it's time to play chess edition>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival | December 12th - 22nd- Champions Chess Tour Finals | December 17th - 21st- Zurich Christmas Open | December 26th - 30th- World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship | December 26th - 31st- Rilton Cup | December 27th - January 5th- Hastings Congress | December 28th - January 5th- Tata Steel Chess Tournament | January 17th - February 2nd- Prague International Chess Festival | February 25th - March 7th>Previous thread:>>94435973
>>94593829Is this ai made? It feels ai made, particularly how the quickly and violently the trophy is swung upwards
I equip my pawn with the robes of blazing fury, allowing him to attack his oppponent with a fireball and causing 12 damage
>>94594427ah yes, the beijing-faggotov defense. unfortunately i have memorized every possible move in this opening. checkmate in 153
>>94594506Ah but little did you know, he's also equipped with a handgonne
>>94594378Yes, a stutter in the video clearly means that it's AI and Russian disinformation.
>>94594575i dont get it. is the troll always playing the same move every game that only works the first time you ever see it, or abandoning the game when you cant earn a cheap victory against a noob?
>>94594671both
>>94594427yeah I'd like pawns to have more powersfor example, if you lost a bishop you should be able to combine two pawns to have the bishop back
>>94585227The dice is a great tool.
>Ding-Dongthat wasn't necessary
>>94600085Poor Ding, missing Tata Steel too: https://tatasteelchess.com/news/once-again-top-line-up-for-tata-steel-chess-tournament-2025/Too many Indians, but at least they invited Faustino Oro for the Challengers.
>win a game on chess.com>not recorded in my game history >ranking still went up as you'd expect from a win anywaythis annoys my OCD, I want to review my game but now I cant
>>94604129Happened to me recently. The game appeared half an hour later eventually.
lichess did a yearly recap thing
>>94594378>>94594578mindbroken
Is your chess club like this?
>>94607466No, it's like this.
>>94592931I sensually swallow your queen, instantly winning the game
>>94607810My queen is Russian and will nuke you instantly.
>>94592931>Champions Chess Tour Finals | December 17th - 21stday 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THxcsnshDzYhttps://www.chess.com/events/2024-champions-chess-tour-finals-round-robin-stage/games
>>94607466back when I was attending chess club it looked like komsomol
>>94612296Denis The Menace strikes again!
>>94604279How tf did you play the Alapin 464 times in a year? Bullet?
>>94612296day 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZH0oRACmgg
>Hard puzzlelmao
>>94619869Oops.
Here's a chess article in the Wall Street Journal that isn't bad.WSJ: Dommaraju Gukesh and India’s Chess Comebackhttps://archive.is/EH2Ix
>>94616661Day 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLLwe0xKTGE
>>94611648ngl I like Russian players with bikini pics on their instagram
this is the fastest checkmate i've ever had... how did this guy not see that? >inb4>herr derr daily game>herr derr you took 2 hours to mateyeah i like daily games. i like making sure i have time to actually make a move. no i'm not always in from of my computer.
>>94592931Why are the OP pics always girl players?
>>94627057It's to remind the incels that they can meet girls if they go play chess OTB.
>>94622472thanks anon
>Magnus didn't see a mate in 2one of us
>>94592931>tfw he realizes he will never be Japanese
>>94623644final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hek__Zmv16M
>>94635918He will never pass Magnus rating, not even when both will be in their 70s.
>>94627057Because /tg/ has one of the worst looking catalogs. Adding some beauty can only help.
CHESS KEKS ROASTED ON AN OPEN FILE
>>94627245But what if I go out and get beat by a girl? Or a little savant kid?
>>94637542>EPIC DECIDER>magnus v nemowow I wonder who won this EPIC final
>>94592931>World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship | December 26th - 31ststarting rank: https://chess-results.com/tnr1074690.aspx?lan=1&art=0&flag=30
Fuck chess. I suck at chess. I think I'll become an Othello grandmaster instead. HAHAHAHAHA
>>94654424>Othellotry Horde: https://lichess.org/variant/horde
I'm grinding through a mate in 1 course when I am waiting around somewhere with nothing to do, once I finish that I will move onto a tactics course and CT-ART.What else should I supplement my chess learning with? I have about 1600-1700 rapid on lichess. I'm thinking I should probably learn more about endgames.
>>94656636>endgamesRooks endgames, yes. The same that costed Ding the championship.
who is playing chess at christmas and why?
>>94657581me'ave no familydon't really feel like studying on chrismas day
>used to be pretty good at chess, 1600s on chess.com>stop playing for a couple years >come back >blundering every mid game like a complete moron, 1200s fucking running circles around meDid I get brainrot?
