by your physical body. chess is a mental game and it's kind of interesting how little kids can be better than adults despite them being objectively stupider and with less developed brains. what's up with that?
>>506781192tennis is a totally different story dude
>>506782607>chess is a mental gameYou brain is also part of your physical body and declines along with it
>>506781089His weakness aren't openings(despite being often weirdly unprepared considering how long he spends memorizing openings), his weaknesses are calculation, board vision, time management and either getting too stuck on a plan or not having a plan at all.
>>506783052>declinesbut that's incorrect. the brain develops and grows with age, you get objectively smarter and more self-aware, yet a small little shitter that can barely recognize his reflection in the mirror is somehow better than an adult with a fully grown prefrontal cortex? how?
>>506783720Neuroplasticity. This is the reason young children can do things like learn second languages faster and more comprehensively than adults. Adults always become more specialized with age. The things they have been working on their entire lives solidify meanwhile outside ideas and less familiar cognitive challenges slower increase in difficulty due to the loss of plasticity.
>>506783720>the brain develops and grows with ageSorry to break it to you bud but the human brain peaks in your 20s and then slowly declines until the decline eventually speeds up and becomes so noticeable that we call it dementia.
>>506783398All consequences of playing geriatric openings
>>506788409Speaking of which I have a question. I play Nf3/reti type stuff with some background in d4 and c4. When I first started in 2020 I went with the d4 complex more or less on a coin flip. I think I would like to learn the king's gambit. Question is what is the lowest theory option for non-e5 responses? I hesitate to make this switch if it means I need to learn the white side of the french, caro, scandi, sicilian and perk. That sounds like a lot.
MVL vs Keymer is the most entertaining matchup in high level chess imo
>>506785310Everyone lacks the ability to perform long term thinking in any real capacity until the prefrontal cortex is formed, which is around 25
>>506792623the prefrontal cortex is formed in the womb
>>506789961maybe i should just play blackmar-diemer instead
>>506782251I believe the limit is 3 times in a row and after that it'll start resigning. It might be four though, I can't recall. So just try not to pair with indians three times in a row lol.
>>506789961>Question is what is the lowest theory option for non-e5 responses? I hesitate to make this switch if it means I need to learn the white side of the french, caro, scandi, sicilian and perk.vienna system vs e5KIA vs the frenchexchange caro vs carojust wing it vs the scandi (the scandi is garbage lmao)pick any of the common attacks vs the pirc (personally i like the austrian attack)
>>506793767aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that's too much i don't have time
>>506793853if you want fun games and don't want to learn too much theory and you already know the Reti then just learn the KIA (with 1 Nf3). the KIA is very very fun and you already play the Reti so you'll be comfortable transposing if you want.
>>506793853Lol, what do you expect? Just play the exact same thing against everything?You can do that. Just kingside fianchetto every game. You're not playing titled players, so why not?
>>506789961Caro: Panov and go into d5 Alapin lines when black develops Nc6 firstFrench: Exchange with c4Sicilian: Alapin would fit the IQP theme if it wasn't for Nf6. Take the center if black tries to play a mainlineScandi: Nf3 with d4+c4 and decline into the Panov if black offers gambits with c6Pirc: Classical with Be2 can transpose into Benoni type lines without c4 but it's very easy to just brainlessly steamroll black with Be3+Qd2+h-pawn setups too
>>506793853My shitter e4 rep is; morra vs c5, just watch all the Esserman videos and read the damn book; blackmar vs scandi shitters; advanced vs French to give them cramps; fantasy vs carocuck to force them into an interesting game, their worst fear; and e4d4 vs hypermodern stuff.I know like 4 to 8 moves of theory. t. Sub 2k shitter
how far could you get by being a king's indiantard and playing only the attack as white and the defense as black?
>>506795713you can't exclusively play it as black (e4 exists)
>>506795713Grandmasterhttps://www.chessgames.com/player/bassem_amin.html
>>506794492based slurpGOD showing the way
>>506793767a nice surprise against the scandi is d4 transposing to the Blackmar-Diemer gambit
>>506766948Hey... I'm not lordbentham, but I did look at his game, and could you explain exactly what is so "suspicious" about it? It just looks like he won a piece in the opening by playing normal developing moves and thereafter played decent chess. Are you sure you're not just jealous that his rating is higher than yours?
>>506801930>opponent plays some trash>let's play some even worse trash
>>506803413diemer gambit is sound. SOUND.
>>506803413why do you hate the scandi so much?
>>506803413if anything it's better
lazavik did way better than almost anyone expected OTBSo what is the consensus on him now?>A he's a legit strong blitz player and doesn't cheat online>B he's a legit strong blitz player but he cheats online>C he cheated here too with help from .com>D he somehow cheated here on his ownI think D is borderline impossible, C sounds really schizo but .com is so scummy I can't rule it out, I'll go with B but I recognize A is just as likely
>>506804013I'm just mad I wasted what little time I had left as an adult taking up chess on first memorizing how to refute gambits in e5 and later on how not to get crushed in the sicilian. God, imagine if I had spent that time on endgames and middlegame plans in a narrow opening repertoire. Now the door has closed indefinitely.
>>506805123don't be so dramatic lol. i'm in my 30s and still improoving. hint: do tactics from good books.
>>506805064nothing will ever be enough for you, just schizopost without all the pretense of being reasonable
>>506804013It's disrespectful so I'm d4ing your ass
>female friend is up to 6.9k blitz gamesoff to a pretty good start. just needs to get to 10k and then get started on bullet
>>506805064It's obviously C. Why do think they made all players wear headphones?
>>506805064Chess has been rigged since karpov, what else explains the "muh mAgNuS effect" ie players give him wins for free
>>506816605don't be retarded, anon. intimidation isn't made up
>>506818327>goes off scriptBAN HIM
>ThirdierematchdenierBased username if anyone wants it
>>506725593superb
>look at correspondence game for a little bit>find a cool line>play the move>hit send>.00001 seconds after hitting send realize that it was an egregious blunderwhy the FUCK do I do this
>>506823712everyone does even fabi talked about it in the last c^2 podcasts
>>506824868https://youtu.be/Fokvj47Y20s?si=ySLO5wBf_s-2de7l&t=1627
lol Stjepan mentions that he has students in his last video. I wonder how badly he screws them up lol
>>506823712Yup >calculated a really cool line solidifying my +2 advantage and winning a pawn>backwards knight botez gambit>see it as I'm releasing the click
>>506826061>ynr this absolute conmanhttps://lichess.org/@/TheOnoZoneI'm still waiting for someone to book a free """""""lesson""""""" from him,demolish him while acting oblivious then post the recording
the pastebin tranny confirmed to be literally autistic lmao
>>506827691Beary could do it... it would be great content for his channel! >>506828860
>>506828860go be a retarded normalfag somewhere else. if there's one place that should welcomes autism, it should be /chess/.
>>506831759I'm just mocking the pastebin tranny who deserves all the hates he can get and then some and should an hero alreadynothing against autist in general don't get triggered friend
>>506834920how do you know its pbt?
>>506835068his lichess account has the same name and links to his reddit
>>506836263then how did you find what his lichess is
>>506836351he's been the main suspect since the tg days, it's impossible to know for sure but everything fits: italian, redditor,same broken english and passive aggressive faggy writing style,defended reddit being in the pastebin etc he used to post his games looking for advice then bitch at any criticism
>>506837635makes sense
>>506774160Beyond simply tactical weaknesses, it seems like Stjepan just can't calculate accurately to save his life. I think he needs a coach to force him to confront that fact and improve his calculation skillsHe decided he was losing after missing a tactic and dropping a pawn, but there were still plenty of chances for his opponent to blunder. So he decides to go all in on a poorly calculated sac that just loses instantly. It seems he has psychological problems as well, he tilts after every mistake
>>506826061Let me tell you what happened when i tried to play like Stjepan:>pristine pawn structure>superhero outpost knights and bishops>king is in a vault>opponent's side is a mess, everything blocking everything else>this is awesome>now what?>I will apply pressure?>the instant i do anything I choose wrong, all of the rats escape prison and my carefully constructed kingdom falls apart like wet cardboardIt is the most high stress style i can imagine. You are either never in trouble or nothing goes to plan and you lose horribly. Sometimes you're winning and it feels pike it's all terrible, then you lose because you played something you were sure was necessary. Maybe you spent one extra tempo on prophylaxis and now it's all tar and feathers everywhere.
>>506842549>my opponent is playing instantly>why is he playing instantly >it's fine>... I hate when they play instantly >WHY DOES HE STILL HAVE 15 MINUTES>WHY IS HE DOING THIS>HOW CAN HE DO THIS >NO NO NO it's FINE>fine>fine>
>>506842549His problem comes down to just not seeing obvious things though, how do you even train that? He’ll spend two minutes calculating something and just miss an obvious move 1 move into the calculation for him or his opponent
>>506845994puzzle storm and bullet chess.And I'm not memeing about bullet chess, it's the one time control where you can win against strong players who have good positional understanding (for the club level, you understand) by quickly seeing dumb little 1400 tactics and mate threatsIf he just spent 20 minutes a day on bullet chess and 10 on puzzle storm I bet he would stop missing obvious moves so often
>>506774160I will never stop being funny to me that he spent all that time learning openings just to lose to mohamed's two sirs-tier opening
>>506774160Funniest stjepan game for a while
Another kino game beary. Seemed like you defended really resourcefully at the end considering the time trouble
>>506851593The two sirs is not a joke. I have never had an easy game against any permutation of it so long as they didn't do something horribly stupid.
Who will win it? Who would you like to see win it?
>>506865206I'm rooting for my guy Sminem Lazavik.
>>506865206karjakin
>>506865206Oh shit I didn't realize it was in New York this year. I can actually watch most of it this time. The entire list of participants is here, for reference:https://chess-results.com/tnr1074692.aspx?lan=1&art=0&flag=30My pick: Dubov. Will he do it? No. I will cheer for him nevertheless. >>506865623>SergeiNot playing. I wish he would but no.
I like that nobody itt even gives a shit about CCT FINALS, online tournaments are so dead.
