Big Shot Stopped Edition>Play online:https://lichess.org>Join our team and weekend's tournaments:https://lichess.org/team/vietnamese-basket-weaving-forumThread's theme: https://youtube.com/shorts/M3cd0zxd7EUPrevious>>500646581
Ding.
>>501661261ain't a big shot
Nepo would be >2800 if he lost weight and cardiomaxxed. Imagine never becoming world champion because you're incapable of eating less and going running couple days a week.
I watched Bortnyk's stream as he streamed the IRL blitz tournament they usually play with Danya. You can feel Danya's autism just by watching him play.https://www.twitch.tv/bortnykchessWell stream just ended
>arjeet already rated 2808Damn, /chess/ won't like this.
>>501675168lmk when he beats anyone at that level
>>501675168Why do you think >we dislike Arjun? I like Arjun. The indian player I don't like is Prag,
>>501675318>Why do you think >we dislike Arjun?Most of /chess/ hates all Indians, maybe aside from Anand.
>>501675318I don't like either for the similar reasons. Arjeet looks like he's about to start drooling and his tongue fall out of his mouthCheatananda looks like an alien
weekend tournament tomorrowhttps://lichess.org/tournament/zGmism2B
>>501675647Pookesh and Vidit are all right. I don't have any negative or positive feelings towards them.I like Divya Deshmukh because her accent makes Indians seethe.
Bro wrote a blog about me because I beat him with white and rejected a rematchKEK
>>501678184chess players have to be some of the most bitch-made gamers out there
>>501679158It's true
>>501661261remember when he was on a 120 games undefeated streak in 2019?
>>501677335She’s pretty hot for an Indian girl desu but seems like she’d be very high maintenance. Why’s her accent make them seethe? I’m assuming she’s extremely rich and has the equivalent of a posh accent.
Yes yes, good game Shindeep Parkrat sir. You did well to launch an unwarranted attack and win on the power of curry and rice.
>>501688461She's very cute and I agree she seems high-caste as hell.
How do we improve Lichess’s app?
i don't like playing the weekend tournaments cause I'm too garbage compared to everyone else here
>>501692441Yeah, I don't like playing it either even though I am better than everyone there, especially cheatmixer.
it would be good if weaker players could have their own events
>>501693342just join untitled tuesday and the I'm not a GM speed chess championships. those are specifically catered for weak players
>>501689584Here https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/the-new-mobile-app/KXlgb3X2
I played in my first online blitz tournament with you guys recently and got absolutely spanked. When I get time, I will do it again. You will only improve by facing stronger opposition.
>>501688461Indians constantly sperg out about her having a fake accent just like they sperg out about everything. I can kind of hear it. To me, it sounds like a mix of Indian and valley girl when listening to her interviews because I think she's trying to tone down the jeet accent when speaking English.
>>501694560ya but not too strong
>>501688461>She’s pretty hot for an Indian girl desumore like desi
>>501677335>Divya Deshmukhhttps://youtu.be/I_1KmmiRpq4?si=uToyxY-2J7osNEdtI love her so much bros... This is the immigration that we all need, these kind of pajeetas
>>501692581hey guys! my gf sent me pic related, gave me a good laughcare for a game ? https://lichess.org/jJPZl8Ds
>>501695760You fool you stupid idiot cheatmixer. I will cancel all your games. You will never win.
>>501696157blast you dog shaker
My playstyle?I'm like that dorky kid you see practicing sword fighting by himself in the field after school while you're waiting to be picked up, but you know, at least I'm having fun.
>>501689584i dont know why anyone would want to play on their phone so i dont care
>>501695503Wtf she's white in pics but totally poo in videos?Has she reached peak chess and xan switch colour?
>>501709350>he doesnt knowbrown girls use makeup / photoshop / camera tricks to try to appear as lightskin as possible
Divya is my jeetfu, chuds. Back off, I claimed her fist.
your average lichess opponenthttps://lichess.org/iz5IP3Q0/black
>>501716184Bloody hell, he isn't even trying to change up his move times. He's so insanely blatant and he's been cheating for a few weeks now. Why hasn't he been banned? I mean look at the discrepancy between his blitz play and his rapid play. In blitz he's dropping material like it's going out of fashion, but in rapid he's finding insanely beautiful mating attacks that end in stunners like Qxh3#. What is happening to Lichess? Do they just not care anymore? Surely Thibault could use some of the funds coming in to Lichess to hire anti-cheating experts if he can't defeat them with his own algorithm (it's clear he can't).
>>501717707I reported him a few times already and I think others did as well. He's been doing this for weeks with 0 intentions to even hide it. Lichess is a joke
>>501718390I don't even play rapid anymore. Only 3+0 and 1+0. There are cheats in faster time controls too, but not as many as in rapid. It's really sad because rapid is the best way to improve, but I don't want to get tilted while I play because I think the other guy is using stockfish. It's a psychological thing that always weighs on my mind and must affect other people too.
>Covid Lockdowns>That stupid Netflix show>Hans Niemann cheating scandalThese 3 things ruined online chess
>>501719520i notice something mysteriously missing from that list
>>501719186Just play otb, my nigga in christ.
>>501717707>w-what?! is stockfish crazy!!? I won't sac my pieces!
>>501692441I played yesterday and lost every game. Just suck it up, have fun, and use it as a learning experience, imo.
>>501717707Online chess is dead especially because of this. And this is a guy you can tell he's cheating right away, there are many more that aren't that obvious. Unless you're a complete moron you can easily get away with cheating online, and even if you're a moron and cheat like this guy you might still get away with it because you might not hit all the right boxes for it.
>>501692441i don't like playing the weekend tournaments cause you shitters are using the fish
>>501724491whomst
>>501724491it should be required that everyone joins a zoom call and have two cameras running so we can verify that they aren't cheating.
>>501724491nice headcanon
Can anyone actually explain why Magnus is STILL seething at Niemann? Pretty sure even Hans doesn't give a fuck anymore despite being blacklisted for 2 years because of Magnus' tantrum.
>>501716184>sacs knight on move 10 like a retard>hurr durr cheatersno idiot, to get a half-measure retarded attack you sacrificed your knight, cope seethe and dilate. btw i have the lordbentham acc and i'm not cheating. i'm just old, that's way i can't compete in faster formats.
>>501728883i mean you must be pretty retard to sac a knight on move 10 on a 10 minute rapid game, if it's blitz it's understandable, plus you exchanged bishop when you were material down, even a 1500 could win that game against you, you had nothing, no compensation.
>>501728883The guy has a lot of games that are pretty much perfectly played. This is exactly why you can't prove shit cheating wisein online games. At that level players can play flawless games but how many flawless games start to become suspect? And even if there are no flawless games, how many perfect conversions become suspectstldr online chess is fucked
Stop playing online and stop whining. Problem solved.
>>501728324Magnus absolutely hates cocky retards who have a delusional view of their own skills. It's also why he spent his whole career shitting on Nakamura.
>>501728324Because he tried to turn his implied Sinquefield accusation into a crusade against online cheating and Hans is a self-admitted online cheater. Hans is also just an arrogant cunt, when they played online before the whole scandal Magnus even made comments about how nice it was when Hans used to be polite. However, Magnus was very measured about Hans in his SCC post match interview even if he never hid his dislike of the lad.
>>501728324i wouldn't say he's seething. he just got asked an off-hand question in an interview whether he thinks niemann will ever become world champ and he said "i don't think so". it doesn't seem personal, there's just not much that points to hans being at that level currently.
>>501728883He just sacked the knight to open up the position
>>501731505>there's just not much that points to hans being at that level currentlywhat about him having the best second performance of all time?
>>501732762proof?
>>501732843
>>501732925interesting...
two weeks bros
>>501695503kys poo you’re not fooling anyoneAnd stay out of white countries
did daniel scare vladdy off with lawyer threats or something?we got day after day of cheating content and suddenly it fell off a cliff
>>501732925C(r)APS is a meme metric. Best tournament performances are measured in performance rating and Hans doesn't even crack the top 10 there.
ChessHasExciting Amazing Tournament starting one hour get in there!!!
>>501735036chess mafia instructed everyone to stop engaging with him. first they tried laughing it off, but after that didn't work, too many normies were waking up so they decided a media blackout on the issue would be the best thing.the story isn't over yet. danya is playing a classical otb tourney soon (US Masters on November 27th) so that will be interesting and i'm sure vlad will cover it. and probably the world rapid & blitz in new york too. vlad hasn't given up, just needs more data and statistics :)
Chennai grandmasters more like cheattai grandpajeets
>>501728324Because he had to pay him 6 figures off court. Same reason as headphonesmura
I just destroyed an NM with the KIA. The KIA is like an auto-win vs the French.
>>501737908you made him KIA with the KIA :)
>>501737908>play vs. the exchange>auto-draw>play vs. the KIA>auto-losewhy do people even play that opening lolit's so funny because people in /chess/ like to claim they play good openings endorsed by GMs and yet insist on playing the french which everyone above 2300 FIDE dunks on
>>501718390That's what you get for playing someone with a difference of 600 pts between blitz and rapid ratings.
>>501731505Yeah sure, an 'off-hand' question by his own production, for his own app that he then has posted, just like how chess.com coincidentally bans Hans after Magnus accused him in the middle of a merger with his company. Just admit guy is a massive petty bitch.
10 minutes til the weekend tournament everybody!
>>501735680subliminal message
>>501735036Danya could never win a lawsuit against vladdy, it's just his jew assumption that lawyers will solve all his problems. First of all compelling a Russian citizen to appear in court is impossible never-ending for something as meaningless as danyas hurt feelings. Second of all to prove defamation he needs to prove actual malice which means he needs to prove vlad doesn't actually believe danya is a cheaterThen he needs to snow damages, did danya actually lose money over this? Ofc not
>>501739124Nobody says/does this
>>501743123I say that AND look like that.
Good game well play, saar.
>>501736590source?
DAE (does anyone else) play blitz right after you've had coffee and then get VERY angry and tilted and start punching your thigh and have to stop yourself from cracking your phone in two?
>>501671034>cardiomaxxedabout as creative as zoomers are able to get with the buzzwords lol MAKSHED
>>501745349There’s definitely a sweet spot when it comes to caffeine, and alcohol… it has been a long time since I’ve raged at chess tho.
>>501728324>despite being blacklisted for 2 yearsi'm not sure how being invited to top tournaments repeatedly where he's allowed to stomp out top-10 players is considered blacklisting but i'm sure one of you non-chess-playing zoomers can explain it
>>501745349im not an addict like you, i dont drink coffee
>>501742728True. Libel/defamation/slander is extremely hard against 1. an individual, not a company (like a media outlet) and 2. An international with no US residence and 2b. Not a friendly nation to the US either. 3. Minimal monetary damages. No chance. Court won't even want to hear it. Maybe if Daniel was fired and lost all online platform income. Even then i doubt it.
