king edition>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament | May 1st - 7th- Grand Chess Tour: Super Rapid & Blitz Poland | May 3rd - 10th- Sardinia World Chess Festival | May 3rd - 10th- Grand Chess Tour: Super Chess Classic Romania | May 12th - 24th- Norway Chess | May 25th - June 5th- European Women's Chess Championship | May 25th - June 5th- UzChess Cup | June 7th - 15th- Biel Chess Festival | July 11th - 24th- Lichess Summer Marathon | August 1st- Sinquefield Cup | August 8th - 12th- FIDE World Championship Match | November 23rd - December 17th>Previous thread:>>97830747
>>97975648>TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament | May 1st - 7thround 1 live commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6Y3W-KpuU
>>97975661We need an official team for all the new faces. How about something a bit ironic like Polish Potato farmers?
Since when do you need an account to analyse openings on Lichess? What a bummer
Why the hell do they have some 2500 Chinese girl going against super GMs?
>>97975850Maybe it's just their tradition. Last year there was Tan Zhongyi, two years ago Ju Wenjun.
>>97975850She could still turn it around.
I told people I was living off the grid to find inner peace…Turns out I just meant I blundered my queen and got kicked off the 8×8.
>>97975850So it's like a yearly sacrifice to their Chinese dragon gods or some shit?
>>97975993kek we already knew the chinese dont value human life
>>97975850Honestly this tournament is very weird. Putting Magnus, Arjun, and Nodirbek in a tournament with 2600s, the 4th (?) strongest woman, and a 14 year old seems designed to create some sort of vaguely fetishistic humiliation ritual
/tg/ is the home of /chess/Always has been.
>adult improver>look inside>1400 fide at 12
>>979769111400 is like 2000 lichess?
Here's a good bit of wisdom for you that is ACTUALLY useful at all levels. When your opponent has a bishop put your pawns on the same color as that bishop. (Assuming you don't also have a bishop of the same color.)It's a rule of thumb that is easy to implement and holds true most of the time.>But can't my opponent attack the pawns then?Yes, that's something to keep in mind and calculate in precise positions, but generally you keep them the same color to not weaken that color complex and to take away squares from the bishop.Example, my opponent in this position, dumbass that he is, was up 2 pawns but threw away all the advantage in one move by not following this rule.(Meant to post this here but stupidly still had the wrong general pulled up.)
>>97977121I don't know man I feel like it depends. If you have a pawn chain yes keep it on the opponent's bishop's color complex but if you have isolated pawns around the place in some endgame you want to keep them off the opposing bishop's color complex and your opponent does well to freeze your isolated pawns on the color of their bishop.
>The heckin super GMs are playing the Petrov and exchanging all the pieces off and drawing with Carlsen, that means I can do it too!
>>97977249Yeah, that is true as well.
>>97977249 (Me)Even if you do have a pawn chain it has to be well defended else it can easily get eaten up by the opposing bishop. In your position of course the weak light squares are an issue especially with the king right there though.
>>97974702I really like 10+0, it's the perfect time control. Not fast enough that you don't have time to think about lines, not slow enough that you can take 67 minutes on one move like Hikaru. 15 minutes is just too much of a commitment, and 10 plus increment can just drag on forever.
>>97977273Yes, there are times when it doesn't work. That's why I said you need to calculate it, but if you keep in mind that it is often good then you can use it to your advantage. Like when you have connected passers that you are trying to advance, often the key is to put them on the same color as the bishop so they can't be blockaded, provided of course they can't both be eaten without queening.
>>9797738410+5 is a based time control if not for the cheaters and the fact that hardly anyone over 2400 plays it.
Queen's Gambit best opening. Not Accepted, not Declined, just QG.
/vg/chess/ is back>>97977384what makes 10+0 so frustrating is that often you spend 19 minutes actually thinking and calculating only for it to come down to bullet skills in the endgame, I'm not against no increment blitz but in rapid it should never come down to flagging, I really wish 10+2 was the default it's made worse by the fact that almost no one plays any other rapid tc on .scam and lichess nonexistent cheat detection making it pointless to play rapid there
lol jesus is it obvious when the samefag loser shows up… no posts for hours and then a bunch of self-replies.
>>97977269>>97977422oh yeah that's an important one it always comes up in puzzles.>>97977491We're literally just discussing chess bro. There are times of samefaggotry but this isn't one of them
>>97977552>posts that have already been made >in rapid fucking reaction to each other >with archive shit included
>>97977552he's a literal schizo, just ignore himwatch him claim we are the same person and babble about "lower case companion" now and laugh
>>97977009FIDE raised the floor in January 2024. 1400 is currently the bottom, it was a "decent" rating before, nothing special.
>>97977461Nice board color is that salmon?
>>97977652Then I don’t get the OG post. Maybe he didn’t realize the starting rating is around 1400 (if that’s what you’re saying).