>>506844631For me the real redpill was realizing that even though I'm a bad player, when I intuitively feel like I should make some weird dynamic play or sac, I'm often right and even if I'm not, it usually lands me at -1.5 to -2 eval with an unclear position where my opponent can easily fuck up. And it's just a game so it's fun to make these calls either way even if I can't concretely calculate whether they're good.
>>506866383Because a) the commentary is unwatchable b) it's kind of the same thing over and over again c) it's a total meme formatI used to love the Magnus tour and watched most of its events but .cum has turned online tourneys unwatchable. They're also doing way too many of them now, it was still novel and fun with chess24.
>>506865206Wesley, Wei Yi or Nodirbek
>>506868010That pretty much covers it. It's also very clear among the players that they just see it as a quick payday and not any kind of important thing to them.
>>506867904It's a little different when you are trying to play in a specific style. What I was doing there was try to play for the positional squeeze that Stjepan attempts to pull off. It's harder to know when to pull the trigger on cashing in on your advantage in that style specifically. It's completely different to how I normally play. I play all aggressive openings, go straight for the king attack attack attack, sack all pawns and pieces as long as something threads the needle to the king. All this careful pawn structure and square control stuff is so fussy and tedious to me. And difficult. For me it's way harder to play like that.
I'm encountering a bizarre bug on lichess. I asked for a computer analysis on a bullet game, and it just won't finish. And now I can't request analysis for any other games because I have an analysis ongoing.Most likely I played so accurately in 1+0 that I broke the site :\Or there's a fishnet bug maybe
>>506870602okay it finally finished just now. 96% accuracy 20 acp, understandable that the system couldn't handle it
>>506870602The analysis thing will freeze on occasion. It won't let you do any others as it thinks the original is still running, won't allow multiple. This freezing bug has existed on the site for years.
i wish his girl would just tell him to shave off that patchy ass beard, it and the glasses combo legit makes him look like a pedo. also i wish he had a proper stylist, some days he can sport those glasses other days other ones or no glasses. but always beardless and playing up his shota ness at least until age 27-28. it nicely matches his soft voice, yet juxtaposes his aggressive play.
>>506830492Pretty sure most of the top guy itg could do it.
babe wake up new beary kino just droppedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWTqaLxiBE&ab_channel=BearyPinkChess
>>506882548Based
>>506882548This is what I wanted for Christmas
>>506882548baste
>>506882506if that guy joined a weaver tourney he'd be one of the lowest rated players for sure
>>506885734He talks about having "students" but he might just be faking it. I knew a guy who did that, although he was 2500 lichess. It turns out he was doing the "fake it til you make it" thing and would always talk about having students and w/e which eventually did attract students. That's what I think this guy is doing. It probably works. It's a psychological thing, where you think someone has been vetted by others so they're OK. Women do it all the time in the dating world, where they prefer a man that other women prefer. For example, just wearing a wedding ring will get you more attention in public.
>>506888897his patreon has 19 paying members, there are a lot of retards in this world and being allowed to write blogs on lichess gives him visibility, for all their moralfagging and virtuesignaling they are activity helping a conman rob their users it pisses me off every time this clown comes up
>>506890087>his patreon has 19 paying membersOh, fucking hell.
Just curious, what rating do you think a chess coach is supposed to have?I doubt you need to be a GM to teach beginners
>>506890520at 1700, this guy is barely better than a beginneri think a coach should be titled, even if its a lesser one
>>506888897I've heard of that, "preselection"
>>506890653>i think a coach should be titled, even if its a lesser onemeh, I think that's unnecessary. A 1500 could learn a lot from a 2000 (uscf) player. In fact, almost everything the 1500 needs to know could be explained by the 2k player.Especially for coaches who teach children, I think it's very common for them to be like 1800 uscf, and presumably they're perfectly capable of teaching kids basic tactics and chess principlesWith that said, a liblitz 1700 is probably like a 1400 otb or lower, so yeah he really shouldn't be teaching anyone except complete beginners
>>5068905202000FIDE at the absolute minimum to charge moneyAnyone can teach his little cousin how the pieces move,opening principles and other basic stuff, but if you are gonna ask money to strangers you have to be at least an expert, consider that on lichess you can get people thousand of times stronger and more knowledgeable than him for like 15-20 an hour
>>5068915911800 USCF would be around 2000-2100 liblitz, thoughever. TheOnoZone (what a faggot name, just typing it makes me irrationally angry) is barely 1700 liblitz.
>beat someone at chess otb>they say something to the effect of "i'm so bad haha"what is the appropriate thing to say here if you're also bad but they're just worse
Seething about me again, are we?
>>506893912>normalfag: nooo you played well>autismo: yeah
>>506893912"no, it was a good game, you fought honorably but lady luck was on my side this time. shall we analyze together and work on our mistakes, dear chap?"
>>506851221I've read about Magnus and other pros, and yesterday I read about Judit Polgar (I really like her attacking style). And guess what? Most of the time, she was doing puzzles and playing blitz and rapid. She said that this helped her get comfortable in weird and chaotic positions, and on top of that, she said she felt less nervous in a tournament.All the pros have developed their intuition with blitz, they studied and played blitz. >>506851593In e4 positions, he gets destroyed, look how crazy the position got and how he was saying shit like " I don't know what to do"
>>506894045it's not fair!!! this ugly motherfucker is making $50/hr teaching chess and i have yet to earn a single dime despite being superior in every way.
>>506894124>>506894147i feel like there needs to be another term between beginner and intermediateif i'd tell these people i'm a beginner after winning over and over again against them (who are also beginners), they'd roll their eyes at me and think i'm an asshole
>>506894147>but lady luck was on my side this timeThat's good, or you can ramp up the obnoxiousness and say>but by good fortune, the goddess Caissa smiled upon me during our skirmish.
/chess/ 22-2300 midwit virgin: nooooo you have to pay pennies for titled Ramjeet/Romaniescu to tell you to look at more puzzles with a heavy accent reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenormie 1700 shitter chad: pay me 50 bucks to tell you how the pieces move, here's all my ratings and my loyal patrons
>>506894045this guy has a wife, a kid, and a successful career as a chess coach and blogger on lichess. what a chad. i want to be like the ONO zone!!
>>506894045I think Stepjan needs lessons from him
>>506895518shrieked hard IRL at this post
>>506865206that pentagram of Magnus smirks is hilarious>u mad that I won't compete in classical any more?
>>506866018I would love to see Dubov win the championship with brilliant play. I want him to become this generation's Tal.
>>506896540>this generation's Taltoo much computer prep for that style of play to be viable nowadays
>>506896639>dubov>tallol wut. dubov is garbage. if firouzja played like his younger self then he would've been this generation's tal.
>>506894147I do something like this. "It was just one bad move" or "that tactic was hard to see" and usually that's true anyway
>>506893912>>506894124>>506894496There's no need to play complicated social games you know. You can just act like any normal chess player would and analyze the game with your opponent, play through the moves again and tell him which ideas that he had were good, show him some opportunities he might have missed, etc. There's no hard feelings when you're both looking at things objectively instead of it just being the winner making excuses for the loser.
https://www.thoughtsfromcarl.com/p/the-chess-game-of-lifeCarl just ended every adult improover's hopes and dreams
>>506897812i aint readin all that
>>506897812>a "motivational speaker" who has been playing for 3 yearswho cares what he has to say? i've been improving like never before by doing tactics from soviet tactics books and analysing every single game deeply (with annotations). is that bald cunt doing the same? i doubt it
>>506898247it's basically>I'm taking chess again>it's good for the brain>more people (specifically adults) should try it>the end
have you guys ever resigned because the game put a lot of pressure on you?like it was equal material and still lots of time left but the position was so complex that you didnt even wanna think about it anymore so you just resigned
>>506898961Ding behavior
>>506898961lol do you even like chess?
>>506898961>the position was so complex that you didnt even wanna think about it anymore so you just resignedwtfonly flagging due to brain overheat is an okay way to lose in that situation
>>506900430>>506900659>>506901267but maybe mental health is more important than a wooden board
>>506898961you should never ever do that. if you think the position is complicated, then your opponent probably thinks so too. messy positions are the best because no one knows what's going on so there are loads of chances to win. do tactics btw.
>>506897812>I also had a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal) of 2,000, which would make me a very strong player.>But, there are not many adult starters / resumers who achieve that. It’s a unicorn status.After 3 years of playing, starting around age 40, the author's chesscom rapid rating is 562, so I see why he would say that. He really is the worst adult improver I've ever heard of. Many casual players who know the rules and nothing else are stronger than that.german11 would destroy him in any time control
>>506901986>the author's chesscom rapid rating is 562oh nonono lmaoimagine writing this whole ass essay when youre 500 elo
>>506901986normies think that just playing chess is enough to improve, but it needs to be studied as if it were a subject at school. this is what the soviets did and they dominated the world for decades until fischer came along.
>>506902539Der Normie ist schuld an Krieg
>>506894335Us noob folk just build bad habits in short time controls>>506898697Sir, which tactics books and do you ever re-read your annotations?
>>506725593kek
>>506902568>normies think that just playing chess is enough to improveIt's sure as heck enough to improve over 1000
severe lack of chess thots itt
>>506903319>Sir, which tactics books 5334 by PolgarCombinative Motifs by BlokhSharpen Your Tactics by Lein and ArchangelskyImprove Your Chess Tactics by Neishtadt1000 Checkmate Combinations by KhenkinWork through these books again and again until you can see the answers immediately and you will see the tactics in your games immediately too.>and do you ever re-read your annotations?Yes, especially if they're related to some opening improvement I've found, or if I keep making the same types of mistakes.
>>506902539It's the wordcel curse. Some cunts genuinely think they have something interesting to say about everything just because they have graphomania.
>>506901986That's actually comical. I wonder if he's just dumb. I can't even comprehend how that is possible.
>>506878525his chipped middle teeth make him look like a retard. I'm sick of seeing it for the past several years. go to the dentist and get it fixed already.
finna book a free lesson with the homo zone and poop on him then pop out the reverse uno card (reverse ONO card) and be like "want me to coach YOU? well i charge 50 euros per second. now pay up, sucka"
>>506893912just exit and never see them again and suppress the urge to cringe about it.