>>501745349Yes but it's not coffee related
>>501745371it's the right term to use though lol
>>501745371
So do thirdies actually believe it's an obligation to accept rematch? I lost every game this morning and then came upon an Indonesian who was an absolute brainlet, could be his little brother on the account and farmed him 7-0. I felt like I was doing something wrong but he kept accepting
>>501745349I cut out caffeine because even small amounts give me anxiety or make me irritable.
good tournament thanks everyone for joining
remember you don't have to wait for weekends and you can always fire up stockfish level 8 to re-experience the joy of the tournament at any moment :)
>>501749101Benchods will often accept rematches until they can even the score.
Even a 15 yo black kid from the Bronx became a GM. What's your excuse?
>>501750332how strong is stockfish 8? performance rating for this tournament was less than 1900 for everyone
yesterday I played a game against a poojeet. He won. I was assblasted and called him a street shitting farthagged pajeet and today I got banned. fuck chess.com. not even a warning?
>>501750587He’s half Japanese and I’m not
>>501750332top kek
>>501751128>look it up>it's trueLMAOOOOO that doesn't count thenasians are high achievers and have high achiever culture. wake me up when an actual US black kid gets there
>>501749101I farmed a guy 5-0 but he was the one spamming the requests. I told him after the 5th one it didn’t feel right to continue and he said “SHUT UP MY DAD DIED TODAY I’M TRYING TO DISTRACT MYSELF.” I said sorry and all but even more reason not to continue. Very weird experience.
>>501751365this guy was from Brazil tho
>>501750587>from the BronxThe guy's name is Erlington Nigel Royalbacher III or something of the sort. Hardly a representative of the African-American experience.
>>501750587That's a Japanese man. The only nigger gm is Maurice and there was one who was a nigpet adopted by Swedish chess autists. But they're still doing better than fags who have never had a gm and likely never will
>>501751075Thats like fish 6
>>501753173wow those numbers suck these guys need to improve their cheating game
>>501753173Performance rating is useless when half the people are underrated and the other half are overrated rating sitters
who's rating sitting? isn't performance rating based on the quality of the games and has nothing to do with the individuals rating
> isn't performance rating based on the quality of the games and has nothing to do with the individuals ratingLolLelmao evenThis but the exact opposite my friendHahahahaha
>>501754791I don't even play the TCs of tourneys so mines very off
>>501755520
>>501755520You're thinking of the made up che$$com nonsense that says you played like a XXXX eloPerformance rating is calculated based on both players rating and the result of the game (win/loss/draw), nothing else
When is Kramnik gonna release a new banger?
>>501751795His name is Brew Hardaway. Like Tim Hardaway, but from NY instead of Chicago.
first time this happens for me on lichess, still don't refund the points
>>501758996>Warning, Anon. Letting time run out instead of resigning will result in a temporary ban.What the fuck? I had like 9 seconds left and couldn't think of a move in time.
>>501758996>>501759552Oops, didn't mean to quote.
I'm starting to think both lichess and chess com are jokes
>>501760076retvrn to ICC
What do you niggers want? I play on PC and have engine on my phone what are you gonna do about it?
>>501737908Me but with the KID. The KID is an auto-win vs d4 c4.
>>501757370he has this general dead...
>>501760259Also joke
>>501765938Nope, I've been playing on ICC for a week now and no cheats encountered so far. Also there's a higher percentage of titled players there, so I get games vs titled people quite often. I'm the guy who beat that NM with the KIA and it was on ICC. People seem more serious about opening theory on ICC too. You get all sorts of random openings on lichess and chesscom, like look at this >>501744563
>>501766669Does it take a long time to get matchups?
>>501766669>I've been playing on ICCDo they have a phone app?
>wins: 51801 (79.9%)>losses: 11241>draws: 1761I'm in a losing streak, but this dude got arse blasted. I love miracles.https://youtube.com/shorts/EDsrpromx30
pic is me, you guys jealous?
>>501780376ice game anon, what app/site/program do you use to make webms like this?
>>501728883Yep, not a cheat. He is also playing good in blitz, just slow.
>>501781843Fucking Lord... I know Dina is the oldest there and looks bossy, but I'd love to fuck her! A GOOD AND OL' HATE FUCK. I WANT HER TO LOOK STRAIGHT TO MY EYES LIKE IN THAT PIC REL OF YOURS, WITH HATRED.>chesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ojSsksvidAIncredible game by Sokolov! Patience is key!
>>501783071doesn't she have an onlyfans where she posts ludes?
>>501781843No I prefer the thots from other hobbies better. Chess thots are not for me. >>501783989she has some other thing not an OF
>>501784637you sure?
>>501784637really sure?
>>501782610OBS to record it and WebM for Lazys to crop and trim it.
>>501781843rolling
>>501785913What sort of grift do you think Andrea would have done if not for chess? Vidya streaming on twitch? Full time DJ/frequent traveller to UAE for reasons?
>>501788198it's 2025, women do not grift, they use their power to influence the world around them
>>501661261Didn't Nakamura had a 57 online winning streak?
>>501783989>ludeskek I'm stealing that
>>501781843bros the e-hoes are gonna corrupt our precious yu
>>501802920They're gonna hit Carissa and eventually Alice too... No...
>>501804103Nah, the pookies are no hoesThey also have the built in protection of looking mid at best
>>501758996iirc you only get refunded points if you're rated below what you were when you lost to them.
>>501781843whos that gigawhore on the right, dont recognise her
>>501781843token black girl, Jennifer (Yu), Anna Crammuh dick so deep inside, Andrea Botox, Alexandra Botox, that super slutty asian chick, Dina the Russian whore, and Jules (bra stuffing) Gambit
>>501781843imagine if all the male players posed like this
>>501811126That doesn't seem fair
>>501781843
Insanely kino game in Chennai today
>>501781843these girls are a bad influence on my wife (anna cramling). i hope she stops hanging out with them and focuses more on actual chess!
>>501751086Based if true.
>>501830004All computer prep
Stephan attacking chess is so funny lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsbFSITPyoYPic related is the tl;dw
>>501848490easy to point out mistakes in someone else's game but you don't see any of these cowards posting their own training games and thought processes to be criticized.
>>501822092would be pretty funny ngl
Hello /chess/, >>>/vg/vrg/ tourist hereReminder that over there we are regularly playing chess in vrchat and that next session is today at 21:00CET/20:00UTC (~3h20 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
>>501848490yeah, I recognize my own chess holes in the way this nigga plays>tactical/calculation oversights>missing key moments>yolo chess for no good reason>lacking opening theory knowledge and then improvising into playing stupid movesFix these and he could easily be 200 points higher rated. But he won't just like I won't
>>501854783I’m never gonna play a single game with you in your virtual environment. But I will continue to listen to what you have to say. And that’s what no one did.
>>501860583Well, does that mean someday we will play outside of the virtual environment?
Lol levi drew that nigger up a rook
The dude was so nervous with my speed that he missed the mate and got flagged, earning me the second place in the tournament.
>Daniel Naroditsky SILENCES the Haters with DOMINANT Bullet Brawl Win After Cheating Allegations!
>>501868840don't worry schizo bros, all the top gms will come out to support us any day now... give it two more weeks...
damn that soiboy schrantz quit chessI enjoyed his retarded gambit videos on occasion
>>501830004Wow
>>501829548The justification is, since rating is not a score, your rating already stabilized on its own in subsequent games. In practice this feels shitty and makes no difference.
>>501829548your points have been redistributed to the needy, comrade
>>501870382Quit completely? He used to do lectures for St Louis all the time.
>>501871537>In practice this feels shitty and makes no difference.Yeah, this always seemed like a lazy excuse from cheatcum and liecheat. If your rating will go back up on its own after losing to a cheat, then logically it will go back down on its own after being refunded points as well.It's unfortunate nobody has made a viable alternative to the big two chess sites yet - ideally with gacha mechanics and big tiddy anime girls.
>>501870382>>501871910He suspiciously quit right around the time the St. Louis rape cabbal was getting exposed. With him being such a soi nigga, one starts to wonder.
Pinoy pookie
>9 participants>i came in 9that will humble me sorry arse
>>501873726you came in 9 participants? good job. otb or some meme online thing?
>>501873176pookie got stung by a bee
>>501869679the main thing is it's a false premise that danya can't win without cheating or anything to that effect. him winning a few matches or even one tournament without cheating doesn't retroactively or proactively prove anything, but redditors parade around as though that's what it isthere are gms on vk's side but the chess mafia keeps them quiet. there's no incentive for them to step up and be associated with any of it even if they agree with vlad
>>501854783it's up! https://vrch.at/svnkdymw
Anyone else notice a big uptick in cheaters in the anonymous pool on lichess? I played 5 anon 3+0 games today and got cheated against in 3 of them. Uniform move times and I logged in requested computer analysis and they were all 0 mistakes/inaccuracies/blunders with cpl under 10. Is Lichess dead?
>>501758996>>501811126>>501829548Why not just look it up instead of guessing...
>>501877084seems about the same as usual to me, identify them earlier and just afk without resigningyou can start another game while they are stuck there waiting for you
>>501877084>>501878260expect it will be shit for a while thanks to>chennai masters>world championshipthanks india for your valuable contributions to chess
Might start playing exclusively the English and Old Benoni just because I'm bored of the other openings. I play the Hyper-Accelerated/Accelerated Dragon mostly against e4, anything else that's intersting or a bit off beat that most fellow 1200 shitters won't have seen before?
>>5018807391200 shitters can't even handle the scotch anon
>>501880816I played a lot of the Scotch but got bored with it. I moved onto the Ruy but it gets a bit stale playing the same things over and over.
>>501880739>anything else that's intersting or a bit off beat that most fellow 1200 shitters won't have seen before?KIA with 1 Nf3 with white. Dutch with black against d4. Alekhine with black vs e4.
>>501877084>>501878260I never run into cheaters in anon 3+0. I can get on decent win streaks too. Interesting that it's so different for you.
Any good book on defensive tactics? I can't seem to defend at all. Went from 2200 liblitz to 2000 today. Blundering everything in every game. I think I'm braindamaged.
>>501881315i usually play 5+3
>>501881784Stop playing when you lose 3 games in a row, tilt is very real
>>501882327its weird how much mental state can affect your chess playsome days im slightly lacking in sleep and i play so much worse its insane
>>501882643no it's cheaters bro
>>501883240it affects puzzle rating as well, i just straight up turn retarded
Anyone else find more enjoyment doing puzzles than playing chess? I've been solving some beautiful puzzles recently and it dawned on me that I never get these types of positions in my games. I only get to see beauty in puzzles. My games are shitty blunderfests. I wish I would play beautiful chess.
https://lichess.org/opening/Caro-Kann_Defense_Apocalypse_Attacknew cool opening name discoveredweirdly enough it looks like a fairly harmless line but the name is rad
Why is KID considered a beginner friendly opening again? It's completely horrendous. You're supposed to find some odd pawn storms and sacs with the King's poor castled pawns that is impossible to see for a beginner being used to the fried liver and caro cuck. Played it today and everything traded down to a losing position where whites rook just could gobble more easily than mine and I saw no ideas whatsoever but one movers then I walked mine into a bishop fork and resigned. I hate KID so goddamn much... will only play symmetrical against d4 from now on.
