Agnė edition>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Biel International Chess Festival | July 13th - 26th- Champions Chess Tour: CrunchLabs Masters | July 17th - 24th- Lichess 2024 Summer Marathon | August 3rd- Sparkassen Chess Trophy - Internationale Dortmunder Schachtage | August 10th - 18th- Grand Chess Tour: Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz | August 11th - 16th- Women's Grand Prix | August 14th - 25th- Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival | August 14th - 25th- Grand Chess Tour: Sinquefield Cup | August 18th - 29th- Chess.com Bughouse Championship | August 19th - 23rd- 45th Chess Olympiad | September 10th - 23rd- European Individual Chess Championship | November 7th - 20th- 2024 World Chess Championship Match | November 20th - December 15th>Previous thread:>>93272016
>>93338919https://ratings.fide.com/profile/12806811https://www.chess.com/member/agnesemonaviciute
>>93338919Agnė a čiūtė!
>>93334934This sounded fun, so I played a quick game vs. Nelson trying to go for 8 queens (takebacks disabled)
>>93334606Ask the PGN and charge him 20 dollars for the analysis and annotations.
>>93338964GOD BLESS LITHUANIA
what's the point of this thread when it's so dead compared to the other one?
>>93338919>Lichess 2024 Summer Marathon24 hours of bullet 1+0 is insane.
I've found another game review tool with brilliancies:https://chessdream.vercel.app/
https://www.chess.com/member/igiveyoudrawoddsDraw odds? How does it work?
>>93338919>Previous threadActually there were two chess threads yesterday, this is the second one: >>93332006
>>93339294haha nice. pure art.
>>93345442>Is this game really that hard to master? No, but it'll take more time if you are old.
>>93338919classical starts today:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP2HqUk7pbw
>>93349617Pragg sister FTW
>>93349617>Real Battle>Classicalfuck off, rapid is legit, and they did Chess960 too
>>93339028Indeed, and she's a streamer!>>93334213rekt
Hikaru, Magnus and Fabi in the Late Titled Tuesday:https://www.chess.com/play/tournament/4900935
Anyone else feel like they’ve hit their natty limit?
>>93355742I still learn something every now and then, because of pattern recognition. It's worse with learning languages like Japanese, I feel the impossibility to improve there.
>>93356860I lack the visualization skills to see more than 2 or 3 moves ahead unless the pattern is obvious. I’m 2200 in puzzles on lichess and the ones I get wrong I have literally no idea on. Makes me think I’ve hit the edge of my processing power.
>>93338919>coworker claims he was roommates with the head of the chess team at a mid-high tier uni>>gets easily x-rayed>>literally forked his queen>>didn't even play until checkmate, just shook my hand and wanted the embarrassment to stopwhy
Prove (or disprove) the following statement. If you have a proof, phrase it as precisely as you can, with reference to the rules of movement, while at the same time presenting your argument in the most concise and readable manner possible:In any given legal position, a pawn standing on its fifth rank has at most three distinct legal moves.
>>93357573whats your rating?>>93338919The other weekend I met a couple playing chess, they invited me to play against the girl (since she was teaching the guy). She was good and we played for 2 hours while the guy watched. We ended up agreeing to a draw.Has /tg/ cucked someone for two hours? it would have been way better to defeat her in the end I guess.
>>93358367>2 hours What kind of autism fest was this
>>93357730>not classifying en passant differentlyThanks for ruining my day.
>>93358367>better to defeat hernah, gentlemen offer a draw even if they have a slight advantage
>>93338919I wonder if any of you can do today's lichess puzzle without cheating.
>>93360375I'll give you a hint: the pawn on c2 is there for a reason
>>93360375<spoiler>Rf6</spoiler>
>>93349617round 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlAaZFzRnYY
Looking for some advice here. I'm 31 and have been playing blitz and bullet for about a decade now. It's usually just to fuck around and I quite enjoy it. I also enjoy watching chess streams e.g. Simon Williams. Rating on lichess is ~2000. I never do puzzles or study openings.Anyways, I was considering starting otb tournaments and seeing if I could get over 2000. Anyone else have a similar trajectory as me? I'm wondering if I should order some chessable courses and start level grinding, or if I should just keep having fun with it.
>>93362157>just keep having fun with itDefinitely this.
>>93362217I might see if I can boost my much was rating to 2300 by doing a few chess able courses and taking my chess more seriously. Maybe that'd be a funner way of doing it. I rarely play slow time controls. I might start doing that more as well.
>>93363747My lichess rating*Phone posting lol
I don't like that Abdusattorov will have Kramnik as captain for the Olympiad. India is too strong, I'm rooting for Turkey as the ultimate underdog: https://chess-results.com/tnr967173.aspx?lan=1&art=8
>>933414978 hours is doable I think
Highest win of my life bros. I clicked him thinking it would be fun to get blown the fuck out but I actually did it.
