Fallen angel edition>play chesshttps://lichess.org>join our team and tournamentshttps://lichess.org/team/vietnamese-basket-weaving-forumPrevious>>549379308
I was about to bake with pic related and "Namefags on demand edition" :(
>>549724531Karla was guy larping as a woman for attention edition.
I just finished the 960 stream and came here to post about the kino that took place and see the reaction of /chess/ to it but the typical schizo melty overtook the general. Sad. Never reading a single one of those insane posts.Let me just say that Sindarov was incredible once again. I hope one of the young guys win the Candidates.
I had mate in one but resigned because I thought the square was defended and my attack was over.
>>549724923He played good chess but he fucked up in the last blitz game he should’ve won that one
so now that the cum has settled, was the botox sister leak legit or AI?
>Sneedmann is already jobbing to Fatham in 5 movesthat was fast
Anyone has a pic of hans looking sad for a his smile and optimism:gone edit? We would get a lot of use out of it given how shit he's been lately
>>549734367bing hans nieman, its like half of them
>>549734824fucker is younger than me and he's already getting male pattern baldnesstragic
>Moke losing against Fatham KWAB
>>549714415>canadacat used to roll me over but ive improved a lot and i think im probably stronger than him nowdeepest lore
man I hate listening to the female jeet commentatordisgusting accent
>>549735968you don't have tohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOMfXsbmayg
Mommy Judit would be a God-tier voice actress
based hans threw the first game just so we could say he won ON DEMAND and trigger the autist, truly /ourguy/
>>549737260he's playing 5d chess with the delayed Ham smoke
Clean game by Levon
>>549735968Yeah I just realized the "community stream" is basically for indians, since there is always that annoying woman and the analysis is toned down for idiots
this fat nigga has a pokemon name
Why is it so hard to improve playing a London/CK repertoire?
>>549740714I'm about the same rating on rapid and I play the Catalan and KID, am I cooked
>>549740714>I've been playing chess for like 5 years>I'm a 1000 rapid and 800 blitzlol
Played my first casual OTB tournament at the club today and managed to win 2 out of 5. I'm honestly so happy. I've fallen in love with this game, and my only real regret is not picking it up earlier.
>>549740714Gothamjew ruined an entire generation of causal players lolAs to why it's because at those levels improvement is just getting better at tactics, they spend 90% of their time in dull closed positions waiting for their opponents to hang something unprovoked never learning to attack or how to find set up/find tactics, a lot of those types also play .scam bots which reward that play style
>>549742356Happy for you fren. Welcome to this wonderful hobby. The important thing is that you found it, not the when.
>>549742925This means a lot fren. Thank you.
>>549742356Now you have to improov to go 5/5
>>549724531OP you forgot to including chess.com, the best and biggest site to play on
magnus in a win-on-demand situation
>>549747446we should come up with a shorter nickname for such situationswinmanded
>>549747446>>549748167(W)in (O)n de(MAND)womand
>>549748379oh nonono....
can Aronian draw on demand?
based Levon denying fagnus yet another slurpwin
Bump on demand
>>549742837So what are the top openings that casual improovers should play then?
So moognis lost? I don't watch schizo60
>>549741008Probably. It's fine to try things, but any beginner should be able to play e4e5 gambitslop on demand. Try playing the Evans for a while.
>>549757638yes, but he won the overall tour.
I can’t believe how people keep using on demand on demand
>>549759157it's in big demand
>>549757634Huwite:>non-shit e4e5 gambits (mainly the evans, KG, scotch, goring, danish)>scotch>italian (fast if lower elo, slow if higher elo)>ryu slopez >antis against sicilians you don't like, open against those you do>most variations against the caro are good, though panov is preferred>whatever you like against the french except the exchange Black:>e4e5>sicilian (most variations are fine honestly)>french>pirc (only if you're not tainted by the rot that is playing KID passively at low elo)>QGD>QGA >slav >schizo+QGD, QID, or benoni if you're feeling spicy>benko >KID if and only if you can attack with it and don't intend to vomit the same shit in the board regardless of what the opponent playsTake your pick.
>>549757634White - King’s GambitBlack - Latvian GambitCome back to the general and thank me when you are 2000+ Elo OTB because my advice made you a tactics monster
>>549760053I don't think mainline French is good for beginners on either side
>>549761245Hey man, you know what, challenge accepted. Life is already so damn boring I'm not going to make it any more dull by playing some gay ass London or Colle system as a beginner anymore. I'm tired of that shit. From now on, every game I get a chance, I will be playing these two. Now for the questions. Any ideas for something similar to the Latvian Gambit against D4? Also, what should I go for in case my opponent doesn't go E5 (sicilian/french as an example)?
>>549760053>>549763019KG + Morra + PanovDutch + Latvian
>>549763514Sounds good. I'll be working through them for the entirety of this and next week, so I can play them at my next casual OTB tourney the week after that. Thanks anon.
>>549761245>>549763514>latvian Trolling outside of /b/ is a bannable offense.
>>549763514And something viable in this style against the French?
>>549765202Nta, Milner-Barry. KIA is also fun but it's not a gambit.
>>549764965People don’t get banned here, you have to say some pretty crazy stuff that would probably get you banned on b anyway
I'd suggest the elephant over the latvian, I know a guy who won games with it in classical against class A playersEngine hates it less too
>>549570330>Content not found>Unfortunately the content you're looking for has been removed or expired.>If you believe this to be an error please contact the original uploader of the content.sadge
Speaking of bans… I wanted to post a painting of the chess Goddess Caïssa. Unfortunately, the painting shows her breasts. Am I correct to assume classical artwork isn’t exempt from the no nudity rule? Don’t want any trouble from the man haha -Kev
>>549769396use catbox nigga
>>549769396just post it pussy
>>549769565I’d rather just post it here. Anyway, I’d like to know the /vg/ rule about it for future reference. I’m assuming it’s a no-no.-Kev
Can we post anime girl boobs too? She’s a 1000 year old elf btw.
>>549758642>lose but win Classic shitnus designed toury
>>549763019good decision. you will more consistently get fun games that rarely trade down in to endgame grinds. the key secondary thing to prepare, as needed as you encounter this, is how to respond to people who absolutely refuse your gambits to the point that they make their positions difficult to play. you will be better there but it's a different type of game than you were originally intending with the gambit lines. you can prep additional gambits/clearance sacrifices in this case instead of taking your +1.5 or whatever and trying to convert that.
>>5497707271 month til season 2!!
>>549769396>>549770279Okay pussy I'll post it then.https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/90499879/#q90510163https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%AFssa#/media/File:Caissa.jpg
>>549772285
>called kev>is a bitchwait a second
>>549768798I mean 2/4 are still up on catbox if you really wanted to save them.>>549556480
>>549774169Just trying to be considerate to the people here. -Kev
Do the fine people of this general appreciate tripfaggotry?
>>549774876I'm seething already
>>549773905God I love her so much it’s unreal. I must have rewatched the first episode 5 times just to show it to different friends. Luckily I have a crunchyroll subscription so I can stream it on demand.
>>549774519I don't buy it where were you in the summer of 92?
>>549760053I don't play any of those apart from Benoni and I improooved to 2200+ lirapid in 3 years.Maybe I would have improooved more if I studied those, but I just play 1.c4! and usually my opponents are not really prepared. Against e4 I go caro-cuck and I got 60% winrate with it.
>>549776970In your mom.-Kev
>>549724531>>play chess>https://lichess.orgmeh onlineI dont know what else I could expect from a 4chan thread
>>549778938were you expecting a magical portal that would teleport you into the nearest chess club or what?
>>549778938...what? Chess is only worth playing online.Chess bots are a notoriously bad experience, especially on low to intermediate levels. Clubs are a meme.
>>549772069Thank you for the advice anon. Will do.
>>549780104>Clubs are a meme.my clubs are finethey organise tournaments with titled players
>>549780104>Clubs are a memewhy would you ever think that?
>>549778938I want to play IRL but I don't want to have to commit myself to a club or anything. I'm guessing there's somewhere people play like a park but I am aware of none near me.
>>549780489Probably less than 0.1% of chess players play offline tournaments. If you're one of those, you probably don't need help finding them.OP should contain information relevant to the masses. >>549780692It's 2025; grandpa. No one wants to waste his time traveling to clubs and playing a few games when you could play 20 games online in the same amount of time. And extremely few people want to make chess a life goal and play on offline tournaments, as opposed to just a hobby.
>>549780104>Clubs are a memeNah.After joining a club and playing otb tournaments, I can confidently say that online-onlies can never fully appreciate chess.
>>549781515I bet you wear a suit and fedora when playing on tournaments and think you're Paul Morphy.
found this pic for the paranoid schizophrenic /tg/ bro(s)hope you enjoy it
>>549780851Go to your local coffee shop and play with the smokers who sit outside.
>>549781515This everyone ITG should try a club if they can, I regret not doing it much soonerChess clubs are some of the most autist-friendly places on earth so don't let social anxiety stop you
>>549781921That's what my Grandma thought too lolBut no, you don't do any of that gay shit. Did you have a bad experience with clubs or are you just doing the typical 4chan thing where anons form opinions based on preconceptions and memes?
>>549782215>autist-friendlythats why chess tournaments are annoyingtoo many autists and not in a good way
>>549781515This is so real. After joining a club and playing OTB, playing online feels like having sex with four condoms on in comparison.
>>549763019Against 1.d4 players who are lower rated beginners trying to play a slow safe game, the Englund Gambit 1. e5 can be very disruptive and will get them out of their comfort zone. There are two main variations after white accepts, Nf6 or d6. I prefer the d6 double pawn gambit. Dutch Defense is also very good to play and then you can use that against Nf3 and c4 setups. Yes the Englund Gambit is fairly dubious but really at the lower levels many people playing d4 are only doing so because of fear of sharp games, or big egos and thinking that they’re more advanced than they really are.To answer your question about French, Sicilian, or Caro-Kann responses while working on your King’s Gambit against e5, I have a straightforward repertoire. Just play d4 against every one of those systems. Now for the French, check out the French Exchange Variation: Monte Carlo variation. Against the Caro-Kann, play the Panov-Botvinnik Attack, which is pretty much the same setup, just doing the exchange and then attacking the center with c4. Against the Sicilian you will be fine playing the Smith-Morra which a lot of other people on this board recommend.
>>549782589>too many autists and not in a good way
>12 seconds on the clock to my opponent's 1:13>he times out first
>>549783117exactlychess tournaments players are very similar to 4chan users
I've never had problems against the e4 c4 setups when I play the Caro or the French. Don't get why they're repeatedly mentioned as these sharp, super spicy options when to me they always just seemed boring as fuck.
>>549782070Never seen them, even where there are boards out there but I'll keep an eye out. I guess I could be the guy waiting but yknow.
>>549783663For me it's wing gambit and the tal/caveman>>549782025Kek with so many posts recommending gambits to beginners I was expecting that schizo retard to have another melty, I'll save this for the next time he does
>>549782969Thanks for the advice anon, it means a lot. That's pretty much what I decided on after reading through this thread, the only difference being the response to the French (I'll also check out the Monte Carlo variation you mentioned). Thoughts?White (E5) - King's GambitWhite (E6) - Milner-Barry GambitWhite (C5) - Smith-Morra GambitWhite (C6) - Panov AttackBlack (E4) - Latvian GambitBlack (D4) - Dutch DefenseBlack (C4) - Anglo-Dutch Defense
>>549782025Could Ian Nepomniachtchi have taken him?
>>549785050>wing gambit and the tal/cavemanThat's much better. Fucking wing gambit shitters have been spanking me a lot both in the Sicilian and the French. Maybe I should decline it but my principles won't let me.
