Maia Edition>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters | August 7th - 15th- Grand Chess Tour: Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz | August 11th - 16th- Sinquefield Cup | August 16th - 29th- Maia Chess Open | August 22nd - 30th- Fujairah Global Chess Championship | August 24th - September 3rd- FIDE Grand Swiss | September 3rd - 16th- Grand Chess Tour Finals | September 26th - October 4th- FIDE World Senior Championships | October 20th - November 2nd- FIDE World Cup | October 31st - November 27th- US Masters | November 26th - 30th- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st>Previous thread:>>96166479
>>96298748>Saint Louis Rapid & BlitzDay 1 live:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tct5SVF2Zko
Do you guys want to see some 600 kino
Personally, I think vertical castling should be legal.
>>96300135I see this stuff every day.
>try to have some fun and play a couple of unranked ultra boollet games>every opponent burns time by making random moves >go play other games
>>96298748>Chennai Grand MastersRound 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5aanWcbUrI
>>96298769day 2 just started, comfy stream as usual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr744sAT7sQ
>>96304531Titled Tuesday has more viewers lol
>sitting like this for hoursbrutal
>>96303240round 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TGZFFi_v3U
Is this normal? Recently every other game is against someone who doesn't make any mistakes whatsoever.
>>96311838Post the PGN
>>96304531Gukesh vs Fabi right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zdV_G1SQto
>>96311838Only a very short game where the opponent blunders into a horrible loss should ever get that sort of accuracy. Somewhat ironically, long games also have very high accuracy, boring queen's pawn games where you are playing super symmetrical and neither player is making any "mistake" but only because they're not moving anything forward in a meaningful way. You can move around and around and around and the accuracy is very high because there are no mistakes - but not 99% no, that is only super short games where the computer cannot find a real flaw.
Does anyone know a website where you can play richman bidding chess? I've been reading some papers about it and it sounds really neat.
>>96314285It's unpractical for chess.
>>96315903Why's that?
>>96317128You'd need a computer to calculate the bids. Without it. the outcome will be random regardless of the intelligence of the two players. I'd play the poorman version if the money goes to a charity.
Divya vs Hou Yifan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdcCpW9fkqc
>>96317571Oh come on that's so bullshit. You think you couldn't beat someone playing at random? If you find a way to play this I bet I'll kick your ass. Also it's not supposed to be real money.
>>96319243I'll ask the dev at PyChess to add it.
>>96319482Oh awesome, thank you
first blitz day in Saint Louis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fBNxLoC8gY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ULrdNhg2s
cute puzzle
I love the French Defense bros
>>96326698I hate it like you wouldn't believe.
>>96320288second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w3XYbt5UP0
>women chesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uEiKo5m3MY
>>96324864I don't see itWhite can block the rook with their rook or the queen but neither are winning moves.
>>96328902Also I only see black winning.
>>96328902>>96329544Well one of them obviously works. Queen and Rook tactics coupled with checks can look very, very simple while actually being totally mindbending and shocking.
>>96328902Queen f1 is a winning move because the bishop can give a discovered check if black takes the queen. Puzzle solution here:https://chessentials.com/chess-tactics-105/the game went in a different direction as black tried h5 to make room for the king; but there are other lines to study; see the notes by Stockfish in the PGN and then the comments down in this page:https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008371&comp=1you can also import the PGN in lichess. >>96329704>mindbendingIndeed.
>>96298748>CalendarIt's missing the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival. The masters section has a prize fund of 55,000 USD.
>>96336403Next Tuesday will be fire.
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In case someone still doesn't know this trick: if you open a chesscom user's avatar in a new tab, you can see the hi-res original file by simply changing the @2x.jpg at the end of the url with @4x.jpg
>>96338382And why would I want to do that?
>>96338603To better see the cat of course: https://www.chess.com/member/whitetinygirl
>>96338106she's way cuter when she doesn't do the full teeth smile.
>>96338623>123 friendsChrist is there anything wont turn into a vanity project simp farm
>>96339487*women wont turn into
the Sinquefield Cup starts tomorrowplace your bet!
>>96341215no hans, no watch. simple as!
