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i'm on redhotpawn.com as blueski if anyone fancies a game

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Sunday, 13 March 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Does this mean you beat Alix this weekend and are looking for fresh blood?

― Grandmaster DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 13 March 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

i challenge thee

― charlton lido (gareth), Sunday, 13 March 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i just registered as julesb74. i'm on gameknot.com already with the same name.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 13 March 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Stevem Bird's Opening! You FANNYDANGLER.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I will tray and set some kind of ILX clan on it or something, hang on. (I am tiefscharz btw)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Bah, you need to be a subscriber.

Who are the ILX chess ninjas btw? I sorta assume Skidmore is one somehow.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

gravel aren't you tiefschwarz with the w? i found them but not 'tiefscharz'...

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd play

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

i invented the name redhotpwn.com

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently I cannot spell.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, 'Tiefschwarz'. Teaches me to pick stupid names to impress girls.

Ken pick a username!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

oh i forgot to check my gmail spam box for my confirmation.. it's kenjuggle

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

knightmoves

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken has the beating of me, I think!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

you'd think i'd be ok at chess: i am useless

or maybe you'd think i'd be useless: well i am

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm useless too, but it's fun. greg is KICKING MY ASS.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone who wants to kick my ass, I am "casuistry".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link

greg got red hot pwn3d! anyone else want a game?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 10:32 (nineteen years ago) link

both Greg and Julia appear to be bashing my bishop - as well as all the other pieces

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link

also charltonlido it's been your move for some time now...

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

haha did we challenge each other at the same time steve???

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not very good at chess, but I've signed up anyway. Username is treefell

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I've just signed up: pawnimo

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Someone challenge me too! I'm "starryschessclub"!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I am too ashamed of my poor chess skills to join in.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link

someone explain to me how this works...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

the horsey moves two along and one across, the dirty vicar moves diagonally, freddy mercury goes as far as and to whatever direction he damn well pleases, whereas elvis is so fat he can only move one square at a time. castles, on the other hand despite being inanimate objects, can move in straight lines, the pwns move forward and then get killed, hence the name

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i was really disappointed that there was no freddy mercury piece....

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm being pole-axed

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I am so fucking LAME at Scrabble! Ken has me IN A VICE!!

VICE I TELL YOU!!!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, chess, I mean! I'm not used to playing a new game!

(Anyone fancy an ISC date at lunchtime? SOWPODS, 13 mins void?)

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

this is a really good interface. all it needs is a duel-style face-slap animation to pop up when you challenge someone.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link

God. I am blushing at my desk about how awful I am at chess. I might go to Chess and Bridge at lunchtime to pick up a beginners guide to NOT BEING BLUDDY AWFUL at chess. Aw maaan.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i am now making it worse, yaaaaaay

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link

oh my god i cant believe i entered this. i was drunk last night. i am appalling at chess!

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

excellent

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link

*bangs head against desk*

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I want a rematch with ken!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i challenged you yesterday for it and you didn't reply.. i think i'm full at the moment (but the game with starry will be over soon i think ;))

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh sod off you geek!!

*flounces back to Scrabble*

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

can't they combine Scrabble and Chess somehow?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

triple check score!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I have played the Jamaican chess champion, and received a total pWning(he's a busker in the city streets of Melbourne) It rocks out, I desire a chess clock.

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm on the ropes against both greg and ken now - thrilling stuff

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I am enjoying this.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't get it, can't the castle take the queen here to avoid the resignation?

chess game analysis is abt as dorky as it gets (edit: well, there is go game analysis...)

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

castle takes queen, horsey to F7 checkmate

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

dude I'm not playing you.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm crap really! i just get lucky sometimes.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link

like with the bowling eh?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I've just played two games of Scrabble and pwn3d in both, time to come back to the final death throes of my not quite so stellar chess career...

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

like with the bowling eh?

i'm like that with most things really as a matter of fact!! :D

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

signed on as kephm. will be looking for some game manana

― kephm, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

signed on as kephm. my game is so poor right now

― kephm, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

The delay between turns really lets you savour just how bad a mistake you've made with your last move. Oh yes.

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 17 March 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, a slow agonising death at the hands of tiefschwarz is certainly being 'savoured'

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Casuitry's massive positional advantage is now countered by my crushing one-pawn lead! I'm really enjoying all these games.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 17 March 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

it's good fun.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 March 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

give you something else to check, along with e-mails.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 March 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

omg i took a piece! ight, thats it for the rest of the year, i filled my quota.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 March 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

haha cozen nice one mate!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH up your arse blueski.

Rematch?

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

yes but you could've prolonged that last game a bit longer, for da sport

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

(like i am now doing against Ken)

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

not for THAT long.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

:-D

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I just joined as cathyleech

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I won a medal once, for chess.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there any chance of a similar outbreak of ILX Scrabble matches? www.isc.ro

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

im up for that
i dont know whether im worse at scrabble, or chess.

a tough on that.
my username is "ambrose", funny that

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

no its not. its "ambroseW"

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, it's on then.

Anyone seeking to play me at Scrabble, the handle is Journalis.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

oh hello

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Whenever I make a move that I think is at all clever (usually because I decided not to make some dumb move) then it takes FOREVER before you lot respond to it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I am enjoying playing against you, ambrose.

haha cozen nice one mate!

huh?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link

i once got two queens ahead of my opponent - ie i had three and he had one, other pieces more or less equal

i then proceeded to lose all three queens AND the game

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

argh i get the feeling i am being drawn to the edge of the abyss, a cavalry charge bouyed by earlu success and seemingly unhindered forays into enemy territory, only for annihilation to ensue

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link

give you something else to check, along with e-mails.
-- cozen (skiplevel...), March 17th, 2005. (Cozen)

it was funny!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe Cathy just trash-talked me! I didn't even realize it was an option! ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link

(Within the game, that is.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link

you haven't been sledging? it's half the fun.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to use intimidation tactics, to compensate for never thinking more than half a move ahead.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

cathy's good at this game

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I am Vzzzbx

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm getting worse by the second.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

god ken is pasting me. im in check within about 3 moves or soemthing

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

that was mercifully short.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I am not going to bed until I win.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I am also bad at chess.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link

chess is a really fun game.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

your move cozen!

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link

cathy kidnapped my horsey! :(

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Not kidnapped, ken, KILLED.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link

!!!!

this is war!!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

(i'm slow like that!)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

this is too SLOW

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I think that is chess' biggest problem. It takes AGES.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah.. i mean it can potentially 3 days per move on this thing

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Who's noonyontour?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link

i think ive exhausted all my strategic nous thinking that i was totally gonna bomb cozen.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i avenged my horsey's tragic death

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link

You know when you do a move, and the very second you click 'Move' you go "oh shit that was a fucking stupid move"?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah i know it, cos it happens every time i click "move"

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

blimey i think i see what you mean.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link

you seem to be doing ok to me, ambrose.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry I had to leave work, Cathy! I'm checking in now but I won't really be back on for a few hours...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Quit alright. I should really go to bed. Ken has me in my death throes...

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Correction: dead throes.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link

That was a close game! Cathy has been the first person so far to make me feel scared about making the wrong move.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Whee! I'll be back tomorrow, with a vengeance. Goodnight.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

night! i should go to bed too. and dream of horses.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link

well im still here. anyone else want to keep me away from my coursework?

ambrosewhite

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link

you are being a little bitch!

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link

are you referring to my willingness to challenge, or the specifics of our game?
im anyones after a mint tea

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

haha I ws referring to my own inability to make any headway and your ability to match anything and everything tht I try and then some.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link

ha! i had a plan 10 moves ago, but you seem unwilling to keep all your pieces as they were for the duration fo my masterplann, and kept on moving them out of the way :(

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry ambrose! :)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Man! I need to play chess more than once every 10 years.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 March 2005 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I am back and ready for more CHESSEXINESS!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah! Autumn gave me a chance to come up with an endgame and make it happen. I am usually very bad at endgames but I saw one this time. Thanks!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I HATE CHESS.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link

And now the site's down oh dear what a shame.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey at least you know how to play it. I never learned. Ive no idea how to play chess AT ALL. I can play Go, but not chess. It's too logical or something.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link

The castle's called a rook, the horsey's called a knight, the bishop bends sideways and the queen goes in every direction. That's all you need to know.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link

IM ALREADY CONFUSED.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:14 (nineteen years ago) link

You need to read like a zillion books before you get really good at chess, but I read one book and it improved my game from very very bad to just very bad! And gave me a better sense of what is going on (although still, you know, not a terribly good one). I think it's by Bruce Pandolfini; I'll try to track it down if anyone's interested. It was not a thousand boring chess diagrams!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link

it's all about the game, and how you play it

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

so anyone else fancy a game?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I've just challenged you

― Greig (treefell), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

cool!

i think today's going to mark the end of my undefeated record.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, how do I send messages? I want to reply to Ambrose and Treefell!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

starrychessclub is superfast!

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

There's an option to the right of the board when it's your turn to send your opponent a message.

― Greig (treefell), Friday, 18 March 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I have been reading a book.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

seriously tho, fuck a knight-fork.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

you mean knife and fork? i dont see the relevance of cutlery to this discussion

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

ken had me on a three-way fork yesterday. queen king and rook i think. daaaaamn, i felt dumb.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i like the pace of our game Julia, it's about to hot up

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I have thrown away my lead against casuistry.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

come on, slowzen.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

i think the end is nigh for me.

W 1
L 4

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

well played, chris. I kinda knew it ws over when I told you on AIM "the queen is dead" but I thought I cda salvaged it, somehow.

cathy, I am playing the classic two-speed game. I am trying to... frustrate you.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen, what happened?! How the hell did I beat you, you were crushing me!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost. Still, I am not entirely sure what happened.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I am very frustrated.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

it was hingeing around my pawn on e5 which ws being attacked by two of yours (queen & rook) and three (with the potential to four) of mine (queen, bishop, and rook) (with another rook to move up.) when I moved it up to check the king, you brought down your back-rank rook, took the pawn, and the queen's fate ws sealed. if I'd have kept e5, I probably would have went on to win. if that's unclear, we cd do a review.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Casuistry has just stamped all over my plans. I am as good as dead.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

cathy, maybe you shd take up yahoo chess, as well? it is LIVE ACTION.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

You should never have agreed to exchange queens, Cathy!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I know, I never thought you'd really do it! Hmm, yahoo chess....

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

ow tht exchange of queens ws deadly. chris' queen ws marauding round the board fr a long while there.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

when Bobby Fischer's plane touches the ground...
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050318/people_nm/iceland_fischer_dc

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

But I was several pieces up, and was going to get your rook as well as your queen in the exchange. So hells yeah I'm gonna do it! But you get major points for moving your rook to the second row back then, that totally fux0red up my plans.

Cozen: I looked back and you're right, although even at that piont I think your position had slipped a bit.

Morley! Get in on chessic axxion! Are you back from your trip?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

ambrose hanging on.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

yes indeedy, but awful at chess :(

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

(Ack, I still haven't sent you crap! Dammit. This weekend!)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

am i meant to concede? i guess i should, but i still hold on to the romantic notion that somehow i could win....

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

dude I think that notion has passed from the romantic into the sublime.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

you are about to enter into privileged realms of self-knowledge.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

apologies, I've been reading too much edmund burke.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

At a certain point, not conceding is telling your opponant, "There's still a chance that you're a total idiot!"