>>506893912> I love you anyway
>>506893912I'm here to listen to you. Cause that's what no one did
I wish I lived in a place where street chess was a common thing, chess with strangers seems more comfy than being in a chess club
>>506893912>hey it's a hard game haha
>>506911115I've never noticed until now, are you gay or autistic?
>>506917678it's a 400 underage homosexual phoneposter that's obsessed with sneedireza
>>506917678NotThatAnonI never noticed it either but it looks like it's from teeth grinding. That's a big yikes from me thinking about it. Yikers.
>>506891828I consider 2000 fide or uscf or whatever to be the equivalent of someone with a bachelors degree in chess. Nothing too special but still qualified to teach highschool, more or less.
>>506893912I just talk about variations from the game.
>>506896858>dubov is garbageYou and I are now enemies.
The black dude that doesn't shut the fuck upAnd the Indian harpy that doesn't shut the fuck upThanks cheecom , maybe try improving your anti-cheating measures instead of getting blackrock money
>>506901986>After 3 years of playing, starting around age 40, the author's chesscom rapid rating is 562No look see here this guy simple has no aptitude for the game. That is a pitiful result. My brother in law, who is slightly older, made it to 800 in one year. He is a technical tradie of slightly above average intelligence and limited time. If you are still 500 after THREE YEARS you need to pack it in and try something else. That's unbelievably bad.
>>506921259>put on noise cancelling headphones>now can only hear Howell's commentary
>>506921259.scam has streams in a lot of other languages just search "chess.com "insert language you speak" " on youtube
>>506922004>Luison>El Divis>Pepe Cuenca>El Topo repitlianoGod fucking dammit where is the Japanese re-stream
>>506922004I only speak American.
>>506922352you should love noisy niggers and brownoids then
>>506922298>El Topo repitlianoqrd?
>>506924491The spaniard balding zoomer moves like a repitilian at times, the jewish blood makes them incels weird.
>>506894484Kek. Should have learned how to move people instead of just pawns. LMAO even.
>>506926835there's nothing to learn, you just have to be born jewish so you feel no remorse when you fleece the dumb goys that fall for your scam.
>>506893912I just say "Luck was on my side this time, don't worry, I'll blunder a game later to make up for it..."
>vladdy dropped a "part 1" 11 days ago>no part 2 yetdid the mafia finally get him?
>>506921259Seriously. The black dude is at least insightful and isn't THAT annoying but really? These 3 are the best we have? There are dozens upon dozens that would be better suited. At least remove the woman. She literally doesn't stop talking.
>>506901986Even I'm better. Wow. (42 yo. Played for 1 3/4 years. 1300 lirapid. Also reached 1000 .scam temporarily)
>>506927743>woman>indian>screams and shouts constantlyshe fills way too many holes for a corporate slaveship like COM to ever give her upi'm no commie or anything, but chesscom is unironically bad and should be thought of as bad guys
>>506928347I'd fill her holes if you catch my drift
>>506928347She's knowledgeable at least but yeah it's pure DEI and that's what sucks. Someone way more insightful and professional could be there.
I wanted to see if farmiruza could do knight and bishop mate OTB playing on increment :(
>>506927761basically everyone is betterwhen I first played chess on .com after not touching the game for... Idk, more than two decades, knowing nothing more than how the pieces move, my initial rating was higher than 562
It is funny when normies try to play chess. They are so bad. Yes they have a house, a car, a wife, a job, money, etc, and I have none of those things HOWEVER I will always beat them at chess. And that is what really matters.
>>506921259>Tania: OH NO HE JUST BLUNDERED>doesn't know why it's a blunder>she is just looking at the eval bar>Howell has to explain why it's actually a bad moveI know Tania is an IM and is not actually that bad at chess. She is objectively a stronger player than Canty. However, she can't calculate shit on live commentary. It's incredible how reliant she is on computer eval.
>>506931840Hey thats me; I challenge you NEEThttps://lichess.org/DWANosxi
>>506933450she can calc dude she's just lazy about itit's so much easier as a chess commentator to just follow the engine and pretend you know why the top engine move is good
>>506934343That's what I'm saying. She doesn't even try. She believes her role is to just fill the audio mix with her high pitched noise.
>>506934528she's probably been instructed to let howell calculate because he's stronger
Fastest queen trap in the west
>>506898961No, that's unironically mental illness.
>gets told "just spam bullet bro">stuck at 200.scam for 500>turns to murder insteadYou got blood on your hands /chess/https://www.chess.com/member/sexytwerker69
>>506898961>do you guys resign when you have to play chess?
>>506939443he killed because unitedhealth ruined his mother's life by reneging on her insurance policy (something they've done to hundreds of thousands of others) and he had to witness her screaming in pain every night. american healthcare is so fucked it's unbelievable.
Chess is actually at its most miserable after you've just learned the "fundamentals"I develop piecesI try to control centerI castleThen I don't know what to do and I slowly lose
>>506942820check the soviet chess primer out. it's a very, very good book.
>>506939443It's literally just a larper bro
>>506943375>Last Online Dec 22, 2023
>>506942820>you don't know what to doyou're missing part of the fundamentals thenmore stuff that's part of that is move forward, take space, make attacksand a lot of that goes along with controlling the center anyway
Do you guys know what I hate playing against the most in chess?That's right, people who play system openings where they mindlessly play the same moves every game and they win anyway. Here I am trying to think about stuff, but they play mindless system moves and just win, win, win.
>>506944215Stop being a shitter?
>>506944950No.
>>506924491Fabiano Caruano is his lord.
>>506942820actually games in general are like this but yes it's true in chess definitely people will tell you to just keep learning and playing but like there is never a point where it becomes "fun". it's like getting increasingly better at math. you might derive pleasure in osme way from seeing your elo go up and knowing you're getting better, but really, it's like you said, the game is fun when you don't know what's going on, and once you hit a certain level it might as well be competitive studying
>>506946762NTA but I still find it fun even though I am above normie tier.
>>506939443>540 boolet gameshe barely scratched the surface of the game, that's like 18 hours of chess in total. 10k games takes like ~333h. it takes thousands of hours to become an expert in anything and y'all kids ain't even trying.
>>506946762I can't imagine ever getting bored of chessI can imagine getting fed up for a while but there's just so much intrigue in this gameEvery other game makes me wanna come back eventually
>>506942820You're missing the general flow of a chess game. This seems to be common now among beginners as the youtube channels don't spend any time on practical decision making and long term strategy. I assume this is because it's harder to teach this than 100 opening and endgame videos. It amounts to a choice between two ideas: do you want to attack or do you want to trade in to a favorable endgame? Your move selection hinges on this point. It will determine how you want to coordinate your stuff, which areas of the board you need to control/cannot concede. If attack: identify avenues of approach towards king, put pieces where they can reach king now or soon. If trade to endgame: control of central squares, limit your opponent's access to certain squares, good pawn structure, make creating passed pawns a priority. Like that.
>>506944215You can put together counter setups that directly cause issues with the rote system development. That's specifically why i started playing the two sirs against the London. Black is slightly better already if white just does the London routine. So many london players refuse to play c4 at any point in the opening.
>>506748992REMINDER
>>506954803why is it always the same guys though
Do you guys have any tips for maintaining composure after blundering horribly in BlitzI see better players just continuing unfazed int that sort of situation while I just crumble thinking "there's no way I can win now" which is a self-fulfilling prophecy
>>506929754yeah, and that guy actually played in school tournaments as a kid, so it's not like he was 40 years old and just trying to learn how the pieces move.
>>506959632it's a game bro, you can have as much fun losing as you have winning. down a piece? okay, he still needs to convert, so work on defending as best you can, maybe swindle a draw or stalemate. and if you really don't see the point in continuing, then just resign and start up a new game. it's not that deep lol
>>506955894because those guys enjoy/are willing to play tournaments?
>>506960205chad big bro advice
whos this beary guy and why are his videos so comfy and whys there only 2 videos on his channel
>>506960205Screw that, instantly resign when you lose material
Say "okay, time to flag him" and play for complications, keep pieces on the board, prevent his pieces from infiltrating if you can, maybe get a passed pawn that he has to deal with, or weaken his king so that you can give a bunch of checks (a perflagual)
>>506959632Complicate the position as much as you can. Of course, some games are just totally lost but if you blunder a piece early it's more than likely your opponent will either become overconfident or careless and blunder back. Especially in something like 3|0 or 3|2, time is a piece too and if you can make your opponent spend too much of it trying to find the best move, then it becomes easier to hold a position. You could also try being hyper-aggressive, a lot of players are worse at defending than they think they are, at least I am lolol.
>>506960761this was for >>506959632
>>506960520Cuz he deleted all his old games after ragequitting over the cheaters.Thankfully back and recomfied
>>506960520Fauci personally destroyed his previous channel with vaccine-induced psychosisDozens of videos of that same level of comfyness - destroyed.The production value is higher in the new videos, though
OTB do you guys get anal about rules like which hand they touch the clock with?Or do you just let them park a hand by it while they move with the other?
>>506961517(Assuming you're not in a tournament, though that probably goes without saying)
>>506955894These guys have been here for at least 3 years. Once you're in this shithole for that long you're here forever. The tourists hopefully escaped this hell
>>506960520He is the strongest eceleb in this general. He quit posting and participating in tournaments when people moved here from tg. He also had beef with a guy that was accused of cheating and probably that turned him off from posting. I gotta say, I really missed his comfy videos, hope he's back to stay this time
>>506961517I always follow the rules to avoid having to deal with the ire of the cucks
>>506961517If it's a noob/casual player, I wouldn't care. If it's a good player, I'd expect them to follow the rules desu. The clock hand rule makes sense, too
>Commander...there is nothing you can do for me now, they're closing in on my location...what counts...is the mate>No man gets left behind under my command, soldier
>>506965826What about the touch rule? I honestly could never care about that one, even if they're good
>>506961517>Or do you just let them park a hand by it while they move with the other?This is not okay. I don't care about touch move or unannounced adjustments. However, you may not rest one hand on the clock and move pieces with the other.
>play on chess.com>on the verge of a rating milestone>suddenly all the matchmaking takes 30 seconds instead of being instant and all my opponents play 12 moves of theory in my worst linesHMMMMMI hate this faggot site I'm going back to lichess
>>506961157Your pic got me thinkingWhat is the dust2 of chess?