>>501882643>its weird how much mental state can affect your chess playI don't see how this could be considered "weird" at all. Chess is a purely mental game. Even the slightest deviation from peak mental performance is enough to affect the way you play>>501883785Study Paul Morphy games and stop playing passive. Every developing move should be played with the intent to attack.
>>501861104If you want to play IRL and you live in central FL then I'm down like a clown.
>>501881784I know the feel. I go down around 200 pts when I'm off my game too. For me it's sleep that can do it, but also if I get bored with chess but keep playing, I will lose. In both cases the antidote is to stop playing for a while or until you sleep..
>>501885090Because it can be played like a braindead system opening. Create your structure then push f5 and play a bunch of normal piece maneuvers and try to checkmate the white king.
>>501885090Because the usual youtube chess grifter advice is to just play d6 Nf6 g6 Bg7 0-0 disregarding anything your opponent is doing as if it were some kind of "universal system". Just people making money by appealing to the lazy, essentially. Don't ask them why you're getting checkmated because of h4 h5 attacks though.
>>501883785>Anyone else find more enjoyment doing puzzles than playing chess?No, the exact opposite. If playing puzzles wasn't necessary to get better, I wouldn't touch them at all, ever.
>Jeffery Xiong is no longer in the world top 100 and is only 15 pts higher than rated than NaroditskyThis guy got screwed over by the pandemic.
>>501885090The thing is that it is too closed and you have to open the position with pawns and play weird shit like Na6 but it's a fun opening, read a book with annotated games and you'll see the plans and some tabiyas. >>501892104I like both but only puzzles from real games curated by humans
remember that time yoo assaulted someone? feels like forever ago
>>501912260Until I see that video I will assume it was blown way out of proportion.
>>501912260It was self defense.
I wasn't going to post this as Magnus' new app/youtube channel is heavily advertised on its own. However, there is an interview with Gukesh's dad in this that is pretty funny. Basically he says Gukesh's sort of stoic public persona is all wrong. He describes, "[Gukesh is] Naughty to the core. He is not as he looks outside, that much I can say" in this interview. It sounds like the boy is a trouble maker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqSza8XpCZI
>>501919823
>>501921936Naughty
>>501921936Why are they like that?
i might have to bet on ding...
>>501925294almost 3:1 payout for Ding? that's easy money
>>501925294>>501925795some german sites are paying out 3.5:1 hot damn
>>501921936Very very good 1 pound Fish
>No!
>>501921936Do indians not have the cringe gene at all?
ATTENTION! ATTENTION!There will be a 3+2 team battle between the D!ng comrades and the Gukesh bros , 22 November at 16:00 GMT.lichess.org/tournament/zX8VfowPIs D!ng's mandate of heaven enough to g̶e̶t̶ a̶ s̶t̶a̶t̶e̶ m̶a̶n̶d̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ g̶f̶ secure a win ?Will Gukesh! finally make India a superpower in 2025?Let's settle it once and for all!
>>501925294Easy way to lose your money
>Am I missing something? No, I don't think soHe did, in fact, miss something
>>501961231stop bullying stjepan :(
>>501961231
>>501944474No and I think this explains a lot about how they behave on the whole.
>>501961231how the fuck does a 2000 miss that?
>>501964526yeah that's the average puzzle 5 in puzzle storm and a motive he should've seen a million timeshe wasn't even close to time trouble and the position wasn't overly complex so there's no excuses
>>501944474does a racoon feel shame when it eats out of a trash can?
>>501961231It’s gay and awkward that he shows his screen through a mirror. No one thinks he’s cheating.
>>501967176I think he's just showing how easy it is to make such a set up. If he can, Cheatodisky should be able to do it as well
>>501961231If anything this just shows that most 2200+ lishit players can grind to 2k otb if they participate in enough tournaments, preferably ones without underrated kids.
>>501919823This was 70% Magnus - 30% Gukesh. Also, the contrast between Magnus' rating of Ding and Gukesh is grim.
>>501967954Phooey, none of that's going to matter until the day of the event. We'll see how things go once both players have sat down to play for the world title.
>>501885880For me it’s d6 Nf6 c6 Qa5+
been getting interested in Nc3 against the sicilian thanks to a rosen video, anyone play it? thoughts?
>>501969498Get that trash outta here sukka. Sac the damn pawn and cut up that king
>>501971858i do like the smith morra as well but i am too lazy to study deep into theory with it
If you play 1.e4 exclusively you will never learn how to play real position chess.
Guys, if I start streaming chess live will you watch me?
>>501971952Just read the damn book. Memory's a great thing
>>501975851maybe...
>>501961231Looking at his win-loss ratio, he's already close to peaking. What will he do in 400 days when he doesn't reach 2500? Will he delete his lichess account and then delete his entire YouTube channel? Only an emotionally stunted man-child would react like that.
>>501977346Then he probably won’t do that because he seems pretty mature and well adjusted.
>>501971019For me it’s Alua>Meruert>Xeniya>Amina. I exclude Bibisara out of respect, also she’s pretty intense and frightens me. Nicely balanced team overall with no infighting as women tend to do. Previously:> Bibisara Assaubaeva accused Jansaya Abdumalik of unprofessionalism and unsportsmanlike behavior, recommended her to give up chess, get married and cook borscht.And that’s exactly what she did kek.
>>501967778Ok, but he's shown it. Now it can stop.
Nice game Englund sir.
>>501975851Depends on your voice and personality, the last guy who tried that here had the most irritating voice and shit tier personality to match with it.>>501978828Yeah, I don't see him having a complete and utter mental breakdown like that either.
>>501979923nice one!
>>501977346he will probably just extend his goal and try to re-think his approach. no reason to ragequit and lose his decent sized channel and income.
>>501969498no one plays the closed sicilian?
>>501961231How is Stjepan's performance pre and post mirror?
>>501961231>2278 lichess missing thatthat's unreal
>>501980407I'm 1890 Lichess now how long until Im good enough I can randomly match up with him?
>>501981384If you are gaining rating then you can calculate how long it will take you to be ~200 points from his rating. If you are plateaued, then you will never match with him.
>>501981384challenge him directly to a game and bait him into putting his queen en prise. you should win :D
>plays perfectly for entire game>as soon as he gets down to 5s left blunders twice instantly and loseskek cheatards
>>501975851Sure, I need something fill the void after Beary
>>501980250Isn't that the Grand Prix attack?
>>501982804yes but i dont know how to play it
>>501982614Beary had a gross vocal fry voice and 0 personality. He couldn’t emote if his life depended on it.
>>501983401vocal fry? wtfhe had a pretty normal sounding voice
>>501977346Is this about Beary?
>>501983401He was pretty monotone, but his commentary of the weekend tournaments especially was a lot of fun.
>>501967176I like it. I like how that other boomer who is very proud of his online fide area title also uses a fair play cam. I think this should just be the routine default for chess streaming. >>501971019these are all very naughty>>501980390about the same
>>501985519Hey anons, Beary here. I am still taking a break from chess while processing my life in my post-op body. Sometimes I wish I could go back but my therapist says to focus on looking forward. >>501984987Other anon is correct, unfortunately that was a result of the estrogen injections I was taking.I have a proposition for you all. If everyone agrees to move back to /TG/ for the world championship, I will come back and start making videos again. Please vote:https://strawpoll.com/eJnvV8Roanv
>>501987589
>>501969498
>>501989017what do you think of it? seems interesting esp if you go into the grand prix
>>501969498play knight e2 instead
>>501989379don't like the look of it
>>501990715Don't listen to him. That is a cheatmixer suggestion.
>>501987589This is fake. I haven't changed my gender a single time. Though I do listen to what the feminine thoughts in my brain have to say (and that's what no one did).
>>501971019>GEN Z CHESS PLAYER AND A BLAZER
>>501989284It's a decent opening if you like playing f4 g4 and h4, but you will out yourself as a bit of a söyboy if you play it.
>ftw reached the daily analysis limit on lichess
>>501993619>there's a daily analysis limitwtf I had no idea. I assume that's not new? I've just never analyzed enough games to reach it?
>>501978862I remember the beef between them but it's interesting to know that Abdumalik actually quit. Her last event was an abysmal US tournament so that might've been the final nail in the coffin. Wiki says she became the head of the Almaty CF, wonder what happened to that.>I exclude Bibisara out of respect, also she’s pretty intensebased, I did the same
>>501994197Yeah, it's not new. I don't often hit it but sometimes.
>>501994331approx. how many games is it?
>>501994572I don't remember.
>>501994331I've been playing on lichess for years and never hit the limit, are you like analysing every single bullet game or something?
>>501994572I vaguely remember it's 40.
>>501994869>40oh okay lmao yeah that's a lotI was about to call those niggers out for barely being better than chess com
>>501994986Don't be stupid anon.
>>501987589Sorry femBeary, but even though I liked your videos, there's no way I'm ever returning to /tg/
Just got back from the chess club where we had a close to full roster and it was a real good time. We played, analyzed and bantered for hours. This is what it's all about. Join a club if you can, anons.
>>501997278what was the smell like?
>>501997998There's old people with that old people smell but that's it. Everyone's normal, it's absolutely nothing like online.
Music and chess experiment:Jazz (Thelonius Monk, Coltrane, Davis) - rating down by ~50Metal (Repulsion, Burzum, Nailbomb) - rating up by ~20DnB/Jungle (DMC, CB, TR) - rating up by ~80Ambient (Eno, Basinski, Biosphere) - rating down by ~100I'll keep you guys updated with other genres. I'm going to try Baroque Period Classical music next.
>>501967176Cheatoditsky simp detected.>how dare this untitled amateur that's beyond any suspicion show his screen like this, now it makes my heckin' wholesome danya look bad for not doing it!!!
>>502002362Holy rent free
>>501961231does he know there's a guy sitting super close right behind him?
>>502002867this. that's obvious cheating
speaking of cheatoditsky, another week where he doesn't stream and plays better than magnus lol
>>502002698Would anybody else seethe that much because of a harmless mirror? I don't think so.
>>502003664Why is there only 11 rounds in TT? Tie-break winners are so meh
>>502003748fair enough
>>501997998why do you ask?
after my hard fought correspondence grind up to a staggering 1400 elo I have now begun to encounter blatant cheaters. It was fun while it lasted, I think I'll stop right there.
>mfw I'm winning all game then get complacent and blunder a tactic and lose
>>502024240Had this happen to me on a 30+0 rapid once. Tilted me enough to stop playing for a week. Chess is brutal
>>502025203Now imagine it happening OTB when the game takes 4 hours and cost you money to play. THAT is true brutality.
