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Second for Dina, my Queen
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I have learned two things in the last month:1.Playing unorthodox openings is fun2.Offer trade of rook for kingside fianchetto bishop. KID players keep taking me up on this and i keep winning. ???
>>492369831where does she post these spicy chess positions?
no man can beat her
>>492374985andrea's secret stash
>>492375227>Andrea secretly collects lewd photos and video of all the other chess whoresSomehow i believe this.
Levy cuckman, /chess/ favourite e-celeb. LOST.
This is the Scotch main line.
>>492379276h-he's still gonna make gm, right?
>>492379425>reddit
>>492379560Uh no. That was unironically one of my games today.
Reddit repertoire:>London>Caro>KID4chan repertoire:>Catalan>Petrov>GrunfeldI bet you instinctively know I'm right.
>>492381065I want to say the Petrov isn't 4chan, but that's a Nepo opening so it's objectively 4chan.
>>492381590>played by Nepo and boomer amateurs who cba to remember theory anymore>drawish >kinda chuddyYeah.
>>492382132its more than drawish, its basically a forced draw
should I learn the catalan? or is it too hard for shitters to play? I don't play d4 though so it'd be an entirely new thing
>>492385035>should I learn the catalan?if you want to>is it too hard for shitters to play?probably just not a good time investment to learn 6 million catalan lines when you can be learning less nuanced and more diversified opening theorems >I don't play d4 though so it'd be an entirely new thingPlay d4 a few times and tell me how many times you run into the QGD at whatever elo you're at. Probably fairly rare. So do you want to learn a very theory heavy opening that you're never going to use?
>>492385035It's fine however you might have more success with versions that don't actually gambit the pawn. For some reason when I tried Catalan everyone wanted to go for a semi slav thing (the closed Catalan) and I didn't find the resulting positions very fun or very good for me in terms of winning percentages. I think you would have more fun and get more novel positions out of something like the English with early g3. This can transpose back in to the Catalan if you still want to dabble in that, depending on what black does. The move order you will see most often is1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2followed by a fairly equal distribution of Bc5 or Nc6 or d5 or c6. Be prepared for this as well:1. c4 e5 2. g3 d5 3. cxd5 Qxd5 4. Nf3 e4 5. Nc3it's an online shitter favorite
>>492385035If you do start playing it, be careful of the lines where you give up the pawn. White must play very actively or the black queenside pawn will say hello. Won a lot of shitter games with that c4-b5-c6 pawn formation against the Catalan.
>>492382302petrov? not a forced draw. a very dry position if white chooses the most boring continuation though. at time pressure and shittery, you're not drawing.
>>492382302My experience with the Petrov at casual OTB blitz games against kids at the local club has been this:Go into drawish endgameMy opponent spent all their practice time on openings and pooozles and has no endgame knowledgeWin what should be an easy draw like half the timeOrPlay nf6My opponent ignores me and plays Bc4 like a tardImmediately get a better position
>>492386683>probably just not a good time investment to learn 6 million catalan lines when you can be learning less nuanced and more diversified opening theoremsYeah the raw Catalan is a bit too much for online chess. You can learn the variation where you transpose to a QGD from an anti-nimzo(d4 Nf6 c4 e6 Nf3 d5) because the number of lines there is much lower.
>>492375060>fat bitch>those feet>larping like she made over 100k beating peopleProbably just uses an engine and no one cares since it's a findom fetish anyway.
>>492409505>opponent plays Nf6>I have no idea about the petrov so I go into four knightspetrov is so easy
good morning /chess/ fanswhat would you do in this position?
>>492416394Left one is fat.
>>4924159374 knights is completely fine for black though.
>>492375060
>>492416394what a disgusting hog
>>492417268https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I2VmpT2at0I love this video, it's literally me when I tried out speed chess.
>>492416438>>492418250I can't believe you're disrespecting Jersey's board 1, WCM and famous chess streamer Tallulah Roberts (peak rating 1669). You know she's titled, right?
>>492418606>WCM and famous chess streamer Tallulah Roberts (peak rating 1669How do people get titled at such a shitter level?
>>492418834Fide lowers the rating requirements for some titles in countries with no / small chess scenes to promote growth. This is intended for third world countries, but for some reason it also applies to Jersey, despite it being part of the UK.
>>492416394>have sex with dina>get left to sign a binding contract where I strictly control her diet and exercise for 1 year, after which I also have sex with her
https://www.chess.com/member/pelastrun>joined august 27>already played over 1000 blitz games
>be 1670>you're in 98.3% top percentile of active playerswhaaaa? but I'm a turboshitter?
>>492425386most people don't care about chess beyond 3 digit level
>>492425386chess.com is packed to the gills with terrible casuals, you're already in the 90th percentile by like 1100 which is absurd
>>492425386The average chessdotcom player is very, very bad
>>492428073Yeah, the 50% mark is at like 670, which is way too close to the minimum elo of 100. Chess.com desparately wants their ratings to align with FIDE despite having an extremely weak average player so they implemented this meme rating system.
> 1. United States (2758) Captain: John Donaldson > GM Caruana, Fabiano 2796> GM So, Wesley 2757> GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2748> GM Aronian, Levon 2729> GM Robson, Ray 2700The Lebron James, Steph Curry, and KD of chess. Will our boys get it done this time?
>>492435732How close is 1600 chess.com to 1600 FIDE?
Divya is playing Gunina in WSCC live right now.
>>492437095I would estimate that 1900-2000 chess.com rapid is about 1600 FIDE.
>>492437540I think that's too overextended. We'd need to find chesscom accounts of fide 1600s.
>>492425386due to various biases like the dunning kruger effect, most people will tend to attribute this is to something like "everyone is bad, it's crazy how bad everyone is, so even if you're bad compared to me, you're still god compared to everyone else, who are all giga bad". which to be fair has some validity, but at the end of the day, the percentiles mean absolutely nothing when the system is rigged. the middle 90% or so of the bell curve is completely fucked up because the system isn't fair
>>492369467Why does he dress like a caricature from a comedy show?
>>492437095I went 4.5/5 in a 1600 tournament. All decent games, broke 3 of them in pawn endgame, 1 was a blunder and 1 was a salvaged draw after my blunderWas around 2000 lichess rapid at the time
Did you guys know that Alireza Firouzja's gf is a hot professional volleyball player?
>>492439756Post her.
>biggest chess match of the decade is next week
>>492440016WRONG. Levy Rozman vs Pia Cramling is not until Oct 28.
>>492440016I want to see what the power of motivation and inner fire can do to a man. If Hans wins this, it will be the biggest KINO I've seen.
>>492440290you think levy's cramming his pia in that roz or nah?
>>492440871anon this comment is too weird even for me
>>492440016oh shit a Hans vs Magnus team battle has to happenfriendly reminder that in the Ding vs Nepo team battle the Ding bros won
>Levy lost r1 to a GM.This makes no fucking sense, the GM should know how important this is for Levy. Road to GM is bigger than anything that the GM would ever accomplish so why is he trying to ruin it.
>>492444660This, this, this. A million times this!
>>492441495i'm sorry... i let the intrusive thoughts win
>>492441495are you female or something?
>>492444660>Road to GM is bigger than anything that the GM would ever accomplishsad thing is you aren't even wrong
you know it's a real shame that literally nothing ever happens to/between chess players because that would really help e-celeb news. chess e-celeb news is always someone said something on twitter oooooo >>492436545>The Lebron James, Steph Curry, and KD of chess.comment really goes to show how much stronger the last NBA generation is compared to pretty much everything. equivalents would be>lebron = fischer>durant = tal>curry = kasparovof course just talking strength as opposed to style>>492439331lol out of 5 means it was a local round robin and that doesn't count. play the U1600 section at the world open and you'll feel what 1600 OTB feels like>>492437656for some reason retard kids still don't understand this concept but being 1800 after 10 games is not the same as being 1800 after 500 games. the latter is 100x more meaningful. kids here never ever mention how many games are on the account's rating they reference
>another 1800 boyhow bad will cramling lose to him today?
>>492447017>play the U1600 section at the world openpeople playing tournaments like that are underrated as fuck, we had a discussion about that yesterday i think where some anon doxed u1700 player who one year after playing are FMs with 2300 lmao
>>492447207did you have a stroke?
>>492448195no, let me rephrasepeople who play tournaments like this are underrated as fuck, we had a discussion about this yesterday i think where some anon doxed players playing in the u1700 section. these players one year after are highly over 2000, some being fide masters with 2300 lmao
>lichess when you cheat every moveISLEEP>lichess when you have a second accountHow could you do this to us?!?!?!?!?!
>>492449065why do they care so much about second accounts?i have like 90 accounts on chess.com and they don't give a fuck
>>492444660>this postZoomer post-ironic shit truly is something. Soon it will no longer be possible to distinguish between mere bait and profound mental retardation.
>>492449198Ban evasion reasons i assume
>>492449065yeah this is a great point desu. i've lost multiple lichess accounts due to opening a smurf account and not remembering to do it through a vpn or whateverit's so weird and annoying
>>492449065you can have multiple accounts schizoit's written in the TOS that you can hae multiple accounts as long as you don't overdo it like a cunt
>>492449987but this should imply they care about banning cheaters, which the other half of the post points out that they do not>>492450127they do in fact over-enforce this and under-enforce cheat prevention. not up for debatenta btw
>>492450320why would you even want to spam accounts anyway? 0 sensible reasons to do this. just play on your main account when you're feeling it and play on your alt if you wanna fuck around. simple as.
>>492450891i don't have great reasons for it but again i think that's moving the goalposts of this. you're right people shouldn't really be making smurfs at all. but the question is why are they so strict and automatic with smurf+main bans while seemingly not giving a shit about enforcing ANYTHING else? if they were actively banning people and doing this that'd be one thing
>>492451223my only point is their multi account policy is completely reasonable
>>4924370952024 1600 fide equals ~1350 fide in 2023 because the bastards raised the rating floor again and squished all ratings under 2000.I'm 1850 chess.com rapid and 1600 nufide.
>>492451516It's not though there's no reason to care about multiple accounts. Meanwhile if someone cheats they want you to write an essay about it
>>492451516why?it's "reasonable" in certain drawn-up scenarios, but on whole, especially in the context of them being mentally afk wrt catching cheaters, it doesn't strike me as reasonable at all. it just seems like they're randomly deciding to enforce one specific rule
>>492452993for cheating, a human needs to go over the game and make a judgement call. for multiple accounts, i assume it's much easier to detect automatically and enforce. they're not choosing to focus on that, it just happens to be an easy problem to solve.
Beautiful puzzle. White to move and win.
>>492463114Kd4
>>492463114Where can I find more VCR puzzles?
Who here watching the ribai tournament livestream?
>>492463414It's a king move, but not that one>>492464005Yeah, it's a bit blurry but the puzzles from this book are amazing. They're so good that I won't give the name away. This book is what got me to 2300 online rating.
>>492465010>They're so good that I won't give the name awayare you serious?
>>492465010>They're so good that I won't give the name awayFuck off
>>492463114wow that's pretty sweet. i had to consult the engine because i couldn't find it myself
>>492465010Is it Susan Polgar?
>>492463114kd6 looks the most naturalkd6, d2, kc7, d1=Q, ra6+!, bxa6, and it should end in mate
>>492466703oh and if black plays something to stop the line I indicated, white can take on e3, winning instantly
>>492465010>They're so good that I won't give the name away. This book is what got me to 2300 online rating.oh no,
>>492466703Very good. Well done.>>492466669No>>492467167No, it's not from a German book
>>492465010>They're so good that I won't give the name awayLmao normalfags are really fucked up.Captcha ohgay lmao
>>492467476Is it a book of mates?
>>492467895>Lmao normalfagsyou ever browsed a /chess/ thread
>>492468165Nope, different motifs (sorted by theme)I'm not giving any more info away. I'm going back to drilling puzzles. Bye nerds.
>>492467895you don't get it, if he shares the book he might teach someone competing with him in the future and then he won't become WC because of it
He's probably larping but I'll give you a good puzzle book.I've asked a few GMs and they all recommend Maxim Blokh's Combinative Motifs.I've gone through some of the book myself and can recommend it. It's very difficult but it sorts by theme and has a lot of different themes.
