WC in a week edition>Play online:https://lichess.org>Join our team and weekend's tournaments:https://lichess.org/team/vietnamese-basket-weaving-forumPrevious>>500646581
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>>502706825second for DING!
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!
>give back the pawn>no>ok then, say hi to deez knights
Gotta say it's pretty funny people here think Ding has any chance at all of winningLike I'm not a Gukesh or Indiafag at all but come on now, get real
>>502709007Nice playing the Kramnik variation with Be2. I used to play that myself.
>>502710530Caruana picked Ding to win.
A E S T H E T I C photo
>>502710530gukesh is an overall better player, but with the format and the amount of preparation that goes in, ding still has a massive chance. he's basically fighting for the last of his dignity considering everyone has been calling him a fragile mentally ill loser for 2 years. it will be a 50/50 toss up.
>>502711434very based
>>502711434I have captured Indian chess fandom in a single photo
>>502711434Love my wife, Aleksandra
>>502712363Did you see when they tried to rape Magnus? Surprised anyone goes to that shithole country
>>502713086Indians surround and press against favored individuals, en masse, as a ritual of endearment. The purpose is to replicate the feeling of being in India with the stifling body heat and sweaty moisture. Like a rugby scrum but with more groping.
I like when people playing as white repeat moves thinking it makes me seethe and I won't do the samelike bro, I don't give a shit about drawn games when I'm playing black lmao
>>502718464it pisses me off because they're too cowardly to try to win as white
>>502696972It's up! https://vrch.at/xawgbq9k
>>502718464I get what you're saying but in online chess that is a good strategy. I do it too because much more often than not, your opponent will do anything possible to avoid repeating even if he's black and/or lower rated. I have gotten countless wins from them blundering trying to avoid a repetition.I wouldn't do it OTB though.
My respect for Anish grew a little
>>502720513>I do it too because much more often than not, your opponent will do anything possible to avoid repeating even if he's black and/or lower ratedYes I noticed this as well. Nothing is more effective at inducing blunders from my fellow blootz shitters than offering them a draw by repetition. >>502721764heh
I love this little thing like you wouldn't believe.
>>502720423Here's a nice little game that was promising to be interesting but then it got cut short by a blunder. I had to take the knight with the other rook.
>>502721764Anish is a based fellow Ben enjoyer
rapport will get him back into a good moodbelieve it
>>502731931is he still Ding's second? They made a great pair of best bros.
>>502710530t. jeetCan't wait to laugh at street shitters
ABSOLUTE MADMANhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSvhVPqKXk0
>>502743968Literally said I wasn't one retard
Every response to e4 other than e5 and any od the sicilians is a meme.
>>502766474t. Alekhinelet
>>502766474based and truthpilled
>>502766474French and Caro beg to differ.
I am seeing a lot of Hallowscream gambits lately. Don't they know it already passed???
How do you feel about the King's Indian Defense? Ol' reliable, or boring?
>>502770839I don't see how it would be boring. You are attacking the king.
>>502770839'ol reliable is the QGDKID is more like the hot, tanned tsundere tomboy across the street
>>502770964>I don't see how it would be boringMy problem with it is that Black can basically always play KID, no matter what White does
14 games is too short for a world championship.
>>502773845>classicalslopno it isn't. go do 14 serious classical games yourself
>>502772881>My problem with it is that Black can basically always play KID, no matter what White doesThat's the irritant for me as well. Yes I have lots of very good options for how to approach it but it's always KID style options and KID style lines.
>>502770839The KID was a favorite of both Fischer and Kasparov. Make of that what you will.
>>502779065It doesn't matter
>>502750528kys aman tranny
Ding will not redeem himself
Borisenko - UlianovUSSR 1964Black to play
I flagged someone with the humble moniker of ChessGod. In this moment, I am euphoric.
>the magnus fabi 960 match is a best of 2less hype
>no posts in 4 hoursIs this the deadest /chess/ has been since moving here?Hope the wc match can save it but if gukesh wins it might be the last nail in the coffin
>>502792784Rxd3 Kxd3 b5 Qc2 Bc4+ Nxb4 Qe4+ This took me quite a while because I kept wanting to kick the queen to b1 with Rc8 but that only helped white. So stupid to get stuck on a move like that without considering the more forcing moves first.
>>502812218maybe an eceleb will slip on a banana peel or something and save /chess/ from being dead
>>502812218How many last nails has it been now? Surely it's time to start lowering the casket and shoveling the dirt in right?
