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.