>>492467476I mean it literally is. Either way, pretty cool that this is not a composed puzzle but an actual position from a real game.
>>492449065You said you weren't posting here anymore faggot
>>492468754Adding on it's pretty old so there are pdf copies online. Also if anyone finds a pdf copy that shows one page at a time instead of stitching both together lmk please.
>>492468754Would it be too difficult for me if I'm 1700 chesscum?
>>492469184No, there are some puzzles that'll be too difficult but I forgot to mention it also sorts itself on difficulty, and a lot of the times puzzles on a theme build up to the harder puzzle. As a general rule I would say to give up after X minutes on a puzzle, probably somewhere between 5-20.
>>492468754>>492469018This book (also by Blokh) is a bit easier than Combinative Motifs (superb book btw). >>492468770No, it's not from a German book, you dolt. Stop talking to me.
All this bookfagging makes me want to actually finish Yusupov's first orange book.
>>492469827Same. I started it but was too lazy to continue
>>492469493Tell me what book it's from you overweight balding noodle armed cunt
>>492469493There's also Improve Your Chess Tactics by Yakov Neishtadt which is quite nice, but I will NEVER give this book >>492463114 's name away. OK, I'm leaving for real now. I just wanted to post a bit more because I noticed a fellow patrician ITT who recommended Blokh. Bye nerds.
>>492469908I even have the physical book lol, still too lazy. Maybe tomorrow.
>>492470036I'd feel more motivated if I had a physical book. Maybe I'll get one and start over.
>>492469996You will never play otb, karlito.
>>492470206I'm just glad I didn't buy more of them, I was originally going to buy all three orange books. That would be wasted money at this point.
>>492470432If I'm going to start again, I'll be setting up the positions in the analysis board, because fuck the physical board, it's too slow and annoying.
>>492471118If I were you, I'd use a physical board if you want to play otb. Though to me setting up an analysis board is just as annoying as setting up a physical board so I just visualize the lines whenever I can.
This is the book in question. Wasn't hard to find
>>492471609Nigga we don't speak asatru runes here
Levybros... we missed a win here
>>492472872i see no win here, someone help
>>492471686You can find the book on amazon from his image name, and it's on libgen.>>492471609But how did you find it? Yandex and Google image search don't give great results (although I didn't sift through them searching for one with similar scanning artifacts)
>>492471609Doesn't look like a puzzle book, skimmed through it and there's a lot of russian there.
>>492471609So that faggot >>492465010 is Russian?Who would have thought.
POZMAN IS LOSING
>>492471609>>492473701I looked through it and didn't see that puzzle... might have missed it since I was scrolling at full speed through the pdf, but I doubt this is the book
>>492463696>norm tournament>2 games in can't get a norm anymore
I played this miniature recently. [The bishop sac was probably unsound but who cares I was just having fun]
>>492474527Yeah since most self respecting GMs don't participate in norm tournaments, their ratings are usually not GM level, and the other norm seekers also don't have a GM level rating, so to get the rating perf required you need to have a very high score.The best way to probably get a GM norm is to go to those strong mid level tournaments with a few 2600 GMs, and have a good tournament and get quick draws vs them in the end.
>>492473571>>492474169that isn't it. the title of that book translates to "Beginner chess tutorial" or something like thatreverse image search pulls up a lot of positions with similar artifacting but i can't find anything concrete
LEVY BROS IT'S OVER IT'S OVER HE LOST :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
>>492473873it's over. nigga lost to a zoomer FM...can he still get the norm if he wins every game from now on?
blitz isnt chess
>>492476552>zoomer FMname of this based god please?
>>492476552No, he needed 7.5 out of 9, max he can get is 7/9.>>492476628Chirilov, James
Anons, he first has to get to 2500 anyway. There will be a lot of opportunity of getting norms in the future, considering he has quite a few years. You know it's a few years-long journey at best, right? Even his coach says it'll take quite a few years and each rating point closer to 2500 is already one step closer to the title.
>>492476873Levy is capable of being a GM right now, he beat a 2500 last tournament. We're all just frustrated he isn't playing up to his potential.
>>492476620I want to wrap my mouth around her entire muff and suck her organs out like a hoover vacuum
>>492477657Nice bait.
>>492478921>nice bait
Levy Cuckman has been found crying in the arms of his wife's boyfriend. Tough times for him but it's nice to see his extended family being there for him. Now he has time to concentrate to the fullest while the other two work really really hard in the background.
>>492479271>mexican
>>492481345>retard
>>492481985italy schmitaly, he played like a mexican, that's all that matters
>>492472976?? surely a free bishop with check is winning?
>>492482205rook takes, i don't get it?
>>492482321And what would black's next move be?
>>492482587I don't fucking know, I don't see shit, that's why I asked for help. What do you do? White queen is covering the 4th rank.
imagine levy's book sale decline after such an embarrassing failure kwab
>>492482321ugh, hallucinated a pawn on h2.
>>492482587wait, then just bxc5 looks good. Threat is c4 allowing Qf4+ fork, and the knight retreat then allows Rxh5 and a big counterattack
Where the fuck do I see my type of losses, draws etc on chesscum? I remember there was a statistic that said, for example, 70% resignation, 5% checkmate, 25% time etc
>>492481985who the fuck pulls up amazon to show what a country's flag looks like
One of the most tilting things in chess is losing to an utter simpleton who clearly doesn't know what he's doing and would lose 9 times out of 10 minimum but gets you that one game and gets to tell himself he killed it. When you can see the whole time "oh good this guy has no idea" and then blunder by your own retardation for no reason and he thinks he owns
>>492484467I know that feel lmao. You know you should crush the guy and you would crush him if you didn't lose focus. Losing to someone like that feels humiliating. But motivating as well.
>have more inaccuracies than your opponent>83% accuracy>he has 55%when that happens, does that mean that he played subpar moves the whole game?
>>492479271Beating a GM doesn't mean you're capable of being a GM.
>>492484467>>492484629I'm sure Magnus feels like that all the time kek
>>492484172I needed both the flag and the country on the same image.
>>492485927
>>492484467Being on the other side of this, it doesn't feel like a legitimate win. Guy outplays me all over the board, my position is trash and I can't move. Then he tries to rush the attack, botches it, my position unravels and i win. I know i would lose to that guy 9 times out of 10. I feel like garbage after these wins.
>open thread>dozens of pozman posts>someone thinking mexico is italy>close thread
black keeps doing e5, e6
>>492487768The problem with the french is that you can't keep it forever without having a second weapon due to the exchange variation. Similar problem with the Slav.
>>492472872So you take the rook after the bishop exchange and Levy missed itWow, so this is the power of IM tactics
>>492487768If you want to make frenchcucks suck your cock and balls just do the KIA
>free analysis!>never loads
blunder two pieces and still win. tactics save me
>>492488371>you take the rook after the bishop exchangeCan you describe the line you're envisioning?
Levybros he's playing again. Let's give our energy so he can win. He may not be able to get a GM norm but if he wins his next 7 games he still gets rating!
>Indian asks for takeback after blundering>decline...>long pause>mates in the next few moves
>>492484467This kind of loss is truly the worst. For instance i just blundered a winning endgame to some retard who played Nxe5 in the exchange spanish. Shit makes you feel like the biggest of frauds.
>>492497064I recently lost to that too. It had been so long since I'd seen it that I misplayed it
New queen trap pattern for me. I sacked this pawn with idea to play something else. The something else was still winning but it doesn't win the queen. Black to play and punish queen for sticking her hand in the cookie jar.
>>492494660I really hope he goes below 2300. I feel bad for his coach though, he'll get death threats from the youtube kids.
>>492471686You are in a chess thread. You should know Russian.
>>492505429Don't think it'll happen, his coach is eating good. During one of the streams he was bragging about filling up his coaching timeslots and rejecting students. He probably got double his usual rate for the levy paypigs
What's a good book to progress from 2100s to 2250 liblitz?(obviously there's a book which, if I read it, I'll improve hundreds of elo points.)But really, is the yusopov series good for that level? Which book should I start with?The talk of chess books has made me want more structure in my learning than random chesstempo problems provide
Levy about to lose again ouch.Lost the first match and has been tilting ever since.
>>492500008Looks like Bc6 cuts off the retreat along the d1-a4 diagonal, and if Qa3 Ra1 Qb3 Ba4 also denies escape. Nice when you can make a queen as powerless as a king.
This is theory
MAKNG A DRUNK ACCOUNT I DRANK 700 ML OF 45% LETS G OBOYS I WILL DUFCK TEM UP
Levy cuckman on track for 0/9. Should've called it road back to 2200 elo
>>492484467If you actually look down on such a player so much, what does it say about you that would lose a game to such a player?I see a lot of Dunning Krueger effect on this board. Get better at chess and focus less on others.
>>492515428Oh fuck off.
did my first queen sacrifice win
What the fuck is Levy's problem>Unlimited resources and time for chess>Plays the Caro-Chud and some tame delayed d4 setup.
>>492515004>>492511045>>492505429APOLOGIZE
>>492518105hes a lazy retarded faggot
>>492517894Sick
>>492518105at least he plays the trompowsky which seems to work pretty well for him + is interestingbut yeah, it's crazy he plays stuff like the caro and scandi as black. you'd think he was like 1200 instead of a former 2400
>>492518105>What the fuck is Levy's problem>>Unlimited resources and time for chessI don't understand it myself, and I'm not talking about Levy exclusively.I saw MANY chess streamers during my life. When I was starting playing chess, botez sisters were at the top, and I'm at the same level as Alexandra Botez, and I would destroy Andrea Botez.Thing is, they bot have unlimited chess sources. They can get any GM they want, they both can get any lessons they want. And I have fucking nothing.HOW THE FUCK DO THEY SUCK SO MUCH?
Hey guys so if you didn’t know my favorite streamer Levi “GothamChess” Rozman is currently having a very tough tournament. He is trying to become a GrandMaster of Chess but in this tournament unfortunately, well, it’s not going well for him. If you could go to his Twitter or YouTube and leave a nice comment, like, subscribe and share with your friends it would really mean a lot to him right now I think. Thanks
>>492520569thanks for the info anon
>>492520569I heard from my friend that GothamChess is already a Chess Master... I also watched some of his videos, and he is very strong...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN21EgFzsFANEW VIDEO LEVYSISTERS POGGERS
>>492525020LTES FJUCKIG GNGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>492525020Please don't misgender me and use Xisters next time :). I already watched the video, liked, and subscribed. As a Levy fan you need to be more dedicated. I myself am a patreon subscriber as well because Levy stands up for Women's Rights.
The levyposting was funny at first but now I think it's getting a little out of hand. Can we have more puzzles posted please? Thanks
>>492525780only reason it's happening more in the first place is 'cause some schizo's been shitting his pants over it. people should know better
>>492525780>puzzlesYou need to go back
>>492526075what does this even mean?
>>492525020Every time I start liking Levy it lasts only until I see his thumbnails.
>>492525780i thought you liked eceleb posting?
>>492535782
>>492487907Wdym? The exchange is one of the more favourable lines for the french player.>>492515428You just posted a player I look down on.
>>492506556I'm a slav which means that I'm historically predisposed towards hating pyccknns. Can't be helped.
I don't even report on lichess anymore. Maybe that's the hope
>>492541181That's the reason they do the cheater pool instead of just banning those accounts outright. They believe not telling banned accounts they are banned will reduce the volume of appeals they receive. It's a very passive aggressive when to operate things.
>>492541181lichess is literally unusable. Guy blunders his queen, asks for takeback. I say no, because it wasn't a mouseslip or anything, he literally just left it hanging. 30 second pause, suddenly I am playing stockfish. No, I cannot beat max stockfish up a queen.
Why don't anons who constantly complain about online cheating play otb?
>>492543827You think I'm gonna put on pants and drive somehwere and pay an entry fee just to play chess? I don't care about cheating THAT much.
>>492542121It's your fault for even having takebacks enabled in your settings.
