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disquasting edition

>play chess
https://lichess.org

>join our team and tournaments
https://lichess.org/team/vietnamese-basket-weaving-forum

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>>547095980
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how much have you guys donated to the narodistky memorial fund?
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>>547876384
Just my ears.
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>>547876384
Are we really still talking about Naroditsky in the big winter of 2025
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>>547880068
theres goys to be separated from their cash
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>no "NEW >>547874476"
/sp/ ever have this?
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>>547881163
Danya’s last stream reached 1M people. He had 500k+ subs.
Yet only 1000 people have contributed to the fund.

If Daniel ever inspired you, made you laugh, taught you, or touched your life, even $5 can help preserve his legacy.

This is our chance, as a community, to give back to the person who gave so much to us.

It’s time for the chess community to step up and show our unified support.
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>>547876384
>>547881882
So now that Danya is dead, who actually pockets that money, "in his honor"?
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>>547876384
lmao
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>tfw you feel confident about your last game and find out that the only reason you didn't lose is because your opponent didn't notice the multiple blunders you made
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>>547888585
Every time.
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Two games in a row I blundered a piece in the opening. I drew the first and won the second.
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the gachashit threads are back to putting chess in their OPs.
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Alua training knockout left hooks. Maybe being left off the team did piss her off.
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>>547894743
whats with the jeet flag
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>>547894894
International gym, as long as you come to gym and respect gym, gym also gives respect to you and puts flag up


Simple as
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>>547893080
yeah /chess/ was like the fifth thread on the 'log
they'll take it out eventually when they get new content
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>>547893080
why are they sabotaging us
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>>547893080
https://boards.4chan.org/vg/catalog#s=/chess/
Bookmark this and you won't see gatcha threads
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Ten more minutes until Finals tiebreaks. Enjoy Leko and Jan one more time, and then we're back to slop again.
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>last day of the World Cup
sad
but it was kino all the way
I really really really hope we get commentary like this for the Candidates too
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>>547886956
the charlotte chess clubs gets the money to organize a top level yearly blitz tournament in his memory, surely they won't benefit from this in anyway or overpay their members/friends for organizing it, btw dina who originally wrote that is the gf of the owner of the club, no conflict of interests to be seen anywhere here, they are all doing out of pure kindness!
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>>547905163
>but it was kino all the way
It really was. I still can't believe we got to see Leko at the board! So glad he got invited.
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It is kinda weird with this tournament that the match for third place is inherently more interesting than the match for first.
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Wei "draw on demand with black" Yi
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>>547908103
he bloondered though
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>Sindarov failed to find the win
>Jan says he has trouble with K+P endgame puzzles
>even Leko said this shit is hard
I feel vindicated
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why are they showing this disgusting jeetslop
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>>547908283
what's the scoresheet say though
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https://lichess.org/3tbcjsoQ
how about a cheeky blitz game during the break?
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ISHAMBOO
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Don’t resign against GMs they don’t know king and pawns endgames
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>>547910518
Bro, they will hang an entire rook and lose a winning position.
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And if you're patient enough, they'll resign in a drawn position.
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Jan and Leko commentating, incredible. Someone in charge of the fide broadcast actually has a brain and good taste
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Wei "lose on demand with white" Yi
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I told you Sindarov's taking it. Wei Yi was done with the tournament.
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Well, that was sudden.
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>walking interview with Sindarov
kino
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yi takes wei too much time in the early game
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Thank you, Leko and Jan. Hope to see you both again. <3
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>>547874476
Can any anon explain why they choose to play on Lichess instead of Chess.com and vice versa? I'm still on the fence about which site I should main. Thanks.
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>>547914376
Lichess was free, does everything I want. Never considered making a .com account afterwards, because I have no need for two chess accounts.
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>>547914823
Thanks for answering anon. Hoping to hear some more opinions on this.
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With all it’s free features if you’re playing on lichess you’re stealing money from the chess community
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>>547914376
I think most people play on both anyway:
>chesscom pros
better cheat detection
everyone having flags makes it easier to avoid indian pakis and other cheating nations
doesn't have unhinged mods that will mute you ever the slightest thing but will do nothing about cheaters like lichess
>lichess pros
everything is free
less lag
better engine and analysis
better UI
a ton of resources like studies, master database, player database,humans like bots etc which are all either paywalled,inferior or simply absent on chesscom
better braodcasts
not owned by jews

It comes down to how much you value cheaters getting banned and even then I get the impression that lichess has less cheaters overall but seeing even obvious cheaters get away with it disgusts me so much I only play rated on chesscom these days, I use lichess for everything else though
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>>547914376
I play on lichess because I love it. It does everything a chess site should and then some, for free. I don't play on .scam, fuck that site and fuck the people running it.
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>>547916014
>cheese.com
>cheat detection
lol, lmao even
also cheat.com has like 5x as many indians because all the indian-coded streamers such as roz the poz play on it and aggressively advertise its interface features in their thumbnails and such
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>>547914376
>>547916014
Thank you for the answers anons. I'm leaning more and more toward choosing Lichess as my main. It really does seem like the better chess site, especially for bullet and blitz. If any other anons want to chime in, please do.
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>>547917850
say what you want about .scam but someone as blatant as lordbentham wouldn't last a week there, on lichess he gets to cheat forever
I acknowledged lichess has less cheaters overall and is superior in every other regard I'm not a shill but to me the fact that clowns like him go unpunished on lichess is just unacceptable and a deal breaker
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>>547916387
>fuck the people running it
What's so bad about Danny the Jew and his crew besides being greedy goblins?
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>>547919221
>lordbentham
is that a cheatmixer alt?
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>>547919141
chesscom is worse in almost all respects, but they do try to keep their ratings more in line with fide or uscf ratings, which I appreciate and consider genuinely valuable. But everything else is so much worse than lichess that I rarely play there these days.
I'll probably go back sometime next year and play enough for my ratings to catch up with my listrength
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>>547920460
>they do try to keep their ratings more in line with fide or uscf ratings
This has absolutely zero value and they fail at that anyway.
t. 1600 fide 1900.coom
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>>547920460
>chesscom is worse in almost all respects, but they do try to keep their ratings more in line with fide or uscf ratings
lmao
this is so wrong on so many levels
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>>547920273
pic related he has cheated in every rapid game he played in the last year or so,sometime intermittently sometime every move several anons here reported and they just refuse to ban him, I personally linked like half a dozen 99% acc same time for every move games in my report, lichess cheat detection is nonexistent and they don't even have enough mods to read most reports
there was also this jeet I played last year who literally played nothing but the top engine move every single game he ever played and they took a month to ban him but it took them 15 minutes to give me a warning for calling him a cheater
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Sindarov is only 19
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>>547922338
Looks like he started studying lines and reading books in late 2024
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>>547910518
you should never resign period, resigning is always giving too much credit to the slightly more evolved retarded orangutan you're facing
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>>547922338
its insane that they wont ban him, he must have a lijanny buttbuddy or something
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>>547923554
I assume the mods only read a small % of reports and he got really lucky with none of the reports about him being read, considering that many of his opponents most have reported him too not just people for here that % has to be really fucking small
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>>547924036
theres no way
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>>547922338
There's a special place in hell for people like this. Dropping from 2000 (if he even got there legit in the first place) down to 1800 and not improving for two entire years probably drove him insane, so instead of getting a coach or something and working on his game, the retard started cheating.
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>>547921483
>they do try to keep their ratings more in line with fide or uscf ratings
That's true. Firstly, uscf and fide ratings are themselves fairly similar at club to low master ratings, maybe diverging by around 100 points, in case you took issue with that premise.
Secondly, at least a few years ago when I checked it, chesscom blitz rating tended to pretty closely match uscf elo within low club level ranges. But okay, around 2100 I think it started to diverge fairly severely, you could have 2100-2200 players who were 2400+ on chesscom blitz, or IMs with 2800 ratings, etc, as we all know.
But where it's important is for players who know very little about the game, the sub 2k players who will go on lichess and report that they're 1500 strength when, if they played on chesscom, they'd have an elo barely scraping 1200.
And at almost any rating level, lichess will give a more erroneously high rating than chesscom (with an exception for the very high end)

As for being worse in most respects, chesscom is a technical embarrassment and on top of that is constantly trying to fleece its users, show them unsightly ads, make them pay for basic features and the like. If you really love having a text-to-speech coach telling you your exchange sac was brilliant, then I guess we'd have to give the edge to chesscom
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>>547927170
>Firstly, uscf and fide ratings are themselves fairly similar at club to low master ratings
Why the fuck is everyone in this genny so fucking misinformed? Did none of you morons notice when FIDE raised the rating floor from 1000 to 1400 and gave everyone below 2000 up to several hundred points of extra elo?
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2026 Candidates
>Fabiano
>Hikaru
>Giri
>Blubaum
>Sindarov
>Yi
>Esipenko
Nakabros...Hikaru has a real chance
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>>547930391
First American world champion LETS GOOO
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>>547930121
anyone who thinks the che$$com rating means anything is a moron anyway why bother
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>>547930121
>several hundred points of extra elo
nta but the bonus was 0.4*(2000-rating) so it's only several hundred at very low levels, a 1900 got 40, 1800 got 80, 1700 got 120 and so on, considering before that uscf was 100 points inflated it's absolutely fair to say they are similar at club ratings
why you would react so aggressively?do you like to tell yourself your 1600 uscf makes you a FIDE expert or some shit like that?
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>>547930121
According to the chessgoals rating comparison, uscf and fide still line up pretty well, although I hadn't heard about the 1400 rating floor since I'm not involved with irl chess and researched the rating stuff years ago. Everything is all out of whack below 1700 now with fide and uscf, above that they're reasonably close

I'd still be surprised to see someone deny that lichess ratings are almost always significantly higher than otb ratings, whereas chesscom makes an attempt not to give such high ratings below 2k

>>547932552
It is obviously meaningful. It's not "real elo" and can't replace otb chess experience, but there's obviously a strong correlation between online blitz and rapid ratings and classical strength. That's just obvious and has been empirically demonstrated, as well.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1p75mzp/2700chess_descriptions_seem_weirdly_opinionated/
Sorry for linking plebbit but this is just hilarious, note the jeet having an absolute meltdown in the comments
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>>547936826
Shan't be clicking.
Kill yourself.
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>>547936826
>He lags behind the young indians, Magnusian, Hikarush, Fabianaswamy
hahaha
Anyway, it's actually nice to know who runs 2700.ch
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Sometimes people just don't put up any resistance.
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>>547902339
based. TYaNTA.
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>>547938434
seems like a nice game at first viewing.
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>>547936826
Couldn't help but notice that this guy's username is close to an anagram for "Indian rat races"
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>>547936826
>>547938986
kek him trying trying to claim gukesh>magnus moving the goal post 50 times as he gets BTFO over and over had me laughing like a retard
jeets are so unbearable they turned even redditors racist, their jannies will have to nuke the whole thread
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Now that I play otb I feel like I genuinely learned from the Fide broadcast of the World Cup. Based Leko and Jan.
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>>547930391
>Nakabros
No such thing here
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IT’S UP!
https://youtu.be/-dxn21DQ15I
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>>547938986
Keen eye there, brother.
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Now that the World Slurp Cup is over, what are our thoughts on the London Chess Classic?
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>>547942274
no hans, no watch. simple as...
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>>547938986
Oh wait, even better.
Indian Race Tears
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>>547942769
Yup, nice one.
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>>547881882
>gothamchess donated $15
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>>547943684
Why are you lying?
He didn’t donate
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Why did chesscum run the quarter and semifinals of the SCC during the world cup when the finals are in February? Just a fuck you to FIDE?
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Has lichess ruined puzzlestorm recently?
I feel the selection of puzzles has gotten a lot worse with way more sub 1500 puzzles that somehow require a modicum of calculation compared to all being solvable at glance like it used to, might just be a cope though
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I was down on material hard
this is the stupidest win I ever got
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>>547914376

Lichess is exponentially better. There really is no comparison. The fact that chess.com exists as a paywall website when lichess is completely free is hilarious. Lichess has unlimited tactics completely free but scam.com makes you pay for a membership if you want to solve more than 3 a day. You can analyze as many games on lichess as you want but scam.com only allows 1 per day unless you pay for a subscription.

Lichess has a very intuitive UI whereas chess.com is what a website would look like if it had a tumor. Chess.com tries so hard to appeal to normies and it is just as cancerous for our game as Gothamchess and chess commentators that try to do live analysis as if they were professional wrestling announcers.
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Lichesseties seething that big dimes Chess.com is the number 1 in the chess entertainment business
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>>547951728
>You see booker-thibault in this business goyim like you don't get to be champion
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b+ player
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>>547948910
It's fine, I scored over 50 earlier
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>>547948910
Is this available on the app?
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Happy thanksgiving chess bros, me and my 3 cats gonna celebrate by feasting on birds
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>>547960319
here' s one weird trick to catch birbs
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>>547936826
Lots of izzat in that thread
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>>547961063
He should have set up the bird opening.
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>>547914376
>play a game on chess.cum
>copy paste PGN to lichess study and analyze there
chess.cum rating has higher prestige but it's a paywalled nagware slowass crappy website
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>>547914376
i can play chess with my friends anonymously with no registration whatsoever :)
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>>547963682
on lichess
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for me it's coolmathgames
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>>547963431
>chess.cum rating has higher prestige
lol where? in your head? online is meaningless.
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>>547964092
Never played that, can you post challenges from there?
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>>547940137
Important reminder that jeet /chess/ players who are with white /chess/ daddies only THINK their boyfriends are 10’s. They are not 10’s it is simply that jeet /chess/ girls assume so due to BWC.