I can't believe that anon prefers Paul Allen's board theme to mine
>>97977466I like the pressure of flagging because it means you have to be very cognizant of your time usage, which in turn makes strategy around how and when to burn time calculating more interesting. It also makes it much easier to convert winning advantages, which can be a pro or a con depending on your perspective but IMO it's very boring to spend 20-30 minutes converting a e.g. a clean piece up position because your opponent burns his entire clock looking for every last available trap (forcing you to invest similar attention) with zero risk of flagging.
Breaking News: Hans had changed his profile picture on twitter.I suspect he’s started treatment.
It was good while it lasted. I was rooting for you wowowwow
I’m staying here desu. /vg/ thread is seriously bad vibes. It has an evil energy I was letting infest my brain.
>>97979859Ya that place is for alcoholics, this is the dignified thread.
>>97978006>zero risk of flaggingThere could be a problem with the Internet connection.
>>97978158What a fucking crooked scumbug he is.He has made an AMA but hidden the information that he will be answering the questions after 2 days rofl - so that I kept checking and bumping his sorry thread.How come that the chess players (starting with Big Boss Cucksen) are all fucking swindlers? Is it because they didn't have time for any normal interactions with other human beings due to their "careers"? Or they are just full of themselves assholes by trade?
it’s honestly astounding just how dead both threads are.
>>97980505It's because autism.
>>97980505if you look carefully, it says Saturday 2nd of May. whoever manages his social media is a retard and failed to convey the right info in the post, just posted the time without the date. also, probably failed to predict how fast the questions would come in, it was like 900 comments in the first 5 hours. now they're going to let people wait 2 days to get answers? people lose interest fast on the internet. i just hope the people running endgame.ai with him know what they're doing but so far it doesn't seem like they do.
Seems like every other person I play in blitz is 2600 bullet. And they're garbage so therefore bullet is nonsense.
>>97980505You just aren’t a real fan, you’re not one of hans fans
did chess.com suddenly inflate everyone's elo? i was 1000 for years and now i'm 1300. granted, i memorized some openings like KID jobava london and stafford mainly so maybe i'm getting the upper hand, i was stalled playing fried liver/caro kann before that. i still play caro kann every now and then. or did memorization really just make me better? i also went a very long time between the time i tried grinding to 1300 successfully, and now again on a smurf, it seems like i can get back to the rating effectively.
>>97980645I would have asked him what he recommends for turning a receding hairline into a proceding hairline
>>97980691same strategy as with the cheating allegations: deny, ignore, use as fuel for the fire of your passion, milk it for pity points on social media...
>>97980690I don't play on chess.com of course.
>>97980690>>97980702also finally dunking on englund gambit mainline shitters, good riddance. "just play center game to 2000 bro" posters really infected my brain
>>97977121>>97977249I was just watching a blitz match between magnus and dubov, and this is a good illustration. Take a gander at the pawns.Even though white has a lesbian, black only has one bishop which is also a lesbian so white put the pawns on the light squares to impede it. And the black bishop runs free.
>>97980695This is good advice have you tried dming him?
>>97980695All chess com cheating reports should be public.
Ggs it was weird with the lag at the end. It said you had flagged then suddenly it gave you 20 second, never saw it that bad before.
>>97981262cope, lichess could tell you were cheating and auto adjusted the time to compensate
Aaaaaand we’ve arrived in necrobump samefag territory already.
>8 min agoGames? Why not?https://lichess.org/zANtnIIr
>>97981289https://lichess.org/zANtnIIr
Sorry pasted the wrong thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAFEWL0-1sc
I'm so embarrased. I just lost a Blitz against a BORG.
>>97981349Fun twist ending I did not expect
Hmm both chess threads are dead, did chess.com turn off the bots or have the covid casuals all plateaued and given up at once?
>>97977950Thanks. No, it's called Pink on chess.com.
>>97981483the moment the samefagger goes to sleep nobody is left to bump and the threads 404.
>>97981520Cool I guess that's it then, gentlemen
>>97980843All the 10 millions of them? lol
>>97981630lol!
>>97975993>sacrificeThey don't finish at the bottom of the ranking crosstable.
Everyone's rooting for the girl today. The other pairings aren't very interesting.
>>97982243 Van Forest is going to anally rape her, why is this interesting?
>>97982337well, it's started, let's see what she can do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE2cm0-DtW0
Carlsen is playing the Benoni! You don't see that at top level much anymore. Probably because stockfish gives it at +0.8.
>>97980505>>97980695Average seething moralizing Magnus/Shitkaru fanHow do you suggest making money from chess bozo?
>>97983023>making money from chessBy winning tournaments without cheating.
>>97981349why did you help him recover his terrible position by trading off pieces like the crayon person that you are?
>>97982337Didn't go according to plan eh? ah ah
Matthias is underrated even irl.
Are there any games that anyone recommend to study for playing the Pirc Defense/King's Indian setup as Black against 1. e4? So 1. e4 d6 2. ..Nf6. I want to learn, but I keep getting crushed out of the opening and I have zero space to work with.