>>492515428>I see a lot of Dunning Krueger effectLiterally not real
>>492543827I do. It's just a big time commitment and it makes me mad that online is so filthy. Online used to be okay before the 2020 boom. Fewer players on all the sites, playerbase was small enough that lichess could keep up with reports and they did regularly ban people I reported. It was a steady once every 3-4 weeks. Then they got bigger, they didn't scale, they let it turn to shit. Com is even worse as they did scale but they instead focused more on gacha player engagement than keeping the site clean.
>>492543827I dont want to interact with anyone
>>492525780Posted this a couple threads ago but no one posted the answer. White to play and neutralize the attack.
>>492546584im saccin dat bishop nigga
>>492546801And then what?
>>492546972probably getting mated 2 moves later I dont see a follow up if the king just moves
IT'S UPhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Isot9xoxU
>>492552310>open link >see chrischan >close tab
>>492552310>Fabi: "I see no evidence of work in Ding's play"Dingsisters....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksk7QTyT_oABRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>492553510it's so overif Fabi or Hikky won the Canidates he'd have no shot but against Gukesh he still has hopefunny how that worked out
Every day I set myself the task of winning 5 anon games a row. Can you do the same? https://lichess.org/bCgVvVHvhttps://lichess.org/HG2D7YVhhttps://lichess.org/fAiJnLJ7/blackhttps://lichess.org/yqrxvWkv/blackhttps://lichess.org/w3cQmZVy/white [Cheat -- Invalidated loss]https://lichess.org/on0cPsOL/whiteI almost forgot to do it tonight
>>492554391it's even funnier that one of the only games he's won in the last 5 years was against gukesh lol
>>492554391I honestly can't imagine Gukesh losing. I've had the math at 70-30 in favour of Gukesh while Ding was doing his super secret training, but now it's clear that he's permanently broken. The funny thing is that had Nakamura won the Candidates, Ding would probably be in the top 10, if not top 5 right now.
>>492555087>The funny thing is that had Nakamura won the Candidates, Ding would probably be in the top 10, if not top 5 right now.expand on this
>>492555232I mean if Nakamura had won second place in the 2022 Candidates and played Nepo for the title. Ding was basically a 2790-2810 player between 2018 and 2023 and only got mindbroken due to the pressure of the world championship. Magnus' withdrawal and Nakamura's loss in the last round of the Candidates effectively ended his career.
>>492555087>>492556252Those are some bold claims anon. He barely played after covid hit and he didn't play too well at the Candidiates but the spectacular Fabi collapse + Hikaru choke landed him in an accidental world shampionship. I'm still mad at Magnus for the way he handled giving up the crown because Fabi wouldn't have jobbed that hard if Carlsen abdicated officialy before or even during the first couple of rounds of the Candidates.
>>492557048That's why I said he'd be a top 10, if not a top 5 player. Maybe he was overrated by 2022, but there's no way he was weaker than 2760.
>>492556252>>492557263I see and I'm inclined to agree but I mean the top ratings are basically just a reflection who held it together mentally the best in the past few events. I'd be interested in an alternate timeline where Magnus stood on bussiness and never decided to play the candidates lol something tells me he'd still be at the top, probably hit 2900 peak
Should I study a bunch of theory, or just pick a basic opening and spam it to git gud?
>>492558801I think shitters who autistically drill mainlines have it all wrong. For instance, if you play e4e5 with black, you should memorize refutations to gambits, but with something like the closed ruy you should focus more on structures and thematic ideas.
>>492558801neither bro. you should stay away from theory for a long time and just spam blitz/bullet, focusing on developing your fast intuitive ability first before you develop higher order thinking. for the opening, just play what feels good, find spots that look natural for your pieces and harmonize them so they work together well.
>>492558801it doesnt matter which one you pick, you'll reach your genetic limit and be stuck eventually either way
>>492561413100IQ probably caps out north of 2000 fide. Nobody itt is getting hardcapped by genetics.
>>492535782Same. Sometimes I think I like the guy. I watch his titled tuesdays live, think he's entertaining and it's easy to cheer for him.Then I see the thumbnails.
>>492561230I think I'll do that, thanks
>>492561230kek this is probably right, but maybe bait too. literally every advice for newbies is to do long games so you can think and learn
>>492567312>the non-thinking GOD gets another onebased
>>492568048nta but i've been telling people to play bullet instead of slow chess for what feels like years nowthe common advice is a high-iq larp. "chess is a game for intellectuals, if you're going to learn it the PROPER way, you need to play a PROPER format like rapid or classical!! the slower the better!!!!!"and honestly i can't see how that attitude doesn't severely hinder the general population's ability to actually get good at chess"i need extra time to think" is a crutch, not some kind of legitimate strategy for intellectuals. and if you train yourself to make good moves only under the condition that mommy grants you infinite time to get there, you'll never actually get good. you have to be held to the fire and be forced to make good decisions if you truly want to learn
if i want to play rapid on lichess, is there any specific time control i should either prioritise or avoid? for instance because of predisposition towards cheats, shitters...
youtube.com/shorts/7QTsB2iT6mgsorry, i know yt shorts are pozzed, but this clip is too good to not sharepissbaby magnus, who famously had a pissbaby meltdown because his opponent had a watch on his wrist, has another pissbaby meltdown when an arbiter doesn't allow HIM to have a foreign object in his vicinityi hate magnus more and more with each day
>>492573317it's a bottle of water, it's literally transparent. even if you put something in the cap that makes it vibrate, it's going to shake the table and be noticeable. really not comparable to having a watch.
>>492574179>really not comparable to having a watchreally is though. suspecting your opponent is cheating with either object is schizophrenic paranoia, so if you're going to expect to be emotionally compensated for one, you don't get the right to cry like a bitch about the other one
>>492574414oh, it's you, the guy that can't into nuance.
>>492575367"magnus is allowed to create his own rules because he was wc once" isn't an argument
opponent resigned
>>492568460
level 2 chessbrah habits + no hanging piece blunders = do fine
>>492568460sad thing here is even though this is an obvious shitpost, you're partly rightplaying only rapid or classical in the modern era of chess is a stupid idea
>>492578459>chessbrah habitsI'm glad your efforts at the special ed chess classes are paying up, anon. Keep up the good work
>>492577791if you don't see why this is an insane sequence of thoughts:>"my opponent having a foreign object on them was so immensely mentally disturbing to me that i lost focus and i lost the whole game because it disturbed me that badly!!!">months pass>"HUH??? i can't have my own personal water bottle on the table?? IT'S JUST WATER? HELLO? HOW COULD I CHEAT WITH THIS DEVICE? HUH??? what??? ?!?!?!?! what??? this is crazy!! this isn't fair to me!! what the fuck!!!"then i don't know what to tell you. i'm not baiting, i think you're seriously deluded if you don't get the point
>>492369831She has a mid body but her face is butt ugly churka -tier. All "famous" female chess players being just chess-themed whores pretty much sums up womyn chess.
>>492579480yeah it does. the actual top female players might as well not even be on the mapit's better to be a 2100 chess slut and content creator than it is to be a 2600 competitor
>>492579480why can't there be another judit? it's sad that they all turn out this way noweither full autist hiki women or whores. where are the normal ones?
>>492580494>where are the normal ones?not playing chess
>>492580494
>>492546584Black is threatening mate in 2 starting with Qh3+. Bf4 looks like the only move to at the very least slow black down. After Qxf4 I guess Rg1 is the move, because black is threatening to go back to g3, with the same threat as before. Not really sure what's going on after that. If Rg1 isn't working, there's also, Qa4+ followed by Rxf2, but I don't like that as much.
>>492580494>full autist hiki womenautist head canon
>>492581013Bf4 is part of it, but not the first move.
>>492579475Anon that was a totally diferent post
all day today 900-1000 elo players bring out their queens 2nd or 3rd move, and then they end up blundering
>>492583849I'm high 1900's lichess rapid and queenshitters have never stopped being a thing, lmao. At this point i'm convinced they exist at all online levels below master territory
>>492584449My rating starts with two and I never see itI see the Grog more often and those games always turn into chaos, gotta love itMaybe the Qe2 line against the french happens ever so rarely
>>492584449my personal favorite is when they refuse to trade off the queens and then blunder the queen
>>492584449Bringing out the queen early is fine. After 1.e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Qf3 the engines say the position is equal. If the reputation of an opening is bad enough and it's really not that bad, then it is worth being played. Just for the psychological edge.As long as white plays h3 and Ne2, the queen on f3 can't be kicked around and it's safe there.
There is nothing more r3ddit than playing on a losing position and fighting to go from-10 to -7>ha I won your pawn>bruh who are you talking to? I stopped thinking about this shit 30 seconds ago
>>492586506>Bringing out the queen early is fine. After 1.e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Qf3 the engines say the position is equalyeah because 0-2000 rated players can just do what stockfish does and keep it equal right?hard to believe you think "stockfish says it's ok" is a valid argument
>>492580494Because a woman who can go through the trainer regime her father put her through and come out of it both normal and extremely strong at chess is a once in a generation rarity.
>>492588220If you're 0-2000 any opening is fine. It literally does not matter. If you're 2000+ then the fact that there is no direct refutation to the opening matters.
>>49257200610+0 is by far the most popular of the three rapid formats, 15+10 is by far the least popular and also much weaker than 10 (your elo will be higher if you play 15+10)10+5 is kind of in the middle
>>492592736Is 1510 the weakest on lichees?On chesscom it's a tryhard improver mode and people there are stronger than on 10.
Why are normalfags ridiculing Kramnik so much? They all laugh at the guy haha Kramnik bad am I right boys
>>492555087I can. Gukesh is the only one that has lost to broken ding. In fact gukesh is the one with the worst record against broken ding.
>>492593348It's young people who see Kramnik as a fossil yelling at clouds. That's all. Many of them don't know who he is or what he's done in chess at all.
>>492593348because it's easy. he makes crazy claims, has shabby reasoning, dismisses counter-evidence, acts pretentious and unfortunately his terrible ESL accent makes him sound dumber than he is.
>>492593348likely just unknowingly projecting their mass media programmed 'russia bad guys' bias
>>492593348the normie brain algo is "magnus good -> whoever magnus hate bad" simple as
>>492594192oh yeah I'm sure that's what it is you fucking /pol/tard
>>492594269not my fault you're not white, don't get mad at me
>>492594269No, I think anon is right that Kramnik being Russian is some component of this. Consider zoomers have been exposed to a solid ten years of media propaganda against Russia at this point.
>>492593348He exposed hikaru cheatermura (his TT winrate drops by more than 50% when using a second camera), so all the bots are attacking him.
Am I just the greatest 1300 who ever lived?
>>492597010>1...c6Stopped watching there.
>>492597010you're a carotard so no
>>492597010The greatest 1300 who ever lived is 1400 now
>>492597282>>492597398>>492597612Please just r8 that game. chess dot cum says that my game rating was 2100.
>>492597779You did fine on casual glance here. The com rating thing is bullshit by the way. It's meaningless feel good number that tilts according to your own rating. Just look at accuracy. I assume your accuracy in this one was pretty high as i saw no clear mistakes at gif speed.
>>492598356My accuracy was 90% and the opponent's was 84%
>>492593348because he's a laughing stock and a very easy target to make fun of as a rambling over the hill sour loser russian boomer man
>>492594269Russians are fully on Kramnik's side by the way. There's definitely a political angle to this.
>>492598481Good! Keep it up.
This game has twists and turns, also drama, action, comedy, romance... You're gonna love it!
>>492604363>anon vs anonno
levy is losing again
these queen whores give up as soon as they lose the queen even if they could probably stil end up beating me cuz i suck
>>492606317saddest part is he wanted a draw early by repetition and his opponent cucked him out in the last second. he didn't want to fight, he's completely demotivated now that there's no norm on the table.
>>492607231he's gonna lose the bishop too though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALoPfklvBV4New kino series from Aman
>>492606317>>492607684exciting e-celeb shilling news, zoom-zoom's
>>492594480>not my fault you're not white, don't get mad at methank goodness russia is fighting for the white race by sending african, nepalese and muslim chechens to rape and kill white christian kids
>>492608638Yeah. It is.