>lose 10 games in a row>win 10 games in a row>memorize strategies that take several moves>lose queen on stupid blunders>elo fluctuates 400 points in two weeks
>>94658057Most of chess nowadays is about memorization. Obviously you give a huge advantage to your opponents if you don't remember a damn thing. Restart with puzzles and videos for a couple of months, like a newbie would do when starting chess from scratch.
>>94658217>t. Botez
>>94658057same happened to me although I eventually crawled my way back to being within 100 points of my old max
please teach Bughouse to your family members during the holidays, even Ding Liren plays it: https://www.chess.com/member/chefshouse
>>94647145Squeeze harder their little hands.
>>94592931>Calendar:Winter Marathon on Saturday: https://lichess.org/tournament/winter24
>>94651747day 1 broadcast started:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RV6EAF6ihA
>win off a fucking misclickWorst part is if I actually managed to put the piece where I wanted it I would have lost.
>>94670362Nice event and location, lot of upsets and great chess. Looking for Alice Lee vs Ju Wenjun in round 5.
Knights are objectively the worst piece ever added to this game. The guy who invented them died of Gay Faggotitis. It's true, many people are saying it.
>>94675807They are very useful in Bughouse, especially if you have 2 ready to be dropped.
>>94670362Day 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiQcVI7hcWs
>>94658057There's proof of Elo deflation everywhere yet ppl are still bullshitting about 'Elo 1000s know nothing except how the pieces move lol'
There's no drama like Chess drama.
>>94635918but he is Japanese?
>>94679328does he want to be Fischer?
>>94680936It's genetic.
>>94600085Ding threw the match much like Nepo before him. They tried to get into the Chinese market but literally nobody there knows who Ding is, so they rigged the candidates and threw it over to the Indians, who actually care about chess but collectively have the spending power of a small Eastern European country so it won’t work either. I suspect their next move would have been to suck Magnus off to get him to come back but they’ve already shat the bed because they don’t want him wearing jeans to the chess equivalent of the FA Cup.
>>94679328Why did he do it?
>>94682601He needed an excuse to quit a tournament where is was going to be rekt.
>>94679328Anyone defending any of this is an idiot. Besides the obvious financial interests, even if it was on "principle", it's a joke to ask for chess to be taken seriously as a sport and then advocate for playing in whatever outfits in whatever ways
our girl is scoring only 4 points :(
>>94677949day 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX-Q4f2eIJ0
White is completely winning by virtue of being up a piece. But it is not enough that I should win - I should style on 'em
That little flourish at the end activated my neurons like nothing.
>>94682772He should have changed, shit himself at the table, then changed back into his jeans
alright, i'm done with shitty ass competitive vidya. I went from playing mobas, to wanting 1v1 because I hated the idea of someone trolling me, I started playing fighting games but after thousands of hours I'm done with the randomness and how much you have to guess in fgs. I reached the highest rank in pretty much every game I played. What's a realistic goal to reach in around 6 months of learning chess? Also I know this is a question that gets asked frequently, but, if you were to start over again(at 25 y/o) what would be a good way of learning? Meaning, would you start with reading books, or are there specific videos that you would watch? And how would you split between puzzles and real matches.
>>94684751the GOAT earned this right.....
>>94684773This might be too much of a trvth nvke for you to accept and I might just be projecting but it sounds like you've become too bitter to enjoy any kind of competitive activity including chess. You know how a new fg is fun at first when you don't really know what you're doing, then eventually you'll start to know enough about the game to become annoyed with it?>they just do their fucking neutral skipping bullshit EX into and now I have to hold their retarded 50/50 oki on repeat until I die *pulls cable*The same thing is going to happen with chess too: Here you can't cope with the same excuses like them flowcharting, being on wifi or using a top tier, but the same feeling will come anyway and you won't understand why. I'm not trying to shit on you or telling you not to learn chess but I'm just warning you that changing games won't help if you just sabotage yourself with a shitty buckbroken mindset anyway.>t. used to play tekken for 9 hours straight and would literally punch holes in walls every time I lost a round by guessing wrong on wakeup
>>94684773>What's a realistic goal to reach in around 6 months of learning chess?at your age, 1200 on chesscom
>>94684773>>94687499and that's the chess blackpill. it's one of those things like piano that seems as though unless you started when you were like 6 years old and dedicated yourself to, you have no chance of ever getting genuinely good at. It's not like competitive vidya - if, after starting at 25+, you got to 2200 over the board, which is the lowest rating you need to get the absolute lowest title and be 'good' like you might be if you got the highest rank in a vidya, you would be the first recorded person to do so.It's not a problem for me though, as I'm built different. One day I'm going to get disciplined and shock the world.You should probably do like 50% playing/reviewing your games, 40% tactics, 10% videos/misc. Any puzzles will be fine, but some people think books are better because the puzzles aren't chosen by algorithms, and they go through different tactical themes in order. John Bartholomew's fundamentals series is a good place to start with videos, though it might be slightly too advanced if you know literally nothing. Don't waste much/any time learning openings, it's not really worth it for beginners. Play games that are as long as you can stand, at least 15+10, avoid blitz.