>>549764865The Dutch is so fun. Just watch Esserman streams, he plays it alot. And as always read the damn book.>>549765202I play the advanced
Ruy Lopez is Jewish, Italian is Goyish.Grunfeld? Jewish. KID? Goyish. Benoni? Overwhelmingly Jewish.King's gambit is extremely Goyish. But queen's gambit? Quite Jewish.
The Dutch is an extremely high T opening
>>549783663I did not allege that they were sharp or spicy. Just recommending this repertoire for simplicity as anon focuses on his e4 e5 classical openings and runs into black’s other options
>>549792860No one knows whom youm arm.
>watching a homely looking 2000 chesscom girl streamer>a whale keeps donating every few minutesWow, must be nice to be a woman.
>>549798876You can literally use AI filters (or even make ups if you're a twink) to pretend to be a woman and do the same thing. Farm those Indians, anon. I believe in you.
https://lichess.org/JLkV37Zd/white#1Here's a nice game I had against the Owen's. I used the setup that Aman goes with in his speedruns.If we ignore the terrible blunders on moves 13 and 14, it was a pretty nice attacking game, then transitioned into a winning endgame where he was completely restricted. I especially like 26. Bg6
>>549802303Nice game
>>549785196NTA but the latvian might be like genuinely garbage. You probably should find something else for countering 1. e4
>>549801369Do note it's indians farming them, however, so it's not an entirely losing venture for the nation.
>>549772285>Frieren, my beloved!>Microcosmos, my nemesis!
>>549773818proving that thots have been polluting up chess since the middle ages
>>549782070I did that when I was in high school. I associate wild tactical gambits with cigarette smoke, stale beer, The Psychedelic Furs and and The Violent Femmes.
>>549812497no you didnt larpov you lying faggot
https://lichess.org/oeWnfxPC/white#1Okay, sorry, don't want to post too many of my games, but this one is so good.I blasted out 9 moves of theory against the Chudo Kann. Had a huge advantage when he didn't know how to handle the Two Knights. I was up 2 pawns, then on move 17 he thought he had e5 with tactics related to the queen pinning the pawn. But I calculated the line out perfectly and ended up with an exchange and a pawn with better pieces.98% accuracy Chudo Kann demolition. This is why I choose the Two Knights, there's no way that's how they want the game to go when they play 1...c6
What the fuck happened to lichess's opening book in the last year? It went from giving results instantly to taking literally 2 seconds to load after every move. It's just about unusable now.
>>549782025Somehow it doesn't surprise me that there's kenganfags (omegafags even) here.
>>549813879I thought it was me.Yeah, it's painfully slow for some reason.
>>549813543That's a Hambo line, innit.
Overwhelmed by the central pawn creep. A tale as old as time.
>>549815603I think it was actually Eric Rosen's video that got me playing the Two Knights
Nemo, Anna Cramling and Andrea Botez are my favourite chess players
>>549822036Interesting. For me it's Mikhail Botvinnik, Tigran Petrosian and Anatoly Karpov.
>>549822036>t.
>>549822036I like Andrea Botez content the most. Her best works:>say my name gambit declined (getting hit from the back variant)>make chess coomers bust a nut on demand (accepted)
>>549826950Where is white's king? This is what I got:
>play chess>a game you can never be good at if you don't start before the age of 8>(which you didn't)>only reason to play is fun and socializing with lonely 70yo men>choose to play openings that minimize fun in an attempt to maximize winning chances>(this minimizes your improvement rate)I have come to believe that it is possible to be truly and irredeemably despicable even if you do not do things or possess traits which are traditionally considered immoral.
>>549828721Most likely behind the white cat, somewhere in the square of g1-h2.
>>549737260No, but ok chess is full of ESLs which is why the incorrect usage of ON DEMAND took hold in the chess world and became a common phrase used to describe a "must win" situation.
>>549829224I’d play against the winner.
>>549833248cat vs rex
>>549829575AI failing on demand
>>549829575It's an IESLB game, you're just playing it on demand.>>549833918catmixer vs reximtac?
>>549834248I’d tear that cat fucker apart.
>>549834248Yes.
>>549834741No need to make things sexual
I’m a motherfucking T.Rex
>>549747446>magnus in a win-on-demand situationHere:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH-txHzE4jA
I love her feminine yet powerful jaw
>>549837121Thanks for posting this so I can watch it later on the tram
>>549837328Through centuries of miscegenation Kazakhstan has crafted the perfect race of people
>>549837656Fuck she’s so hot. Has there ever been other chess leaks of hotties?
>>549837656I want to open up her a file.
Don't care still premoving 1...c6
>>549838529Only if I can go b4
>>549837903There will be no leaks of Alua, I’m pretty sure. She possesses a rare beauty and she definitely knows it. But as any dignified and elegant lady should know it’s okay to tease but not to give everything away at once. If your face is enough there’s no need to show anything more. A man should have to work hard for the grand prize, really can’t accept anything less.
>>549840124I’d be her room service
>>549840124this, shes no gutter trash whore like the botez's
>>549840398any girl can be a whore, she just hasn’t met the right guy yet(Me)
>>549840124Picrel
>>549840958I wish I had a girlfriend so bad. What do I do /chess/?
>>549842125rub one out
>>549842269It’s not the same
>>549842125hookers
>>549842431I’m afraid to end up in prison with big bubbas
>>549842125rub one out. It only helps for a few days tho. God I need those lips…
>tfw I am based
>>549843496>>549843556Shit you're right. Gosh.
>>549842634kek imagine living in a shithole country
Give it to me straight: I’m 1200 ELO and I literally and I mean literally only play English as white and Czech Pirc as black. How fucked am I?
>>549846596Openings don't matter at all. You should choose them based on what positions you enjoy playing.
>>549846596openings are the single most important part of chess improvement and the sooner you grow up and start learning an actual solid repertoire is when you will see serious improvement
>>549843556She has single-handedly altered my perception of Kazakhstan. I didn’t know they made em like this out there.
>>549847003playing 10k bullet games is better troll advice than this
>>549851141I like to play bullet on my phone and listen to podcasts.
Lulu nurmy is my personal load lizard
>>549813879Same here. What the hell happened?
>>549855157>lulu nurmy>load lizardShow some goddamn respect to the reigning Asian individual blitz champion, edging out opponents such as the 6th best women’s player in China and an old Russian babushka as well. But for real, she has been on a heater in blitz recently and I think she has a real opportunity to make some noise at World Rapid and Blitz. If she makes the final 4 playoff round I want to be able to say “I saw her first.” We’ll see though; I give her my energy no matter what
I keep noticing 90% of the simping here is done during american hours, I wonder why
>>549846596openings are only as important as the main ideas that you can gain from themsome openings are passive, others more active, in a way they determine your playstyleif you don't like your openings, try a new one until you find one that you really like
I got my ass beat against an opponent that played the hippopotamus defense
>>549864327hippos are dangerous as fuck irli think more people die from them than from lions, wolves, and tigers
>>549863294Good advice because I literally don’t know what the point of the English or Czech Pirc is. I just play them because it immediately brings my low ELO opponents out of prep and forces them to use an engine.
I used a VPN to change to a Nigerian IP address and I got a mega discount on chess.com. If they try to come at me later, I can send them a screenshot of my passport.
>>549864386I saw them close up at zoo and understood how that is the case. You don't understand the mass of these things from video and picture. And they're fast and bizarrely nimble in water.
>>549864995Based danny finding literal ape baboon africans who evolutionarily stopped at the level of inventing fire for me to play
>>549864467with any openings you should learn the general theme and ideassome openings have many themes and ideas, and even ideas on top of ideas, with many good moves (a flexible opening)some openings just have one theme and idea with only one good move (usually gambits)if you are super lazy about openings, read more about José Raúl Capablanca and learn from him
>>549865535Will do. I don’t even know how I didn’t realize that there’s a definitive idea and theme for openings. Like, esoterically I understood that but never cared to really look into WHY people choose these openings. Thanks for the reminder and I’m gonna do just that.
>>549864995I’ve tried doing that and anytime I tried doing it, the price was the same. Maybe this isn’t possible to do from an iphone?
https://abema.tv/now-on-air/shogithe loser bracket final of the 51st Kio tournament is being played, between Asuto Saito (sente) and Takumi Ito.The winner will face Yasuhiro Masuda to determine the challenger Sota Fujii.
>>549766504>>549806610Thanks anons. I ended up scrapping it for the elephant because it's still a very aggressive choice and the engine really does seem to hate it quite a bit less than the latvian. I also decided to learn the fantasy when playing against the caro instead of the panov. Here’s my list so far. I'd like to play these up until I'm at least 2000 online (currently 800 rapid on CC). Thoughts?White (E5) - King’s GambitWhite (E6) - Milner-Barry GambitWhite (C5) - Smith-Morra GambitWhite (C6) - Fantasy VariationBlack (E4) - Elephant GambitBlack (D4) - Dutch DefenseBlack (C4) - Anglo-Dutch Defense
>>549868831P.S. Thanks for all the advice anons. I started chess like two months ago and got memed into playing the London/C6 D5 against everything, so I'm really trying to learn now.
>>549868831that's a based as fuck repertoire, make sure to do lots of puzzles and analyze every game
>>549868831Definitely good enough for 2000 rapid. The main issue will be getting the king's gambit to a playable state because there is way too much shit that black can try against it... but I guess it will feel rewarding if you do the homework.
What's the best time control if you're 400 elo
>>549869664Thanks boss. Will do.>>549869681Cheers. I'll try my best to make it work. Once I get up to the intermediate level and develop well enough tactically I can always swap to something else if need be. For now, it should be fine. Can't wait to try it out OTB at the club.
>>549870603rapid 10+5 or 15+10and actually use the time to think about your moves + your opponent moves
>>549867191Saito won in 123 moves.
>>549871289Maasaka...*tch* koitsu...
>>5498706031+0
>>549870642Good luck anon, the smith-morra reignited my passion for chess because it's just so comfy to launch an onslaught of an attack every game, while your king never ever gets bothered...
i'm drunk and i've got a vibrating anal plug up my assi'm ready to chess
>>549872571Thanks anon, happy to hear that. I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but hopefully soon.
>>549876914Average Moke fan
>>549876914Thanks anon, happy to hear that.
>>549813543I usually play Nf6 hoping to go into a Tartakower that I can lose by fucking up all the middlegame plans.
Thoughts on retards?
>>549885908Wow, it would be 'wild' if that happened. So 'wild'. But alas it is on reddit and the guy got updoots out of it, so I am not naive enough to believe the story. Still, 'wild' conception.
>finally win a game after a losing streak>opponent is 200 points lower rated than me
I can’t believe it’s been a year already. I remember watching the match just a day before my Math exams, desperately wanting gukesh to somehow win out of a completely drawn position. Magnus said that the position was 99% a draw, and there is only a 1% chance that Gukesh would win this. I took a break from the stream to practice Math because I knew that there was no point in watching the stream, as it will end in a draw. It was around 8 minutes. Boom, Gukesh won in those 8 minutes. Best champion ever.
>I can’t believe it’s been a year already. I remember watching the match just a day before my Math exams, desperately wanting gukesh to somehow win out of a completely drawn position. Magnus said that the position was 99% a draw, and there is only a 1% chance that Gukesh would win this. I took a break from the stream to practice Math because I knew that there was no point in watching the stream, as it will end in a draw. It was around 8 minutes. Boom, Gukesh won in those 8 minutes. Best champion ever.
Sac sac and win, simple as
I also remember turning off the stream to go to sleep and then waking up to a new WC.