Anyway, someone else please challenge me!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

oi, ambrose is cool.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't mean it like that!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I know I know!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link

You forget, I love everyone.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

why?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link

they're ok, RJG.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, I like to ~~hope~~ think so.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link

At a certain point, not conceding is telling your opponant, "There's still a chance that you're a total idiot!"

hah. i'm not doing that though, chris, i just want to see how the endgame goes. though i've been thinking of just resigning...i am so so beaten.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 19 March 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I dream, that they are.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 19 March 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I was surprised that you resigned! It's possible that you could have forced a stalemate, at least. I am not so good at endgames. But it was a good game! Rematch if you want.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 March 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually played two games of live chess tonight. While a bit tipsy. It was weird seeing actual pieces. I won one game and lost the other (at one of those slow endgames of attrition, where I was down two pawns, I got a bit bored and made a dumb mistake, but it was OK, I was going to lose anyways).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 March 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I have had not much internet access, lately, but this will change on Monday, promise.

Czn, why are you reading Burke? I owe you an email, it will happen.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 19 March 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

for fun, grvl.

cathy, have you played go? Go!!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm in: SundarS (at the same email I use here).

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 19 March 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link

(I kinda suck, btw.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 20 March 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i think casuistry may end my winning streak soon!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 20 March 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

That was a very curious time to move that pawn forward, I think.

But I'm not sure, because I did not sleep last night.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 20 March 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i made a mistake a few moves before that that has done the damage i think

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 20 March 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Has anyone played Magnifico? He or she just kicked my ass in 13 moves.

Am enjoying the game with casuistry.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Mr. Puzzleworth has lived up to his name! My hopes and dreams were thoroughly extinguished, and I walk the dreary rainy streets with no song in my heart to console me!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Great game Chris, thanks! Beat Ken for me, and we'll have some crazy pyramid thing going on or something...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, it's true abt the Cathy trash-talkin'!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been contemplating the parallels between chess and kickboxing (chessboxin'?).

Smart setup, Chris. Well, at least it'll take you more than 13 moves...

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

sundar, this game is odd for some reason, ive never seen a row of massed ranks like yrs

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

no one has beat me yet.

I lost to chris.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link

ambrose: Really? haha TS: I'm brilliantly inventive vs I have no clue what I'm doing.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I have an actual provisional rating now! I feel like I belong. Also it's in the 1300s, I should retire with this score, it can only go down.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen play me!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 March 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

After two defeats (a crushing defeat from ken included) I can now confirm that I am rubbish at chess.
Anybody else want a game?
username is treefell

― Greig (treefell), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

ken, I have only not lost (even though I lost to chris) because I play really slow.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

grr, i tried to challenge treefell but i can't because i have the maximum number of games going. one of them is against some non-ilxor who challenged me. it seemed like a really good game until i (amazingly) had the upper hand with a fork. i was all excited....and the other person stopped moving. i guess i have to wait a week now.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

well our game should finish soon julia :)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

When you're on a game screen, click "board options" and then "smiley" pieces!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

"Board style", I mean.

I predict I will defeat Ken in less than 50 more moves!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

haha sorry dude i'm hanging on to try and stretch my undefeated record a bit longer (12-0 if i last two more games before i lose this one ;))

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

You might have me yet, actually!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I am so bad at endgames. Sigh.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

And, I guess, beginning and middle games. My playing is shot to hell today! I blame lack of coffee. I will go off and sob now.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken is beating me in the rematch now :(

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

schoolboy error has cost me my queen against ambrose but there's still everything to play for

can't think fast enough for greg OR ken tho :(

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Someone needs to take Ken down.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

You're still a pawn up! THE LAST HOPE

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I may be up a pawn, but Ken's pawn is much closer to blossoming into full-blown queenhood. And it's all my fault for a dumb move made earlier today.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I WAS UP A ROOK, DO YOU SEE?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Has anyone had problems with getting notify emails, and the like? I'm playing with a co-worker at the moment (and I think we're about 2 moves from the end), but it took days for her to get an email notifying her it was her go after I played, and the board still remained saying it was my turn, despite my having moved - and now she's moved, it's still saying it's her go - it's getting really frustrating! This hasn't happened with any ILx games tho...

starryschessclub :)

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen has fallen for the queen trick too!

i must have a way with the ladies....*

*er no i dont

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link

don't count yr blessings until they've hatched leeds boy!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

ah fuck! "don't post yr posts until you've check yr redhotpawn aberdeen boy." I demand a remove! I only made tht move whilst in the giddy throes of flirtation! a girl influenced my chess!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I am on as captainzep. I'm very bad at chess, so if anyone wants some target practice...

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

the list of premature queen deaths:

stevem
cozen
starry

if only the queen was the king! er.....

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe I am a moron.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

haha so far I have avoided this by leaving my queen completely exposed. (This slow-playing setup is interesting, at least for a relative newb like myself. By the time I'm a couple days into a game, I've learned more than I knew at the start so my earlier moves seem wack. I've realized that my whole formation in the game with ambrose is totally counter-intuitive!)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Does the queen trick involve making your opponent scurry unattacked pieces off to safety or something?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

juggle- 'stry 43b!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I have squandered.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Gravel... you must... avenge me..... [resigns]

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

i can't believe i won that game!! at one point i was totally down and out.

This makes it 12-0!!! I'm like The Undertaker!

I think this is an omen that someone's going to break the winning streak soon (a la Randy Orton at the forthcoming Wrestlemania...)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh for fuck's sake. I just screwed up royally with Julia. I warned you I was no good at this game!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

we should talk...

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

sundar you have a formation?????

i am so screwed

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, here is the Problem with chess: The Problem with chess is that it is so difficult to get past the point of making tactical errors (or even just ridiculous errors like I just made with Julia) that it is difficult to get to the point where you can really enjoy the stategery, which is, I suspect, where the true deliciousness of the game lies.

Another way of putting it is that, until (I assume) you reach a certain level, it often feels as if you lose because of a mistake rather than because of choices you've made. (Although perhaps they still feel like mistakes, even at that level?)

(The Problem with go is that it takes a zillion games before you even begin to have a sense of how the pieces work. It doesn't take quite as long in chess to stop flailing around pointlessly as much.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not sure that that's quite true! There's a Go proverb, "lose your first fifty games as quickly as possible" - I reckon after those fifty you can pretty much "play go" in a sane if unimaginative way. That doesn't seem much more or less than chess, really, which has a steeper learning curve if you start from not-knowing-how-the-pieces work...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the actual difference is closer to: in chess it takes longer to stop making mistakes that a beginner could say "well, that was a mistake", about?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

The problem of not remember how a bishop moves is very different from the metaphysical terror of not knowing the meaning of a stone played in any particular spot. In chess, a few simple heuristics (control the center, know the "values" of the pieces, maybe "don't move a pawn forward without a good reason") will get your game up to non-embarrassing levels, and only after that do you start worrying about "how should pawns be used". Perhaps there are simple heuristcis in go as well, but go seems to be all about seeing the implications of your moves, even at beginning levels, whereas beginning (1100-1400) chess players don't need to worry about that as much.

But then I'm still working through my fabled first 50 games of go. I beat the GNU go last night with a 7x7 board and 2 starter pieces, so I felt a bit proud of that. Then I tried it again and it smote me.

By saying there is a "Problem" with either game I am not saying they are bad games. The actual Problem with chess is that it has been analysed to death, and I suspect Fischer Random Chess is the better game. But I haven't played it yet (or, I always play as if I'm playing it).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm being disingenuous to an extent. The real equivalent of "knowing how the pieces move and a few simple heuristucs" is maybe "knowing how stones connect", for which there are actually pretty good heuristics (one-space jump is connected unless they have overwhelming local strength, knight's move is connected if you have one other useful local stone or access to an edge, etc etc).

Games are so great.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

(7x7 with 2 stones is impressive!)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

stevem vs julia is around 35 moves now after a week of play with only about five pieces taken

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Too many exceptions, Mr. Puzzleworth!

(7x7 with 2 stones is impressive!)

I guess so. I tend to lose by 10 points or so with no handicap stones, though. And it won't let me take just 1 handicap stone.

I have already resigned in my Ken rematch. Dude fucking blitzkreiged me.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i know, it's a kinda crazy game, stevem. i'm enjoying it though.

i just got checkmated by chris p! i totally overlooked an obvious mistake, and was way way too fixated on this one checkmate possibility i would have had if i could have only gotten him to move his one rook.

i suck at chess. but it's fun.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooo, Ken might have let me back into our game, sortamaybe!

One handicap stone doesn't really have any meaning - it'd actually be a disadvantage, moving first but having no choice where to put the stone? Small advantages are generally done with point bonuses (or lack of the normal one).

You are maybe right, about exceptions. I should revise.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Julia's rather severe checkmate threat hung over my head for much of that game. Everything I did was in terms of "well, can I still get out of her checkmate plan?" It was pretty great/annoying!

I beat the 7x7 with no handicap stones, at last. The game, on the small scale, is starting to fill me with less dread.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

and they say the interweb is full of geeks ;)

i would join in but:

a. i are SHOCKING at chess
b. i worry about the drain on my time
c. accessing redhotpawn at work...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

(I finally realized what you meant about the 1-stone thing, GP. D'oh.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

resistance is futile, greg!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I'LL NEVER SURRENDER

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Am I blind? Why would GP give up? Get him! Get him!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link

And by "get him" I mean "draw".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken has beaten me at the death. He is a TOYIN' CAT. I have nothing, nothing.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, wait, now I see. See, I told you I'm bad at endgames.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

everyone's ignoring captainzep who is basically going to win

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link

All you need to do is survive 50 moves!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link

My only tactic is attrition

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Everyone is always winning until Ken's ENDGAME OF STEEL, though!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link

what is this 50 moves thing????

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link

He is the Comeback Kid! But with knives!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken: 50 moves with no capture (and no pawn move) = automatic draw. Unless I'm misremembering.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm so going to the library right now and taking out more chess books.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh i see! actually yeah i wonder if i can manufacture a perpetual check or stalemate situation..........

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link

i think when i finally lose this game i'm going to retire from chess... it's very tiring!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Right - I'm crashing and leaving the game on a knife edge...

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I am taking the ken agony as a sign and deleting my bookmark. I want a degree.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

All this online chess has got me playing the chess game you get with osx. Only to find it beats me even easier than everyone on redhotpawn (except ken).
I just hope the experience makes me a better player.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I am RJG

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

nice to meet you RJG

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

do you mean "beat"?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I am a loser : (

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

The only losers are the ones who don't play!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i've lost five games! i'm on a roll!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

That's because you pick only the best challengers.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

that's a lie, i'm not that good! only ken and greg have beaten me so far tho. chris i now challenge thee...

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I am taking it slow.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I am all chessed out.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

All this online chess has got me playing the chess game you get with osx. Only to find it beats me even easier than everyone on redhotpawn (except ken).

But isn't the programme designed to play like a master? I mean, it beats me easier than anyone on redhotpawn, Yahoo Chess, and offline too. Not to mention that playing in real time makes things more challenging. The programme plays with my head - I think I've made a safe capture of a major rank but actually I've played a part in creating a setup that materializes 5 moves later and which ends up cutting me off from even moving.

What's a good book on strategy that's easy to follow? I took out Evans' Chess Questions Answered, which is useful, but I find its layout to not be totally user-friendly.