>smurfing on .scam because I'm rusty>drop a game to a 1200>instant report without even analizing it>20 minutes later already got my refundNot the first time this happened either, as much as I hate stench it's nice that reports actually do something, on lichess I don't even bother anymoreOn the other hand the % of cheaters on .com is way higher in my expirience so lichess is still the lesser evil
com's rigged matchmaking promotes cheating too. people are less likely to cheat on lichess because they're less likely to be triggered by forced loss streaks and other jewish tricks
>>502816815You have to blatantly cheat every game to get banned on .scam. Anyone that cheats only on a few moves in a few games here and there will pass their auto cheat and never get banned
What are the odds on the betting sites? Is Ding still massively the underdog?
>>502821514bovada +275 ding, -400 gook
>>502816815Was it a Pajeet? Arab? You must be more specific man!
>>502821432yeah subtle cheating is impossible to catch but it seems lijannies don't even ban the obvious ones anymorehttps://lichess.org/iz5IP3Q0/black#0this guy is still not banned after a more than a month of obvious cheating in rapid>>502824989Russian but the previous time this happened it was a pajeet
>>502827375>stable 1600 blitz>was very stable 1800 rapid for some time>in two weeks instant jump to 2200 rapid with a 300 point jump in ~5 daysyep
>>502827375I bet if I reported him right now I could get him banned in 24 hrs or less.
>>502839016do it and we'll run a timer
>>502839016I reported him like two weeks ago when he was posted for the first time, the anon who originally posted him reported him too, by all means do it and we'll see
>>502840000>>502842292Ok, I reported him just now.
>>502834426None of that will be enough for them to ban him. He needs to either play computer only moves or have move times that are abnormal or a combination of both. He will say the discrepancy is due to him being old or a flaglet and get away with it. In the current year it's impossible to catch a smart cheater
>>502839016>>502840000>>502842292>>502843242all of your lichess accounts are now banned due to harrassment of bipoc folx
>>502844306We will see about that, sweaty. I have confidence in the lichess jannies and my own power of persuasion.
>doing Sharpen your tactics>get to a difficult puzzle 4 stars>quit after 15 min>see answer>I basically played the same shit these masters played>"BUT BUT... IF BLACK HAD PLAYED X OR EVEN Y MOVE THEN YOU HAVE...">long lines and tedious lines that nobody gives a fuck about>???>mfw
>>502812218This WC is such a nothingburger it's unrealEven Nepo vs. Ding was way more interesting
indians ruined chess
Reminder! One of these players is actively training chess every day like a dayjob>https://lichess.org/@/hpy/perf/rapid>https://lichess.org/@/agadmator/perf/rapid
>>502854906>48k bullet gamesi kneel... stjepan needs to up those numbers asap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKs67UPvXh0kramnik stream is up!
>>502860376START THE PROCEDURE
>>502860376The fact he's a 3000 at nearly 50 and using click to moves is amazing in all serious
Please give me your 3 favorite chess books. Any subtopic as long as it's chess related
>>502860376I tried to ask him about gukesh twice already but he either didn't see it or ignored me, can other anons ask him too inbetween games?The more volume the more likely it is we get an answer, we need him to fight the poo menace
>>502864340I don't think he reads chat
>>5028641871. How to Win at Chess - Levy Rozman2. Anything the Botez sisters write3. Anything Anna Cramling writes
>>502864187soviet primermy systemdvoritsky endgame manual
>>502865067he does inbetween games
>>502864187Chess for dummies second edition. Not memeing, solid book
>>502860376lol he actually got paired with cheatsky. kino stream!
>>502865343based.
>>502864187My System by Aron NimzowitschThe Queens Gambit Declined by Matthew SadlerPlaying 1.e4 e5 a Classical Repertoire by Nikolaos Ntirlisbonus: Understanding Maroczy Structures by Adrian Mikhalchishin and Georg Mohr
>Nimzowitschchadsthis thread suddenly got way better
>>502854906In Stjepan's defense, to get a high rating in those time controls you need to play into the time control, ie, not take a ton of time on your decisions. If he is doing it to prepare for OTB chess, then he could be playing in a way that's antithetical to success in the time control.
>>502865343>>502869262>>502882612thank you very much
>opponent taking 10s to play each move in the opening>all of them are the top engine moveyoure not supposed to make it so obvious
>>502895606Just like chess engine, no? I'm just asking questions.
>>502895606Dubased
Guys, did you know that I was the one who suggested a change to lichess that got implemented and it has now affected millions of people worldwide?It's like I am famous, except nobody knows who I am.