>>549870827this. Blitz and even Rapid are for showing off the skills you already have gained through slow, thoughtful play and study. You have to learn to walk before you learn to run.
>>549870603The honest answer, is the longest time control that you can stand playing without getting bored and using a lot of your time. Ideally, you'd be playing classical time controls for improvement, but it's really hard for beginners to use the time effectively. 10+0 is a good place to start, but if you can play longer games, I would do that. Just try not to move instantly, take time on every move and try to understand what your mistakes are.
I remember staying up all night and telekinetically controlling the outcomes of the games and then going to sleep to a new world champion.
I remember turning off the stream, thinking “this crackhead gonna overdose”, going to sleep, and waking up the next day to find out Danya had died.
>>549890608semi-related but i find that just by focusing and actually calculating for every piece (yours and the opponent's), you will find any number of good moves and basically double your elodrawback is that obviously you will take up a lot of time which is way too limited in blitz, at least for a beginnerpro players have the experience and skill to essentially 'know' when to start calculating deeply and how much time they should spend on itwhich is why i think that beginners should start on rapid, get the feel and skill for calculating a small amount of moves because they have some time for it, but not too much that they get too confused or boredand then they should move on to a longer time format when they are able to calculate a larger number of variations
>>549806610Capablanca and Bobby Fischer both lost against it and Judith Polgar used to play it for some wild attacking games.I’m a fan of the Elephant Gambit too but I still think the Latvian gets overlooked, and I think it is complementary to KG because it’s basically like you’re playing the King’s Gambit with the black pieces
>>549892068would
>>549893643I miss him...
>>549894257okay cat “I can fix her” mixer
>>549894462I miss him so much, the chessiverse has been so much darker without him
>>549894257umm anonyou might want to look a little closer at the picture
sadly the game was ruined by missing a chance to trap the queen earlier but this is still one of my best moves ever
>>549898024(if the applicable laws were changed)better?
>>549846596What do you mean fucked? You can learn openings at any time. It's not like this is going to permanently scar your career or anything. I guess if you wanted to get REALLY good you might want to have gotten comfortable learning deep lines early but you actually are quite early in the grand scheme of things.>>549898024he's just being a creep. I actually recognize the photo, it was originally a "me at 13 vs me at <currentage>" thing.
>>549899720Because openings can tell you a lot about people’s personalities. Tell me your go to for white and black.
>>549899036V. v. nice. One line:1... Qe8?? 2. Qf6+ Kg8 3. h6 anymove 4. Qg7#Of course what is better is Bd7.
>>549899720>What do you mean fucked?I mean dick in the anus man. I mean full length penor in the rectum. I mean you take out your phallus, I take out my colon, we tied them in a nice tidy knot. That's what I mean.
>>549899892White (e4):>e5: Giuoco Piano>c5: Open Sicillian, I usually go for the classical setup with be3 be2 nc3 and nd4.>c6: d4 and Nc3, forget the name of this. Normal development from then on nothing crazy.>e6: again d4 and Nc3.>d6: d4 and regular development.>d5: Normal take and Nc3 + d4.>Nf6: three pawns.I have knowledge of some other theory but generally this is what I do.
>>549900178bd7 rxd7 and the problem persists that's how the game wentengine gives pic related as the best defence but it's still +5 and I have a several alternatives each move
Will we ever get Alua feet pics......
>>549901001Oh yes, I see. Because the queen is still doing two roles, protecting f6 and protecting e8. Nice.
>>549899892white: I don't play anything. I listen.black: I don't play anything. I listen.
This is reddit, this is memes
>>549906615reddit hates him though
>>549907089not anymore, after a couple popular posts about how "wholesome" it was for amateurs to play hikaru the hivemind switched and anyone who dares criticize him for anything gets mass downvoted
>>549907089Why would Reddit hate him? Him and levy are what normie redditors see as peak chess commentary. My girlfriend doesn’t play chess never searched it, but was recommended a levy video by the Facebook algorithm.
I don't think I'll ever get used to the fact that hes no longer with us. Over a month later and it still doesn't feel real. RIP to the greatest chess coach of all time.
magnus so washed
>>549914297somehow, he returned
>>549914242>Why would Reddit hate him?He got many hate posts after he threw the king against Gukesh. Also, there is the gambling streams he did and the shouting match with Alireza in the past.
>>549914297still waiting for his autopsy report
https://youtu.be/pWBnDc9Xwlk?si=sdTOBYF1LPlG2IuL&t=874.scam shills on suicide watch
>>549915535>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxJXn1dOwGA>A chess grandmaster took one too many pills while he was streaming online chess. This is what happened to his brain.
>>549916832Don't care .com has a better clicky noise
>>549916942>PRESENTING to the morgue
>>549916942Dustforce is such a comfy game
>>549915229Only by Indians though. There are A LOT of them on places like reddit now
If I start livestreaming will you guys watch me and give me bits?
>>549920630I'll watch but I'll only give hate comments based on what the engine says
Dumbass idiot bitch. Why the fuck would you play this opening and not take on f6? I didn't even want to play the rest of the game, idiot that he is.
>>549920630watch?if you are chest 100%, otherwise depends on your level and likeability give money?never ever
>>549724531loserfer
>>549915229If he manages to become WC it would be the most epic meltdown in Reddit chess history.
>>549922710The only way I could do it is if I don't care about my rating because that was my problem before. I would play only one game for the video and inevitably lose and get SO upset and depressed over it because it held so much importance seemingly being its own video. And uploading it every time was like a humiliation ritual.
>>549920630I’ll only watch if you stream a match against catmixer. Ultimate showdown with both streaming and doing commentary.
>>549916832cheating schizos also got BTFO
>>549920630I'll watch, I'd even give bits if I had a bank account (maybe in a month or two)
>>549923471yeah I can't imagine the "road to" format is good for someone who cares too much, casual streams maybe even in zen mode should be much less pressure> And uploading it every time was like a humiliation ritual.I seriously doubt anyone ever thought less of you for losing games, I liked your videos because they were comfy and you are strong enough to be instructive but not so strong I can't relate
>>549923689This would be really fun unironically
>>549920630I'll only watch if you promise to never so much as mention the demon c**m**** (spit be upon him)
>>549927078>I seriously doubt anyone ever thought less of you for losing games, I liked your videos because they were comfy and you are strong enough to be instructive but not so strong I can't relateSecond this. The rating climb goal was fun, but not all that important. Simply watching the game play out, listening to your thoughts during the game, and hearing the analysis afterwards was the primary source of entertainment and there's a lot of other gimmicks you can use besides just rating climbs as well like viewer challenges, chess variants, competing in arenas, etc.
>>549923689This is never gonna happen , we’ve all seen enough nature videos to know bears act all big and tough until they encounter one cat and the go running like cowards.
I'm just not gonna resign. Sorry. We're gonna sit here until I think of a good move or I lose on time
>>549928230yeah, for me beary's videos fit a similar niche to chessnetwork's live game videos.No one cares about the elo gains/losses, but it's interesting to hear someone who's very strong and has an appealing voice/personality talk and playBeary could borrow from Lefong's playbook and host viewer arenas if he felt like it or got enough subs etc.
He is risen:https://lichess.org/@/SeriousChest
I’ll watch you play chess Mr pink bear
>>549916942"... - high Adderall presence in blood"
>/chess/ talking about chess again>the pink bear boutta drop a new record>realized my plan to quit my job and leech neetbuxx for a bit to cope with burnout coincides with the candidatesLife's alright. Just started reading Why Lasker Matters by Andrew Soltis, might even pull out the olde physical board and play out some positions.
I've been watching this comfy chud girl.
>>549930851we are so back
>>549933473>tune in>chat tells her how she blundered a tactic>she starts coping about much positional chessThis has some potential desu.
>>549933473Been watching her for for a long time, she's one of the better ones
>>549934389Yeah she's based.>>549934202She copes yeah. But only started playing 3 years ago so good to have gotten to 2000. Also has a whale named Bill that gives her a lot of money every stream.
>>549933473damn, chess.com really does give literally any woman partner
>>549934990That unironically looks like a man.
>>549934202Stjepan should dump his gf for her
>>549937029Isn't she his sugar momma?
>>549932886Huge pieces.
>>549940706Nah Lasker was really small.
>>549920630It’s nice to see Beary being the biggest samefaggot on /chess/ hasn’t changed.
>>549943253Yeah, the fake e-celebs have always been the worst part about /chess/
>>549943253Did u mean namefaggot?
>>549943253Thats not the real Beary
>>549943365It can be fun sometimes but this guy is really sick in the head. >>549943371Both.
>>549914297Bro that’s so weird. You took my top comment from Ben Finegolds recent video and posted it here. Definitely put me in a weird state of mind for a second.
>>549943957Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if he was larping as a girl this whole time. Look how similar their rambling is. What a fucking clown.
Just hit #1 in the world on chesscum. Don't give up on your dreams bros.
>>549944084Both from Florida, both known for opening and closing accounts… wait a second
>>549944589duckcel, I kneel
>>549944084Kek, I got second top comment on that same video for writing Rest in Peace, Daniel Naroditsky. Small world. Picrel as proof it's my profile.
>>549945886How does it feel to stand in the shadow of my 1200 ELO presence with a current dominating 409 UPDOOTS? Please don’t bully my gay little chess channel.
>>549944191that would simultaneously be the most hilarious and pathetic thing I’ve ever seen lul
>>549946296I agree if by hilarious you mean cool and by pathetic you mean based.
>>549946480Not at all.
>>549946480Speaking of mentally ill cheaters, what happened to Dr Lupo after his big scandal 7 months ago. Did his career ever recover? I know he tried to offer money back to the chess community, did that ever happen?
>>549946242You tell me dude, you're the one stunting on us nobodies with those 185 subs. CC partnership when? Seriously though, I just started watching your video on Jack Sark. I actually quite like that guy, but I'm not really caught up on the whole Pegasus drama, so I'm curious to hear your take on it.
>>549947361At this rate, I might have 200 subs before 2030. I know, it’s weird being in the presence of royalty. But you know what? I put my pants on the same way every other man does. I don’t want to be treated differently. And jack sark is a complete douche. Typical Reddit brain rotted loser. Wants Kramnik to lose his GM title because he wasn’t actively sucking every chess personalities cock. Just as all the others, he is attempting to virtue signal and appear as a hero by using his platform to push that bullshit form to force FIDE to act against Kramnik.
>>549948430Damn he actually said that? I had no idea. I just watched him for his general improvement content and the CC vs Lichess comparison videos.
The Kram-Kram shit is just identity politics. Nobody supports or opposes him for genuine reasons related to chess.
>>549947094He’s still streaming, looks like his views took a hit though. And when I searched his name, all I could find were videos about the scandal. I’m sure that doesn’t help with getting sponsorships.
>>549934990it's why I block all gamergurl chess accounts on twitch instantly, they get views and money for doing 100x shittier than any man, fuck them all.
>>549952279But what are you left with? (Nothing)
>>549893643Pretty sure he didn't die right after he did the last stream. The next day after his final stream he played in the the Comet open. If you watch the last stream you can see Benjamin Bok and others in the chat telling him he has a big tournament the next day and its more important than streaming and to go to sleep. And Bortnyk went over to his house and was telling him off camera to go to sleep there is a tournament tomorrow.https://liquipedia.net/chess/Comet_Open/2025/TitledAfter he shut the stream down he likely went to sleep, and the next day woke up and beat Bluebaum and then lost to Alireza, then he played some games online after this, then at some point between october 18th night time to october 19th evening he died, because they found the body on the evening of octover 19th.
