Peter edition>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- FIDE World Cup | October 30th - November 27th- FIDE Women's World Team Championship | November 17th - 24th- US Masters | November 26th - 30th- XTX Markets London Chess Classic | November 26th - December 7th- IV President Cup: Masters | December 4th - 12th- Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour: Cape Town | December 5th - 12th- Tech Mahindra Global Chess League | December 13th - 24th- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st- Rilton Cup | December 27th - January 5th- Tata Steel | January 16th - February 1st>Previous thread:>>96840442
>>96927506>FIDE World CupRound 3 game 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHV8xwVykGA
>Peter wonHappy to see that he's not retiring.
Crazyhouse Chess Championship final:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSDjjY1P6-w
black to move
>>96932027a6way too easy, give us something harder than this
Leko vs Giri final
>>96932161uh? solution: queen to e2 check, king to g2, knight to f4 checkmate
>>96933068Leko has Erigaisi next week...
>>96932027During normal play, I’d have never guessed there was a mate in two there. It just doesn’t seem possible at first sight. Nice puzzle.
>>96933708how exactly does the queen get to e2 lmfao
>>96936871ah ah e1 yes, we all need a coffee
The World Cup is such a tough tournament, psychologically I mean. Knowing that you can qualify for the Candidates would give me nightmares.
>>96930721Bughouse is 10 times better than Crazyhouse.
>>96927563Round 3, game 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84qvQMQBsWg
>Gukesh outtold you
>>96933068>Girijinxed lol
After today disaster, I'm changing my prediction for the 3 Candidates spots given at the World Cup: Jospem, Keymer and Leko. Let's go!
>canadian "chessbrah channel">see, we're got the hip zoomer slang in our name and are manly and cool, guys>hansen: homosexual basket case who likes to talk about butt plugs, throw tempter tantrums and break keyboards on stream>hamilton: labour voter, often plays the dem diversity song which is an amalgamation of various obama speeches, with the theme of "diversity is our strength," and this is done wholly unironically>"fuck yeah; labour won again">"thankfully, someone like trump would just never happen here">the entire bunch reflexively, due to politics and social dynamics, sided with carlsen against hansThe absolute state of canadians. And I say that as a swede. just lmao
European Youth Chess Championship results and photos:https://s3.chess-results.com/tnr1282652.aspx?lan=1&art=4https://www.flickr.com/photos/203686267@N02/albums/
>>96943434at least they are sober...
>>96944234How do we convince all those cuties to stay in the chess world instead of becoming boring normies?
>>96927506Like a rockstar.
>>96938714round 3 tie-break:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx4q3PWdK0c
What would you do if I called chess gay
>>96946401Chess players aren't gay, they are autistic nerds and incels, with a few outliers that manage to marry and have kids, like Giri. The game itself has a lot of maths and logics aspects, and those aren't gay either.
>>96946388Sam Sevian won! Crazy.
chesd:DDDD
>>96946696wtf is this madness? (and why I can't play like this):https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-world-cup-2025--round-3/tiebreak-2-rapid-1/9wuDCaIo/eh6tDnYp#1
>>96943434>the entire bunch reflexively, due to politics and social dynamics, sided with carlsen against hansCan you explain the dynamic here? I don't follow edrama enough to know why homosexual Canadian leftists would automatically side with Carlsen against Hans (presumably regarding the 2022 cheating allegations, unless something new has happened).
>>96946388It's time for Armageddon guys
>>96946401FIDE is gay, that's for sure.
>>96927506Remember that the Fog of War championship will be in December 11-13. It's not that easy to learn, so it's better to start preparing now.
If Keymer doesn't qualify for the candidates, that's some bullshit. The guy has the worst luck. Ties for the win at the Grand Swiss as one of only two players in the top 10 to have 6 blacks and 5 whites. Loses tie breaks by having opponents 27 rating lower on average. Basically nothing. Then he gets to round four on the most stacked side of the bracket in the world cup. If Pragg qualifies in this tournament then Vincent will get the grand chess tour spot. Guess what Vincent has to play Pragg for top 4 spot if they both win their games. The guy has the worst luck ever.
>>96948565The history of chess is full of these stories of bad luck and missed opportunities. Even Carlsen didn't manage to win the World Cup until very late in his career (2023).