That is objectively true. Anyone denying it is a bad man. Possibly even a very bad man I am sorry to say.
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>>547967678
i'm brown but what the fuck is that basedbrown phenotype, Jesus fucking Christ
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Were you guys able to find Hikaru?
https://youtu.be/7W3767Ct1xE?si=SAmLRzJS7A5OLy3d
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>>547957958
He'll be back in the top. He just needs to gain a few lbs first, to have the energy
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>>547948910
Lichess uses the puzzle challenge modes to increase play count on their newly generated puzzles. These modes give you a majority of brand new puzzles with less than 1000 plays on them on purpose. Lichess devs refuse to change this and if anything have increased the percentage in the last two years. They don't seem to care that including puzzles with unstable ratings in challenge modes designed around a difficulty progression defeats the entire design of the mode.
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>>547948910
It definitely feels different. Some puzzles definitely feel like they "require" more calculation than they should. I wouldn't say ruined though, in my experience it's not too frequent. Also I've never scored higher than 34 so take that into consideration.
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>>547960319
Happy Thanksgiving, anon. My two cats and I shall feast alongside you.
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I've played several games where the opponent will do anything not to trade pieces (pawns are fine), to the point where they cramp their own position and have no space to maneuver. What's up with that?
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>>547988719

They are trying to follow the rule of not releasing the tension (trading pieces) too early, but because they are still inexperienced, they fail to recognize when it is actually important to release the tension, trade down, and start maneuvering to fight for control of key squares
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is castling a meme?
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>>547996825
They should invent a chess variant with no castling and name it after Danya. God I miss him so much it’s unreal.
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Should I learn Le French Defence?
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>>547997596
Oui.
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>>547997596
yeah, but you have to deal with this in half your games
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>>548003320
Triggering French players is extremely based and redpilled
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>>547996825
Only if you castle queenside because you're seething that you lost a single pawn
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knights are the niggers of chess pieces
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>>548003320
Chad exchange variation enjoyer vs virgin French player
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>>548006692
objectively true
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>>548005808
If I lose a pawn I castle on opposite sides and fling all my pawns forward to get checkmate.
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>>548006692
trvke
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>>547914376
licheats is literally unplayable above a certain level and as long as you aren’t a credulous mark and can tell when you’re being had. the average licheats enjoyer will log on here and insist they’ve maybe played 3 cheats in their entire life and that online cheating isn’t an issue. they will become genuinely upset anytime you imply an opponent of yours cheated, on any site. they live in retard world.
com is a worse playing experience but they do respond to cheats more often than not. they also have the stronger playing pool by far.
basically it breaks down like
lichess = no cheat detection + poorfags and thirdies + retards and weak player pool + superior playing experience
com = great cheat detection + first worlders and aristocrats + intellectuals and superior player pool + worse playing experience

but again, this is only above a certain level. if you’re a n00b it doesn’t matter
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>>548020323
>licheats is literally unplayable above a certain level
what level is that?
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>>548020857
his elo minus 1
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>>548020323
>the average licheats enjoyer will log on here and insist they’ve maybe played 3 cheats in their entire life and that online cheating isn’t an issue. they will become genuinely upset anytime you imply an opponent of yours cheated, on any site. they live in retard world.
This isn't exclusive to lichess. This animal exists on all sites. I do not understand the mindset. It's bizarre. I don't believe it's paid shills. There are people who genuinely hold this opinion on online cheating and reject any suggestions otherwise in this exact set of ways.
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>everyone I lose to is cheating episode 2469
thanks for the rerun
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>>548020857
I would say 1700 liblitz/1500 com
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>>548022432
It's funny because that's propaganda .scam pushed through the e-celebs they own, which then got amplified and turned into basically religious fundamentalism by reddit, yet he blames it on lichess for it
that guy is either delusional or baiting, no one sane would unironically claim .scam user base is stronger and more first world than lichess when it's demonstrably the opposite
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Drawing arrows in online games is a soft form of cheating in my eyes. It's hard to believe that both of the major sites think nothing of it and offer it by default.
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Another benefit of lichess is that it mindbreaks schizos. The melties it produces are always good for a laugh.
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>>548025095
lol you better be baiting
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No Leko this morning. What am I even supposed to do anymore? And the broadcasts starting at 3:30 am for me was peak comfy.
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>>548020323
when I face a cheater, I just beat him, why are you so mad about them? Just win
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also, forgot to mention some of my other griefs with licheats
- misclicks are way more common. don’t know why. a misclick decides 1 in 5 of my games
- I have never had an account longer than 30 minutes before being muted. I don’t even say anything egregious, just something like “miraculous” and I get a warning in my inbox going ATTENTION CITIZEN: LICHESS IS INTENDED TO BE A SAFE SPACE as they mute me anyway, not sure why they even bother with the message
- I already alluded to this but the amount of thirdies and Indians is obscene. licheats is THE chess site for India, they fucking love it. look at the average opponent’s account and they’ll be part of at least 30 Indian chess teams. live broadcasts are full of Indians unironically asking how they can “join” the professional tournament, or spamming “Anyone else here Indian?” and then you have the obligatory Messi vs Ronaldo arguments in Spanish and so on.
- it’s still too much like being in a dank dungeon, completely sovlless site. part of the reason everyone is cheating is because they subconsciously feel like they’re in a prison and get their shivs out. it’s depressingly bland. and the board and pieces are still shit and will never be improved upon no matter how much money reddit donates
- the DING! at the start of every game is maddening
- the board still sounds terrible as well, it’s a very ear-piercing THWACK so you always have to turn it way down
- the Follow button is ingeniously right next to the Block button. enjoy accidentally following the person you meant to block, and your profile saying you followed them even after you unfollowed and blocked them. humiliation ritual
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>>548027140
Most schizos play on lichess even if they seethe about it. I think it has something to do with the outsider art je ne sais quoi radiating from the ui design.
>inb4 karla
She's bpd, not schizo.
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>>548031676
>the missclick schizo is here
Oh shit can I get an autograph?
>licheats is THE chess site for India, they fucking love it.
False.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/lichess.org/#geography
https://www.similarweb.com/website/chess.com/#geography
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Kramnik save us from cheaters
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>>548031676
ways I, a genius, would improve licheats besides cheat detection
- introduce the same “ambient mode” that Youtube has to give the surroundings a little more color
- completely rehaul the board and pieces options, I’ve seen extensions that mog both com and cheats
- pfps and Friends function
- both sides in a game have cams on by default. not only would this make for a livelier game but also could help curb cheating. there will be a separate pool for ppl with no cams that will be ghettoized and shameful
- spectators will have the option to mic into a “space” like on X rather than using chat
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someone forgot to take their meds
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>>548032837
>both sides in a game have cams on by default
*Shows dick* Wat do?
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>>548032972
you would be banned idiot
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>climb on Lichess
>people don't request takeback on qeen blunders anymore
Feels so nice
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it. If you don't, I hope you have a wonderful day, too. <3
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>>548033187
Not with lijannies on ban duty lmao.
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>>548034074
it’s implicit that since I would be running the site my reddit volunteer slave jannies would have shit on lock. I would expect a regular report like cops with tickets and if their ban numbers are too low I’m kicking them off the liteam. good little redditors who bring me more bans than the others will be paid more. it might be argued that they may get a little ban-happy to make that sweet funko pops money and ban some innocent people. that’s ok, because I would rather ban too many people than not enough. and I would also argue that there are more than enough people to ban to meet their quota anyway, they won’t have to go out of their way to find people
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>>548032837
>both sides in a game have cams on by default
This is a terrible idea. Chess players are mega-autists and don’t want to be on camera. Nobody would do it.
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>>548032827
No.
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I love how /chess/ has so many different weirdos all with their own distinct brand of insanity, makes for a great cast of characters
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>>548038443
<3
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>>548038443
as long as they don't spam too hard
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>>548040918
The sammich is chuddy but in a good way.
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>>548038443
Chess players in general are some of the strangest people you'll ever meet. I'm a bit of an odd dude myself, but compared to the average guy at my IRL chess club, I might as well be considered a social butterfly normie.
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>>548047706
psychotic eyes, stay away
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>>547930121
That's literally WHY they are similar now, dummy.
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Chess.com ratings mean more than FIDE ratings
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>>548032972
listen
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>>548051937
is that...
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>>548033832
It will be annoying but thanks anyway
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>>548047706
Apart from that one nice but kind of odd guy (who still has an okay job and goes to trade school as an adult mind you) everyone in my club is a normal person. On top of that I'm an autismo but I get along with them more than well.
I was afraid of joining clubs for the stereotype you experienced but luckily here almost every person I've met through chess was just a normal person. Maybe it's because we're really not a sweaty club.
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>>548038443
H2BH
Happy to be here
-Kev
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>>548047706
All of the guys at my chess club are retired ultra normie boomers. We get drunk and play chess, sometimes inbetween sauna sessions too
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>MF!!

what did he mean by this?
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>>548062239
That’s hot
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>>548062321
my fianchetto
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>>548062321
Maybe "must fight!!"?
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I know I'll never be Hikaru
but I'll still try to play his meme openers
it actually catches a lot of people off guard
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I know /chess/ adores grumpy old men, but I genuinely hate being around boomers.
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>>548062994
Hippo is no quite a meme (and not hikaloo's opening anyway). It's one of the most serious of the animal openings and sees some top level play. I'd rate it as Pirc-tier.
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>>548063141
Some of them are alright.
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>>548063752
Danny King is spiritually young.
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>>548063141
the boomers at my chess clubs are all nice and friendly, the only grumpy somewhat unlikable guy other than me is in his 20s
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>>548063343
On top levels it's almost always played as black though.
Going full defensive as white is kind of a meme.
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>>548060565
>luckily here almost every person I've met through chess was just a normal person.

Glad to hear that anon.

>maybe it’s because we’re not really a sweaty club.

Yeah, that's definitely why. I go to the most competitive chess club in my country (south-east EU), right here in the capital. We have a couple of GMs and plenty of IMs/FMs who come by regularly to coach and play on club nights. Let's just say a lot of them are… socially interesting.
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Ran a 5k, now I'll vanquish some Indians. Life's good.
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>>548062239
That sounds great anon. As much as being around all the GMs/IMs/FMs at my club and training with them has helped me improve, I sometimes wish we had nights with a more casual atmosphere where you could just grab a beer and play some chess. The whole thing feels way too serious sometimes.
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>>548065541
is this an edit or did you draw it?
either way nice post I keked
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>>548066405
Apologies for the Reddit spacing, I'm phoneposting from my porcelain throne.
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>>548067610
I drew it, that's why it looks so bad kek
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>>548075518
atta girl, rose.
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Is anyone here familiar with the yusupov series?
If so how did you like it?Is it worth reading all 3 of each level?
My uninformed impression is that evolve is redundant and a cash grab but I'm basing this only on vibes and paranoia
>>548069961
I like it the face has the right schizo energy
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>>547919141
I prefer the look and sound of playing on .scam so that's where I play. Also I feel like .scam is the "real" rating. Lichess' inflated numbers for low rated players doesn't seem right to me and I can't take it seriously. But I like the stuff lichess does for free, especially lichess studies. I try to use the lichess acount as my drunken account but more often than not I fail because I'm (drumroll) drunk.
So in a nutshell: .scam for playing and 3 puzzles a day and one lesson a week and lichess for everything else.
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>>548076563
> I feel like .scam is the "real" rating. Lichess' inflated numbers for low rated players doesn't seem right to me
*laughs in FIDE*
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>>548075898
> the face has the right schizo energy
thanks, I thought it might be better with the standard crying wojak face but I liked the unhinged rage this gave off
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>>548076931
Sorry but I don't associate with Russian crime organizations and/or any of their internal number systems.
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/ourgirl/ drew benjamin bok in classical today. it's over for bok
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>>548077228
Jokes aside I've seen that opinion many times but I don't get it
Is it
>those pesky 1100 lichess could possibly think they are better than my hard earned 900.scam and the mere thought makes me seethe!
or
>look at those hippies giving welfare points like the filthy commies they are!
or
>those vain faggots only play on lichess to claim they are 1800!
or what?
Everyone knows the ratings are different on the sites, it's not some marketing ploy or excuse to flatter the users it's just a by product of lichess starting everyone at 1500 while .scam lets you choose where to start, both ratings are "inflated" anyway and the gap between them is only egregious at lower levels where no one should be caring too much, much less bragging, about their ratings anyway.
Might as well be mad at rapid ratings cause they are higher compared to blitz and bullet
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>>548080553
>Might as well be mad at rapid ratings cause they are higher compared to blitz and bullet
I am mad about that
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>>548067615
Well, at least we know you're not a jeet.
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>>548080169
im getting HEYA HOYA vibes, is she an injun
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>>548065541
lol
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>>548065541
lol
.cumsisters will never recover from this
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>>548066405
Yes, that makes a lot of sense. I'm sure that's better for improovement at least.
Now I have too much fun shittering it up in the 1500-2000 little leagues to care about that.
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I’m so proud of him
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>>548085130
him and nodirbek need to have a scimitar duel to decide who is the khan of uzbek chess
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Anyone else watching Dina ASMR?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfzQJDxbiBQ
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>>548075518
Sending this game to Kramnik
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>>548081558
If she’s a good chess player there’s no way.
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>>548087010
Is this was the zoomers call "having drip"?
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>>548094438
I believe so.
Really nice attire, there. That blue is gorgeous.
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>>548094438
no, this is
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>>548091514
New link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7JBpmPiWoI
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>>548075518
Is black nuts? I saw Rxf5 instantly. I mean, that is insane. Poor guy, he's completely out of shape. He completely lost it.
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You want better anticheat. I want better antijeet.
We are not the same.
>>548096397
Reza dripmogs.
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>>548101687
Look at the full game, it wasnt just that, it was 4 or 5 brilliant moves to get him in that lost position, that was just the final blow
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<complete stranger> has challenged you to correspondence game (3 days per move). Do you accept?
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>>548111329
No, i used to but I always forgot and timed out.
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>>548111329
Sure, as long as it's not <mysterious stranger>.
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>>548111329
It was me. Please accept.
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>>548094438
when a zoomer discusses fashion they mean a rich fat nepo baby buying something from nike with the brand logo covering the whole thing. think gaudy ugly children. some kanye autism sneakers are of course part of the deal.
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>>548117059
This nigga dripped af fr fr no cap
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this is stupid (.scum warning)
https://www.chesspersonality.com
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>>548122431
i am morphy
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>>548122775
I got the same thing…
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>>548122431
It says I play chess like a girl... (Judit)