>>502024240Sometimes in chess, it's unironically harder to win when you're winning.You get complacent and the faggot on the other end is calculating his ass off to get an edge after being down a piece or an exchange or whatever.
>>502025320>your actual name is attached to your rating tooScary stuff. Things like this are why i started cardiomaxxing as part of my chess training. If i'm ever to play in a real life tourney i want to have the strongmind to do it without going on a Nepo 2021-tier tilt streak if i lose.>>502026196100% This. Maybe this is caused by us untitled players watching these professional games all the time where the losing side always resigns if he goes down a piece. Gives the impression that converting a +2 advantage is a trivial thing to do even if the other side puts up all of his might into resisting. It's a noob trap of sorts.
>>502027078That's why I play until checkmate or my time runs out.Do you really think I'm going to resign after blundering a piece or an exchange when blundering those sorts of tactics happen all the time at my level? Nah, my opponent can spend the time proving he can convert without blundering the advantage away and it also gives me experience defending worse positions.
>>502027078Yeah even in anon games I resign too muchI really need to stop assuming people play perfectly every game up a piece. My Elo's still not high enough to assume people won't, at minimum, blunder a draw
>>502029126Also I HATE my opponent and I HATE losing, so fuck that guy.
Never knew there was a chess general on here
>>502037221It's fairly new. It exists because some seething retard was ruining things for everyone in its original place. Shocking, I know.
>>502037221yes this thread is dedicated to the new online chess gacha video game called 'chess'.
Definitely faced some cheaters today btw
>>502037615its just getting worse and worse by the week. Dot com is nearly unusable
>>502037564I wish.>cultivate a harem>daily challenges like mating with a certain piece or promoting a pawn to a bishop or other random stuff>unlocking new themes, outfits, and other random crap>big tournament events where you get chances to get even better crap than usual>some sort of main story about a chess club full of big tiddy anime girls to pretend like that's why you playIt's a missed opportunity really.
>>502038373Normally I wouldn't agree with you for a traditional game like this, but they're already going full gachaslop with online chess as it is, so I no longer care.Just go the full mile and give us the shitty story and the anime girls already.
>>501961231He spent 3 seconds on that. When he said "am I missing something?" he didn't actually check anything.
>>502040464I mean, they did it with mahjong.And unironically I think a chess site whose income depends on gambling for cosmetics would be less predatory than chesscum's current business model of locking basic features like game review, puzzles, and player insights behind a paywall.
>>502040464>Just go the full mile and give us the shitty story and the anime girls alreadyI demand Doki Doki Chess Club.
>>502041486I understand why the Japanese aren't interested. The chinese or korean devs might be up for it.
>>502046392The Japanese have that NYC kid to champion them now though. Now is the perfect time JPbros
>blitz session>choke everytime I'm black no matter the opening>mouse slip the Borg>oh ffs, here we go again>somehow winIt really wasn't pretty but a win's a win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjY_GHNKugoTata rapid + Tania
why the hell would anyone want to go back to /tg/
>>502071213>no ecelebs>no racism>no drama>incredibly large collection of links to learn the game>serious questions and answersit's pretty clear why the zoomies don't like /tg/. they don't actually like the game, playing it or discussing it seriously, it's just a substitute for talking about whores and jewish streamers and their pet racial politics.
>>502074532kys pbt
>Magnus shits on up and coming white talent>Completely and utterly kneels to pajeetsThe fuck is his problem? Is he Jewish?
>>502075252Could it be that he simply thinks the indians are more talented? No, it's the fucking jews.
>>502075252>he shills hindus and an iranian? >must be JOOISHYou're mentally ill.
>>502075908>>502076000Fischer won, Kasparov's tribe lost.
>>502076473Normal, successful people don't see the world within the framework of an autistic obsession with an imaginary race war.
>>502075252>Magnus shits on up and coming white talentWho? Hans?
>>502076814A poor gambit. This line doesn't work any more. The world is waking, your time is over. 111 is our response. Fischer was right and in the end won.
normal people vs poltrannies team battle when
>>502076814>imaginary
>>502074532
>>502079285truth hurts, lil zoom zoom
>>502075908>Could it be that he simply thinks the indians are more talented?no, definitely not
>>502079421You don't know what the truth is, bud.
when is the mangus vs fabi 960 match?It was supposed to happen before the wcc so it wshould be only days away by now but I can't find any news on it
>>502081132Yeah there's currently two young Indians in the top 5 and Hans is lower rated than jobbers like Dominguez and Duda, but Magnus is definitely of the tribe because he doesn't suck Hans' buttplug.
>>502081449Magnus is playing in India right now.
>>502081507nta but it's not about just hans, he was dismissive of keymer too even after he almost knocked magnus of the WC he said he was not on the same level as pragg and others
>>502081649Yeah well he was right.
>outplay my opponent in what felt like a convincing victory>check game review>blundered a game loss and a drawliterally every fucking time
>>502081507>>502081649magnus has to suck off jeets because he's at the top of several chess companies (COM, taketaketake, etc) and jeets are the #1 demo in chess by a landslide. corporate capitalism demands that the top demographics are sucked off and protected, and indians outbred everyone. simple as that
>>502077194This. So much this. Fischer bros, we won!In all seriousness, Bobby would be absolutely giddy at the prospect of Zionism’s ultimate defeat. What a time to be alive!
>>502084482You'll have a jeet world champion soon, can't wait to see you chimp out.>>502085050>zionism's ultimate defeatAmericans just elected the ultimate zionist to the highest political office of the world's most powerful country. If Bobby were still alive, he'd be calling for terrorist strikes against the US.
>>502084482Nope. Indians are a pro-piracy country. They don't pay for things, if they can get them for free. Most Indians live below the poverty line and can barely afford to house and feed themselves. Do you really think they're going to pay for chess books, courses, sites, subscriptions, etc? If you go on the main chessable telegram channels, they're full of Iranians, Indians and Russians. These are the 3 main demographics pirating chess stuff. North Americans and Europeans are the target because North Americans and Europeans have disposable income that they're willing to spend on chess things.
>>502083869My struggle:>like complex puzzles with a lot of moving parts to sort out>find idea that looks really good>can't find concrete refutation >don't care about completely different ideas because I have fallen in love with my idea>play it>wrong>Why?>because a defensive master class that runs seven moves deep, four of which are only moves>actual answer is just a basic three move tactic and the dicey nature of the resulting position is fine don't worry about it (most people who solved didn't even consider this)
>blunder queen to opening trap while not paying attention>win anywaykek
>>502094078t. intuitionlet
>faggot (white) is 2 pawns up>evaluation is -2>lets 4 minutes of time run out instead of concedingdon't be a bitch like this guy
>>502101002i had more material so i deserved to win
>>502086528Pretty accurate. I'm a slav and we have a strong piracy culture in my country because wages are lower than in the West while software and electronics are the same price.
You let the time run out without resigning against me? Prepare to have "good morning sir" in your inbox every morning until you block me.
>>502105697Enjoy your Zionist government, Jamaal.
>>502105960I'm pretty sure both sides support Zionism to some degree. Apparently Kamala Harris wasn't anti Zionist enough and a lot of young leftists didn't show up to vote as a result. Anyway my point was to share evidence of the janny being corrupt and biased. "Illegal content", that's hilarious, nice try buddy. There should be further consequences against jannies who do bullshit reports like that.
>>502105309kek
>>502106739I think they came down hard on off-topic election faggotry in general, someone just grossly overdid it in your case. Probably that someone got a little salty about the result.
>>502106739Jannies are trannies. Always have been, always will be. It's the nature of working for free.
I just swindled someone with sneed in his name in 3+0. Get seeduck'd.
>>502107690I do agree it leaned into off topic faggotry, but the ban was for "illegal content"... And within minutes of appealing it was overturned by a moderator. How pathetic can a janny get. I don't even think it was that off topic, I compared a /chess/ vote to the election results... The post is literally about /chess/. We don't need or want a janny that's constantly watching the thread targeting people and topics he doesn't like.
>>502108831How is Ivanchuk doing? I remember a while back he was doing a livestream and bomb sirens were wailing in the background. I'm guessing he left Ukraine by now?
>>502105309Stealing this
>>502108918I agree with everything you said, I just added that from what I've seen they were on election patrol then so hopefully it was just a special case.
>>502109947He's been very active this year. Played in several tournaments. Not sure if he relocated but i assume so.
I finally hit 1900 lichess bullet, blitz, and rapid. Time to grind some puzzles and hit 2000.
>>502119051good job and Godspeed
My opponent (a confirmed homosexual) offered a draw here.Hopefully xe/xim dies of monkey pox soon.
>>502003664you guys know if he has explained why he is not using back camera? he did that stream with 4 cams, then only a few streams here and there but those had no back camera at all i think
>>502128747It's really hard to set up, bro. It's expensive and really hard to set up
>>502128747probably some cope about how "bro i covered every angle what more do you want from me". if he put like one second of thought into it, he could get a nice view of both his screens and the room in one frame. he just doesn't want to do it. it's unreasonable and he could get doxxed and no one else has to do it and maybe if it was asked in good faith and just for one stream then yeah he would oblige and he has nothing to hide but you see, you simply didn't ask nicely enough.
>>502003664100% cheat and he won't stop.
>>502128747he probably lawyered up. he is baiting people into harrassing him so he can sue kramnik
Did anyone save the 4chan soccer cup lineup?
Give me one reason why I shouldn't bet a thousand bucks on Gookesh. Seems like it's literally free money.
>>502148291you will make easy money and acquire a gambling addiction, chasing the high of that win forever.
>>502148291Aren't the odds at around -400 Gukesh? That's a shitty payout for 1000 bucks with fingers crossed an 18 year old doesn't show his age across the course of a fourteen game match.
>>502149494Good point.>>502149630Doesn't matter if it's a shit payout when it's literally guaranteed free money. Ding Dong's performance rating since the last world championship is what, 2650? The only way for the chinaman to win is for him to have been pretending to be retarded since 2023.
>>502137436>he probably lawyered upthat would explain the sudden silence from everyone about the entire thing. Still, there's no way a US lawyer can do anything to Kramnik.
>>502148291anti cheating measures
if you want to cheat on chessdotcom you just have to buy one of their memberships and they will not ban you under any circumstances
>>502167000checked
Check out this wacky move, chessers.
>>502151636Fischer was 29 when he became World Champion. Kasparov was 22. Carlsen was 23. Gukesh is 18. You do the math.
>>50217273129 + 22 + 23 + 18 = 92
>>502175830And who was born in 1992?
>>502176241me
>>502176241>>502177203I was born in 1992 also.
>>502176241My sister
bring me the hindu heretics
>>502180043I will sex your sister
I hate how almost all chess teaching materials teach in a rigid way which stifles creativity and brilliance. It's only until you get certain tactics puzzle books that you realize that you can play moves that look crazy and you can do it quite often to create wild complications in your own games but by the time you get to these puzzle books the damage is done because the rigidness is built into you fundamentally and it takes a lot of effort to become more "Tal-like".