>>506969346Two knights italian
>>506969346Petrov, cuz, yknow
When you misclick and make an unintended move, do you ask for a takeback or do you just suck it up and keep going?
>>506971497I don't even have takebacks enabled in my settings.
>>506971497Backsies are turned off. Too many use that button for distraction and griefing purposes.
>>506971497I mostly only play rated games. Takebacks in rated games are ridiculous, and I don't have them enabled anyway.
>>506971497I don't believe in pussy shit like takebacks in rated games, which are primarily what I play.Man up and either get better mouse skills or take more time to play out your moves.
>>506971497if we're playing a slow time control and they very clearly just misclicked I'll give it back. But if its blitz then sorry kid lrn2click
>>506971497I resign and then message my opponent a video of me punching myself in the face and screaming
>>506961517If it’s a rated tournament game then definitely, otherwise only if the person is near or above my skill level because I can just use it as a handicap otherwise. But in general I don’t like confrontation.
>>506974210kek
That's it, I'm going back to Nf3 QGD. I don't want to deal with the nonsense. Even if they give me the exchange QGD, they have umpteen million different ways of playing it that are all good.
>>506969346Ruy is Dust1
I missed three (3) game winning tactics in my last game. I'm so tired.
>>506917678>I've never noticedI'm a noooticer>until nowyou can't unsee it, no refunds >are you gay or autistic?no, I was hard of hearing during the critical ages where young children learn to speak, so I compensatated by reading lips. the hearing was fixed but the habit of mouth watching became hardwired at a young age.you know when people try to disguise photos by blacking out the eyes? Yeah, that doesn't work for me because I easily identify a person from their mouth. i don't really look at eyes. Additionally, I might also have a touch of the ole autismo to be fair.
>>506989076Do more puzzles.
>>506993193FBI op type shit
>>506993193that's actually fascinating, anon. I want to read a scientific case study about you
Why is it that when Ding became Champion there isn't an explosion of chess in China but when pookesh won all my opponents carry the jeet flag?
is there no lichess broadcast for the champions chess tour final? chess.com's page for viewing events sucks.
>>507006056Chess isn't very popular in China. It is very popular in India. When Ding won, the country's reaction was a mild congrats and applause and that's nice. It's like if Ding had won world championship of bowling.
>>507006556Why is this the case? Are the chinese just too stupid for chess?
one more to go
>>507007180They have a different similar game.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi
>>507006103.com events are not on lichess
>>507006103>is there no lichess broadcast for the champions chess tour final?No, lichess doesn't host com's own meme tournaments.
bros how did he lose to ian so badly..
>>507008678His choke artisan powers may exceed even Yan's.
>>507008839the only way for him to succeed magnus' throne is by letting go of his idolization of andrew tate (and by shaving his beard and representing iran again to spite the jew)
>>507008678Ian is currently the strongest chess player on the planet.
Is there a lichess for go/baduk?
>>507008513>>507008594I could've sworn they've done it a couple times before.
Come join the Christmas arena!https://lichess.org/tournament/UFTEPiIwIt starts in 6 hours.
How does one achieve a breakthrough like this? What’s his secret?
>>507019780coaching from TheOnoZone
>>507008678Magnus was obsessed with his bussy like an 8-year-old obsessed with his favorite mid wide receiver. That’s a lot of pressure for one tight hole to take.
>>507020546Stop watching porn you disgusting freak
>>507020638I can’t see any other reason why Magnus was so singularly hyper-fixated on him. There is clearly some psychosexual reason for it, but you can continue to play dumb if you want
>>507020798>I can’t see any other reasonThat's because you don't play or follow or study chess. You are a perverted man whose brain has been so rotted by porn and coomerism that you can't see any meaning to anything in life other than sex and your own perversions which you then go on to project on others. Zero capability or willingness to understand sports or intellectual pursuits.Here, watch this video so that you can educate yourself on his chess and stop interpreting everything through the lens of porn addiction.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIQBV_akzpI
>>507022026Firouzja’s games are actually of particular interest to me as he is the leading Caro-Kann practitioner among the top players and it’s my main defense against e4 (long before Rozman was a relevant name btw). But Magnus has been fixated on him going on 5 years now. At a certain, it gets a bit weird. People start to notice things.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fJ2ATvqE4NQ
>>507019780He started watching Naroditsky streams
>>507023516I once was a 1200 shitter. After watching Hikaru and listening to him explain his moves, I exploded to 1500.
>>507022026Re ur last post. U need Ur queen traded off and 3 BIG BLACK PAWNS in ALL 3 FILES at the same time!!! Way up ur kingside and way up ur queenside as far as they will go but even farther. And the thickest pawn goes down Ur center so it makes U seehte and cope as those big black pawns get pushed away it feels like from the start U might blockade them but it's made U thank the clock nonstop and just before U flag those big black pawns promote inside U! As U lay on ur stomach the queens are coming at you from all filles, I'll turn U over and checkmate all over you
>>507024104I didn’t say this nor do I look like this, and quite frankly I don’t necessarily agree with the way he said it, but at the same time I completely agree with everything this anon said in spirit.
>>507023361>Caro-Kann practitioner among the top players and it’s my main defense against e4hey caro chud
i don't get why you would play the caro kann. what is it about the caro??
caro haters are just french cucks who are assmad that their answer to e4 is made obsolete by c6.
>>507026457nope, i play the sicilian. move that pawn up 1 more square from c6 and you've got a real defense.
>>507026457e4 sheep left speechless!
>>507027523Had I known you would post this, the Tal gif would have been the perfect reply. Damn!
>>507027849He just can't handler the banter
>>507019780he stopped thinking
>>507029054this is true ironically because he's letting the fish think for him
I've almost done all of the Lichess practices. What other resources are out there to get better at chess? I'm 800 rated currently.
>>507029768Study master games so you can absorb some examples of quality play. I recommend the book "Logical Chess: Move by Move" by Chernev. Do 15-30 minutes of puzzles every day to sharpen your tactical eye.Both of these tips will give you huge gains.
Chess.com puzzle battle ratings are super busted which is sad since it's a pretty fun minigame. I think the ratings are off because you only get one game per day if you don't have a paid membership which means that many strong players never make it to higher ratings.
So did Hans Niemann cheat in the end?
>>507026457The French sees more top level play than the Curry-Kann tho.
>>507031803Chess speaks for itself
>>507029768Read Play Winning Chess by international grandmaster and Cosmo's bachelor of the month Yasser Seirawan, baby!
>>507029768You can't, you're too late to start learningAll your opponents have 10+ years of experience as the bare minimum, you have no chance, no future, and no presentKill yourself
>>507031803cheated with our hopes after losing to both magnus and shitkaru in scc after talking so much shit before the match.
>>507032836Why are you so butthurt. I'm not trying to be a grandmaster. I'm just trying to have fun by getting better than I am currently.
>>507033286dont worry anon I dont even play chess, I misclicked the thread and im just shitpostinggood luck on your chess adventures
>>506963571acktually I have only been here for 2.5 years and I'll have you know I can quit both /chess/ and chess anytime I just don't want to, bet you feel silly now!
>lichess recapbased
>>507026457HAHAHA no.
Does anyone know if the old timestealing hack still works?
Get in here:https://lichess.org/tournament/UFTEPiIwhttps://lichess.org/tournament/UFTEPiIwhttps://lichess.org/tournament/UFTEPiIw2 hours remaining
I thought the tournament was starting right now because the Magnus post >>506748992said 16 gmt which is right now.
I've lost 180 points over my last 3 blitz sessions, today I'm 4.5/14 I'm tilting so much it's unreal, the worst part is that I get a winning position almost every game but then I make endless blunders in time troubleHow to cure slowbrainitis?
>>507043227There is literally no reason to tilt over internet points. It's not helpful I know but it's the truth.
>OHH GUYYS GUYYSS YOU MUST LOOK AT THIS GREAT TACTIC... STOCKFISH IS CRAZY! I WAS GONNA PLAY PASSIVELY BUT THIS MOVE IS ABSOLUTE BANANAS, CHECK IT OUT!
>>507043227100k bullet games
>>507044036it was bananas, cope
I can stomach this black dude as a commentator, I actually think he's pretty good. He adds an interesting dynamic and I don't have a problem with him at all. But this woman... I can't watch this shit because of her. The whole game when I'm watching all I hear is:>BINGA BOONGA DA BAGA DEH MOONAH DE BINGAH BAGGAHI can't believe they would sour the experience at this deep of a level.
>>507036790starts in 5 minutes
You now remember FIDE's Fischer Random World Championship (there was supposed to be one this year, but they got no bids and canceled it).
>>507050363the one format where wesley so can actually win
He already wants to fucking hang himself, what's the point of watching this
>>507048143>>507053680no one cares about your big super gm tournament out little shitter tournament is going on
they have got to stop hiring this fucking weirdogetting into slapfights with anonymous ESLs in twitch chat while he's supposed to be commentatingjust truly pathetic
hikaru is also covering the final and it's actually watchable compared to the main stream lol
>>507054995>read this comment>open his stream to see what's going on>fresh prince of bel air theme immediately starts playing>he's rambling about how 960 is going to overtake classicalyeah okay
>>507054507how ironic is him calling someone little boy when he's like 5'5 himself?niggers are always devoid of self awareness
>>507036790Oops forgot about this, just joined but I am shadow muted on Lichess :(
>>507044036>gives shitters what is essentially carte blanche to turn on an engine when in a "winning" position ("yeah i was using the fish but i was up a queen bro!!!11!!")>sacking pieces online is now impossible because they'll all just cheat if they see they're up a few ""points""I hate this jew faggot so fucking much.
>>507054507Kek that is really funny. Wtf is he doing engaging with those retards
>>507036790Ggs everyone. Couldn't say it in the chat, I'm muted. Congrats Czerka for winning. Congrats to the players who joined despite a shitty time zone.Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all of you!
>>507059351
>>507048143Fun games!! Ggs to the two I played, like the other anon I am also muted lol. Merry Christmas to everyone as well!
>>507054507>talking like a tiktok rapper
I couldn't record a video of the tournament because I was using a different computer while my other one was trying to repair itself.