Making a masterpiece. I just took the ChessPersonality quiz and I’m an artist Discover yours at: https://www.chesspersonality.com/artist
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>>548122431
I'm fucking Magnus
I only need about +2000 rating to match his
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>>548111329
Yes
https://lichess.org/GYydIrFO
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>>548122431
I'm a magician.
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>>548122431
It gave me assassin like Gary Kasparov
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>>548122431
It’s not stupid, I took it years ago and it was dead on. Mine was whatever Garry’s is. It said I play very emotionally and aggressively and other things that were exactly right. You just can’t be satisfactorily categorized because you are a gray nonentity.
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>>548128486
Missed this lol, yeah they’ve rewritten it since I took it. “Unflappable” was definitely not in it, and the one I had was a longer analysis. The description in this new one doesn’t even match Garry.
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I've been playing 3+0 fischer random on lichess lately. Pretty fun actually. I had never really given it a chance.
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>>548129618
How would you describe Kasparov’s playstyle then? I thought it seemed pretty accurate.
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>>548081558
Rose isn't well known enough yet to have an early life section in her wikipedia article. She wrote her own biography, of sorts, on her com profile, which does not discuss her parents or upbringing at all. Surprisingly, she has no patience for women's title bullshit. It's quite refreshing.
https://www.chess.com/member/roseatwell
>I do not want the WGM title. I have already met the requirements for the WCM, WFM, & WIM titles. But I haven’t accepted any of them.
>I’ve played in the U.S. Women’s Championship twice, in 2024 & 2025. And I hope to play in this event many more times in the future.
>So I’m fine with playing in women-only events occasionally. But I want to play in tournaments with guys most of the time, and I’m opposed to women’s chess titles. Send me a message if you’d like me to explain my reasoning on this.
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>>548132637
He was an emotional aggro player who would feed on his own momentum and also spiral when he felt like his chances were dimming and make uncharacteristic mistakes. He basically played chess like he was fist fighting and didn’t like getting hit in the face. If you could hit him back as hard as he hit you he would get very “well fuck you and fuck this game and how about this? Oh I see that loses instantly well and that’s good, because it means I can retire on the spot and do something worth my time, fuckface.” While when he was winning he was slamming the pieces and his clock and staring down his opponent like “Don’t you know when to resign, retard? Fine, I’ll calculate a 20 move sequence and show you what a real chess player looks like, dipshit” and just crush them.
>Assassins are unflappable, meticulous pursuers of the opposing monarch.
This describes Magnus, not Garry at all.
>Whether attacking or defending, assassins are unphased by their opponent's threats and ideas.
Not Garry at all, as I described above.
>They know that if they wait, their opponent is bound to slip up, and victory will be theirs.
Garry did not “wait” he went for blood. This bit is describing Karpov.

Just nothing to do with Garry at all. Like I said, it used to be different. I assume some Indians updated it with AI for some reason.
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>>548133180
Yeah you don’t know what you’re talking about
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>>548122431
I am Adolf Hitler.

Eh, I'll take it.
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>>548133465
Oh
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>>548133478
Don’t you mean Kitler?
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>>548133121
tfw no qt autismo chess waifu
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>>548134851
Yes.
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>>548122431
I'm a sir
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>>548137895
F
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>>548124837
>Don't win by outcalculating
>Morphy
Uh? Calculating 10 moves ahead in sharp positions against plumbers who couldn't handle it is all he ever did
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tilted away 100 points and wasted way, way too many hours for the billionth time award
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https://x.com/VBkramnik/status/1994352465148297487
Did you send supportive messages to the Kramster?
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>>548152510
>defamation PR campaign
what defamation? they are just asking honest questions
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>>548152510
I'm on his side for the most part but seeing him argue with random people in the replies is cringe for a man of his stature.Also
>John Anderson @JohnAnders21441
>If the entire jewish defamation machine is working against you, it means you're on the right path. God bless you Mr. Kramnik.
Kek which one of you wrote this?
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>>548155041
It was me.
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>world cup over
>/chess/ is slow as fuck again
sad!
at least the next freestyle event starts in a week followed by world rapid and blitz and then Wijk aan Zee, lots of kino coming
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Are you willing to learn the entire Najdorf from Steyaypawn in an hour?
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Why is it called rapid if it's so slow?
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>>548170020
I stopped watching stjepanslop when I was like 1400 rapid and noticed him giving wrong reasons why a move is played and recommending a line that's just a straight up blunder.
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>>548170864
How long ago was that?
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>>548170020
I will listen, sure.
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>>548170020
why is the master of the chudokann trying to teach the Najdorf?
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>>548168953
>lots of kino coming
That really depends on who is in the booth for each event.
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>book called fundamentals 1
>explicitly said to be for u1500FIDE
>chapter 3
>states the most basic opening principles then uses a morphy game to show them in practice
>this is the level of analysis
I ain't even mad, it's just too funny imagining a beginner getting baited into buying this and seeing this shit
GM literally can't conceive how weak the average person is
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this will be the most important world championship cycle of our lives
a flushing of the poo or the complete annihilation of chess
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>>548183483
If hikaru wins, Magnus will have to come back
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>>548185130
magnus literally doesn't care about hikaru, they are only """rivals""" in hikaru's delusions and .scam propaganda
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Hikaru won Tata Steel once he’s on Magnus’ level
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>>548168953
Sounds great. Hyped.
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>>547874476
I lost OTB at the chess club today to the weakest player in my group because of a brain fart. The worst part is he was extremely snarky about it after the game too. I can't stop thinking about the whole thing. I've genuinely never felt this defeated before. Any anons had a similar experience and want to share some advice?
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>>548190994
means he's a cunt and you should improve your skills so you can defeat him on demand
build up a win streak against him but keep your emotions contained, do not react in any way so he will get maximum tilt after every win
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>>548191407
alternatively you can just become a chill dude and congratulate your opponents when they win and review the game with them
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>>548191407
Thanks for the advice anon. I really appreciate it. I'll do exactly that and get right to it. Have a great day.
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>>548183326
He also insists that the student use a chessboard, and go over all moves listed.
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>>548192272
did you even read the question nigga
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>>548190994
It's over for you now, you can never return
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>>548195382
Cheers. Guess I'll move to Berlin and join a chess club there under a new identity.
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>>548186342
Hikaru is literally Frodo and Magnus is literally Sauron
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>>548190994
Get a Chess.com premium sub it’s 50% off during black friday it will greatly improve your game
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>>548190994
I agree with the other anon you have too used it as a reason to improve
>Any anons had a similar experience
I recently had my worst performance ever at a rapid tournament organized by my local club,I felt so humiliated I was considering quitting chess for a couple days, in the end I had to admit to myself I deserved it for fucking around for months only playing anon or smurfing, doing puzzles on easy if at all and not studying, now I'm pushing myself every day so it never happens again
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>>548196639
correct
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>>548196698
This is the chess equivalent of telling me Aimlabs is free.
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>>548183326
Variation vomit completely filtered me in my first chess book which thus became my only chess book. Fuck that shit.
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>>548196923
Thanks for the advice anon. You guys are right. I need to use this as fuel to get good enough that I can crush him on demand even with piece and time odds in his favor.
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>>548196923
Forgot to reply to the other part of your comment anon. My bad.
>now I'm pushing myself every day so it never happens again
Good to know I'm not alone with experiences like this. Sounds like you've learned a lot from getting crushed at that tourney and are actually putting in the work so it doesn't happen again. Keep it up anon. I'll do the same thing.
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keep putting in that work wood(pusher) and you're gonna get the keys to this thread
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>>548183326
This is why chess youtubers like Levy the Jew are so popular. Most beginners would look at this and instantly think they're too dumb for chess and quit on the spot.
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Chuds btfo.
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>>548168953
general has been 100% dead until people decided to copy paste opinions on danya. >>548170020
that and posts like this one where it’s just the typical zoomer “it’s up!!!”. reposting shit from youtube, twitter or reddit is what zoomers are capable of.
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>>548197252
He kind of looks like a hobbit
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>>548210492
have you ever stopped to consider that your entire life revolves around posting seethe like this?
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has anyone ever made an opener tier list
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>>548213060
Levy and Hikaru
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>>548210492
yet you still come here everyday to cry and whine about everything like some bitter old lady, your posts are the ones that might as well be copypasted
back in the day you at least tried to talk about chess, granted you exposed yourself as a clueless shitter more often than not but you where still nowhere near as pathetic as now, just whine and whine and whine endlessly
half the time you misinterpret what's being said just so you can cry about your le zoomers for the billionth time, how does one become such a miserable cunt?
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How’s everybody doing today? Having some good chess?
-Kev
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>>548208351
That's exactly what Caro players want. The Panov would be more fitting Imo.
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>>548208351
no problem
just take a step back and lift the h pawn to give the bishop a cuck hut to hide in
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>>548217205
what's the difference between a fianchetto and a cuck hut
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>>548216658
Not him, but ... is it?