Tomorrow night I aim to see if chess lessons can be transferred to the kickboxing ring.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm, I fear over-dogmatic application of 'rules' from Evans may have cost me against blueski.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Sundar does not so much have me by the balls, but rather has a pair of tweezers with which he keeps plucking ball hairs, with no warning, one by one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm scared of you guys who are actually STUDYING this now!!

haha and just to immortalise it (before captainzep kills the streak)
http://www.lolrider.com/pwn/pawn3d.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 24 March 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

WOW. You're a hero!

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Miccio's in! I didn't realize this. We'll have to face off when I'm done one of these games.

I dunno, Chris, I don't really feel like I've got anything solid at this point.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Meanwhile, Bobby Fischer verbally shits all over the U.S. as he gets off his jet in Iceland

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 25 March 2005 09:23 (nineteen years ago) link

He's not looking so well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link

0 for 3!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

chris: I have no idea what is going on.
julia: is beating me.
ambrose: I will avenge my queen.
tiefschwarz: is wiley.
cathy: I have no idea what's going on.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I also have no idea what is going on.

I grow tired of Sundar having a life. I am way too interested in the outcome of this game!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

julia put the smack down on me!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

well played, too good.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

yay, thanks!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

You are all taking far too long! I am stuck in Rugby, and all I have for entertainment is chess and Michael Caine's "Not Many People Know That" Almanac of Amazing Information. Did you know that Napolean had a pathological fear of cats?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, feel free to hit me up again if you'd like.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I am already playing the maximum number of people, unfortunately. Did you know that Wagner composed some of his music while wearing fancy dress?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Does it mention Satie and the lobster?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

No, but it should. Did you know that lobsters have blue blood?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

did you know how to spell "napoleon"?

; )

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Did you know?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I may not be able to spell Napoleon, but I did just beat you. ; )

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

wait, did you?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 March 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link

it's napoleOn.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 March 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

hard o.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 March 2005 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Moving drunk, there. Arse.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 26 March 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link

haha! haha!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 March 2005 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Son of a bitch! I didn't even see that coming. Oh well, lasting 49 moves is still an achievement for me.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 26 March 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Now THAT time I saw an endgame!

That was a kick-ass game. When you moved your rook back up to H1, did you realize I could take it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I wanted to get your knight out of the way. I was scared of that knight-pawn team at my home row. Maybe it would have been wiser at the time to move the rook closer to my queen and just trade the bishop for the knight? My biggest weakness was in letting your pawn get that close in the first place.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link

The first move you made that I wasn't sure of was when you moved your rook down from -- wait, I was black... -- A1 to A5 when I was threating the massive triple knight fork. I thought you would move it to B1. I wasn't sure if you were being superclever, though! Also you had your knight fork waiting so you nearly escaped unscathed.

I thought it was a great game with many excellent moves (once we got past the very cautious opening). But who knows, experts might think we missed a million opportunities!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Right, I see it. I think I actually missed that your bishop was protecting B4 + I was being overcautious in wanting to watch my queen's back. B1 would have made more sense in retrospect but for some reason I don't think I even thought of that.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i think when i finally lose this game i'm going to retire from chess... it's very tiring!!

...and four days later still it grinds on. From the position I'm in I

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

{OOPS} ...should win easily, but I'm starting to get jittery.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

i had an opportunity to have possibly made things really difficult a couple moves back

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 March 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Miccio's in! I didn't realize this

no i'm not. I finally checked this thread after Ken C implied there might be pictures of girls here. There aren't and now I find out somebody is imitating me on a chess online forum. wacky. some pals in town went chess-mad last year and I burnt out. THE REAL ANTHONY IS NOT PLAYING CHESS ONLINE. HE IS PLAYING A GAME CALLED DIAMONDMINE ON SHOCKWAVE.COM. ALONE. AS HE WANTS IT.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link

haha so who the fuck am I playing?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:26 (nineteen years ago) link

whoever has been imitating you has been rubbish! that's all i can say.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I just mated blueski without, um, without realizing I had done it until the computer told me.

Just as well, I have to catch a train. Back in a few days.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

It was all "rematch" and I was all "how did he resign so quickly?"

That said, 28 ..Nf6e4 is my favorite move I have ever made ever, I think. I waited half the game to pull that sneaky-sneak off.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

dude, the game's almost up - we should've wrapped it up tonight - it's going right to the wire!

i beat ambrose on exactly 50 moves i think

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

The game IS up!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

the penny hasn't dropped yet

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i am on course to lose every game now

:(
anyone who wants to win for a confidence boost, im yr man

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

The game IS up!

oh crap, i didn't see that coming. how disappointing.

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

My first win! And appropriately, against the first person to whom I lost.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken is back in it! Wow.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Just....can't.....finish...him....off
Powers....fading.....
Heading....for....a....draw.....

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Stupid chess.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

poor cathy's queen :(

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

i wish we could set up a tournament

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Goddamn, thought I had ambrose for sure. Like I had an ending in my sights that has run away forevah.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken, I meant to do something else! I am so furious.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I almost had you, there, ken.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

2 wins!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

(and 4 losses of course). I just challenged Julia (julesb74, right?).

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i wish we could set up a tournament

Why can't we?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 2 April 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Woo-hoo! SteveM bites the dust. Meanwhile Ken C keeps the game that will never end going...

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 3 April 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

jesus christ that's my third consecutive stupid mistake in a row (see also Casuistry and Sundar), the games are moving too slow for me to be able to concentrate properly ;)

― Sven Basted (blueski), Sunday, 3 April 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link

If any of the moves I've made is halfway clever, it's because the game is so slow.

Once I get back from travels next week I hope to be challenged to a whole new round of games.

Hey, also, there's a setting somewhere that lets you change the number of simultaneous games you can play. In case Cathy (or whoever it was?) needs more chesstimulation.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 4 April 2005 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually won a match! Mind you I'm convinced Ambrose would have won if he hadn't given his queen away at move 30.
I thought I had managed to arrange things to get a sneaky checkmate against Jules a couple of moves back only to realize that I had completely ignored one of her pieces and now I'm just fighting to try and get a draw.

Anyway I'm up for more matches if anyone feels like it. I have the fabulous record of won 1 lost 4...
(username treefell)

― Greig (treefell), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks Casuistry, I hadn't looked at the settings page. I just changed to the Medieval set, I wonder if it will put me off.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

The kid's set is so cute but so useless...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

So I realize the statistical sample is too small to mean anything really, but I seem to do much better as black than as white.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 4 April 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

how do you delete your profile?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

You don't love me anymore.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 4 April 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

omg! my undefeated streak carries on!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 4 April 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.lolrider.com/pwn/pwn3d2.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

i want to see how many horseys i can get onto a board

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

my defeated streak continues - six consecutive losses now i think, but piling the pressure on Cathy and RJG...

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

we're still playing steve!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

yeh but i don't expect to beat you, yet

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

pressure?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

casual pressure

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

queer pressure

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I cracked

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I crumbled

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought you got a queen for getting a pawn to the other end...?

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

nope! you can have anything you want!!

i really like horseys!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

(anything apart from another king - which would be good!)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Enough of this horsey-torture. My king is going to resign in a huff.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm still figuring out what to do with all those horses!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

let it be known now that i am sad enough to want to compile an ILX league table

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

aw are you sad because you lost again? ;)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

angry rather than sad

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Stevem Statsblitz

vs Tiefschwarz (Gregory Henry): P2 L2
vs Kenjuggle: P4 L4
vs Ambrose: P2 W2
vs Julia B: P1 W1
vs Starry: P2 W2
vs Sundar: P2 W1 L1
vs Casuistry: P1 L1
vs Cathy L: P1 W1
vs Captain Zep (Jamie Fake): P2 L2
vs RJG: P1 W1

Total P: 19
Total W: 7
Total L: 10

― Sven Basted (blueski), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Finished games against ILX:

v blueski P2 W2
v casuistry P1 L1
v kenjuggle P1 D1
v starryschessclub P1 W1

Total P5 W3 D1 L1

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't realise that you were taking this so seriously, stevem.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:27 (nineteen years ago) link

don't read the Fantasy League thread...

― Sven Basted (blueski), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Game name
stevem vs rjg

Game state
In progress

how queer!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:34 (nineteen years ago) link

i think in the league you should get extra points for each horse remaining at the end of the game.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:34 (nineteen years ago) link

there will be humble pie all over my face now if i do not triumph.

― Sven Basted (blueski), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link

you're just a liar

: (

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:40 (nineteen years ago) link

which game?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

oh.

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry, I should have just said "your statistics don't add up".

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

lies, more lies, and statistics

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:45 (nineteen years ago) link

SMELL THE ARROGANCE

― The Model Rick Martell (blueski), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:45 (nineteen years ago) link

smell the unconventional mathematics

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i got carried away by the prospect of actually winning a game. like Mogwai my math is sound.

― Sven Basted (blueski), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link

TW = 7

TL = 10

TP = 19

but TW + TL = 17 = the real TP and your TW, from your "stats", = 8, not 7??

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link

TW + TL = SHA UP

― Sven Basted (blueski), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd initially included games i was playing with non-ilxors. yes, that was it.

― Sven Basted (blueski), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

still doesn't add up.

good luck!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i'll show you

― Sven Basted (blueski), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:13 (nineteen years ago) link

argh, i was an idiot for exposing my rook

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 7 April 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Will you play me at the weekend? On the actual chess board? Oh go on. You're guaranteed a win.

― Alix with an I ? (alix), Thursday, 7 April 2005 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link

let the mayhem commence

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 7 April 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

and that.

― Alix with an I ? (alix), Thursday, 7 April 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

well done.

it only took you a further 20 moves after I stupidly let you have my queen.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 April 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm back if anyone fancies a game.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

REVENGEH

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG, you allowed me to get cocky, please do not do that again.

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

BRING IT ONSKI.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I have anything to do with your cockiness (like "your majesty").

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

nobody likes losing to me.

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

no, your cockiness.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I have finished 10 games so far, and lost 8, drawn 1 and won 1. Am I the worst chesser on ILX?

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I suspect so.

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

: (((

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

you're way better than stevem cathy - i've beaten him 4 times already

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I have done some good moves in almost all these games, I just can't seem to win any. The last couple I lost (against non-ILXors), I was totally about to win like the next move and then somehow they managed to checkmate me.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I played a few games yesterday on Yahoo (because you lot are too slow sometimes) and I had sort of the opposite situation -- I would be down a piece or two but I would nail them in the endgame. Perhaps I was playing "positional" or maybe I just have been studying endgames a smidge.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I need to study endgames, now.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to re-challenge you, Casuistry, you're the only one to beat me, but I've got six games on the go right now. (xpost)

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I've played five matches against ilxors and lost four (and the one I won was down to a mistake by my opponent). In total I've completed 9 matches on redhotpawn and I've lost all but the one. In both my current games I would say that I'm heading towards defeat...
So I would highly doubt that Cathy's the worst at chess on ilx.
I've just started a game against you Cathy, that will prove that you're not the worst.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, battle of the losers.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I am the Aston Villa of chess.

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

nay life

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

the Aston Villa of chess

change your name to this, now

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

6 games won, 7 lost. i keep rechallenging casuistry even though he beats me every time...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I am so looking forward to afterfinals CHESS BONZANZA.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Julia got me this time! Blindsided me when I thought I was being all clever.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i was all proud of my knight positioning but then it so seemed like you were going to get me before i was going to be able to take advantage of it....

but not so! yay.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link

you should see my knight positioning in my game vs cathy.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 17 April 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Cute, Ken, very cute.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 April 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

BASTARD. if only i'd moved my bishop and not the king. cursed feeble brain.