>>502902624It better not have been that stupid variation arrows (((feature)))I hate that thing and turn it off every time I use the analysis board.
>>502903472No, that is just something the GUI guys came up with to justify their continued existence.My recommendation was to have the move arrow appear on the board when you hover your cursor over a game in the master database. Like you see the "top games from this position" section, and if you hover over the Carlsen-Giri game, the arrow shows what Carlsen played in that position, so you don't have to click the game to see.
>>502903682cool didnt know about that feature
The final round of the Osho challenger league is being played. Three players, Takuya Nagase (4-1), Seiya Kondo (3-2), and Takuya Nishida (4-1) are eligible to win the tournament. Nagase and Nishida can both win outright, while Kondo can win by a tiebreaker game if he gets lucky.Nagase-Kondohttps://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2024/11/20/kiji/20241120c00041S01001000c.htmlNishida-Hirosehttps://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2024/11/20/kiji/20241120c00041S01003000c.htmlIf both Nagase and Nishida win, they will play a tiebreaker. If both of them lose, there will be a tiebreaker between Nagase and Kondo. If one of them wins, and the other loses, the player that won their game becomes the challenger with no tiebreaker.Also being played is a game between the two players in last place, Yoshiharu Habu (1-4) and Yuki Saskai (0-5).Sasaki-Habuhttps://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2024/11/20/kiji/20241120c00041S01002000c.htmlTo actually view the games, paste the url here: https://www.shogi-extend.com/adapter and click the third or fourth buttons (start position or current position) to view them in browser.
go away jarrid
New Kramnik. He played a titled tuesday yesterday. I really like watching Kramnik play in these blitz things. His style is very practical and easy for me to follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKs67UPvXh0
Need a ding/gook poll so we can see how much of /chess/ was wrong and deluded in a month
>>502913161it's pretty well universal that everyone thinks gukesh is the favorite here. I don't think Ding has recovered from his malaise. I think he would need a combination of two factors to secure a win: Gukesh must show his age early on, make some mistake, show some hesitation, something. 2. Ding must capitalize on this. If Gukesh slips up and Ding misses it, Ding is done. Gukesh will roll him after that. If Ding does capitalize on the mistake, maybe something clicks with him and he comes alive. All that is low percentage. Gukesh's team may very well tell him he doesn't need to apply pressure at all for the first half of the match. Just sit back, take no risk, try to make the unspoken point that it's Ding who has to prove something here. I don't really know the psychological game in chess over lengthy matches like this but it makes sense in my head.
>>502913161Yeah, those Gukesh fanboys are going to be eating crow
Wijk 2025 lineup.No Magnus, no Nepo, no Alireza. Five indians.Chess is so fucking dead.
>>502914483>Gukesh's team may very well tell him he doesn't need to apply pressure at all for the first half of the match. Just sit back, take no riskCan he even do that
>>502918234>no Nepowhy would you complain about that? nigga hasn't played interesting chess in years.
>>502919432theres no risk when the fish tells you what to play
>>502821514best deal I found was 3.75:1 for Ding
im putting the house on ding
>>502865343okay gramps. next you're gonna ask what increment is
>>502906369Both Nagase and Nishida won their games.The tiebreaker will be played on 11/25.
>>502906369>>502915827>>502928283KYS SHOGI TRANNY
>>502927347sonny boy, i will rizz you up skibidi splat on the block after givin yo momma the tap fr fr
>>502864187Blunders and Brilliancies by Mullen and MossMy Best Games of Chess by AlekhineCombinational Motifs by Blokh
>>502934394
https://youtu.be/bSlU3PKJ9MQ?si=WoRN9CWB0Hwnk8Pz&t=30>act normal
>>502944739The guy who edited this messed up prety hard. Kramnik's camera is totally out of sync, unwatchable
>>502944739Well, looks like Narocheatsky doesn't crush Vlad anymore since he's not glancing to other parts of his room. He was even down on time against a boomer that clicks to move. How peculiar
the commentary for the Carlsen-Caruana game is atrociousthe one time we can hear the players chat and play and these two fucking idiots yell over them
>>502948348it's on? just tuned in and>Stench+that indian guyholy shit, couldn't they have got Leko?