I feel when I play them, they are obsessed with putting pawns on the 6th rank and trading as many pieces as possible because a youtuber told them endgames are winning in that structure
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>>548217446
in fianchetto the bishop is on b or g
in cuck hut the bishop had to escape to a or h
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>>548217446
What the hell is a cuck hut
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>>548218291
the thing black has here apparently vs white's fianchettoed bishop
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>>548218291
here, I made this just for you
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>>548218860
Oh wow. I always called whatever black has in this position to tuck away the bishop a pocket. Guess it's a cuck hut from now on.
>>548218949
Kek. Thanks anon. This will forever be ingrained in my head as a cuck hut now.
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>>548218949
kek
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Did you know Peter Thiel is a titled player
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>>548216658
>Panov
I've yet to play a Caro-Kan player who doesn't pause on 4. c4.
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>>548222749
Thiel does not hold any FIDE titles. He does have a peak rating of 2199 though.
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>>548225231
National Master counts
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Why doesn't Lichess auto-draw knight v knight? I almost flagged in a 30 min game lol
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>>548225965
>NM
Fake amerishart title.
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>>547874476
Is it true that Lichess uses bots in regular matches to inflate their player numbers?
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>>548225041
Usually play this but trying out the Esserman advanced caro b4 line lately.
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>>548228619
You're thinking of chess.scam, Brijesh.
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>>548230591
Please do not fret sar. I am a good man of bharat.
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>>548228619
What would be their motivation for that?
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>>548228619
That would be really fucked up.
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Based khazaks with the flush
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>>548227494
NM is a real title
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>>548227197
they use FIDE rules

https://lichess.org/analysis/k7/n1K5/8/8/2N5/8/8/8_w_-_-_0_1?color=white
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>Absolutely BRVTAL BONESHATTERING TRVKE incoming
Stjepan would’ve had the same results if he just played rapid games on the weekends for those 7 years
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>>548228619
lichess is too incompetent to do anything like that and you can tell by the long queue times at high elo
chesscom doesn't use bots but almost certainly has dishonest matchmaking processes
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>>548242612
yeah, but he wouldn't have had a 250k+ sub youtube channel where he can print money going over openings alphabetically.
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>>548242612
Is that Igor?
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>>548242887
>lichess is too incompetent to [employ shady practices for profit]
the word you're looking for is honest
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>>548232489
To compete with cheese.scam. The only thing they really have over Lichess is the size of their player pool. It's really not that crazy of an idea when you think about it. In any case, I don't think it's true. I just keep seeing people mention it on other forums, so I wanted to check with you anons.
>>548233867
It would, but I highly doubt it's true anon.
>>548242887
Kek.
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>>547874476
How is it that some people play a ton of games online and never seem to get any better? I keep getting matched with players who've logged tens of thousands of games (usually blitz), yet they've improved about as much as I did after my first hundred, if that. It's so bizarre to me that someone can play that much and still not brute force their way to a higher rating like Tyler1 did for example.
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>>548256223
95% of people are unconscious goycattle. The jews are correct
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>>548256223
you simply won't improve unless you're pushing the limits of your chess ability, you can play a thousands games but if you aren't doing your best to win, they will be meaningless
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>>548183326
I own maybe 10 chess books and unironically the only one I could bear to read is Esserman's Morra book because of the James Bond and Joker quotes
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>NYC chess HUSTLER doesn't know I'm a GRANDMASTER
>arrogant hustler gets SCHOOLED, kid is actually a CHESS prodigy
>I pretend to be bad at chess with the BONGCLOUD, what happens next will shock them...
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>>548260989
This is true. The dangerous thing is that the difference in my playing strength when I think about my moves and when I just play whatever is only like 100 elo, so it's easy to get complacent and spam jank games that do not contribute to my improvement.
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>>548261535
>I pretend to be good but I'm a SHITTER who BLUNDERS (??) like crazy
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>>548256223
maybe they are old, like german11
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>>548261765
mine is about 200-300 elo, and I still end up playing with shitters I can defeat in 10 moves because I don't pay attention or care half the time
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Thanks for the dark squares, loser
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Which bishop is the strongest? I suppose the kingside one is better, am I wrong?
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>>548264538
The one that targets your opponent's weak colour complex of course.
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>>548228619
I’ve never thought of that but it would make sense. Other non-com sites have been caught doing that, like Fide Arena. Com has much longer wait times for matches and has the much larger playerbase, lichess matchmaking is always instantaneous.
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>>548236673
>NM is real
Yeah, real stupid lol lmao etc.
Better than CM, though.
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>>548269060
The real mindfuck is that CM requires 2200 FIDE which is stronger than the 2200 USCF required for the American NM title. If CM is a fraud title, then NM is even moreso.
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>>548269369
I'd call the CM title more of a fraud title since you actually have to pay money to get it.
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>hurr durr this open source site is akshually secretly doing something not in the code
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>>548271451
>show people code
>execute different code
Absolutely mind-shattering
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.cumguzzlers seething because lichess is li
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lichess haters are mentally ill
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>>548275708
that ones pretty obvious
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>>548275708
I can't believe a 2500 missed that with so much time lol
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noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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>>548278559
>lives in Japan
>not playing shogi
shamefur
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>>548275708
Bruh
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First game after like a year of nochess. My vision is completely shot and I can't calculate, but at least my rating is tanked into the abyss from the melty I had before I quit so now I'm facing weak opposition.
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>>548279625
I would watch a road to shodan series
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This was my best win so far in chess960.
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>>548288815
Schizo60 living up to the name
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>>548288815
People just completely lose all sense of danger in 960.
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>>548261535
>THIS NEW DEFENSE HAS A 300 +- PERFORMANCE
>A GM JUST LOST TO A 1200 USING THIS NEW OPENING
>HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE ONE PIECE PIRATE OPENING
>chess but there are 600 squares and warhammer figurines can be used
>WATCH MY OPPONENT PUT A SHOTGUN INTO HIS OWN MOUTH
>”it’s time to talk about [drama].”
>when your opponent is a 300 but you’re a 3000 and they don’t know it…
pandering to zoomers. a game not worth a billion dollars because the price is your soul.
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I've been enjoying Lichess 30 min games, making the moves on a physical board to prepare for OTB tournament next week
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Why do Jewish people think we need to give them money because some druggie died?
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>got a bunch of my .scam alts closed for "abuse"
>email says it's because of multiple accounts
since when do they care?I most have made like 50 accounts there over the years because I love to smurf and it's the first time this happened
anyone else had this happen recently?
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>>548303481
the trick is to cheat and smurf on your main account
why would you even want another account for playing honestly
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>>548302746
Exactly. We need to give the money to fight cheaters instead.
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>>548303481
Good, the new account jeet menace but be dealt with
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>>548302746
charity is a good thing but yes it often ends up being some retarded project where the founders enjoy the process of creating "administrative costs"
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>>548261535
It’s sad that GMs/IMs beating literal bums get more views than the candidates
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>he hasn't gone on 24-game 30+0 tilt streak today
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>>548312880
guilty
I just didn't enjoy watching the candidates. The games are long and all the streams switch between half a dozen games played concurrently, which makes it hard to follow.
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>>548304729
I love this lil jewigga like you wouldn't believe. The entire Jewish defamation machine is working against him and he stands there unfazed.
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>>548314604
kek how many hours did you play?
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>>548317005
It's not me, thankfully, it's this guy: darshan_1

He offered me a rematch right after a 30+0, which I thought was weird, so I looked at his profile.

He's on hour 10 right now and still going
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Also somewhat related would you rather play 5 30+30 OTB games in a day or 2 90+30 ones?
I was thinking the former sounds gruelling but then I realized it's more or less the same time as the latter on average
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>>548317423
2 90+30 games, easy. It's not even a question anon, that's standard tournament practice whereas 5 rated competitve classical games in a day just doesn't happen.
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>>548317413
>Time spent playing: 107 days, 9 hours
absolute madman if it wasn't a mudslime/jeet sounding name I'd call him based
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>>548317413
I'm watching him live right now with another anon and he's still going lmao.
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>>548318002
>whereas 5 rated competitive classical games in a day just doesn't happen.
I was thinking about it because I saw an upcoming OTB tournament in my region with that format, it has a lot of participants and it's even FIDE rated
I won't go though I'm afraid I'd be a zombie by the 4th game, then again 2 90+30 games is tiring but not exhausting so I'm wondering if I'm overestimating how hard this would be
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>>548318024
His current opponent (invachess90) has 434 days of play time. Madlads the both of them.
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>>548320179
darshan_1 won the game.
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>>548320179
He also plays the Danish Gambit at 1900 Classical - extremely high T
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>>548303481
>I love playing basketball vs paraplegics
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>>548320438
my nigga, I switched to the scotch gambit for OTB because I lacked the balls but I do have a liclassical win in the goring
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>>548318024
Seeing the time spent playing on lichess is part of the reason I quit. As soon as I saw how much of their lives people were spending on it I knew I would only play long enough to reach a certain milestone of above average competency, and then focus on school and my career. I didn’t know yet what it would be, I just knew the day would come. Like really think about how that guy has taken a full 107 days off his life, essentially. You could argue that it’s time he spent enjoyably but let’s be real, you’re never thinking “wow I’m playing chess and enjoying myself”, it’s just a timesuck. Like at least video games, which I feel the same way about, can be communal, or will give you a simulacrum of life. Chess is just you sitting in a room staring at the same exact chess board, forever. Even as little I played to achieve my goal still gives me an existential crisis.
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>>548322759
What was the milestone? You sound like an embittered n00b
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>548322759
>Like at least video games can be communal, or will give you a simulacrum of life. Chess is just you sitting in a room staring at the same exact chess board, forever.
low quality bait
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>>548323447
I’m not bitter and don’t regret the time I spent on chess, I should have clarified that. It was fun learning the history and becoming so strong when everyone has a board in their house and equates chess with intelligence. I’ve impressed people with the fact that I’m a “secret grandmaster” more than once, and now it’s a known fact and has been a social boon. It’s never worthless to have skills like that in your repetoire. And I will always feel like I’m part of the chess community and will keep up with it for the rest of my life.
It’s just good to know when to stop as an amateur, in my opinion. It’s true that like >>548257921 said, most people aren’t doing anything with their life anyway, but if you do intend to have a life, you should only play long enough to reach a milestone. That doesn’t mean you have to leave the chess community, it just means you stop playing yourself. To answer your question, which was only asked because you’re nervous that I’m right, not because you think I’m low rated, I was almost certainly higher rated than you ever will be or ever could be when I quit. I thought about stopping after 2000 com blitz but struggled with breaking my addiction and continued up to a peak of 2200. Then one day I suddenly had the ability to just stop. Something inside me said that’ll do pig and I knew I was done. That was like over a year ago now and every day I’m grateful to myself I made that decision. I’ve grown as a person and done a lot.
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mucho texto
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When you quit playing chess and read a book you’ll be able to handle two paragraphs
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>>548325926
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>>548326758
Evergreen
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>>548325926
tldr:
>I’m not bitter and don’t regret the time I spent on chess
>I will always feel like I’m part of the chess community and will keep up with it for the rest of my life. It’s just good to know when to stop as an amateur, in my opinion.
>most people aren’t doing anything with their life anyway, but if you do intend to have a life, you should only play long enough to reach a milestone.
mostly reasonable but it's dumb to say stop
you should just be aware how much time and effort you're spending

when you use time and effort for chess you're not using it for other things
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>434 days of play time
>1900 classical elo on lichess
Probably a wasted life but certainly not a good chess player
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>>548327501
The issue is that for a lot of people (and especially me) chess is addictive and it’s not possible to just play a few games and then do other things, you get sucked into an autistic flowstate and only stop to sleep. Also, if you’re not playing/studying often enough you’ll lose your edge. I’m a competitive person so I don’t like to half ass competitive games. Either I’m in it to win it or I’m out.
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>>548321274
Why do people always assume smurfing=steamrolling 400s?
For me the sweet spot is roughly 1500-1800 .scam where I still have to play actual chess but I get to win almost every game without stressing
You should all try it between -500 and -200 your rating it's the most enjoyable way to play online you'll see
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>>548326758
did he consider himself to play chess well? i guess he thought he wasted his life
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>>548318949
I've never seen anything like that. Seems insane to rate an event like this the same way as a normal classical tournament. Honestly, it sounds like a fun format but if you think your concentration would drop off, it makes sense to skip it. Just bear in mind that it's the same for everyone and there can't be too many tourneys like that.
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>>548325926
why do you keep coming back
just fuck off already
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>>548328170
>The issue is that for a lot of people (and especially me) chess is addictive
>Also, if you’re not playing/studying often enough you’ll lose your edge.
not wrong
most people don't even do much active study and just keep playing and playing until their elo gets to a nice number
but ultimately it all goes back to time
if you're spending 90% of your time on chess for any reason you should reevaluate

>I’m a competitive person so I don’t like to half ass competitive games. Either I’m in it to win it or I’m out.
very extremely relatable but fallacious false dichotomy
allocating all of your time into something is not a prerequisite to competitiveness
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kek, he did it again
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>>548326758
>>548328858
yet we and other millions of people are still talking about him a 140 years after his death because of how well he played chess
in context the quote is sort of an oxymoron because the mere fact you know it proves it wrong
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>>548328463
>Chess is most enjoyable when you don't have to think
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>>548329690
It’s applicable to professionals in the same way that Magnus always says he doesn’t consider himself a genius, just someone who spent too much time on a game. Yes, they’ve made a career out of it and have a legacy, but there’s something spiritually anemic about a life spent mastering chess. That’s the sense Morphy meant it in and is the reason he quit to pursue law (many such cases).
There’s also the sense in which it applies to amateurs, which is that you’re not even going to get a career or legacy out of it and there are a trillion more productive ways to spend your time.
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>>548330549
>there are a trillion more productive ways to spend your time.
you don't need every single nanosecond of your life to be maximum productivity
just because you shouldn't spend all your time on chess doesn't mean you shouldn't spend any time on chess
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>>548330549
how is spending your life as lawyer(or most other professions) any less "spiritually anemic"?
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>>548331268
Because a game is fundamentally frivolous
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Would you be happier in life if you spent all your free time getting a chess title in your 30s, or spending that time making money so you can retire early?
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>>548331375
>fundamentally frivolous
Imagine being this fucking spooked
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>>548325926
Sneed
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>>548322759
>>548325926
>>548327501
You're exhibiting spiritually brown behavior by shitting up the thread with all this woman prattle. Please do us all a favour and leave if you don't have anything smart to say.
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>>548331694
why not both, make a chess career win tons of money

jokes aside I would probably jump off a bridge if I had to play chess for a living instead of just casually
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>>548331694
Both situations sound absolutely miserable.
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would you be happier in life you spent some of your free time playing chess or all of your free time playing chess
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Where tf is he during this stream? An OnlyFans bophouse?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wYhyH4ex7zg&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD
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>>548332870
Stop crying
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>>548312880
it's even more depressing as a variant player. A video of the #1 blitz player in the world playing against the #1 rapid player in the world will be like 50 views, then hikaru playing the variant like dogshit against a 0-games-played noob who has never even played 1 match of the variant before has thousands of views despite having nothing to do with the variant in any way.
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darshan got off after a nice day of 30 classical games over a twelve hour period, losing 60 rating points in the end
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>>548335671
meanwhile I've won my last 300 games in a row. I never understand why chronic-losers don't simply quit. He can't possibly be having fun and he's not getting anything by slamming his face into a brick wall for 24 hours.
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>>548335671
lol
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what I see when Karla posts on /chess/
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1994272683387687053?s=20
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>>548334680
Up this early saar?
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>>548322759
... so why are you here?
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>>548337367
hikaru world champ. believe it.
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Do /chess/ uncs unironically play gm openings like the ruy and the sicilian?
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>>548338997
I think the Sicilian is the only reason I didn't quit chess in the mid-1000s.