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 18 April 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

that's four people now i just can't pwn

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 18 April 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I could taste the death! I made one bad move early on and one pointless move in the middle and by all rights you should have had me, but when you moved your king so that it wasn't protecting your bishop then it was all lost for you. I had to keep remembering that you were a move or two away from mating me, though.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 18 April 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link

(I'm not sure moving your bishop would have ultimately helped, compared to moving your king to d8. I would have had to take your bishop and then you could have taken my rook with your king.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 18 April 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link

more hott chess action! challenge me! i'm JulesB74...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, bring it on!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure I used to be better than Stevem! I don't seem to be any more, it's like he's been practicing or something.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 23 April 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

It doesn't seem to be e-mailing me anymore when people move. Hrm.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 23 April 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Me neither

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Saturday, 23 April 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Chris is good + I am tired = humiliation.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

To be fair, I used your method of grabbing some small advantage and then evening the playing field until it became a big advantage. If you had pushed that pawn instead of capturing with it, I would have pushed my pawn (putting you in check) and then I wasn't entirely sure but I felt that would have put me in a pretty strong place. Of course you made life much easier for me instead.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

does anyone have any recommendations for interactive chess sites that teach you strategy/openings/endgame stuff etc? i was looking at an openings site but found it confusing. i like the chess problems here, which are cool because you can just see what's going on with little chess puzzles, rather than dealing with confusing annotations, the names for different moves, all that crap.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I knew you must have been studying!;)

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

not much, really, but i'd like to, if i can find non-intimidating websites to learn from...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.chessops.com is pretty great for openings, except that it doesn't ever tell you why an opening move is bad, just "you can do better than that".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Is there a pairing here that's closely matched? I've just been killed by Casuistry for the second time, without ever feeling I was in the game, and the same thing will shortly happen with Ken C. Meanwhile I've beaten Stevem four times with no problems. I need to find someone in between.

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

But you're the only one who's drawn with Ken!

I feel kinda closely matched by Casuistry, but he's been improving and I haven't, so it may no longer be the case.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Chop chop Chu!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

some of us have a daytime job!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

GP, I've improved to the point where I might be equal to you, at best. I only beat you that once.

Jamie, have you played Julia yet?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

No, I'll do that once I get the chance to resign against Ken C (I've got six games on the go).

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Sundar tells me you are all quite good.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Fresh blood! Bring it on!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I've just joined redhotpawn. I used to play to county standard when I was a teenager but I've hardly touched a piece since, so what my standard is these days is anyone's guess :)

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Saturday, 30 April 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I visited the Mazeworks page. I'm confused. I don't see the "h" file on the board. Is it supposed to be like that or is it something to do with my browser? For today's problem, for example, I don't see either side's king. Is it supposed to look like that?

I'm enjoying chessops though.

Si Carter, what's your redhotpawn name?

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, the Mazeworks isn't working for me either. Are you on a Mac, Sundar?

C'mon, bring it on, my RHP name is casuistry and I would like more games please!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 06:00 (eighteen years ago) link

The notebook is totally the key to this.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

RHP Name = pwn66

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't played with the notebook yet, does it let you jot down your devious plans?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Yup! You can Not Forget Stuff You've Seen, it is aceness. (I have only used it as of like 2 days ago though) (I ws also until now deeply paranoid you cld see and writing in kinda code!)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i was so happy with finally beating captainzep i forgot how to play

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

The problem with playing a bad move is that, if you immediately see an interesting alternate move after you play it, you can't easily follow that variation's consequences to the end.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

It's totally my fault, I thought I had gone through all the variations but I forgot about that one. I'm not quite sure I'm dead yet, but I was really looking forward to the draw.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually I've changed my mind about that allegedly clever move I could have done. Hmmmm.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i was so happy with finally beating captainzep i forgot how to play
-- ken c (pykachu10...), May 3rd, 2005 7:39 PM. (later)

I think I just got lucky in the first game. My rating is down to 1311, Ken's is 1441.

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Aaargh! How did I just lose that???

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm on a Mac, yeah. I think I want to prepare a bit more before I face you again, Casuistry.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, whenever you're ready, I'm game.

Zep, I was thinking if you did 43. Kf1 you would have been able to draw me (since I would have been wiggling my rook and king around to keep you in check) but I've been playing around with it and after 43. Kf1 Rf2 comes 44. ...Rxf5 and it should be possible to pluck off the rest of your pawns before (or, at worst, immediately after) they queen. And a rook is enough to mate. (Here's the game.)

(Beyond that, 6. f3 seems like it was an iffy move, even though it is superficially similar to what I did with 3. ...d6, but moving the d pawn helps my development and control of the center in ways that your f pawn only dreams about. 6. d3 seems like a much better choice there.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I am not letting any endgame fannydangle come between me and Ken's scalp, this time. It WILL be mine. Maybe. Kinda.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe i'll finally get to retire.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I am still terrible at chess.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Casuistry and CaptainZep are officially too good for me.

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I am at the point where, failing any opening game errors, I am evenly matched with GP, I think. He might be a smidge better.

I have to say, I'm completely disappointed about the blunder that ended our last game, which was quite the game. I was curious how the rest of the game was going to wind out. I think I had a slight advatage of position and time but even a single rook is a menace and bishop + knight mates are arduous.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link

But now it's 4:15am and I can go to sleep! Perhaps I will wake up to a glorious rererematch.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Casuistry and Sundar - sorry for the delay - my home broadband has crashed and I'm waiting for an engineer to come, and here at work redhotpawn.com is blocked - arggghhhhhh. I'll probably go round to a friend's to pick up my email tomorrow if no engineer tonight, so I'll move then.

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Friday, 6 May 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes! That game was the game. I went to bed and apparently woke up idiotic, but still! I am much more convinced by chess, now.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 6 May 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm surprised causistry resigned our game so soon. i had worked out all kinds of crafty manoeuvres to play around with haha.

puzzleworth really ought to take the first win vs me now, only he can mess it up from this point. mmm, the sweet prospects of retirement awaits.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Heh, Ken, it was completely hopeless! You were up a piece, had fantastic positioning, and probably had a few dozen tempi on me.

But I will try again at some point. You are my windmill, Ken, and I have my quixotic quest. Or something.

Soon I will be ready for another sally with GP.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

GP, do you want to take a stab at annotating that game?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd love to! My finals start in three days though - I shouldn't really even be thinking about chess. In two-and-a-half weeks I'll be dead keen to play again and anote and stuff...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

All right, revive and rechallenge when you're ready.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

You guys! Julia told me to tell you guys that she's not going to be able to have Internet access for several days -- I believe she said 7 - 10. She just moved, see, and her Internet connections have yet to be, well, connected. And it's going to take awhile for them to get connected. So she'll have to hold off on the game playing for now.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

ok I was NSW under 16 champion in about 1983 and haven't played since... but I am going to jump in for a game soon...

― moley, Friday, 13 May 2005 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Uh oh. Well, bring it on!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

You will crush us like small, small bugs probably, but yes! Bring it!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I've either got a lot dumber or everyone's got a lot better. Or a bit of both.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Sundar, hit me!

For those of you interested in "realtime" I've been playing on FICS, www.freechess.org, which has a rather Unix-y interface but which is pretty great once you figure out how it works (and once you get a graphical interface). My nick there is, unsurprisingly, "Casuistry" (though I will probably not be back on until Saturday).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Also: I am terrible at blitz chess. Terrible.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Mate in three I think Ken!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

WORDS I HAVE LONGED TO TYPE

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I smell the mate there as well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm reading up on things, and it seems that ChessOps is not up on the latest developments in "theory". I'm both awed and disturbed by the seeming quest for the Perfect Chess Game, which leads to books being published with names like "15. ...f3!? : Rethinking the Dzlofoski Defence".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 16 May 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link

IT'S OVER!

I am toying with playing chess with... pieces.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

starryschessclub is still open for rubbish business if anyone fancies completely pwn1ng!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Congratulations, GP!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Oo, nice bishop fork!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

It wasn't in a game with any of you, but I'm pretty pleased to have made my first spiffy sacrefice, though admittedly it's only a bishop getting sacreficed. (If Black had played 13 ...Nf5 or ...Ng6 I was planning 14.Nxf7 Rxf7 (or else moving the Q away, endangering it to the revealed check) 15. Qx[wherever the knight went], with Q(orB)xf7 likely to follow and possibly a queen trade, who knows, which would leave me with both rooks against a rook and two bishops. So maybe I'd have done something else there. Or maybe it was a fundamentally unsound plan. It was certainly exciting.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link

GP vs. Si Carter now, pls.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I have challenged!

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

omg schoolboy error from Tiefschwarz allows me to record my first victory against the Gregster, and I only took one of his pieces.

― $V£N! (blueski), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Just to let you guys know (again) -- Julia MIGHT be getting back her online access in the next 24 hours, but absolutely will be online by Monday night. She told me this in a phone convo we had earlier in the evening, right before her crappy cell phone cut out on her again. I'm not sure when she'll be ready to rejoin you guys, but it should be fairly soon, so the expected celebrations and "welcome back"s should be soon forthcoming.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 21 May 2005 07:03 (eighteen years ago) link

If you had patience you would have gotten such an error out of me too.

(Actually, looking at that game, it's totally baffling. Why 4...Nb8? Why did White challenge the bishop, and then not take the exchange? I understand not wanting to mess up the King-castle pawn structure, but then why invite the exchange in the first place?)

xpost -- Yay! Julia is missed.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 May 2005 07:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Grah! Well played Stevem!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link

More challenges please! My RHP name is Pwn66.

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Have you played Ken C yet?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

going right to the wire between myself and captainzep right now: http://www.redhotpawn.com/gameanalysis/boardhistory.php?gameid=1133782

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't yet. Btw, this one of ours is going to the wire, looks like.

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Si has outbrained me.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

haha.. sorry stevem :))

rematch again?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I was just getting my confidence back after beating Greg and holding out for over 50 moves against CaptainZep (this match still going on)...only to get completely destroyed by casuistry's rampant queen, and a beaten in just FOUR moves by ken. new low.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

omg check out si carter's rating!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, it's provisional though, so don't trust it. When I used to play over the board my rating was about 1700. But as I say that was 15-odd years ago!

― Si..Carter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

You should try playing against someone who has a higher rating, then.

I tried very hard not to give you an inch in this game but I did and you grabbed it. I'm still hoping for at least a draw but we'll see.

Stevem, I apologize for tromping all over you with my queen. I don't know why you first developed that knight to a3 but don't do that again. ;-)

And watch out for that Scholar's mate. Someone did that to me not long ago on FICS and I felt like a maroon.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Having overworked myself against Si I am just playing ballistically against Sundar. I'll give him a proper challenge next time.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Play against someone with a higher rating? What, and possibly lose? But I'm trying to beat ken's winning streak :)

Actually, I don't think the ratings mean a huge amount unless you've played a lot of games - I've just beaten someone with a rating of 1660 who missed a mate in 1, but a 1200 is giving me a good game at the mo.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

btw good game that one

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks, it was good. The only time my attention really flagged was after you had moved your queen, towards the end, and forked me -- I forgot that your queen had moved and that therefore you might now be able to check me in one move. Oops.