Everyone please put your hands in the air and give Levy your energy! He drew yesterday, today he can win!!
>>492568460lol so true bro. i knew a kid who would stare intently at positions for 30 minutes and then they'd hang a piece... it's like WTF WERE YOU LOOKING AT hahaha most simple concept in the world but kids here don't apply it: you can't act like an expert before you've learned to crawl
>>492608638>zoom-zoom'slmao
>>492609368?
And levy cuckman drinks... THE S O O YYYYYYYYHoly crackers that was so good by our youtube e-celeb. His wife's boyfriend is surely waiting for him in bed after that magnificent play.
I love how when a titled player gets banned by com all they have to do is run to reddit and post the novel of their life and deny any wrongdoing and reddit will just believe them. Any other person in the world and they'd be like nah you cheated, stfu. But some WFM says it and they've never heard of guilty people claiming to be innocent before. All together they start to chant chesscom bad! Retards and their credentialism.
>>492613084did somebody else post a new novel?
>>492613206Yes, it got removed after awhile but this is it https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1f5ohok/comment/lkvj4yz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
luigi rosmarine lost
>>492613474holy based, she objectively didn't cheat. chess com BAD
Notice the manipulative way she starts her post btw. Making it sound like you're sexist and judgmental for correctly believing her play exceeded her ability. Typical of liars to acknowledge up front the unlikelihood of what they're claiming to make themselves seem ultra reasonable and gives themselves a little more credence. The overachieving underdog and feminist angles are also attempts to garner sympathy. She's lying.
>>492613474lmao these first two paragraphs are written so holier-than-thou stylecheater for sure, based chesscum
>>492614048kek yeah, the tone is so funny
It's fun watching Neiksans make excuses for Levy's play. Levy was doing so well until this loser came along and messed road to GM up. I'm unsubscribing from his patreon and telling Levy that unless he fires his coach I won't resubscribe.
>>492614239Neiksans is the only good thing about levy, anon.
>>492613474Anytime someone starts writing paragraphs of text it's obvious they cheated. But banning her is bad for Women's Chess so they shouldn't have done it. Shame on .scum
>>492614048They always write like they're thinking "a chance for Malak, WFM, to show her quality"
>>492614373Ever since Neiksans started getting more involved , like through commentating the games, Levy has performed much worse.
>>492615019he's performing amazingly in comparison to his first road to gm, what are you talking about?
>>492615087He lost to a 2200 last tournament and is 0-1-3 this tournament. In his first tournament he almost got a GM norm! Guess the difference? Neiksans commentating. He's filling Levy's head with bad advice, because he wants Levy to spend years on road to GM so he gets famous.
>>492615547in his first tournament Neiksans was his coach toohow the fuck can Neiksans commentating influence his game? he's not looking at the stream when he's playing
>>492615637>>492615637Neiksans commentating means he's getting more involved in general. Levy did well his first tournaments because he was super motivated, and Neiksans hadn't finished polluting his thinking with whatever crap he wanted. Now that he has Levy is stuck in place, regressing to the old Levy. Mark my words, until Levy gets rid of Neiksans he won't have anymore good tournaments.
>>492615547Holy schizo
>>492615936okay man you're trolling, not replying to you lmao
chess really is a joke now huh
>>492615989>>492616027Then explain why Levy started doing worse the moment Neiksans started commentating and taking a bigger role.
>>492616685It died when Magnus gave up the title
>>492616737because he looks up 4chan in-between games and reads your posts causing him to lose brain cells
>>492616917Neiksans wants to monopolize Levy's road to GM. He wants it to change from road to GM to coaching to GM. I've been a patreon subscriber since the first tournament, I can see the change in their relational dynamics.
>>492616915And Hans resurrected it.
>>492619575Hans will NEVER be anything more than a meme
>>492619646He's #16 and going up.Next week he will destroy Magnus Carlsen.Soon he will qualify to the Candidates and beat Ding Liren.Then I will paste a screenshot of your post.
>>492619861Hans pls
>>492619861>dingyou mean gukesh?
>>492619991No, I mean Ding.
>>492619861I doubt Magnus will play
>>492620176He can't run away now.
>>492620219he could still fall down a flight of stairs and break his legs. the lil pussy will find a way to dodge our guy
Got accused of cheating for the first time in a while by a 1900 on com. Guy said I was "hacking" with an engine to "predict positions" many moves ahead. I said no sweetie, that's called calculation. He said with full confidence, "I give it 3 hours until you're banned." I linked him to my main and was like actually I'm even stronger than this, this is an underrated alt that I try new things on. Hope that gives you some perspective. He refused to believe the account was mine so I messaged him on it. He informed me on that account too that I was reported and would be gone soon. Logged on today and he was banned. I assume he had started cheating when he thought I was lol.
>>492621573He was cheating and saw you making some of the best engine moves. He decided you're cheating because of that.
>>492621573>I assume he had started cheating when he thought I was lolmany people justify cheating to themselves this way
>>492621748That makes sense
>>492621748probably this lmao
>>492620219Why would he play him now though after always refusing
OFFICIAL list of /ourguys/ 2024 edition>Ian Nepomniatchi>Hans>Kramnik>Fischer>DING (temporarily)
>>492622981nepo and ding? not really, but the rest agreed.
4 wins in a row! 4 wins in a row! Come get your L!
>>492613474lmao
was Magnus vs Nepo constant 3 peon and king endgames games the peak of chess?
Levixisters.....it's happening again.....
>>492635245>i wish i was at home making clickbait thumbnails
The gift that keeps on giving.
>>492635245that retards really about to go .5/9
It's mystifying that lichess has any players at all. It's so aggressively anti-us
>>492637815What does he have to score to break even?
>Oh you refuse to gratify the blatant cheat with a resignation? Enjoy your 1 hour timeout. Oh you'd like to warn others in chat? Sorry, you're muted. Oh, you'd like to report him? We don't check that shit lmao. Retard.Oh goodie let me play here then!
>>492639312>realize someone is cheating>check the account>third world evri timwe just need our own internet like China, unironically
it's mystifying that chess.com has any players at all. It's so aggressively bad
>>492642743it has all the named streamers somehow
>>492642743If someone googles chess then they'll likely end up on chess (dotcom). Grabbing that name was a billion dollar idea.
i only use the engine once per game, and on the most important move
>>492645410elo?
>play bullet while listening to hikki rant about levy cuckman>hikaru starts seething uncontrollably at levy losing a game in one move>I lose a game because of thisHow do I stop the bullet brainrot?
STRIKE FIRSTSTRIKE HARDNO MERCY
>>492646510I mean... don't multitask while playingI only multitask in rapid or higher TC and I really shouldn't 'cause undoubtedly it makes you worse. I've been playing anon games recently so I kinda don't care
0.5/5jewy cuckman should go back to gaping his mouth for youtube thumbnails lol
>>492645410I assume you mean the opening move.
Should have signed for gmhans dot com...
nobody here bought Levi's courses right?
Levy Lossman
Levy sucks
>>492647631I remember some anon asking about it months ago. I have my doubts on him improving from it
>>492647631its that chessly website he shills right? Doubt theres anything worthwhile on there
>>492645410do you look at a whole line, or just one move?
Hikaru malding is always funny
>>492642743Com is the only moderately playable site
>>492649230I would rather shoot myself in the head than play anything faster than 3+2 on chesscom
Yeah that's gonna be tough to beat in 3+0 lichess. Thank you for this authentic online chess experience
>>492650306post the game chud lets see how badly you threw
>>492650306(He was so obviously cheating that I would repeatedly make an obvious blunder and spam him with time while he double checked the engine. He was too stupid to even mix in his own moves in his own time)
>>492650446I would have worse accuracy against a 1000 who sac'd his bishop on the second move. It doesn't matter. And it was a real game btw
>>492650660post the game or stop bitching
>>492645513>>492647175>>492648875i never use the engine. im trying to get gud
>>492650878Are you paid?
Bullet. My accuracy was 88.
Check out this epic piece sacrifice for 2 central pawns. Truly the center is the most important part of the board.
>>492651475That one's not as suss
>>492650306yeah that's probably a cheater>>492651475totally unremarkable to the extent that it weakens your previous point
>>492650306I have had better than that in 3+0 lichess blitz many times.
>>492650306How many games are you playing to encounter cheaters this often? If you're playing 30+ blitz games a day, you'll encounter cheaters
>>492651689When he's lower rated and outplaying me with 92% accuracy in bullet and managed to mate me in five moves with literally 0s on his clock it's suss
>>492652047first of all, stop posting here like you said you would. Second of all, posting lichess accuracy measurements doesn't mean anything
>>492652047He sounds based.
>Start a bullet game>Spotify won't skip a Melanie Martinez song>Have to throw out the app>Still playing>Come back to the game down 10 seconds>I'm fast enough it's fine>Lichess doing the thing where it randomly stops playing volume >Try to click the red muted button to get it back>Takes me to some random lichess page instead>Refresh>Still muted>Resign I'm going full Thoreau. I'm out
>>492652047...did you intentionally anger your opponent with verbal abuse? That's a bad idea with so many potential cheaters out there
>>492652718I have never played on lichess without being muted within 5 minutes
>>492653139yikes... toxic much?go to therapy.
>>492653320It's usually because I said something like "Marx was a fat pseud"
>>492653139Holy kek you're such a fucking faggot
>>492653589*Based legend
>Holy kek
>>492654794I'll say "top kek" next time or "top lel"
>>492621573Same thing happened to me about a year ago. Spent a while without playing on chesscom (grinding rating on li), got a big winning streak and in one of my matches some low-life faggot starts accusing me in chat after seeing my profile. In the game i got totally crushed. Few months later guess what, he's banned for cheating. Really makes you think about what kind of people these loud accusers really are... textbook psychological projection. The kind that assumes everyone else in the world is exactly the same trash pile of a human being as they are.
>>492639312no chess site has ever punished people for not resigning
>>492656337At least they have their priorities straight!
>>492656337As rude as that kind of thing is by general consensus, sites and even tournaments really cannot make any kind of new rule to prevent it. It would be a fundamental change to the rules of the game. You'd be talking about some equivalent rule to the amateur freestyle/greco wrestling "technical superiority" win condition. If you watched wrestling this summer olympics you would have seen a few matches end due to this rule. According to "technical superiority" win condition, the match is over if an athlete achieves a 10 point lead in score. No pin has been scored and there is time on the clock remaining but it's instantly match over and win granted to the wrestler who is ahead by 10. In chess I guess you could do some equivalent thing based on material advantage but that's... it's dumb and not necessary.
>>492653139I've decided not to sit quietly about this actually
>>492639160Their interface is *the best* web interface I have ever played on.High performance (which should be trivial for a chess website, but is surprisingly often bungled), no lag moving the pieces, relatively reliable servers too.
>>492659353I agree I prefer playing there, that's the tragedy
>>492621573heh, reminds me of when I encountered an old nm in the bullet pool and he accused me of cheating because he hung a piece to a knight fork and I played it instantly
https://lichess.org/@/TheOnoZone/blog/actual-rating-anxiety/aPq0XtJ8Remember this faggot? Where is the anon who was going to challenge him?
>>492659284Is the part about never receiving a response true? That's crazy if true
>>492660138Yes. I was saying that like two years ago and it's still true to this day. There hasn't even been a token obvious cheat that I would be reluctant to count because it's the bare minimum. No response ever. I know they do have the ability to respond because anons here have said they've seen it (like a fucking Bigfoot sighting lmao), but in my personal experience, never. Which is wild, yes.
>>492658948what the fuck are you talking about dumbass
>>492659931What is the point
>>492660564you don't win automatically in chess by being up 25 points of material
>>492660936They're talking about letting the clock run out instead of resigning
>>492658948Yeah, loss by "material superiority" certainly would just kill off chess for good. Imagine if kino games ending in positions like pic related were no longer technically allowed.One sad thing that i've learned is that such a thing does actually exist in a few small schoolkids tournaments out there, feel pretty sorry for the children that have to play by such a dumb ruleset that takes away the spirit of chessOn a side note, while i was searching for "opera game" in google i managed to find out they made a fucking movie by the same name depicting the life of Paul Morphy. I can't believe i've never heard of this. Has anyone here watched it? Is it any good?https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5120646/
>>492652248>first of all, stop posting here like you said you wouldI am btw, this was just a sort of parting shot. I'll be too busy even if I wanted to. Be sure to remember to shower and not kidnap anyone
>>492661081lichess claims to do timeouts if an account does this too often. I doubt they actually do. Or it's some short period of time like they allegedly do for aborting too often.