>>96341215Alireza > Pragg > Gukesh
>>96341640>i suck at chessshe's honest
based Divya will play with the boys at the Grand Swiss
>>96345429easy win for them lol
>>96345640RUDE
>>96345645women should just stay in their containment tourneys
>>96345652>their containment tourneyshere we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1spzTeMzK4
>>96298748I have a weird question. Caruana gets all this praise from Magnus, the media, etc. For essentially being on 'par' with Magnus due to the Championship Series where they held eachother essentially to 12 consecutive draws and then Caruana shortly got flatlined in the Tiebreakers.Karjakin did the same thing but more impressively. Magnus was more at his peak and not necessarily totally exposed yet as to what made him so good. He drew first blood in the match and lasted longer in the Tiebreaks yet nobody gives Karjakin credit in the same way. Politics aside, Karjakin seemingly one of the more underrated super GM's that I think would fair quite well within a Super GM tournament now although I'm just surprised at the lack of credit given to him.Nepo got swept by CarlsenCaruana couldn't roll out a win in their match and is notably far worse in faster time controls.If he wasn't such a dog for a putin he could be competing at the top right now, he style, like a lot of russian GM's has a lot of longevity and I want see how he fairs vs the new Indian pact.
>>96341215round 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXzJst5Epg
>>96347064He won against Pragg and Vidit in Tata Steel 2022. You have a point anyway, we need him back. Sidenote: last July, for the first time ever, there were no Russias in the top 10 of the FIDE rating list: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/04/russians-absent-world-chess-top-10-first-time-since-official-lists-began-ian-nepomniachtchi
>bullet is harmful to young playersthank god I'm old
>>96349261I don't take advice from insane people.
>>96345652Are you scared?https://www.chess.com/news/view/10-year-old-keya-defeats-grandmaster-breaks-us-record
ouch!https://www.chess.com/events/2025-titled-tuesday-blitz-august-19-early/results
>>96347504Round 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivOhsh6RnuQhttps://lichess.org/broadcast/gct-sinquefield-cup-2025/round-2/xkuW0Cpy#boards
>>96349261His argument is that it hinders the development of your 7 year old prodigies.You will never be good enough for his comment to ever be a problem to you.
>>96353764>Magnus winning both TT while rolling dice to choose his openings still the goat
Peter Leko is back at the board for Hungary!https://s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan=1&art=8&turdet=YES&flag=30&SNode=S0&tno=1214003
This is why I like playing 1.d4 in low elo games. It keeps happening. The knight on c3 means absolutely nothing to them.
>>96354386round 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMUxjF6BpI
>Divide the threads into /tg/ and /vg/ threads>Both threads are deadwtf are we doing here guys?
>>96362153Why did that happen anyway?
Do pro chess players actually point with their middle finger or am I being baited? Is it a trait of high intelligence?
>>96362734It's just the longer finger.
>>96361416Cute interview by Abdusattorov>my brain is not workingkek
>>96362734Pointing with the middle finger keeps your thumb and index finger free to grab a pieces. It makes sense.
>>96359910These semi-retired legends never stop to impress me: https://www.chess.com/news/view/2025-wscc-sf-hou-yifan-kateryna-lagno
>>96365426Going against Ju Wenjun tomorrow will not be that easy.
>>96361416Round 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7tnxyGFIlwhopefully Duda wins today
4chan's chess team, Vietnamese Basket Weaving Forum, is competing in the lichess bundesliga. They're playing one right now at 5+0 time controls.Come join in!https://lichess.org/tournament/HrUQtLON
>>96362824It looks like it's back at work.
the state of chess on twitch...
>>96368517>AnnaCRAMling
Solving Chedoku puzzles is incredibly relaxing. I highly recommend it.
>>96334802Xue Haowen looks promising. I've seen him playing in Titled Tuesday too in the meanwhile. Not to mention that he won the online event that was stacked af (Hikaru #25, Erigaisi #50, Hans #69):https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/abu-dhabi-chess-festival-online-2025-5828723
>>96367899round 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFym0Ekc1r0
>>96298748>Maia Chess OpenLot of streamers, as usual.
>>96326714lol
Cock and balls defense
what a move!!
Fell 100 elo in one day (again) award.
>2 blunders in a rowget a a coffee Phoebehttps://www.chess.com/events/2025-maia-chess-festival-open/02/Robin_LA_houmeau-Witte_Phoebe
Titled Arena is starting, 1,000 USD prize fund: https://lichess.org/tournament/aug25lta
>>96307996still kino
>>96382760live: https://www.twitch.tv/penguingm1
>>96378664Ebin
>down almost 300 rating points from where I was a month and a half ago>rating only keeps going downTips on a painless suicide?Seriously though, I'm at my wits end. It feels like the harder I try the worse I do. I've tried everything I can think of. Took a break for a week, no change. Tried doing puzzles and warming up before jumping into rated games, no change. Tried playing OTB, no change.>inb4 you just weren't at that level to begin with and only got there by luckI'll acknowledge that I had a good run before I reached my peak at around 2270 but for the past few months I've hovered pretty consistently around 2100-2150. I'm at like mid 1900 now. I seriously have no idea what to do and at this point it's making my quality of life worse.