>>94592931>- Rilton Cup | December 27th - January 5thround 3! https://www.twitch.tv/annacramlinghttps://chess-results.com/tnr967027.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=3&flag=30
>>94592931Damn, watched an agas video after 1 year and he literally just recites the moves while basically saying "this move bad because stockfish said so" . I think it was always like this but I was such a noob I could not see it. Especially when you compare with hikaru's recaps. Also what's up with the bullet rating inflation on lichess ? Back in my day 2600-2700 was GM level now it's former 2200's that have that rating now
>>94684773Sorry to blackpoll but even if you play chess all day you will never be good example Tomic Stjepan on yt. Dude is stuck at 2000 basically the level of that grandpa at your chessclub. It's because of one ability, playing blindfolded(well). Unless you somehow unlock that ability your chances of making it are 0.
>>94689595Continuing Tomic makes me sad btw, left his job for chess, lives on donations, probably has frequent disputes with his girlfriend about how he should have a real job and stop playing games like a child. But he went on, 7 years of grinding lichess puzzles, mastering openings, paying to play in tournaments all that and not a Fide title to his name. Just archives of videos documenting his failure.Chess is so brutal man, sub 1800 chess.com you think this is a fun game, but past that point when you encounter people online that are really good at chess, you think you can be like them. Why not ? These are regular people. then reality sets in as you make the same mistakes over and over. Then you look at your account stats and see 100+ days of play with nothing to show for it.
>>94684773It's mostly about talent, sorry to blackpill. I got to 1900 chesscom in about 2.5 years starting from a position where I knew the rules but didn't even know what en passant was or that you could underpromote. I used a lot of training methods I devised on my own that I won't give out here. The funny thing is that was 3 years ago and I have barely improved since because that was just my skill ceiling. I like to think I could probably nolife a few more years and get to NM level but I doubt I have that in me or that it's even worth it.Btw, if I could start over with chess I would play 960 instead, or better yet, I would go and learn the superlative game of Go.
>>94689557The point of agas videos is to get a Stockfish lesson with slightly more personality to keep you interested.
>>94684773if you're serious about the game, don't follow any of the advice that gets posted on reddit, you will only replicate their mediocrity.as a beginner, you should avoid slow games, analysis, puzzles, books, even too much thinking. start off by playing 10k bullet games (1 min) and encountering as many different positions as you can. the goal at this stage is to get very comfortable with the fundamental mechanics of chess. you don't need to think several moves ahead and try to be some mastermind, look one move ahead, move your pieces into places where they are useful, defend and coordinate them in order to attack and try to checkmate your opponent. first thing you'll notice is that you're having fun, win or lose, you can always start another game very quickly. you will also notice that you don't have time to think so you have to rely on your instincts. you will get immediate feedback when you do something wrong or when you're doing something right. you will figure out the basic tactics naturally and you'll develop a feeling for what to play no matter how complex the position.10k games will take you about ~333 hours. then you should add more time and start playing 2 minute games, then 3 minute games and so on. once you can think one move ahead, you can give yourself more time and think at a higher-level, weight the pros and cons of two possible moves, calculate 5-6 moves ahead to see if a tactic works and so on. at some point, you can look into theory, but most of it will be completely obvious to you through experience. "ah, it's that position and that little trick that i play, i didn't know it had a name haha"
>>94689557>rating inflation on lichessIt's probably due to their Glicko-2 parameters: min rating 400, max rating 4000, and some volatility stuff that I don't understand.https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/blob/b3405ba46d80f3dd15cfabc66369bb9593fe966d/modules/rating/src/main/Glicko.scala
>>94689843>I used a lot of training methods I devised on my own that I won't give out here. please saar>>94690455do this if you want to end up like german11, and while you're at it go learn boxing by hitting a punching bag 100,000 times before learning anything else
>>94693266>want to end up like german11He's a legend.
>>94594378real video with shity ai filtering like most smartphones have had by default for years
>>94683327Blitz day 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1lZCyp4Clk
womp womp
>>94698105And Kosteniuk lost to a nasty tactic in round 2. Anyway, I'd like a 5+3 tc for this event, in 3 days with a couple more rounds, so that there are less blunders and more time to recover from a bad one.