>>933577301/2Proof:By the rules of movement, a pawn standing on its fifth rank may, if possible, perform one of five distinct types of moves: normal movement forward, normal capture on either side, or capture en passant on either side. In two similar pairs of cases, the existence of one possible type of move excludes the existence of the other possible type, such that there are at most three distinct legal moves that a pawn on its fifth rank may make in any legal position. The below descriptions assume that in making the given moves, no other rules of movement are violated, e.g. the pawn to be moved is not pinned to its king.If the square directly ahead of the pawn is empty, then the pawn may advance forward one square, as usual.On either given side of the pawn, the pawn may either be able to capture an opposing piece normally, or to capture an opposing pawn en passant, but it cannot be the case in a given position that a pawn might, on a given side, choose to capture an opposing piece in either or both of the ways on a given side.For if on a given side an opposing piece stands on the square in the sixth rank where the pawn may capture normally, then it cannot be the case that an opposing pawn had just advanced two squares forward on that side on the last move, as this path of movement was and is just blocked, by the piece which may be captured normally. Similarly, if on a given side an opposing pawn has just advanced two squares forward, to end on its own fourth rank (which is the original pawn's fifth rank), then there was no piece, much less any other opposing piece, standing on the square where the en passant capture may be made, such that only en passant capture is possible on the given side. Similarly, these observations apply to the pawn's other side. Furthermore, since two pawns cannot be moved simultaneously in a given move, en passant capture is only possible on one of the two sides of a CAPTURING pawn, but not on both.*
2/2Thus, in any legal position, a pawn standing on its fifth rank has at most three legal moves, which situations can be characterized into two "maximal" species as follows: either the pawn may capture normally on either side and has an empty square directly ahead, or else it may capture normally on one side, has an empty square directly ahead, and may capture en passant on the other side (while it cannot capture en passant on both sides).*Comment. Although it is impossible for two advancing pawns to simultaneously offer themselves for capture en passant to a single, potential attacker, on the other hand it is possible for one advancing pawn to offer itself for capture en passant to two adjacent, potential, attackers, e.g. the silly but quite legal line 1. e4 a6 2. c4 a5 3. e5 a4 4. c5 d5, at which point either 5. cxd6 or 5. exd6.Noting the mutual exclusivity of "normal" capture and capture en passant is also helpful to understand WHY the en passant rule itself requires immediate capture, or not at all: the two-square advancement of the pawn ensures that the empty square remains empty at time of capture, such that there is no ambiguity with the "normal" rules over which types of capture may or may not be possible. Consider the following little farce: 1. b4? h5 2. b5 a5 3. h4 Na6. Here, if the en passant rule didn't entail immediate pawn capture, then there would be ambiguity as to which piece is to be removed from the board when the pawn captures at a6. The knight, the pawn, both? The knight has filled the void, adding confusion. Thus, the rare and unusual en passant rule nevertheless "plays well" with the ordinary rules, and does not lead to contradictions or confusion. It is a well-formed rule which is consistent with the simpler rules, but which requires its own details (immediate capture or not at all) to be so well-formed.Obviously, I have totally failed to satisfy my prompt condition that an explanation should be "concise". But at least it's correct.
>>93361706round 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrEEnLmkNjw
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>>93338919>Champions Chess Tour: CrunchLabs Mastersunwatchable
>>93350230IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!1
>>93366320>thinking it would be fun to get blown the fuck outNice attitude anon. I get mad at every loss.
>>93368871round 4:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnogh5opwfY
>>93372116they had Magnus playing today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CveG32ljIqo
>>93362157>chessable courseslmao, get a coach instead
>>93363951Are they using the accelerated Swiss system or the normal one?
For me, it's Ayelen: https://www.chess.com/member/ayelenchess
>>93341497Last year winner played 819 games, berserking only 7% of them: https://lichess.org/tournament/summer23It looks like one has to play at least 18 hours to have a chance of finishing in the top10. Crazy!
>>93360375I see Rxg7 Kxg7 Rf6
>>93381394ah no king has Re6 and escapes, I guess it has to be Rf6 instantly
kek
happy International Chess Day /tg/!
>>93383933are you gay?
>>93384046>relax>chessI wish.
>>93384075don't relax, prepare
>>93380775wow, I've never noticed her.
>>93384468cute! very kissable, marryable even
>>93376763round 5: https://lichess.org/broadcast/57th-international-chess-festival-biel--masters-qualifier/round-5/SRqsBo1Shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3itVEbN0HN0
>>93374324I used to be that way but I've gotten better at emotional regulation over the last two years. Now I usually just get amused.
>>93385431Shankland always get rekt in these type of events, but he's still close to 2700? How?
>>93339294i am almost there. damn. how do i hide that many queens? align them vertically? i've stall mated myself too many times.
wrong name lol
Reddit vs /tg/ Tournament in two hours Get in here and represent https://lichess.org/tournament/IoroqBf4
>>93391470
I beat Coach David for the first time
Chess Camp lineup announced
My opponent timed out but was I winning here as White?
>>93392234Yes, black must spend time to coordinate the rooks. My first instinct is to kill the pawns, but maybe it's too slow.
>>93338919nobody cares stop posting this coombait with unpronounceable name
>>93385431blitz day:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J126LNyiL68
>>93380524It's not accelerated, unfortunately: https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/OlympiadPairingRules2022
how do you actually start to learn chess? and im not talking about like the rules or whatever, i mean what actual decisions to make. i checked the rentry link but theres a lot of other different links and i have no idea where to go with that.what do you do for openings? do you just stick with one?a lot of openings i find on youtube seem to assume your opponent will do something else, and then you do something to follow up with it. what if they do something else?for a frame of reference im more familiar with card games (stuff like poker and also mtg-esque games)
>>93397451>what if they do something else?Use the explorer at lichess to see what most people do. But at low levels they don't follow openings theory, so it's pointless to study what masters follow for 7+ moves. >you just stick with one?One for black and one for white for beginners are enough. If you try something different, repeat the line for dozen of games until you understand what's going on.
How much of chess really is just memorization, was fischer right?
>>93398749It's like doing things by experience in mechanical jobs.
>one week bump limitNEW>>93400792>>93400792>>93400792NEW
>>93397451whatever you do, just don't think. it's the number one mistake people make when starting to play chess.