>>96383872have you analyzed your loses and figured out why you lose? you probably have some specific weakness that your opponents get "lucky" and manage to take advantage. maybe it's a specific opening or your endgame technique is bad or you're just not managing your time well.
I keep opening with a4 h4 and it makes my opponent freak the fuck out
>>96383949I do frequently get into time trouble, so I've tried going through routine recaptures and openings etc. quicker and that seems to help. Otherwise it just feels like completely random stuff. I mess up an opening here, I miss a tactic there, I make a blind blunder somewhere else.I'll also add that I tilt very easily and I'm certain that's contributed quite a bit.
https://www.twitch.tv/azizanashe has a point, fuck money
JX Arena today at 3:45PM EST / 19:45 UTCif you are rated 2300+ in Bughouse you can ask GM Jeffery Xiong for a spot (GMJX on The House discord server)
Obvious cheater from a few days ago just got banned, thank you chess.com!
So I just played a guy. I played a pretty clean game and finished it with just 1 trade. But at the end the guy made a move that allowed me to mate in 1. But it's not a blunder? Just a mistake? It seemed like a borderline psychotic error to me when he played it. Was my position just too strong at that point and it was already mate in 3 or something if he played with stockfish tier accuracy? I'm relatively new so I don't know how to evaluate the strength of my position and I'm not letting chesscom jew me out of money.
>>96383872Do you think you're going to be able to reach Magnus tier or something? You're at the level where people plateau, simple as.
>>96383872Read more chess books,Only play incremental,and gain the self control to stop playing after you lose 3 in a row or you will blow all your gainz on tilt.
>>96388818>But it's not a blunder? Just a mistake?Automated tools aren't 100% accurate. >moneyGet a coach and go to OTB tournaments if you have money.
>it's another "Anon becomes enraged at blatant cheating during his game when the other player turns into Garry Kasparov halfway through, reports him for cheating during the game, calls him a cheater in chat, then runs computer analysis to prove how blatantly the guy was cheating, only to find out that he made 6 blunders" episode
>>96387143https://www.chess.com/play/arena/4401525?clubId=807332
>>96375517round 6:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMsExxmQ8gQ
>spending money on chessRemember that it's a pyramid scheme: only the very top get their money back.
>>96298748>Fujairah Global Chess Championshipround 1:https://s3.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=1&turdet=YES&flag=30&SNode=S0&tno=1173203https://lichess.org/broadcast/fujairah-global-2025--superstars/round-1/KZUs2HWd
any other based retards in the thread?>t. 744 on chess.com
>>96396026That's too high lol
>>96390921round 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnNL9nORW-8
>>96298748>CalendarDuck Chess Championship in September. It's a cute variant, give it a try: https://www.chess.com/events/2025-chesscom-duck-chess-championship
kekhttps://lichess.org/EJvoTSHgAuWR
>>96388818It's because the position is completely winning for black. In one sided positions the computer thinks every move is fine because it doesn't change the evaluation much. Going from -4.2 to mate in one, shifts the evaluation just enough to be a mistake. If it was -7.0 or something it might only be considered an inaccuracy.
>>96397331round 8:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4dxYgU_Mag
Last Titled Tuesday with the 3+1 time control, they are changing the format next week: https://www.chess.com/play/tournament/5874943
>>96403615Agreed. Don't get how so many people have trouble understanding this.
>>96383872>Took a break for a weekDon't do this.
All is well - I made it back up to 2100.Last opponent pulled a classic case of marginally outplaying me the entire game until they made a normal looking move in the endgame that actually turned out to be a blunder that they didn't see because they were low on time and didn't have time to calculate 10+ moves ahead. I feel your pain opponent, I've been there many times.
Finally got a physical tournament sized set. Tried using a combination of speech synthesis on Lichess through Edge and voice controls to move the physical pieces. Worked pretty well.
>>96404897round 9 and playoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKUmU8lHsoA
>>96388818Tip: use lichess, you can have 10 games analyzed a day for free plus the regular analysis board.
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