>>502175830>>501804692>>501822092oh my
>>502192887good luck>>502193346Watching Marc Esserman's streams have I think helped cultivate a sense of creativity in my play, although much shittier since I'm far less experienced and talented. The way he coordinates his pieces is an art. Pins are immediately taken advantage of to either win a piece or improve the position of his pieces. Any opportunity that exists to sacrifice a piece to weaken the king is utilized. Open files and diagonals become the backbones of future mating nets. Discovered attacks and deflection are used to pick apart the opponent's position and send his forces into disarray.
>>502193346If you think about it, all the top guys began playing wild chess with tactics and sacrifices, Magnus was like that. On the other hand, If you want to see crazy swindles look for a book about Marshall! It's something like "Marshall the Swindler" or something like that, there you can see how he saves his ass with some crazy tactics and trapsNow, can you elaborate more? What do you mean by rigid? What books make you "free" of that rigidness?
Tania's hurting my ears. I don't understand why they're sitting her closest to the mic.
>>502193346Shitters on the online ladder unironically play more rigidly in the opening than supergms.
>>502197035
>>502193346You need to know and understand the rules in order to break them effectively. Also you can't really teach creativity, what happens is you get your average 1000 elo lichess games with wild ""sacrifices"" that do nothing but lose pieces.
>>502193346Meanwhile in the intro to the Soviet Chess Primer (before they even teach how the pieces move):>Thanks to the exercise he derives from playing, he [the student] will gradually achieve mastery. But he should beware of mechanically following the advice of others. He should not play by rote. Studying material from books or from the words of a teacher is not enough - the student must form his own judgements and stand by them persistently. Otherwise he will be playing chess in the same way that a parrot pronounces words - without understanding their sense.Nobody should learn the game of chess by watching youtube slop made for low IQ audiences. The contrast from quality introductory chess books to gothamjew videos and the like is absolutely insane. Chess becoming popular among the normalfag masses was the worst thing to ever happen to chess education.
>>502193346yet another reason to delay all theory until you play 10k bullet games. you can experiment and try out whacky shit every game and it will teach you more about how to play chess than someone teaching you rigid rules and sequences.
Magnus will go bald within the next decade. His father is bald and his hairline is receding so he's clearly not taking ze pills.
>>502203672baldbros it aint fair
>>502203672he's a millioner so he can afford a hair transplant like elon musk. rich people cannot suffer in this world.
>>502204274i thought hair transplants are relatively cheapif you go to somewhere like turkey
>>502204397there's a reason it's cheaper...
>>502204819kek
>>502204274>>502204397Hair transplants without anti-balding drugs are a meme. Good surgeons will sometimes straight up refuse to perform then if you haven't been on finasteride for a year and seen some improvement.
>>502205910doesnt that stuff break your dick
>>502206000It's a possible side effect but it happens way less frequently than people think. I wouldn't take it if you're low T or high E. It's probably also more likely to have bad side effects if you're roiding or some shit like that.
Finally got this in an anon game but I missed it. I was completely winning so I wasn't looking for tactics and just brought the a rook into the game without much thought. All those puzzles were for naught...
>>502208534i always miss those too, they are pretty cool
>>502208534>>502208991I always see this one thanks to Polgar's 5334.
>>502211862md_rose? why don't you play in the team tournaments anymore?
>>502213180I'm not md_rose. Hasn't he been gone for years? Polgar's book is quite popular itg, he's not the only /chess/ anon who was working through it.
>>502213902Have you finished it? How much has it improved your chess?
>>502148291>he doesn't know
>>502151636>The only way for the chinaman to win is for him to have been pretending to be retarded since 2023not really. this argument supposes he's been at his best and putting in ~100% effort during that periodgukesh also has a very small sample size and has never competed at this level before. so it also supposes that we can be extremely confident that everything we've seen from gukesh in a small sample size will translate in a wc match, which i don't think you can reasonably do. not enough information my guess is the line is roughly correct but weighted too much to gukesh. if you're getting +300 on ding, he only needs to win in 25% of universes for you to breakeven. and if you're paying -400 on gukesh, he has to win 80% of the time just for you to breakeventhe real issue is most books add a shitload of rake, so like bovada has +275/-400, and if the true line is anywhere in between like +325/-325, neither side is profitable to betbut yeah if anything +275 ding definitely has to be the play unless you have really good reason to bet gukesh beyond "vibes bro">t. pro sports bettor
never-resign-bros, we did it
kino game
Would any weavers be interested in playing bughouse on chesscoom? I haven't played it before but it looks like it could be fun.
>>501981880Not cheating, that's just the way I play.
>>502208534Bummer. However this mate was one i had to drill quite a bit before i ever noticed the motif in a reasonable time in my games.
What's the consensus on taking research chemical "cognitive enhancers" that may cause cancer to improve chess performance?
>>502230518FIDE does actually drug test. It's in their official rules. There is even a cap on maximum caffeine. I assume this number is well beyond what you would reach just chugging coffee or energy drinks.
>>502232167who knows what those actually test for though
not my best game but I did win!
>>502233851>meme openingnot watching
>>502225752doesn't Ding have a better score against Gukesh on Classical? I think that's something to keep in mind, also there was an interview where the guy asked if he was afraid of Gukesh and Ding confidently answered "no" and laughed
Ding doesn't stand a chance against GODkesh. You people need to get real.
>>502233851Seeing this game makes me think about something, you may like it anons.What if we create "Weekly Challenges"? Remember the anon that played many games with the idea of getting the King from e1 to b2? That was fun and we had many keks. What if we do that to keep this alive? We can send our games and then we can have good times seeing crazy shit or just playing something you are not familiar with, like playing d4 or " Get a game where you draw by 3-fold repetition" and the idea is to achieve that goal.
>>502234267Ding's record in standard classical against Gukesh is 2 wins 1 draw
>another episode>another losthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRKa4j2jrEQ
>>502236371>~2250 lichess>bad tactics calculation in the middlegamehow is that a thing?guess I just need to develop my opening theory better and I'll be 2200 lichess
>>502236371Fucking hell, those commenters are more brutal than the posts here about Stjepan. I wonder how he feels reading that stuff. I bet he just copes with "at least I'm 2000 FIDE".
>>502237116as someone who's been on 4chan for a long time, I'd embrace comments like that. it's just harsh truths, which the internet tends to be good atif stjepan's a normie though yeah, those are probably pretty rough to see
>>502237116>at least I'm 2000 FIDE".he's not
>>502234884that could be cool
>>502236371>uhhh bro you keep missing good moves that i definitely saw, i guess you should think more or something. do more tactics puzzles or something i heard on reddit that helps *drools from mouth*he should just disable comments. none of them are saying anything insightful, just taking the chance to backseat concern troll. i doubt any of them are even higher rated, just parroting advice they heard.
>>502237945do your tactics you retard
>>502238898thanks laszlo. should i calculate harder and manage my time better as well? riveting stuff!
I PM'd Stjepan years ago about doing tactics from books. I even recommended some of my favourite tactics books and he blocked me. I wasn't rude or condescending. I genuinely wanted to help him. He's an arrogant cunt. Fuck him.
Very happy I found this beautiful forced mate in a rapid game
>>502236847>guess I just need to develop my opening theory better and I'll be 2200 lichessKnowing your repertoire well and the plans that come with it(and having an actual repertoire, checked with engines) will definitely put you forward a few hundred elo points. There are a lot of players that just enter lost positions right off the opening. The problem is that sooner or later, you will get to a pool where players know just as much theory as you and you'll start to lose games for other reasons like tactics, endgames, time pressure.Stjepan kind of hit that wall with his opening prep and now he gets dunked on based on other reasons, mainly tactics. it's also kind of weird that he also has a lot of opening holes, he constantly enters opening it's clear he doesn't know what to do
What's the Common Core method for chess calculation? I'm not a natural that could intuit a process that works, so I need universally applicable concrete steps I can follow that simulate and elucidate the mental processes that take place in a natural's mind when calculating. Basically I need everything spelled out for me into an easily repeatable workflow that yields results.
Tactics sisters... we won.
>>502242505just look at stockfish source code and try to do the same algorithm in your head. with infinite time, energy and concentration, you could in theory play better than magnus.
>>502240480Holy shit I'm so bad at giving mate. Well done anon.
https://lichess.org/training/5naHBVery cool.
How do I suggest an edit to a puzzle on lichess? Just did one that ends with the enemy Queen merely exposed to capture. I would prefer if the puzzle ended with the acquisition of a material advantage (capturing the Queen).
>>502244650Rating will probably come down on that quickly just because blitz calculation solvers who assume white runs out of useful checks eventually.
>>502245865You can send an email to admin which will be ignored as they have 5000 new algo slop puzzles to push today. Alternately you can post to the forums and receive a reply from a 1500 saying ACKSUALLY because there are multiple options after etc the puzzle can't etc
The biggest issue with Stjepan is that he crumbles after he loses some material or misses a move. He needs to stop caring so much. It's just a game.
>>502247669https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpndHtdl9A
>>502240480nice! it is hard to see that a non-forcing move works, especially when white has so many pieces left to defend with
>>501660405
>>502237945the guy doesn't train fucking tactics, he just studies openings like a retard. >>502239791Yes. He calculates something and stops going beyond, then acts surprised when he gets his shit pushed in. And yes, stop calculating fucking 1.d4 for 5 min at the beginning of the game so later you can use that fucking time properly with moves that matter
>>502266824whups. nevermind this blank post i will delete it in a sec.>>502265524>the guy doesn't train fucking tacticsHe does. He has some kind of blindspot in games that I think is connected to his lack of willingness to calculate in the middle game at junctures where he thinks he must make the obvious defensive move. Like that other game with queen blunder, he says "am I missing something?" looks for all of two seconds "no, i don't think so" instantly blunders the one move tactic. He didn't check. In hindsight he does this a lot.
If I have someone with a small dick, small balls, a small penor, and also small testicles, what opening should i play?
>>502271545London
>>502271545Any d4 opening except the Catalan
Here's a funny chess joke:Why do they call it long castle?Because it takes 2 moves. 1. O-O-O and 2.Kb1 LOL
>>502272836KEKAROOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh what the fuck Tata Steel already started. I lost track of time. >>502272836that's not bad
>>502242505CCTChecks, Captures, ThreatsThis video will also help you with your calculationhttps://youtu.be/G3zdK17nh6o?si=8KsrlwO4pYbTbtjN
>>502236371A lad further down in the comments there is suggesting Stjepan smurf against lower rated so as to achieve 2500 by 1 or 2 points per win.
It happened again, my skibidis. I played chess late at night when I am tired and lost my points to the rizzlers.