>>549948915He’s a certified loser. But like you, I too liked his lichess v .cum videos. But, alas, his true devious nature came out during the danya shit. How can any chess player worth a shit not see how wrong this Kramnik character assassination is? All it takes is to view it whilst removing your own emotions from the situation and you’ll see Kramnik literally had nothing to do with Danyas death and even though Kramnik is socially inept, he doesn’t deserve the hate campaign. They want Kramnik, who beat the likes of Anand and Kasparov, just to name a few, to lose his GM title over all of this shit. Fuck jack shart.
>>549953341In his final stream a lot of gms were aborting, is there any footage from their perspective? Like if Hans or someone had been streaming that night and reacting to the Danya shit show
>>549953823There might be. But what’s more telling is if you rewatch his stream and just watch the live chat. There were many there pleading with him.
>>549937029Stjepan has a reasonably pretty, employed, stable wife who for some reason puts up with his bullshit and seems to be partially funding his doomed quest to get any better than 2000. He won the lottery.
>>549946242I thought I was the only low elo trailer trash marine vet in this general. What a strange world, we even live in the same state. I could tell where you lived based off the porch you were sitting on and then stalked your .com profile to confirm. Weird.
>>549944084>zoomers are copying and pasting youtube comments into 4chan nowrough. have seen it outside of /chess/ too.
>>549955638I never got the point of posting looksminned guys in an attempt to blackpill. Like sure he's balding and has an ugly face but at the same time he's doing virtually everything he can to make himself look as bad as possible.
>>549955638Yeah he literally copy and pasted it directly into this thread. Totally gave me a schizophrenic moment.
>>549954925yeah, he's never gonna advance in chess. He's got the agadmator youtube chess level where 99% of his "strength" is merely being a bad player, but telling people what stockfish thinks about positions and spending 1000 hours trying to memorize what stockfish thinks about some specific niche opening.At 40+ years old, that means opponents can simply go into any random position they want any second of the game and the tard-memorizer will immediately have to make his next youtube video explaining "stockfish actually says I was better on move 12, but I uhh, didn't find this c5 push idea and so I lost the game and got last place in the tournament"This is why there's such a big separation between "chess youtuber" and actual "chess players". It's largely the chess prodigies who ever escape shitter-land - because when they start at like 8 years old like pragg/hikaru/nepo/vidjit/karjakin, they've already learned the focus is on becoming good on endgames and advanced puzzles, then openings are just the thing you pick up over time that helps to get a very slightly better endgame.But endgame and puzzles get exactly 0 youtube views, as 99.9999% of youtube is people desperate to get handed an automatic winning opening full of traps - so the stjepan types will reach 40-60 years old without ever having gotten as strong at endgames as a 14 year old indian prodigy, and the prodigy will improve his openings year by year, while the 40-60 year old's endgame technique instead gets worse year by year while aging.
>>549954925I think it's funny that she is working in the background of his last video. Like he couldn't turn the camera or go into another room to record? lol
How come I never see anyone here talk about how great this book is? I’ve read a few chess books but this one was legitimately hard to put down. Somehow this dude made a chess book a real page turner. I just started reading it last night and I’m sad because I’m almost done reading it.
>>549956292because it sucks and chess books are largely worthless in current day. Nobody is buying your AI-generated books, pajeet.
so if where to start for a retard like me?
>>549955985I never got to the point of posting incredibly edgy mean comments all day on 4chan while simultaneously clutching pearls when something hits my fee-fee’s. I hope to maintain this edge forever.
>>549954139Ya I remember, would be interesting to see the other GMs reactions though. Never seen something like that before, multiple GMs were aware and participating in the aborting. It was really obvious Danya needed to be checked into a hospital.
>>549956282she used to be in frame all the time on his older videos. that's how we know what she looks like.
>>549956220Dubov claims young prodigies are so good as such a young age because they're incels with absolutely no life. This shows you that despite all his shortcomings, Stjepan still won.
>>549956369I too am a newb, just signed up for lichess and I think doing the puzzles and "classical" time games to start building pattern recognition and tatical/strategic thinking is the way to go for me. idk how retarded you are though
New planI’m going to become a tattoo artist, move to khazakstan, work until i have enough money to hire an ex CIA contractor to psyop Alua into wanting a tattoo, then tattoo on her>PROPERTY OF (ANON) [me]Then she will be mine for ever
>>549956846I haven't said anything edgy or mean. The guy could lose he Botvinnik mane, eat more and lift for half a year, stop wearing polo shirts and suddenly nobody would think about reposting his photos to mock him. He'd just look like a normal bald dude.
>super chaotic and complicated middlegame position>perfectly calm and collected>winning endgame starts>pulse and blood pressure rises by 300%
>>549956350This book was written by an accomplished GM in 2018, faggot. Stay sub 1000 ELO and shut the fuck up. This book is based.
>>549958001sorry Jan markos, your book is shit and Im not buying it. Try an ad next time
>>549956369>>549957362Unironically this series:https://youtu.be/p8pZbhjL-fQ?si=82C67LpIz73O2iEJHe also did a v2 recently and updated a few things but the original series from 4 years ago is still the GOAT to me. When I got back into chess this helped me get back over 1000 in a few weeks of studying and watching each episode of this a couple times each.
>>549957004Yeah. All you need to know is that he was so volatile off camera that he literally gave another grown man (Bortnyk) keys to his home in order to do welfare checks on him (as seen by his last stream). This was just the first turn Danya was sloppy with the situation coincidentally he died shortly after. But yeah, as far as live reaction footage of other GMs playing him, I dont think there is any, as interesting it would be to see.
>>549957795This is why I have to play chess strictly at night. I’ve tried so hard to keep a level head going into winning end games and I just start to shit the bed because most of the time my adrenaline starts pumping so hard that I get stressed out. My entire day could potentially be ruined if I go into an endgame where I’m completely winning and manage to blunder against an Indian. I hate feeling like I’m essentially in a life or death situation and need to close in on the kill. It’s incredibly stressful so when I lose like that I just get so disappointed in myself. It was negatively impacting my life. So much so that essentially I only play at night.
>>549956369>>549957362>>549958284I second building habits even as someone who started after it was released, it goes against traditional principles about how you "should" learn but it's an extremely practical approach of fast-tracking you to the lower-intermediate level where many more resources are open to you, it's probably the best approach to start enjoying online games as a beginner without wasting your time.I think the idea that you should brute-force a working knowledge first and only then learn the underlying principles is applicable to a lot more than just chess too, but that's a rant for another day
>>549958114You’re a fucking faggot. Not that anon or GM Markos but that book is touted as one of the best in the IM/GM community. Literally kill yourself, faggot. https://youtu.be/SNSN_Kr8aW4?si=qXvkNvRfpZfd348n
Chess is 99% intuition. The only purpose of heuristics is to indicate the direction towards which you should be honing your intuition during training. Adult improvers get it the wrong way around and think heuristics is supposed to guide you during actual play, that is why they suck. Last but not least, the main thing leading the direction in which your intuition is developing during training should be the study of master games, not heuristics.>but anon, [supergm] always names some sort of heuristic when explaining his moves in post-game interviews!Post-hoc rationalisation. Intuition cannot be communicated.
>>549957795that's the opposite of my usual. if i'm in an endgame i know is winning and already know generally how, it's routine i may as well be playing a bot at that point. assuming no time pressure.
Chess is 99% tactics. Everything is concrete
>>549959309literal nobody who was 5000th ranked in the world, with a worse rating than female chess players, retires and tries to shill some trash book probably written by AI, what a fucking loser.
>>549960254>Chess is 99% tacticsThanks a lot you corpulent cyclops.
>>549960254>>The King's Gambit has lost popularity, but not sympathy. Analysts treat it with kid gloves and seem reluctant to demonstrate an outright refutation. "The Chessplayers Manual" by Gossip and Lipschutz, published in 1874, devotes 237 pages to this gambit without arriving at a conclusion. To this day the opening has been analyzed romantically - not scientifically. Moderns seem to share the same unconscious attitude that caused the old-timers to curse stubborn Steinitz: "He took the beauty out of chess.">To the public, the player of the King's Gambit exhibits courage and derring-do. The gambit has been making a comeback with the younger Soviet masters, notably Spassky (who defeated Bronstein, Averbach and myself with it). His victories rarely reflected the merits of the opening since his opponents went wrong in the mid-game. It is often the case, also, as with Santasiere and Bronstein, that the King's Gambit is played with a view to a favorable endgame. Spassky told me himself the gambit doesn't give White much, but he plays it because neither does the Ruy Lopez nor the Giuocco Piano.>The refutation of any gambit begins with accepting it. In my opinion the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
Anyone else drinking and playing chess tonight?
>>549954925He’s a good looking guy you can’t cap
>>549959309Didnt mean to hurt your feelings Jan Markos. Going to pirate your book right now and redistribute it freely on pajeet telegram channels just so you make even less money this month. Not going to read it by the way, LOL
>>549961527Is he your chess husbando?
>>549961821I'm gonna photoshop half a dozen moves to be entirely wrong at random and distribute it free so everyone will absolutely suffer if they download it
anyone wanna play some Atomic Duck chess?
>>549962914Sure can you give a quick rundown on the rules first?
>>549961521I have mostly stopped drinking because it was giving me acid reflux which was giving me sleep apnea which was lowering my chess performance.
>>549963107in atomic chess, if you take a pawn or piece, all other pieces other than pawns in the 3x3 circle go kaboomin duck chess every turn you make one move then get a 2nd move to teleport a duck somewhere, it's invincible and you cant move through itatomic is the most offensive chess variant, duck is the most defensive chess variant in existence, so I'm fucking around combining both of them
>>549964335Alright let’s play. Is this on chesscom?
>>549964632yes, chesscom under Play -4player&Variants, I can invite you using username or I could just host it and you join off the list
>>549961821lol I’m the original anon who posted about the book. It’s goated and I pirated it as well. You sound like a seething under 1200 chud.
I guess no one is capable of taking me on in Atomic Duck
Oopsie looks like your king's gambitty wambitty got bayoneted.
>>549966428I meant king's indian LOL
>>549965462>seething under 1200 chudYou just described 9/10 anons itt.
>>549966695ask me how good it feels to be the only 2600+ player on all of 4chan. I'm pretty sure it feels like this guy (I don't watch wrestling but that's the look)
>>549966428This might be controversial but I think the king's paneer defense has ruined even more beginners than the chudo. It's a really cool opening at like 1800+ but below that it's tragic.
>>549966894the KIDDLEDefense is definitely the most tragic of all popular defenses. It identifies a beginner who learned nothing at all about black beyond "I guess castling is a good move, right?"
>>549966881You will never be allowed to make a comeback, Christopher.
this whole general is just catmixer talking to himself now
>>549943957You laugh, but you can't disprove anything he said there. C@tm*xer is a menace.
>>549967094>talking to himselfAbout himself.
What was Danyas ELO at staying alive? About 400 chess.com/900 lichess?
>>549967480My name is Catmixer: for we are many.
>>549967380Fuck off >>549968070I am Catmixer
Every fucking catmixer in this thread is a bitch idiot except for me.
>>549966428For a moment at the end I thought you tricked me and this was a famous game, because it reminded me of Fischer's queen's gambit game against whatshisname.
I’d like to see Bearypink and Catmixer face off.
>>549968995Can we set this up? I’d contribute 5 dollars to a prize pool.
>>549969492We all pool the money with me then I go to Venezuela?
>>549969540Why would you go there? Don’t go by boat whatever you do.