The ratings seem fairly accurate once they're past provisional. We all miss mates in one occasionally... well, many of us.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't remind me - as a teenager I lost £50 prize money in a tournament doing that. And that was a lot of dosh in 1984!

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Another weird one - my opponent just resigned this game, which I'm sure is a draw?

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

When I click that link I get a list of my games.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

How odd. Try this instead.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Hm. I can't see the draw immediately, but I can't tell if someone is going to be forced into some awful zugzwang situation. Could be either side.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

My knight's stuck guarding the a-pawn, the black king can just shuffle between g8 and h8, and if I try and march my king round the two f-pawns, then my h-pawn dies. When I worked it out on the board we ended up with Q&N v Q which is a draw. I can't see a win here, but if anyone sees different...?

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I am just playing ballistically against Sundar.

And I have responded my playing even more mentally. How'd I squander a lead like that?

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Is nothing sacred? How can I concentrate on my next move if the crazy frog keeps singing to me?

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 3 June 2005 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, gave me the shock of my life that did. Stupid advertisers. My colleague mentioned a new Firefox extension that blocks embedded ads from loading. Bring it on.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 3 June 2005 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh Sundar...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll figure it out one day...

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Ken C always beats me without me ever seeing where it's coming from. I always beat SteveM. Casuistry beat me about five times in a row, but then I beat him last time and now it's going to the wire (but I'm probably going to lose):

http://www.redhotpawn.com/core/playchess.php?gameid=1197495

Starryschessclub has disappeared mid-game.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I finally beat Casuistry, making it 9-1 or something.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i've just lost again! (although it's to pwn66 who seems to be a pro!)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, everyone but Sundar beat me the other week (and he really should have). I'm a little stressed out these days. But I move next Monday and after that I will probably be ready to provide a half-toothed challenge again.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Where is Starry?!

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 18 June 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know.

I'm not playing any games on RHP right now! They all ended. I've been playing on FICS, though, and having a pretty good day of it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 18 June 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Starry will be timed out for my game in half a day. I'll challenge you again then Casuistry. I'm on a roll - two games in a row without losing to you :)

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Saturday, 18 June 2005 09:04 (eighteen years ago) link

D'oh.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 June 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

STEVEM!!!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sitting here, playing through games, when suddenly I realize that the game I'm playing is the one against Stevem. I think, that's funny, I thought I lost this game, did we start a new one without me realizing it? And then I realize that, no, apparently Steve didn't notice the mating move! And now I've got him in a knight fork and am going to win his queen.

I don't know what the moral is, though.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

that steve's not very good at mating?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Too much attention is placed on the big O anyways. Can't we just have more fun pushing the pieces around?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Dude I've totally crashed in this game as I was too fixated upon the knight trap. Can't believe I didn't see the subsequent knight fork.

Ken surely we are going to have to call our game a draw?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link

haha good one steve! ;)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 09:19 (eighteen years ago) link

let's see you try and win this bitch then...

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Steve, 15 Qxh7# would have given you the win. I was all "la dee da, I'm up a piece!" and overconfident and I didn't even see it until just after I moved.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

i just wish i instantly knew what '15 Qxh7#' meant

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

On move 15, your Q (queen) could have taken (x) what was at square h7 -- in this case, the pawn that you decided to take with your knight (N) instead.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Go to http://www.redhotpawn.com/gameanalysis/boardhistory.php?gameid=1181146 and scroll to move 14b (black) and check it out.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i figured it out. jesus, what a ridiculous oversight.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, it happens sometimes. I didn't see it either until it was too late, after all.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

well i'm regretting not accepting the draw against stevem now :-(

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

ken i just want to see how long we can drag it out - i'll probably resign once that final white pawn goes.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 4 July 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link

(Ken, why didn't you just take the bishop on move 6?)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 4 July 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

haha wow that move was about three weeks ago i'm surprised i even remember - i probably just wanted to open up the pieces a bit!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 4 July 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

You would have gotten the bishop for free, though! (QxB, QxQ, BxQ, so Steve loses the B & Q and you lose the Q, no?)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 4 July 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I'm in the middle of moving house and I'm going to (temporarily) lose my internet connection at the end of this week, then after that I'm off to France for two weeks holiday, so I won't be playing chess again till late August.

Casuistry & Ken C - hopefully we can get our games finished by Friday morning. If not, please don't kill me on the timeout - I'll be back at some point.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Someone, hit me!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, I could't bear another beating.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, that's fair. But there are those who must be ready to beat me?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link

How good do i need to be in order for it not to be a joke playing? I have Chessmaster which they say uses a ranking system very similar to that of the U.S. and my ranking is abt 1300 which they say is an intermediate beginner. I've only been playin for abt two weeks so hopefully this will improve.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

ok challenge me. i am pretty useless but im still game....for a game

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link

i am registering redhotpawn style just now.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

challenged.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I am "casuistry", and I fear no evil.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Challenged! you don't have to fear me bcuz i'm not very good, but you should play me anyway.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I play anyone, I am shameless.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm up for a game

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i am jeffreyzor on it. play me.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link

:O dont do it jeffrey.....

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I have faith.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 18 August 2005 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm just posting this because I'm unduly delighted by it. I'm white:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 b5 5. Bb3 Nf6 6. Bd5 h6? {This move just seems to waste time, my bishop isn't even able to move yet!} 7. Nxe5 Qe7 8. Nxc6 Qc5 9. Na5 c6 10. d4 Qb4+ 11. Bd2 Qxd4 12. Nxc6 Qxb2 13. Bc3! {And now black queen is trapped -- no matter where it moves, it will be taken the next turn, not even Bb4 would help (and no, I didn't realize this until after I had moved).} Qxa1 14. Bxa1 Bb7 15. Na5 Bxd5 16. exd5 Bb4+ 17. Bc3 Bxc3+ 18. Nxc3 O-O 19. d6 Rae8+ 20. Ne2 Ne4 21. O-O Re6 22. Nb7 Rb8 23. f3 Rxb7 24. fxe4 Rxe4 25. Qd5 Rxe2 26. Qxb7 Rxc2 27. Qxd7 Rxa2 28. Qd8+ Kh7 29. d7 Rd2 30. Rxf7 b4 31. Qa5 Rd1+ 32. Kf2 b3 33. d8=Q Rxd8 34. Qxd8 b2 35. Qd3+ Kg8 36. Qg6
{Black forfeits on time} 1-0

He could have had the satisfaction of b1=Q but it would still have been Qxg7# the next move -- there was no way to avoid that.

I'm sure my opening idea, of grabbing his rook with the bishop, could have been defeated otherwise, but I think this is why that 4...b5 is discouraged.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I've had 9 straight wins against SteveM but I'm fucking up badly and on the ropes in the latest game.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

These new steroids are working a treat.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

red hot pawn seems to have died at a crucial moment

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I beat Ken C! (belated gloating)

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

i want to beat Ken C

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Ken C is a robot

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Cathy, that was a very odd game where you beat Ken.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

well if it were an even game it would have been a draw!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

It was an odd and brilliant game, but the most important thing is that I WON. I am now retiring from chess, indefinitely.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

noooooooooooo!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link

p.s. and yes cathy captialised on her advantage very well indeed!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Casuistry, if you're out there, I meant to offer a draw last move but forgot to tick the box. I think we're trapped now into perpetually repeating the same moves. I didn't accept your offer earlier coz I thought I could still snatch it. Good game.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I deleted my account

: /

but I have been reading a lot of chess books

so maybe

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

My victory over Teh Hobb reminds me of the time Jimmy White defeated Hendry 10-3 early on in the World Championships a few years back, after crashing out to him so many times before.

Or when City beat Utd 4-1 last season.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I think me not having to make the first move is a big factor.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm mentally scarred by that game. I don't know what happened to me.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah I thought that game looked drawish a while back. I misplayed a move towards the end, I think, but I don't think it matters.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

advance wars

come now, come all

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

advance wars

come now, come all

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

any one for a game of chess?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

challenge me

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link

hey.
i watched about 10 games of chess this weekend. i'm up for a game, because i need to be reassured that i am, in fact, very shit at chess, and should never try to play. who wants to put me in my place?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm gregkitten @ RHP, btw

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Ken & g-kit challenged by captainzep...

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i've just made an identical move on all 3 games i just started (as black)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Hit me too if you'd like.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

captainzep is administering some serious kitten smackdown.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link

shit, i got pwned.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

:-)

Wait til you play kenjuggle.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i AM playing kenjuggle. he's taking it slowly though. he has more manners than you, bitch.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

haha dude you should see my game vs stevem that just finished ;)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 September 2005 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Man, that was just plain retarded.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 1 September 2005 09:28 (eighteen years ago) link

rematch if you like

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 September 2005 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Ken - I am an idiot. I could have just moved my pawn two spaces towards your queen.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 4 September 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

wait which move was this?

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

When you stuck your bishop next to the pawn that couldn't take it because your queen would have put me in check. I thought I'd lost then, so I just went on a kamikaze mission with my queen. But I could have just moved that pawn towards your queen. We'd have swapped queens and I'd have lost a pawn. I sob.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

that wouldn't have worked!! there was a knight at the back that would have gobbled up the pawn in a flash! it'd have been like mate in two or something (i hadn't really worked it out properly)

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

you could perhaps had moved it one square towards me that would have thwarted things though

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Damn you, Chu!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link

that was a good game that

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 5 September 2005 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link

(BECAUSE I WON! hahahahahhahahahahahhaha)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 5 September 2005 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link

someone let me win kthxplz.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 5 September 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link

you're still in good shape in our game!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 5 September 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, but it's only a matter of a few moves before i make a schoolboy error and fuck up the whole game.
captainzep will testify; i'm sure he watched with a bemused smile on his face as i set my queen on fire, threw her in the bin and stamped on her in the last game.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 5 September 2005 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link

(This is true)

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 5 September 2005 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm faring a little better in the rematch though. don't worry though, i'll still throw it all away in the next 2 or 3 moves.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 5 September 2005 09:28 (eighteen years ago) link

i keep having flashes of playing Mortal Kombat - the voice is saying FINISH HIM, but my controller isn't plugged in.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

stalemate? stalemate?? that's fucking checkmate, mate!

wtf!?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

that fucking sucks! i've been conned! that's checkmate, bitch!

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link

you fucker!

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link

fyi i'll be away from this afternoon until Sunday night so no action from me until Monday morning.

the current game between ambrose and I has been going for two months now!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 9 September 2005 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i hate chess.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

You know how it is. You lose some, you draw some.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i have a new nemesis.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Sometimes you refuse a draw because you think it would be more interesting to keep playing, and then you lose, and you're not convinced it was all that interesting after all!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I made a pact with the devil that I could beat you, but it means I have to keep losing to stevem.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm surprised that nobody has yet resigned when they have a certain checkmate in 2 or something.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

redhotpawn appears to be buggered, typical, just when i'm hitting my strongest form to date.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

haha redhotpawn poxy fuled me!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link

It's back. GAME ONG.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

seems to be fucked again

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

BACK ONG

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

It's down for an hour each day, at 11pm Pacific time.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Fucksake. Stevem - cease your Jedi mind tricks!

(Seriously - what the fuck's happened to me?)