>>492661785they don't. I've played an account with like 10k blitz games that lets the clock run every single time
>>492661230Now I definitely want to watch your movie about Morphy
>>492613474You have to go back.
>>492663947Did magic nigger of the forest teach him how to play at the cost of his sanity?
should I just start playing the caro and london for the rating boost?
>0.5/5What's up with the Levy collapse, thought he was doing well these days?
>>492664917He was from a southern state. He was from New Orleans iirc. So maybe he had a black servant who helped him (doubt). The better question is why would they ever put that on a poster for a film about a chess genius. The normal poster is pretty cool already too.
>>492666265It only gives you a "rating boost" if you're the kind to fall for cheap e4e5 tactics like the fried liver fork and desperately need a way to avoid them. The Evans gambit is an actual rating boost.
>>492666265Did this bitch remarry after her divorce? I don't think she is the kind that stays single for long.
FUCK YOU /CHESS/ LEVY DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR INSULTS HE STANDS STRONG HE STAYS WINNING HE IS A FUTURE GENERAL MASTER
>>492672414>Unironically trying to become a GM at 30
>>492672414I wish I could be a General Master :(
>>492672414he's literally just a lazy little faggot. How has your 'work ethic' been bad when your only job on planet earth is to play chess and email video footage to your editor. Is he just playing vidya and gooning all day?
>>492673914Work ethic = overcoming of laziness to do what you gotta do.>Is he just playing vidya and gooning all day?Possibly. In my experience these things are pretty effective in making you lazy
>>492674483Its a thematic circumstance. Spoiled rotten rich jew kid, never worked a day in his life, stumbles and bumbles his way through university living off of daddys money, gets his participation certificate and goes on to do fuck all, ends up making jewtube videos out of boredom, netflix releases cia propaganda series to encourage more women and coloreds to play chess, becomes famous on youtube out of the fucking blue, and now all of sudden he is "successful" despite never building the personal habits that most successful people have which is what makes people successful in the first place as opposed to pure luck. I enjoy watching him suffer, he couldn't deserve it more
>>492675076You have serious problems bro. It's funnier if you're low rated as well.
>>492614373His coach being very good isn't an unqualified plus at all. GM Neiksans can't play at the board for Levy. Meanwhile, Levy's openings don't look good enough to me. They don't suit his style (and this often happens with very strong GM coaches). Levy's old opening repertoire was deemed "not good enough", so the GM comes in with his solid stuff that would do great if GM Neiksans was playing, but Levy is making multiple small mistakes early in the game because coordinating his pieces in quiet positions is not his strength (and it really is Neikans' strength, you can tell from his recaps) and because Neiksans is on his case to be practical with time management, so he can't think through positions that are not intuitive for him.
>>492676596>low ratedI'm an Arena International Master. Show some respect next time you (you) me
>>492677989I humbly kneel AIM-sama, please forgive my insolence.The next time you post a paragraph about cia funded chess propaganda and an annoying kike you hategoon to I'll be sure to respectfully drop an appreciative reply.
Chessarena is the best chess site I've played on fr
Takeback sent Takeback cancelled Black offers draw White declines draw Takeback sent Takeback declined Black offers draw White declines draw
>>492681576>having takebacks enabled
>>492685459I assume he has them on just so he can enjoy the seething when he declines them.
>>492681576i allow instantaneous takebacks for obvious mouseslips. just the kind of guy i am...
replied to wrong post whatever
>>492681242You're right I like it a lot. Spectated this game. Least subhuman Indian
>>492687785(He refused to resign, should have been clearer)
>>4926774191. Neiksans has helped Levy build his openings based on the positions and types of openings he already knew. 2. In most of his games since he has been back, Levy has successfully navigated the openings and been in a good position. It’s the mid game where you could argue he’s been making small mistakes (this tournament). This last match is the first time he’s made a key mistake during an opening. Out of what, 30+ matches? And in Neiksans commentary of this game, Neiksans said the opening idea was Levy's, not his.
https://lucidar.me/en/chess/best-stockfish-opening/>Giuco Pianololalso>power cuts in Franceanother lol. i thought you guys had the most nuclear reactors in the world. how are you having power cuts?? any frenchies explain???
FOR THE SAKE OF REMEMBRANCE6 SEPTEMBERFIVE DAYS UNTIL REVENGE
>>492694970>>492695203thnank you saar please do the hans needful saaar!
>>492687463I allow all takebacks because anyone blundering against me and asking for a takeback has a 0% chance to win and it's more satisfying to further humiliate them
>>492659284The way I do it on lichess and it works is when I report a dude for cheating I look through his profile and link more than one game in the cheat report. Yes, I'm technically doing their work for them but it works very well. In the mean time I reported a diamond membership indian on.scam that was 2300 rapid and 700 bullet and 3 months later he's still not banned
the hans vs magnus match is gonna be a total nothingburger btw
>>492659931why are chess players so egotistical?i can't read a single chess player blog post without feeling like this person has been given the annual special snowflake award for all 25 years that they've been alive
>>492695203"You ran" or "You have run"
you have runned
>>492702991https://x.com/HansMokeNiemann/status/1821629312333967557
https://www2.chessclub.com/today ICC has resurrectedfree analysis board, gamesare we playing there bros?
>>492705624based esl understanding of english as an american
>>492693056>mothballing their nuke plants for enviromentalism Terminal retardation
I hate gatcha
>>492705776is hikaru playing? This was his thing wasn't it
>>492672414this is the drawback of making your road2gm so public, people will shit on you after every bad tournament, even though ups and downs are inevitable. eric rosen guy does it lowkey and he doesn't get any hate. he just says he's playing an event. as soon as people know something is important to you, it becomes a weakness they can exploit for their own lulz and schadenfreude.
>>492675076lol exactly the right attitude for e-celebs>>492676596and you flat out don't have a rating like every other kid here who tries to comment on OTB chess
>>492695203I really hope Magnus blows him off the board so the stupid drama culture surrounding anything Hans involves himself in can end.
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>>492727825plays only against computer?
>>492727825I saw some guy on chess com who had like 1700 games and they were all only against bots
>>492718081it's not about making that stuff public or not. people hate on levy because, playfully or not, he insults everyone everguess the elo is literally an entire series of him roasting his own chat and their opponents in their games for being dogshit at chess. he reaps what he sows
>>492718081Nigger are you retarded? He makes a living by making stuff public. Why would he play chess tournaments in secret? He actually doesn't care if he wins or loses because either way zoomers are watching his videos about it. You can only post so many guess the elos before eventually you need new content, and the road2gm bullshit is the perfect content farm
>>492727825You can play unrated games.
>>492732183you're retarded if you think road2gm is the only thing he's got left for content. the goal is clearly important to him and putting this much public attention creates unneeded pressure and then people kick you when you're already down.
>>492700025Hans cheated
I'm so glad Levy supports the 2SLGBTQ+ community by saying 'always let your friends mate you'.
>>492737738KEKW
I have the 5334 book. Do I just go through it page by page?
>>492739483do zoom-zooms really not know how books work?
>>492727793>stupid drama cultureHe was accused of something he didn't do for which he was defamed and denied opportunities. For that he's rigtfully angry at Magnus.
>>492739814It seems like it's gonna take centuries to read. Are there tiktok accounts that can read it out loud for me?
I wonder if I could get .5/5 in a NYC norm event
>>492740394you could go for like, memorizing all the berlin draw theorybut people way higher-rated than you would most likely force the game into a different line
>>492729389>>492729797Literally me desu. I like puzzles and real games stress me out (muh elo!), so when I get the urge to play a full game, it's just against the engine.
>>492739814>zoom-zoomsdid you mean zoom-zoom's?
>>492740020>He was accused of something he didn't do for which he was defamed and denied opportunities.true but he is a self-admitted cheater so it's all meaningless. hans isn't a victim here
>>492741137How much of a fragile coward do you have to be to be scared of playing chess on the computer? Give your balls a tug
>>492741238esl-kun...
>>492727825I see a bunch of accounts like that in live chats and game comment sections.
>>492741536>>492608638
>>492740859>people way higher-rated than you would most likely force the game into a different lineThey wouldn't even have to. Any player in that tournament could beat anyone itt in the berlin draw after trading queens instead of taking the threefold repetition.
>>492741517Not scared. I just get irrationally angry when I lose. I'm hyper-competitive with anger issues to the point that it gets detrimental. It is what it is. Better than punching the walls.
>>492741996I could draw Levy in the berlin
>>492741238kek
>>492742303Give me a fucking break. No such thing as 'anger issues', you're just a low IQ mongoloid with underdeveloped amygdala
>>492742324Yeah because at this point Levy would take your draw offer even if you're some 1800 fide shitter lmao.
>>492741332He was invited to the tournament by Rex and everyone agreed to play him. Magnus played Hans before multiple times in his own online tournaments before. Why was it only a problem after Magnus lost? He was way younger when he cheated a few times and it was online on fucking chess.com. It's nothing and many titled players have done worse only to get a slap on the wrist plus a second chance from Danny.
>>492742809Believe whatever you want. No skin off my back.
>>492742872here's the counterpoint, anon:>magnusbased and /our guy/>hansnot based and not /our guy/there you go. that should explain why things are the way they are
>>492743049No, let's get to the bottom of this. Why do you claim to be hyper competitive, what do you or have you competed in? You don't play otb, did you play sports growing up?
>>492743526Yes, I played baseball for years.
>>492705776I like FICS better
>>492743680Team sports are different, you're going to always have the thought in the back of your mind that regardless of how you play, you can't be solely responsible for the outcome. You're going to evaluate your own performance obviously, but the underlying notion persists. Have you read any sports psychology books? They're considerably more popular amongst people who compete in 'individual' sports, wrestling, mma, golf, whatever. Chess is in the same realm. Basically, you need to completely restructure your perception of what competition really is
>>492743339Hans is following in the steps of Bobby Fischer. Madnus can't compete.
>>492744809Haven't read any psych books. I visited a therapist for a bit, but stopped after I stopped getting anything out of it. I like chess because I find it fascinating, so I do puzzles and play against stockfish when the mood strikes and this lets me engage with it in a way that doesn't lead to the possibility of me flying into a rage. Should I work on my deeper issues with competition? Obviously. Do I *need* to do it with this specific area? Not necessarily. I'm perfectly content doing what I'm doing.
Levy getting slowly strangled positionally. Why hasn't he been castling in his matches?>t. dumb 1200
>>492746186>Do I *need* to do it with this specific areaNo you don't, you're right, it's just chess. I'll put it this way, if you can't mentally handle losing a game of chess on the computer, what else can you not mentally handle? Consider one day using chess as a medium to overcome whatever obstacles you have in the interest of overall improvement in your character. Sports psychology is a pretty underdeveloped genre relatively speaking, lots of 'e-book' type stuff out there. If you ever feel the urge to poke around, I'd recommend downloading PDFs and skimming them to see if they're appealing/worthwhile before reading. General psychology stuff can be useful too, maybe cliche but read a bit of jung if you havent already. Its a good place to start, if anything
Simple, the openings his dumbfuck coach Neiksans give him have him castling later because he wants Levy to fail.
>>492747362he would tell you he is an aggressive tactical player
Levy needs Hikaru as a coach, Neiksans is not working. Levy is getting worse the longer they work.
>>492748697Agreed, Neiksans is sabotaging Levy to get more visibility.
he should hire hans as coach, but he's too stuttery to live commentate tho
If he REALLY wanted to make some top notch click bait, he should hire Magnus to coach him
>>492749204Poor Levy is being played like a fiddle for some extra cash. Shame on Neiksans, FIDE should revoke his GM title for this terrible coaching. There's no planet where a coach should make you go from almost getting a GM Norm to 0.5/5
>>492749396Not a bad idea. Magnus is probably bored to tears at the moment. Trying to build up an IM into a GM would be a good challenge for him.