I couldn't handle the Italian spam...
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>>548338997
i play the dragon variants
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>>548338997
I gave up on the ruy despite it being my best scoring opening.
Now I just play the Esserman rep; morra, kings gambit, dutch, panov
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>>548338997
ruy and sicilian are a meme if you're under 2000 otb
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>>548338997
I'm triple digit elo and play queen's gambit and hope that black accepts. Even though I barely studied a few steps of the opener. Basically all I know is the trick to take their rook with the queen if they try b5 and c6.
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>>548080169

/ourgirl/ carissa let a clear win slip against benjamin bok in classical today. should be a draw now. it's still over for bok though
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>>548346060
better than letting a nip (derogatory) slip
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I play openings based on how cool the name sounds
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>>548350645
so you're fully booked up on the intercontinental ballistic missile gambit?
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>>548350645
So you play the Sicilian Dragon?
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>>548350645
I play the Joe Biden-London System and the Gucci Piano
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>>548351035
imagine you're a complete beginner and this appears on chesscom's opening hint on your first game
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I don't play any opening with the word "indian" because indians are dumb and stinky
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>>548355062
that's a good practice, the KID sucks and isn't viable at any level, and the queen's indian is even weaker.
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>>548338997
I used to, but if you play a common-5 opening, the opponent is 700 ELO but they regurgitate a vomit of the first 10 moves a computer created at 3300 ELO level before you get to actually start having the opponent play even one 700 ELO move.

That is both not fun, not interesting, nor competitively benefiting yourself. So instead I play a flexible uncommon opening like hippo and my winrate immediately jumped from 50% to 80% as my opponents immediately lose 100% of their youtuber engine prep and are instead forced to demonstrate their actual endgame technique (which they never learned as not even one video from a cocksucker like gothamchess will actually teach them how to be good in endgames)
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>>548302746
dem keeds need mo money for dem programs
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>>548355807
and a funny tangent, was watching a twitch streamer, like 1600 ELO or something, been playing for like... months.

He was STRUGGLING to checkmate with king+queen vs king. Took him like 5 minutes to very carefully avoid stalemating the guy. Was like... how the FUCK can someone have an entire chess channel and be trying to memorize a dozen opening systems trying to gain a 0.5 pawn advantage... yet they don't even know a basic queen checkmate endgame an 8 year old can play by heart?!
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>>548355486
I play the DOUBLE INDIAN a.k.a. the Hippopotamus because you can't have enough Indians
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>>548356908
wow! very powerful opening sir!!
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>>548345919
You should study the e4 lines that can lead to a very early Greek gift sacrifice instead. I still have 2000s falling for it.
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>>548362747
I’d fall for you too
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>>548362747
I like d4 openings because you can get away with almost any opening as your queen guards your d pawn
the king doesn't do jackshit just sits on his ass, too easy to forget about that Nf6 and lose your e pawn

t. 500 elo
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How is this allowed it’s very distracting
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>>548363549
holy moly what are they feeding them over there
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>>548363549
I’d complain right away it’s too much s
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>>548363549
it's a small compensation for their 20 less IQ
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>>548363705
She displays them defiantly I’d be so pissed
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>>548364334
He knows what she’s doing
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>>548363549
>>548363705
>>548364334
Should be illegal and punished by stoning. I'm not losing ELO to whores trying to distract me like this.
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>>548363549
>>548363705
FIDE should make a rule that women must play topless. While this would increase the embarrassment for the male partners too, it would be a bit harder on the female players and would probably balance out nicely.
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>>548367094
>>548366332
I have multiple videos of her doing this but the size limit is annoying
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>>548367486
I have a lude one but I’m afraid to post it, she’s 18 right?
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>>548367894
of course, anon. she's 12
post it
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>>548369912
Oops shit nvm then, I saw it posted on another chess thread but was afraid to save it for that reason
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>>548371946
post it so that everyone here knows what to look for so that if we come across it we can report it
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>>548367894
I'm a doctor, can you post it? I'm worried medically about pinkamenas titties
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>>548374095
>That grown ass teenager is pinkanema
There’s no way
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Cute puzzle I had in one of my games a few days ago. Apparently it's mate in 11, but black clearly wins in 3.
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trumpowsky attack sounds kinda funny
might start learning it as an alternative to my joe biden-london repertoire
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>>548376027
1. Qe2+ Kg3
2. Qxg2+ Kxf4 (Kh4 g5#)
3. Qh2+
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>>548376335
Very good.
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>>548350645
Unironically why I play the sicilian dragon and sicilian kalashnikov
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>>548363549
I literally wouldn't care and only focus on the position. Autism is a super power.
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Chess is really saddening in the sense that it made me realize that a lot of people are more intelligent than me and yet they cannot understand basic bitch logic like that a man cannot become a woman or that a woman cannot have sex with another woman. It made me realize that people want to be dumb, they are able to be intelligent if they want to like when they are partaking in a useless, consequence-less game of chess.

It's like that chapter of berserk where Guts find his adoptive father being kind and affectionate to his dog, thus that means he was never kind to Guts on purpose, it wasn't a limitation.
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>>548363549
Is that Stjepan in the back?
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>>548363549
She's a hag now. Chess will never be the same.
=(
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>>548387290
You are not smart enough to realize those people knowingly use different definitions of the words "woman" and "sex" than you do and their refusal to use your definitions is a rhetorical power play.
So yes they are indeed smarter than you.
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>>548387290
It's just a game, buddy. Lower correlation with IQ than your grades at school.
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weekend tournament!
https://lichess.org/tournament/IZtg0gWr
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What should I play if I am a stupid ugly idiot whom everyone hates?
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>>548408783
You’re in the right place
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>>548408783
Chess
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>>548408783
Learn all the stupid tricks and play it against beginners on a smurf account so everyone hates you in chess too. Scholar's mate, Jobava, Fried Liver, Greek gift, etc.
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>>548408783
You are the quintessential Chudo Kann enjoyer
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>beat a 2050 in slow chess from a losing position
The Dutch remains goated
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>>548408783
king's gambit as white, queen's indian defense as black, because you deserve it
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>>548363549
Is this shopped wtf
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>>548410205
in a mail order bride magazine from russia
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>>548408783
london caro slav is THE stupid ugly idiot repertoire
gambits and opening traps might make people hate you even more but they are chad coded
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Does this look like the face of mercy???
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>>548408783
Mahjong
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>>548408935
>>548409206
>>548409338
>>548409430
>>548409971
>>548410407
Thank you, you've given me a lot to chew on and a lot to pontificate over as well.
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>>548410596
looks like Sid's scary baby head toy from toy story
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>>548410596
is that a chess player? it's a creepy uncanny valley doll head that looks like its about to murder
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>>548411168
yup
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/34443762
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caro-kann of shogi
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>>548409430
The chudo is peak ludo.
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>>548411241
You aren't weaker than a random 12yo girl right /chess/?
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>>548367894
If she is the same girl I saw on /pol/ yeah she's not.
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>>548410596
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>>548411241
>pinkamena is higher rated than me
It's ogre.
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>>548411475
how the fuck do gaijins play this
all the pieces look the same
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>>548403659
>duck going to c5 and b5 many times
kek i'm fucking dying, there is something strangely funny about watching the duck flying everywhere lmao
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>>548411868
starting in 10 mins
https://lichess.org/tournament/IZtg0gWr
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>>548413254
Aint nobody gonna play that. I'm not putting my hard-won Glicko-2 on the line against cheater cheaters pumpkin eaters.
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>>548413505
rude.
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>>548413505
Cute kid ^_^
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>The year is 2025 and pinkamena is a postwall dried up eggless roastie hag
Why even live
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>>548413228
when you block the pawn with the duck in mid you block 2 bishops + 1 pawn and sometimes a queen as well and forcee his knight to go to shitty attackable side spots.
Fuck like 4-5 pieces with a single duck and forcing them to avoid controlling the center with a normal opening. Deep quacktical theory.
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>>548415530
*oh you were talking about the random endgame part. Yeah when it's down to 1 rook the tradition is just constantly "fuck your rook" every second of its life. That's why knights are worth as much as rooks in t he endgame, since they can go forward 2 directions to get to the same destination, a knight cant be cockblocked for years like a solo rook.
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>>548411868
Dobutsu Shogi
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>>548416786
How does the kitty move?
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>>548416786
Wow weebs actually improved something for once
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>>548416786
lame, the elephant would murder every single other piece on that board combined.
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I need to get out of triple digit elo.
Every time I play Sicilian with c5 people think I'm a noob and they try to instantly Scholar's mate me.
This exact same game happened 3 times today so far. I'm not joking.
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>>548422804
Those people probably think they've solved chess and have a 4 move insta-win.
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>>548408783

King’s Gambit

Latvian Gambit (which is basically the King’s Gambit with the black pieces)

Play random stuff like 1. h4 or 1. Nh3

Get good at endgames and refuse to accept a draw in seemingly equal positions. Grind your opponent down and extract water from a stone

Trust me, when it comes to chess, you want your opponents to fear you. Just try not to be a huge asshole like Kasparov, that guy was a dick for no reason,
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>>548325926
Karla you would have stopped posting here ages ago if you had actually quit.
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>>548411475
maybe, but then what is anaguma? Sitting in the corner behind all your pieces. The French?
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>>548422804
I am guessing
1. e4 c5 2. Bc4 g6 3. Qf3 {he is expecting Nf6 otherwise he wants to mate} e6! {he forgot about this} 4. Qxf7+?? {he realizes his mistake.}
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>>548416786
>they use an elephant for the bishop
historically accurate
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>>548438263
Yeah, that's exactly how the games went.
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Without the weekend tournaments to promote engagement and comradery this place is dead.
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>>548445880
There was a weekend tournament today and nobody played in it, dumbnut.
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>>548446282
Can you help promote it next weekend instead of shitting on it and pretending there’s a cheating problem?
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>>548446736
No...?
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>>548447086
Why are you so against the team tournaments?
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>>548447396
Because you're gay.
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>>548445880
>>548446736
I'll play next week if other people are there, the tournaments used to be the best thing about this general
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>>548447516
Why are you even here if you’re just going to act like a shitter and be mean to everyone? Get help.
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>>548448195
Ya I agree, it’s literally one loser saying krherwise
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>>548325926
>loser quits because will never actually be good at anything in their life
>"I've grown as a person"
Oof ouchies.
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>>548448527
kek how is this possible that every single adult "improver" on youtube is a carucuck?it can't be just because gothamjew shills it there has to be more to it
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>>548318024
>>548322759
lmao that's rookie numbers
I have over 2000 DAYS played in World of Warcraft
good thing I didn't waste my life on chess
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>>548449397
It’s the best opening just buy the course on Chessly and you’ll easily crush 2200 elo players
-Levy Rozman
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Maia can actually be pretty good for training specific chess positions.