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

you're definitely on something, letting that rook go so easily...

ambrose is one move away from defeat - it is much more painful for me than it is for him i feel.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Note to self: Do not play first thing in the morning. Shower, or wake up, or something first.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 September 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, stevem, I don't know what you took between the last game and this one. You've had me from the get-go.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

a wank first definitely helps xpost

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Strip chess, anyone?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 September 2005 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link

And the good cap'n decides to hand it to me!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 September 2005 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Gah! I've been doing that a lot recently.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 19 September 2005 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Sundar - I've signed up. Finish a game already sos we can play!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2005 06:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Saving yourself for Sundar, eh?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 September 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Who said I was saving shit???

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

You could play with any of us. We like fresh meat.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 September 2005 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

challenge me to a game, i'm julesb74.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I too enjoy fresh meat. You have my email.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Rrrowr. I don't have your screen name; mine's "casuistry".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

gasps of excitement fill the auditorium as it appears i may actually have ken beaten at last...

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Have you bought a chess computer or something? Or were you just hustling for the first five months?

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 08:14 (eighteen years ago) link

bah!!!!11 rematch?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link

OK. I lose to everyone else at the moment.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link

that makes me feel GREAT.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link

:) I need to get my ranking back up - it's dropping like a stone.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 09:07 (eighteen years ago) link

THAT MAKES ME FEEL GREAT!!!11oneeleven

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 09:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Thermo, what's your user name?

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 23 September 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Thermo Thinwall!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 September 2005 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link

hello, chesstypes. i'm going on holiday this weekend, so all games will have to be put on hold. i shall return a week on monday, so you'll have to wait to give me a thorough whipping. sorry and all that.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link

This is the thread where I gloat about the pawn checkmate I just served to Cap'n Zep.

Teehee!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I lost that game a long time ago. I was trying to lure you in to a stalemate.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I know, and I even saw that stalemate, and that's when I realized the pawn checkmate was there.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 September 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyway it was a very interesting game!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 September 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Captain Zep:

v Blueski = won, won, won, won, won, won, won, won, won, lost, lost, lost, lost, (and losing now)

v Casuistry = lost, lost, lost, lost, lost, won, drawn, lost, won, won, drawn, won, lost, lost, (and losing now)

v Kenjuggle = drawn, lost, lost, lost, lost, lost, lost, (and losing now)

I seem to be getting worse at this game the more I play.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I noticed your score sank noticeably during our last game!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:32 (eighteen years ago) link

But are you still having fun?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link

No, it's becoming dispiriting, especially the blueski results. I'm going to have to learn about openings or something (and stop giving away rooks for no reason).

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link

don't talk to me about giving away rooks :(

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I require more fresh meat!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 30 September 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I will hit you up again in a moment, when I rediscover my lost mojo.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

How the hell did that happen? Is that the first time I've beat you, casuistry? Thermo's had me nailed since pretty early though.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I require more fresh meat!

Captain Zep at your service.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I have too much fresh meat!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 3 October 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it? If so, congratulations, Sundar! I was distracted and realized my mistake just after moving but that's hardly an excuse -- I think I was pretty much doomed in that position. Miscalculation ahoy.

I continue to play idiotically against Thermo. Oh well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Blessed relief. I have reversed TEH SLIDE.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Woah! That';s playing idiotically? If that's the case I'd hate to see you play brilliantly because I DO NOT LIKE WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO.
Ya, I see it.
And as a mater o'fact i have to go and figure out what I'm going to do about it :(

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I want the history books to note that, even though I will lose in the end (as always), from a position of several pieces down against the mighty kenjuggle I have been battering him in a crazed lone assault with my queen for over a week now and several times nearly got that elusive checkmate.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I did start getting my act together, admittedly.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Kinda.

I have decided to assume that Adm. Zep knows how to turn the position in our game into a draw (and that it would be too tedious to see if he messes up).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I had, but I wasn't sure. After my outrageous stalemate against G-Kit I've decided not to resign.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

lucky, lucky bastard.

― g_kit@home, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes! Mr Dodd, Mr Everett, Mr Dalglish, Mr Bruce, Mr Barlow, Mr Russell, Mr Livingstone, Mr C... you boys sure took one hell of a beating!

― Teh HoBB on holiday, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

hahaha

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i was pretty bad in that game. there was this really cool move with which i should have done your queen in but i didn't see it until that moment i clicked move! woops

well played though :)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

g-kit? blueski? thermo? anyone around?

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 28 October 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I am back and have re-challenged you.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I've got all six games going at the moment, but I'll re-challenge you when one finishes.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 09:37 (eighteen years ago) link

stevem is being put through a WORLD OF PAIN

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 4 November 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

but now has been laid to rest

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i will beat you again, one day.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

That sounds like a TV programme: Stevem's World of Pain

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

http://lib1.store.vip.sc5.yahoo.com/lib/sweatyfrog/silasset1.jpg

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Disturbing

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

left to right: stevem's roof, knight, bishop, queen, king, pawn

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

roof?? lol rook

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

looks like it's mating season again..

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Shockingly bad. Failed to see I was obviously about to lose to Ken, meanwhile gave away a rook, then my queen, and then a bishop against Steve.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Wooo I just got my ranking! 1525 - FEAR ME!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

wow dude!

fancy a game?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure you'll fix that, eh? my username's "Thermo Thinwall".

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i dunno - your ranking's higher than mine!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I've challenged you again thinwall

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Very good, sir.
I will respond to these when I get home from work.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I boo your ghetto-ass timeout victory - IS THAT THE ONLY WAY YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT ME?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

You had ten days!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 9 January 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

did you send a reminder?

i'm up for another game if anyone fancies.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I also scored a timeout victory against Thermo. And yes, it's the only way I can beat him. And yes, I sent a reminder. And yes, it still counts as a VICTORY.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Ten days? Even Anthony Miccio does not wait so long to make a move.

― öROXYMUZAKö (roxymuzak), Monday, 9 January 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

i bet he gets tonnes of reminders

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

It was the fucking holidays! I was busy!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link

That's what Anthony Miccio said.

― öROXYMUZAKö (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

but in my case it actually was the holidays.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Casuistry - I'm glad you resigned, I was filled with rising panic I was going to lose that one.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 19 January 2006 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread made me hate chess. and life.

― the kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 19 January 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link

hax tbh

― the kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 19 January 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Nah, your pawn was going to promote, and it would have been very easy for you to defeat my last-ditch attempt at salvaging my game.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

anyone play chess on redhotpawn.com these days?

― STINKING CORPSE (cozwn), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link

I haven't in ages, but would if you wanted to.

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link

hi dere waht is it made? (kenjuggle)

― ILX Systern (ken c), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

anyone on chessworld.net?

― nultybutnice (whatever), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link

my ass could be pwned hard there _ I at chess suck

― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

six years pass...

ive started playing chess, on lichess, a good site

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link

went from ~1100 to 1290 to 1150 to currently 1266 in the last few day im streaky man, been playing online for a couple weeks, never really tried to play chess before but i got hooked on these youtubes a couple months ago then started fucking around v the computer on an app but now online is so much better im kinda obsessed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxVr7nN7EzQ

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link

playing 5+3 blitz p cool

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link

Is it better to learn chess by actually learning or just start playing blitz online and do it over and over until things start to make sense

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 15 February 2018 05:24 (six years ago) link

the general consensus seems to be some mixture of study play and puzzles, ive def played way more than the other two and my study consists of watching youtube videos and am not very good lol, i aspire to learn some openings some day

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link

lichess has a cool feature where after your game is over you can review the game with the computer telling you all about the best moves that you shdve done def a good learning practice especially if you had a spot that blew up in yr face, i messed mate in two then got owned the other day i was kinda steaming tbh

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/9Umm8ga.png

brutal

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link

it actually wldve been pretty even if they made the right moves but if they didnt and i did, man lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link

have been moderately obsessed with chess for a couple of years now

it is obviously a colossal waste of time and mental energy but it's fun

w/e i kind of want to give it up

if N takes N there, what is the refutation of Q retakes N?

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link

youd just have to take the d5 pawn i think

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link

fwiw i dont think its a waste of time its fun and also good for your mental acuity

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link

then I sac my shitty bishop on B7 and pick up your other knight a move later. or do you not take the bishop?

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link

'a move later' I mean it's the same move so not a sac at all rly

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link

Nxf6 Qxf6
Qxd5 Bb7

then maybe

Qxb7 Qxg5

or??

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link

engine says yr white sq bishop to f5 then i take w my white bishop then queen takes knight bishop to e4 then trade queens and im up three pawns

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link

after the madness

https://i.imgur.com/gg6x6mH.png

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link

just noticed you're two sodding pains up, you push d5 stick a rook behind it and I probably resign xp

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link

def time to "push the pawns"

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link

well I have played Bb7 in the game so you'd have to deal with that lol (by exchanging N for B and pushing d5 obv :( )

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link

gonna think of an insane Tal-esque tactic to disrupt your inexorable March to glory

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link

just tried the Bb7 line with the engine and it kept the queens on the board with all else being pretty similar, which u wld think with my pawn advantage wld be preferable for you but the engine doesnt see it that way idk why

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link

maybe it was just one of the other positions along the way had a better chance of tripping me up but didnt because i was actually the engine playing itself

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link

Oh shit

After bishop sac on b7 then I leap in with Qxf2+!

WHAT NOW

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link

I mean what now after Kh1 obv

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link

obv Qxc2 asking to be played but Qxg3 has some kind of hard-to-describe appeal

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link

if Qxc2 then Ne6 is crushing

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link

(not using an engine BTW) ;)

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link

if Qxg3 then your crushing Ne6 gives me a perpetual check and a draw, suckerrr

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link

theres a rook sitting on f1 u lunatic

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link

oh I set up the position wrong, ban me lol

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link

had the rook on e1

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link

thought this was a cool lecture cause it kinda gives a glimpse into high level training broken down for ordinary ppl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tySL8qEVwhU

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link

also the instructor is a charmer

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link

nice

I watch all the usual accounts - finegold and the chess network along with everyone's favourite eastern european youtubers but that looks like a nice technical one

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link

yeah i just discovered that dude and i think hes really good

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link

btw that is a completely won position for white and I can't do anything except harass your queen with my rooks and hope you blunder a pawn or two

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link

i knowww which was why i was upset i blundered it away

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link

lol do you watch many of the st louis chess club videos there this kid whos always in the audience whos kind of infamous with the instructors they all know his name and chuckle when ever they talk to him and sometimes good naturally rib him cause he cant keep still and quiet, he has some sort of arabic sounding name i cant remember, the whole scene is a pretty good running joke

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link

o wait right his name is arjun lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link

guess thats hindi not arabic

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link

amazingly I just finished teaching a kid called Arjun myself!

I know of the onrunning joke but thought it was just a Finegold thing - are they all in on it lol

― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link

My favourite streamer is John Bartholomew. I highly recommend his Chess Fundamentals series.

― cajunsunday, Thursday, 15 February 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link

I know of the onrunning joke but thought it was just a Finegold thing - are they all in on it lol

― imago, Thursday, February 15, 2018 1:27 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha yeah ive seen at least three of them address arjun by name

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link

sweet will check him out xp

― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link

If anybody wants a quick win, look me up on chess.com. Same username. I play every day and am ranked 980 atm.

― calstars, Thursday, 15 February 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link

h8 running out of time

― lag∞n, Friday, 16 February 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link

friends im happy to report that for the first time in my illustrious career i have achieved a score of 1300+ and im retiring for the evening so it will be there in the morning

― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 February 2018 05:16 (six years ago) link

i hope i can be a grandmaster (GM) soon

― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 February 2018 05:25 (six years ago) link

well played Magnus!