>>492747362>Why hasn't he been castling in his matches?It's not that uncommon in the caro-kann. It's one of those openings where in certain positions you get blown off the board if you castle.
>>492750034Magnus has too much self respect to play the lolcow. He does online shit on his own terms, which is why he'd rather hang out with the brahs than farm views for rebi.
>>492749204No but I think anon from earlier was right that the opening repertoire he has put together with Levi is better suited to Neiksans' play style than Levi's. Neiksans was just saying the openings are fine, and he is absolutely right in the sense that he is getting good positions. But then went on to say the problem is the decision making immediately after the opening phase, which is also absolutely right. However, I'm not sure if slight changes to the opening choices would even help. Levi isn't necessarily better even when he does get the kind of positions he's comfortable with.
>>492705776At least as a guest, the piece set and board theme are locked.The default piece set is goofy, I wouldn't want to play with it. So I'm curious if they are literally going to limit any aesthetic changes to paid members, or (very unlikely) creating a free account lets you change them.
>>492750491Neiksans has been a coach for a long time. He KNOWS that it isn't suited for Levy, but he still gave it to him. He also made sure Levy sticks to these openings and doesn't learn more suitable ones.
>>492749868Studying and trying to integrate new concepts into my game makes me lose elo (temporarily), so I wouldn't be shocked if something similar happens for Levy
>>492751106If this is true it's a master class of manipulation and very VERY funny.
Levi simply needs to forget everything he's ever known about the caro and start playing the Sicilian like a man
>>492750387I don't blame him the brahs are fun.
>>492750839nvm, they let you change them after signup.The site seems potentially usable, the question is whether it will have a decent playerbase
>>492705776>www2url looking like a typo is not a great first impression
>big 1v1 match coming up>no thematic weaver tourney for it>not even with the thread getting fasteris it over bros?
>>492752213>weaver tourneyDon't want to play against stockfish
>+3.8 for whitebased 0.5 gang
>>492752048And you can use the classic sounds, like the lady saying 'check'. Unfortunately the classic 'white resigns' etc. line doesn't play
>>492739483Do the mate-in-ones as a warm-up before your training sessions. Yes, all of them. It really doesn't take that long after the first time. Then set aside some fixed amount of time, maybe 30-60 minutes, and do as many of the mate-in-twos or mate-in-threes as you can in that time. You can ignore the miniature games or whatever makes up the last 1000 or so problems.
>>492752807Thanks, this is the response I was looking for
>Levy lost againIs this tournament rigged?
>>492752454it's insane how fast you always jump on any mention of the weavers with this bullshit
>>492753538it's an antisemitic tournament
>>492753992nta but I'm pretty sure they're all different people. I am also turned off by the weaver tournaments because of the people who got banned and the people who didn't but played suspiciously.There's a reason the tournaments died the instant one or two weavers got banned.
>>492753538Strong competition + Levy not at his best + Playing the same openings again and again + Levy tilting = disaster
>>492753538it's not rigged and that's the problem
We can still make it to 3.5/9 levixirs
I'm quite upset that this isn't on pace to 0/9
0.5/6it's nice that there's 2 games per day so we can see him play even more tilted in a couple hours
>>492755267lmaoHe's really going to go 0.5/9, isn't he?
>>492754404No one believes your NTA, PBT
>>492755267Two classical games in one day sounds awful. Why would they schedule it like that?
>>492755473Whatever you want to think schizo. Maybe people don't want to play against cheaters.>>492755574Most American Opens have 2 rounds a day, have to squish it in a weekend.
>>492755267cope twitter post or video soon, can't wait
>>492755574Two 90+30 games is basically an eight hour work day. Seems reasonable. Fabi said this in his podcast.
>>492754752>>492755134>>492755267>>492755467>>492755826All haters, Levy if you see this block and ignore them it's not worth it.
>>492754404yeah bro it's totally different people always making the same exact posts within minutes of any mention of the teamremember when the thread got unreadable after someone started incessantly spamming weavers=cheaters?
>>492755574Its not just a chess tournament, it's a test of will and spirit, as it should be
>>492756245The weavers being cheaters stuff is only brought up when someone mentions the weavers, because when else would you bring it up?
>>492756032It must be insanely mentally draining. I've never played otb classical, but whenever I play an otb rapid event, I feel dizzy by the last round.
>>492756032It is reasonable. God forbid chess players have to exert themselves for the highest tier of competition.
>>492755134He never was, there's a 2000 in this norm tournament for some reason so Levy will at least get a draw or a win there.
I just learned that you can only get digits with 0s on this board so the no dubs anon was almost right. I completely forgot about this but then reading about it reminded me of that anon.
>>492758700>>492758711>>492758722>>492758733>>492758744>>492758755>>492758766>>492758777>>492758788>>492758799
Chess is easy
>Right clicking on a square moves the piece there instead of cancelingThis just lost me a game vs a 1800+ chessclub bullet player
>>492760741that's an ICC feature?
>>492760885I never played on the old icc, but chesscom and lichess let you cancel a move with right click
>>492761185>never played on the old icc,Zoomer
what the fuck are "exclusive deals"
Why did Levy hire a random GM to be his coach? Why that guy in particular?
>>492763195He's decently well-known as a coach and has been around a while. Used to do commentary a lot too.
>>492761604I'm guessing chances to spend more money
Giribros...
>>492764586Oh shit it gets better
>>492761604chess.com and lichess have the market cornered so unironically if ICC wants to differentiate themselves those exclusive deals should be big breasted anime girls.
>>492755740Your weaver slander is nothing more than PBT cope
>>492765103copenish -3ri btforare fide w
>>492766667Then why were weavers banned from lichess? If they never got banned for cheating then this would've never happened. There's no crusade against the weavers, they were simply proven as cheaters.
>>492759116Checked it in the archive and apparently only trips or bigger are possible and only with 0s.
there's a dozen street fighter gens on the 'log
>>492769889>vg catalog A cancer of the highest order
I just beat an FM 3-1 in bullet on icc.I would link the games, but I don't even know if that's possible
>Sunday com daily puzzle>supposed to be hardest of week>it's a bit tricky because it requires calculating three mate variations to solve>puzzle plays the easiest and shortest mate I had figured out 10 minutes before I determined the other two lead to longer mates as well
So far, the icc web interface feels worse than lichess. As usual for people who aren't Thibaut, they managed to bungle the most important feature, how responsive and reliable it feels to move pieces and make premoves.If they manage to get a decent userbase, I'll probably play there and try to get a decent rating, thoughever.I looked through the active player list and saw Drahacik FM. Real ones will recognize that name from somewhere...
Sara Khadem is pretty hot
>>492771958>rxzzian bookNo thanks chud, SLAVA UKRAINI
>>492772723Chessdotjew is a site entirely designed to pander to people who make being 600 rated at chess their entire personality.
>>492381065>tfw I just btfo'd a redditor. Feels good man
>>492776626400 elo anon vs 405 elo anon
>>492748039>Sports psychology is a pretty underdeveloped genre relatively speaking, lots of 'e-book' type stuff out there. If you ever feel the urge to poke around, I'd recommend downloading PDFs and skimming them to see if they're appealing/worthwhile before reading.not the anon you're talking to but I originally got into chess because I thought it was good practice for mental game in poker... then I forgot about poker and became obsessed with chess. You know of any good sports psych books? I think I remember someone here recommend "the inner game of tennis".
>>492780660how champions think by rotella, champions mind by afremow, and inner excellence by murphy are a few that come to mind. Most of the genre really is hit or miss, for example inner excellence I remember being almost annoyingly positive to the point where I didn't really like reading it, but it did seem to have some positive effects in the long run funnily enough. I would recommend searching the genre on goodreads and scrolling the list, if you see one that catches your eye just skim a pdf and make sure its not a pile of trash and you should be good to go. Thats what I did, atleast. Another general recommendation is to try to find books written by people who were actually successful athletes themselves or at the very least somehow directly involved in the coaching of professional athletes.
>>492765103oh yeah the olympiad is coming up. that's one of my favorite tournaments to watch.
I suck at positions like this one. White is obviously slightly better but I can never figure out a plan and I eventually lose. Are there any books that go over this stuff?
If Nepo the fat lord put up a better fight in 2021 Magnus still plays for the title today. Him rolling Nepo that badly kind of just solidified that he has nothing left to prove vs the rest of the chess world for such a draining experience.
bump limit ?
>>492792484700 and something
The 0.5/9 dream is dead
>>492796982aw. gonna miss out on some seethe
>>492786826just learn more theory
https://venceslavrutarscoringofchessgames.tiiny.site/the shankster is apparently going to play a match with these rulestldr:a win = 5 pointsdraw with material advantage: 3 points to the side with more material, 1 to the otherequal draw: 2 pointsloss: 0 points
>>492800559My machine was infected with malware just by reading that url
The industrial revolution was a mistake
>>492801536>road to fucking 1000really?
kek
>>492804516275 elo
>>492369831This just makes me sad. She's clearly depressed.
>>492579480I think her face, and especially her eyes, a very beautiful, but I don't approve of her behavior.>>492580185Good point. Let's post REAL Chess women. Pic rel.
>>492804516Da fuq?
Humina, humina, humina, humina, VAVOOM, AWOOOOGA, oink, oink, oink, WOOF!!!
>>492801536>another wah-wah racist episode
>>492808243what a cutie
>>492801842Everyone starts somewhere, obviously. Finegold often remarks he was stuck at 900 for four years.
>>492808717I know right!? I'm in awe! But Chess has many brilliant and modest women. I love it.
>>492780660I may be the anon who recommended the inner game of tennis, but if you're into poker maybe you should read the mental game of poker, which is inspired by the tennis book but applied to poker. It leans more heavily into coping with probabilities
Aw yeah! I can't wait to learn some aggressive and energetic responses to the sicilian!
>>492808738>Finegold often remarks he was stuck at 900 for four yearshe was 8 years old
>>492813365>he was 8 years oldFor four years?!
icc won't let me log in with blitzen using my free account :(
>>492800559Against whom and when? Is it gonna be a one and done match against that one opponent? Who organizedit?These point changes never really reduced the number of draws afaik and doing it in a 1v1 match where there'll be a winner anyway seems useless.
>>492816021https://www.chessbase.in/news/Surya-Ganguly-vs-Sam-Shankland-Venceslav-Rutar-Scoring-System>whomSurya Ganguly.>whenToday and tomorrow starting at 8:30 pm Indian time>is it gonna be a one and done match against that one opponentidk>who organized it?The guy who invented the scoring system apparently.
>>492807351I'd like to "depress" her "anus" with my "dick" and also "testicle".
>>492816442Wow, thanks. Pretty boring opponent. Interesting picks by the organizer but I suppose they couldn't get the top top guys.
This is a graph of a game I just played against an FM. I was black. According to someone on this board it is evidence I cheated against him and turned the engine on at the end to win. No, that is how chess is. Sometimes you are outplayed and then they mess up and you take advantage of it. Sometimes you beat players who are better than you. Simply as.
>>492817574stop cheating
>>492817574Don't worry about him. He's done posting here forever and will surely never see this post
>>492817574>clearly a cheaterwho do you think you're fooling retard
>>492804784kek!!im 950 btw. opponent 1050
>>492817574I trolled like that once as an homage to the graph posting cheating schizo. Pretty funny guy as long as the "I played 10 cheaters in a row" spam he tends to put out only pops up every once in a blue moon.
>>492813365Yeah, and the world of chess frequently stresses the advantage children have. Stop squirming.
>>492813365Also, don't post random whores. Only chess women.
>>492817352I'd like you to stop. So does Gu-gi.
>>492819519You fell for the center fork trick, failed to salvage, immediately lost a knight, etc.,. Your opponent lost to a basic checkmate. Don't give me that nonsense.
>>492416438Watch your mouth, faggot! She's beautiful! But they need to put clothes on.