>>97984199You can search by ECO codes, for example B07, B08, B09 then select black winshttps://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=B08
Andy Woodward is one of those people with more gums than teeth.Very disconcerting.
Got my first OTB in two years coming up this month anons, im nervous
>>97984412Remember to take a shower.
I played this stupid move which threatens mate in 2 if white plays Rg1, completely missing that he can just fork my queen and rook (there are more complications but it's +3.6).So what did my opponent do? Thought for a minute and 18 seconds and played Rg1.We're both complete retards. This was at 2200+ blitz.
>>97984199make your own course on chessreps, drill the lines and get back to us. i think if the center is very closed you can push your own kingside pawns
>>97983134Prove Niemman cheated against Carlsen, i'll wait.
>>97984497500 here, I didn't understand a word you said. His horsey cant eat your queen because your castle would just smash him
>>97984497kek i would have played bh3
>>97984497maybe you both simply don't believe you are meant to be 2300 ELO
>>97984497>blitzThere's your problem. I fuckin hate fast chess.
>>97985725The fork is by the pawn. Pawn to g4. If ...Qxg4 then Rg1 pins my queen to my king.
>>97986414holy shit, castlehead ate the queen
>>97982356new episode of the Zhu Chronicles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVY6bNtedWI
guys I'm 400 elo is that good?
ATTENTION ATTENTION.WE HAVE A PHILIDOR ON THE BOARD.Van Foreest vs. Gummy McGee.
The Evolution of Cheating in Chess:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gggsWEJRM
Kramnik Variation
>>97988260I wouldn't say its bad, i was stuck at 200 for a long time, still feel like im actually 150
How is this a brilliant move?
>>97981483we are ever approaching new levels of dead at /chess/. it’s a science experiment at this point.
>>97990633The criteria for brilliant moves on chesscom scales with your rating. You could have moved your attacked knight on f3 but you attacked his queen instead, which was the best move. That makes it a brilliant move according to their algorithm.
Pro tip: always set the rating range when searching for new opponents.
>>97991824No. I will play whoever the pool gives me.
>>97991884Whomever*
>>97991997Whomsoever*
>>97991079really? how do you know that? if true that fucking sucks
>>97992012looks like RuneScape
Just had a really good defending game. We both made some mistakes, but his worst mistake was allowing me to trade queens. He took my rook at the end and resigned since I had an extra rook.
>>979779621400 is still a decent FIDE rating you moron. You're just marked as unrated if you're below that.
>>97992252I don't play on chesscom, but I heard it from people in this thread and didn't see any contradictory evidence elsewhere.
We. Are. Back.
ATTENTOINA TTENTIONCARLSEN IS PLAYING THE NAJDORF
playing a match against my gf
>>97993507epic game by Jorden
>>97995185Whom is it?
>>97991884I get people with bad manners if I don't set the bottom rating.
>>97997431Aren’t you banned for calling someone a nigger?
>>97997782Sure.
Good morning. Carlsen is playing Zhu Jiner today, the quietest talker in the world.
>>97993507cool gif breh
>>97999764Thank you. I find it especially interesting that the alien has a floating orb in front of him. The creator of the gif had a nice vision for it. Everybody has papers in front of them, but the alien has the orb because that is how it is referencing the information. That is very cool to me.
Imagine not knowing the Ruy Lopez at 2280 liblitz.
I have very clear and very obvious information that shows Nemo’s latest little stunt with the guy getting all mad at her after the e chess game with him was an inside job and he was hired to give this sort of reaction. I’m just trying to figure out the best way to release this information. Any ideas?
>>98000265Put it on youtube or reddit, but you are lying probably, so do nothing.
>>98000280Im not. I’m actually going to pass this information onto a couple chess YouTuber channels like jack sark so they can do all the footwork and editing. And are you really surprised that a scammer who bought her chess title drummed up this drama to gain more of a social presence did this?
>>98000307No, I'm not surprised about it. I am doubting that you specifically have proof.
>>98000311Well I didn’t get it myself. I’m just part of this discord shenanigans in the background. Anyhow, I passed it off to two chess YouTuber channels so keep your eyes peeled.
There was some nice ai porn of Nemo on erome but I think it’s gone now
>>98000386>keep your eyesNo, I'll keep ignoring her.
>>97986753Castles are based.
>>97999556>the quietest talker in the world.lolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhnhk79G_hw
>>98000265those pieces look freaky. at first i thought it was augmented reality 3d pieces or some shit. shading looks very computer generated.
>>98003353that's because it's AI
>>98003359thischessboarddoesntexist.com?
Carlsen is playing the King's Indian!!