>>549969492this is actually a cool ideai can offer ten dollars and half a chocolate bar
>>549969826I hear it's a nice destination if you want to flee the country. But I might get bombed yeah.
>>549970394I know a guy that fled to there. Money goes a long way, you’ll live like a King.
>>549969492>>549969540>>549969952I'm not giving anyone here any money but I'm willing to send nudes to the winner. I'm a guy but I have a nice body and a 7 inch dick.
>>549970652Nice, let’s keep the prize pool growing.
>>549970765I will do 1 sex with the winner. This is karla btw
>>549970765I will send nudes to the winner. I am an ugly girl with a 7 inch long vagina.
I just got reassignment surgery. I will send pictures of my open flesh wound to the winner.
>>549971593>>549972004>>549972191AAAAAAAAAAHHHH IT'S THE FUCKING GUY WHO KEEPS REPEATING SHIT FROM PREVIOUS POSTS IN AN UNFUNNY AND DEEPLY REDDIT WAY DIE DIE DIE DIE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>549972191Is the wound 7 inches long?
What? You gonna tell me that Santa isnt real either?https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/chess/complaint-filed-against-indias-youngest-fide-rated-chess-player-father-defends-three-year-old-prodigy/articleshow/125937054.cms
>>549972539It’s still pretty fresh, there’s a lot of puss and blood coming out and the nurse keeps reminding me to dilate on demand.
>>549972757India and cheating go together like peanut butter and jelly
>>549972816I vet it, you said puss instead of pus LOL.
>>549972816I can post a pic if there’s enough interest, my dilator is shaped like a bishop so it’s loosely chess related.
Why the fuck does every thread on this site have to have like 20 posts about mentally ill crossdressers?
>>549973340its 2025 get over it
>>549944589nice
>>549973425Only for like two more weeks bro.
>>549973586I know. Looking forward to the Christmas tournament. I don’t have much family here but at least I have you guys.
>>549973719There’s literally 4 people in this entire general and I’m two of them.
>>549973978And we're you too, so that makes four of us.
>>549972816kek
>>549974290And you're me. Gosh, I really need to find a friend to play chess with. Self-games get boring. I might move us to /sp/ one of these days just for fun.
>>549974692>what is expect elephant
>>549974795It's when you play e4 against that guy who was asking for opening advice itt.
>>549974795No it's javascript (not going to /g/ for formatting)>function Youify() {>####let quotes = document.getElementsByClassName("quotelink");>>####for (quote of quotes) {>########if (quote.parentNode.className == "postMessage") {>############quote.text = YouifyString(quote.text);>########}>####}>}>>function YouifyString(s) {>####if (s.substring(s.length - 1 - 4, s.length) == "(You)") {>########return s;>####}>>####return s + " (You)";>}
>>549957689No, you’re using a buzzword “minmaxxed” to put the blame back on him. Guy was born with garbage fucking genes. Never had a chance. He is short, he doesn’t retain weight and he is balding severely at 18. Are we going to throw a leather coat on that? How about the size of his crown?
>>549972757indian prodigy get a headstart on cheating too! Such talent!
>>549975728>doesn’t retain weightThis alone discredits everything you say.
>>549958284>>549959236Cool, I checked it out and skipped forward through the first couple vids, good principles and I've been following those for the most part already: get your pieces in the middle/control the middle ASAPI learned about castling early pretty recently too, it was a trip watching the freestyle tournament castling mechanics, I had to look up how that worked.I also recently learned about "en passant" capturing from that freestyle stream too.Won my first game playing a 10+3 rapid tonight, guy said he hated me at the end :'( lol
>>549974692How did you take a picture of my screen?
>>549974692Also how come it didn’t add (you) to that one post? Was that your actual post and the script bugged?
I love mean girls.
>>549972757parents thought they could milk it a little harder, get some extra publicity and money. lmao.
>>549979609Who doesn't?
>>549979609The things I’d do to Dorothy Catalonia
>>549972757Brown child cheating? Color me surprised!
>>549974880Real (I'm that guy and I can't wait to get molested playing it my first time OTB next week).
>>549983007>>549976554>>549972757Timmies having a meltdown because the king of chess is Indian
>>549985767saar do not fret because toilets are not an option, we are leaders of chess!!
>>549972757when this was first posted I went to his fide profile and noticed that while being 7/40something in total he was 3/3 against that Abhijeet Awasthi and immediately assumed he was either a cousin or payed by his family, I wanted to post it but something came up and forgotglad to see I was right
>>549930851based looking forward to more kino>>549943957>look at him describing exactly what I'm doing in this very thread, isn't he crazy??fuck off cheatmixer
i think i will finally register an account for chessi need a name
>>549930851love ya, chest
>>549986426what a highly original post. Le wow!
>>549990731Nate_Higgers
>>549990731ToiletsForIndia
>>549991113you're posting wojaks now niggaabsolutely 0 self-awareness
>Gothamchess: *sigh* ...We need to talk.
>>549994738Ladies and gentlemen, niggers.
>>549994279try not to get too angry about it zoomer. If you get too angry you can cry to your girl… oh… wait…nevermind
>>549994857This is why no one likes you animals. Normal people can't go anywhere online anymore without a jeet shitting it up. You bring zelo value and all you do is kill threads.
I blinked and hans is like 21 now? is he closer to his dream of becoming the first american world champ?
I have been considering memorizing reams of theory against the Alapin just so I can destroy the chuds who ruin the Sicilian with 2. c3
>>549990731UglyIdiot247
What is your ideal chess afterlife?Mind wipe and a reincarnation so you can learn chess over again? Would you want to reincarnate right now and enjoy online chess again, or would you reincarnate in the past and play in the 1800s?Or maybe you just want think of any famous chess players and they will appear next to you. Imagine playing against Bobby or Magnus.
>>550003728reborn and chess never existed and i did something useful with my life instead
>>549966894>>549967043Hey, that sounds like me. I just like Nf6 against d4 (and c4).Is there some other black opening I should look at?
>>550003728>what is your ideal chess afterlife?Die, go to heaven, grind as long as it takes to beat prime Fischer with the king's gambit.
Hope everyone is having a great chess weekend!-Kev
>>550003728reincarnate as the instantiated sentience of the mole on Alua Nurman's chin.
A perfectly equal position, as you can tell
>>549724531I just invented a new Chess variant If I post it here will I be mockedFirst time in this general from /wowcg/ and /osg/
>>550006547yeah, don't post it here please.
>>550007054
>>550006227>black has 29 points of material>white has 28.5 points of material + fewer pawn islandsReasonable.
>>550007409>first time in this generalThere hasn't been a single day in the last several years when you didn't post here, 'mixer.
Average life expectancy of the US is 72Average chess.com rating is 500Danya died when he was 29This makes his ELO at staying alive roughly 90 chess.com at a peak but probably settling around an ELO of 65
>>550009208Ok, but by that metric my chess rating is the equivalent of living to 300, and I'm a total shitter.
>>550009928If you're top 99 percentile it'd be the equivalent of living til 100, but you can't know your Elo at staying alive until you die
>>550009928Damn unc
Danya is still alive. Chesscom is under siege. Patriots in control. Two more weeks.- Q
I wanna read all the chess endgame books. What order do I need to go in, ideally?
>>549915535I don't think it's ever coming.
>>550016991They have yet to invent a document long enough to list all the narcotics found in his system.
>>550016623Silman's complete endgame course
>>550017773Sillyman’s complete endgame course LOL
>>550016623Silman and Shereshevsky first
>>550016623I predict you will read the only the first chapter of any book suggested.t. have tried to read endgame books
>>550017856What you need is Babyman's baby course for babies ROFLMAO
So… where’s the tournament today LOL
>>550019360I’ll join if anyone else wants to play a few games.
Just made an account and I'm really enjoying the 'Study' feature of LichessMakes me want to spend hours thinking up insane and retarded variations
>>550020105Fuck you catmixer you’re not allowed leave the general
>>550020404we are all catmixer you cant kick us all out
>>550019360I joined, you goys better do the same
>>550020736which one did you join?
>>549916832He's right, Lichess is objectively the better chess site, but I still play on CC because my entire club is full of normies who exclusively play there. A lot of these people have been playing casually online for years before joining the club and had never even heard of Lichess until our coach set up a private study for us there. It just goes to show that we "internet" people often misunderstand how most casual players / normies actually think. They Google "chess", click the first result, see CC, and never look any further. Popularity beats quality every time, and that's the real reason Lichess will never be on top, no matter how much better than CC it is.
Morning Kev
>>550021747Hey is this Kiev? Gmorning my bro.-Kev
>>550021451It also doesn’t help that all of our coaches / titled players play on CC for obvious reasons, so any new members who join see that immediately and flock there too.
>>550022060>play on CC for obvious reasonsthe chess mafia?
>>550021987that's not kiev because he did not sign it kiev-Kiev
>>550021987>>550022269it's kyiv
>>550022331no-Kiev
>>550022269That make sense.-Kev
>>550021451lichess is objectively worse. It doesn't have duck chess or the 90 other actual good variants, just the gaylord variants from 40 years ago only.
>>550022176Titled Tuesday, higher-rated opponents, and the fact that some of them definitely get paid to play there. We have a couple of GMs, some IMs (as well as quite a bit of NMs and FMs obviously), and I'd be shocked if at least a couple of them haven't signed contracts to exclusively play on CC by now.
>>550023162>a couple GMsThere are a million GMs on lichess
>>550023162detecting cheating costs money, lichess is free, therefore it's perpetually infested with pajeet cheaters eternally. That alone is enough reason to not touch it with a ten foot pole except to play twitch streamers you know arent cheating in casual games
>>550023282Respectfully, did you even read what I wrote or are you just being dense? What does a couple of GMs being regulars at my club have to do with the fact that a lot of other GMs also play on Lichess? Your comment doesn’t even make sense. Regardless, it's not a coincidence that all of our titled players (not only the GMs) play on CC.
>>550024108Also, I'm saying all of this as someone who heavily prefers Lichess. My reason for playing on CC was stated in the original comment.
>>550024108It has everything to do with it, you are just too low IQ to understand.
>>550023408Has anyone ever done a comparison of the anti-cheat systems on both sites? It would be interesting to see, since I always read anons here pointing out how Lichess doesn't ban obvious cheaters, but I've never bothered checking for myself, so I have no clue how valid those claims are.
>>550024483i agree with other anon you are the low IQ person here
>>550024880I am the highest IQ person on this entire thread
>>550025035post a challenge you wont
>>550025141you're right I won't because I refuse to play with c*tm*xer
>>550025231gets called outrefuses to play in case catmixer is here
>>550025398yes
>>550024483Whatever helps you sleep at night dude. I'm sure it's only a coincidence that every single one of the titled players I mentioned plays on CC and only really uses Lichess for their studies. You surely know better though.
>>550025571Because they are literally being paid to, you absolute clown
>>550025527Why are you so afraid to play catmixer? What did he do to you?
>>550025764He beat me with the bongcloud. I was humiliated. Now I hide from him and refuse to play any anon games here in case he’s behind the other screen. I am very smart btw
>>550025998doesnt sound very smart but ok
>>550025764he cheats and he's gay
>>550025737Which is exactly what I wrote in my original comment that you replied to with your nonsensical completely unrelated gibberish about Lichess having a lot of GMs. Please proceed by seeking professional help. You need it.
>>550026196you cheat and you're gaycheckmate
its keev
>>550026317>>550026196Get a room you two lolNo but for real make a challenge room and play
Glad to see people in this general talking tough until they’re challenged to a game hasn’t changed. I agree with club anon, low IQ anon just got humbled.