CM Vladimir Mikhailovsky won the first Naroditsky Memorial:https://lichess.org/tournament/naro2025
>>96948565>the most stacked side of the bracketIt's indeed very unbalanced now.
>rest day at the World CupFinally a tournament that really need it.
>>96927506How to prepare against Erigaisi? That guy is a beast. He plays 1.d4, then the French or Sicilian with black. Hopefully Vincent will help Peter this time!
>>96952537Arjun can play an insane variety. He also did fairly well in the Freestyle tournaments where everything is outside of theory. Vincent is also a beast and even better than Arjun at Freestyle so yes he could probably give some advice on the match.
>>96947223https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAZ3NLImJJk
>>96953564Playing OTB with such a small increment is insane.
>>96938069Both need Chess960 starting positions. I'm tired of playing the same openings over and over again.
Chess is an absolute garbage game. Devolves into plodding nonsense where the winner is determined by who cheated the most. Reading and memorizing chess books is not even playing chess it's literally cheating. Chess needs massive rule overhaul to make into a fun and interesting game instead of plodding slop that only rewards cheaters. Grandmasters are just the biggest cheaters.
>>96958435>t. Bobby Fischer, 1996https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_Randomized_Chess
>>96958435Have a cake and relax.
>>96959254We would have switched to it by now if he wasn't a schizo.
Looking for Pragg vs Dubov today.
>>96946388Round 4 game 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWSCleUTEP8
>>96959932It's often called Chess960 because chess jews don't like Fischer's opinions, the reason it hasn't taken over is both because of the strength of the established tradition of conventional chess and because most people aren't good enough at conventional chess to need to learn an auxiliary ruleset for shuffling the board. Hikaru is the current FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Champion so it's not as if the format died with Fischer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess960_Championship
I want to learn chess to get love from one girl...
>>96963417Have her teach you.
Mogged
>>96964141russians the EU-looking flag. take that putin!
>>96958435>Picking up a book and educating yourself is cheatingYou must live a hard life.
>>96964605Politics should be out of chess.
>>96964141Impressive.
>>96961223Too many draws.
>>96961223Round 4 game 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeFu6g9rkyI
>>96963417You need to reach at least 2000 blitz on Lichess.
>>96962773Fischer's idea wasn't original, moving the starting position around was a well-known idea in Europe with such games falling under the umbrella term Shuffle Chess. Fischer Random is just one type of Shuffle Chess. >>96959254As Fischer himself said he wasn't trying to sell it as "the greatest thing since puffed weed", it's just an improvement. Randomizing it doesn't mean all knowledge is useless, if that was the case the top players would be extremely different to the top of regular chess when they're pretty much the same.
>>96971473>Fischer Random is just one type of Shuffle Chess.Yes, and Chess960 is another name for Fischer's variant of shuffle chess rather than a name for a variant distinct from Fischer's. >Randomizing it doesn't mean all knowledge is uselessObviously not, but it does pull the opening out of strictly memorized moves, forcing more creativity out of top players who are, of course, drawing on a large body of experience with chess pattern recognition and problem solving.
>>96960402One more chance.
>>96971277And after this she falls in love with me?
>>96972901You own mother doesn't love you. Why would anyone else?
I won against grok in chess (I played as black).
>>96973297Congrats.
>>96962773>currentThat was a random tournament held 3 years ago. FIDE is not competent enough to establish a legit Chess960 world championship. The winner of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will be the champion this year.
>>96969720Round 4 tie-break:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raosXDWGd4o
Lekings..
HarryChrisna is the best player so far imo
>>96976851But Dubov won! We can't have everything.
>>96977151Yes he has a really good chance nowat least to get 3rdhopefully Aronian can beat erigaisi
>>96952537>Vincent will help PeterBoth are out. This is suffering.
Ya'll like variants?Recently discovered a new one called Enochian chess--it's an obscure and esoteric four-player chess game that draws heavily on occult symbolism and was used for divination.The ruleset is fairly complicated but rewarding once mastered. endless strategic possibility.i recently made a playable version (complete with very bad bots) if you're interested in trying it out:>https://tgnoil.github.io/enochian-chess/
>>96981461>Ya'll like variants?Yes!>occult symbolismFuck off!