>>507059351your bants must be amazing to always be muted kek
>>507035359Based
>entire year has passed without improving at all>if anything I got worseman I really need to start playing/studying regularly
Missed the Christmas tournament because I was out Christmas shopping with the kids.Wish my family was more understanding that I would like to spend more quality time with my /chess/ family.
>>507063021post your wife's tits again as a present to your /chess/ family
>>507063359I would never do that out of respect for her and wife sharing on 4chan is a cancer.
>>507060969bummer I was looking forward to it but it's great to have you back in the team
>>507063771Bummer I was looking forward to your wife's tits, but it's great to have you on the team.
>>507069104You are too kind. A word of advice to you my dear friend is to rid your mind of impure thoughts in order to reach your true potential as a human being and a chess player.
Yan
>>5070781963 losses 2 draws. Brutal.
>beary the /chess/ kinographer is back>decent turn out>even more anons wanted to play they just couldn't make it>many old regulars are still around>average rating must be above 2000>all while the final of a .com online event was going onanti-tourney shitposter on suicide watch
The Prosneedure
>>507080658Yeah, this was literally true >>507054002The Christmas warmth and cheer is palpable
My heroStarted playing the Creepy Crawly again in his honorFor the shitters and adult improvers, check out the games of Michael John Basman and breathe some life back into your chess
Frozen, that mating sequence I just pulled off was SICK, don't you agree?
>>507087956Haha yes, I thought they would have gone kg6 but luckily they didn't! The piece sac and everything after was very nice as well I thought.
>>507086692There is a nice video on the GingerGM channel about him. He talks about a game against Botvinnik! Botvinnik was amazed at his play and told many people that Basman was the superior player on the British team due to his understanding and analysis of positions. British press got butthurt because Basman was a nobody back then and omitted the comment by Botvinnik. The game is amazing I recommend you the vid. PD: His game against Ulf is fucking fantastic.
So how many of you think Stjepan will reach 2500 by the end of next year?
>>507080658>see this post>get reminded how much this pic drives the pbt insane with rage>want to post it on /tg/ >"no posts for 9 hours 43 minutes"He might have finally done the needful kek
>>507093165Nope. 2300 lirapid is his current strength. He would have to improooove quite a bit
>>507093165he doesn't have a coach, no guide, he doesn't have anything... he pretends to fix his mistakes by doing nothing
>world rapid and blitz coming up>out of boredom, check in on the most recent female world blitz champion>she's a 2400 GM>world rapid champ is a 2300 IMjesus christ, the state of women's chess is fucking bleak
>>507098805Literally me
>>507098805>he pretends to fix his mistakes by doing nothingMore puzzles. More. More puzzles more must do more puzzles
>>507099032>jesus christ, the state of women's chess is fucking bleakYes. Super gm for women is 2550. Around there. 2600+ is short list best of all time.
>>507093165there's a small chance he realizes what he's missing and then figures out a way to train it, but i'm not holding my breath.
>>507093165No way. He has gained no rating in the last 70 games. I predict his rating will be the same +/- 50 points at the end of next year.But that's the case for just about any adult chess player. Look at an adult player's rating at the end of this year, and very likely it will be the same at the end of next year, no matter how hard they try.
>>507093165I just wonder how many more videos he needs to make before the realization sets in that hes permastuck at ~2300 and he has no choice but to post a lengthy apology for his insolence
>>507108139I feel like he'd sooner have a 'revelation' that he needed to totally change up his opening repertoire and spend 1000 hours on chessable learning gambit lines or something
I have played the Budapest gambit two weeks now. I rate it entirely adequate and perfectly fine. It feels better in my shitter hands than the Benko. I have not had good success with the Benko as I assume you have to be a better player to use it effectively. I am pure shitter. I need a trashy gambit that doesn't need a competent pilot to get something workable going.
>>507112627>totally change up his opening repertoireHe actually has done that for OTB but he refuses to use any of that prep online. Whether the new material is as drastically different as he has implied remains to be seen. I still do not expect Stjepan to ever play the Sicilian.
>>507112767My issue with the Budapest is White literally has 20 options to get a good game. All risk, no reward
I lose a lot in chess, but I hate losing.
>https://x.com/chess_freestyle/status/1870506444153635048looks like freestyle chess is official. seems like all the big names are in it
>>507117416>made a third name for itwhy?
>>507086692based basman appreciatora while back I got into playing the grob and found a lot of his games. really fun chess.
>>507117974Magnus and probably com want rights to some name for it. I assume they can't use 960 in any sort of trademarked sense so they picked a third name.
>>507117416This means that Hans is in. Let's gooo Hansbros!
>>507121496No, it doesn't and I'm retarded. Kind of glossed over the > picked by invitation part. Also>ELO(E)lol nice official chess statement they got there
It happened again.I played blitz at night when I am too sleepy and lost all my games.I'll just have to regain the points tomorrow I guess.
>>507122314>play on a different account>play on a different side>play anon>play bullet>play unrated on your account>hell you could even try dropping a challenge ittsolutions to your problem
>>507123641I know I can do those things, but I always feel like I am not too sleepy, and I want to play rated. But then once I determine I am too sleepy, it's too late.
As a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community my journey in chess has been profoundly shaped by Levy's YouTube videos. His teachings encouraged me to think one step ahead—not just in the game but in life. Initially marginalized as a gay chess player I often felt out of place in a community that sometimes overlooked diversity. However, through his guidance I learned to embrace my identity and my strategic thinking which lead to a high ELO both in chess and in my social status. This transformation has led to greater respect within the chess community proving that being true to oneself can open doors and foster acceptance. Now I stand not only as a chess player but as a beacon of inclusivity reminding others that our differences make us stronger both on and off the board.
>think ive found a good tactic>dont notice that it doesnt work at all>opponent premoved recapturingsafe
KYS AI TRANNY
>>507121496>>507121765hans did say he was invited to one of those a few months ago
>>507063021he was so handsome. dreamy
>blundered win away into a draw under time pressure againI want to kill myself. My 38 special is worthless anyways, should put it to good use.
>>507165037don't do it. don't even joke about it. chess is just a game anyway. you win some, you lose some.
>>507165037do it but first take as many nonwhites as you can with you
If you like some slurpingI tell you, I'm your manYou win none, lose noneIt's all the same to meThe pleasure is not to playMakes no difference how you seetheI don't keep the queensThe only pieces I needAre the two bare kingsThe two bare kings
>>507171949first time I recognized a slurp song right a away
>>507124581>once I determine I am too sleepy, it's too late.yeah, once you start losing you need to find a cope for it.
>>5070931650% chance. 2500 lichess is NM or old FM strength, he should have to improve by 150 points otb at a minimum. He might do it in 3-4 years if he identifies the weaknesses and works on them, but I highly doubt it. He's permastuck where he's at now, I believe
>>507176675He needs to use Soviet Era tactics books. Books like Maxim Blokh's Combinative Motifs are really, really good. They're full of normal and practical positions that we'd get in our own games, which is what makes them so good unlike certain tactics books that contain unusual or rare motifs. Maxim Blokh was Grischuk's trainer btw.
>>507178705Regardless of what books he uses, his weaknesses aren't patchable in a few months. I would take at least a couple of years for him to internalize all that he has to internalize. You can't just develop board vison in a couple of months. His other problems like not recognizing critical moments, playing with time pressure, bad calculation, getting mentally stuck on plans for some reason, opening repertoire that's not youtube clickbait, knowing the plans in your openings, etc might take even longer to patch up
>>507179604>You can't just develop board vison in a couple of months.Can be fixed with puzzles, although you'd have to do 30-40 everyday (from books, not online slop)> His other problems like not recognizing critical moments, Can be fixed with puzzles>playing with time pressure,Can be fixed by using Dvoretsky's puzzle solving drill (Lev Alburt discusses it in his puzzle book)> bad calculation,Can be fixed with puzzles> getting mentally stuck on plans for some reason,Can be fixed with puzzles> opening repertoire that's not youtube clickbait,Can be fixed by not being a Caro-Kuck Londoner> knowing the plans in your openings, etcCan be fixed by reading good books on the opening instead of collating lines via chessbase, which is what he does, or which is what he did with his opening videos. Puzzles are genuinely the answer when it comes to most chess problems. The rest is endgame technique and positional ideas, which can also be learnt via books such as Fundamental Chess Endings by Muller and Techniques of Positional Play by Bronznik and Terekhin.I guarantee he's both not studying the right things and not studying hard enough. After a long study session, be it chess or mathematics, you must be utterly, UTTERLY drained of all energy. Is he doing that every day? I doubt it.
I refuse to believe something like chesstempo is worse than chess book puzzle solving
>>507181063These:5334 by PolgarCombinative Motifs by BlokhSharpen Your Tactics by Lein and ArchangelskyImprove Your Chess Tactics by Neishtadt1000 Checkmate Combinations by KhenkinAre better than onlineslop. The Soviets perfected chess tactics books.
>>507181885What's your reasoning for them being better?
>>507182078They're hand picked by strong Soviet coaches. They've been tried and tested in Soviet chess schools. Online puzzles are random in that you might get a really good one, then you'll get a bad one. Pirate Combinative Motifs by Blokh and find 1 bad puzzle. Just 1. You can't.
>>507181812kek
>>507182348I am a huge advocate for chesstempo tactics but this is a very solid pointPreferably, you can find a balance of solving online problems and working through puzzle books using a real board
>unironically shilling sovietslopThe only reason the Soviets were successful is that they prearranged all their games between each other.People have been saying that chess is dead for decades, but have you ever seriously thought about who killed it? No? I'll give you a hint.>father of prearrangement>father of "professional chess" where an entire team of seconds feeds you lines during adjournment>father of AI slop>father of the soviet schoolIn short, the man who pozzed chess.
>>507187049Put some respect on Botvinnik’s name you fool
>>507188006Being a successful crook takes talent, I'm not disputing that.
Stjepan logic>I’ve been preparing the semi averbskh against the kings Indian but since I’m playing an IM I’m going to play a variation that I just looked at briefly before the gsme to catch him off guard>UNFORTUNATELY I wasn’t prepared enough>and now it’s move 5 and I’m in trouble, I spent 20 minutes hereHow is it possible to be this stupid
The 'weirdo' of my chess club sent a lovely well wishing email to everyone with picrel. I love these lads like you wouldn't believe.Joining a chess club was the best decision of the year, I cannot recommend it enough.