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 17 February 2018 07:14 (six years ago) link

thank you, soon probably i will be able to beat alpha zero

― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 February 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link

when someone is down in material and still desperate to trade queens w/ you i mean like if u really want to but wouldn't you rather hold onto yours???

― Mordy, Friday, 23 February 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link

I was impressed by these, being printed at the same screenprint studio I sometimes use:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bff-NXKnkFK/

― Tim, Friday, 23 February 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link

when someone is down in material and still desperate to trade queens w/ you i mean like if u really want to but wouldn't you rather hold onto yours???

― Mordy, Friday, February 23, 2018 10:02 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

only if it improves their position, trading pieces is a great way to stay ahead, particularly trading queens decreases variance, unless u just want your queen for fun in which case whos to argue

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link

that illustration is something lol xp

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 February 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link

xp that's what i mean. if they're down on material they need that variance. it just reeks of weakness if they're losing and they're looking to trade queens.

― Mordy, Friday, 23 February 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link

oh i see i misunderstood yr post

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 February 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link

started out playing closed q/k pawn openings cause theyre simple to understand but now im messing with queens gambit and the sicilian and its so much better wow

― lag∞n, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link

whats a cool defense for d4

― lag∞n, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link

Nf6 daring d5

― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link

ok let's say they call your dare

― Mordy, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link

The hypermodern choice, Nf6 creates a dynamic imbalance right off the bat by attacking the center with a knight rather than occupying it with a pawn. This usually signals one of the Indian defenses, such as the Queen's Indian or the Nimzo-Indian, and can also lead to the Grunfeld Defence or the Benoni. However, transpositions back into other openings are still possible at this early point. This has become, by far, the most popular response to 1.d4, representing more than half of the high-level games played in most databases.

― lag∞n, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link

thinkin like a pro

― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link

i just got clobbered by an opening called the Blackburne Shilling Gambit which i have never seen before and was quite humiliating to lose to. should've been easy to fend off if i knew what to look for...

― Mordy, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link

u cld def get pretty far in blitz just by memorizing a single obscure not totally fundamentally sound opening

― lag∞n, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link

feel like ive seen that with the one where u sacrifice a couple pawns cant remember if it q or k side i fell for it once and got wrecked then saw it a couple more times and didnt take the second pawn and there was def a long pause on the other side

― lag∞n, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link

i always play scandi against king's pawn opening and the length of time it takes the person to decide indicates whether they accept the pawn sacrifice (the right, quick move), or move the pawn to e5 (the wrong move)

― Mordy, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link

ppl are so wary of accepting pawn sacs (i mean rightly so)

― Mordy, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link

btw i've complained about this on the other chess thread i'm pretty sure but i'm always shocked at how shitty the attitude and behavior of some of these players are considering that you'd figure chess attracts a more sophisticated thinker?

― Mordy, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link

competition really brings it out in ppl

― lag∞n, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link

the lichess chat window says "please be nice in the chat" right in the entry field lol tbh no one has been rude to me on there, online poker is def a million times worse, the site i play on recently replaced chat with a bunch of pre made messages u cn choose from nice hand bad beat and so forth

― lag∞n, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link

crazy the effect one bad move can have like here stockfish has my opponent down small

https://i.imgur.com/x5Lia00.png

then boom he doesnt make the preferred move and hes fucked

https://i.imgur.com/pfgCzas.png

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link

and! right before that i made a move stockfish didnt like

https://i.imgur.com/xeHhl5d.png

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link

Does this mean no one is on chess.com anymore?

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link

i think its still the most popular, lichess just has a pleasant website imo

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link

lichess is a spunky open source project

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link

I’m still on chess.com!

― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 04:04 (six years ago) link

this thread has me trying to play a bit

I’m real bad, apparently no instinct whatsoever

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link

i dont think anyone has an innate ability to play chess, might want to try playing against the computer some to get reps, being to take back moves is a good learning tool + losing to the computer doesnt feel as bad

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 05:06 (six years ago) link

i have an iphone app just called "chess" the developer is mastersoft u can set the skill of the engine to whatever you want then itll automatically raise it as you beat the levels it has hints and takebacks etc

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 05:09 (six years ago) link

Does this mean no one is on chess.com anymore?

I am as well
I’m just finishing up a couple debacles before I accept your challenge sund4r

― calstars, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 07:12 (six years ago) link

i wish to, like a god, see every tactic

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/DpMGDI8.png
opponent made a bad move
https://i.imgur.com/mqzHItW.png

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link

its fun to see how all ones moves are bad, feels like a minor victory to make one good move

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link

that is p much the only losing move, and they found it

― imago, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link

god bless

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link

if you want to beat me play the King's Gambit. I always lose really badly against that opening for some reason.

― cajunsunday, Sunday, 4 March 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link

been doing a ton of puzzles recently and i think its working

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link

blacks best move style puzzles seem obvs better than the mate in two family

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link

havent watched nearly all of them but i like this video series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFLHE5E-F8

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link

the guy introduces himself "hi its jerry"

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link

oh thanks for sharing this - this is precisely something i've wanted to understand better partic coordinating bishops and pawn placement and trading bad bishops for good bishops

― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link

yeah that one was a bit of a revelation for me

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link

one thing ive noticed abt players at my level including myself is being almost blind to threats when theyre attacking, just won two games in a row off of very easily defended mates when i was under fire, being under time control prob doesnt help too

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link

yeah I try to always 1st think "ok what can my opponent do to me" rather than "what can I unleash on them" when appraising things after their move

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link

sometimes they thing youre attacking a pawn instead of their king lol

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link

i've been seeing so many philidor defenses lately. it's such a conservative opening and it dooms black's dark squared pawn to the back ranks. don't really understand why ppl like it.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link

dark squared bishop* i meant

― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link

just hit 1200 in 10 min blitz for the first time. my 15|10 is much better. has anyone else noticed that their blitz rating is significantly smaller than longer formats?

― Mordy, Friday, 23 March 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link

ive exclusively played 5+3 so far, shd start playing longer im sure itd help my game overall

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 March 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link

suc a commitment tho lol

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 March 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link

that's what i've heard - that you get much more out of playing longer formats. but it's just so nice to play in these 10 min bursts and not have to worry about games dragging on.

― Mordy, Friday, 23 March 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link

yeah u cn play so many games too

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 March 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link

I guess reps don’t help so much in chess lol

― Mordy, Friday, 23 March 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link

welp just tried a 10+0 and beat a 1620

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 March 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link

he did miss me leaving my queen hanging tho

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 March 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link

ive played 3 10+0 games and am rated 1675 there, abt to get repeatedly owned lol

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 March 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link

lol yeah when i first started playing 10m my score was ridiculously high for 3-4 games and then it came down to earth

― Mordy, Friday, 23 March 2018 02:24 (six years ago) link

amazing to beat a 1675 tho and sounds like an uncharacteristic mistake at that level of play

― Mordy, Friday, 23 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link

oh nm i misread

― Mordy, Friday, 23 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link

a 1620

― Mordy, Friday, 23 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link

today, a new apex 1365 (lichess 5+3)

― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link

1374 actually!

― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link

Pathetisad 1017 atm

― calstars, Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link

i will pray 4 u

― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link

I pray so much I need knee pads

― calstars, Saturday, 24 March 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link

my blitz ratings on all the chess sites:

Chess.com: 1156
Lichess: 1355

My aim is to be world champion by 2020.

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link

same, i will see u in the candidates tournament

― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link

thats quite a spread between the two sites btw whats goin on there

― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link

lichess ratings tend to be higher than Chess.com for some reason. Something to do with a different pool of players.

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link

i was curious abt that a lil while ago and read some online threads on the topic and there didnt seem to be any real consensus as to which site is harder

― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link

lol youre not even allowed to talk about it on the chess.com forums

david #9 Oct 6, 2017
Mentions are okay if it's about a game you played there recently or something like that. Any comparisons, however, are not okay, and unfortunately asking how ratings there compare to ratings here is included in that. Chess.com policy is that any such comparison is not allowed in our own forums - it's a matter of it leading to claims and counter claims and arguments that are essentially irreconcilable, much like politics or religion.

I am now locking this thread.

Thanks,

David, moderator

― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link

or maybe there is idk https://www.quora.com/How-inflated-are-the-online-chess-ratings-offered-by-lichess-org

― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link

anyway theres no way im playing on a site that gives me fewer points

― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link

lol maybe I should switch

― Mordy, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link

the first rule of chess.com is don't talk about lichess

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 24 March 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link

the second rule of chess.com is that the horseys jump in an L-shape

― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 25 March 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link

the opposite of feeling terrible bc you lost on time when you had pieces up is winning with only 13 seconds left on the clock when your opponent has 5 min left but he blundered a bunch of pieces away bc he was trying to force a win on time

― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link

cracks me up when someone starts losing and then they wait til there's almost no time left on the clock for every single move in order to drag it out

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link

mating someone when youre almost out of time is a godly rush

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 April 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link

decided i need to start playing longer games in order to get good at chess, tried my first 15+15, finished with 16:52 on the clock lol

― lag∞n, Friday, 6 April 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link

(won)

― lag∞n, Friday, 6 April 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link

damn actually played a good game

3 Inaccuracies
0 Mistakes
0 Blunders
19 Average centipawn loss

― lag∞n, Friday, 6 April 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link

hopefully i can find a way to chill and notice if im making "holes" and "weaknesses"

― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 April 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link

won again with 19:17 left this time, feel like the longer games might be softer than blitz on lichess i just mopped up a 1620, seems like the players minds are just moving slower rather than taking the time to make better moves, tho in this game i thought i had my opponent trapped and he managed to dig his way out after a long think, maybe training yrself to think fast in blitz then taking time to think in longer time controls is the way to go, just have to have enough discipline to actually take the time to think lol

maybe doing jerry style thinking out loud wld help, have some stock questions u ask yrself and so forth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqf6lFXzFDI

― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 April 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link

5 Inaccuracies
5 Mistakes
1 Blunders
58 Average centipawn loss

almost gave that game away a couple times when i was up, def cldve thought longer

― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 April 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/qfF4AvV.png

― 龜, Monday, 23 April 2018 11:36 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

i get annoyed when ppl let the clock run down instead of resigning but then i think about them closing a tab in anger and its funny

― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 28 May 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link

I’ve rage uninstalled the chess app on my phone more times than I’d like to admit

― calstars, Monday, 28 May 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

love to trade a minor piece for two pawns totally destroying an opponents defense

― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 14 July 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link

double up those pawns bro

― calstars, Saturday, 14 July 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link

roguelike chess:

https://jonathanlessard.net/chogue/

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Saturday, 14 July 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link

Sacrificing for position is my m o

― calstars, Saturday, 14 July 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link

a successful sacrifice feels so good

― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 14 July 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link

Chogue is awesome. The sound of a piece sliding somewhere in the dark!