I'm so tired of all these tryhard lichess blitz players that always play some random non-losing move blindingly fast. Like it's just some casual blitz play, why are they acting like it's some professional thing?! Everyone knows that blitz is too short really to have a real proper full game of chess. But if both players try to play correctly, you can still play some nice chess, it just takes a bit of cooperation. This blinding fast moves acting like nothing matters as long as it's not losing material sucks. It's just flinging pieces in the air. And there is nothing interesting about it, nothing learned from playing like that. It's not chess, it's more like accounting or beancounting.It's so obnoxious to think that if they win they're likely thinking to themselves "good job, I'm playing good!" after playing such a travesty, some joke.
why the fuck are people still playing blitz or God forbid bullet
>>98006889I'm not wasting half an hour just to lose to some cheating indian, instead I'll waste it losing to five
Chess websites seem like they're full of cheaters. People playing far too accurately for their rankings.
>>97990650So, he only started balding 6 years after I completed balding and expects me to have empathy?
>>97984497A while back I was playing against a guy around that rating, I'm not quite as good, and we had gotten into massive complications on my queenside - he seemed to know exactly what he was doing and being really precise but we were in a tough battle. And all of a sudden I notice from nowhere one of his knights not just completely hanging but literally on its starting square, and completely en prise for the past who knows how many moves, so I took it and then won easily. That had me wheeze laughing, I mean it can happen that a piece is left en prise ok, but how it managed to be in its starting position the whole game until someone noticed, crazy.
>>98006796>t. lost on time in a better position
>>98006796If they were playing so badly why didnt you win? Check. If you don't like playing for time then play longer times controls. Checkmate. Or maybe there should be a shorter time control where if you dont checkmate you draw, but that would probably just result in everyone playing lightning fast moves and really stupid checkmates.Just stop yapping and play a slightly longer time control.
>>98006889So we can step outside of your prearranged memorized regurgitated openings and confuse you with good fast moves that youre too dumb/slow witted to react to and win by being superior chess players who dont rely on studying openings for hours like a midwitted nerd.
I notice that players who play longer time controls are trying to gatekeep chess by crying about people who play faster time controls and beat them, despite the fact that that means you know they're also playing faster time controls and losing because theyre worse at it and getting mad.Longer time control players are only mad because their years of memorizing and soullesly regurgitating openings are worth nothing against the new blitz KINGS.Classic chess will move towards faster and faster time controls to generate novel strategies.Chess960 will eventually dominate the longer time controls.In both cases the "old" style of modern chess player will and already is becoming outdated and inferior.Adapt or get crushed and relegated to repeating chess games from 30 years ago over and over again in some classic time control nobody plays anymore.
That's the most amount of raw seethe I've read all week. Thanks for making my day.
>>97975648>Super Rapid & Blitz Polandday 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izFqKe1uTCw
interview with Magnus Carlsen after he won the TePe Sigeman 2026https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhz0lVlDEow
>>98008088>Chess960 will eventually dominate the longer time controls.Until spergs will memorize the perfect openings for each of the positions.
>>98010915day 4:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQBUzQKz68
Thoughts on Michael De la Maza and his approach to chess improvement? I honestly think he's spot on, and the people who hate him are just redditoids who would rather larp as positional players by reading Silman than actually put in the work and improve their tactical ability.
>>98016744they have issues with their streams lately; new link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzOPAF-XH2M
>>98016886Talentless hack grifting off clueless people.
>>98008035>really stupid checkmates.sounds fun
>>98018271Day 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQlrmq3OkcY
congrats
people are starting to play more 960 on chess.com : D, the only thing is you cant see your 960 elo stat history
>>98015948Even autists wont be able to memorize 10,000 opening lines, praise Fischer.>>98021131Maybe it would actually be a good idea, it would certainly encourage people to play more aggressively and flashy.
the other general on /vg/ is a fucking cesspool of shit
>>98016886Don't know him but I agree, it makes more sense to me to learn tactics first, and then as you play you develop an intuition for position over time, how would you even know which positions are better without knowing HOW different tactics apply to those positions and thus turn one position into another position?Chess is actually entirely composed of tactics, positions are just the simplification/transmogrification of tactics.
>>98007368chess blindness is a thing, there are articles about it
>>98026061>entirely composed of tacticsPawn structures are also very important.
>>98026182Maybe im not competent enough to understand position well, but my point is more like, unless your pawn structure is used for the purpose of setting up tactics, it seems useless.
I always believed in my boy Hans, I think he can definitely be one of the greats, but how exciting would it be if he turned out to be a Morphy? Would be wild to see someone like Morphy in our lifetime.
>trades all the pieces>wins the king and pawns endgame
>>98026260mmmh, he abandoned chess relatively quickly, and died at 47
>>98025413>you cant see your 960 elo stat historyMaybe it's a bug. Ask in the forums.
good stuff: https://www.twitch.tv/blitzingmaria
>>98026205You need to read books about them.
>>98029098Did you read that book?
>>98029924No. I play only the variants.