>>502289327sheesh lil bro got fanum taxed fr frskill issue
https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/igoshougi/ryuoh/kifu/20241114-SYT8T5999945/The first day of the fourth game of the 37th Ryuo title match is being played between Yuki Sasaki (sente) and Sota Fujii (Ryuo title holder). The time control is 8 hours per player, and the match is a best of 7 (currently Fujii leads 2-1)In this game, Sasaki chose to play bishop exchange. Instead of going for the highly theoretical and deeply researched mainline (reclining silver), which Fujii is an expert in, Sasaki played one of the sidelines (rapid-advancing silver), continuing his strategy from games 2 and 3 of playing less popular openings.
How badly do you think Ding will lose?
Ding will rise to the occasion.
>>502297575Will he though?
the hopes of the white race ride on ding
Just found out that Hans is statistically the ultimate poo-slayer player. I kneel.
>>502291971On move 62, Fujii sealed a move, ending day 1. This is his first time sealing a move in this match.Sasaki has five and a half hours left on his clock, Fujii two hours and 53 minutes.
Bukic - RomanishinMoscow 1977white to move
>games are not won by the most brilliant moves>but by the guy who blunders lessDoes this ever stop?
>>502314901Perfectly played chess is a draw, so you could make the argument that there's no such thing as a brilliant move and instead just correct moves and mistakes.Or you could say that the brilliancy is the ability to see and take advantage of subtle mistakes, especially if the refutation is unintuitive.
>>502315686>Perfectly played chess is a drawnot proven
>>502315757Sure, if you want to be pedantic, it's not been proven to be a draw, but it very likely is and as the accuracy of both players improves so does the draw rate up to the level of 3500 elo engines.
>>502315967accuracy is based on imperfect information
>>502316067You have better information?
>>502316183what kind of dumbass strawman is that
>>502316213What kind of dumbass pedantic rhetoric is that?
Magnus buck breaking the opposition once again.
>>502313380b4 Qxb4 Rdb1 Qxc4 Be2 (Qxe2 Rb8+ Rc8 Rxc8+ Rd8 Rxd8#) Qc2 Bd3! Rc8 Bxc2Where are you getting these from? I only got this one right because I've seen it in a tactics book.
>>502319096Encyclopedia of chess combinations
>>502242905Did you look at it with an engine?
>>502271545small center
Wesley ever so based on the Tata panelgotta love this slurpy nigga
This guy didn't stand a chance
I have the solution to draws, but won't tell you.
>>502333105yeah it's called playing the Alekhine's Defense
>>502314901It's impossible to make a move that improves your position.
I made it senpai, 2200 lirapid after 2 years of playing chess.Gained 100 ELO from my previous peak in one month, no idea how that happened.I stopped playing boolet completely 3 months ago so maybe I unbooletbrained myself.Stjepan I'm coming for your ass
>>502334753congrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa0wx_PxMsg>another lossthis time he got irritated because his opponent was playing too fast and still somehow outplaying him. there is only one thing that will cure this slowbrain tumor of his and it's not tactics puzzles from a book or quitting caffeine.
>>502336190adderall should be a weapon of last resort
>>502336190I've been watching Zefcat's vids on yt for some reason and it's so much better than this dude /chess/ is obsessed with. This guy is just a boring, delusional retard. Simple as. She's at least trying to attack and plays with soul.
>>502337797Yeah zefcat is based. I haven't watched her in a while, but I used to catch her livestreams sometimes. Coincidentally, I checked her twitch yesterday and while she still streams, it seems like she doesn't save the vods anymore so I couldn't watch.
>>502315686>>502333452So it always comes down to a waiting game of who fucks up first? That's somewhat disheartening.
>>502336190I never read Stjepan's comment section until yesterday. This is the most entertaining part of his whole channel
>>502337797>>502339371I tried to watch her streams a few times a while ago, but it was always puzzle solving. I got the feeling she had some anxiety about playing chess because it was just constant puzzle storm/racer/streak whatever. Does she actually play games now?
>>502340106Often yes but the fuckups can be extremely hard to see. They can also be in the form of accumulated small errors that eventually lead to an untenable position (contemporary example is Magnus; many of his best wins did not come from brilliant tactical shots). Ubiquitous engine analysis now tends to strip the mystique. If you're watching live I recommend keeping eval bar and engine off for this reason. Unfortunately many broadcasters keep these on in their video so it's hard to avoid unless you only want to want the raw DGT board feed.
>>502340180>1700 rated coachlmao
>>502341326How about a 1700 lichess coach?https://lichess.org/@/TheOnoZonehttps://www.theonozone.com/coaching
>>502341326you don't really need a high rating to tell people to "do more puzzles" and "avoid making mistakes" which is all coaching seems to be at that level
>>502342280Rapid Rating: 1812.89This nigga would get clapped by the park boomers, that's like 1300 fide
>>502340725She has always played games there but does a lot of puzzles because she is trying to improve her tactics. She plays a lot OTB so she will do a lot of training before a tournament as well.
>>502334753>Stjepan I'm coming for your assBased beyond belief.
>>502337797I planned to watch his whole "road to 2500" playlist because it's shilled so much and I was curious but I had more than enough of him after 2 videos. He's just so boring on every level - his playstyle, his persona, everything. I don't understand how he could amass such a following.
lol. do something, bitch
>>502344842>I don't understand how he could amass such a following.It's a couple things. Stjepan is right around the typical serious adult improver plateau. Adult improver meaning someone who first picked up the game in their 20s or later with only 'know how pieces move' background prior to that. Second, Stjepan takes it very seriously. He quit his job to pursue this. When things go well he's ecstatic. They they go poorly he's so devastated it looks like he's near suicidal. Stjepan is the perfect case study on how brutal the adult improver wall truly is for most people. It's an insight in to why there has never been a truly adult improver GM (played to high level as child/teenager, quit, returned and later made GM is not the same).
>>502346304is it even possible to break through the plateaufeels hopeless
>>502344842The reason why he's ""shilled"" here is because it's hilarious how bad he plays for how seriously he takes the game. Now that he's hard struck and doesn't seem to be capable of improving what he's lacking is even more hilariousThe reason he became popular is because he's decently high rated for someone who started later in life and many normies live vicariously through him. >look he's 2200 lishit, that means I could too reach 2000 fide he's just like me fr fr
>>502347139I wonder. The only thing I can point to that Stjepan lacks is a serious coach. He has his FM buddy but, judging by the lesson videos he posted, it's not a structured training. The FM isn't a good teacher and he's far too casual. Stjepan's problems aren't subtle. He needs hard work on very specific areas of his skillset. If a coach could make him do that maybe he could reach 2200 and get some NM type title. I think FM/2300 might be a bridge too far.
>>502344842He amassed a following because he used to make videos on every opening under the sun. So if you want to learn about literally any opening then he made a youtube video on it.
>>502340106this is a sad truth in literally any game where "mistake punishing" is a core element (so chess, poker, most video games, etc)in general, the correct way to play mistake-punishing games is to simply never make any mistakes yourself. when your opponent makes a mistake, it'd be a mistake for you to not punish that mistake, and so onwhat's interesting about this dynamic is when extremely skilled players like magnus intentionally "make a mistake" to make the game state enter a weird/unstudied one, under the pretense that his opponent will make more mistakes in this world than he will. but again, it all boils down to not making mistakes while baiting mistakes out of your opponentsand with that said i'd like to remind everyone to play bullet and 3+0. it's a superior format simply because people make more mistakes in them
>>502349927you still suggest 10,000 games?
>>502350585No, I now suggest 100,000 games.
>>502351674alright 100k bullet games it is then
>>502348126>FM/23002200-2300 is just good calculation+decent tactics skills+a solid modern repertoire that you know inside outStjepan lacks in all these areas
>>502352653The holes in his opening knowledge are bizarre to me. Like video yesterday the opponent plays a somewhat early c5 break in a qgd exchange. Somehow Stjepan is completely thrown off by this. His main thing is studying openings so why is a thematic pawn break at a slightly different time than expected such a problem?
>>502348126This is true, he doesn't have a real coach, he just fucks around with his friends and calls that "coaching", if he is serious about it he has to pay for it, he should look on Lichess or whatever, but I believe he is too proud and egotistic to do that, I think he wants to "make it" without a coach, likely to say " I DID IT ALL BY MYSELF" and to prove a point or something.Pic related is somewhat true, I get that it makes you angry the fact that your opponent is playing fast but what else can you do? Just play the game and don't get your panties in a twist.
>>502353912>His main thing is studying openingsIt's because his main things is memorizing openings, not studying them. He doesn't understand the ideas of many of his openings and the moments he's out of his memorized lines he doesn't know what to do
>>502354681Is that because of his weakness with tactics? Maybe it all comes down to that.
>>502354921A long time ago an anon said that the kind of people that take up chess and start with London, Caro, etc... get their tactics/attack intuition damaged severely, remember that he wants to be Karpov/Petrosyan so bad, but he forgets that they were master tacticians first before being positional kings. He needs visualization and a real coach to attack those weaknesses. also, he said that he's studying tactics from a book now! I don't know what book but I remember in one of his videos he said something like " I study tactics on Lichess 4 hours a day"
>>502354921Neah, its a different thing althogheter. When you're studying opening you're supposed to learn>plans/pawn structure>optimum piece placement>tactical motifs/traps for that particular opening>endgames that may ariseand only after you're familiar with those general ideas you learn concrete lines.What he does is just memorization: he goes there I go there he goes there I go thereWhenever his opponent deviates, he has no idea what plans to employ and his strength drops at least 300 points
>>502355550gambitchads stay winning
>>502355740Don't you need some tactics background to appreciate those ideas? How is knowledge of plans going to help you if you can't put them into action?
>>502359396Yeah, you do. But if you know nothing about the position is hard to find patterns of any kind, tactical or strategical
one of these days im gonna actually study my openings
>mfw I'm 2/3rds the way through memorising Svidler's Grunfeld course (1500 lines)Yeah, I won't stop. You can't stop me. Simply ass.
>take 3 months break off chess>get back>suck like a shitter>lose like a shitter>can't see shit on a chessboard>feel like back when you started>people much below your elo destroy you>after two days play a game with 98.3 accuracy with ~50 moves>feeling strength slowly coming backIs it like that with any sport?
>>502370252Sorry sweatshirt but chess isn't a sport.
>>502371460>FIDE is recognized as a sports governing body by the International Olympic Committee>chess is an organized sport with structured international and national leaguesSomeone tell FIDE, wikipedia authors and the olympic committee they should pack up and fuck off because Anonymous from 4chan.org/vg/chess/ told them they're wrong.
>>502371691I don't care what the bureaucrats and gay internet websites say. Chess isn't a sport in the same way that monopoly isn't a sport and mario party 5 isn't a sport.
>>502372207good that you're smarter than them anon
>>502370252You get rusty, yes. Fortunately this doesn't take very long to shake off. >>502372207You are right. Chess is board game and online gacha clicker. Not sports.