>>507189023Stjepan believes some slight novelty is more valuable than it is. That is especially true against a strong player. It doesn't matter that whatever he did is a hair different than critical main lines. Stjepan thinks this way because he himself is totally thrown off by mild deviations from the expected. Playing a deviation he doesn't even know that well is just stupidity. The entire point of GM novelty prep is you are supposed to have studied the fuck out of it so you are more familiar with the positions. It's not, i play this offbeat thing i don't know and he doesn't know. Even in the case that you are correct in the bet that he doesn't know the deviation, he is still the stronger player and will outplay you in unfamiliar territory.
>>507189775You know that horse is done with the bear's SHIT.
>>507191087This is very much on point.
>>507191087a very rare example of an intelligent /chess/ post
>>507189023It doesn't matter if he's prepared or not, he doesn't stand a chance against IM. Unless IM is giga washed or bribed. The gap is just too large.
>>507189775wholesome
>>507193921He drew an old GM before
>>507191620I bet the bear doesn't respect touch move rule.
>>507191620Why does the horse have that funny hat though?
Why the FUCK is everyone playing the fucking rat opening and having full with fucking insta moves. I fucking hate youtube faggots so fucking much.
>>507199720Same reason the bear has one.
>>507181812lol pretty accurateshould be an uglier piece set for the book and it'd be perfect
>>507180746Sir, what about this book by Ramesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjJx6koDyAwLMAO this guy just destroys Stepjan... it's in Spanish but it's worth it, the criticism is valid.
>>507200292I noticed a dramatic increase in 1...d6 over the last week or so. This in response to my Nf3 but maybe it's the same shitter fad making the rounds. In any case I have been responding with e4 so haha now you're playing the PERK. It's been fine. I think- hang on let me check. Okay yes, I haven't lost to this move order yet. Three wins and a couple draws.
>>507200707nta but this is my shoddy attempt
>>507203439magnus probably has awful taste in music.
>>507203578all normies have shit taste. they just listen to whatever is popular and whatever is popular is whatever is being pushed by (((record labels))) and <<<spotify>>>
>>507203578it's a lot of techno based on what he has his butler play for him while streaming
>>507201972Csm, me da reí. Comparte mas en español una vez en cuando, quiero conocer mas personas así para aprender, ya solo miro pepe
>>5071890235...Nbd7 IS THE SECOND MOST POPULAR MOVE IN THAT LINE WHAT THE FUCK WHY WAS HE SURPRISED ALREADY
>>507204681https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBlwchTCHV0
Stjepan is just proof that anyone can get to 2000 OTB. If someone as thick as him can do it, any of us can. We just need to NEET it up, mooch off our Chinese girlfriends and study chess all day, like he does. People here say St-yay-pan is proof against improovers, but I'd say he's the opposite.
>>507200292Fyi 2. Nf3 will make the ratchud seethe. The ratcel wants to either get a pirc or the mainline rat and 2. Nf3 prevents both.
>>507205328it's a nice round number but it's such a low bar that it barely counts as an achievement. you're basically an average club player that can destroy his normie friends that only know how the pieces move, but you will never win a decent tourney. i guess you can make some money coaching shitters if your grift game is good, but that's it.
>>507201972I'm so glad I understand spanish, this was fun to watch
This one is for you bobby <3
>>507206321Chess is brutal, and hopeless for adult improvers. Even the pursuit of something as low as 2000 is meaningless.
>>507213143You sound like a little bitch tbqhwyfamaldesu
>>507213143>Even the pursuit of something as low as 2000 is meaningless.Meaningless how? It's attainable for adult improvers, and it means you're strong enough to beat titled players, so I think it's a reasonable goal, as long as it's just for fun and there is no delusion that it will ever be a career
>>507213143if you treat like a hobby or pass-time, it's great, but if you put your entire self-worth and hopes and dreams in it, it will fucking crush you.
>>507213505this.
Stjepan is really the resident lolcow of this thread eh? Hope he never stops
>>507217641He fills very nicely the void that this fellow left behind.
>>507188953He was not a crook, just someone who had to make some ethical compromises to get to the top.
>>507189775Anyone here in Minnesota visit the Chess Castle in Edina?Catch me there on a Wednesday casual night. I will hear my “I love big anime titties” t-shirt so you know it’s me
>>506969673cs_italy
>>507212965BOBBY NOO
>>507222527It's Best by Test, chuds.
>>507222609Based
>>5072063212000 is a decent park hustler rating but unfortunately for Stjepan he isn't great at blitz.
>>507222609d4 scores better.
https://youtu.be/pbnQmsZ-a3c?si=fGgDpdEvo7y11UHp&t=313
God was smiling down on me today with this premove, lol
>>507181812based
Kings indian attack, two sirs attack variation
>tfw memory is too shit to memorize any opening more than a few moves>always play Colle/London as white and semi-slav as black since it’s the same shit
>>507241653just develop your pieces and defend shit m8
What do you guys play against the KIA?I looked through both the masters and lichess DBs and it scores so well against so many defenses. It isn't fair because it is a mindless system opening so it should be bad according to the gods of chess.
>>507241653go work out at the library
>>507246351My input may not be useful to you due the trash I play but these are the two things I do. I either play Owen's defense (e4 b6) or a waiting move (Nf3 Nf6). If after Nf3 Nf6 white goes for g3, I will play b6 again now. The setup is pretty much the same: Nf6 e6 b6 Bg7 Be7 0-0. Other knight comes out later once a pawn break in the center has been played. If instead white wants to enter the KIA setup from some funky alternate order I am still going to do about the same development.
>>507241653average londontard
>>507206321>2000 FIDE is an average club playerTerminally online twitch zoomer post.
>>507260390he's just trying to make people feel bad. club players can ofc be really strong but trying to claim club players are, on average, at chess expert level is beyond retarded
>>507246351check out the Spassky variation with b5it also scores well
>>507202703nice. Another good addition would be algebraic for the top and descriptive notation for the book (removing the algebraic labeling)
>>507267946I got rid of the algebraic but it would be too hard to add descriptive (plus I don't think I've seen descriptive on the board in a chess puzzle).
>>507258023>>507264343Thanks for the suggestions. Those are actually two I have been looking into quite a lot. I play the Spassky variation now, but I have never been fully satisfied with it. At least it has the benefit of not not getting checkmated by a kingside pawn storm, and it's serviceable, especially if I understood it better. I looked into ...b6 as a safer way to contest the long diagonal but it has its own issues, so I didn't like it enough to switch.Just today since writing that, I found ideas connected with a very early ...c5 and ...Nc6 and ...e5 if allowed which seemed interesting, looking to get a Maroczy structure. 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. O-O e5But if it's so hard to meet the KIA (as a normie player) then why doesn't everyone play it? It seems OP. In fact, many of the kingside fianchetto openings are tough to play against. Like I don't know what to do against 1.d4 and then the kingside fianchetto. It sucks.
IMO stjepans biggest mistake which will hold him back forever is being a caro player as black.If he wants to dork out and memorize a million lines, the Sicilian can win you games forever like that.Then caro you memorize every game to a drawn endgame AT BEST, where he will go on to blunder forever.Also he should’ve stuck with e4, he had lines memorized deep, instead he wants to suprise the heckin opponerino.He doesn’t know that GMs used to play the same openings for 60 years and still be unbeatable as old guys because they knew how to attack the backwards pawn they got a million times already
>>507270575>But if it's so hard to meet the KIA (as a normie player) then why doesn't everyone play it? It seems OPI think that's mainly a product of all the media and even the scholastic programs emphasizing a choice of e4 or d4. KIA is also not currently popular at the super GM level so people are not seeing their favorite players use it much or ever.
>winning>fuck up and blunder into rook vs rook with no pawns left>opponent keeps playing and declines draw request>blunders his rook 9 moves before reaching 50 move rule lmao I love dabbing on these angry incels
>>507268750>(plus I don't think I've seen descriptive on the board in a chess puzzle)You should add some random long paragraph of line vomit in descriptive, that's what old books look like.
>>507270697Does he still play the London? I remember him saying that he's only experimenting with the London and that he'll drop it soon.
>>507271852I think he plays queens gambit now
Will Stjepan ever break 2000 again?
/stjepan/ generalare you unironically giving that much of a fuck about this boring loser?
>>507275418yup it's weirdit was even weirder and more obsessive when it was that google dude
>>507275418It's a Stjepan world, you're just living in it.
eceleb website
>>507278670The only difference is Tyler was based while stjepan is definitely cringe.
>>507279959
>>507280209Did you make his head bigger?
Why aren't there more OTB rapid tournaments?
>>507283107Idk where you live but in my country 10+5 is probably the most common time control at otb tournaments. Big classical tournaments also often have a rapid section that you can play in if you cba to pay 100 euros for the classical section.
I came back to chess after a hiatus and half of my opponents on lichess do BM shit like stalling and such. Is that the Gukesh effect?
>>507290121socio-economic factors
>>507290121You might've been shadowpooled. Log out and check your profile to see if you have a red banner saying "This user has violated Lichess' TOC blah blah"
What's the cutoff after which you're no longer subhuman? 2k liblitz?
>>507293925there is no cut off because there's always bigger fish unless you're carlsen
>>506726043No. Karla got better than him in less time while going to law school, and then quit, like Stepjan would have done if he wasn't a delusional midwit. He's an example of what happens when limited intelligence unironically thinks they can be a grandmaster. The ultimate adult improver would theoretically be someone like Karla with innate talent and intelligence but who would take their potential as far as possible. The problem is those people are always too intelligent to waste the time and not prone to delusions of grandeur.>I am convinced that the reason the Englishman John Nunn never became world champion is that he is too clever for that.-Magnus
>>507296730She peaked before law school and fell off hard after fyi, it wasn't simultaneous. I think she's been like sub2000 lichess these days
Tge guy who was raging about 'memesh' and eceleb talk kinda had a point. In between tournaments this general is sad.
>>507296730Karlito never even had a fide rating and her online ratings were dubious. She made fresh accounts until she got a streak to a rating she was happy with (which was still below Chest) and then started again.