Stockfish pretty much destroys the "it's all tactics" argument because you can clearly see positions that are like 2.5 up based on positional chess alone. Yes you may end up falling for a tactic unnecessarily but stockfish shows it was inevitable anyway. You have to make decisions based on for example getting your knight to a good square, a very strong knight on a great square when both players are remotely competent is pretty much the entire game - see Alekhine vs Yates London 1922, particularly interesting since Yates was known to be very tactical and not positional, playing the theoretically suspicious yet hard to prove superiority against f5 here.
>>98027505oh you can see yours? i'll try to figure it out thanks.
>>98031150Of course the pros will understand high level chess much more than me. My point was more tautological and maybe stupid, what actually is a position? What is the point of a position if it is not entirely to set up tactics? I think one could even argue that positional moves are themselves tactics, because if they were not, and if they were not used for the purpose of tactics, they would be entirely worthless, even stockfish eventually has to actually take the pieces/checkmate, but we're talking about fucking stockfish here, a lot of their moves dont even make sense to humans. If we're talking about HUMANS, what is the best foundation to build their chess skills on? I would say tactics, it just helps you understand the game better, humans are objective driven, we want to take the pieces, we want to trap the king, everything else (positions) are a means to that end or otherwise quite incomprehensible to us, that's why i think so many of the newer players are so heavily tactical, its just far better to base your understanding and playing of chess on tactics instead of ethereal patterns on the board, its like the difference between a general looking at war plans and the actual fighters on the ground, the general is not totally useless but he is just a vehicle for the soldiers to actually get the job done, often we think of it as the other way around for some reason. That being said i am quite low elo so take what i say with a pinch of salt, but ive found great improvement just from tactical play and then understanding positions from how tactics apply to them.
>>98031404Only for Daily 960, not the "live" one, which makes no sense.
>>98031485Yeah thats what im saying, chess mafia is so dumb and lazy, at least you can see your elo
>>98008035>longer time controlBest advice in the thread.
Classic Romania is starting. Place your bet!With Sindarov keeping his best lines for the World Championship, my two cents go to Pragg this time, with Caruana second and Keymer third.
>>98034830Let’s go Carijuana!
He did it!
>>98034830no hans, no watch. simple as!
>>98034830>World ChampionshipDamn FIDE Russians want 8.5 millions from the sponsors. With the Arabs busy with Trump I wonder what will happen if no one shows up with the money.
>Bughouse >castling, moving lateral pawnsthey never learn
Is it true that if you didnt start as a child you will never make it? What if you start playing casually at 15 and when you are 20 you start taking it very seriously, could you make it?
>>98041702You should be able to reach an IM level, not GM.
>>98041702it's true, as an adult improver your level is always going to be capped to about 2k fide, which in most places isn't enough for any kind of title unless you're a woman (ewww). you can compensate for lack of knowledge in adulthood by studying, reading books and coaching, but you cannot compensate for a certain lack of intuition. for whatever reason, there's a critical period for acquiring it. 15 is already pushing it, but i think it's possible if you took it seriously. i'm not sure playing casually is enough, you have to play actual otb chess and lots of it if you wanted to have any hope of imprinting that (((intuition))).however, it might be possible that we are teaching chess wrong to adults and that we could break the barrier if we figured out better training strategies. the author of "rapid chess improvement" did indeed rapidly improve, but he still only got to ~2000 fide, claiming that he just didn't want to put in the serious effort required to move past that. he was training chess vision for months and that's what helped him, but he still didn't quite crack the code, just proved that the traditional way we teach chess isn't enough for adults.
>>98041702impossible? no, likely? no
First time in /chess/ on this board. I ran out of data so was playing against the Socrates engine on DosBox the other night. I can just beat it on its lowest rating setting of 1200.This was my Lichess rating the other day, had to take a screenshot.
This is Socrates 3 for MS-DOS
Where i can find good GUI for Chess? After downloading Stockfish
>>98043683en croissant
How have you guys interacted with chess today, have you played a game, done a puzzle, watched a video?
>>98043808I play every evening before I get too sleepy.
>>98043876Around what time? I’ll be waiting!
>>98042607a fine vintage! written by Don Daily and Larry Kaufman in the early 90's, decades later they would go on to collaborate again on Komodo. Kaufman is still actively consulting on Chess.com's Torch engine.(you can get the precursor engine in the vintage dedicated computer Kasparov's Gambit)
Simple Black Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wK5xu92ctk
KWAPB (kek what a patzer bitch)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2286506&m=11
>>980348301. Keymer2. Chokebiano3. MV “L”4. Fraudruzja5. Pragg6. Windarov (Lindarov)7. “W”esley “S”o8. Jordan9. BogmanThis will be exactly correct btw. You will come back to ask me how I do it
>>98043808yesterday i played from during work (wfh) until 3 am with minimal breaks. i finally hit 1400 on chesscom rapid and blitz. i think i will go crazy if i play more petrov 3 knights but im very happy with these turn of events
>>98034830round 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP3PBMU23dY
>>98039305Indians would like a postponement to 2027 to keep the title one more year. They know that Sindarov is superior.