In this position I played e5 and eventually drew the game. Stockfish said that e5 is a blunder leading to a draw, and there are multiple winning moves but Bxe4 being the simplest. So I thought ok, I should be able to win this against Stockfish and remember why it wins so I don't blunder next time. Against Stockfish I won easily as it made nonsense moves since it considered it a completely lost position anyway. So I decided to install and try Maia 2200 and... I fucking lost. It really exposed my retardedness in finals.
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>>548448207
Because I’m based.
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>>548449397
gothamchess is now a world champion, it's only natural to follow his advice
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>>548409971
do not besmirch the venerable king's gambit
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>>548453541
King's gambit is legit trash. Your goal in the KG is if you play perfectly to be in a losing position that you can barely hold to a draw despite having the white pieces.
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>>548450512
Nah based is encouraging the team, youre just some loser who hates getting owned every weekend
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>>548454117
maybe if you're playing against a computer
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>>548450512
GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU FILTHY NIGGER
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>>548455242
Well said.
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I'm an atoocking player now take my chudbit
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https://lichess.org/ksB4KJ3w
3+0

don't join till 1 minute after I post alright? I'm going to piss.
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>>548460783
What gambit should i pick up against the Chudo Kann?
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ggs
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>>548462962
Post another challenge im ready for you this time!
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>>548449397
What's wrong with the Caro?
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>>548461446
Not quite a gambit but I always crushed the Caro with the Bayonet Attack
Some lines
4. g4 Bg6
5. e6 fxe6
6. h4 h5
7. Bd3 Bxd3
8. Qxd3

5. e6 fxe6
6. h4 Nd7
7. h5 Bf7
8. f4

theoretical best for black, which very few you encounter will know, is
5. e6 Qd5
6. exf7+ Bxf7
7. f4
which is still very promising for white.

ime at the amateur level, especially in blitz, the Caro is very vulnerable to this attack, especially if black doesn’t know what you’re doing. I did, and still always struggled.

imo best for black is after g4 just to play Bd7. in that case white has nothing. I never played that because it’s a very Duda ass, non-combative move, but it’s probably best.

everything else, white has a very good position and can play like alpha zero and suffocate the opponent easily.
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>>548464545
I didn’t look at a board when I wrote this and it’s been awhile since I have so sorry if I got any notation wrong btw hopefully it’s fine
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>>548427068
Spectating and discussing the game =/= playing
I am an ascended master and retired legend of the game, doesn’t mean I don’t still keep up with it. As I already mentioned, I will always be part of the chess community and always interested in the game. I just personally have no reason to play anymore. I already won
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>>548464545
>theoretical best for black
>imo best for black

So which is best? You contradicted yourself
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>>548466473
you're a nothing and a nobody, and no one will ever remember you
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>>548466846
No I didn’t. Theoretical best means what theoreticians recommend for the line, in particular Erwin L’ami. My personal opinion for what’s best differs.
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>>548466473
Kek
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>>548461446
Alien in bullet, hillbilly in blitz
>I only play those time controls
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>>548466473
You should coach my wife pinkamena (from 2 years ago)
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>>548467780
Bro she’s literally 12 don’t be gross.
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>>548468056
It's a platonic marriage all good
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>>548463481
oh sorry lmfao
you did win 3/4 though
https://lichess.org/C0g5o3vG
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What's a fun opening as white that's not full of "play X to not die" tricks against it?
I'm tired of London.

Also what's a fun opening against d4 as black? I know Sicilian and Caro against e4, but nothing fun against d4.
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>>548470480
for white try the catalan
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My nigga Awonder coming in clutch with the knight and bishop mate in the playoff to win the tournament.
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gg by the way other person
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>>548471134
good game :)
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>>548471813
The stronger the player is the closer she gets to them
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>>548471956
That’s just a hoe’s instinct
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>>548472889
god I hate women so much it’s unreal
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>>548470480
Qgd against d4
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Is Alua Nurman chud-coded or based-coded?
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>>548475615
Have sex.
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>>548479960
I have sex with my wife at least once a week. I still hate women. What’s your excuse?
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>>548480779
I have sex with your wife at least once a week too so idk.
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>>548479001
I’m thinkin based
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>>548480885
Sometimes she doesn’t want and I have to hold her down to do it.
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>>548470480
>Also what's a fun opening against d4 as black?
Dutch
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>>548480779
Fats and uggos don’t count
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>>548485527
why bother with this fischer random position, flipping the king with the queen doesn't change much
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>>548485601
My wife is a dance teacher, her face is a 6 but she has a hot bod.
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>>548486482
>no proof
concession accepted incel
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>>548461446
Qxb4 pawn sac
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What kind of proof? She’s next to me right now watching a shitty elf movie asking me to give her a massage. God I hate women so much it’s unreal
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>>548487225
Me 3h ago
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>>548480779
>at least once a week
lmao
dead marriage
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>>548488769
t. Virgin
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>>548486482
What I’m hearing is her face is a 2 and her body is “toned” (manly)
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>>548487225
If your wife wasn’t ugly you would have submitted to the female race by now, trust me. No *happily married* men hates women
Chess
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>>548487225
put her on the scale, lets see it
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>>548485527
white knights look stupid
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if anyone above 2700 wins the candidates we'll have a new world champion.
how does that make you feel?
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Fabiano or Hikaru = long time coming and worthy world champions who resume the true line that hiccuped with Ding and Pookesh. it will always be an embarrassing episode in chess history that the lineage was broken and devalued that way, but all we can do now is do better
Sindarov = continues the indignity of fake world champions, but may prove to be a real world champion in the end. it depends on how much he's really improved. as much as I like him, I wasn't impressed with his performance in the world cup, which didn't even have a lot of top players. he scraped by with a lot of close tie breaks. I'd pick him in a match over Pookesh but he'd still have a lot to prove once he's world champ. the good news is that all the young players still have a lot to prove, clearly none of them are the next Garry or Magnus. whoever reigns next will be B tier regardless, so why not Sindarov. but he's still far away even from being a B tier champion
if it's anyone else = discontinue the current world championship and start a new lineage with the upcoming *googles* Total Chess World Championship tour. just make it the official world championship
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>>547874476
What is something you anons wish you knew / learned sooner when you started playing chess? I apologize if this might come off as a redditoid question, but I'm genuinely just a beginner trying to improve.
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>>548501954
define beginner, also do you have any specific questions or struggles at the moment?
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>>548501954
It’s better to play not to lose than to play to win. Learn to be solid before you learn to attack
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>>548503461
*Which is how you win, to be clear. Most people will just blunder at you
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>>548501954
chess is a humiliation ritual
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>>548501954
Do NOT worship Stockfish
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>>548499924
>38 year old streamer who won 1 major tournament in his entire career
>worthy world champion
lol lmao even
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>>548504842
he’s been the consensus #2 in the world for years virgin
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>>548505349
>consensus #2
nta but you are such a clueless 3 digit retard, .scam owned media pushes him because he's their poster boy, everyone else who isn't a clueless 3 digit retard consuming that slop knows fabi is n2
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>>548506259
you’re just wrong, and Hikaru has owned Fabi H2H for years as well
every time Magnus is asked who his rival is, his answer is always “none” and then “but if I had to pick someone, I’d say Hikaru”
everyone but you knows this
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>>548506409
>“none” and then “but if I had to pick someone, I’d say Hikaru”
post one example of this
magnus always said fabi is the one that came closest to him
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>>548503182
>define beginner
I'm 1300 on Lichess (rapid).
>do you have any specific questions or struggles at the moment?
If I had to pinpoint one, it would definitely be tactics. I've been doing a lot of puzzles, and while that's helped, I still feel like I struggle to spot tactics in my own games. Even basic stuff like forks, skewers, discovered attacks, etc. Other than that, I'm just looking for general improvement tips to help me get from the beginner level to the intermediate level as soon as possible.
>>548503461
Thanks anon. Could you expand on what you mean by learning to be solid? As in playing in a way that builds up a good position and not blundering instead of going for the kill right away or what?
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>>548506486
>S-SOURCE?????
in the modern world of podcasts that each last several hours, and considering the amount of media Magnus does in general, this is not a reasonable ask. but if you really want to find out, you can figure it out yourself, because he’s said it numerous times. you just haven’t been paying attention
Fabi “came closest” when he peaked and played him in the world championship, yes. but his peak was brief and he’s only been good at one time control. overall Hikaru has been Magnus’s only real rival. he’s as good as Fabi OTB as well as Magnus online
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>>548506808
I can guarantee that quote is in the context of speed chess only, feel free to click on the source ai gave, post it here and prove me wrong
you got into chess in the last couple years and it shows so much, before his 2023 surge nobody would have ranked hikaru even top 5 in his generation, he had one insane year and he's been basically rating sitting since, fabi overtook him multiple times since then, had went rating sitting mode at those points would that make him a better player than his current self?Obviously not
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>>548501954
It's logical to trade pieces when you're up material in principle but don't just mindlessly force/try to force trades disregarding your position. The reflex to take every trade when in a better position has cost me many points. What I'm saying is that you can't auto-pilot into a win based on general principles.
This might be vague advice and hard for a beginner to execute in practice since you don't yet have the experience to know what is and isn't real counterplay but it's important to keep in mind. Some examples for when you're up material: don't trade queens at all cost, evaluate passed pawns very carefully when trading down, opposite colored bishops are dangerously drawish so be careful if you wanna be left with only them, etc.
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>>548506808
>using ai overview as your source
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>>548507382
no, the question was not only in the context of speed chess, you applied that yourself because you’re a disengenuous retard who can’t accept being wrong when you immediately smacked with what you asked for, thinking you wouldn’t. neither is it the only time he’s said it. you lost and are wrong, seethe about it forever. intelligent people don’t make the world a zero sum game about being right and wrong btw, sorry to detuct from your izzat
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>>548507464
>SOURCE??? SOURCE??? NO NOT LIKE THAT!!!! SOURCE?? SOURCE??? LISTEN TO EVERY PODCAST HE’S EVER DONE!! TIMESTAMP?? SOURCE?? SOURCE??
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>>547874476
>kill yourself cheater
>madman actually does it
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can't be fucked to write a proper post but these boomer dickriders are embarrassing
Jobi and Shitkaru had their chance many times in multiple Candidates and they blew all of them, they're no more worthy than any of the others
in a way they're less worthy because of that
it's time for a fresh face to shine
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>>548506773
regarding puzzles it's important to do them properly not just guessing one move at the time, a boomer would tell you to write the variations out to the end that may be overkill but you should do that in your headt, it's very easy with online puzzles to just go "ok this check is obviously the first move,I'll see where he move his king and then calculate from there" and other such laziness but you aren't training calculation if you do that
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>>548505349
Why didn’t he win the world championship (or any tournament) after Magnus said "fuck it" then?
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>>548507643
you know this little thing gives you the page ai got it from right?
you can post that here instead of expecting us to take you at your word, I would have done that in the first place instead of posting ai like a clown, that fact that you have yet to do even after I specifically told you to makes it really seems like you don't want to because I'm right and it is about speed chess
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>>548507643
Ok I looked it up becuase I knew you never would provide source, the question was literally "Do you consider hikaru your main rival in ONLINE CHESS" which makes this post hilarious projection and unbelievable lack of self awareness, disingenuous retard
https://youtu.be/4kjFCoSkQ70?si=ec-GpUYjLENlYefs&t=250
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>>548506773
> Could you expand on what you mean by learning to be solid? As in playing in a way that builds up a good position and not blundering instead of going for the kill right away or what?
Yes exactly, just playing positionally/solidly rather than tactically/sharply. That doesn’t mean be passive, always try to play the best move, just focus on good chess fundamentals, connecting your pieces, protecting your king, stable pawn structure, and press your opponent without too much risk to yourself. The reason is because they will always blunder. Always. Blunders are how the game is decided at every level. The stronger you get, the more complicated that becomes, but as a beginner, all you need to do is play sensibly and carefully and your opponent will start handing you pieces.
Basically, if you find yourself deciding between a move that seems good but opens up the game in an unstable way and puts you at risk, and a move that also seems good but is more quiet, choose the latter. Just wait. The blunders will come.
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>>548508372
you’re having a spergout because you’re an idiot and you know it, and don’t like being faced with the fact. I didn’t link nor even look at the link for the video because it’s irrelevant, as I already said, that is not the only time he’s said Hikaru is his only rival. I did not conveniently clip all the other times in anticipation of a retard demanding a source for something everybody else already knows and can figure out purely with common sense and having a brain.
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>>548508431
this is how you hardcap yourself and also cuck out on having fun
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Shitkaru Ratingsfarma shills are sad
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>>548508632
you are a retard who's acting like something only the biggest casuals and brainrotted zoomers believe is common undeniable knowledge while straight up up lying (" the question was not only in the context of speed ches"LMAO) because you can't handle people who aren't as clueless as you telling you it isnt the case
you are also doing exactly what were wrongly accusing me off where you got completely BTFO by facts and your own lying and keep going because you can' admit it
like seriously stop take a breath drink some water re read this>>548507643 and realize how you are describing yourself here, if you can do that you might unironically mature as a person, you dumb obnoxious cunt
I also found this, compare the two videos and stop coping ;)
https://youtu.be/0ZO28NtkwwQ?si=j_QoPJPr4xzzxSSh&t=2920
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>>548508372
by the way, just watched it for the first time, that’s not even how he answered it. his answer about online chess is always that he’s only top 3, he doesn’t even consider himself the best. he’s always said Hikaru is probably the best, then him then Firouzja. his answer to that question was in general
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>>548508756
i mean he's right that noobs should learn how to play solidly and that his opponents are basically guaranteed to blunder but yeah personally i'd advise noobs to definitely also play attacking chess
attacking can lower winrate in the short term in comparison to solidity but it is immensely instructive and helps give you good feel for the game plus it's more fun
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>>548509239
no, I am not doing what you did. I said something everyone knows, you tried to be a contrarian and got proven wrong and have been pivoting and crying ever since.
it doesn’t even need a source, that’s what you’re not getting. it just takes a brain.
Hikaru is as good as Fabi OTB. he’s as good as Magnus online.
Fabi peaked briefly OTB and has since fallen off. he is completely irrelevant online.
these are not equal players. Hikaru is the better player and everyone knows it. he is also objectively #2 in the world even as we speak. just shut the fuck up and get over it
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>>548509294
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the question was about online chess specifically but trust me for no reason his reply wasn't about online chess, you have to belive please bro I need this!
This is so unbelivably pathetic, have you ever admitted being wrong in your life?if so when was the last time?I bet you can't even remember
Last (You) I give you, I have better things to do
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the fabi vs hikaru argument is pointless - this will be answered soon by which one of them gets to be world champ
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>>548509813
correct. he would not say he “has no rivals” in online chess. this is yet another thing you don’t know that everyone else does.
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>consensus #2
>everyone but you knows this
>everybody else already knows
>said something everyone knows
> and everyone knows it.
>you don’t know that everyone else does.
The power of propaganda on full display have the media say something factually wrong a bunch of times, idiots will start parroting it to each other and eventually any time a non-idiot tries to tell them the truth they will react with idiotic rage like this.
It's harmless on something like chess but it really shows how effective media manipulation is and how npcs become willing tools for it so easily, legit sad to see
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Regular reminder to do your cardio, chessbros. Good cardiovascular health is essential for maintaining proper brain function.
As for me, I'll go for a run and then hopefully obliterate some South Asian gentlemen on lichess.org.
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>>548508431
It's hard for a beginner to tell what's solid and what's passive tho. Give a beginner the black pieces in the QGD, tell him to play solid and he'll get strangled to death nine times out of ten.
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>>548506808
>you should let me put words in other people's mouths and if you don't, I'll demand that you do my work for me
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>>548517636
Great post anon. Before I started lifting and running regularly (currently lifting 4 times a week and running 3 times a week), I felt awful and could barely think straight during longer time controls. These days I play right after my workouts and my head is crystal clear with laser focus. Cleaning up my diet made a massive difference too.
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>>548420672
>weebs actually improved something for once
dobutsu shogi was invented by a Japanese woman, not weebs
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>>548503461
Worst advice I've ever seen. I bet you play the Caro-Kann too...
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>>548503461
It's better to play and lose than to not play at all.
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>>548506773
if you need "play solid" explained to you, you're not gonna make it and learn to play chess... your IQ is just too low.
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>>548526117
all these chess expressions mean nothing to a beginner retard
and the of course the nigger bringing up iq out of nowhere posts something retarded
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>>548526693
He's not even a real beginner. He's probably been on these threads for years, but is obsessed with the thread and the /tg/ one so he wants to drive engagement any way he can to keep the topic afloat.
You're very naive to not suspect this.
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>>548527453
>least schizophrenic /chess/ poster
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>>548528738
He has on many, many occassions copied both topics and replies to those topics verbatim from reddit's /r/chess to drive engagement, so it's not unlikely.
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>>548527453
>>548529069
take your meds retard
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>>548529526
Ok, you are that 'beginner'. It's all clear to me now.
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>>548529595
lmao
yes I am
check your walls too while you're at it
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>>548529069
I thought you were the pastebin tranny and/or the tg janny but tg general hasn't been bumped in 11 hours, so we have at least 2 probably 3 (depending if pbt is the janny I don't think so) who have paranoid delusions about this general fascinating
this thread is an incredibly potent schizo magnet
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Personally, I love and respect our schizophrenic chatter friends
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>>548531764
What about Kev? He seems to be ascendant
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stockfish, your shit is weaaak
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For me it's reximtac.
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>>548526693
"solid" isn't a chess expression, tardboy. It's just a basic word in the English language. It means firm, stable, compact, reliable. The average shitty /vg/ player and twitch streamer doesn't know how to play solid because they never learned anything other than "copy youtubers openings and try to juggle piecees at random hoping to somehow get checkmate" - this is why they lose constantly. They'll Already have an invincible fortress line of double-defended pawns all protecting each other, and the fucking /vg/brains will have no ideas, so push a pawn at random "gotta do something" and hang a pawn, then push anothere pawn and hang a pawn, then get checked and run the wrong direction and hang a 3rd pawn.