>>507297470The last time I know of her being here she dropped in to body Catmixer over multiple matches, who all the big guys were accusing of cheating because they couldn't beat him, to test him herself, and ended up clearing his name. Compare Catmixer's lichess ratings with Stepjan's (hpy). She's probably stronger than him even at law school. Regardless, the point is that Stepjan is greatly underperforming for how much he's putting in.
>>507298176Chest/Beary is stronger than Stepjan too 100%
>>507298221Stjepan had a similar peak otb rating as Chest.
>>507297915kyspbt
>The game of sirs returned back to its owners rightful handsColonizing whiteoids had a good run
>>507299689If you colonize me, I'll colorize you. Simple as.
Do you think gookesh will win a tournament as world champion? My bet is no lol
>>507300583He's winning Tata Steel in january, chud.
>>507203439>modern chess
>>507260390truth hurts>>507260740that's going to be the average at any mid-sized club, but whatever helps you cope.
>>507303816KEK I go to one of the biggest clubs in the US and am close to 2000. I'm regularly ranked 5th seed out of 80 players in any given tournament. Chess experts are more the bridge between club players and semi-pros.
>>507303816retard
>>507296730Karla was underaged when she got into chess, calling an adult improver is stretching it, besides we never got proof she got as strong as she claimed to be, her totalpeach account was like 2100 liblitz and her universal mercury one she accidentally exposed lat year was 2000 liblitz IIRC,beating catmixer a couple times is her biggest feat but 2-3 games prove nothing for all we know he was drunk, he dropped games to weaker weavers in the tournaments tooTake your simp goggles offthe ultimate adult imrpovers are the one that made it to FM there are a few but this was the first I found on googlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_6Q10_V7vDs&t=0s&ab_channel=PerpetualChessPodcast>FM Nathan Resika has accomplished one of the rarest feats in the annals of adult competitive chess, progressing from rank beginner to FIDE Master. Along the way, Nathan has picked up many more titles: USCF Master at age 31, FM Title at age 40, rating high of 2318 and US Senior Open Champion at age the of 53. Despite some breaks along the way, at age 60, Nathan is still going strong, as he recently had a stellar showing at the 2020 Southwest Open, where he defeated a 2550 IM!
>>507305818>FM Nathan ResikaAlso started playing at weak moment in US chess. You can see how much of a lolcow he is now
>>507305613This tracks with my experience, the average club player where I live seems to be around 1700-1800 fide.
>>507300583oof, you might be rightWe didn't know how good we had it with magnus. The wc actually being the strongest player in the world by a noticeable margin... what halcyon days>>507298782Chest reached >2100 uscf, had a few bad tournaments and stopped playing otb. imo, he could have hung around the 2150 uscf level, and a push to NM was probably possible, considering his online strength compared to e.g. an NM like CamelClutcher (~2350-2400 liblitz)Meanwhile, Stjepan peaked at 2050 fide, but generally struggles to stay above 2k.In my opinion, he's at least 100 points weaker than SC in otb strength, and even weaker-er in speed chess
>Failed a 1950 lichess puzzle because I didn't see mate in 10what
>>507315463shitter puzzles are rated 2400 though, please understand
>Narocheatsky already forgotten
>>507315802he cant keep getting away with it
What if the London System was meta in the 1960s?Imagine Fischer defending against Spassky’s London System, Tal spicing it up, Botvinnik mastering it, Petrosian fortifying it, or Smyslov turning it into art. Would it have dominated the 1960s?
I beat catmixer multiple times. In fact I have a positive winrate vs him. Where my prize?
>>507317524thats just when he turned engine off for plausible deniability
Chest beat Karla with ease. Also I've said it before and I'll say it again: Chest is much better than Stjepan.
>>507315463Can you post the puzzle? I want to try.
I just blundered mate in 1 in a puzzle
the world championship should be defended yearly.
>>507315802the new Proctor anti-cheat will nerf him or expose him. cheaters always get what they deserve in the end
from now on whenever I refer to playing 960 I'm gonna call it "Fisching". retarded normies will never get it>so, you got any hobbies?>yeah, I like Fisching>oh, you're a traditional man's man, huh?>yup, sure am. how about yourself?and the conversation will go on like nothing happened
>>507324212They will be pleased you share hobbies and will inquire about your preferred fishing locations and equipment. Then you will look stupid as you don't know anything about fishing.
What is our plan of ridding chess of poos?
>>507321764CowardIt should be a knockout bullet tournament held every 6 months. Only then will FIDE finally satisfy Magnus Withdrawlsen
>>507324404It's not like I haven't fished before, lol. I know enough about it to make up some bullshit. definitely prefer chess as a hobby though
>>507324212yeah I like fishing too (beating people online with stockfish)
>>507324441waitthey will get bored and move on to the next thing soon enougha brief resurgence of them rage cheating when pookesh loses next WCthen freedom
>>507324441everytime you seen an indian flag abort,block and report for cheating just in case, not much else we can do
I like the Colle system
>>507327071I don't
>>507327071Post your brown hand
>>507327071>system openingyou don't even like chess
>>507327071Based and Susan Polgarpilled
The Colle System is quite fun. Minimal theory and you get playable positions every time (usually you get king side attacks). Give it a try before you knock it.
On the 10th of December I was 1388 lirapid (a bit of a slump tbf because I was usually 1450 or so) and now 13 days later I am 1662. Puzzle rating nearly touched 2000 today before I tilted down to 1850 (got it back to 1920 or something). Am I gonna make it bros? I have no fucking idea what has caused this but I'm fairly happy, when do Lichess and Chesscum ratings sort of even out? Is it around 2000?
An example of an easy-mode Colle System game:https://lichess.org/uPafub81#41My opponent did play poorly (c4 for example), but you get the idea with what I mean about kingside attacks.
>>507338037>when do Lichess and Chesscum ratings sort of even out? Is it around 2000?somewhere around that. i think it's different depending on rapid or blitz. Congratulations on the climb. You should comfortably make it to 1800 lirapid without too much of a grind. That appears to be a fairly sticky spot for a lot of improooooooooovers. I spent over two years at 1800.
>>507338037I believe the difference mostly decreases around 2200 blitz, that's mostly what I've seen and going off my own experience of getting to mid 2100s on both websites.
Do you think making a burner email would give me another free trial week at Levy's chessly 2.0? Asking for a fren.
>>507303816>reddit spacing
>>507344341>bitch crying
Voy a follar pinkamena. Que triste que tiene tetitas ahora
>>507338434>https://lichess.org/uPafub81#41Hey, this game is excellent for demonstrating that an attack with more pieces on the king/queenside is mandatory in such positions. Concrete positions in which Stepjan does not know what to do.
>>507345362>not the queen of /chess/ngmi
first game back in 2 years i played like shit but I still won this marks the start of another doom cycle of playing blitz -> get back into chess -> start playing longer games -> start studying/practicing tactics -> get frustrated with slow results -> derank by 300 points -> decide I'll never be good at chess -> quit for a few years
>>507347851break the cycle and just play blitz
>>507347851not a bad game. what's your rating?
>>507348034tried that before, everytime I get ambitious and think "this time will be different!" right now I'm already telling myself "oh maybe if you pace yourself and try to avoid burnout you'll see more results">>507348147highest ever was 1800 lichess rapid 1400 lichess blitzdon't know what it is atm since i'm back in my provisionals
>>507348702i like your style. keep shitting on nerds like in that gif.
Would you still play chess if there was no rating or point system that told you how good you were?
>>507350671Yes
>>507347851that looks like a random indian shitty ass game. Just don't play blitz and enjoy the game, blitz is cancer.
>>507350671I'd suck more but I'd also enjoy it more.
>>507350671my life would be a 100 times better if rating systems didn't exist for any game
>>507350671I almost exclusively play anon now so it's not even really a hypothetical
>>507352865This.
>>507350671Yes and I would find it more enjoyable.
>>507352865Anon 3 0 is just too easy.
>>507354340It's true, everyone knows that 3+2 or 5+3 is harder
>>507317524Karla beat him in blitz and then beat him like 3-0 or 4-0 in Rapid, it wasn't just occasional berzerked games in a casual arena
>3+2classical>5+3classical>3+0actual blitz
>>507354686Casual games don't matter.
>>507350671I'd finally be free to do something more useful with my time
>3+2Trash >5+3Trash >3+0Trash
>>507354975Based CM
>Plays OTB a couple times in an elementary school gymnasium>"Only over the board matters!">"I'm a serious player!">Opponent is either 3 feet tall and munching on cheerios or a 53 year old mysteriously going to the bathroom between every move>"I'm just like Bobby Fischer against the Soviets!">"Online? Pah! For plebs.">Online rating: 1762
>>507355998Online chess sucks and everyone fucking cheats, Online chess is not real chess and it will never be. I'm 30000000% certain that if i grabbed 3 random 1800s from chesscom they would completely roflstomp a local tournament (we only have NMs and FMs). It wouldn't even be close.
>only start showing up on complete tiltWeird phenomenon
>>507356771These feel like conflicting statements
>>507357575i think the anon is saying that those 1800 guys are underrated because they keep getting gatekept by literal cheaters
>>507357575I mean we all know that they won't perform the same way they perform online.
>>507357787Ah gotcha
>>507358576i mean idk i'm just guessing, i agree that his post is pretty confusing
>>507355998>>"Only over the board matters!"Truer words have never been spoken
i don't like playing OTB because I get really anxious and when I get anxious my brain just freezes up and I become a numb clumbsy retard
>>507354686Are you sure about this?my recollection is that they only played blitz and she won 3-0
I analyse every loss, I lost a lot tonight and in EVERY game I'm better from between +1 to sometimes +3 and I lost every single one. The games I've been outplayed in from start to finish are so slim. Why the FUCK do I bottle it every fucking time.
