Christmas Cheer edition>play chesshttps://lichess.org>join our team and tournamentshttps://lichess.org/team/vietnamese-basket-weaving-forumPrevious>>550415741
Why does west suck so much at chess compared to India?
>>550710813I think the primary factor is that in poor countries, the amount you can make from chess affords you a decent life style. In rich white countries, you will be making so much less than you could with just a CS degree so genetically gifted kids don't pursue it
>>550709672-ATTENTION-As a celebration of Christmas, there will be 2 chess tournaments (both unrated)Tuesday, 23rd of December we have "Christmas Blitz Arena", an UNRATED blitz tournament (3+2).https://lichess.org/tournament/67xyCUmFPlayers of all skill levels are welcome. Come play fun, fast chess with us without the worry of losing rating pointsWednesday, 24th of December we have "Christmas bullet Arena", an UNRATED bullet tournament (1+1).https://lichess.org/tournament/sSHXRxO4Players of all skill levels are welcome. Come play interesting chess with us and celebrate Christmas along with anonymous racist internet friends!
The chess bubble has burst.
>>>550692045> I'd be 2200-2300 easily if I treated memorizing boring computer lines like a job, but being 2200 doesn't mean anyone pays you to coach them or anything so it's of no value>doesn't know pegasuschess grifting>doesn't know theonozonengmi
>>550710813>n1 is norwegian>n2 is american>n3 is american>n4 is german>WhY dOeS wEsT sUcK sO mUcH aT cHeSs CoMpArEd To InDiA?retarded subhuman
Hikaru is japanese
make sure to do your 10,000 ChessTempo puzzles in 2026
>>550715602mehi prefer books or chess king
>>550715686What makes them so much better than the ones Chessdotcom and Lichess use?
>>550715686I don't think there are enough books for 10k/yr
>>550715802i prefer more curated puzzles>>550715820there are enough books for that
>>550715802Chesstempo and books and software are handpicked by strong players. Lichess is pretty good, but I feel like I get maybe 1/20 that make absolutely no sense. I assume that issue gets worse as your puzzle rating improves as well
yeahi need to get a premium chesstempo accountits not that expensive
>>550712875>>n2 is american>>n3 is americanJapanese and Jewish
I've only been using ChessTempo for building opening repertoire. Am I missing out on something important?
>>550719136It's my favorite tactics trainer
>>550719136Chess tempo has the shittiest mobile app I’ve ever seen. It was unusable and demanded an immediate refund.
>>550720117did they refund you on demand?
>>550720117Works on my machine
>>550720243hehe haha HAHAHAHAHAHOH DE FUCKING MANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
>>550720407on demand meming has died down already but you just had to seethe the first instance of it in days so no it will be back on demanddumb autist
>>550713076Nakamura was born in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, to a white American mother, Carolyn Merrow, and a Japanese father, Shuichi Nakamura. When he was two years old, his family moved to the United States, and, a year later in 1990, his parents divorced. He's an American hapa. He doesn't speak Japanese.He began playing chess at the age of seven and was coached by his Sri Lankan-born stepfather, FIDE Master and chess author Sunil Weeramantry. Weeramantry began coaching the Nakamura brothers which led to his developing a relationship with Hikaru's mother. White guys gave Hikaru's white mother the ick, which is why she persued sexual relationships from men from all over the Asian continent.
>play normal difficulty puzzles>lose more puzzles than you win>lose 150 points of elo>play hardest difficulty puzzles>lose even more puzzles than you win>gain 300 points of elowhat the fuck man
>>550720879Why was his mother so obsessed with race mixing?
All the posts in the previous thread were deleted, it's at least the second time this has happened I wonder if it's some bug of the site of the janny sperging out, did anyone ever see this happen with other generals?
>>550720879>>550721268Everybody has a type.
>>550721861I don't have a type. I listen to what my partner has to say, and that's what Hikaru's mom never did.
any steam sale recs brehs
>>550722728nope but chessable has a holyday sale
wtf happened brosthey also updated the captcha from yesterday I'm getting this new highlighted letter out of 4 thing
>I’m 2000 OTB but smurf 1200 bullet teeheeFatherless behavior
>>550722728Resident Evil 5 Postal 2
>>550722728Expedition 33 was on sale for a bit, I downloaded it but haven’t started it. Been too busy preparing for the Christmas tournament
>>550726819who are you talking about?
>>550726207Which courses would you recommend?
I like Silman's puzzles
>>550733796endgame strategy, mastering endgame strategy and van perlo endgame tactics
>>550733796Any courses to do with the scotch
>>550734585for openings i prefer chessbase and the megadatabase
>>550734848Do they have a version of the memorization tool where it gives you the starting position of a line and you have to remember it on the spot?
>>550737413with chessbase you are supposed to do your own analysis by checking the latest games in the megadatabaseIf you analyze specific lines after a while, youll remember themchessbase encourages independent work
>>550738459The thing I’m talking about is like using flash cards to study for a test, I don’t see why you can’t do independent analysis on chess base then use the tool I’m describing to hammer it in. I’ve seen Greg shahade use this technique too
>>550734038isn't that from one of Capablanca's famous games?
>>550740140Yes, I never saw it before though
>>550739808kasparov never used that technique and he played the najdorf and the kings indian defencehe analyzed these positions so much that he simply remembered them
>>550709672The girl from my chess club who I thought liked me has completely lost interest.
>>550740640Yes, but he also had a Jewish hyper mega brain that we goy simply don't possess.
>>550740640I’ve studied like that before, it’s definitely helpful for practicing those side lines that get played one in a hundred or even less. Also Kasparov was previous generation of players, doesn’t make sense to bring up his study method when we’re talking about modern chess in the digital age.
>>550741529She got tired of you not taking a hint and pussy footing around so she moved on.Try growing a pair next time.
>>550739808I prefer Greg’s sister, Jennifer Shesahottie
>>550742436kasparov used chessbase toomagnus carlsen is the one guy who refuses to play for the world championship because he is tired of opening analysiskasparov was obsessed with opening analysis
>>550743105Men who go for redheads seem to have blinders on for any other indicator of aesthetic beauty.
>>550743105you guys are really desperate
>>550743286>>550743327You guys are nuts, post your wives, they’re half as beautiful as Jenny
>>550743105Personally, I prefer the air.
>>550743906Nice, I’m a fox main
>>550743105used goods, i dont want alejandros sloppy seconds
>>550744009Nooo she refused him , she’s an alpha female with high disagreeableness personality trait. She would never like that cockroach touch her beautiful pale skin.
>>550743286>redheadsshe's not. dyes hair red =/= redhead. sub standard chess player.
>>550743702desperate are we? thought we could slip that in naturally did we?
>>550745319Slip what in? I’d slip it into her unnaturally
>>550745086I hope she dyes everything
>>550746307slip in a casual request for pictures of /chess/'s wives while seeming like you have a genuine wish to compare them to this lady.
>>550743105
>>550746608Depends on their chess rating, if they’re below 1800 don’t bother posting
>>550746942Is she not wearing pants? Interesting negotiation tactic
>>550746942It’s funny because I have the same shirt but mine says BELIEVE WEAVERS, I’m tired of people asking for proof when I accuse Indians of cheating
>>550747290i believe you anon
>>550742652Nah, definitely wasn't that. I think I said something that gave her the ick last session. Sucks, cause now I'm forced to interact with my girlfriend instead. Fucking hate that bitch.
>>550747676I appreciate it, I know I never made a report or told anyone else, but years later with hindsight I really feel like that guy cheated me that night
You need to be studying How to Reassess Your Chess, not random thots
>>550748219Kek, you're right. I say you were pussy footing but I'm really projecting my own insecurities on you. Time to make dinner for my wife, she's getting back from the construction site soon!
>>550748378Is the chessable version any good?
>>550748621No clue, I pirate everything
>>550748378that book sucks, it's one of those meme things that just has good marketing. And I've heard that from GMs and coaches.
>>550746942literally the only reason they need a tshirt which says>women aren't lying this time I swearrrrIs because women constantly lie. The entire campaign was the biggest self-own ever.I'm glad that talentless bitch aged out of getting commentary jobs for chess
>>550748853Can you please talk about your own experience reading it rather than what you "heard"
>>550748690Pirating chess content is based. Back in the day I pirated all of Daniel King’s powerplay series and Kasparov’s najdorf lessons on chessbase. I think it was literally over a thousand dollars in value.
>>550749032>I think it was literally over a thousand dollars in value.That's government logic.
