future world champion edition>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16th- grenke Chess Festival | April 2nd - 6th- Menorca Open | April 7th - 12th- European Individual Chess Championship | April 7th - 19th- Lichess Spring Marathon | April 18th- Chesscom Open Playoffs | April 23rd - 26th- TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament | May 1st - 7th- Sharjah Masters | May 1st - 9th- Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland | May 3rd - 10th- Norway Chess | May 25th - June 5th- Biel Chess Festival | July 11th - 24th>Previous thread:>>97614907
Hikaru is now the great Mr 6 7 for that deep think.
>>97830814He should have waited 5 more minutes to beat Grischuk's record.
>>97830814Would allowing the players to have a paper and pencil to do calculations or take notes reduce the amount of time that players take on thinking? Would it increase the level of play? Would it lead to more draws?
>>97831258I would lose time writing things properly. >Would it increase the level of play? I don't see how you'd find the best move by writing.>more draws?Impossible at this level, they maxed out already.
>>97832596My thought is that it would probably reduce thinking time. My IQ is 80, so it might just be me, but I think Hikaru would have done a bit better if he just wrote down all the possible moves and the different branches that could arise from them. Just to organize his thoughts, you know? It could have reduced his thinking time.
What's the likelihood of Mossad false-flagging the fuck out of the event?Just think of the implications.
>>97833277they could probably get more victims at a bus stop
Had a question as a beginner. Are there good youtubers (or books/text-based sources) that cover their thought process for chess games in minute detail, turn-by-turn? I know of Chess Vibes so I guess I'm looking for some more in that vein that go from first turn to last talking about their options and how they're approaching everything. Thanks.
>>97830814Sindarov status: not amused
>>97833993Hanging Pawns by Stjepan.
>>>/vg/562471764
>>97834339surely /tg/ is more fitting for chess than /vg/, even if this board is dead as fuck
>>97834501https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4lhdw7fuyY
Candidates round 6 is starting:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8gyL05ilUwFabiano Caruana - Andrey EsipenkoHikaru Nakamura - Praggnanandhaa RAnish Giri - Matthias BluebaumWei Yi - Javokhir Sindarov
Who can stop Sindarov? Maybe Magnus will return to classical to take this new challenge.
Why does no one on Chess.com play Chess960 compared to say Lichess?
>>97836829Did you try the tournaments? https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/arena/chess960
pic of the day
>>97837179thanks bro, but its kind of hard to practice with just tournaments
>>97837521Why didn't he just ask her to put the phone away?
Why are fide tournaments so sus?Random nobodies can rack up a ton of draws, make it to the finals, and win the last game out of sheer luck. Why are people ok with watching 50 draws? Surely the rules need to change
>>97839297It's not a FIDE rated event, and the game didn't start yet, so it wasn't a big deal. He did ask the arbiter to keep the phone, to prevent any problem for the girl.
>>97834818Round 7:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSAymeoGiU
>>97840752my man scored!
>>97834009I love this Balkan warlock.Any Nocti users here? I can't tell if it's worth a subscription.
>>97833993Inside the mind of a grandmaster:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFzVKZL5ZLmemWBW5MhyJPvBpaNU6mLIu
>>97837521
final round of the Chess960 tourney with Magnus, Keymer, Abdusattorov, Nieman and many others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXrLwcBJCqo
It annoys me that people even play classic chess at all nowadays, Fischer already invented the best form of chess, I fucking suck at it but I enjoy it way more than predetermined read 1 million books of no value chess, if you enjoy memorization games thats great but chess isn't supposed to be that, it's supposed to evolve and has evolved over time, it's also no fun to beginners that someone who memorizes a few moves nukes them, who would want to play a board game like that? It's like history has ended, regardless, chess960 will eventually replace classic chess anyway, praise Fischer.
>>97847163I partially agree but what do you do once people start memorizing lines for common 960 positions and history repeats itself?
>Magnus pussied outmarried man taking no risk
>>97847163just play blitz/bullet and go for wacky lines. that's what even top players do. nobody can memorise everything, by playing off hand stuff. you can eliminate prep very early into the game, and go from there.
>>97837521That girl definitely can play. She finished just behind Harika.