>>502949001no the whole point is NO FUCKING COMMENTARYthis is the only game where the players can chat to each other, and it was comfy as fuck before these faggots started talking over everything>if magnus says pawn then blah blah blahWELL WE CAN'T FUCKING HEAR WHAT HE'S SAYING CAN WE DANNY YOU STUPID FUCKING BALDING FAGGOT
>a-hyuk hyuk hyuk>are they talking trash??YES BECAUSE THE RULES ALLOW CHAT ACROSS THE BOARD YOU FUCKING IDIOTWHICH YOU ALLOWEDAND NOW WE CAN'T FUCKING HEAR ANY OF IT BECAUSE YOU RAM YOUR OWN VOICE OVER ITSTUPID CUNT
>>502948348>>502949001so .com literally owns magnus right?No way he chose him willingly for this, even when partnering with a fucking billionare on a cool project like this he still has to let stench and his cronies ruin everything, .scam's monopoly is so bad for chess
>>502949219you're right about that but I was talking more about the classical commentary. they got two middleaged IMs commentating SGM 960. it's just crazy.
>>502949343Very very sorry sir, but if there is no commentary then the hordes of 600 elos watching the stream won't be able to understand anything and will tune off. We have to alienate the entire world of actual chess players and people who have a real interest for the game in order to appease the low IQ masses. Please understand sir we really really want those shekels.
>>502949560Carlsen loves money. Also he's a meganormie. He sees nothing wrong with Stench, Rozman, Tanya, GM FM CM Canty the 19th. He's also a huge Americanophile. His favourite sports are football ("soccer"), basketball and baseball. 2 out of 3 of his fav sports are American games.
>>502952546He's redeeming himself because he knows that europoors (hence, Norwegians) are cringe and gay, he prefers to adopt a based culture (AMERICAN CULTURE).
>>502952879Nah, it's just that Scandinavians grow up watching American shows and films. It's one of the reasons why their English is better than other Euros. He got brainwashed by Hollywood at a young age.
>Fabi jobbedbig surprise>>502952546when has Magnus ever talked about baseball?
>>502898307I'm not sure Dubov is implying cheat with that statement. Gukesh's style is strangely clinical because he apparently calculates the hell out of every single move. It's why he's so slow. It's like he doesn't really care about a broader strategy. Instead every move is separate from the one before it once he's out of prep.
>>502961346Was joking, anon. What Dubov said doesn't give off that implication.
So how did Naro vs Danya end up?
>>502967809Danya lost on time like he forgot how to play chess all of a sudden. Very interesting.
>>502968605Curious
>>502969431I just watched a breakdown by hikaru and his cope afterward was >its harder to play online because you can't see the opponentDanya is a streamer lol.People supporting him are looking more and more suspect as time goes on.
>>502969578>Danya is a streamer lol.And an online boolet specialist who ought be rather incredible in time trouble
>>502969779He was forced to look at the game and not his engine screen so you can understand the massive discrepancy all of a sudden.
Well, it looks like you guys were right about the cheater not being banned within 24 hrs. I still feel like he might be banned from my report but it would take another day, but who knows?If he's not banned, my question is: How the hell do they ever falsely ban people then? What kind of terrible process do they have that they can ban one of the few people on the entire site who has never cheated yet they fail to ban such obvious cheaters?
>>502914483Ding will win
>nepo using stockfish during a game against Hans Never trust a Russian https://youtu.be/_8rBWqaImPE?t=2978
>>502986163lol that's scummy. wonder if kramnik will call him out.
>>502986163Dubov said he did something similar against players he thought were cheating.
>>502987314Just ban all Russians and cheating rates would go way down. Same in cs go and dota Russians are the known cheaters
>>502989094You have any data to support this claim? It's not my experience.
>>502977749there is no process or system other than a jannie reading your report, if you are lucky, and deciding on a whimsometimes your report will be seen by jannie with at least half a working brain that will do his job more often you will get a complete retard that will do nothingI remember some podcast that was posted here long ago with a lichess mod and he said if he's "only" 99% sure someone is cheating he won't ban and seemed to think that made him virtuous and rational lol, I assume the opposite exist and some are too trigger happyJust like with 4chan jannies people willing to do this shit for free are doing to feel "power" over others and not right in the head one way or the other
Hello chess how do I refute the sicilian
>>502998968
>>502998968Why do you think people are d4 mains
>>503001526e4 is scary and i dont wanna memorize 1000 moves
If Ding wins, I'll post a photo of my asshole.