NNN has obliterated my ability to focus on chess. I'm trying to visualize moves but my mind's eye is constantly blocked by big juicy asses.
>>502376571only halfway through...
>>502386179this will damage your chess ability
What the hell /chess/. I come home from work to see how the rapid finished up and see this. Did Magnus casually get BETTER at fast time controls now that he isn't concerned with classical? Fucking 7.5/9 against these guys?
>normally a positional player>decide to try a tactical, attacking game>set up what looks like a nice attack by saccing a rook>win>check the eval after>I literally had nothing and would've had to force a draw down material with queen checks>only won because opponent blundered into mate with a one-moverI hate myself so much holy shit. doesn't even feel like I won
>>502291971>>502309659Fujii's sealed move was 62. L-98+.
Anish played a simul against the "chesskid top kids" earlier today. When I saw this in my recommends I thought okay he's playing 30 children for fun and education. But no. It's a simul against only four players, two IMs and two GMs. GM Andy Woodward, GM Shreyas Royal, IM Ryo Chen and IM Alice Lee. Technically kids, or teenagers anyway, but this is not the kind of simul I'm used to. Watching the vod now and it's pretty interesting games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWmXmMAYmtMstarts around 23:00
I played over 60 blitz games today.
>check in on Aliceit's fucking over pookiebros, she's been hardstuck 2400 since April 2023
>>502402449Women's world champ by 2030 trust the plan
>>502402387just 9940 more and you'll be a GM
>>502403331that and he has to do his 100,000 bullet games
>>502402387Pff, those are some rookie numbers. I play that many in the morning alone.
>>502399117https://abema.tv/now-on-air/shogiabema's not region blocked anymore, so there's video too if you want to watch.
>>502396640He's obviously using Hans' cheater strap-on
>>502401913Attention:Alice Lee beat that lazy bum after he blundered one (1) singular pawn.
I'm slowly learning theory through spamming blitz games.I study the lines, then play some games and forget everything in the heat of battle, then go back to my studies and figure out the move I should have played. Then when the taste of defeat is associated with it, I tend to remember it better.
Is there a better feeling than winning a game, switching to engine analysis and telling stockfish to help me learn from my mistakes only for it to say>no significant mistakes foundI don't think there is. It's quite fulfilling.
>>502419784bareback sex has to be up there
>>502419880Too bad this is /chess/ otherwise we could ask someone to find out for sure
>>502291971>>502399117After 97 moves, Fujii resigned. The score of the match is now even. Game 5 will be played 11/27-28.
>>502399117Shogi still has move sealing? Are they not worried that the players will just run everything through engines?
>>502428338The players aren't allowed to bring any electronics with them.
>>502396640when was he ever bad at fast time controls lolonly real rivals are alireza and hikaru
verygaysir just buck broke fagnus
Jobava London. Thoughts?
>>502433506Yeah Arjun is the only Indian that deserves respect. Guy was playing open tournaments as a 2750, completely fearless and a commendable belief in his own game to put his rating at risk like that. And the sad thing is I’m pretty sure most of his own countrymen have no idea who he is. When I talk to my Indian coworkers they only know Pragg, and only Gukesh recently. Whatever. The cream always rises to the top eventually.
>>502434894>respecting a cheater
If Gukesh wins, there will probably be a WC in India by 2026, greatly contributing to Modi's fight against open defecation.
How is babby formed? How girl get Praggnanandhaa?
>>502434842The only thing I play with the White pieces. I'm really shit at chess though.
>>502444789
>yes, guys, I train tactics
>>502448236>6 minutes and 21 secondsi dont even understand how this guy is 2200
>>502449078because 2200s still miss tactics just less than 2100 or lower.
>>502396984>check the eval afterengines have fucked up the game so much. From a human perspective an equal or slightly worse position where you are exerting pressure is much better than being +1 and with no initiative.Stop putting so much stock into what engines tell you, you are playing humans no computers
>>502448236He's a retard but still winning after Nd5.
>>502451138Usually +1 means winning material in the relative short term, but I don't like the +1 positions that put my Queen in an awkward position or blow my King wide open to do so or where you have to find a series of "only moves" to escape with your +1 pawn advantage. If the evaluation is less than +1 for me, I'll usually pick the best move that makes sense to me or is most consistent with the rest of my repertoire.
>>502453903>Usually +1 means winning material in the relative short termlol
>>502454230In my experience. But I'm not as experienced as many of you, so can you elucidate what you mean by scoffing at what I said? In my admittedly limited experience, when the engine says +1 or greater, it typically (>50% of the time) means winning material in the next several moves, whereas if it's less than +1 but still positive, it means having some kind of positional advantage.
>>502454525I'm not the scoffer but I agree with his sentiment. In my experience +1 usually means positional advantage. You're correct that you're not gonna win material for free if it's less than +1, but I disagree (at least in my games) that +1 or +2 usually means immediate material gain.
>>502454525>In my admittedly limited experience, when the engine says +1 or greater, it typically (>50% of the time) means winning material in the next several moves,This is completely wrong. This is +1: e4 g6 d4 Nh6. That is to say that +1 generally means some positional edge which is only meaningful for good players.
>>502448236I think when Stjepan does "tactics" training, he uses difficult tactics books aka chess study books which are different to tactical books in that they don't always have obvious answers or continuations. Chess books which focus on study positions usually blend postional and tactical ideas in 1 position. Anyway, his vision for easy tactics is bad. I bet he he thinks "I'm 2000 FIDE so I should be studying Aagard's Grandmaster Preparation!" but what he really should be doing is setting the rating range on chesstempo to 900-1200 and spamming easy forks, skewers, mate in 1s, mate in 2s, mate in 3s, and so on, until he stops missing them in his games. He's the type of arrogant person to think this is below him, so he probably won't do it, which is a good thing for us because he's turning into /chess/'s new LOLCOW, and I want to milk these LOLs as much as possible because he blocked me on lichess after I tried to earnestly help him.
>>502456078Engines are gay like that vs hypermodern openings in the first 3 moves.
>>502456410we get it, Stjepan broke your heartlet it go...
>>502457329this nigga posted about that retard blocking him way too many timesget over it bro
>>502457329>>502457939Never.
puzzle tards are so insufferable. they actually think puzzle gooning is the be-all-end-all of training methods.
>>502458739regular gooning is
Real ones exclusively tactigoon to Fish porn.
>philidor
>>502460114
>>502433506damn, double knight forks winning both rooks?! if the names weren't given, I'd think this was a typical 900 rated lichess blitz blowout
>>502445089>>>/wsg/5735718
>>502461159Yes, it reminded me of some of my worse losses against the Sissylian too. It's theoretically okay for white to allow Ng4 but it's VERY difficult to keep equality. The best move after Qc7 is f4 and white has to find lots of unintuitive moves afterwards too.
>>502463334*f4 is best after Nxh1
>>502074532lol this general is as dead as it ever was... and that's saying something. just zoomers trying to do le epik 4chan at this point. absolutely tragic the state of every board ever since zoomers took over with their e-celeb retardation.
>>502468447>>>/tg/94381858
>>502468447indeed. so it seems, my friend. so it seems...
Is there a demand for a cute chess vtuber?Serious question.
>>502468447>>502472747why don't you niggers fuck off then? you've been whining about the same shit since day 1 like bots.Captcha: s0y4u
>>502473271oh i will, sonny boy. just after this gloat sesh. heh! truth hurts, ain't it?
>>502472936Probably. If 3dpd Botez sisters sell well then 2d vtuber should also.
>>502472936of course
>>502472936only if biologically female
Fuck off lichess
>>502460114Philidor?More like.... PHILIBORE HA>>502472936I don't trust vtubers. You never know if the big tiddy anime girl you're gooning to is actually some fat ass dude with a voice changer.
>>502476978>You never knowyes you do, it's always a fat ass dude. If it was a chick she would have streamed herself without the need for an avatar
>>502477324>If it was a chick she would have streamed herself without the need for an avatarNaw not entirely true. The ones paid as part of a company do it and some self-aware ugly chicks running their own show do it
>>502475561I was under the impression that vtubers were mainly popular in Asia. Are they popular in the West too?
>>502478151>Are they popular in the West too?Yes the english speaking ones do pretty well. It's not hundred millions like the Japanese ones but it's respectable.
>>502478151some are yes. and a lot do variety which means they could play chess and get a lot of viewers
>>502478151>i was under the impression that anime was mainly popular in asia. is it popular in the west too?bro has never heard of weebs
I took three months off to play puzzles only. I don't know if it's helping. I am marginally better at puzzles now.
>>502486430Now take another 3 months to play Knight Jump for the Famicom Disk System.
>>502488579Oh, Knight Move, rather.
all I want to do is play bullet
when does worlds start?
>>502499614don't goon, this could be you
>>502458739This, so much this. My puzzle rating is like 2300 but I am only 1300 blitz. Bros, not like this, not like this
>>502501624my elo is almost higher than my puzzle rating at this point (~1730 lichess, ~1810 puzzles)
the ICC ui is fucking horrendous how could they possibly do a worse job than ((((liechess))))
>>502491207bullet gooned for 4 hours...
>>502514692based gooner
>>502511654They managed slick appearance with clunky functionality. Not great. Fixable though. I'll try again if/when they do.
I wrote a letter to ICC suggesting that they incorporate anime waifus and gacha gameplay mechanics into their site. I will let you know if they respond.
>>502516078kek yeah sounds good brojust imagine gacha ICC stomping on chess com's revenue and danny seething. he doesn't like JP music so the concept of anime waifu chess sounds like it wouldn't appeal to him either
>>502515816It's just empty. The analysis is very barebones and you can't message opponents, things like that
>>502516078Write a letter to lichess, they'll do it. Call it "weeb mode" and just have it be something you can toggle on and off in settings
>>502519116Why hasn't someone made a lichess fork like lidraughts or pychess if this is such a great idea?There's a lot of lichess based websites as it turns out. https://lichess.org/team/lichess-based-websites-and-links
>>502521229>https://lichess.org/team/lichess-based-websites-and-linksthey forgot coolmathgames
There's so much to learn from the next world champion.
I just had 3 games in a row where my opponent inexplicably blundered his queen by moving it to a place where it could be taken for free. My opponents were all rated 2200+ liblitz.Maybe it's because it's night in my timezone and therefore everyone across the world is sleepy.
>play a lovely positional game where I gradually cuck all my opponent's pieces>can't post it because in time trouble it turned into an ugly boolet time scramble where I barely got the winGod damn it
>>502531926You can post it. Nobody gives a sneed. We all play chess and know the practicalities of the game.
>>502531926Nah you can post it. Wouldn't be the first time good positional games turn into time scramble garbage.Hell that even happens in GM level classical games.
>>502532492>>502532554I just looked at it with an engine and it wasn't a good game at all. It's over.