>>94697043Thank god Naroditsky is out.
>>94679328KWAB
spicy knockouts tomorrow
whats this pattern called
Hey guys. I started playing chess the day before yesterday as my youtube feed got inundated with it. I seem to have stabilized around the 950 ELO mark on chess.com after watching those beginner gothamchess video tips: control the center, always look for checks, danger levels, etc.What's a good place to start learning chess seriously? And how concerned should I be about openings at this rating?
>>94702354>openingsIgnore them for now. Play moves that make sense and don't hang pieces around for no reason. >video tipsYes, there are ton of useful videos out there: https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5#videos>What's a good place to start learning chesslichess and chesstempo, but start with endgames, then puzzles for tactics, and finally learn how to review games with the engine and the opening explorer.
>>94702354Chess is just a game of observations. At 950 elo you are still putting pieces on squares where your opponent can simply capture them on his move. Learn to check, then recheck and check again to see if you are losing a piece. Don't look for good moves, use your time to make sure you don't make bad ones. You can miss winning moves and get many other chances later and if not, draw. But miss that one of your own moves loses and the game could be over. Pair this approach with endgame study and you'll be solid.
>>94700639here we go:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVGTfRWGWIM
taketaketake stream playing bladerunner-esque dystopian synth background music for this quarterfinal.
Hans choked , nearly knocked out Magnus
HANSTARDS ON SUICIDE WATCH JEJ
i am the biggest fagnus sycophant but this was just disgusting>equal points after 7 games>magnus: "im tired let me and ian share the gold>ian agrees because he is a cuck>fide doesnt want to agree to it>magnus: "oh, you dont agree to it? Well guess what, we are now blackmailing you. We both just agreed to keep playing draws if you dont let us both get the gold and the money"no thats not a joke. I was watching the nrk broadcast which followed the conversations between ian and fagnus. Fagnus and ian blackmailed fide into giving them them both the gold.kys fagnus you were my hero but this is retarded i wasted 5 hours of my day glued to the television and then you pull this retardation. fuck u
the actual state of competitive chess
>>94706727Nieman said nrk is fake, so whatever you saw on their broadcast dosent count.
Are we going to call them "disputed" or "undisputed" world champions? And how many asterisks are needed this time?
Breaking news: they are giving us a chance to qualify for the Freestyle Chess events!https://www.chess.com/news/view/register-for-the-qualifier-of-the-freestyle-chess-play-in-weissenhaus
>>94711136Bollocks and it won't solve the problem of cheating. Yep, all those cheescom patzers don't have their opening books memorized, they play the openings with actual books - or engines.
>>94594427>fireball and causing 12 damageIs it explosive? Causing damage over an area perhaps?
>>94711700They will ask players to set up 2 webcams at some point.
>>94703707>Don't look for good moves, use your time to make sure you don't make bad onesvery good advice.
>>94713929It's an incomplete advice: when it's your turn to move, the first thing you have to spend time on is to look at your opponent last move and try to figure out his plan.
>>94644305>>94689531Anna-Maja is also playing at the Rilton Cup.
>>94717762That tournament is really based. They even have Dice Chess: https://chess-results.com/tnr1062922.aspx?lan=1&art=1&turdet=YES&flag=30
>>94689531the official stream is this one: https://www.twitch.tv/riltoncupstreams
I play 30 blitz games a day and I'm 750. Am I good?
>>94724959If you are having fun, then yes, it's good!
how are there adults who are genuinely 300 rated? are they retarded? I started playing chess online last week because everyone at my workplace does and I'm basically humiliated by everyone, I'm by far the worst player. yet after creating my account I naturally floated to around 900 ~ 1100. nothing to brag about obviously but I can't get my head around the fact that so many streamers are 200 ~ 400 rated
>>9471113612 hours left, don't miss it: https://www.chess.com/events/2025-freestyle-chess-grand-slam-weissenhaus-play-in-qualifier-1/schedule
>>94727467You have to understand that the average person is so retarded they can literally not use 4chan. They need smartphone apps for everything and couldn't use computers before digital integration.So many people on 4chan live in their basements and just don't know how dumb the average Joe is. Watch interviews with lottery winners.
how different are your ratings for blitz, rapid, etc? I'm 750 on blitz, 1000 on rapid
Idk if I've ever been BTFO'd by a puzzle this hard
>>94731026I had to look it up, but this is a pretty cool puzzle.
anyone up for a game?https://lichess.org/d5kqtNoL
making a new thread because we need a new calendar in the OP:NEW>>94736113>>94736113>>94736113NEW
