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>>96715565>European Team Chess ChampionshipRound 5:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOGVj2-pAw
Any tips for a beginner? I just started my acount on Chess.com and am getting smacked around.
>>96716218It's normal. Play a lot, analyze your games, do puzzles, watch videos about the basic chess principles. Try the other website too (Lichess), which is superior in every aspect except for a smaller player base.
>>96715602based Rapport!
>>96716218>am getting smacked aroundThe first error made by beginners is believing that they can improve quickly. Unfortunately, learning to play chess is very time consuming. Avoid bullet for now. Take your time to look carefully at the last move made by your opponent, then find answers that make sense and don't hang pieces on unprotected squares. With time you'll find patterns and motifs that work, and you'll discard what is not working.
>>96715565>Chess.com>Play 400 games, can't break 1100>Let's do a new account, why not>Win against 1480, 1593, 1600 and 1700 back to back>Check match history, they all have thousands of gamesI don't get it
>>96718406That website allows people to choose their initial rating: there are strong players that choose 400 and "steal" ratings until they go up to their actual rating, and weak players that choose 1600 and give free Elo to everyone until they burn completely. This creates two gigantic holes: one between 500 and 800 filled with underrated players, and one around 1300/1600 filled with overrated players. Just use Lichess if you want to know your real rating.
>>96719072Forgot to say that "New to Chess" is 400, "Advanced" is 1600.
>>96718406>>96719072Same reason why you see large arena tournaments with a ridiculously low rated player at the top.
>>96719106I picked intermediate and started against a 1000/1100Very strange
>>96715602round 6 live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aazGYthuuw
>>96719072>Just use Lichess if you want to know your real rating.>Lichess>where everyone starts at 1500 and where everything is inflated by about 400 points'k
>>96722480What to do then, FIDE rated tournaments? pfffffffffff
>>96722988Yes.
>>96723043But I don't want her to cry! https://www.instagram.com/phoebewittechess/reel/DPdwdl6jbvt/
Does anyone have that meme of the go playing wojack on the left side crying with a go board with a huge wall of text over his face and chad with a chess board on the right saying "lol my gf thinks I'm smart"
>>96726932No but thanks for the cancer I've got while trying to find it.
Do any of you bother playing against bots on chess.com or just against other people? Just started playing it and not sure if bots are worth it
>>96729187In this general we always recommend to avoid bots, except the Maia bots that try to play like humans: https://www.maiachess.com
You guys should all quit chess and play go instead.t. go player
>>96729235>https://www.maiachess.com/Neat thanks
>>96729187Playing against bots teaches you how to beat bots. Playing against humans teaches you how to beat humans.The problem with bots is that they either play almost impeccably or they get dumbed down to where the errors they make are artificial errors like randomly moving a piece every x moves with x% chance. Whereas with humans you can sort of intuit why they did something stupid.
>>96722480My rating is the exact same on Lichess and chess.com. It think it's only different if you are under 1600, because chess.com allows players to start at 1600 or 400, which messes all the ratings up for those levels.
>>96730733It's about even between 2100 and 2600.Under 2100, any given Chesscum ELO is better than its Lichess equivalent. By a lot.Above 2600 it's the opposite.
>>96729654I tried it and didn't win any game no matter what I did.
>>96719072So everyone under 1600 is randomly playing anyone between 400-1600 sounds like. So until you're better than actual 1600s you could be stuck at any ranking below that.
>>96733558Yes but it also means a lot of shitters can brag about having a 4-digit ELO, which is awesome, innit.I guess it explains why Reddit love Lichess so much.
>>96733724It can't be because it looks and works better. That would make no sense.
>>96734594>it-it looks betterPathetic.
>>96735785He's right.
>>96729654I play Go, anon. I haven’t practiced in a while because it’s impossible to find other players here. I’m probably down to 13kyu now
>>96721997Round 7:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8mQlKFI4c
>>96736592they fixed something, new link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsm_wNvnGy4