>>98041702“Make it” in what sense?In your early teens, your ceiling is as high as the stars.In your middle teens, you will most likely be capped as an irrelevant GM, but there are some exceptions, like Aronian and Hans.In your early twenties, you would be lucky to become an IM. But you can at least make FM, if you’re talented.Mid-to-late twenties, your peak will be becoming a very strong amateur, which is still a worthwhile and rewarding pursuit.Beyond that, you will be capped hard at being a mediocre amateur. Like around 2000 lirapid, 1700 liblitz, for life. It’d be better to not waste your time.
>>98026205Each piece controls some squares. For example a pawn on d4 controls c5 and e5. If in your position you control many important squares, your opponent will be forced to do suboptimal moves, like putting a knight on the edge of the board.
>>98049539round 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLFp63CEjw
>>98054272>first error by Sindarov since last yearit's human after all
https://lichess.org/@/sleepswi>2300 classical legend, which is underrated because he just farmed 2300s in the yearly classical arena where he won every game, except one>https://lichess.org/lvIs5IwN/black>which he lost once low on time.>Literally hardstuck at 1400 bullet.>This one (actual) 2300 opponent (2100 bullet) simply resigned a drawn position because he got tired of playing what he clearly thought was a cheat>https://lichess.org/gS7PKD3K/black>But 2000 blitz so far! you might say>https://lichess.org/lYDQyhAD>It’s literally 5+3>licheats
Pragg vs Vincent today!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5c-vEDWx8Ahttps://lichess.org/broadcast/gct-super-chess-classic-romania-2026/round-3/cjn5R98v
>>98058368poor Alireza, that must be painful
>Waiting... Auto-resign in 45 seconds.>Waiting... Auto-resign in 20 seconds.>Waiting... Auto-resign in 5 seconds.>Game Aborted
>>98026943This is too risky for short time controls. You need a lot of time to calculate the endgame before the last trades.
>Want to try a new dubious opening>Get to play black 5 times in a row>Have to play the same king's pawn three knights bs 5 times or resign each game until I get to try my new opening>Get to play white only once or twice and it's back to a streak with black.Am I in ELO hell or what is this?What are some obscure meme worthy defenses for black? No Borg please.
>>98062306Did you try the triangle? >>98046901The French also is cringe enough to burn some of your opponent's clock.
>>98062306The Fred defense. I love this opening, it's so good. Its like a rope a dope strategy. The mainline is 1.e4 f5 2. exf5 Kf7 3. Qh5+ g6 4. fxg6 Kg7! 5. gxh7 Rxh7 6. Qg4+ Kh8 7. Bd3 Bh6! 8. Qe4+ Rg7 Now your king is very safe and the counter punch is often crushing, because of your opponents over confidence and over pressing. The computer says white is only +1 which is quite playable consider your opponent will think it's +5 or something.
>>98058368Round 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nArfLwPcSn8
This puzzle seems questionable.At decent depth the 2nd best move at a point in the sequence is like +2.5. Usually you don't see such high evals on a non-solution.https://lichess.org/training/nmJnn
>>98063179In fact, as I was running the engine more in the position I got this popup which I have never seen before.
>>98063183wow, that's rare af
>>98062466This one is solid, will give it a go when I'm feeling more serious.>>98062931Gave this a go, white was completely clueless on what to lol. Sadly I missed the game winning fork, as usual. Next time I will be more prepared.
I made a cute little chess set with 3D printing, and then I glued some felt to make the actual board. But I don't have anyone to play with... I wish I had friends...
>>98066452Cute set, anon. The fact that its handmade is very charming. Look up local chess clubs in your area. I'm sure they'd be excited to have you.
>>98066467Thanks, anon. I'm not good in social situations, but I guess chess is necessarily a social game. And I'll never make friends by hiding, I guess.
>>98066452i hate these minimalistic chess sets, i don't need extra help for my board blindness.
i'm starting to get bored of chess and hate it, but i still want to improve, it just gets so boring with 99% of players tryharding the same regurgitated openings, every win or loss seems completely random and just a function of wether my opponent happened to memorize more regurgitated opening moves than me, might as well be playing with a calculator.
>>98067725>playing with a calculatorget Lucas Chess, it has all sorts of engines and fun activities that will keep you busy for months
>>98066452it kind of offends me that you used 3D printing for this particular design. Lanier Graham designed it to be made from a couple of 6x4 blocks of wood with the minimal number of cuts and no wastage, a good beginner woodworking project.
This was a 3+0 game against an FM.