>>507363775I checked in the tg archive they played 3 games two 3+1 and one 10+0 karla won all three, the blitz ones could have gone either way only the rapid one was a stomphttps://lichess.org/ebrlRMeo/white#2https://lichess.org/sGPKG96H#1https://lichess.org/VtOkpH81#0Make of that what you will, I still think a lot of her boasting was exaggerated and she's 21/2200liblitz at best, 3 games don't mean much
>>507364154Post them gaemz boi, this sounds like an execution problem
>>507364793Eval from my last loss, just stupid obvious tactics, or getting into really sharp positions where my opponent comes out on top like 80% of the time. If I win it's usually clean and quick, any sort of slog and my win rate goes down massively. Maybe I'm just tired
>>507364154>>507365172I know that feel bro, 90% of my losses in blitz in the last week were like that , I crashed down almost 200 points and was still losing more than I winI realized there is a psychological component to it at this point, I panic and expect to throw in time trouble which turns into a self fulfilling prophecy, so i'm taking a break to see if I can come back more saneI dunno if it's you case obviously but it might be,anyway working on endgames and doing more tatics can never hurt
>>507365818I think this may be the source of my current downturn lel. That was like 85 to 50 at one point and then I just became retarded and angry
>>507366689Yeah that'll do it. Make a point to stop and take a break as soon as you notice that you are guessing moves. The instant your eyes start glazing over and you think "well it has to be..." (you don't know and didn't check) the instructional value of the puzzle solving exercise has ended. You are being lazy and throwing darts in the dark there. It's a waste of time. Take a break, do puzzles SLOW and calculate everything even if the tactic looks obvious.
>>507364154>>507365172>>507365818average opening autist experiencemeanwhile /neverstudy/ tacticschads get the opposite experience every game, loving life and picking apart their booked up opponents in middlegames by playing superior chess
>>507363775>>507364763Yeah it's hard to track down because they were anon but I distinctly remember her smashing him in Rapid specifically. The last game they played she said that was the game she would ever play because she was so impressed with herself. I don't think the 10+0 link was her but someone who was accusing him of cheating. Thanks for looking though
>>507364763>>507382950Oh I found it kek https://lichess.org/v3iEiktt/blackI don't know how to find the others they played though
>>507383417Forgot pic. This was the only link in the post. But they remember the same thing
Predict the World Blitz winner right now:
>>507357787I think he meant that the "1800s" are the cheaters and if they'd perform the same level OTB as they would online, then they'd crush NMs and FMs
>>507383798>This was an entire year ago
>>507384179I love that we're doing this deep exegesis on bro's post like he's Plato lmao
>>507384470Y-you didn't spend the entire time playing chess, r-right anon?
I hate being from India. I’m so ashamed of my skin color, all because of the racism towards us and hate online. For some reason it seems like it’s okay to be racist and make jokes about Indians, but all other races are off limits. Especially blacks.I saw a TikTok of some guy mimicking an accent and going “eat it up dingalingading” disturbing a class by being loud and cooking curry and everyone was laughing and thought it was funny. Recently there was news about a “poop war” in India and that really upset me because people think that all of us do dirty stuff like that and started making racist jokes. Then constant news about India being full of rapists and people destroying toilets or street vendors cooking food with their armpits or some other negative thing and people assuming all Indians are like that.People mocking India when it comes to dating, saying they are all creeps and are super horny “show bobs and vegene”. Every TikTok dating video about “What race would you never date” it’s always Indian. I’m embarrassed to tell people I’m from India. I hate that people mock my culture to the point where I’ve just disassociated from it completely. I’m tired of all the racism online people calling us Streetshitters, curry muncher, baljeet, faggots etc.I was bullied so badly for being from India growing up all throughout school that I attempted suicide and nearly died. I always get so self conscious about all of the stereotypes. We smell so bad, our food is so smelly, we are all super dirty and our music is dingalingalinga, our accent sounds goofy, we’re all ugly, etc.
>>507384000Nordibek AbdusattorovPlease screencap this
>>507385942Message the redditor who posted this and tell him to unironically khs, from me
>>507385942This is the explanation for your misery.
>>507386278He's more a Rapid guy
>>507345636She's a fucking teenager.
>>507388301a good read
>>507391303then I'm fucking a teenager
>>507391303SHES ONLY 7 MONTHS PAST HER 18TH BIRTHDAY YOU SICK FUCK
>>507203578he listens to deep progressive trance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hdkUtscK5U&ab_channel=GothamChessAdios FIDE
>>507203578Caramelldansen [10 hours remix]
>>507394089KEK
Total domination:https://lichess.org/9KsnMBYCsSLdI forced him to ruin his kingside castle, then castled my kingside, then attacked his queenside ruthlessly.
i've a bit of a fecal stylenot that i'm indian though i'd be a brahmin if i wereit's just that I'mshitting it up
>>507395465960 should unironically be the future from yesterday
just watched the interview with emil, and all I can say is lmao fide are actual cucks. first google not even paying for sponsorship, now this for the world rapid and blitz. nobody cares about chess in the real world lol
>>507400851>just watched the interview with emilWhich and what is this about?
>>507400851https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQyd-rSUNPEtake the chess is waste of time pill anon. there's a reason morphy said what he said. realistically, 99.99% of this general are probably sad losers with no social life
>>507402119This general IS my social life.
>>507402119Speak for yourself. Few (if any) things have been better for me in terms of socializing than playing at the chess club.
>>507403615sameand I'm an autismo through and through, it really surprised me
>>507403615I wish chess clubs weren't 90% male boomers, there's something to be said for socializing with a mixed company of people around your age.
Stjepan is almost 2300. Apologize to him now.
>>507410364The fact that he is stable at roughly 2300 rapid give or take is not under debate. He is shooting for 2500. I want to say that he said that he had made 2400 lirapid at one point on a private account. If that was sometime around 2020-2022, he very well could have due to some rating inflation during the covid boom. I'm certain there was some deflation starting mid 2022 on both lichess and com. It was very apparent in 2023 when I started looking at all of my opponent's history. Every account over a couple years old had a peak in the covid boom years and a decline thereafter to reach a somewhat stable rating a hundred or two below that peak. I got very upset about cheaters during this time but it was mostly just me playing other players on the same post-covid rating skid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKai0CAUmf8&ab_channel=BearyPinkChessNew beary kino
>>507402536based
https://lichess.org/training/mix/HN2sI>puzzles that end unsatisfyingly early
>>507412893Merry Christmas, mr. Pink!
>>507420943>all those najdorf and grunfeld lines he has memorised trying to escape from the top of his headyou may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
>>507420943Kek I'm glad I'm not famous, I look alright in videos but like a complete retard in random unrehearsed photos.
doesn't he have it memorized like 20 moves deep?
the poos have been insufferable lately and it's really aggravating. the only good thing to come out of all of this is that general disdain for poos is on the rise everywhere.
>>507427156>gets -0.2 position thanks to his study of theory>"I know I'm better here, I should be able to win this.">losesAll there is to it.
>>507427156What compels someone to pick up c6 as their main response against e4?
i just want to say that based on my stats, my most common response to someone playing the sicilian against me is nf3 followed by c3
>>507428618e5 scary
>>507428824Kinda chuddy. I only play that against e6 sicilians and go with the open against d6 and the 'limo against Nc6.
>>507427252i think i will change my flag to india for the psychological edge against chudies
>>507431514it's had a psychological effect for quite a long time now though given how many of them tend to be cheaters
>>507429216e5 isn't scary though. all the gambits are memes.
>>507431641KG is not a meme and neither are the gambits that arise from the scotch or similar stuff through different move orders.
>>507427156i fucking hate this guy. can we stop posting his shitty vids?
>>507435235Totally agree these faggots posting about stjepan every day and always having the same "discussion" about him are unbearable
will stjepan make it to 2500 guys? the faith of the entire adult improover world rests on his shoulders.
>>507437368When did he start playing chess?
>>507437636first recorded game on his fide profile is April 2016. i assume that's when he started taking it seriously.
>>5074373680% chance because he's dumb
>>507437368No it doesn't, lmao. Dude isn't even doing it right.
>>507434936It is a meme in the sense that it is literally refuted and solved by top scientists to be trash of the highest order.
>>507441601
>>507441601Most people on this board would significantly improve their tactical skills if they adopted the King’s Gambit as their primary weapon as white.Boris Spassky and David Bronstein were able to use this opening to defeat other grandmasters during their time. It is disingenuous for you to try and argue that Joe Schmoe adult shitter in this thread cannot learn a lot from playing it.
Kristmas Kramnik Kino:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7pq8a8HwWk
>>507427156This ending was amazingly bad, he couldn't see anything. Missing qg6 was bad, but then missing qxh6 with the thread on f8 is just not okay, it's a well known pattern which one would see in blitz if not bullet.At this point, there's a clear tactical/calculation deficit which is so severe that it's almost pointless to focus on anything else until it's fixed>>507437131sorry for contributing to the problem, this will be my only stjepan post for today
>>507441601>experts say
>>507442586Chess has advanced by leaps and bounds since then. The adult shitters in this thread are at least as good as spassky and bronstein at their peaks.
>>507443190kek, exactly. Chess has advanced so much that the average lichess 2000 would destroy Morphy in a blitz match. Who can blame him, he didn't have stockfish and modern theory
>>507414293That was a decent puzzle.
>>507427156He was literally lost out of the opening lmao. At this point I really gotta believe he's really not studying chess at all, he's just comfy with the money from youtube
>>507439272but he did everything right. he plays slow games, analyzes every game with and without an engine, does puzzles from an old printed book and calculates all the moves in his head to train visualization, studies openings, etc. and all that 8 hours a day lolwhat more could he possibly do??
>>507443190>The adult shitters in this thread are at least as good as spassky and bronstein at their peaksThat would imply anyone in this thread would be able to beat Bobby Fischer in not one, but multiple classical games in a match (which Spassky did). "Delusional" doesn't even begin to describe the levels of absurdity in your post.
>>507449246prime fischer would crush 99% of the clowns we have todayif magnus didnt exist he would be WC easily
>>507450078>prime fischer would crush 99% of the clowns we have todaysadly no he wouldn't because modern kids are just weak computers but even a weak modern computer is better than someone from the 60s
>>507451413none of them understand chess, they will collapse as soon as they are out of prep against a true genius like fischer
>>507452004migrate
>>507447426he has below average intelligence and 0 aptitude for the game, hard work can only make up for it so muchI also seriously doubt he does enough puzzles considering he routinely misses elemental 1 or 2 moves tactics not only in his games but even in his analysis
>>507452349
>>507452930He's pinning the knight so it can't take the Bishop, giving him unstoppable checkmate. It makes perfect sense