>>492823236>>492823406oofstick to the Muzy sisters bro
>>492418250Who let you low-T, baby-dicked, ass-eaters into my general?!
>>492825007Enjoy siring your sub-standard children with low intelligence, dysgenic ethnorot.
>>492825245imahine posting this with the middest mid chinkess who ever mid
>>492825245also both the women you posted are lower rated than the Muzy sistersI guess you misread it and thought I wrote botez sisters in which case you're just mindbroken lol
>>492800559Retarded ruleset. Anything that reduces your ability to secure a good old-fashioned draw while down material disincentivizes attacking.
>>492825682It's literally the second best choice you could make if you want high elo children.
>>492826201#noass
>>492827525big assed girls are all fun and games until they turn 27 and gain 250lbs. Now, if your only goal is to produce sturdy warrior offspring, which is noble and commendable, don't let me stop you. Just be prepared to bear the burden of a wife the size of a juvenile grizzly bear. Another thing with #thicc girls is that they take massive dumps, it will ruin your bathroom if you let them move in. For some guys? This is fine. For me? I prefer a woman that shits like a rabbit.
>>492800559This is what the Sinquefield cup would look like with this scoring system.Final standings:1. Alireza (26)2. Fabiano (25)3. Nodirbek (23)4. MVL (22)5. Wesley (20)6. Pragg (19)7. Gukesh (17)8. Anish (14)9. Ian (13)10. Ding (12)Compared to the actual standings:1. Alireza (6)2. Fabiano (5.5)T3. MVL (5)T3. Nodirbek (5)T5. Pragg (4.5)T5. Gukesh (4.5)T5. Wesley (4.5)T8. Ding (3.5)T8. Ian (3.5)10. Anish (3)
>>492828578
>>492828498Fat deposition is genetic. An ex of mine had both a tight flat stomach and a massive ass.
>>492829549>both a tight flat stomach and a massive assfinding this condition in a woman over the age of 30 is exceptionally rare to the point its hardly worth discussing as anything other than an anecdote. Also, keep in mind that instagram pictures do not count. Another piece of helpful information for the zoomers reading this, any woman with broad shoulders WILL get fatter than you could ever imagine as they age. I must clarify, I am not discouraging you from reproducing with large women. In fact, it is almost impossible to argue against reproducing with large women simply because of how strong the children will be. You just have to be prepared for what you're getting into
>>492830236The fact that a woman deposits most of her fat in her ass doesn't in any way imply that she'll get fat in her 30s. There's no relation between those two things.
>>492830407The ass will, eventually, regardless of what your science textbook tells you, refuse to hold the fat and spread it to the rest of the body. Ignore my warnings at your own peril.
it's better when you larp as anthropologists
>>492831158Only if she gains more weight. I'm not talking about some Kim K tier abomination, by massive ass I mean basically Alex Botez size. My ex had that at 165cm/55kg.
>>492785547Carissa Yip will be returning to play for USA Women. I became a big fan after the US Championship.
>>492554539that tells me you're scared to play people at your level
>>492823650yes, i was following chessbrah's habits, and he starting leading with the knights and more or less turning into four knights opening italian variation. so i didnt expect it. so now somehow no one ever did this to his opening, or he did an explanation and i cant find ithttps://youtu.be/5T6TN35mDDs?si=L3Cub-EkmZw9Nf9ehttps://youtu.be/HizPoJ_2GPs?si=LJuZ_G1ycGS4aOkJ
>>492828498>Another thing with #thicc girls is that they take massive dumps
>>492840506>[YouTube] 4.4 Million Players - SAME MISTKAE (embed)no way you'd watch a video with such a fucking revolting thumbnail jesus christ man have some self respect
>>492841848watching it right now
>>492841848yes but i needed t know theanswer. not rly a fan of that guy. no charisma points
>>492826201gonna bang an asian prossie who looks just like this tomorrow
>>492826201>>492846226she's too skinny. i want an athletic fit body to consume
>>492845557Center fork trick
>>492854650i know the trick now (after getting blown out(but seems common position) , but doesnt seem a straightforward answer for black, since using the bishop to take back everyone seems to think black has easier development, even though the engine says the positions are equal. odd that chessbrah in his series from 800-1200 elo, no one ever does the center fork trick to him, but seems like , should just study the italian game, which is more like what he is doing (Rather than ruy lopez){
>>492855789>but doesnt seem a straightforward answer for whitefixed typo
>>492854650>>492840506you can even see an opening for the center fork trick here on chess.com teaching of the italian gameat about 3:15: https://www.chess.com/lessons/learn-the-openings/learn-the-italian-game-1maybe thats why it says at about 11:27 that at higher ratings the queen side N is not played to C3
>>492856884pic
>>492855789You should move on to either the slow italian or something like the evans as you progress imo.
>>492558801Pick a couple openings and spam correspondence and long time control classical chess (minimum of 30 minutes)
>>492568460You are giving dumbass advice lmaoWhen playing real chess (OTB classical) you and your opponent will have ample time to think.If you listen to this moron’s advice you will be just as idiotic as he isYou can play bullet for fun when you’re already good but to recommend that for beginners is absolutely horrible advice.
>>492858206i didn't say i was coaching children who plan on playing tournament classical chess to do thisthe vast, vast, vast majority of people who play chess are not part of that group. you're attacking a strawman because you have no argument otherwise. cya pest don't @ me anymore
>>492858206fast chess improves intuition, slow chess improves calculation. to be a good player, you need both, but the in my opinion, the majority of adult improvers suffer from a lack of intuition, they constantly miss shit because they have zero board awareness unless they deliberately check every legal move like a computer.
>>492860064>>492861108seems like tactics puzzles and tactics rush would be better
They're getting shit on by Arabian royalty, aren't they?
>>492864326tactics are for drilling specific and rare patterns that might happen once per game. it won't train your intuition like playing out an entire game from start to finish and all that it entails. faster controls are better because you can fit in a lot more of them and expose yourself to many more patterns than if you just spend 4 hours straight slow thinking in one classical game.
>>492864326the difference is bullet trains you to see how a real full game of chess unfolds and you get a deeper (and better) understanding of where tactics pop up in real life scenariosif you drill puzzle rush all day you're training your brain to finish solved positions and that's not how real chess works. in real chess you need to learn how to make moves that weaken your opponent's jenga tower while also not weakening your own. and then you need to be able to recognize and capitalize on weaknesses as they unfold in real timeand since games happen so fast in bullet, you can instantly pop open the analysis board and ask the computer if you missed anything. sometimes you missed an unreasonably deep line. sometimes you missed an obvious tactic. but you will remember these because they literally just happened to you a minute ago. this is real valuable learning anyway, puzzles have their place too and they certainly have value. but if we're going to generally throw around ideas about which one is "better" for getting good at chess, it's definitely bullet unless you're a classical player
>>492865771heh botesh sisthers are horsh heh>>492830236>finding this condition in a woman over the age of 30 is exceptionally rare to the point its hardly worth discussinglol but you're a virgin zoom-zoom who is never around women talking shit on a subject you haven't engaged withat no other time in history have women been so fit. it has become an entirely normal thing for a girl to go to the gym every day for an hour. intense fucking lifting and cardio. once upon a time women were taught that any weightlifting will make you look like arnold so they were either fat and doughy or skinny as fuck sooooooo many more fit big assed flat stomach girls these days.... easy to find them at fucking age 60, sonand yeah there are still to this day boomer women looking better than zoomer girls doing their kardashian cosplaypic-related is a FOURTY fucking year diff and there are still plenty who would pick the grandma
>>492865771>i'll fly you out here to let me shit on you and give you $2Mwhat girl wouldnt say yes
>>492650306>opponent plays better than you>accuse him of cheating This game really isn’t for low IQ schmucks hahaha
I'm 1600 chesscom
>>492870094oops. got hunry for that king fork
Hello /chess/, >>>/vg/vrg/ tourist hereReminder that over there we are regularly playing chess in vrchat and that next session is today at 21:30CEST/19:30UTC (~3h from now)We'll play 1h of chess before switching to mahjong, but people who wants to stay for chess can keep the instance alive if they want to.> I don't have VR and what's the point?You can play without vr as well, we use vrchat which also have a non-vr client. The main appeal is to play with different people in a virtual environment, which means you can talk (or type if you don't want to use a mic), spectate and move from table to table.The table implementation also have (in-game) replay, so you can analyze the game afterward with your opponent.> What do I need to be able to join?Basically to make a vrchat account and to have the game started (you can just install it from steam), I recommend to make a direct vrchat account rather than using your steam account for in-game log in as it makes joining easier.I will post an instance link when the event starts, while logged in the vrchat website you can click on "invite me" and you will get a notification in-game to join the instance.Besides maybe getting familiar with the controls you don't need anything else really> How do we play? (time settings, ...)We usually play with 10min +5sec, but it's up to the player to set it up. The timer reaching 0 says "gg" but doesn't force to end the game, so you can agree to ignore the timer if you prefer> What's the skill level?According to the other host the average /vrg/ chess skill ranges from 800 to 1500 chess.com> NA hours when?NA chess instances are on 10pm EST on Wednesdays
>>492840749is that kramnik
>>492867820>retard has no clue what anyones even talking aboutI dont see how a skinny 40 year old and her skinny daughter does anything but prove my point. Neither of those chicks have fat phenotypes. Narrow shoulders. We're talking about #thicc chicks, not /fit/ chicks.
>>492870094>1600Grim
>>492871464
>>492871469>>retard has no clue what anyones even talking aboutyou just summed up that poster's decade old schtick
>>4928678743/10 hoe
Why did nobody tell me levy cuckman drew a 2000?
>>492871189cool idea, I can't come today but maybe next time. thanks for letting us know
hans lost to a 2300 w*men last year in classical, the great ones take their L's and come back stronger
It's basically an open secret that ALL of the twitch chess girls are regularly being flown to India and having their chests shit on by BIG INDIAN BULLS
>>492875762He was just being nice and tryna get some tang, let the man do what he has to do
>>492875825pajeets only shit in the streets not in the sheets
>>492875762That's because hans can't play against women.
>>492875825No please, NOT MY GIRL : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINCIwpCsOk
>>492879512cute hooknose but unfortunately she is too cringe, even for a female
>>492879512I was able to watch 0.07 seconds of that before closing the tab
>>492879512Everyone starts somewhere so I'll never blame a newbie, but her first video is in march 2023. How are you even stuck at 900 while constantly playing for a year?
https://www.youtube.com/live/1Ro6nqLh3H0?si=r1FXbE_HLFD75ngNPoos hired their most genius PHD to invent a new variant of chess and this is what he came up with.It's chess BUT-If the game is drawn and you have more material, yoy get 3 points, whereas your opponent gets 1 and a win gets 5What shall it be called?
>>492882175posted already
>>492879512holy shit she is annoying
>>492866783>it's definitely bullet unless you're a classical playerSo this """advice""" that you're trying to give doesn't apply to anyone who has a real interest in chess. Got it
>>492871189is up https://vrch.at/p0ty9nqj
We got another degenerate Dutch. A no resigner trying to ban the retention rate but it wont work, the mock is coming.
>>492897606what kind of mkultra brainwashing webm is that
>>492897807Hm sharechess webm maker not working anymore? I mocked myself1. d4 f5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. e3 Qe8 8. Nc3 e5 9. Re1 e4 10. Nd2 Nc6 11. b3 Nb4 12. Rf1 Nd3 13. f4 Bd7 14. Qe2 Nxc1 15. Rfxc1 a6 16. c5 d5 17. b4 b5 18. cxb6 cxb6 19. a4 Qe7 20. Rcb1 Rfc8 21. Rb3 a5 22. bxa5 Rxa5 23. Nb5 Rca8 24. Rba3 Qb4 25. Rb1 Bxb5 26. Rxb4 Bxe2 27. Rxb6 Rxa4 28. Rxa4 Rxa4 29. Nb3 Ng4 30. h3 Nxe3 31. Rb8+ Bf8 32. Kf2 Nxg2 33. Kxe2 Kg7 34. g4 Bd6 35. Rb6 Bxf4 36. gxf5 gxf5 37. Nc5 Ra3 38. Ne6+ Kf7 39. Nxf4 Nxf4+ 40. Kd1 Rd3+ 41. Kc2 Rxd4 42. Rb7+ Kg6 43. Rb6+ Kg5 44. h4+ Kg4 45. Kc3 Ne2+ 46. Kc2 f4 47. h5 f3 48. Rf6 Kg3 49. Rf7 f2 50. Rg7+ Kh4 51. Rg2 f1=Q 52. Rxe2 Qxe2+ 53. Kc3 Qd2+ 54. Kb3 Qd3+ 55. Kb2 Rc4 56. h6 Rc2+ 0-1
I do not respect fat chess players. Get fit or get out.