ATTENTION!our 10+2 fischer random arena starts in 20 minuteswe have a record setting 2 players already, join quick before we run out of space!https://lichess.org/tournament/qosbiGJJ
>>550027243fuck off catmixer
>>550027340literally who?
>>550027331not gonan play with fuckign catmixing fagggots
>do a puzzle on chesstempo>tab out, do something else>go back>spend 2 minutes thinking about the puzzle>can't see anything>finally realize I'm staring at the already solved puzzleevery fucking time
>>550027470Being the oldfag that I am, you complaining and pretending to be smarter than everyone is way more annoying than catmixer ever was. Just play and if you lose you lose, no need to hold a grudge.
>>550027789FUCK YOU BITCH
>>550027243I'm neither of them but I think the problem was the first anon said "we have...." without specifying he meant his club and the other anon assumed he was talking about lichess and corrected himof course instead of one admitting he could have phrased it better and the other admitting he misunderstood and it was silly to think he meant lichess only has a couple GMs they started insulting each other because that's how 4chan works, kinda jeetish when you think about it
>>550027331reximtac here, how can i join? :)
Fischer Random rapid started in 12 minshttps://lichess.org/tournament/qosbiGJJget in boys
>>550028054rex here, please let me join!
>>550028323Join the team first and it will let you join
>>550027470I'm more of a dog guy actually
>>550028347That is literally catfucking mixer spelled backwords you dumbass
>>550028347it says "Your join request was declined by a team leader."whats the issue?
>>550028451I really like this picture. If other people have pics of their pets with chess boards please post them.>>550028505That could be anyone. Pretty sure it's an nod to Rex Sinquefield.
So now we have people who want to join and play in the tournaments, but we won't let them in case they're some guy that overshared two years ago? Common now
>>550029206fuck you catmxier
>>550029336
I would rather turn away 100 legitimate members than let one c*tmixer play and cheat and disrespect this community.
we should let anyone join the team again
>>550029905fuck. you. cat. mixer.
>>550028505That's just a coincidence. It's probably a combination of Rex, like >>550028750 said, and this anon's aspirations to the IM title (as in how a ship changes "tack" to set its course).
>>550030047What’s up with this guy lol
>>550030159He mentioned previously the tac is short for Tactical because that’s his playing style. I honestly don’t think it’s catmixer and the team leader should approve his application. It’s about to be new years, let’s start fresh.
what posesses someone to stay in a place where no one wants them, spamming posts constantly
>>550030375you dont speak for everyone here loser most of us dont mind catmixermaybe you should leave if you cant handle that
>>550030593Catmixer talking about himself again
>>550030593>"you dont speak for everyone">goes on to speak for everyoneJust thought that was funny, I agree though, who really cares at this point, its been years. Who's the one guy complaining and what did catmixer even do to him?
>>550030186Club anon from before here. Reading back his earlier replies to me, I think it's just a bored kid posting nonsense begging for (You)s.
>>550031279its the same guy spamming how much he hates catmixer
>>550030593>most of us dont mind catmixerTo be fair, most of us also are catmixer.
>>550031153It’s probably fucking catmixer complaining about himself so he’s still on the mind and you’re also him asking about him so fuck off.
>>550032854the most schizo post ive ever seen on chess congrats
I've got this on /a/ the other day should get a lot of mileage out of it in this general
>>550034094i like it lol
>>550022961it's open sauce we could vibe code duck chess in and do a PR
>>550028508>Your join request was declined by a team leader.mine too, but I just joined the site recently so I guess they've avoiding trolls or something
>>550028508>>550035920catmixer prevention protocol. Try not being catmixer and then you can be on the team
>>550036084im rex not xer, get it straight
>Me enjoying some chess on a nice Saturday afternoon.
>>550038547Time to head over to /fit/ anon.
>>550016623100 Endgames You Must knowSome female player put each position on a note card and then she became world champion
>>550039203I could really use that book I’m so bad at endgames as we saw today
>>550039716study Akiba Rubinstein. He is the best endgame player ever
>>550039929I dream of building a cabin in the woods and bringing a bunch of chess books and disappearing for a few years.
>>550039203>Some female player put each position on a note card and then she became world championneat
>>550039929Rubinstein is based
>>550040785I agree he’s got at least a 12 ph level
>>550040785Wasn't that guy completely fucked in the head?
>>550042908more than the usual chess player?
>>550043426Yeah. Didn't they stick him in a mental asylum or something?
I have come to the terrible realization that I need to study pawn endgames
>>550044269I’ve been in and out a few times. It’s not as rare as you think.
>>550044269Akiba Rubinstein developed acute schizophrenia during World War 1 and had to be institutionalized.
>>550045696Schizophrenia is serious I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
>>550035520people already programmed most of the variants, lichess just refuses to add any of them and leaves them on an obscure fork website pychessorg which has 10 total users to chesscom's website page's 2000+ active users. This guarantees variants are eternally dead on lichess and pychess as with only 10 players, there's zero people ever working on anti-cheat or anti-trolling or competitions (unlike chesscom which hosts variant tourneys and championships for money)So there's zero reason to ever leave chesscom.
when the reigning world champion of duck chess speaks, you ought to listen
>>550046807>people already programmed most of the variants, lichess just refuses to add any of them what's their rationale for this?
>>550047609Does he quack like a duck?
>>550000165He is
>>550047609more like the reigning world champion of dick cheese
>>550047773that's mandatory when you perform an advanced quacktic, otherwise quacking is considered bad manners during a game.
>>550000165the first world champ in modern chess history (meaning the rules after queen was added to the game) is the American Paul Morphy, a Louisiana boy who fought for the Confederacy (the right side) in the civil war, and went to europe and took a steaming shit over 100% of the chess players over there, got bored and came home.The second "world champ" made the hans niemann gambit of hoping the players better than him will age out, retire and die beforehand because he'd never actually win a tournament against them ever.
>>550049423Quacktic?! Where do you people come up with this stuff loll
>>550050331one pro gamer move: move your pawn forward 2 past their pawn, and place the duck behind your pawn, you've now blocked En Pheasant as your duck is in that space.
>>550050473En pheasant??? YOURE KILLING ME LOLLLLL
>>550045696did he? If it was WW1, I'd need to know if maybe his diagnosis started for "noticing" when bankers took the entire world hostage using compounded interest loans on weaponry to britain, france and germany which were impossible to pay back for either side except by destroying the other country to give them to the bankers. (Rubinstein could've been a real schizo, I'd need to see the paperwork to say yes/no. I've read letters from people with the actual physical disease who make claims like they've invented the question mark... but in 1910 diagnosis might've not been sound)
>>550045696He was institutionalized shortly before the start of WW2. I wondered how a Polish Jew who was expected to become a talmudic scholar by his family (but decided to become a chess player), was able to survive Nazi occupied Belgium.This story came from a Euwe book:>He finished his life in a mental asylum in Antwerp. During the war these asylums were sometimes exploited as refuges by resistance workers. Nazi investigators once descended on the place and asked Rubinstein, “Are you happy here?” “Not at all”, Rubinstein replied. “Would you prefer to go to Germany and work for the Wehrmacht?” “I’d be delighted to”, Rubinstein replied. “Then he really must be mad”, the Nazis decided.
>>550050186>The second "world champ" made the hans niemann gambit of hoping the players better than him will age out, retire and die beforehandBy your chronology (Morphy being the first world champ) Steinitz would be the second, and he didn't dodge challengers.
>>550052163I think he meant Fischer.
>>550052163steinitz entirely dodged paul morphy. His nickname was even "the austrian morphy" and he waited until Morphy quit playing chess after so many years unable to find anyone able to compete with him (Morphy even made it mandatory to play with opponent getting extra material odds so it was a more fair fight, since not even Adolf Anderssen - the other guy on Steinitz level - could come close to Morphy in a match)
>>550052659Nah, Fischer is the second American world champ and took the more typical Magnus approach of winning and then realizing world champs paid too little and were too much hassle with FIDE's shitty rules so told FIDE to go suck a nut and crown any random hobo instead.
>>550052163also, Emanuel Lasker followed steinitz precedent of being a coward which is the only reason he never faced Rubinstein who would have given him a thrashing. The early champs were pretty much a joke, the guy who was champ got to choose who he wanted to play and how many millions of dollars (Adjusted for inflation) you'd have to fund to play him.
>>550050186I don’t know if “Louisiana boy” is accurate, it kind of implies he was a regular bumpkin or something. His family was part of a (at the time) very European New Orleans elite. Also he offered to help the Confederate generals with strategy cuz he must be good at battle strategy because he plays chess (lol) but they told him to shut up, nerd.
>>550053054Steinitz professional chess career didn't start until Morphy had retired. His first international tournament was in 1862.>steinitz entirely dodged paul morphySteinitz entirely went to New Orleans in 1883 and ambushed Morphy in the street because Morphy wouldn't respond to his letters. They talked, but Morphy told him he was done with that chess shit.>>550053927I don't disagree about Lasker, though his method of dodging was making idiotic match demands that his challengers either couldn't afford ($5000 in early twentieth century money, which is why Rubinstein never got to play him) or weren't stupid/desperate enough to accept (telling Capablanca in 1912 that he had to win the match by +2 to be called world champion).
>>550053054Morphy had already retired from competitive chess by the time Steinitz became one of the world’s leading players. The only me who arguably have “avoided” a match with Morphy was Howard Staunton
>>550054918it's not like Steinitz was a 8 when Morphy retired. That's Steinitz waiting until both are nearly _50_ before ambushing Morphy in a random street after Morphy had given up on shitty low paying tournament play against constant disappointing players.
>>550055047"I didn't become a leading player until you retired" is code word for "I was a pussy and had to wait 30 years to avoid playing you"Imagine if I intentionally can play Magnus today and instead wait 12 more years on purpose so that I can ambush him in a random street when he's 47 to declare Fight Me Now Magnus!No, grow a dick and play in your 20s and 30s like an actual athlete not a Steinitz vagina.
>>550055857* and it's not like he didn't know who Morphy was. Steinitz was reading newspapers about Morphy for decades, hiding from him, hiding from him, hiding from him, waits until Morphy quits chess and is running a law firm, to finally pretend to be willing to play Morphy.
God I miss Danya so much it’s unreal. He’d be streaming right now if he were alive.
>>550056760he would be so high right now if he were alive
Morphy would have dodged Gukesh
>anooooooon why aren't you improoving you should read boomer books and study endgames like a nerd and think about your moves and and-Why should I improve? 1900 chess.com rapid is good enough for me.
>>550057664he would have alerted the authorities that an unwashed slave smelling of decal matter has gotten loose and is pretending to play chess (and rather poorly) and they would have taken gukesh away.
>>550058368Indians didn't have such a terrible global reputation back then.
>>550059803lol
>>550057989I hate this image. What the fuck is that thing? I hate it.
>>550056760He’s streaming up in heaven right now.
>>550060272I named my cat after his cat
God damn, Rubinstein really was a Magnus endgame grinder. Opponent tried to just trade everything and Rubinstein got these pawns and opponent white to play and resign. So hard to spot how losing it is a few pawn moves ago.
>>549944589With an elo rating like that, I seems like you could win on demand, on demand.
>>550063012Why does everyone keep saying on demand?
>>550063012many variants are nice because draws don't exist. Duck, chaturanga, atomic, threecheck, etc. are almost always one side wins one side loses.That's 1934 games with 0 draws in my blitz run.If one player is even 5% better than the other, they can just keep playing until eventually the other guy makes a small mistake, unlike chess where you can be 5-10% better and still like 70% of move choices lead to possible draw systems for opponent.Currently at 1934 matches on blitz ladder with exactly 0 draws. If they play better they could dirty flag me or beat me, but they can't draw.