>>550749179Those courses were expensive as fuck, fuck them for gatekeeping me cause I was poor back then
>>550749028can you please go lay down in traffic. Humans have this thing called communication, where one grandmaster can sit through a dozen books and find out which ones are good and which ones are shitty. It's not a very complicated concept.Btw I have read silman years ago it was one of the worst chess books I read. It's all super manufactured positions where "ohh normally a pair of bishops is better than bishop and knight, but in this One Exact Specific Position you'll arrive at in 0.00000001% of your matches, the bishop pair is worse, I've taught you something!!!!"Utterly worthless book if you don't have a photographic memory.
>>550749028not him but the book is dogmatici prefer john nunn middlegame books
>>550748378I really should read that book. Didn't some anon just post that he managed to draw an FM because of it? Regardless, I've been wasting way too much time on that woman recently. It's time to lock in and finally hit 2000 blitz on chessdotcom.
>>550748853I started reading recently because an "adult improver" FM gave it high praise on perpetual chess podcast, not the first time I heard some strong player recommend it either, it's polarizing but you make it sound like it's universally hated which it isn't
>>550715602That's like 27 puzzles every single day? that's crazy
>>550748378"reassess your chess" is essentially garbage slop that was 100% carried by the title having a catchy lyric rhyming gimmick. If it was called "Chess Advice from Silman-the-Nobody" it'd have sold exactly 3 copies.
>>550749716Greatness requires great effort
>>550749716I hope they at least give a virtual trophy/badge for doing it,
>>550749752Isn't his endgame book also highly regarded?
>>550721639I thought that was odd. I was checking if anyone replied to me after I went to sleep last night but it's all blank.Maybe that link to Bobby Fischer's unfiltered history page must have contained too much truth about little hats and they had to nuke it from last thread.It's a shame, people were actually posting games and things.
>>550750152yeah but it doesnt cover a lot of materialdvoretsky endgame manual is more complete
>>550749840This means you can do 20,000 puzzle storm puzzles per year with less than 10 minutes of effort per day
>>550750273Does the thread creator have the power to delete their own thread along with all the replies?
>>550726607yeah wtf, whole last thread got jannied??
>>550710813
>>550750505No
>>550710813it's a motivation issue, you see, every minute an indian person is playing chess is a minute they don't have to be outside eating indian food, standing in the middle of train tracks or walking near improperly grounded high voltage power lines.The developed world lacks this reason to never leave the chess hall.
>>550751348No what? You can’t delete your own thread?
>>550751868IIRC you can only delete it if it has no replies, but the question is irrelevant anyway since the last thread wasn't deleted only the posts in it
>focus on not making one move blunders>make more of them>focus even harder>make even moreI am legitimately about to fucking lose it
>>550752874Oh just the replies were deleted? That is weird.
>>550753398>>550415741click it bro
>>550753103thats why you practice tactics
>>550752874I think Aerelant was so mad his revolt failed he closed his own thread so zoombam could make a new one with the correct team and Christmas tournament info. It was rude of Aerelant to disrupt /chess/ by making his own thread in the first place. He also deleted his account so if he had deleted his own thread I wouldn’t have been too surprised.
>>550753985Did that happen in any other generals? Very weird
>playing a WGM in blitz on my phone>Mom is calling>reject>Mom is calling again>reject againSorry Mom, this shit's serious.I won btw.
>>550754668I like this picture. I do this with my dad.If I answer during my game he can hear the sound effects from moving pieces and he’ll call me out for playing chess/being distracted while talking to him.
>>550754668>can't talk right now, Mom, I'm beating a woman
>OOOOOHHHHH MMYYYYY SCIENNCEEE!!! A HECKING WOMAN GRANDMASTER!11 THE GLASS CEILING IS BEING DE-STRUH-HOY-EDD~! I MUST PLAY A GAME WITH YOU, MY QUEEN, MY MOTHER BE DAMNED!!
>>550755103Just randomly matched in the pool, didn't choose it. But I wanted to win. They are pretty good even though they are w*men.
>>550754069Ah, I must've hallucinated all the tactics practice I've been doing, I'll let Dr Finegold know to up my lithium
>>550755519How many of your 10,000 ChessTempo puzzles did you get done this year?
even if you are a titled player that doesnt mean you are a good blitz playeri saw 2 fide masters failing in a blitz tournament
Does anyone else's brain completely fuzz over when you have like 10 seconds or less? I stop thinking entirely. Even if I have mate in one, I can't squeeze a single thought out of my brain and just panic and move pieces randomly.
>>550753103Have you tried taking like a week off from your phone and computer? I had the same issue, and it turned out my brain was just fried. Larping as a monk for a week fixed it.
>>550755859I should try this, how many days do I have until the Christmas tournament?
>>55075562410k ct is only reasonable if it's blitz mode
>>550756030At least three full days. Going offline will definitely help your focus. I started noticing positive effects after about two days, but I went full monk mode. No TV, no computer, no phone, nothing. I just read the Bible and sat on the park bench like a hobo.
>>550756970What’s your favorite bible verse? Mine’s John 4:18
>>550756970>>550757545for me it's Job 39:5
>>550758165fabi must be a big fan of this guy
>>550758165That’s a good one. Thanks for sharing.
>>550758624Isn’t Wesley So the super religious one?
>>550758624>>550758926I figured he meant because he jobs. (not that I know exactly what that means but I feel like I have heard it in this context)
>>550759214Wish I had that dog in me
>>550757545Since everyone is trying to be funny, I'll go with Proverbs 21:19. It's my favorite chud verse.>>550757545>>550758165Sweet. Thanks for sharing frens.
>>550760762People are so nice here, have a blessed day, frens
>>550758926Yeah. He takes his faith very seriously. That's why him and Fischer will always be my favorite players.
>>550761590You too fren. God bless.
https://youtu.be/IJumW5CW5DMThis speedrun has been very interesting. No one under 2000 knows how to play against the queen's gambit. I used to be one of them until recently.Should we switch to 1.d4 for the free wins?
this thread is praising wesley sothis threads are usually full of racists and that guy is filipino4chan is so weird
wesley draw vs draw all the wei yiwho wins?
>>550763567if there's armageddon tiebreakers, wesley so used to be a speedchess champion, never heard of wei yi ever winning it.
>>5507635672018 speedchess wesley 18.5 weiyi 9.5 and knocked out in round 1. 2019 MVL 21 weiyi 10, knocked out in round 1 (then wesley 17 MVL 15, wesley beats the guy who crushed weiyi)2020-2025 weiyi is too weak to even enter speed champs
Im a fighting game player primarily wherein I’m within the top 500 worldwide consistently. From my years of playing chess I have noticed the game is mostly just a memorization based fundamental game, I completely hate that to my core. There is no room creativity or freedom of decision from move to move. To be quite honest it disgusts me that I can’t put my soul into my moves, but instead I have to say “where have I seen this position before and who did it correctly” everything has been done on a functional level. The game works perfectly there is no inherent design flaw but calling it a “game” is honestly distasteful. There is no mix up, there is no diversion, there is no whiff, there is no punish, There is no soul. The simplicity of the game kills it for me, everything is there, it all exists in the moment right in front of you, there is nothing to hide, there is nothing.If you look at fighting games they do consistently what chess is on a micro level to a macro scale. You have neutral, you have oki, you have 3 ways, you have air to air, you have safe jumps, and tech crouches, and counters, and supers, and inputs, you have freedom of response and spatial movement, reactions that you have to actually use spatial awareness with fine tuned decisions to respond to, and that’s just a fraction of it. Not only is the skill ceiling astronomically higher so is the skill floor. When you fight a new player you can feel the genuine levels between you and them, in chess is simply “oh this guy doesn’t even know en passant exists, I’m gonna fork his rook and bishop lmao”. Im done with this game, I can’t take the brain rotting skull numbing absurdity of effortless memory regurgitation any longer. It’s so pointless and ego driven and it’s only a let down. Chess is for people who want something to be good at and failed at absolutely everything else except pointless memorization of redundant data.
>>550754241It happened to a Hollow Knight general once, also when it autoarchived.May be some weird /vg/ thing.