So I just started playing chess and signed up for chess.com... I was pretty consistently beating the bot that says it's elo 1100... But when I loaded into some real games against humans my elo has sunk like a stone to 200 which I thought was like... Really bad/brain dead tier... I did try to memorise a couple of openings, and I'm trying to follow the openning game principles from chapter 1 of My System (I haven't started on chapter 2 yet...)So why do I suck so bad D:
>>98070882I've been playing for about 3–4 months, and I'm barely hitting 600. I like to watch "speedrun" videos where titled players play games at a lower ranking than they are (basically smurfing) and they explain their thought process behind every move, and how to punish their opponents' mistakes. Naroditsky was the best at that and no one will ever come close, but GothamChess's version is good too, if you can stomach him berating and making fun of his audience for 50 minutes straight.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT1F2nOxLHOefj_z54LNBpnASnIROm43ehttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBRObSmbZluT5vjyir0xB_H1HPzwzgvvk
>>98070882If you're being genuine and not just writing slop to pad the thread, then I assume at that rating you are leaving a lot of pieces/pawns hanging. Can you post a PGN of one of your games?
>>98070882Don't bother learning openings until you're like 800, just focus on good principles (central pawns, develop knights before bishops, etc.), learn the basic checkmate patterns and try not to hang pieces
>>980715291. d4 e6 2. Bf4 d5 3. e3 Bb4+ 4. c3 Ba5 5. Qd3 a6 6. Nd2 g6 7. Ngf3 Bd7 8. Be2Nf6 9. O-O e5 10. Bxe5 Bf5 11. Qxf5 gxf5 12. Bxf6 Qxf6 13. Nb3 b6 14. Rad1 f415. Nh4 fxe3 16. f3 c5 17. Rd3 c4 18. Rxe3+ Kf8 19. Nd2 Qxh4 20. g3 Qd8 21. b3Rg8 22. g4 Nc6 23. Nxc4 Qf6 24. Nxb6 Nxd4 25. Nxa8 Nxe2+ 26. Rxe2 Kg7 27. b4Rxa8 28. bxa5 d4 29. cxd4 Qxd4+ 30. Rff2 Rb8 31. Rd2 Qe3 32. h4 Rb1+ 33. Kg2 Qe134. Kg3 Qg1+ 35. Rg2 Qe3 36. h5 h6 37. a3 Rb3 38. Ra2 Qxf3+ 39. Kh2 Qf4+ 40. Kg1Rb1# 0-1
>>98071743Okay assuming you played White here I can offer my feedback, for whatever it's worth in the age of computers.Don't try to make things too complicated. Follow general principles. Get out your minor pieces and castle. Develop minor pieces before the queen.On move 5, better to move your knight or bishop. Your queen gets in the way of where they want to go.Then everything is fine until move 11. This is really the most critical moment of the game. You want to spend the time to do literally anything else than give up your queen for a bishop. So look at all the possible alternatives. In this case you could play e4 which blocks the attack or you could even play Bxf6 (attacking black's queen and removing a guard of e4) and then play e4. I'd have to see your time graph but if you made that move quick at all, that's bad.Move 15 Nh4 moves the knight to a square the queen is attacking so it drops the piece. Better board vision to avoid this just comes from playing more games.16.f3 Here it seems like a case of overthinking. There is nothing wrong with capturing the pawn back (aside from the hanging knight but ignoring that). You would need a very good reason to choose to push past it as you did rather than recapture.23.Nxc4 Again this is just giving up a knight for a pawn. Anything that doesn't give up material for free like that is better. 24.Nxb6 you chose to take the pawn (guarded by the bishop) instead of an even trade of knight for bishop or simply retreating with the knight. So overall, I think you should just keep playing and really looking carefully at all the squares that your pieces and pawns and your opponents pieces and pawns are attacking. Try not to lose material and try to take your opponent's material.No need to do tactics yet at this point. Just keep playing.
>>98070882You're starting off way too advanced, thats like reading quantum physics before you even know newton's laws of motion.Play a boat load of games, dont worry about skills just try to eat pieces and attack the king, make stupid random moves if you have to.You're going to rage and go crazy sometimes but you will probably improve, 200 is quite good for an absolute beginner.
>>98071479I'm around your elo, chess is weird for me cause i usually stay around the same elo and then randomly i will suddenly jump up 100 points somehow
>>98073700There is a Go proverb for beginners that applies to all games: "lose 100 games as quickly as possible". Goal is to gain fluency, but there is a hidden requirement: always, always, ALWAYS analyze your losses. Find the mistakes and lost opportunities, figure out why you made them, correct the habit so you don't make them again. Just doing a post-game analysis on one of your own games is more valuable than playing ten more games. (and reading through master games, especially if annotated, gives you the same benefit)
>>98074696It's easy with beginner chess because your mistake is almost always making a blunder. Easier said than done to not blunder though even at the highest level lol
ITT Elo is not a dick-measuring contest
>>98067725Chess is unavoidably a science as much as a game. One of its appeals to autists is how much study and preparation it requires to play well. If that doesn’t appeal to you, it’s just not the game for you. It will never be like booting up a FPS and slaying noobs gg why not. It’s going to be more like getting a degree
How does one break the 300 elo barrier on chess.com?