>>97847760Can't happen unless people can memorize 10,000+ different opening lines, for now it's a brand new game, Fischer was a genius, but if it ever gets stale again somehow people can just reinvent the game again, as has happened to chess many times in history already. People aren't supposed to neurotically gatekeep a game that was invented for fun and to exercise the intellect, to prove how good they are at memorizing and regurgitating vast swathes of theory, it's very symptomatic of modern intellectual affairs in general, it has to change, I believe even the best player ever Magnus said that 960 is the future. Just imagine when 960 is more popular the huge variation of games that will be played, how interesting it will be to see totally new games, I think that's what chess is supposed to be about, not just seeing the same 10 or whatever openings played over and over and over again, its enough to drive all but the most boring to insanity and probably why many beginners get so frustrated and just quit, and why wouldnt they? But if a beginner knew that they could find new and creative ways to win that possibly no one has ever found before, that makes it a lot less mind numbing and dare i say, fun!>>97849853Yeah i'm starting to do that more and more and it's at least more interesting even if a little annoying, it seems like it's hard to improve like that though, plus someone who knows more theory than you is probably still at a major advantage, much more fun to just play 960 where you actually think about the moves and get the checkmate, really wish 960 was played and promoted more.
>>97850774
>>97840752round 8:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGadB2D4UuU
What's the deal with Sindarov's preparation leaking? Is that like, some file with all the opening moves he has memorized?
>>97853470some players use lichess studies as preparation because it's free and allows you to work remotely with other people, but the studies are public by default so sometimes they leak their prep by accident.
>>97853477What is the content of that study, every opening line he's ever memorized?
>>97853527every reasonable move his opponents might make and his response to it. not every line he's ever memorized, you typically only choose one response to keep down the complexity. the best move or some direction you want to carry the game.
>>97853470Meaningless. He'll still win the tournament with only draws.
>>97852552Another world championship*** with 3 asterisks.
i really want to watch the netflix docu without subscribing. is such a thing even possible
>>97859435yeah, someone already uploaded it to megahttps://mega.nz/file/usF2GS6a#wG0wt4i5G0oGaXfZQfKQsLya5xpQoki31PhzMNfDjtc
>>97859441wow thanks that's one fast and helpful answer
>>97859533no problem, btw. check out the /vg/ general, it's much faster than this one.
>>97853470Ding's prep leaked during his WC match. Someone was looking at his games and found exactly the same lines played on some smurf accounts.https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/dings-prep-has-been-leaked
>>97853382Round 9:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDBZJ3i_4fs
>>97859897Fabi’s imploding
>>97860849He needs a mental coach.
>>97859897I have this feeling that Giri can swindle this.
Alright you pricks, pop quiz. How long have you been playing, and what is the most important lesson you learned when you started to really get good?
>>978622975 yearsplaying is better than studying
>>97859897round 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEwWeI7FWj8
Someone posted an over-the-board game recap some IM did of a Scandinavian he played against a GM, I can't seem to find it in the archive now, I'm pretty sure it was posted here. Anyone know who I might be talking about? I felt like it might be Hanging Pawns or John Bartholemew because you guys mention them alot but I can't find it.
>playing any competitive game other than chess>win>"dude im the best">lose>"he just got lucky im literally ten times better than him">play chess>win>"i didnt really deserve that win, my opponent misplayed there">lose>"im the worst chess player ever and ill never improve im a stupid fucking cunt"having no rng, fog of war or bad teammates to blame is taking a toll on my mental health and confidence
>>97867849maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZxW8Myw-vM
>>97868156No it was a live recording like in real life, the view was of the board as if you were playing him OTB. There was an entire playlist of these IRL OTB recordings.
>>97868075It should be the reverse in the long run. Chess is safe haven, it's constant, it's where you get for self reassurance. Everything else is fraught with variables that you have no control over, or they give you doubt. There is nothing like that in chess. It's also a deep pit of time spent poorly, probably.
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026-open/round-10/G3oSxPgs/RN9BrHlKabsolute destruction, dude is on another lvl. next gen engine prep immortalised
>>97859617Supposedly all the top players are aware of that.
After playing a rapid game I wanted to check my opponent's profile and saw this prompt. I didn't even use the chat or try to message the guy. Is it safe to assume he reported me? I didnt know Kramnik was 1400 elo
>>97871469I do that all the time just to unblock everyone every other month.
>>97871469ITT baseless cheating accusations are a compliment rather than an insult.
>>97868635checking
>>97873285now we know why's overperforming so hard. he gets to smash bibisara in a tropic paradise, that's his entire prep. he already has everything he needs, winning the candidates is just extra for him.
>>97865145Round 11:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4pYj7bn6XA
I'm happy to see Richard Rapport playing in Menorca: https://s1.chess-results.com/tnr1258119.aspx?lan=1&art=2&turdet=YES&flag=30&SNode=S0
>>97868075>bad teammates to blameYou have to try Bughouse then.
did anybody notice cheaters on lichess bullet 1 minute (I'm around 1400-1500)? they play very badly for the first 40 seconds, dropping pawns and even losing pieces, and then suddenly turn into magus carlsen and beat me in 10 seconds, almost invariably having left ~10 seconds on their clocknever seen such phenomena a week ago
>>97876966I don't see it. Don't play too much bullet anon, it's bad.