>>550765402terrible baityou should feel bad about yourself
>>550762089That's why I play the Dutch. Then nobody knows what to do
>>550761614I like that he trash talks people, imagine how much trash talking Fischer would have done
>>550767008he didnt face karpov when he couldfischer was not going to do anything besides yapping
>>550709672>play on chesscum>5/10 accounts played at 2000 were created in the last 3 days and they all play at 2300+ lvlThis dogshit website is unplayable
>>550767617yeah, it should automatically not let you earn rating off anyone for your first 6 months on any chess website.If someone joins chesscum's shitty website and is already playing at 2200 level, then every single game from the 1200-2200 level is cheating equivalent to 'multiple accounts', stealing rating without the other player having played less than their own 2200 level. But chesscum is too retarded to ever enforce it, so rating constantly bleeds out of the system as they keep cheating new accounts then quitting, making new low rated account cheating up their rating to steal rating and disappearing.
You're bad.com at chess.com. I'm libad at lichess. We are not the same.
>>550765807When I see walls for text like that I just assume it’s ai slop and ignore it
>>550762357So is a chud. /Chess/ is mostly non-white chuds who say racist shit as a form of chuddy virtue signalling.
>>550767141He knew Karpov was too good for him
>>550750152it has a gamified gimmick "if you are x elo then learn these endgames" which is appealing to beginners. I think the endgames in it are a little easy? Probably wants you to feel good about your endgame level more than it wants you to learn endgames
>>550772730Did you just say gamification???
>>550757545Polgar 3969
>runs down the clock in lost position
the people who say improving at chess is 90% tactics are definitely onto something. my coach has me doing these crazy rare positions that i haven't even seen once in any of my games and it feels like a complete waste of time. i've only really improved by playing games, analyzing my blunders after, and spamming puzzles. everything else is a meme.
>>550776902>crazy rare positionswhat do you mean?
Thoughts on söymaxxing? The idea is that you stop looking for whatever based and redpilled combination you imagine the universe owes you and instead play moves whose biggest virtue is that they're not losing.
Beating a stupid faggot douchebag is so euphoric. Bro really thought he was going to crush it
>>550778147>super manufactured positions where "ohh normally a pair of bishops is better than bishop and knight, but in this One Exact Specific Position you'll arrive at in 0.00000001% of your matches, the bishop pair is worse, I've taught you something!!!!"pretty much how that one anon described silman's books.
>>550772356No. Fischer would have beaten young Karpov without question. Fischer is the strongest player of all time, the only reason he’s not regarded as the GOAT is because he lacked longevity. But he’s the peak, and would have beaten an even better Karpov, same as Garry did. Young Karpov had no chance. If they had played, we’d be living in a world where the cope is that Karpov was too young for it too matter. That alternate universe exists very close by.
>>550780034exceptions to the rules are a common thingread secrets of modern chess strategy by john watson
>>550779485cringe and bluepilled
>>550776902Truest improovment post in the last week's worth of threads
>>550780657Yeah but it works. Here's an example of a söymaxxed game I just played against the Evans. Never playing risky lines, taking no chances. Just plain old boring söymaxxed chess.
>>550781130Calm down
>>550776902Yeah, in my experience tactics have been very helpful as well.
In all seriousness, I would fucking beat SeriousChest’s ass
>>550783085Calm down
>>550783085I could OTB, online tho... he's a SeriousCheater...
>>550783085Since sc got back to 2250 and will possibly exceed 2300 before the year is out, aerosol has been real quiet
>>550772356>tfw "karpov" now sounds wrong and grating because you expected "larpov"
>>550783234Sorry for that heated gamer moment guys, I just got worked up while watching the fights
>>550785790It’s ok, it happens to the best of us. Next to please channel your rage to the game of chess in the abstract rather than focusing on a random citizen.
I hate drawing with philidor users because that's giving them exactly what they want. However, getting into a "never draw philicucks" mindset increases the chance of losing to a philibore which is even worse.I might start checking people's game histories and aborting against philincels.
https://lichess.org/coach/vangulioWe can hire the national champion of Panama for $20/hr
>>550787360panama is a field with some shrubs in it, so he's a nobody
>>550787360king of the monkeys
>>550787360Good price does he clean and do laundry at the same time?
>>550749028don't let them ruin your experience with the book. Read it and form your own opinion. It's possible they are just repeating shit that they have heard somewhere else, read or just " le gm told me this bro trust me" or just because it's fun to join the bandwagon of hating him, because it's cool to hate. Those "manufactured" shit can be seen in the Soviet Primer, Simple Chess, 100 endgames you need to know, etc... yes, these same books that get shilled here have those too>THIS POSITION IS ULTRA RARE>NEVER HAPPENED TO ME OR ANY OTHER IM/GM THAT I KNOW>W-WHY YES! YOU WONDER WHY DO WE HAVE TO LEARN THIS RIGHT? >BECAUSE... BECAUSE WE HAVE TO! And regardles of this, these are just exercises to calculate and get you out of your comfort zone, that other anon is frustrated because he can't solve them, he hates thinking and prefers to give up. Get some puzzles, set a timer (5-10 min) and try to solve it within that time, you'll improve. You can choose pic related, real shit no gimmicks.
>>550790895someone was complaining to me about puzzles "Ive never seen any position like this in a game" too, I said I liked them because they help me "think in chess"the funniest part of this is we're both noobs and probably don't even have 100 games under our belt COMBINED. lol
>Page-9 bump brought to you by Fischer.Since last thread got nuked, I'll repost the Fischer links, and more!>Fischer's Personal Webpagehttps://web.archive.org/web/20070311003002/http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer/>"A Letter from Bobby Fischer to Pal Benko" - Fischer on Jews, Christianity, Hitler, the U.S.https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/fischerbenko.html>"Bobby Fischer Speaks Out!" - Fischer on his involvement with and separation from the Worldwide Church of Godhttps://hwarmstrong.com/ar/Fischer.html>Fischer's letter to Encyclopedia Judaica, requesting they no longer report him as a Jew.https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter13.html#3867._Fischer_correspondence_C.N._1671>"I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse!" - Fischer's account of his 1981 arrest.https://web.archive.org/web/20220621231055/http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/ephemera/Jailhouse.pdf>"Is Bobby Fischer Anti-Semitic?" - article by Larry Parr on Fischer. Includes some quotes by him.https://web.archive.org/web/20050321201540/http://worldchessnetwork.com/English/chessNews/articles/2-3.php>"The Fischer King" - article by William Nack on Fischer's 1992 match with Spassky. Includes some speaking of his on anti-semitism, the Russians, Communism, and the Jews.https://web.archive.org/web/20210418123156/https://vault.si.com/vault/1992/09/14/the-fischer-king-in-the-surreal-setting-of-war-torn-yugoslavia-reclusive-chess-grandmaster-bobby-fischer-emerged-to-meet-boris-spassky
>>550797580Fischer was a cringe whiner. For me it's Karpov.
the necrobumps are getting cringier…
>>550800382A general must live in one way or another. And if it's through my gushings then so be it.
>>550800382Let's play.https://lichess.org/AFhLQJ2o>inb4 tigerconjoinerNot everyone who posts challenges is him.
>>550801395play, nigga
ill wait till 10 minutes then ill be certain he's gone
>>550797580>>550800719appreciate the gushings and links, any suggestions for documentaries/movies/interviews? I watched a couple earlier today
>>550802646I'm afraid you know more than I there, I've only watched a portion of one of his interviews. It was this clip, entitled "Bobby Fischer on Women "https://youtu.be/6NuBCU-wCSo
>>550803283Wonder if seeing Judit’s career changed his mind later in life
>>550801395Did the guy abort your game? That’s sad
>>550803579Yeah. I just came across this clip, he seemingly warmed up to women in chess.https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/zf0b2m/bobby_fischer_talks_about_women_in_chess_10_years/
>>550803932No, I joined the link the guy you quoted posted and he didn't move for 10 minutes so I aborted.>>550804313Let me amend this actually, I don't know what effect Judit had as she came later but generally he changed.
>>550804425Kk at least it wasn’t the abortionist
>massive losing streak all day, endless one move blunders>drink 1.5L beer>start stomping these indianswhat
>>550804673Beer helps with chess, look at Drunkenstein and the chess bras
reminder, don't take chess vacations. world champ of duck comes back from months away, gets spanked by trollface immediately.(thought I'd spice things up posting other people games sometimes)
>>550806594dude... we dont do that here dude... what the fuck man... thats messed up
>>550804425the truth is bobby was unrealistically positive towards women. When he visited the soviet union and talked to the grandmasters, they were at most mildly surprised that he knew basically every game they'd played - but what shocked them was Fischer had also studied the games of russian women and could tell them which had appealing playing styles and which didn't. The russian grandmasters wouldn't bother studying any games of the women at all because they considered it 100% pointless.
>>550807338wow a virgin’s view on women is negative gown unique!