This queen sac felt good. He walked into the checkmate but I think he must have given up his queen at some point anyway.
I am /chess/'s number 1 seer (I predicted both of Nepo's Candidates wins). I predict that Levy will win his last game.
>>492902654>seerSaar*
>>492903516Kek I'm a huwight european but I must admit that I sometimes watch Sagar ser's content on chessbase india.
>>492727793If they play, he will. Magnus is many, ahem, magnitudes stronger than Hans, especially in blitz (Magnus's strongest format currently)
Levilegends winning a pog game EZclap road 2 GM is back haters fell off L
>>492742872>He was way younger when he cheated a few timesIt was over a hundred times, and he was 17.>it was online on fucking chess.comCheating is cheating you subhuman, not that you'd get it.This is the least retarded Hanstan btw
>levy throwing another game
>>492906135>It was over a hundred times, and he was 17.According to a report not even the author agrees with
>>492906725Yeah of course you respond in five minutes, you fucking goblin. Log off sometimeYour response is as retarded as expected by the way, chess.com is the "author" of the report and did not publish it because they disagree with it. Impossible to imagine what you think you mean
Never forgetI hope hans brings a tuxedo, a watch and makes funny butt jokes to tilt cucknus
John Bartholomew is a coward for not going for GM. You made chess your life but you're too chill to care about going the top of the mountain when you're almost there? No, it's fear.
seems like the kyron griffith guy got the norm? he finished 7/9 lol
>>492908082Magnus Karlason
>>492908556*sen, and that joke is old
Crazyhouse is fun even though you know deep down you're usually objectively winning or losing by move 10.
When you're clicking through a game and accidentally click to the end
>>492908106i think the biggest issue is time and money investment. you have to pay for your own travel, accommodations, expenses etc. and grind for years, just for the sake of some brand name prestige. and that's if it all goes according to plan and you win.last tourney i remember from him was in iceland. he didn't do so well.
>You know what's another word for 'solid'? It's 'passive'.Ok, Levy's coach is actually /ourguy/.
>>492910578Idiotic thing to say and not what solid means. Solid is Magnus or Karpov's style of play. If you want a synonym it's "concrete." It just means not staking the game on risky decisions, but making strong common sense moves and trusting that your opponent can't do the same.
yo i always get myself in a jam from dumb opening mistakes, then luck a tactic my way out (plus low elo blunders from opposing person). we both 950
>>492911275I bet you have a chuddy repertoire. Probably a Petrov player.
>>492911610>we both 950you didnt have to say anything retard, we know a triple digit game when we see one
>>492912937lol ya. i guess he was doing some sort of london , i'll have to learn to counter that
>>492911923No.Here's another example of "solid". Bobby has been angling up to this point for an attack on the king. He played Nh5 earlier, baiting Bxh5. His idea was probably using the open file. But later, with his Queen on h4, he played Ng4 instead, again baiting Boris to take so that he could get the pawn on g4. Why? Because it's more solid. If the rook on the open file hadn't resulted in the sort of attack he wanted he would have been left with simply a ruined pawn structure. Now he still has some pressure on the king while restoring his pawn integrity. This is solid play, and as you can see, not passive. But the solid move I want to highlight comes in pic's position. So he's you've got this pressure against the king, and Boris just played Bf4. How do you, as in literally you, continue? Analyze the board before you read on.Maybe you want Be5, which Boris would be forced to take. You can take back with a rook lift and maybe get an attack going when you double up on the h file. Bobby plays Qf7 here. This is an extremely solid move that immediately makes his positional advantage clear. Bobby completely owns the dark-squared diagonal. It's solid, but no less "aggressive" or "active" than if he had tried to mate. The game is still being actively decided in Bobby's favor.The rest of the game Boris tries defuse Bobby's dark-squared advantage but Bobby simply allows him to make concessions so he can find new advantages. The whole time risking nothing and playing solidly.
*Qf6
>>492912937>you didnt have to say anything retard, we know a triple digit game when we see onekek. chess cant tell at all
>>492913290Its a jobova london when the knight goes to c3. Click through lichess database and find a line you like. The immediate c5 break can get somewhat messy but its fine. More solid is e6 intending to play c5 later. There are three things not to play into. A line that jobova london players enjoy is the kingside pawnstorm when the bishop goes to f5. They will try to fork your queen and rook with the knight going to b5. You can stop this with na6 and reroute later. One last trap is the poison pawn on b2. Dont touch it, leave it alone. Picrel. qxb2 na4 and you can resign
Plz rate repertoireW>Ryu>Smith Morra >Fantasy Caro>Advanced French>Blackmar-Diemer>The Centah vs 2 sirsB>Ryu Breyer>2 Knights Italian>Leningrad Dutch>Falkbeer Countergambit >The Centah vs 2 sirs
>>492915376>Smith Morra>Fantasy Carostopped reading there, 0/10
>>4929153768/10 the ruy and 2 knights drag it down, everything else is based
>>492915714I see nc6, I pin it. Simple as.2 Chads is only fun Italian game though
>>492915638You bettah read it sukka!
>>492913324What site is this?
>>492797679Obviously the position is from the Philidor and I could learn it by memorizing some theory, but I want to learn how to formulate a plan in this type of position.In my eyes the only pawn break white has is e5 which seems very precarious to do. Black can play on the Queenside and has very straightforward plans that I'm unable to stop.
>>492916461the philidor is refuted. Learn theory
>>492916618It was a mistake expecting a productive chess discussion here.
>>492916351365chess.com (stop using chessgames, it's cancer now) Here's a good example of why you should always ask yourself what your opponent's plans are. A natural move here for Boris would be Qe8, keeping an eye on the bishop so you don't have to recapture with a pawn. After all, why Qf8? He can't be worried about the c5 pawn. It's because Bobby's plan in that case was Nb5, you have to move the rook, then Nd6. An unstoppable fork. All because you didn't trust your opponent to have a bigger idea than taking the bishop and put the Queen simply one square wrong.
>>492914756thank you
>>492908082Funny thing is that being an autist myself i can easily see that Magnus didn't actually want to insinuate cheating here. The comment is 100% sincere, his opponent played well but the watch made him paranoid. What this actually is is a catastrophic failure to read the room on Magnus' part. He should've known better than to think people wouldn't interpret this post in the wrong way.
Levy cuckmanLevy cuckmanLevy cuckman
levy lossman lmao 2/9
Shitalian cucks keep walkingThis is a Ryu neighborhood
>>492917008Unironically good advice, sadly this kind of thing just gets ignored nowadays because everyone is a blitzfag who's allergic to thinking.
>>492915376All looks good but leningrad Dutch, I don't know why you'd want to torture yourself with thar swill.8.5/10 for that
Watching Arturs (levy's coach) made me want to hire a coach.How do I make sure that the guy's good and won't scam me?
beat a caro-kann gaylord in 9 (thanks chessbrah)
>>4929212431) Arthurs is a terrible coach and will make sure Levy never hits GM.2) Levy's paypigs have already booked him full. He talked about how he had to start rejecting people and raising rates because he was full.
>>492921518>f5what the fuckyou go Nf6 to get into the Tartakower as black
>>492921574why are you lying anon
>>492921574>2) Levy's paypigs have already booked him full. He talked about how he had to start rejecting people and raising rates because he was full.jews are so good at business
>>492921778I'm not, he talked about it in one of the Levy matches he was commentating.
>>492921893i was literally listening to him while playing kingdom come deliverance anon, he said he has no students besides levy rozman currently and is not looking for anyone else, and wouldn't accept low rated students anyway
>>492922090Learn to read
>>492921518it doesn't count as the caro if theyre out of book on move 4
>>492922090don't lie anon
>>492922242e4 c6 is already the caro.
>>492922372doesn't count
>>492922372if someone plays c5, and move to pushes it to c4, is that still sicilian or some random retardation?
>>492922372No it's not, it's the c3 poison reversed.
>>492922612>>492922720e4 c5 is already the sicilian regardless of the fact that Black might play some nonsense later. Same thing applies to e4 c6.
>>492923153You have to admit it would be pretty pedantic to call this a caro kann position. Shockingly enough its in the database
>>492923490>Legendary micamucic losingNot possible, this is a fake game. MicaMucic is known as the unbeatable 1100 because they've never lost a game.
>>492919806I just hate D4 that much t. Adult improover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS_qpFvoHKgHans ruins another maggycuck in blitz
i was dominating and ran out of time again. just couldnt close
>>492917008why is chessgames cancer now?
>>492926087The ads are crazy and it's outdated
so everyone on lichess is indian ? is the entire country playing chessthey always want take-backs
>>492908106John chose to make a career out of teaching and coaching, and developing chessable originally. He sold chessable for a very decent profit at probably most advantageous time during late stages of covid boom. With all of that success it would be difficult to justify going for a title that wouldn't help his career any further at this point.
>>492926656>so everyone on lichess is indianYes
>>492926656A LOT of lichess players are indian, actually.I don't play on lichess because of that. I play on chessarena, started playing on the ICC recently, and sometimes chesscom. For the analysis I use my own PC, local stockfish is stronger anyway and you generate cool reports
>>492926656Play 24-48h correspondence, only Whites and no cheaters. Move conformation so no need to do takebacks. Pure chess like it was played for centuries.
>>492927756>correspondence>no cheaterslmaaaaooooooooooo
>>492927850Maybe at 2500 but never come across someone playing a bunch of best moves in a row in hundreds of games in the 1500+range. I analeyes all my games
>>492927756>>492927850I've had the same experience. Correspondence players are the whitest and most honest by far. Likely a correlation between the instant gratification of cheating and faster time controls
>>492929224Likely true, I want to play in the Aryan Yasser spirit of chess. Play the best moves and fail on your own merits not playing meme shit like the cow, hoping your opponent falls for some bullshit.Sayian Chess.
>>492926341>not downloading ublock as the first thing you do on your PC after installing a web browserWhere do people like this even come from? How the hell do they find 4chan?
>>492929960t. loses to -1.5 openings
>>492932032No I play the Blackmar–Diemer and Blowfish says its -2. But yeah you should know theory to the middlegame+ ideas to continue or you'll get blown off the board.
>>492913324>Qf7tough luck, pal
>>492927416what GUI do you use? Is en croissant good? scid?
someone make a new thread, we're over bump limit on page 10
I found some 2000 chesscom who's a "professional coach" and takes 50 bucks per hour.Do people like that even have students? I can get a fucking FM or IM for 10 bucks per hour on lichess.
>>492935519https://lichess.org/@/TheOnoZonethere's a guy on lichess who's only 1800 (that's lichess rating, OTB he's like 1600) offering coaching.
>>492935654no way that 1800 lichess is 1600 otbwhen I was 1800 lichess, I was like 1300 chess.com
>>492935654No way anyone actually hired him kek
>>492935967someone posted his blog earlier in the thread, apparently he is.>>492936413he has a whole website dedicated to his coaching, with testimonialshttps://www.theonozone.com/coaching
nothing wrong with hiring that guy if he has cheap rates and the client in question is dogshit at chess which most people arehis website looks good which is a good sign. doesn't look like some outdated boomer site
Can we get a new or what
>>492940463a new what
>>492941196K
It seems in certain situations and positions I stop even thinking about what moves the opponent is going to make in reaction to mine... at which point I guess I'm not even really playing chess. How do I stop being retarded like this? It's usually when I'm hyper focused on something like trapping a piece or even just mindlessly adding attackers onto a pawn.