These two are cooking something.
>>96976832Round 5, game 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1MOcmoodkA
>>96983984This shit doesn't happen with Chess960.
>>96936534nigga are you for real
I wish I could time-travel a two weeks back and mage a bingo of 25 fide world cup favorite players. so many eliminations of players I was looking forward toRIP Nodirbek Mamedyarov Nepo Ivanchuk Rapport Navara Hans fuck you Wesley never in candidates lolstill get to root for Wei Yi, Levon and Dubov.
>>96986923I think you can blame the engines for that.Back in 2019 the player seeds matched up pretty nicely with their chances of making the top 16.After deep learning models came out it was much easier for lower-ranked players to challenge higher ones with novelties.
>>96962773>most people aren't good enough at conventional chess to need to learn an auxiliary ruleset for shuffling the boardSurely anybody interested in chess has the mental faculty to have a computer/phone give him(/her lmao) a starting position? Regardless, Fischerrandom absolutely is the future of high level chess because fuck chess theory and the drawing snoozefests it creates. The top level Fischerrandom tournaments are much more interesting because suddenly even the top GMs seem a lot more mortal when their memorization crutch is taken away and blunders happen on move 1.
>>96989028>Surely anybody interested in chess has the mental faculty to have a computer/phone give him(/her lmao) a starting position?Sure, but nearly nobody wants to fuck around with computers when playing over-the-board with real people in real life. >Fischerrandom absolutely is the future of high level chessProbably, but classical will retain prestige for a long time.
>>96987512The top players were the first to fully use engines.
>>96983984round 5 game 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5eAf-j_AqE
my attention span is too low to play chess tbqhlike I came back after a 5 year break, got bakt to 1800 lichess rapid, and now i'm already down to 1700 just because I keep blundering in the opening from not paying attention just had this epic game as black1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e4xd5 4. e6xd5 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Bg5 Be6 7. Nxd5 black resign because he forgot to play 6. c6 despite playing 10 trillion games of exchange french FUCK
>>96991113Try to spend half of the available time to analyze the moves of your opponent. You can flip the board if you are playing online.
>>96991060So sorry for Le Quang Liem, I like that guy.
>>96991849>commentators: "any move wins">drawlol
free 1 month chesscom premiumhttps://www.chess.com/offer?coupon=CUP25-9***I*** = three letter acronym for Etherium
chess24 deleted the carlsen interview after speedchess where he supposedly got upset because rensch revealed his son's name. does anyone know if it's still somewhere? i like drama
>>96992716it's on the facebook group "Magnus Carlsen fans"
>>96993575But why are they revealing the name if they are "fans"?
my rice nigga Wei Yi is going to make it!
>>96993575thanks. i like it.
>>96989094>fuck around with computers when playing over-the-board with real people in real life.There are clocks that can generate the starting positions.
>>96991060Round 5 | Tiebreakshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REtEa9Y_0k4
>>96997477only 4 tie breaks today. we're getting close!
>>96997477>that coverwtf FIDE don't jinx my guys
>>96996201Nice, I might have to look into those, any product recommendations beyond pic related? That said, I've played more chess in a social context without a timer than with a timer and so I stand by the claim that needing something beyond the standard chess board, pieces, and rules that everyone has laying around is a barrier to mainstreaming Fischerandom.
>>96998012>without a timerThat requires sportsmanship and good manners. You are lucky I guess.
>>96997477based Jospem
>>96986923damn, only Wei Yi remaining.I really hope he makes it, otherwise I'll only care for Fabi from the Candidates pool
i wish there were one streamer on the whole youtube that would comment without looking at the eval bar and the computer. it's so boring to have them just comment the computer
>trying to learn chess to become inteligenter>too dumb and can't only loss with random beginner players online
>>97000147*can't stop lossing
>>97000147sandbag yourself down to a lower rating where you can beat most people
>>97000223Is that useful or gonna get stucked to that zero level for ever? I want to surpass myself sometime
>>97000255The difference between a 100 and an 1000 player is 10% knowledge of openings and tactics and 90% not doing retarded blunders. You can pick up a good amount of not-hanging-your-queen skill even when playing against beginners. Of course if you have four digit ambitions, eventually you'll have to learn openers and play better players.