>>550807536you don't have to comment if you're too stupid to read a small paragraph, and especially not post images making you look double retarded.
>>550807536Why do people keep posting this guy like it's some own? Sure he's not the best looking and already balding, but he's only a hair transplant and three years in the gym away from looking better than 90% of people.
>>550808740Already balding so aggressively in highschool means that he most likely won't be able to prevent further balding with 5ar inhibitors. This makes a hair transplant a complete nonstarter.
>>550807536i wanna see what this kid would look like looksmaxxed
>>550810339
>>550810950*takes your bitch*
>>550797580love this guy. definitely my second favorite jew of all time.
>>550815454>>550797580apologies to the goat in heaven for my original reply. i only just found out about the document where he requested not to be reported as a jew.
>>550815454For me it's Fabiano Caruana.
>https://lichess.org/training/B2IQg>queen can check the king on either f4 or f2, he goes to h3 regardless>but if she goes to f4 it's a forced draw because your king cannot use that square to escapefucked up
>>550808740virgin manlet, i don’t know what world you are from where 90% are skinwalkers. if you feel hurt by people mocking him it’s because you are a fellow monster. deal with it and move on.
>>550818084Post body. You won't, because you know you don't even have a better physique than a 15 year old child getting bullied for being a balding skelly online.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_FlBsSPaAGE&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tDbeen bumping this while making Christmas cookies and it slapsfinally a new tolerable Christmas song next to Last Christmas and White ChristmasMerry Christmas, bros!
>>550816063Fabi isn’t Jewish.
>>550820803
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvdCNlijsRQ
>>550824732
>>550806594>the world champ of duck chess is an IMWait that makes yesterday selfaggrandizing wall of text about how you are so talented and tittled players are so dumb even worseI just checked and the spell chess champ is a GM too lmao, the absolute state of that post
>>550803579Possibly.
>>550827639
some chess players are so autistic and stupid
>>550808740The real issue with posting it is the emotional wellbeing of the guy himself. Imagine how he must feel. He didn’t do anything wrong.
>>550827639That's a great picture, he got so ugly when he went crazy lol
>>550807536That's a great picture, he got so ugly when he went crazy lol
https://lichess.org/ENEJetpTChess really is just tactics. I feel like I played pretty badly, missed a lot of moves and didn't have a good strategy, but then I just spammed tactics in the end and won
playing d3 against the french is a crime against chess
>>550844387My philosophy on openings is that you shouldn't let the opponent dictate the flavor of the game. I much prefer the positions from the KIA than the mainline French, and it's not what they want to go into when they play 1...e6. I get the KIA 100% of the time against the French, and they probably play it like 1/100 e4 games, and it feels nothing like 2. d4 Frenches
>>550844879>1/100more like 1/5
>>550845367Lichess database says it's only 3% of games in their database. I have it filtered for 1600+ and no bullet
>>550844879>My philosophy on openings is that you shouldn't let the opponent dictate the flavor of the game.oh yeah am sure black loves to play against the advanced variation or the tarrasch
>>550845591I mean, obviously they do or they wouldn't play the French..
>>550845696french players are masochiststhey know the winawer is a sharp variation but they still play their beloved defencebut you are a low rank player so its irrelevant
>>550845367>>550845558I guess I was mistaken then, seemed like more when I used to play the Fr*nch
>>550808740>peopleDoes he know? We only have 1 Larpov here.
>>550847629That is a picture I've seen posted across the internet, so he could have been talking about the fact that it's become a meme period.
>>550844387The Chudo-Jeet starts shitting himself as soon as d3 is on the board
>>550847895saved
>>550848592>bore knights>immediate queen trade>huh, the carocuck is shaking in his boots upon seeing my chad variation
https://lichess.org/yTTwJadH5YRLHow to win at chess:1. Play 2.d3 against the French2. Study tactics
>>550848592what?the king indian attack against the french is a dull variationits too easy to equalise for black
>>550849852>muh engine
>>550849463That's because I didn't spend a single second learning theory for this. I had Qe2 as an improvement from a previous game, and now I know the funny move that should come after the second Nf6
>>550847895True, people were complaining about it the other times it was posted which led me to believe he was referring to other times he'd seen it itg but it probably is around in other places. I figure he will be the only one to confirm between the two possibilities.
>>550849920yeahpeople use engines to prepare for tournaments
i fucking hate puzzlesyou need to perform insanely precise schizonigger moves pulled straight out of satan's anusmeanwhile the average player blunders 6 gorillion points worth of material in his game
>>550850517I like that picture can we have more cat versions of gms
Join the tournament guys https://lichess.org/tournament/MpmZwr4X
Why is it called Chudo Kann? Who's Chudo?
>>550852369The people who seethe when they have to play against it.
>>550852585I just play exchange caro I’ve seen Magnus recommend it
I've realized to get to the next step in my blitz journey I need to continue playing accurately in the waning seconds of my clock. I get anxious and start exchanging everything and moving randomly. No, that is not the way. I have to play accurately and keep thinking until the last moment. But it is easier said than done.
>>550852908Why not the Two Knights? The exchange is good too because it makes them mad, but the Two Knights takes them out of the mainlines and is fun/attacking
>>550856703>Two Knights?there is not much difference between that and the panov attack
>>550856703>>550857354two knights? more like 2 faggots, LOL, we all know them horses on the down low
yo this nigga gay for horses
Me and the bros on our way to play two knights
>>550856703I take my opponents into the Tartakower vs the 2 Knights and I know a few lines there.
>>550861007I’d like to practice that against you >>550857939Wish they had made it 7 midgets, vertically challenged people need more acting roles
>>550862406>I’d like to practice that against youNo thanks. I'm bad.
I have a reoccurring nightmare where danny breaks into my house and forces me to listen to his unfunny commentary
https://lichess.org/@/Fins/blog/what-i-learned-from-spending-1000-hours-writing-an-opening-course/HIf968rn
>>550870336Thanks bro I saw it on my lichess homepage but didn't know how to open it
>>550872087thats a cool site
Ok I'm picking up the Elephant gambit as my main vs 2 nf6
>>550870336Can you tell us what you thought of the article please
>>550873036saar is very good article saar
>>550873036It's an okay read even if most of it is common sense stuff. The way he goes into great details as to how he was able to keep a 1hour/day routine was pretty funny. Here's a good snippet for the thread:"But please be honest with yourself: you aren’t going to improve much if you don’t fire up some games (especially serious games). I mention this because there’s a certain type of chess improver who believes they’re an exception to this law of chess “gravity,” and that delusion is usually wrapped up in ego protection."
how the fuck do you do endgamesyou look at a pawn wrong and suddenly you're in a forced draw or checkmate in 34 moves
>tfw I sperged out at the chess club and can't stop thinking about it ours later
>>550826887calm yourself, retardo. Literally nobody ever said anything even vaguely like your retarded idea that someone said "it's impossible for a titled player to play a variant"What was laughed at was a retard's post that "an IM could just pick a random variant and take one week and be #1"And that's never happened. DragonB70 is a good player and he's been playing for many YEARS, he didn't at all do your retard imagination of just walking in and winning instantly because there are two unrelated numbers next to his name.In the qualifiers, tons of IM/FM and even a few GMs tried and were quickly eliminated because being a grandmaster in ordinary chess does not make someone superior in crazyhouse, spellchess, threecheck, atomic, duck, antichess or most variants. Most variant world champions currently are non-grandmasters, which is pretty hard proof that letters next to a name grant zero magical powers.
>>550874961Unless it was an all-timer, they probably are used to it
>>550874335>But please be honest with yourself: you aren’t going to improve much if you don’t fire up some games (especially serious games)i dont play before tournaments but i still do wellbut i dedicate several hours to study
https://youtu.be/of87HaZRlaE?t=910hans niemann was sneezing up blood in jeetland during the chess world cup, he barely ate and barely slept during his stay in goa (the so-called "nicer" part of india"they literally used biological warfare in chess
>>550876453My opponent tried to take back a blunder at the end of a gruelling queen endgame and I didn't want him to but instead of telling him politely I raised my voice, put the move back claimed I wonI must have came across as way more angry than I actually was because the entire room went from friendly chatter to silence, I offered my opponent a rematch he coldly declined and I left after a couple more minutes of awkward silence >they probably are used to itOther than me all the people there are sociable normies so I doubt that but it's not the end of the world, it's closed for the holidays anyway and in 2-3 weeks no one will care
>>550876751If I was a grandmaster I would publicly and unabashedly refuse to play in India, no lie
How long will it be until you can no longer simply mention Danya on Reddit to farm updoots?
naroditskys endgame book was pretty good other than that i didnt like his videos at all
>>550882075Legends never die so probably never. Only if someone more chess famous dies. Hoping it’ll be Danny Phantom
>>550872087Wow I love this
>>550776882I wish chess sites allowed you to blacklist indians in your preferences.