>>550063468An anon mentioned disliking the term as used by chess commentators, claiming it was incorrect English and probably mistranslated from the Russian (he said it should be "must win situation"); then another anon created a controversy about it by pretending to be different anons arguing over it, spamming the general in turn. Now it's a /chess/ meme.
>>550060297that's a tapir, which is most closely related to odd-toe ungulates like horses rather than actual pigs. Hence it has all the weird anatomy of a horse (teeth, nose, ears) yet because it's a lazy south american and indonesian version, it sits around all day eating junk and moving slowly with none of the speed of a horse which is the horse's only redeeming cool factor.There's no tapir opening in chess because tapir are a slow and weak animal, so you'd need an opening as slow as the hippopotamus, except with zero of the defensive value and pieces defending themselves. It'd need to be some time-wasting shuffling opening like the bongcloud where you swap all your knights and bishops starting squares or something.
>>550062731I assume white king can't stop both h pawn and c/d pawns at the same time
>>550064746I've done it, I made the tapir opening. Whoever wins a game with this is a legend.
Is castling a meme?Almost every time I play London I'm better off just attacking with kingside pawns and rook instead of castling.
>>550063893That’s cool but it seems like people really make these chess memes on demand
>>550065135correct. His king can't make any moves towards h or he instantly loses on c-d. His own pawn is 4 instead of 3 from queening so he can't pawnrace if kings stand still (and rubinstein's king is in the promotion box anyway.) And his king can't spare a single step to c-d ever or it leaves the promotion box of the h-pawn (that 4x4 grid)
>>550066170no, castling is an extremely strong movecastling as soon a possible just because it's A Thing You Should Do is a meme though
>>550066170castling is a meme, yes. It's a valid move, but it's not better to have castled than to not have castled.Castling is specifically beneficial only when you can migrate defensive pieces to protect the castled king faster than opponent can migrate their attackers to your castle side, and when your king was unsafe in middle because opponent's exact setup gave him an available good option of ripping the center of the board open to expose the king. And when the queens are both alive so the king cannot win the endgame by running up the board to be worth an extra 4 points (attacking 8 squares per move)
>>550066787playing the king's indian defense is truly a bad meme that should be avoided.
>>550067503this but unironically
>>550038960is doing puzzles in between sets the move?
>>550067503I play it, it’s good for bullet if you play it like a system and ignore everything your opponent is doing
>>550068589the problem is both King's Gambit (white) and King's Indian Defense (black) are unsound openings, but KG is at least rare novelty for some people so you surprise them, while KID is super-common so it has zero novelty factor despite being a below-average defense. Better to play something dubious which opponent has to waste time thinking about because they haven't played 2000 times already.
I am the gayest person in this thread AME
>>550068958what are your 3 favorite openings
>>550068992the correct answer would be: london, queen's gambit and caro-kann
>>550068992Caro KannLondonScotch Gambit
>>550068958have you ever used a pawn as a buttplug?if yes, did you pick a white or black one?
>>550069147woah now, scotch is a man's gambit, you should be playing queen's gambit where you pretend to gambit but can't actually take any responsibility by giving up any material at all ("how do you write a woman? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability" Jack Nicholson)
>>550069453no I'm not gay
>>550069105>>550069480QGA is peak tactics
>>550068958Can you tell us any gay stories from your life loosely connected to chess?
>>550069662he says smugly, running his fingers over the polished plaque sitting on his mantle that says "600 ELO Chess.com Accomplished"
>>550069662Redpill me on the QGA
Is anyone else in this thread ugly and stupid or is it just me?
>>550071049Me and I'm short too
Should I trade in the KID for the Nimzo?
>>550071342Nimzo-indian against queens gambit? Definitely. I hated when people nimzo'd me when that was my main opening.
>>550071342You shouldn't listen to the people in this thread about dropping the KID unless you are having poor results with it. Its theoretical viability in classical chess at the highest level doesn't matter. And even then it's playable, there are just better openings.
>>550071342if you mean one of the other 4-6 nimzo openings, you'll need to be more specific, since everything gets called a nimzo, even the move1 e4Nc6
>>550071049You’re not ugly and stupid, you’re one of us.
>>550072092Gooble gobble, we accept you, one of us!
Is Catalan the most retarded opening?>let's do Queen's Gambit, oh wait, I changed my mind, let's do King's Indian instead
I got back to 99 percentile liblitz. Next step 100th percentile, shouldn't be any harder right? LOL
>>550073247Who’s the hottie tomatie?
>>550073247probably some reddit girl from 10 years ago who was concerned about going bald
>>550073247reddit gave her a 5.5 what the helly https://www.reddit.com/r/truerateme/comments/12mm621/18f_personal_guess_is_abt_45_range_but_i_wanna/#lightbox
>>550074064Oh. There are so many beautiful chess women we need to appreciate. Why post a rando?
>>550074440would mate this queen
>>550074398Oh, I think I remember this. It's advanced stage autism. The owner of that subreddit has some autistic pride in an objective scale of aesthetics, and everyone who doesn't agree with his ratings gets banned. So in every topic people wait until they see what other people are putting and then they make that their rating too. It is like normal reddit hive-mind on steroids.
What causes so many people with thousands of online blitz games under their belt to seemingly never improve? I saw a dude with 10k games played once who was still stuck at 400.
>>550073247>>550074398looks pretty cute if not trannyone pic is a bit sus
>>550075151Because they make the exact same mistakes every game and they never review their games to see where they could have done better.But even beyond that, chess is just about the hardest thing ever to improve at for a standard normie. And 400 is peak normie rating.
>>550074479For me it’s Anna Gordon
>>550074440Because when I make a post, I open up my pictures folder and somewhat randomly pick something from the thumbnail because images are good and fun to use.
>>550075461Same here. I was just wondering.
>>550075151the lie is "practice makes perfect" - that's literally a falsehood. The actual correct saying is "practice makes PERMANENT"People who play 100,000 shitty speedchess games poorly are simply training their brain to eternally make the same shitty bad decisions for the rest of their lives. Their thinking pattern is not changing or improving in any way at all. Often their strength goes down every new game they play as they train themselves to play bad moves Faster and with LESS THINKING AHEAD and every day they're now older and shittier and their brain is less plastic and less capable of removing its bad habits than it was yesterday.That's why a good coach will ban a player from playing sub-5minute chess entirely until they've spent years and years developing actual classical chess habits where they plan 5-10 moves ahead instead of 1 turn ahead.
>>550075838Picking up bad habits is one of the biggest fallacy memes. Practice will make you better. You won't permanently learn bad moves because you instantly get punished for them.
>>550075838>>550076450Some players can improve by playing blitz, while some can't. That is the way of the world because some people are dumb monkey brains. But really, who does improve period? Most players reach a certain level and then you check in once a year to them and yep, still at the same level.That's chess.
>>550076652Is there a checkmate in this puzzle or it just getting material, like the knight?
>>550077831I didn’t make the meme but it seems like just taking the free knight. Pretty lame.
>>550076450you're so retarded you don't even know the meaning of the word "fallacy", you think it's a word if you include in a sentence means you win an argument despite not having even one tiny shred of any evidence. Both physically and mentally, bad habits simply become more permanent every time they are performed. If you start out a martial art by standing in the wrong stance, with your legs placed the wrong distance apart, your body leaning the wrong way, making the wrong motions with your arms and legs, you are accomplishing less than if you do literally nothing - as every time you practice doing the wrong move, your neural pathways for that movement become more ingrained in your brain, so every time you need to make a move quickly your brain suddenly does the fucking retarded movements you've practiced unconsciously. The brain is too slow to consciously make movements at the same speed that movements are made unconsciously from repetition. This is why 99% of high level chess is about memorizing openings and patterns - it takes milliseconds for the brain to yank deeply memorized patterns out without thinking about them - but if you want to manually solve a new puzzle you aren't experienced with it might take 5 minutes looking at the position.The dumbfuck fallacy users of the world have instead filled their shitty small weak brains with 10,000+ badly played games of shitty theory, retarded moves and incorrectly learned patterns - thus when they unconsciously pull a move out in 0.5 seconds, it's pretty much always something fucking stupid like pushing a pawn that was already defended and preventing opponents from landing in a hole. Then they tell twitch "oh man, why didn't I see this move the computer thought of" after the retard loses "I should slow down in the middle of my game for 5 minutes" But if they slow down 5 minutes they'll make one mediocre move and time out since they don't have 30 good moves memorized now they're out of clock.
>>550078398Queen takes knight, rook a to e8
>>550079174Wow, you got mad , looks like a case of the “I wrote a lot of text therefore anyone gives a shit about what I have to say” fallacy.
>>550079329D8 * winning back the bishop
>>550016623understand Fine #70 and you will gain enlightenment
>>550079329Queen back to h3
>>550079520I guess it’s just that, thought it was deeper
>>550076652that's not chess at all. It's just a problem with human culture. The reason people don't improve is because they're so retarded they think "playing more chess means becoming better"Playing BETTER chess means becoming better.Playing MORE chess is like trying to become the best soldier by shooting yourself in the foot 30,000 times thinking it'll make you immune to bullets.50 IQ people have this fictional fantasy of "exposure"They believe if you sit there and play the music of a genius, like Mozart or Beethoven, that your IQ will increase, because genius magically rubs off on you. There's zero evidence to support that. The way a person improves their mental power is to be the person actually exerting their brain slowly learning the exact correct way to play really difficult music, or learning how to play 100% precise in a large depth of complex puzzles and opening variations, etc.You would literally become stronger playing exactly 200x 2-hour games of chess with a coach watching your every move and correcting your mistakes and thinking patterns than you would if you play 10,000x blitz games on chesscum. And it's not a close thing, the guy after 10,000 shitter retard blitz games would be 400-1200 ELO, while the person playing 200x really advanced slow matches thinking carefully about strategy and trying to think 5-7 moves ahead every turn would probably be at least 2000 ELO by game 100 or 150 or 200.
>>550079174That would make it almost impossible for someone really good at one martial arts to learn another one, since they would have to unlearn the previous one according to you. The opposite is true. The people winning freestyle tournaments are those that use multiple styles and combine them, and not those who spent their entire lives practicing just one style. And learning new styles just gets easier since your body is already trained. It would also make it incrementally harder to learn radically different chess openings. Yet again, the opposite is true. Ingraining bad habits is a meme. Playing more makes you better at chess, it's that simple. If you look at games from 200 years ago, some of their moves and openers are completely wrong by today's standards, yet they were fucking legends who could calculate many steps ahead, sacrifice pieces left and right and checkmate your ass.
do NOT play the Perk
>>550065818I'd count it a spiritual win if your opponent let you have enough time to do this without interference. Way harder to achieve than just the K-Q swap.
>>550068934>KID unsoundthen why did Fischer win so much with it?
>>550080173Your martial arts analogy is spot on in one way: yes, repeatedly practicing the *wrong* technique ingrains bad motor patterns that are hard to unlearn—neural pathways get strengthened, and under pressure, you'll default to the bad habit. The chess community agrees on this: "practice makes permanent," not perfect. Playing thousands of blitz games without review often reinforces blunders, hanging pieces, or shallow calculation, making it tougher to break those habits later.But here's where the analogy breaks down a bit: chess isn't purely physical muscle memory like a punch or stance. A lot of "bad habits" in chess come from poor understanding or lack of knowledge, not just repetition. If you're spamming games while repeatedly missing basic tactics or positional ideas, yeah, you'll plateau or even reinforce garbage patterns. But if you're playing longer games, thinking deeply, and (ideally) reviewing afterward, repetition builds good pattern recognition—exactly like how high-level chess relies on instantly recalling thousands of correctly learned positions and motifs in milliseconds.Top players aren't just calculating everything from scratch every time; 99% of elite play is pattern-based intuition built from *correct* repetition (studying master games, solving puzzles properly, analyzing your own games). The guys who get stuck are often the ones grinding unanalyzed blitz, pulling out the same dumb moves unconsciously.The original point about "ingraining bad habits is a meme" and "playing more makes you better, it's that simple" isn't entirely wrong either—*if* the play is thoughtful. Just spamming games without reflection? That's how you end up with 10,000 badly played games full of retarded theory, like you said.