>>96943434Is Hansen actually a gay?
>>96947764This is the most Jewish thing I've seen all week.
>>97000147Just keep at it buddy, trust me, you'll improve. Some of the biggest retards I know smoke me every game at my chess club. In 99.99% cases, they're not some 300 IQ giga brain, it's just that they've been playing for so much longer than I have lol.
me opponent was good, but he was having a very bad day. I just had to move the Bishop and the Queen
>>97000636what's the point of this shit? I grinded a 1# on Elite. 2# and 3# were 600 players doing 10min and 3min games. Do people drop rating just to play this, or is just nobody rated doing it?
>>96991113What's wrong with Bxd5?
>>96991113time format?
>>96972901After you become alpha in the chess world all the chess honies will be dying to hook up with you. NOTHING turns a girl on like a guy who is able to mate with B+R vs R with an unfavourable starting position.
>>97000875>what's the point of this shit?It tries to force people to spend more time on the website. Just ignore it.
>>96997477Quarterfinals | Game 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPh97YLfGd4
How do I beat the Berlin as white?
>>97005727You can only draw :D
Hikaru vs Wesley live:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r16CG8FhWog
>>96998031I typically play chess with people that I'm hanging out with for non-chess reasons rather than going somewhere to play chess with people who are there to play chess competitively. Games tend to settle into a natural pace and if someone takes way too long to move they end up getting heckled.
>>97007100damn that was close
>>97000147i'm pretty sure hikaru is a confirmed midwit and he's world number 2
>>97009744That IQ test he mentioned? It wasn't in a controlled environment.
>>97004260Game 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=popO9KbOO1w
Chess is actually one of the best sports to meet women because they often have a girl tournament parallel and you have mixed team tournaments
>>96963417Can you understand why castling is necessary in chess? It's just a way to slow down the game and lose the initiative.I don't do it in the debut
day 18
>>97015903What will happen on day 19?
>>97014495Mating with a pawn move is always special.
>>96986923>still get to root for Wei Yi, Levon and Dubov.oh well
I beat Francis (2300)
I beat some guy who brought his custom made chess board at the bar tonight. I'm haven't played since I was a kid and he lost 2 of 3 games. He seemed genuinely upset so i bought him a drink. How do you anons cope when you lose to someone who barely plays?
>>97018975It's a learning opportunity
leko and jan missed the wins while watching the draw
IT'S A POO
there's some good games today
>>97011846Tie-breaks:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roz32OsJCSc
>>97019237Uzbekistan stronk!
>>97016324+23
>Ke5how to know which Knight moved?
>>97021585https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_notation_(chess)#Disambiguating_moves
>>97021651thank you very much. may you remind Christ's message in this Christmas
>>97021585???
>>97021754classic grok move
>>97019237Wei Yi status: unstoppable!
>>97009744i just don't buy this whole notion of there being a great separation within a person between overall general intelligence and chess skill. you just are not going to reach 3400 blitz on chess.com as a midwit. and there you go, world number 2 and you're thinking he's just an average midwit? magnus is known worldwide as a super genius. being one spot ahead of and you don't make the same case for him because he's been world number one for so long or what's your exception for him? why only hikaru and not magnus? because hikaru is a goofy streamer entertainer and magnus isn't?how long have you been playing chess and what's your blitz rating on chess.com? if a midwit can make it to world number 2, what is your excuse for having such a poor rating?
I was looking through the archive and threads used to last a day or two max. Then, in 2024 (like literally right at the start of the year), they started being a week long or so. What happened?>Searching for posts with the subject ‘Chess general’ and posts after 2023-01-01 and posts before 2023-12-31. >355 results found.>Searching for posts with the subject ‘Chess general’ and posts after 2024-01-01 and posts before 2024-12-31.>50 results found.
>Two games won by opponent desisted What does it means? Wouldn't they even try to keep at least?
>>97026620They were busy irl.
>>97025425Anon, you are talking to someone that is posting on 4chin... there is also this possibility: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiot_savant
>>96927506>FIDE Women's World Team ChampionshipQuarter-finals tomorrow>time control 45'+30''wtf is this? It's not classical, and not rapid either.
>>97027565it's the new fast classic
>>97027565>>97027580slo-mo bullet, like in the movies