>>502531926All the games when i play the english are like this. Very carefully advance and squeeze, late middle game time pressure, ill advised attacks to finish the job because I got impatient, careful positional advance becomes not so careful, i let some pieces out of jail. Shit flinging commences and somebody wins in the chaos. The moral of the story here is I could just play a maximum aggressive opening and skip all this foreplay. It's going to get there anyway what's the point.
>>502535727Sounds like it's time to switch from 1.c4 to 1.f4
>>502540039I mean I already play the Dutch but i'm worried if I play the white version of it I will get sick of it and lose the novelty.
>>50249961425th
i have the most fun playing sharp openings and trying to win with sneaky opening trapscan i ever be good at chess
>>502540720>can i ever be good at chessYes
>>502540720>i have the most fun playing sharp openingsbased>trying to win with sneaky opening trapsonly excuse for this is if you're a berserk enjoyer, it's peak cringe otherwise
>>502541004but if my opponents are good they wont fall for traps
>>502542632Getting good at chess is just setting increasingly more subtle traps while not falling for them yourself.
>>502542632as long as the trap isn't a pure one trick pony, you have compensation most of the time. Not fish approved compensation, usually, but you have something. You get a development lead, other side is up some material but their coordination is all shitty and stupid now. Best kind of trappy openings have a flowchart of sorts where it's a wave of attacking ideas that all branch off from each other depending how opponent responds. White side of Sicilians can get like this immediately even without playing the most direct path to it with the smith morra. I maintain that this is both more fun and easier to play for adult improvers. Trying to playing a slower squeeze like Stjepan is masochistic to me. You aren't that good at calculation or tactics and somehow you expect to win games with a style that relies on seeing every fucking thing available to your opponent on the board and precisely shutting it all down while still maintaining an initiative. It's really hard to play like that AND you will like total garbage when you inevitably lose control. Like Stjepan. Don't take that road. It's suffering.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FjZ115l5178Funniest chess player by far. That game against the Chilean IM sent my sides into orbit.
>>502544645Speaking of which, if you want to play fun aggro chess just copy Simon's blitz repertoire. It is Checkmate Ends The Game: The Repertoire
>>502526347>saaar do not redeem the pawn
>scandisharts
>>502544645Who's the weaker GM, Simon Williams or Ben Finegold?
>7 days ago/chess/ is deadThis is its fate once the WCC is over
>>502551921Ben Finegold. Simon won against a lot of supergms but his wild style will always keep one lower rated than his actual style
>>502552009There is nothing happening chess wise at the moment. No drama, no important tournaments, no Dina butthole pics. There is nothing to talk about
>>502552141talk about my games>>502460114>>502551769
>>502551921>>502552028Fatgold won the h2h match.
>>502551769these webms look clean, where are you making these?
>>502553725https://sharechess.github.io/
>Get a lichess message about not telling people they're cheaters because mu TOS>>502476565>next day turns out they were actually cheating and got my points refundedfuck off lishit
>>502554868you should write them an angry letter
>>502460114>Bg4I really, really don't get why people play this. It's probably the most well-known refuted line in all chess
Ever since I stopped caring about my rating or improoving, I've been having a lot more fun playing chess. I'm happy. :)
>>502556108i would think something like the stafford refutation would be more well known, ive never studied the philidor but the moves were all obvious there
>>502557389it's only feautured in the most famous chess game of all time, why would anyone know about it
>>502557662whats the most famous chess game of all time
>>502557691bruh
>>502557915zoomers only know who gotham and hikaru are
I am perfectly hard stuck for this month. How can I get out of this rut
>>502557915>>502558450how would i know what the most famous chess game is? is there a book that ranks the chess games?
>>502556431I finally got myself a drunk account. Lichess is my drunk and .com is my main. The last 3 days I've only played on my drunk account despite only being hungover for one or max 1½ of them. I'm slightly happier (still get pissed off but it only lasts for a second) but I think my problem will be that I won't switch to my main again and the effect will vanish.
>>502552141There was a fun rapid-blitz tournament in India today
>>502561821>in Indiapass
>>502557691Without ever investigating this or looking at the game itself, my best guess would "The Opera Game."
>>502561821Oh shit I copletely forgot about this todayI guess Magnus kept the lead and won
>>502561821I can't watch those commentators. The indian accent is like nails on a chalkboard to me. When it's tania and someone else is barely ok, two indians commentating is pure hell
>>502542632>if my opponents are good they wont fall for trapsThat's not true. Even GMs fall for traps. Rarely though, of course, since their knowledge far outstrips club-level players.On occasion you should try them. Playing traps ALL the time is dumb but so is always playing standard chess with no variety.
guys i miss kramnik drama
>>502569141same
anyone know of any lichess bots that play dubious gambits? i remember this one from ages ago but looks like they took it down https://lichess.org/@/MaterialIsOverratedwould be interesting to practice defence
>>502569141yeah, not much juice left there to squeeze. i still watch danya when he streams and he still seethes at the "narocheatsky" nickname. someone made a GMNarocheatsky twitch account and danya called him a "cheatoo" dust smelly loser in his mom's basement.
>>502570723>i still watch danya when he streamshas he mentioned why he doesn't keep a back camera?
>>502571735Yeah, he said it's because Kramnik asked in a rude way. If anyone asked nicely he would do it.
>>502570587Just play a few games with me, I love throwing my pieces into the trashcan
>>501660405https://tcec-chess.com/#div=l1&game=28&season=27Newcomers in TCEC Obsidian and Ceres have been cruising through the leagues. Especially, Obsidian seems to now be the second strongest free CPU focused engine after the new NNUE network was trained https://github.com/gab8192/ObsidianGPU focused Ceres, also had its new network released, although it might still be a bit tricky to set up, see here for more details https://github.com/dje-dev/Ceres/blob/main/markup/instructions_1.mdOn other news a new Leela piece odds network has been trained and it seems to be very strong. If you are interested here is a video of CM David Maycock playing Leela a queen up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btai92lsrU4
>>502554868Lichess priorities on full display there. Warning about sending cheat accusations in chat gets sent out pronto top priority. Actually catching and banning the cheat? Secondary, if convenient, at some point, possibly.
>>502570723>danya called him a "cheatoo" dust smelly loser in his mom's basementLot of projection there. I guarantee you a sperg and junkie like daniel has had hygiene issues in the past and currently. I have seen him do commentary wearing shirts that look like they haven't been washed and ironed.
>>502583882>ironing shirtsits not 1970 anymore boomer
>>502582798the rules that are easier to enforce, get enforced more often. anyone can easily check the chat, but you can't easily prove cheating one way or another.
>>502583931You look like a bum with your misshapen poorly fitting slob wear.
>>502584096im comfy and thats all that matters
>>502570587https://lichess.org/@/LeelaKnightOdds/lossThis one gambits a knight but you're never gonna beat it. It's also got two little brothers that spot you a rook or a queen respectively. Against these you have hope.
>>502585417thats not gambiting its just starting a knight down
>>502579812Fair enough. Here's some lichess teams that might help you find what you're looking for: https://lichess.org/team/all-the-leelashttps://lichess.org/team/lichess-bots
>>502586686meant for>>502585592
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2803924mag' is the only one who makes top players look so bad... without the names/ratings shown it would be very easy to view Black as a baddie
>>502588036The tactic right at the end of this one is very slick. I don't think I have ever seen a puzzle that involved a deflection for royal fork in quite that way before.
>>502588462i dont see it, but looks completely winning with just Rd8
>>502591304It's black's move. Prag resigned right there. Magnus played Rxd6 (he captured white's dark square bishop).
>>502593705oh that makes more sense
>>502579812this is a fish thread, move along now boy with your literalwho shitter engines just memeing, welcome back TCEC-sama
Sprung this theory on my unsuspecting opponent for the first time today. He didn't know what sneeded him.
>>502476978IT'S ME PEKORA.
brosshould i actually make the chess gachachess coom
>>502600515I'd use it
Just stumbled into mating my opponent without even realizing it.
>>502600515I think it's an interesting concept if done well.
>>502600712>>502601475alright I think I will tryif building it goes well I'll commission some artists/voice actors
>>502601307I have done this several times. And in puzzles. Calculation ahead of time being 'okay so check and then he has to...' and then find out it was mate already.
>>502601943I'm pulling for you. I don't see why a chess gacha like mahjong soul wouldn't be popular. I think it hasn't been done before because most people still see chess as a serious game for serious people.
I don't know what a gacha is. Must be zoomer terminology.
>>502608609It gambling games for zoomers who are too depressed/autistic/etc. to go to a real casino.
>>502593705and why didn't he just capture the rock?
>>502608609https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_gamei see that boomers still don't know how to google.
>>502609531If he takes, he loses the queen.
>>502609407There is nothing more depressing than walking through the slots area of a casino at 5am
>>502608609Uh, no. It's a boomer term at this point.
>>502612158how? I need to know how blind I am
>>502614775be5, queen is pinned to the king so qxe5, then nd7 forks
>>502609531Because the bishop pins the queen, and the knight forks king and queen afterwards
>>502615705>>502618986I see now, sometimes I just negate the evident
>>502612937what about playing against the Alapin?
>>502622850Just play more puzzles. This is a variation of a relatively common puzzle motif. Magnus' version is a little unusual as the pin intermezzo isn't a popular component of this kind of deflection theme in puzzles. Probably will be now though.
>>502596414basedthat's what the c6 d5 e6 f5 turtlers deserve
>>502608609video games where you collect jpgs of cute anime girls
bump
I think cheating using an engine is cringe but cheating using performance enhancing drugs is based.
>>502679841has it ever been proved that they do actually help?
Will this Championship be as kino as the last one?
>>502683480Only if Ding somehow doesn't get destroyed.
>>502683480pookesh will get caught cheating
>>502551769>Qd8yeah that guy's a retard
Is danya still a drug addled cheater?
>>502689184Yes. Danya hinted at him specifically in a recent interview. He even hinted at /vg/ discussing it more openly than others.
>>502690857Anish hinted at Danya* my bad
>>502690857The schizo shit you read itt
>>502692242He's right.
>>502689184does the pope shit in the woods?
>>502516078They replied back. Nothing interesting. Just a formulaic "we passed this on to management".
>>502692962Aw
>>502692962The world is unprepared for such a thing, but it's a great idea unironically. >gif relatedI had this weird game yesterday
>>502690857>>502690967>He even hinted at /vg/ discussing it more openly than others.Wait wut? Link with timestamp???
>>502694415https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x41meg64OxM&ab_channel=ChesswithMustreaderBetween 25-40 mark is them discussing cheating. Anish references (no name) a well liked, jovial, fun loving guy. He is talking about danya.
>>502694789Do you honestly believe what you're writing or are you trolling?
>>502694789I'm trying to think of someone else he is referring to but can't given the recent news.
>>502694789>my wife is georgianwait wtf why did i think he was married to tania
Hello /chess/, >>>/vg/vrg/ tourist hereReminder that over there we are regularly playing chess in vrchat and that next session is today at 21:00CET/20:00UTC (~3h30 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
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