>>550080565The guy is talking about the top top level of chess and acting like it applies to us. There’s some crazy hikaru games in the KID too.
>>550079174>>550080003>>550080173>>550080602This is all chat gpt talking to itself. Even using a bunch of fucking m dashes. Fuck off, why are people in this general so autistic?
>>550080565Spassky forgot to build a time machine so he could get a copy of LeelaZero or Stockfish14 to show how the methods to rape KID's butthole no matter how hard it tries to cover it up.Chess was more fun back in Fischer's day. Now you can just pay money to rent time on a supercomputer a billion times more powerful than DeepBlue and crunch out what systems are holdable and what openings are simply doomed.That's part of why variants are more fun. Even the basic 960 makes it more than 900x harder to simply memorize a zero-fun-allowed full chess game as forcefed you from a computer's joyless arsehole.
>>550080602Jeet em dash slop. You should kill yourself NOW.
>>550080602>Playing thousands of blitz games without review often reinforces blunders, hanging pieces, or shallow calculation, making it tougher to break those habits later.>play blitz game>hang queen>lose game>get sad>brain: yes, this is a positive feedback. I should do this again!retardyou might argue about whether you can naturally pick up deeper tactics and openers, but mindlessly playing blitz will absolutely train you in basic tactics like not hanging pieces, forks, discovery, etc
>>550080343>pawn storm kino against kingside castlingwe love to see it, gg anon
>>550081265I don’t know I wish it would stop. I’d rather hear the voices of undead chickens in my head than read all this ai slop.
>>550081639>"hanging queen makey my brain hurt, my undergrad youtuber psychology level thoughts means if thing makey my brain hurt, my brain will magically learn to not do it"We have identified a 50 IQ retard who believes in the shooting-your-foot-makes-you-immune-to-bullets theory.You cannot "scare your brain into becoming good at chess" by stabbing yourself in the nuts each time you hang your queen.Pain does not make your brain somehow think more intelligently.If anything, it will just make you develop some faggot's personality where you say "HAHA I PLAY FOR FUN, I'M NOT A TRYHARD" as a defense mechanism for the retarded move. It will NOT in any way conjure up some mystical wizardry where you suddenly become able to predict 4 moves in the future.It's really pathetic how little normal humans understand how their brain works. It's why 99% of them are too stupid to even train their dogs correctly even when it's something as simple-minded as a dog and you have all its food/toys available to control.
>>550081265Because we’re on /vg/. We need to be on /sp/ to dilute the autism.
>>550081347I agree that openings analysis was way better back then. Pretty much everything was home-labbed since there was no engine arbiter. There is something romantic to me about players testing stuff on a board at home and deciding what the best approach was. So much better than memorizing unknown engine variation like today
>>550082102>/sp/ >dilute the autismlol, lmao
>>550082348Yeah, most of the magic of stuff is lost to advancements of technology. But people still keep doing it because line goes up.
>>550082102This guys gotta point. I figure we should have a vote. Take this show to /sp/ or stay on /vg/.
>>550083619I don't think the threads lasted there. Either they got bumped off or were deleted for being off topic
>>550083741We have to try something bro. I think next WC we’ll switch the general to /sp/ and see how things go. I’m tired of talking to the same 4 people and two of them are me.
>>550084063/chess/ will survive, don’t stress it pal
>>550080439yeah you'd pretty much only ever get a chance if they do something like the crab with black (pushing the two side pawns and trying to rook lift for memes)
>>550080439having tried it out, you can do a knight-bishop swap or a king-queen swap, it's practically speaking impossible to do both pairs of swaps. So forget about the queen part.
>>550084063when anon is so small-brained he's hoping to migrate to sports meatheads so he'll find a 45 IQ professional wrestling watching person to impress with his 50 IQIn the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
>>550051720wow
>>550085964Who’s talking about impressing people? Is that the only reason you come here and so you think everyone’s like you or something?
I was looking to play a casual blitz game because it is past my rated chess-playing bedtime, and I like to click casual challenges in the lichess lobby, but WHOOPS accidentally clicked a rated 3+2 game. Ended up winning with 0/0/0 11 cpl and gained 4 points.
>>550086427That’s nuts nigga
beginner here, 1k rated chess.comgame I just played as white
>>550085964I don't visit generals that I'm not interested in. I imagine the same applies to people who are fans of professional wrestling but not chess
>>550087483Funny game. Keep up the good work, friend.
>>550087638that's E4-related but not E4. That's getting penetrated so quickly, the right side of picture would be Damiano Defense.
>>550087483You’re probably the strongest player here.
>>550087483if you went e3 instead of e4 you would have got a perfectly good London game instead of that clusterfuck
I h8 chess, brehs
>>550091604No you don’t
>>550094026I really do heroes of might and magic 2 is a far better game
>>550084063the 1 IP spamming shit is getting even more sad. the necrobumping is becoming even more sad.
Does anyone here have a pdf of “Under the Surface: Second Edition” or would they be kind enough to help me find it? Thank you based anons.
>>550086427I’ve done that a few times and won. I’ve also done that a few times a lost.
>>550087483London opening negro. Kill yourself NOW.
>>550086427Sometimes when drunk I don't notice I'm logged in, fuck around thinking it's anon and only realize it's a rated game when it's too lateI most have lost at least 100 points like that
finding out danny rensch died... big F
Good day anons. Someone make a new thread please, I need my daily dose of /chess/.
>>550107952Who?
>>550107952man don't get my hopes up like that for nothing
>>549929119me
>>550054389>he offered to help the Confederate generals with strategy cuz he must be good at battle strategy because he plays chess (lol) but they told him to shut up, nerd.and look at how that turned out for them
>>550087483Started as a London, turned into some weird reverse Scotch, ended as a Ruy Lopez.And absolutely no castling.
Thoughts on Alekhine's defense?
is there any better feeling than blowing someone off the board so hard they immediately open the analysis board after resigning
>>550118973blowing someone
>>550118973I couldn't care less chuddie, because I myself analyze every game regardless of how badly or well I played.
>>550118973>immediately open the analysis boardI do this at the end of every game regardless of result and so do a lot of people
Have a great chess day everyone. -Kev
>>550095563That's a great game.
I slurped today, bros. It feels bad. To be fair, my opponent started it by opening with the slurpiest variation in chess as white but still. At some point I was even a little better and I knew it but then I made a mistake and then I resigned myself to the slurp. At least I should've turned down his draw offer because it was a two result game for me but I just took it for some reason. I really don't wanna lose and it negatively affects my play.
I am so tired of facing the gay ass slav every game. Plus I play the faggot coded e3 variation like a bitch. I am just gonna play Nc3, they can take my fuckboy c4 pawn. Like I give a shit.
>>550122440You know you can just click 1.e4 instead... right?
Why didn't anyone tell me Christ is returned and streaming on lichess??? LOL
>>550122569I would but e4 fatally weakens my king's position.
>>550122440Have you tried playing E4 instead of D4 like some neurodivergent woman?
>>550123041Yeah, I used to play e4 all the time but it gets lame. Opponents have more openings in response to it than there are atoms in the universe. Eventually I got tired of facing the Snorlax variation of the French Defense Twice Removed and switched to d4.
>>550123329>whines about facing the same boring old slav every game>whines about facing a million different defensesLife is incredibly difficult for the profoundly retarded
>>550124406>>whines about facing the same boring old slav every game>>whines about facing a million different defenses>Life is incredibly difficult for the profoundly retarded
>>550122616I misread that as 'Chest' at first and got my hopes up for nothing
>>550124654>Anon, Self-portrait (oil on canvas, 2025)
>>550125164No, you're a cringe basedjak. I'm a based pepe.
Who here has the PDF second edition of “Under the Surface” by GM Jan Markos???? I’d be forever grateful.
>>550126908Best I can do is Why Lasker Matters by Andrew Soltis, my woodpushing friend.
paul morphy didnt face anderssen at his bestthe only tournament he played before facing morphy was in 1857 and he was eliminated in the second round>>550126908buy the booknobody is uploading new chess books these days2024 was the last year where you can easily find new chess books
>>550126908Here you go anon - https://file.kiwi/f52c3692#ep-yH6-oqvfAtZf-b0-2MQ
>>550128518thats the first editionhe is asking for the second editionhttps://forwardchess.com/product/under-the-surface-second-edition
>>550128357>buying books in 2025Lol. Lmao even.>2024 was the last year where you can easily find new chess booksHow are there still regulars on 4chan this technologically inept? It took me less than a minute to find it. I just checked Anna's Archive and there it was.>>550126908Enjoy the book anon.
>missclick my queen away>next game I randomly disconenct>after that lose to a blatant cheater>then throw away an easy win up a piece cause I'm giga titled and my opponent played the opening so bad I assume it was on purpose and started cheating after(he didn't)holy shit I'm cursed today
>>550128986he is asking for the second edition not the 2018 edition
>>550128726Ah, fair enough. My bad for insulting you then. I saw the same cover of the one I posted with "second edition" in the title online and thought that was the one.
>>550128986retard
>>550129081excuses, excuses
>>550129259I owned up to my mistake and apologized. Be a white man and forgive.
>>550129396>missclick is objective and undeniable>disconnection is objective and undeniable>I'm not karla when I say obvious cheater I mean only top engine moves never take less the 6 seconds even for forced recaptures type>this one is half on me but even the fucking dalai lama would be titled at that point
>>550129675Bugger off schizo.
>>550129675>I'm not karla Shame.
>>550131671We are all Karla including you.
Have sex.
>not investing in a quality mouse and high-refresh monitor and spending time in aimlabs to make misclicking a non-issue>not paying for quality internet and having a backup hotspot to mitigate connection issuesLet's see the loss to the cheater.
Should I get an account on .scum as well
>>550132073How will any of this improve my OtB chess?
>>550132197Yes, I’m starting a team there. You’ll be my first invite. -Billy
>>550131671how much of a desperate virgin does one have to be to like karla?she so fucking obnoxious if she was male she's be universally hated
>>550132576i only like crazy chicks
>>550082102>>550083619>>550084063Will never happen, the guy who makes all the OPs here is too dedicated to keeping the general on /vg/. He’s the same guy that melts down if the OP isn’t exactly how he likes and will thread split to make his own. This general is mostly him samefagging and (since /tg/) always has been which is why he gets to dictate how and where it is. Casuals can’t tell the difference and just assume the more active thread is where everyone is at. If you tried to move to /sp/ he’d fill the genny there with seethe and this one with talk to himself about how it’s the true general, which would sway the casual passer-by. Also, most people aren’t faggots that samefag their preferred thread all day while he is, so his threads always have the impression of being more active, which means any attempt to leave would fail.
>>550132197Yes. Unless you like playing cheating jeets. In that case stick to Lichess
>>550132660kys pbt
>>550132828There's the samefagging nigger.
>>550132809>look out window>see jeet>instinctive disgust triggered >open lichess to relax>first opponent: JEETDo not redeem bros