Playing solid is just going 'what pieces of mine are undefended - okay here I defended them all'. 'How can he try to invade my pawn structure, okay here I cut off the only entrance' 'I'm up 3 points already, I'm not a dumbfuck who will push my pawns and go for a sharp position and get forked - I'll simply force the opponent to trade off his queen and trade off his bishops and trade off his rooks and trade off his knight, now he's still 3 points down but with zero weapons to ever make a comeback'

You're not mikhail tal. You and the average shitter simply refuse to study endgames and pawn structures (unlike the actual mikhail tal), but crazy wacking kamikaze attacks are like jingling keys in front of your face - so you refuse to play classical chess and just queue 3-0 or 1-0 bullet because that's the only possible place someone can occasionally win by retardedly throwing pieces across the board every game hoping for a free hanging piece or lucky unforced checkmate. After a year or two of the eternal 600 elo twitch streaming of never improving because you play speedchess, you'll spend a few minutes trying to do puzzles or buy a shitty chessable course, then give up the next day because it doesn't give you the dopamine rush of shitty speedchess.
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>>548535536
Skimmed this, saw that it lacked any charm whatsoever (schizo or otherwise) and decided not to read it properly.
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>>548535536
tldr
rating?
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>>548538167
1750 lichees
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Should we have a rule that you have to be rated at least 2000 somewhere to discuss the game outside of the e-celebs?
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>>548531519
This is all pretty disturbing
-Kev
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>>548539684
or racist against indians, either is ok
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>>548539502
I appreciate the honesty and won't mock you, it's not a bad rating after all sometimes we get carried away with elitism here but as someone higher rated>>548508756 is right, force yourself to play aggressive and take risks it will pay off in the long run
learn some gambits start getting comfortable with sacking pieces and being in sharp complicated positions where you can't be sure what's going on, the longer you postpone this the harder it will be to learn until at some point it will become almost impossible and you'll be hardstuck for life
that is THE biggest trap an improver can fall into, there is a reason we meme londo/caro players so much and why poison like learning habits and gotham jew is so hated
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>>548541617
Vomit boy isn't hated and his habits series does not promote playing passiveslop. I never watched it for improvement because I think the video format is generally useless for that but I saw a few episodes and didn't see anything wrong with it.
t. 2100 rapid litard/1900 chess.mong
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>>548535536
sounds boring and unambitious
rather than playing "solid" you should always be looking to push your advantage in whatever way you can - and yes, when you're playing shitters, this will often result in some sort of tactical attack
clearly you shouldn't play retarded attacks that don't work for no reason, but I would argue even some of those are more beneficial long term than constantly playing passive, safe, unambitious games where you actively avoid tactical confrontations. chess is 99% tactics after all :^)
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I am gay
-Kiev
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>>548531519
And you don’t consider yourself a schizo? You who have these imagined boogiemen and try to confidently assert the identities of anonymous online posters?
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>>548527453
I'm calling Dr. Fauci. We need a new scamdemic pronto and fags like these needs the upcoming death shot. Asap.
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>>548508431
>.t Stepjan and pic related

>>548506773
Read "
Tune Your Chess Tactics Antenna: Know When (and Where!) to Look for Winning Combinations" It's the book you need
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>>548546640
That guy's advice is extra terrible since he literally is a cheater. He's like a 1000 scamming people into buying his course lol
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>>548546640
does gay face really help elo that much?
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>>548546973
hate the game not the playa
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>>548540058
I'm 300 elo and I despise you animals.
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>>548550438
Don’t you mean filthy animals?
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I love my chess club. We just got a new kid and he's gonna be a great member. We played 3 2+0 games today before it was time for him to go and all of them ended by one of us hanging something stupid but it was great fun.
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>>548538167
This year I hit 2500+ chesscum. Dunno why some random extended warranty salesman replied to you.
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>>548545254
oh I'm not fully sane either I'm a chess and 4chan enjoyer too after all but there is nothing schizo about that post
>you who have these imagined boogiemen
whether they are the same person or not there is endless evidence of the existence of an insane janny obsessed with this general and an insane italian obsessed with making the OP and shilling his rentry(formerly pastebin) and that the latter sometimes posts here complaining about samefagging, copypasting from the tg archive and other similar delusions, anyone who has been here since the tg days knows this
I get that this might sound schizoish to someone who's hasn't been around that long, I don't mind wasting a couple minutes to provide you proof if you care just say so
> try to confidently assert the identities
I said that anon wasn't either of them but it was reasonable to wonder if he was because of what I said above
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>>548552103
You are a brown boy from India and know nothing about chess. The only thing you're hitting is Pranjesha after she nags you to finally buy a toilet while you're busy losing your 400 elo game.
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>>548552280
All the whining spambots blend together. Muh zoomers, muh /sp/, muh reposts, muh originality, muh samefagging, muh it's all this one guy, muh weavers cheaters etc.
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Is King's Indian a bad opening or I just suck?
Every time I play it my right knight stays there blocking the bishop because there are no good places to move to. Usually everything in the middle is covered with pawn kill zones.
If I put my pawns on white squares like d3, c4 the knight will suck.
If I put my pawns on black squares like e3, d4 then the black bishop will have a hard time getting out.
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>>548552103
Hey don't pretend to be me you liar I'm only 1750
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>>548552280
ive head the posting copy paste from the tg archive but ive never seen a single post given as an example of it being done
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>>548552789
No, I'm not indian. Soap molecules have a hydrophilic head and a hydrophobic tail, this lets the hydrophobic portion attach to oil, dirt and bacterial matter and the hydrophilic part then lets water pull it away, leaving your hands clean and sanitary.

The last real world chess champion is Magnus. Ian, Ding and Gukesh are all mediocre, A-listers not champions.
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>>548553030
Play e4 and d3 first, then fianchetto.

If you're below like 1500 though, just play for the center
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>a real chess WC can only be the undisputed best player
what a stupid concept that wasn't true for the majority of chess history
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>>548553527
Hold up. We don't ask for proof around here.
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>>548554819
#BelieveAllWeavers
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>>548554238
you CAN have an entirely arbitrary non-skill-based title which nobody respects. I mean, that's the entirety of the WGM title.
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>>548553527
Yeah he can't give an example because it never happened, all pbt accusations come from projection, he started saying that because he was copypasting posts from here to tg and somehow he thought that claiming the opposite was happening would fool people
proof:
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/469038161/#469129075
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/467850123/#q468287282
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/92128969/#92130444
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>>548556130
Thats scary why would someone do that?
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I consider them to be real champions since Magnus isn't competing. It would only be fraudulent if it was like in the Kasparov years where the reigning world champ was actively defending the title but FIDE was still naming their own "champions"

Magnus is basically retired from classical so the last two champs have been legitimate
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>>548557314
what does this have to do with chess ecelebs?
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>>548556583
mental illness
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>>548557597
Are we safe with an insane person like that hanging around with us?
-Kev
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>>548552041
I hope you're not the pedo anon who used to post pictures of little boys itg.
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>>548507643
>sorry to detuct from your izzat
Sorry your IDF “zutt” meme went absolutely nowhere and the world continued focusing on gaza. good luck with your “izzat” meme hopefully it will overpower the 10,000 videos on tiktok of palestinian children getting blown up by israeli drones.
>>548553527
are you claiming that you have never seen, in this general, identical posts being made in separate threads? because if you are actually saying you’ve never seen that then i and others have maybe 10 million examples ready to go. before you begin moving the goalposts this is what you are claiming:
>nobody can find past posts that are identical down to the jpg
>being repeated multiple times
>with identical replies and jpgs
>right down to the spaces
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>>548553847
>Ian, Ding and Gukesh are all mediocre, A-listers not champions.
Yawn wishes he were in the same conversation as Ding and Gookesh lol.
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>>548558791
were they cute little anime boys at least?
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>>548558997
i said i personally havent seen any posts given as examples before not that its never happend but the other anon posted at least one so feel free to post more if you have screenshots of other incidents
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>>548559091
They were 3d boys playing chess.
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>>548559408
That seems harmless? People post young girls playing chess all the time don’t be homophobic.
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>>548559719
Pinkamenapedos get the rope too.
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>>548559935
You’re gonna have to rope everyone here. She’s our mascot.
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I hate retarded faggots who keep poking around with their queen behind your lines until you have no choice but to trade queen for queen

why the fuck do people insist on forcing queen trades, it leads to boring as fuck chore of an endgame
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>>548560994
Don’t let their queen infiltrate then
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>>548558997
> i and others have maybe 10 million examples ready to go.
>there are many people who share my delusion, it's not just me every time!
>I have proof but I never post it for reasons, I will eventually though you'll see!
Kek why do schizos love doing this so much?
Post one example of a post copy pasted from the tg archive
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>>548560994
adding the queen to the game was the worst retcon change that women ever inflicted upon the great game of chess. Second worst was the non-sensical stalement rules that are the one and only reason chess is a boring drawfest of a game while chess variants and japanese chess and other board games are win/lose 95%+ instead of 50% draws.
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>>548561526
this only works as a pre-internet story problem
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>>548565487
very well. All you get are elephants, a vizier, and one-square pawn moves. Enjoy your slow as fuck medieval chess, you filthy moor.
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>>548561526
No way to tell what she is doing.
Nevermind, I figured it out:
listening
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>>548565487
Stalemate literally makes chess less drawish, you retarded 800 chess.com subhuman.
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>>548569472
literally it does the exact opposite. Even being 1 pawn ahead is a winning endgame without the stalemate rule, 100 ELO stupid faggot.