>>97878727why? i can get away without learning openings
oh damn it's not a rest day at the Candidateshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3JEa9qV6Es
What's a good way to learn how to play properly if I know the rules and how the pieces move and all but don't know any strategies or moves and keep getting clapped when I wing it?
>>97880610it's not too late anon just quit
>>97880610>strategiesIt's too early for that. Learn the principles first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXyJdetptXg
>>97880610Read "How To Win At Chess" by Levi Rozman aka GothamChess.Not even meme-ing, it's literally designed for casual beginners like yourself.
BlueGOAT will win the last two games
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aesthetic!
>>97880671>quitgood advice
>>97882492It has been like 25 years since humans mattered in chessAll the real serious chess players moved onto hobby abstracts, like hive, Santorini, yinsh, etc.
>>97882492I want to know the answer.Also, why is the top rated woman like 500 Elo below the top rated man?
>>97885055Smaller brain with less synapses.
Have computers and Chess engines been the worst thing that has happened to Chess in the history of the game?
>>97886698They improved it. The cancer is FIDE.
>>97873789https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDxAOVgMp5g
>>97884668>abstractsWhen I'll retire from chess I'll do Tibetan mandalas.
>>97880540Round 13:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YetaLdC9aBw
I was teaching myself Queen's.Gambit opening, but like 50% of the games in the Candidates were QGD. Is it that popular/meta right now? I don't want to be a boring Mary Sue.
>>97891611any opening is playable on the online shitter and club player level. just play whatever you're comfortable with and gets your pieces in nice squares. what's popular on the super gm level changes like fashion.
winner
>>97891970>spoilerslmao, there wasn't any doubt
>>97891611>meta right nowBy playing C4 after your opponent played D5 to your D4 is Queens Gambit. Accepted or declined is choice of black. Accepted is considered weaker since middle ages, literally, and this was confirmed by supercomputers, but top players still need to be prepared for it, since there are some traps later in the lines. QGD on other hand offers a million of fighting positions both for black and white. That's why it's so popular for both sides. Black can go for reti, indian, modern, queen's pawn, benoni... if he wishes to avoid Queen's Gambit, but every one of those is much narrower in opportunities and scope (or they transpose into a known line of Queen's Gambit), so a quality white player will be able to remember the lines and lead the match into, to him, known positions, offering him advantage.
White completely misses my idea
>>97891018Round 14https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odd2bVZ_cv8
>>97894110Coincidentally, the season 29 TCEC superfinal also just finished today. A new challenger displaced Leela Chess Zero, but still Stockfish still defeated Reckless +41 =36 -23 (59%). Quite a few more decisive games than the usual Stockfish-Leela battles (up to 78% drawn one year).
>>97895175>decisive gamesI believe it depends on the openings that they select.
Sindarov's coach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5TJMiHqiwc
>>97891611It's a great opening. 1.e4 is boring.
>>978969571.e4 is best by test
Central Asians are rising in Chess, even the amateurs are good, it seems like the soviets suppressed them.
>>97898318they are cute!
>>97891611Candidates metas are weird and don't apply top 2600 GM games, let alone at the amateur level. If I had to guess, Queen's Gambit set-ups were most popular at the candidates essentially because the players were hesitant to allow their opponent to unleash some super deep engine prep in the Sicilian or French. See e.g. https://www.chess.com/events/2026-fide-candidates-open/04/Esipenko_Andrey-Giri_Anish. And QGD was the most popular response because it's probably the best objectively, alongside the Nimzo-Indian which also gets very theoretical and can be avoided via move order shenanigans.As for d4 vs. e4 it's really just personal taste. In general, d4 is more positional and e4 more tactical but of course there are some very sharp d4 lines and very positional e4 lines. I will say that e4 has more variety in responses, as a lot of d4 responses transpose or lead to very similar structures.
>>97898318A guy from Azerbaijan is also leading the European championship with 2 rounds to go.
>>97832656It's totally plausible that writing down stuff could help, Wesley So was disqualified at one point due to writing stuff down. Magnus has talked about forgetting earlier analysis he made in a long classic game. Mourinho famously takes notes during football games, which is obviously allowed but rarely done. In theory good notes could help jog your memory at some point in some way. I think it should be allowed, just to see if players can make use of it and it add something extra to the game. I don't really see a downside.