>>98078189turn on the monitor
>>98078233It is on, sir. I am being serious though.since when do 300 elo players memorize the optimal openings and lines?
>>98078425they probably watch chess youtube videos and memorize some lines in their pet opening. it doesn't really matter cuz whatever advantage they get they will squander immediately afterwards by playing like dogshit and blundering a full piece. the opening doesn't really matter at all at that level, just do your puzzles everyday and play slow time controls and use your time.
anything more despicable than people that give you more time when they're sure to win?
>>98078425i played against a 600 elo on ch*sscom who told me she never castled because it felt unsafe
>>98078571Just resign and click new game. Not that hard.
>>98078574She sounds based.
>>98078704based snoodposter
ATTENTION! ATTENTION!There will be a 3+2 tournament this Saturday, May 23rd at 12:00PM EDThttps://lichess.org/tournament/rkSgb1Z1code: ondemand
>>98078574Tell her to always castle in the opposite direction of her opponent's castle.
>>98078441I think that's where I am right now. I have my openning, and my end game theory... But the mid game is a puzzle to me and I never know what to attack so unless my opponent obliges me by blundering a piece, letting me just trade my way into the end game, I'm totally lost on how to build that advantage organically.
>>98078574I'm noob but I rarely end up casting. Usually I do it if I don't see an opening for an attack and I don't have a better move to play. The actually good players seem to always do it, even prioritising it. In my opinion it's not so crucial when you're under 1000 elo or so.
>>98080981I think the value of Castling, more than just the obvious/protecting the king, is it lets you develop the Rook into a useful position as well (and if you're fully developed it develops the other rook too because of the value of joined rook). So I normally think of it as a Rook move more than a King move.Otoh I'm a beginner so I might be being dumb.
>>98071562>develop knights before bishopsthis is new to me
>>98077618Lol, fair
As a fellow noob I like that we have more noobs joining
>>98063050Round 7:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6X99wOtVaw
>>98081760(not that anon)indeed you risk having a bishop, usually the queen-side one, getting stuck in place... yet the defensive advantage given by horses makes it worth doing so at low elo>>98071562if you want openings learn the first few moves of openings that are not your standard e4/e5 or d4... as all the faggots even at low elo learn those and then laugh at you... choose the English or Pirc or Siclilian and be the one laughing (or at least have a "fair game" without getting beaten by a person who invested all his time in learning common openings but sucks otherwise)
I'm new to chess and play on lichess. Why do people keep resigning midway through the match when (from my noob POV) they still have a solid chance at winning?
>>98086230Evaluating the position is too difficult for them.
>>98086565Sorry I crossposted this on /vg/ because I thought that was the more active one... How does one evaluate the position mid-game, too easy to see the outcome no? Surely they can see I'm a new player with only like 10 games to my name and I'm making blunder after blunder
>>98086638No, it's not easy at all. To "punish" the opponent after his blunders requires skills that they don't have. (I don't have them)
I've been considering whether you could use an LLM+Stockfish+ECO wrapped together to make a Chess Coach type app. Since it's one thing to spot where the inflection points are with stockfish but explaining why is hard. Plus stockfish has limitations for suggesting alternate moves since it doesn't play like a human and it can't explain why - but maybe an LLM could do the explaining? It can at least produce can produce convincing nonsense that sounds like it knows what it's talking about...I've kinda been trying it out locally (just running commands manually on the Pgn files and stuff) but I really have no way of knowing if the LLM is right.I guess if there was value to this, someone else would have tried it?
>>98087948Wait a few more years, 10 at least.
>>98087962You've tried it? I know the LLM can't play chess (when pressed it'll suggest illegal moves) and misidentifies opennings - but it seems to be capable of regurgitating a decent amount of chess principles from the books in its training set... (even without adding a Rag to it)
>be 1100 elo in rapid>go play bullet>lose>lose>blunder>lose>win but because the opponent got desperate>lose again>blunder queen>lose>win by time>lose>be 450 elo in bulletfuck this stupid fucking game
https://lichess.org/w4bugjy93+0join if you're ready to have your ass kicked
>>98078571People running down the clock when they are sure to lose.
>>98091045That's a valid strategy at low elo since is very common for people to not know how to mate with a single queen/tower or two bishops
>>98091073No no, I'm talking about people that have only one legal move left after which I mate them. Basically the mate is premoved but they sit thinking that wasting my time is the price that I've to pay for being smarter than them...
>>98091172That reminds me of a Naroditsky quote. He said this happened to his brother. He was playing at a tournament when his opponent was 3 moves away from checkmate. The opponent got up and left the building, and left Danya's brother at the game. 20 minutes later, he showed up with a hot dog in hand.
>>98082872last round of the cursed tournament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq3SdjQM1-k
>>98091212I don't know the context, but how is someone walking away from the board to get a hot dog not automatically declassified?