>>503006717Get ready Ding is the thing
>>502998968In shitter online blitz? Pick one of the versions of the closed. The b3/Snyder variation in particular is often a problem for me because it's rare even among closed players and I never feel like I have enough practice against it. Starts:1. e4 c5 2. b3and usually continues likeNc6 3. Bb2 d6 or something with Bb5 and often some early f4 unless black has played e5 already. f4 anyway in some move orders is still playable but it's a different more aggressive kind of plan.... which scores really well on lichess player database I see now. Yeah this all looks really good for white among blitz shitters. No wonder I get run over by it so often. I need better prep for black.
>>503006717Based based based
>>503006717Personally, If ding wins I won’t post a single picture of my genitalia. I will listen to what our world champion has to say. And that’s what no one did.
>>503014078Now that’s what I’m talking about!
>>503006717if gukesh wins, i'll post a photo of my bob and vigen
Noob here.White to play. Why is Bxc7 better than controlling the center with e5? I saw Bxc7 and thought "why bother, they're just gonna do Qe7 or Qe8". But apparently engine is seeing 7. ...Qe7 8. Bd6 Qxd6 and says it's better than 8. Bd6 Qf7. Why is sacking the Queen for a Bishop better here?
>>503025135free pawn
>>503025135Couple reasons:Bxc7 takes material with tempo on the queen, plus gets the bishop very involved on the attack on the kinge5 doesn't really do much. It blocks your bishop's scope.Also, if we define the center as the central squares, d5-e5-e4-d4, it doesn't control the center. It actually cedes control of the center. The pawn on e4 controls the central square d5, but on e5 it points at d6 and f6.The engine wants to give up the queen because it realizes it is screwed and it's better to trade off the attacking pieces so it doesn't get immediately checkmated.
Imagine being someone who plays this beefeater variation. Look at how well it scores in the walrus database. It is disgusting and smelly.
controlling the center shouldn't be a huge concern for you in that position, he has zero exposed pieces and an exposed king and you have activityyou should be looking for ways to tear him into shreds not locking down the position
>>503028765forgot my quote >>503025135, also zero developed pieces, not exposedposting while tired, never ever
>>503025275>>503027980>>503028894Thanks for the insight, makes senseI also didn't consider that's something engines would do (seek to just trade anything to reduce attackers)
>>503028164indians dont eat beef though?
>>502706825The battle of the fates. Who is the shittiest race of all time: Chang or Poo?
>>503031103Whoever wins, no one outside of their country gives a shit nor respects them. They are not human.
>>503030917That's why it's such a perversion and a sin against their gods.
I figured out why some of com's puzzle's have completely inappropriate ratings. It's right in their documentation. They lock a puzzle's rating after a period of time and it will stay there forever regardless of solve rate unless/until a com janny decides to change it. >When a puzzle is first added, its rating is determined by who is able to solve it. After a set period, the puzzle’s rating becomes locked and does not change further. In some cases, if a puzzle’s rating is found to be inaccurate, Chess.com may adjust it to better reflect its difficulty.https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8602396-how-do-puzzle-ratings-workThis is why you can run across puzzles on the site with five figures worth of plays on them and somehow 20% pass rate or 80% pass rate. I can't figure out a reason why they thought this was a good idea. I don't know what it does unless they specifically want a portion of puzzles they know are over or underrated, then offer those specific puzzles to particular players at particular times for some engagement hand rubbing reasons. There is no legitimate reason for this.
>>503035420I'll tell you what the reason is anon, it's chess com incompetence
>>502994515https://csstats.gg/vac-stats-2022Steam used to have public stats about bans. Cheaters are overwhelmingly Russians.
>>503043324It’s obvious when you think about it. Nepo, Dubov, Kramnik all intimating that everyone else are cheaters. It’s a guilty conscious telling on themselves because they used to be backed by state-sponsored cheating. Don’t forget Kramnik was credibly accused of cheating in a World Championship match even. But the zoomers here won’t remember that.
>>502986163>used an engine once in a casual game against a habitual cheateri'm sure reddit must be defending him like they defended cheatoditsky
>>503055949*guilty conscience
>>502967809What is this about? Did Danya play a match with someone?
>>503028164Even more disgusting is being White and not playing e4 after 1.d4 g6.
>>503063507>Naro vs DanyaGoing by anon's post i'm going to assume he played a match of mental chess against his evil alter ego.
>>503028164I played it lot of times, even otb. It's part of my surprise weapons repertoire. Its fine even in the worst lines and in the natural lines when people don't know theory it crushes.Also, it's called Dzindzi-indian defense, I'm sick of amerifats renaming everything they can't pronounce
>>503065316I was guessing Dubov but I like this better.
>>503065316Which of them is the cheater? the evil one or the regular one?
>Maurice+Tania commentary