>>550886626Me too I hate them so much it’s unreal
Anyone else drinking and playing tonight?
I'm too retarded for this game.
>>550876751>>550881596no doubt. When Magnus dropped out and it was Nepo or Ding, at least russia or china have at least a few clean hosting sites to use. India has a total of zero cities at 2025 sanitation standards. They might even be afraid if they created a clean indian city the hordes would wonder why their own cities were so filthy.
>>550889425I would play mostly in just Europe or the US, and would never even think of setting foot in India.
https://lichess.org/bsCOFhtc
>>550807536nice meme larpov, you are really funny
>>550776882>>550881596>>550886626>>550887273India is the future of chess, stop being sore losers
lichess just banned me for some reason. guess I'm a chess.com chad nowdon't know what I did wrong
>>550891779>stop being sore losersthis is 4chanevery user in this website is a sore loser
>>550892005Yeah they do that
>>550892005you did something. Spill the beans
>>550892515not that I know of. unless two accounts aren't allowed. I'm a new player so I had one that I tried different openings on, and one that was my main. other than that no idea
>>550892794Lichess is basically the reddit of the chess sites and is extremely sensitive. It’s like when you go to comment in a subreddit and find out you’ve already been banned for commenting in a “fascist” sub. Lichess is similarly a reddit police state and has all the bureaucratic sadism of leftists. Don’t even bother appealing
>>550894621oh don’t worry I would never “appeal” a ban. if you don’t want me on your site you can go fuck yourself kek
Commented in r/Jewish did you babe?
>>550872087if everything on it wasn’t a grift that would be nice. not paying for premium to play bots. these tards need to focus on actually creating sites people want to go on rather than just monetizing sign ins
>>550892005Shouldn’t have stalled and cheated
>Open reddit>Immediately see someone else banned from licheatslmaohttps://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1prdvnb/chessnut_air_results_in_10year_account_banned_on/
>>550896547>I love the lichess product but I've had bad experiences with their mods. I'm sadly not surprised they would not consider your appeal.Wow, you don’t say.Beneath all the upvoted Lichess Defense Force even the reddit golem is turning on its master.
>>550872087Does it have anime waifus? No? Not interested.I want to spend hundreds of dollars buying a harem of big titty anime bitches, bonding with them, decorating a dorm for them, and follow along some shitty ecchi storyline where they all play in a chess club together. Is that too much to ask?WHERE'S MY ANIME GACHA CHESS SITE? WHERE IS IT?YOSTAR IS CHINESE, CHESS IS BIG IN CHINA, THERE WAS EVEN BRIEFLY A CHINESE WORLD CHAMPIONWHERE'S MY CHESS GACHA YOSTAR???
>>550896187wouldn’t even know how to cheat bro. and never did too much stalling to my knowledge
>>550897321The good news is they got you while you’re still a new player rather than after you’ve built up a corpus of games and studies and bookmarks. Now you know from the beginning not to waste your time there. You don’t need to pay for com if you don’t want to. Just import your game to lichess for analysis, which doesn’t require an account.
>>550897919*Just remembered it does actually, nevermind. Don’t know what I was thinking. You can analyze on com for free anyway too, just not with the “game report”, which is a gimmick. So ignore the above post. And you can do puzzles on chesstempo
Danny Rensch slandering lichess once again
>>550898160what do you mean besides the game report. I don’t see any other analysis
>>550898646Look for the little magnifying glass icon, it will take you to the analysis. It won’t be a full “computer analysis” report like lichess, but it will still be analysis with an engine that shows you all the lines. It’s less user friendly than lichess but it’s fine
>>550898951thank you
Lichess puzzles has some advantages. I mainly use ChessTempo, but Lichess lets you choose the theme without paying
>>550899571Puzzle books are better anyway if you want to be serious about them. The main point is actually to solve them in your head, not click through them. And the puzzles in books (like the Woodpecker) are handcrafted and much better
>>550899715>like the Woodpecker) are handcrafted and much betterthis is not truesome puzzles are dubious to say the least
>>550900159So are the ones on lichess lol, a lot of them get downvoted out of the puzzle cycle. But Woodpecker aside, books as a whole are superior. A lot of people who do puzzles online do them like “hmm well I guess this must be the first move?… yes good, so then this must be next?” etc. and get confirmation for each move as they guess along. The correct way is to have the puzzle in your mind and mull on it until you’re certain you’ve solved it. That’s the real way to improve your tactics and board vision. Online puzzles are basically just a gameification of a more serious tradition
>>550900317Serious improovers like me do all 10,000 of our ChessTempo puzzles without moving the pieces
>>550900317well yeahchess king software has the same problem and unfortunately i think it was peshka who popularised that before any modern chess website even existed
>>550900442And while floating out of your gamer chair in the lotus position?
>>550900442I’ve done 100,000 puzzles this year, you guys are amateurs compared to me
>>550889917ggs, score for you was +6 -5 =3 so i'll drop one.
>>550900691what is your FIDE rating?
>>550900804Over 9000 buddy
>>550900691So if you do no more this yet you'll have an average of 273.97 a day and 11.41 an hour, or if we only count 14 hours of available puzzling time 19.56 an hour. And yet it's possible to do much more than that in an hour. What is the cause of this?
>>550900762Nice cat, thanks for posting, ggs back to Claire obscure for a bit
>>550900986Why you doing math bro we in a 4chan thread lolll
>>550901154zoomoid detected, activating lazer destruction
>>550901696There’s some patterns where Greek gift doesn’t work, I like the patterns where the king comes out g6 after knight g5 check
>>550765807He's right you know.
>>550897321Just bribe them to undo the ban like seriouscheat
>>550903359Fuck off
My chess memes folder is growing. 61 items now, in total. Soon the quantity will become truly impressive.
>>550904952Can you post a screenshot of your folder with the thumbnails to give us an idea of your power level?
>>550905572
>>550905817Technically a couple of those aren't actually chess memes and are just chess-related images that I saved or screenshots I took but it's close enough.
>>550905817Pretty cool thank you for sharing
Can’t wait for the Christmas tournament this week
>>550905817Anon, how do you not have the one with Kramnik kneeling on Danya-Floyd?
>>550818709>sees an image with a kid graduating high school >assume his age is 15 genuinely curious where your strain of retard comes from. how do you get things like that wrong?
>>550900317>board visionI'm starting to think I need to set up puzzles on an actual chess board. I've noticed that I have a lot of difficulty working out what's happening OTB when compared to a diagram or 2D computer screen.
Seconds left on my clock btw. Quickly calculated it starting from Qxh3, he played Rh2 as you see, then I hit him with this sac from hell.
>>550907756These are just from the last couple of generals + threads from April-August 2021. I hadn't begun assembling a folder yet when K****** ended Danya's life.
>>550908191This was pretty obvious desu
>>550906952What are you doing to prepare?
My thigh is sore from punching it when losing at blitz earlier today.
>>550908761I’m looking at the games of the people who’ve joined so far and I’m avoiding masturbating
The worst threads always get followed up by fake positivity threads that are even more creepy.
>>550909754Can you show examples of the fake positivity?
>>550909008violence isn't helping, if anything it's a waste of time that'll distract your subconscious and you follow up with more stupid moves than ever. Try doing something more useful like running half a mile before taking a break and playing, physical exertion makes the body less prone to distractions (some evolutionary development from back when we needed to not let tigers sneak up on us when on the roam)
>>550914791I like to punch my cat every time I lose
>>550914971stop it, Hasan
>>550915087I prefer Adam Mockler
>>550914791It lets out the frustration. It’s not a waste of time because it takes a second or two.
>>550917691I punched a hole in my ikea desk once :(
>>550918005That’s why you should punch your leg itself because it’s alive and can fix itself but it’s also a part of your body so you have total dominion over it.
>>550920313Ya that’s how I feel about punching my cat too
Good morning saars
>>550915410watching a lispy gay zoomer utterly humiliate boomers on CNN is my favorite form of entertainment.
>>550856703> The exchange is good too because it makes them mad,Unless black is a Carlsbad player in which case you're just giving him a reverse Carlsbad structure that he's more than happy with.