We even know this for a complete fact, as it's possible to simply play with stalemate turned off in the chess code and it's nearly never a draw, you fucking 100 elo TARD.
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>>548569251
I do. It's more enjoyable than chess2.0. Though the elephant piece was just a shitty design and the chesscum website is missing the rule that promoted Firz (1-diagonal bishop) are able to step 1 square left or right after they promoted to change colors.

1 second after giving bishop movement to elephants instead of their 2-hop and it's a better game than chess2.0 is.
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>>548572001
What move would Black be supposed to make here without the stalemate rule?
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>>548572001
>Even being 1 pawn ahead is a winning endgame without the stalemate rule,
hence why everyone would be forced to play the slurpiest chess ever
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>>548572382
Black has zero moves where his king doesn't die, so black loses the game. 0% draw rate. It's really quite simple. That's how chess was before they changed the stalemate rule to create the artificial draw.
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>>548572614
So would you be allowed to make illegal moves at any point in the game or just in a king and pawn endgame?
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>>548572431
literally a skill issue. Bad players need the artificial stalemate rule because otherwise whoever is the stronger player would always win the game.

I play variants with stalemate rule removed, and someone can have thousands of wins with 0 draws. It filters out people who suck like you.
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>>548572784
just as in shogi or duck chess, there's no downside at all to allowing the king to be captured. There's no removal of hard-pins because if a bishop pins a piece to the king and you move the piece, the bishop takes your king anyway. All it does is instantly removes the 50% draw nature of current trash chess.
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>>548572784
if you want to see what it looks like, it's right here in picture form
>>548533712
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>>548572797
rating?
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>>548573394
2500+
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>>548573492
sure buddy
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>>548572797
Removing stalemate would make the first move advantage game deciding for good players.
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>>548572274
honestly, I don't disagree. That is one reason I also enjoy Thai Makruk, one of the closest living relatives to shatranj and chaturanga. It has a rich endgame theory, since you not only have to checkmate with three ferzes or silver-ferz, or silver-knight; but you also have more strict material-dependent counting rules instead of an overall 50-move rule.

A bishops-only improvement of shatranj (no castling, bare-king win, stalemate win) would also be interesting. Can you play it anywhere online?
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>>548573828
that's what you'd imagine if you've never actually thought about it or acquired any evidence at all, but when you actually do the research it's the exact opposite.

Chess winrates are often many wins as white, a big chunk of draws, then not many wins as black.

In a king-capture variant (such as duck chess), that big chunk of draws as black become wins as black instead (the whole strategy of trying to win as white and trying to draw as black disappears)
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>>548573984
I may see if I can program the variant on pychess, I know they regularly add new variants with experimental rulesets from players.
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>>548572990
and if anyone is curious just how low drawing becomes with king-captured allowed.
Top 10 in duck, matches - draws

dragonb70 639 - 2 draws
kapik1337 2168 - 28 draws
vanzigx 1866 - 0 draws
jordrow 1459 - 1 draw
coryr305 1090 - 7 draws
stgundul 2064 - 3 draws
IMrosen 574 - 2 draws
vahan 232 - 7 draws
thomasgauss 1050 - 4 draws
honorpanda 1755 - 26 draws
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>>548573492
>>548573750
Sorry I meant 250+
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>>548575719
Don't you think having a duck on the board might also have an influence on the amount of draws? These numbers are meaningless.
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>>548576090
It literally doesn't. The duck would increase the draw-rate actually, as it makes staying alive and defending easier. It's the king having to walk into its death when chased against the wall that is why game's don't end in draws.
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>>548576395
Shut the fuck up you shitter, you're literally u1500.
SIT
DOWN
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>>548576395
duck chess is a different variant than king capture. you need data specific to the variant you're trying to argue about. small differences in rules have a bigger impact than you assume.
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>>548576090
And it's not even theoretical. The chess tablebases of draws almost all become forced checkmate in regular chess when king capture is allowed. >95% of draws would disappear. The only draws remaining are due to repetition and infinite-checks, but the repetition draw rate plummets when stalemate is gone as a king cannot alone block promotion by shoving his own face against the wall and denying himself a movement. The side with the extra material thus almost always chooses not to allow repeating moves.

Infinite checks with a queen is only advantageous to the side with lower ELO than the other, so with king-capture allowed the player with higher rating and higher skill instead just chooses to block checks, trade queens and outplay opponent into the endgame. The rooks and bishops and knights basically never force infinite-checks. Currently, someone like Magnus generally needs to avoid queen trades early because that increases the odds of a stalemate draw. With king-capture, he'd be happy to trade queens on move 3, as there's no stalemates so he'd manage to win the game even without the queen.
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>>548577279
Nah, I really don't. But I understand you're too stupid to understand something that simple, so you can be quiet now.
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>>548577519
>Nah, I really don't.
Yes, you do.
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>>548577337
>>548573828
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>>548577560
Nah, it's truly unimportant to the world what a 100 elo retard like you doesn't understand. You could pay me money and I'd teach you, but you're a complete waste of time.
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>someone on /chess/ says something so stupid he could only be a troll or a literal retard
>anons keep arguing with him for hours
>episode n87138972389723897897449
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>>548577337
>The chess tablebases of draws almost all become forced checkmate in regular chess when king capture is allowed. >95% of draws would disappear. The only draws remaining are due to repetition and infinite-checks, but the repetition draw rate plummets when stalemate is gone as a king cannot alone block promotion by shoving his own face against the wall and denying himself a movement. The side with the extra material thus almost always chooses not to allow repeating moves.
you have no supporting data for these claims
>Infinite checks with a queen is only advantageous to the side with lower ELO than the other, so with king-capture allowed the player with higher rating and higher skill instead just chooses to block checks, trade queens and outplay opponent into the endgame. The rooks and bishops and knights basically never force infinite-checks. Currently, someone like Magnus generally needs to avoid queen trades early because that increases the odds of a stalemate draw. With king-capture, he'd be happy to trade queens on move 3, as there's no stalemates so he'd manage to win the game even without the queen.
all of this is assumption
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Where to learn chess960 openings?
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The thing is about stalemate is that it's only really annoying when you're like 900 and have terrible board vision and do it on accident.

Once you aren't a beginner, it's just another part of the game t
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>>548579742
Up my ass
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>>548565487
Yes, I'm sure you play chess at GM level where there are lots of draws.
They are very rare below 2200 elo.
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It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who hates the stalemate rule. It's a general principle of gaming that when your situation is so bad that you don't have any options, you just lose. Like, if you're a wrestler pinned to the mat and you can't move, it's over. But with chess, a game of K vs K + Q can somehow possibly end in a draw. Completely stupid.
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>wrestling = gaming
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>>548588940
chess is an esport now. Run along gachafag
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>>548591431
Aren’t they adding esports to the Olympics? Maybe chess will finally get included but not as a sport
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>>548577337
there are ways around repetition draws as well. Repetition in shogi is a no-result, where you replay the game on the remaining time. Fourth repetition in Chinese chess is instead an illegal move, though like chess you can have insufficient material draws.
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>>548508756
Someone tell Magnus
>>548541617
You’re either a retard or an Indian, you don’t get better at chess with “gambits” and making the game double-edged, there is no inherent benefit to that, you just prefer to play like that because you’re a low attention span dopamine chasing monkey. You don’t even understand how to play tactically to begin with, it’s not something that happens in a vacuum and in contrast to playing positionally. As Fischer said, “Tactics flow from a superior position.” You want to play tactically like you’re describing? Better get comfortable learning how to play positionally first. Otherwise you’re just a monkey flinging fistfuls of shit.
You’re not high rated either, kill yourself weirdo.
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>>548588694
>a game of K vs K + Q can somehow possibly end in a draw
that requires gross incompetence by the player with the queen
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>>548543790
These concepts are over your head
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>>548596889
nothing is over my head
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>>548601165
My head
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>>548601165
not even the sky?
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>>548601165
the jews took yours?
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>>548596631
>Magnus
He used to play combinational chess and crazy shit. I think he even got surprised when the bot from Play Magnus came out because he said " No way I played like that when I was young" but it was true, he used to play attacking chess and later he develops his now known boa constrictor playstyle.

Even Capablanca and many others agree, that's the reason tactics are important. Karpov, Petrosian, Magnus, Ulf Andersson,etc... all of them are monsters at tactics and combinations, that's how you become proficient at positional chess later, you can become a prophylactic player as you now calculate more and shit.
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Your tactics rating on lichess or chess tempo is literally all that matters
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Is Fischer - Taimanov game 4 the greatest endgame of all time?
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>>548596631
how can such a weak player be so full of himself?my FIDE is higher than your fucking lichess rating sit down and shut the fuck up you subhuman retard, you have no idea what you are talking about
enjoy being sub 2000 lichess for life
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>>548606645
Thanks for confirming larping jeet, never try to give “advice” in this general again
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>>548578236
ye
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>>548605993
You’re confusing what I said with “never play tactically or press for an advantage, just be prophylactic”. That’s not how chess works, and not what I said. Here’s an exact quote:
>That doesn’t mean be passive, always try to play the best move… and press your opponent without too much risk to yourself.
This is also how Magnus plays.
Yes, Magnus has also had some uncharacteristically tactical games. The exceptions prove the rule. Regardless, this isn’t about Magnus. My advice was for a beginner. Obviously Magnus will be playing on more levels.
And my advice was completely sound and correct. There’s no reason to overextend yourself for an attack as a beginner, like many do. Just play soundly, focus on good fundamentals, make sure you’re not hanging anything/compromising your position, and wait for your opponent to make the mistakes you won’t. That doesn’t mean just make random uncomplicated moves. That doesn’t mean just sit there. It specifically means don’t overdo it. Still keep an eye out for the best moves. Yes, play tactics, that’s how any chess game is won. If you aren’t punishing someone tactically, you won’t win. But you can do that without creating an Indian shitfest on the board at great risk to yourself. As I already quoted, tactics flow from a superior position. That does not mean from an Indian’s anus. That does not mean from the exhaustless reservoir of your bottomless aura. It means from a safe and sound and superior position, which you achieved by not taking unnecessary risks.
This is how you play as a beginner, if you disagree you’re wrong and need to get over it.
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I would make a New but the OP jealously guards it with his life and will thread split if I bother. Wake up retard
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>>548612302
You pathetic subhuman you are 1700 lichess you know fucking nothing about chess, I know 10yo kids who could adopt you, how can you so confidently talk about shit you don't understand?You unironically think, you know better than capablanca it's unbelievable
one needs to learn attacking chess first to truly learn the value of piece activity, dynamics and proper calculation doesn't mean you have to play gambits and speculative sacs for life but you need to be able to do it first only THEN you can actually play solid chess instead of the pathetic parody of it you are doing at fucking joke rating, you can't larp as magnus or fisher if you lack the very basics of the game
anyway you are clearly a very stupid person in general no one smart would talk with such confidence and aggressiveness about something he's so bad at, being terrible at chess forever is the least of your problems, everyone with a 3 digit iq will always look down on you as "that delusional idiot who thinks is so smart" in every context you are in
hope you eventually have a moment of self awareness and rightfully kill yourself out of shame, clown
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>>548612921
the only time the thread ever got split was because some retard took the team out of the op, by all means make a new thread
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>>548613085
Didn’t read whatsoever, stick to making gambit videos for youtube
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>>548612921
>it's impossible to just bake everyone else always does AAAAAHHHH SAVE ME JANNY MAN
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>>548613364
>Remembers the exact instance from months ago because he’s the only one who ever does it
Yeah whatever, we’re waiting
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>>548616929
>all pbt accusations come from projection
it's easy to remember " the exact instance" when it's the only time it happened tranny
the only reason you are whining instead of baking is because it would challenge your delusion of "the psycho" wanting to bake every thread here like you do on tg
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NEW >>>/tg/97077891
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>>548618025
>>548618025
>>548618025
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>>548617898
you ever look at that pastebin of yours and think how addle brained you'd have to be to make that thinking it's helpful to anyone
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>>548617898
>3 posts in the last 24 hours
>all low effort necrobumps obviously made by you
kek just let it go pbt, your posting style isn't that recognizable, stop whining, give up on your shitty pastebin and become a normal anon here
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>>548618069
>implying any self respecting player could go without anna cramiling discord,diving chess rules and 14 Times Chess Got BANNED Around the World by the chess nerd



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