>>97903876I'll draw a dick every time my opponent makes a blunder.
>>97830747>Lichess Spring Marathonfirst 6 hours are gonenot many titled players this timehttps://lichess.org/tournament/spring26
I'm having a great time playing Setup Chess. Those retards placing 3 queens have no clue of what it'll happen. I highly recommend it.
Round 10 of the European Individual Chess Championships:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ6j9LWZLJo
>>97902963Cool, I don't remember having a bad game with an Azeri, when you see that flag you know youre either crushing them or theyre crushing you and its always an interesting game. Not like indians memorizing the same 4 openings and resigning the moment you step outside of theory. I played against an Indian recently who confidently played 3 book moves and I played something wild maybe a4 and they instantly resigned lol.
>>97907851What's setup chess? Sounds fun.
>>97908990>Sounds fun.It is!
How come Japan doesn't have a big Chess scene? They only have a small handful of IMs.https://lichess.org/fide/federation/Japan
>>97909425they play Shogi
>>97909425Shogi takes the place of Chess in Japan, it's a shame since they would definitely have a good amount of GMs if that wasn't the case.
Please Japan, never change.
No clock?
>>97912170Ah no the guys at the table press the clock I suppose. Weird.
>>97912170Everything looks uncomfortable and unpractical. Except the snacks.
>>97908209last round! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1cxjR5D1MI
puzzle rush logic>1100 elocan you find this 10 move trading sequence that leaves you with +1 pawn?>1600 elooh no i have 3 pawns in front of my king can you backrank me with your rook that has an open file?
>>97913588>rushThat's not a good idea.
>>97912170those people at the table both record the game and manage the time. This includes byoyomi: they count down the remaining time when it reaches sudden death.>>97912487half of shogi reporting is about what the players eat for lunch and snacks.It is a traditional cultural activity, so there are all sorts of strictures at the pro level, such as dress code, the order in which you place the pieces onto the board at the beginning (!), and how you greet your opponent and resign the game.
>>97913588Chess.com puzzles are very annoying because they don't tell you the goal, the move you'd make could be very different depending on different goals like find checkmate vs capture material
>>97916493> because they don't tell you the goal, the move you'd make could be very different depending on different goals like find checkmate vs capture materialAnd that's a good thing! It teaches you to evaluate the position before you start looking for solutions.Lichess random puzzle generator goes even further, and just instructs you to find the best move. All puzzles there are also from live games, so they're from positions that can arise during the play.Just had a great one: Black to move.
>>97912547lol an IM won
>>97917774I suppose you can learn well that way it just doesn't fit my play style, I love chess960 because it works better than puzzles for me, the start of each new game is like a different arrangement of the board, and because the game is incalculable for humans i can find creative solutions instead of brute computer like forced moves. I am a beginner though so maybe i just cant 'see' when taking material is better than going for checkmate and vice versa. That's the nice thing about chess even if all the rules are the same people can play for completely different reasons and I wouldn't play chess at all if that wasn't the case, it would be more like memorizing playing cards which some people love but just isn't for me. I like your board style by the way. It's like one of those old funky ficschess styles.
>>97922535>memorizing playing cardsthat sucks
>>97917774>All puzzles there are also from live gamesYes but sometimes there are too many pieces and the position is a mess.
>>97830747>- Chesscom Open Playoffs | April 23rd - 26thtwo dollars on Vincent
>>97871469Some people cheat. Get over it.
>>97929773The problem is that there are so many people complaining about "cheaters" that the admins don't have enough time to catch the real ones.
If it weren't for Go, Xiangqi, Shogi, etc..., chess would be completely dominated by east Asians because they are a billion times better at memorizing and doing mental calculations than everyone else.
>>97931825When i was using a bot a couple years ago on lichess they were actually performing manual anticheat checks if your rating crossed over like 2200-2400 points and if you got past that check then your account must have been marked as clear and the new reports wouldn't do anything even if you play first engine lines only lol
Scandinavian btfo
>>97929569https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEJS5y_SdQ
>>97868075>>win>>"i didnt really deserve that win, my opponent misplayed there"The only difference between a winner and a loser is the winner made less mistakes. Just because you won doesn't mean you made no misplays either and can't improve. Every win is deserved and every game is a learning opportunity, stop worrying about results and play.
>>97933449That opening is garbage anyway.
>>97934559Nice perspective, if you like playing chess, keep playing, if you're playing to exercise your mind, keep playing, if you don't want to play chess, don't play, but whatever you do don't worry about the results, there's no point, it won't make them any better anyway, and you'll be happier if you don't.
Am I winning here?
>>97937681Yes