Dumb idiot really thought I didn't see him setting up b4 and had no plan of my own
>>550931372Yeah but is black playing the Carl side or the bad side of the structure?
>>550931372>>550935316a very informative 1300 discussion.
>>550896547That nigga has been playing since forever and you can't even appeal an insta permaban? WTF
>>550938084>t. 1301
New Epstein dump just got released and I'm scrolling looking for any pics of Epstein with famous chess players: https://www.jmail.world/photosI haven't found any so far but there are so many pictures so this will take a while.
>>550905817>man_grumpy_at_board.jpgThat's a photo larpov used to use for avatarfagging. Don't tell me you're larping as larpov.>>550941159There's a photo of Emil Sutovsky naked in a jacuzzi with an underaged female chess player, but it was redacted by Trump's DOJ at the request of Bibi Netanyahu's aide.t. knower
>>550907756you rang?
How to Reassess Your Chess 4th Edition by Jeremy Silman
>>550905817>No EssermansCasual
>>550955463He insists upon himself..
>>550935316Black has the Carl side because it's the side with the queenside minority attack.
>>550955463post some esserman reaction pics pleaseI only have this one
-ATTENTION-As a celebration of Christmas, there will be 2 chess tournaments (both unrated)Tuesday, 23rd of December we have "Christmas Blitz Arena", an UNRATED blitz tournament (3+2).https://lichess.org/tournament/67xyCUmFPlayers of all skill levels are welcome. Come play fun, fast chess with us without the worry of losing rating pointsWednesday, 24th of December we have "Christmas bullet Arena", an UNRATED bullet tournament (1+1).https://lichess.org/tournament/sSHXRxO4Players of all skill levels are welcome. Come play interesting chess with us and celebrate Christmas along with anonymous racist internet friends!
>>550904952>61 items now, in total.Casual
https://youtu.be/VIxgLAoTLSs?si=csej6YGkljNimZBRSpeedrun to 1800 lirapidartificially lowered rating by intentionally losing games (as you do)Only post wins (as you do)
>>550956374can i use my vibrating buttplug during the tourney
>>550956862I love patzer videos because they try to talk like GM's despite not knowing what's going on
>>550957083We've been over this before, Catmixer. Cheating is not allowed
>>550956374I will only play if you let reximtac play. I encourage everyone else to do the same.
>>550958775he's already playing through one of his aliases so it's fine
10+5 casual game with a noob anyone?https://lichess.org/w4sROYZP
>>550958839Which one?
>>550956374Post this on tg I tested it and it’s safe
I am an embarrassment.
What's the most reddit opening?
>>550971070“Hey would you like to see my chess set back at my place?”
>>550966170whats the point, theres no one there
>>550971070the bongcloud. it's an epic meme joke about le weed.
>>550971070d4
>>550972342The person who makes the tg thread is invited too.
>>550972512But bongcloud makes people seethe :(
>>550972603get lost pbt
>>550972758You can stop selling I am all in.
i think i will learn the dutch
>>550975117Do it, it's fun
>>550972603He is here too>>550975117Extremely based and redpilled
>>550975012The guy you were responding to *was* selling though. Usually you'd say you can stop selling when someone is trying to get you to not do something, and that's why it's funny and unexpected. Because>>550972512 was making fun of the bongcloud>>550972758 defends the bongcloud, note "but," adding the seething of others as a reason to play it>>550975012, you, are also defending the bongcloudAny normies here to check my analysis? I guess >>...58 could also be not getting what >>...12 said, might have thought 12 was being serious, and that might have led 58 to genuinely attack the bongcloud, in which case i guess it would be right for you to then do the funny and defend it.
>>550975636who the fuck uses the last two digits of a post number to refer to users
>>550975636This is a fascinating bit of autism. What do you aim to gain with this experience? Also, the joke is it's reddit and it's making people seethe therefore it's based.
>>550975817what's wrong with it? I don't wanna have to quote the same post again so it makes it simpler, rather than having to use terms like "the second guy," "the first guy," "he," "him," y'know.
I play chess faster than I analyze chess so I have a massive backlog that I will never get to.
>>550976362NGMI, but also I think the value of analysis decreased over time because you won't remember what you were thinking
>>550975636I said “but” because imo an opening that makes people seethe is more 4chan-esque. Anyway, I don’t actually go on Reddit so I have no idea. I like playing bongcloud because it tilts people into going all out to punish it.
kys cheatmixer
>>550976148Both >>...58 and >>...12 (you?) made the same joke though. The "stop selling" thing is usually like>but, think about how many people will be hurt!>jeez, you can stop selling it, I'm already sold.The humor comes from the fact the first person was actually trying to make the second person not support it, but the second person humorously believes whatever that is is a good thing, actually.What you guys just did was>this idea is so ass>but, it's actually good, because people get hurt!>you've already sold me, dude, no need to keep selling me it.All 3 are different people to my knowledge. But yeah, this kind of fails because there's no contrast in the opinions of the second and first person.I do get the humor of the "reddit seething is based" thing, not actually autistic or anything, the humor just didn't work for me because of that thing i just wrote about.
>>550977043Yeah, that's how I interpreted your reply. So it is true that you and >>...12 were thinking similarly.
>>550977173you first doggydivider, you motherfucker
>>550977184Okay, but what about the idea that hurting people is a good thing and there's a trend forming? + reddit punch up. I felt that was a good one. Anyways, we live we bomb. Hopefully next one lands better for you.
>>550977184No one “gets hurt”… maybe their feelings get hurt lolSo it intentionally triggers weak minded individuals… ya that sure sounds like a Reddit opening?
>>550978034That could work, yes.
>>550978713I'm not literally saying people are getting hurt, I'm just using it as an analogy, to show why I feel there was a misunderstanding somewhere. I'm also not saying the bongcloud is or isn't a reddit opening.
>>550978731Why did he dodge Karpov
>>550979085thats fairdefinitely wouldnt play bongcloud against a guy with a sword
How come I never hear about Bruce Pandolfini anymore? Why doesn't he stream his blitz games? Why isn't he ever providing commentary on modern chess?
>>550981213he was murdered to death by adolf kramler
>>550979085he should bring that sword to the next super tournament he's at and go full timur on the jeets
>tfw you're threatening mate in 1 and your opponent is like, AH HA! I FOUND AN UNPROTECTED PAWN AND I'LL TAKE IT NOW
>tfw no face
>>550992283I wish she was real
>>550993314Unsettling sanpaku.
Perhaps a retarded question: What should I play as Black vs 1.d4 d5 2.e3?Against Queen's Gambit I usually go for QGD Ragozin or whatever I can manage to get away with because I lack a lot of theoretical knowledge as Black vs 1.d4.
>>550995138It seems to me that you have to play b6, fianchetto the light square bishop, and then play c5 once you are developed
>>550995138Put the moves in here and it will show you the best/most popular answer to any opener. Make sure the opener explorer is open (little book icon in the bottom right corner).https://lichess.org/analysis#explorer
>>550996283Maybe I'll do that. I generally like to play lines that are thematically familiar to what I already know or maybe transpose into something I already know, rather than playing the top engine move or the most popular move, though.
>>550996594That opener explorer is not just a stockfish bot. It actually shows a list of the most popular moves made by lichess players. You can also filter to only include master+ titled players.
>>550996594ChessBrah has a speed run with the Colle, maybe you can look at how people played against him in the higher ratings
>>550996898I know
>>550996921Thanks.
>>550996283>opener
missing Aerelant
>e4?>*smirks*>How utterly predictable. Let me just go ahead and push this pawn riiiight to c6. Bet you didn't see THAT coming, huh?
>>551005493Just play Panov and wreck their shit.
>>551005493>e4 is fun, just learn 17 variations of Ruy Lopez bronahI'll just keep playing d4 London tyvm
>>551006090Yeah, a million of the runny lopez, a million of the french, a million sicilians. On and in.D4 doesn’t need to know jack shit comparatively.
>>551005493>e4 c6>d4 d5>e5 c5
>>551006512>there are people ITG who just played these moves out on a board to see them
>>551006937Kek
>>551006512This is what I do.
>>551007289
>>551006512I play this and look like this.
I got scammed by a ChessTempo puzzle. Kept looking at it on and off for the last 24 hours, finally gave up and played a move. It said it was incorrect because my move was -4.3 instead of -4.9
>>551001280I’m still here.
I love games like this where you just roll cowardly openings
Elaynah is streaming again, boys.Let’s show our support for women in chess:https://www.youtube.com/live/5M52TgEfPbc?si=uR3N2MwXscXi6tM-
>>551012167I'm going to post tactical blunders in her chat since we know she cheats with chat moves
>Mogs your wacky lireddit pieces to oblivion
>>551012335Please don’t do that you might get her in trouble.
>>551012450okay I lol'd
>>551012167ew, blocked and filtered that tranny
>>551012450What’s this theme called? I like the horses
>>551012957It's from an extension called Chess Helper, the pieces are called Ridiculous Pieces
>>551013093Thanks, just think the knights are kinda sexy.
>>551013916Yeah I'm unironically using it lol, they make me laugh. They're too kino for this world
>>551014094If I played on chess com I’d def use them too. I’m still watching Elaynah I think tonight she might break 2000 rapid. No one’s send her money yet, it’s tough being a woman in chess.
>>551015097She didn’t even get close to reaching her goals tonight. We need to try harder next time so we can play her.
Oppy cully bish and you got no pawn mobe. Itsover4u
>>551016382Meant to post the mod message where he says if she reaches her goals the next stream after she’ll make an arena and play her fans. She got almost zero money tonight, this sucks.
>>551016572You must be some kind of shill or something. It's not that big of a deal.
>>551006937This is what I do.
>>551016572Her whale is slacking.
>>551012167Cute foid, still weaker than me tho
>>551016784I’d like to play her.
>>551019916Just make a new account, smurf up to 1900, and stream snipe her
>>551019452Brother she is indistinguishable from a man
>>551020121and?
>e-celeb discussion >incoherent opening discussions and that’s about it…
>>551023240and?
>>551023240Recommend some topics for discussion>Blindfold puzzle>White queen on g5>White pawn on f5>White King on h2>White pawns on h3, g2>Black King on g8>Black pawns on f7, g7, h7>Black rooks on f8, a8White to play mate in 3
>>551023240>>551023561okay I lol'd
>>551012167She is a good example of problems with one's play beyond tactics. Yes, her tactics need to improve a lot, but she plays so passively, over-defending everything at the first sign of any aggression from the opponent. Not counterattacking or targeting weaknesses. These are more easily correctable things than tactical weaknesses.
>>551025329She watched too much Hanging Pawns..
>tfw studying the marshal attack
>open chesscom>paired against 2000 blitz>ok i understand my level>win>it pairs me against a 1750 for some fucking retarded reason>rapes me>he's a new account that has been ruining hundred of games for 3 days in a row>doesnt get banned>will never get bannedI'm so fucking sick of this dogshit website. And lichess isn't any better.
>>551029238So... you got lucky against a 2000, got reminded of your real level against a 1700, and now are coping and seething
>>551025329She mentioned Ben finegold at one point and she says she’s been playing for 3 years, I think she’s perfect and she’s average enough that I might stand a chance with her
Been thinking about doing this for awhile. This is SeriousChest. AMA.
>>551020121She has a separate YouTube channel called The Bloom Theory where she works harder to female present
>>551033046Would you date Elaynah?
>>551033046What influenced you to get into the field of cum guzzling?
Serious questions only please. This is SERIOUSChest. Thank you.
>>551033046>>551033241>>551033585>>551033586>>551033943not really him FYI
>>551033943Ok, I'll give in on the cum-guzzling issue, but >>551033585this question is a serious and important one, at least for me, I don't know about whoever posted it.
>>551034159This is me. >>551034179Consider yourself blocked.
>>551034179She could help you with your streaming career it’d be a good match up
>>551034263308 Negra Arroyo Lane. ip: 127.0.0.1GG bro
>>551034509
Now is the time to learn, not to joke. All above correspondents have been blocked. Genuine inquiries into my personal life will be permitted, trolling will not.
>>551034794Post a detailed review of Reassess Your Chess (4th Edition)
Greg from shipping here, ama
Karla here. AMA.
>>551034864Allow me to begin by stating that Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman is not merely a book. It is a philosophical treatise disguised as a paperback, a metaphysical exploration of imbalance, and, if I may be so bold, the closest thing the amateur chess player has to a spiritual awakening. To read Silman is to stand on the precipice of enlightenment, gazing down upon the swirling chaos of your own misguided moves and realizing, with a gasp, that you have been living in darkness. Before Silman, I played chess the way a toddler plays the piano: with enthusiasm, yes, but also with catastrophic misunderstanding. After Silman, I play with the serene confidence of SeriousChest: a man who has thoughts about minor‑piece imbalances and the intricacies of pawn structures. Silman’s central thesis, the concept of “imbalances”, is presented with such clarity and conviction that one feels compelled to adopt it as a personal worldview. If my opponent has the bishop pair and I have a superior pawn structure, what does that say about my approach to conflict resolution? These are the kinds of questions Silman inspires. His explanations are so lucid that I found myself nodding vigorously, as though participating in a seminar on the nature of reality. To say more would require more space than this forum allows.
Just gonna fire up the fish and grab some 'LO
>>551035154Justify the genocide of Gaza, in chess terms
>>551035420Why does ChatGPT always do this “it’s not just —it’s” type of line
>>551035624The eternal war between the Jews and Arabs is much like that between the teams of chess. As White and Black may forever clash with one another, throughout momentary victory or defeat, so too shall and should the Jews and the Arabs. Many question the extremity of the attacks, or the ruthlessness of them. To that I say: when you have gone from the brink of failure, of destruction, to glorious victory, grasping your enemy in your hands-- do you let them go? Do you agree to a draw, or allow perpetual check, or give mercy where mercy had not, once, been given to you? No! You destroy the forces of your enemy, until checkmate is known by your forces. No less should this doctrine be pursued by either party in this long-fought conflict. And let me add. Do you, pray tell, spare the pawns that once kicked at the structure of your armies? Only for that they are pawns? No. And you may apply this logic similarly, in your other ventures.
>>551036005Because like 80% of its training data is reddit neckbeards.
https://www.reddit.com/user/TheZenOfNh3I found a nice chess schizo reddit account
>>551037487How did you find my account
>>551037487Was not worth the click, it's just a rando.
>>551035154>>551034885>>551033046Favorite game of the year? Besides chess of course :)
>>551038790I don't know I haven't really been keeping up.-Karla
>>551038790This is SeriousChest. I played every single 2025 video game. Too many to choose. God my ass is sweaty.
>>551039047>>551039041Common guys there wasn’t one game that stood out?
>>551039312I have corresponded with you sufficiently. This dialogue is now closed.
>>551038790Mario Kart World was fun
>>551039752I liked donkey kong cause I got to smash things and yell BANANAH
>>551039752>>551039941I didn't play a single video game in the calendar year 2025. I listened to the sounds of other people playing them. And that's what no one in this thread except for me did.
This joke never gets old.
>>551006512I play that and look like that
>>551042508I play like that and look like that
>>551042508i started doing this after trying not to and blundering because my eyes didn't follow the path of a diagonal correctly. What i thought was going to be a check was not a check.
>>551042508pleb tier. A community college near me has a board you walk on. That makes the game extra fun. (random picture from the internet, not of me)
>>551043997Yeah right. We know that's you.
>>551043997that is 100 percent you
>>551044250>>551044152it can't be me, because I must definitely be one of these two girls playing chess on it
>>551043997Yeah and then 2 months from now you’re gonna act all coy like >actually i did post my picture in /chess/ but you’ll never find it tee hee.
>>551044726I would never do that to you
well it might as well be you since youre a beaner since its from a college in dallas
looking through all the outdoor board pictures over the years, I notice there's a vast decrease in people having the Ben Finegold bodyshape when you have to constantly walk over the board and lift up sand-filled pieces.
>>551045237one of my best friends is a beaner, he'll be thrilled when I tell him that now I can use his slurs
This is my cat playing chess LOL
>>551045482nice try, tell him/her CGMs aren't real GMs
>>551045482HOLY KEK
>>551045482also, I fucking hate when they put black nipples on top of white chess pieces and white nipples on top of black chess pieces.It's not random or funny. Fuck off.
>>551045434let him know that I called him a beaner as well
>>551045680the jew does this to spread his miscegeny propaganda
>>551045849hikaru nakamura's mother chess pieces
>>551043997My town's park has that but the kids always just scramble the pieces, I've never seen anyone properly playing with them
>>551046252the toddlers would just drag them randomly but everyone teen and above actually played games. We even had a campus tournament one year and I steamrolled.
I'm so lucky stockfish is weaker in this variant, account with 1-game total using all the advanced engine tricks. If it was regular chess he'd have just won via engine and I'd have lost 150 rating.
>>551049045What the fuck is that and why do you retards play this shitAre you 5
>>551037487His self-aggrandizing posts remind me of those old AJ Goldsby posts on chessgames.com
>>551045482Vacuum your carpet.
>>551052383he's basically larpov but not as comically weakalso lmao at the time for the captcha getting doubled, how many literal retards are there on this site that couldn't do it in 15 seconds?
The necrobumps are getting even sadder.
>>5510245671. f6 g6 2. Qh6 Black moves anywhere 3. Qg7#This is the first time I ever tried to visualize a position in my head and it was a struggle. I feel like I solved it less by visualization than by reading the notation and realizing what was going on. I also wasn't able to picture the whole board state in my mind, things were much too hazy for that. Instead I had to divide the board into quarters and focus on each quarter individually.
Any recommendations for a book of annotated Morphy games?
>>551024567what I find interesting is that I have no problem visualizing this instantly but if you ask me what color f5 is I don't know and can only derive it from knowing h1 is white or things like that
>>551037487He deleted his account
>>551059806The English translation of this is coming out in February. An anon recommended it on /chess/ some months ago.
>>551053319>even sadderEven Sadler lol lmao.
what happened to the kasparov/blitz comic translation thing? wasnt an anon going to machine translate it and post it?
so this is what the chess mafia is doing with their moneyhttps://youtu.be/GJDReLgEeEU?t=277skibidi magnus
-ATTENTION-As a celebration of Christmas, there will be 2 chess tournaments (both unrated)Tomorrow, 23rd of December we have "Christmas Blitz Arena", an UNRATED blitz tournament (3+2).https://lichess.org/tournament/67xyCUmFPlayers of all skill levels are welcome. Come play fun, fast chess with us without the worry of losing rating pointsWednesday, 24th of December we have "Christmas bullet Arena", an UNRATED bullet tournament (1+1).https://lichess.org/tournament/sSHXRxO4Players of all skill levels are welcome. Come play interesting chess with us and celebrate Christmas along with anonymous racist internet friends!
>>551063274lol rip, he must have come down from his manic episode and read through his posts
>>551067673I joined, I expect to see more anons there....
>>551070374It's lame how there were a bunch of posts saying they were looking forward to this before it was made and then it gets made an so few joined yet
>>551067673I'd love to join, but I'm waiting to be approved for the Basket Weavers team. Can you fast track me? My lichess username is lordbentham.
I'm still Reassessing My Chess. Probably everyone under 2000 in here needs to read it.
>>55107110660% of posts is one anon(posibly Catmixer) samefagging to keep the thread alive. The rest are either oldfags that come by every now and then or touristsFace it, /chess/ died, just like Naroditsky did
Leave Gukesh to me
>>551080613He'll finish last, but with several wins. He's only there to ruin someone's wine shot at the title, which I think is based
I compiled the individual and team points for the board 1 players in GCL to expose the frauds.Fabiano and Anand are carried hard by their team.
>>551078386sure thing pastebin tranny, keep repeating that everyone falls for it
>>551081893
>>551071106Mentally ill people (100% of weavers) don't have the greatest track record when it comes to following through on commitments.
Leave gukesh to me
WHY DO FUCKING PAJEETS GET SUCH MASSIVE LAG COMPENSATION
>favorite opening>favorite vtuberFor me it's the 2 knights defense and Kaela.
>>551083242Shilling for vtubers should be punishable by death
>>551078386Which posts are catmixer?
>>551084027That is a good question. You could make a good naive model for that. Pick every post as catmixer and your accuracy is like 80-85%.
>>551084027None. None of these namefags exist. It's schizos hallucinating or trolls conjuring them up to ruin the thread.
>>551084027NTA, but besides the obvious (lichess challenges), >>551034885 is him, and anything either 1) shitting on seriouschest, or 2) pretending to be seriouschest is him.
>>551085212Nah the person shitting on and pretending to be chest is someone else
>>551084362I love Sproke
>>551085212Btw I’ve actually met Greg from shipping he’s a bit of a boring guy but he’s nice, knows a lot about cardboard
>>551057007Yes, that's the answer. You've actually inspired me to illustrate how I imagine the board when I'm doing this kind of thing. I'll describe it first.The board is divided into sections. The 2 middle files and ranks are split into sections, and then the 4 central squares are then removed to form another section, creating 9 seconds.This is what that looks like (picrel.) The contrast between the colors isn't there though, just the sections. It feels easier to me to conceptualize, for example, a knight moving within a 3x3, or maybe just barely crossing into the next section, or a bishop's diagonal going through this section, then that section, than it is to imagine an ever-expansive board. I usually do this for blindfold puzzles, with very few pieces, though. Not really blindfold games which are mostly just intuition of how the squares work, and very rarely when imagining a diagonal or some complicated movement using this method.Regarding the puzzle, what would've been really evil is if I had black able to throw some checks you had to avoid :).>>551060856Yeah, I can only name certain squares' color, like e4 being white (right???? i'm right on that.) if you asked me f5 I'd have to see its on the same diagonal as e4, or imagine a bishop's route there from h1. (white on bottom right.)
I had a nice 7/7 ChessTempo session today :D
>>551086567Do you think there’s a point where you should give up after not finding the correct solution? Instead of staring at a position for 15 minutes and ultimately not finding the solution on your own. I’ve heard Greg from Shahade say that he gives up after like 5 minutes of not seeing it
>>551087032that's why you get a timer, time up = time to see answer and understand what one didn't see
>>551088421Ya, I think I’m just stubborn, I’ve spent way to long staring at problems I’m too stupid to understand, when I should have given up and moved on to the next puzzle for efficiency
>>551086550>what would've been really evil is if I had black able to throw some checks you had to avoid :)True. The puzzle became really easy after I realized my king is safe and black's king is trapped behind his own rook. I've seen that pattern in enough games and puzzles that I knew what to do then.
>>551087032I personally don't set a timer, I just give up once I know I won't be able to solve it. Usually it's in the 20-30 minute range. When I get one that's stumping me after that long, I swear I can feel the neurons re-mapping my understanding of chess, so I try not to ever give up
>>551071106Because that was mostly zoombam samefagging to fend off Aerelant, who was our best chance at a real team. We live in a world where the bad guys won
>>551091314kys cheatmixer
I like doing lichess puzzles in the 2200-2300 range. Nice balance between easy and difficult, you can solve them fast, the kind of tactics you see in your games.
>>551091462You first doggydivider, you motherfucker
>>551092358
>>551092515Holy shit is this real? How did they teach him to do that?
>opponent plays the chudo>check profile>am*ricanEvery time. The entire nation is ROZZED.>>551091462He's not wrong though.
>>551091314Even setting aside that aeralant is a literally insane cringelord and there is no reason to believe zoombam samefags, this doesn't even make logical sense that faggot started his melty after the christmas tournament was created and I was explicitly talking about posts before that >>551091505Same it's the perfect range to warmup before playing
>>551092570>>>/wsg/6056783
Blindfold Puzzle (easy)>Black to play, not mate, just evaluate the position.>Black pawn on b2>Black king on f2>White pawn on h7>White king on g4
>>551097709I don’t get it, so it is real? It’s pre Ai
>>551099512Yeah, it’s sad that AI replaced the art of training cats to swag out. Nowadays it’s all digitally produced at the click of a button.
for the OTB players here, do you rest before a tournament?if so how many days before?I'm pushing myself much harder than usual in preparation to one but I figure I will need to recharge before it starts, I didn't do that before the last classical tournament I played and I was already burned out halfway throughmy current plan is to only do a few easy puzzles and maybe brush up on some openings in the 2 days before the start but I'm open to suggestions from people with more experience
Everything seems sharper after I've played chess with checkers. It used to just be the chess set after I play a game but even the font here looks sharper. I don't know what this means but it needs to be said.
>>551102905I would not work too hard the couple days before yeah, but I always failed to get sleep before tournaments and that ended up being my biggest issue.
Elaynah is live for anyone interest.
>>551103363u are literally c*tm*xer i saw u in the chat
>>551103442Proof?
>>551103764right here catmxing bitch
>>551104008So it never happened, thanks.
>>551104184I don't fucking takea screenshot every time i see your name, u ugly whore.
>>551104008>>551104280Post proof and I’ll leave /chess/ forever
>>551104395we know how much thats worth u stupid bitch
>>551093050Should be renamed the jewdo
>>551104472Anyway back to Elaynah, I think she might actually reach 2000 this stream. I’d actually send her like 10 bucks if she does.