― mick signals, Sunday, 15 July 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

friends ive done it, im a grandmaster now

https://i.imgur.com/efYyy2Q.png

― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 30 August 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link

Well done

― calstars, Friday, 31 August 2018 00:59 (five years ago) link

thanking u :)

― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 1 September 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link

the sicilian is good cause there are so many way to own the hell out of yrself

― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 1 September 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

it is a great feeling to play a completely stupid opening and then win crushingly

― imago, Monday, 17 September 2018 08:15 (five years ago) link

e4 e5

g4?!

anyway move 24 was Ra8# don't @ me

― imago, Monday, 17 September 2018 08:17 (five years ago) link

<3 lag00n

https://imgur.com/D7GPxlS.jpeg

we should play 4sho

― Mordy, Monday, 17 September 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link

nice dude! is that chess.com

― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 24 September 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link

yes

― Mordy, Monday, 24 September 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link

friends, hello

https://i.imgur.com/DjLtgy0.png

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link

just played the funniest game ever

e4 e5
d4 d5
Nc3 Bb4

white resigns in disgust. computer has him +0.67 but the opening is too sick. he will play against a normal person next, he hopes

― imago, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link

lol

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link

the game that just pushed me over 15hundo the opponent resigned inexplicably too material was even i had a better but not dominant position and he was way up on time, i looked at the engine analysis to see if there was some sick tactic i was missing but there wasnt, maybe they just had to be somewhere idk

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link

jo********tin declined a draw
jo********tin resigns

is there no more beautiful combination of words

― imago, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link

what openings do u guys play i do queens gambit w white, sicilian and english w black

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link

i play all the openings in a sort of improvised fever dream. it is no good for my rating

― imago, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link

ruy lopez white / scandi black

― Mordy, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link

i play all the openings in a sort of improvised fever dream. it is no good for my rating

― imago, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 6:38 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p awesome tho ive moved the wrong pawn a few times and just gone w it and it was cool, done p well iirc

― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 October 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link

scandinavian is wild xp i like when ppl play that v me its usually a p fun game, i always take

― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 October 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link

Taking is the best move for white iirc I always do it when someone plays scandi against me and anecdotally I’ve found ppl that don’t take don’t do great

― Mordy, Thursday, 4 October 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link

yeah i think its generally agreed that its best

― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 October 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link

i'm addicted to ben finegold videos

― Mordy, Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link

i cant deal w his presentation/jokes, i like jerry (aka chess network)

― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 October 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link

both of them are good but as a proud european i am far more commonly seen with the holy trinity of agad/mato/suren

― imago, Thursday, 4 October 2018 06:07 (five years ago) link

agadmator def my most watched

― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 October 2018 06:13 (five years ago) link

I need to mix up my opening repertoire. I play Italian or Queens Gambit with white. Then just copy what white does for black (eg. 1. e4 2. e5 1. d4 2. d5) I always lose really badly when I try Sicilian.

― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Thursday, 4 October 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link

For streamers its all about John Bartholomew for me. How can you resist that winning smile?

― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Thursday, 4 October 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

friends, theyre playing for all the marbles https://deadspin.com/magnus-carlsen-and-fabiano-caruanas-fight-for-the-world-183020884

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link

will this be the best WC of modern times? imo....maybe

― imago, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link

cld be

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link

https://www.twitch.tv/gmbenjaminfinegold

game 1 looks drawish but who knows

― imago, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link

apparently carlsen has thrown away a winning position

― imago, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link

taking a nap waiting for fab

― calstars, Friday, 9 November 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link

Go Fabi!

― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Friday, 9 November 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link

whatre they even doin here lol

― lag∞n, Friday, 9 November 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link

Clearly Magnus is trying to torture the commentators.

― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Friday, 9 November 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Drl9AETU0AA-__v.jpg

― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link

Who’s that that doofus with the big teeth?

― calstars, Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link

nakamura

― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link

Somehow I think a random game in a park somewhere would provide more entertainment than this game

― calstars, Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link

there was a lot of moving the pieces around

― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link

gwan magnus, sac on f7

― imago, Saturday, 10 November 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link

looks like another draw lads

― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Saturday, 10 November 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link

carlsen played the sicilian both games with black which no one expected and they both were pretty boring draws anyway lol

― lag∞n, Monday, 12 November 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

will this be the best WC of modern times? imo....maybe

― imago, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 20:41 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

― imago, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link

hard not to lol a little now remembering all the "here's why professional chess is actually really exciting" pieces from the past month

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link

So is chess gonna be all done forever soon or what

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 00:53 (five years ago) link

this match was notable for pathological avoidance of risk. we just need players who don't mind losing so much

― imago, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 00:55 (five years ago) link

Ahhh.

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link

feel they didnt play totally conservatively, like caruana played a gambit one game carlsen played the sicilian every time, imo it was more a combo of playing pretty conservatively being insanely prepared and just being too good? like in the computer analysis at the end of the game itd be all 1 inaccuracy 0 mistakes 0 blunders 6 centipawn loss every time except some games there were zero inaccuracies

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 06:06 (five years ago) link

there were a bunch of times in a post game breakdown where the commentator wld be all caruana must find the absolutely best move here and then he just wld, idk these guys are machines

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 06:08 (five years ago) link

tho carlsen has prob lost half a step

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 06:08 (five years ago) link

that is also fair. to avoid risk against players this strong you have to be so good

― imago, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

HIGHEST RATING: 1603
Mar 24, 2019, 9:39 AM

― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link

Damn bro

― calstars, Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link

Member since 28-Jan-2018

Time spent playing: 18 days, 21 hours and 30 minutes

eek

― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link

just noticed this oddity

https://i.imgur.com/ydSavu2.png

― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link

LOWEST RATING: 1018
Jan 30, 2018, 8:50 PM

― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link

four months pass...

I'm liking the Smith-Morra Gambit opening for white at the moment. It gets you some quick attacking opportunities and you can beat weaker opponents pretty quickly imo.

― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Saturday, 27 July 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link

Playing everyday, one game going all the time. Slowly getting better

― calstars, Saturday, 27 July 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link

i was getting bored playing the roy lopez so often so i started playing the london system and they've generally turned into really exciting games w/ lots of possible sacrifices and sharp positions - i highly recommend if you're looking for something new as white

― Mordy, Friday, 9 August 2019 04:18 (four years ago) link

“Game drawn by insufficient material”

― calstars, Saturday, 10 August 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link

such sweet words!

― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Saturday, 10 August 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link

i didn't know there was a chess thread at ilm.

my fave opening to get some nice open positions with attacking potential is the king's gambit. especially from's gambit with tactical chances on both sides is a treat.

with black i like to play french after e2-e4 or the wolga gambit when d2-d4 is the first move. that is more of a positional gambit that pays off in the long term.

― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link

ile not ilm, of course.

― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link

Playin' the Italian game

― calstars, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link

https://www.dailydot.com/wp-content/uploads/364/04/c816f6bf7ea8b526652487e3479943cc.jpg

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link

I need to learn my openings :( I know first two moves and that's it, none of these terms

Also my late-game is garbage

― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link

I’m kind of stumbling into learning the openings just by playing a lot. I knew the IG position had to have a name and the chess.com interface told me, pretty convenient.

― calstars, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link

feel like u learn openings just by playing them over and over and fucking up, i mean u cn watch videos/read but thats secondary to getting the reps

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link

think the end game is a lot abt calculation and some principles like infiltration and active pieces, putting yr king in the middle of the board, bishops being better than knights especially when the game is being played on both sides of the board

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link

but yeah calculation so often games are won by a king being one square closer to something than the other king

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link

also knowing when yr position is favorable to entering the end game which is often p tricky

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link

three weeks pass...

got bored decided to try to attack more is more fun am worse at chess but feel like itll make me better in the long run

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link

Couldn’t agree more. Have to remind myself to have fun while playing (or else why play) and sometimes that means willfully exploring interesting positions

― calstars, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link

getting some cool checkmates also getting cool checkmated

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link

have any of you had any luck joining real-world chess clubs or anything like that? i enjoy playing online but sometimes i miss playing w/ the actual board and pieces. also feel like i need more reasons to leave the house besides work.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link

I played at a volunteer event at a local junior high school, it was great. And the real board and pieces threw my off my game completely, ended up getting bested at least twice. I might join a local club but I have so little time. Another idea I had was to have one of the local bars promote a chess night but haven’t done this yet

― calstars, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link

joining a club seems fun, i live in the middle of nowhere but maybe if i move back to the big city

― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 September 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link

i have played in clubs in my teens in the 70s and later on i founded a club in the 90s. i stopped playing "serious" games in clubs after my youth as it took too much time and i didn't have fun anymore playing those long games for hours and hours. when we founded the club in luxembourg for a while we played in pubs and brought our own games and clocks. we played either blitz or 30 min per game per player games. i loved it. for a year or so i played with a member of the scottish olympic team and lost almost every game. one reason being that i always played king's gambit with white which makes very open games with attacking chances on both sides. i haven't played chess for almost 20 years. what i also loved about our little club, we drank and played. we just played for the company and not to win. it was great.

― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 12 September 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

welp i tried playing e4 for a couple months and it didnt go so good, now im back on my queens gambit bullshit

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 November 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link

i am kinda fascinated by chess lately, even though i really dont know much more than how to move the pieces.

anyway i'm on lichess @grbchv -- nb i am truly awful

― gbx, Saturday, 9 November 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link

I started playing a lot more when I found out lichess has a phone app

― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 9 November 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link

do puzzles (lichess has infinite of them) its the only way to get better, in my experience its the only way to play up to your current ability xp

― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 November 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link

feel like i play better on the computer than the app tho im not positive thats actually true

― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 November 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link

tbh i really like the puzzles, esp when time-limited or w/e

― gbx, Saturday, 9 November 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link

Current rating is 1027 but still every day. Playing a 1100 rated from South Korea at the moment with a my little pony avatar

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 9 November 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link

Pinning is my business...and business is good

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Monday, 11 November 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link

pins are so crucial

― lag∞n, Monday, 11 November 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link

was bossing stockfish and feeling p proud of myself and then blundered into history's most embarrassing mate u_u

― gbx, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 02:03 (four years ago) link

@MagnusCarlsen Is the highest rated chessplayer in the world, out of 360.00.

In FPL, fantasy football, he is ranked 20 out of 7.000.000

Ridiculous from a statistical point of view. pic.twitter.com/0wlXEyWVAt
— Peter Heine Nielsen (@PHChess) November 10, 2019

― gbx, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link

good at games

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link

This my little pony fan from s Kor has another thing comin

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 03:04 (four years ago) link

chessed out
for a couple of days now
if it's daylight
together we might

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link

was bossing stockfish and feeling p proud of myself and then blundered into history's most embarrassing mate u_u

― gbx, Monday, November 11, 2019 9:03 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

the computer is so boring play against ppl imo

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link

Hell yeah

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link

i have never rage quit a game i always resign i am the chess nice boy

― lag∞n, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link

its honestly so rude to make some one wait there for the clock to time out

― lag∞n, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link

agree, this higher rated hooligan made an obvious blunder three moves in and then just abandoned the game. Have to expect it though

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link

its happens all the time these people are just living their lives like this

― lag∞n, Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link

Living their worst lives

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link

ppl who trash talk i will never understand it

― Mordy, Saturday, 16 November 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link

its pretty goofy

― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 November 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link

I’ve worked my way up from “barely remember how the pieces move” to “pretty consistently beating the computer on level 3 at chess.com.” I downloaded lichess because - unlimited puzzles! - but it’s a whole new ball of wax... stockfish lvl 1 takes me in under 25 moves nearly every time. And the solutions to some of the puzzles are... mystifying?

― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 17 November 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link

u cn click on analysis mode to see why some puzzles solve the way they do

― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 November 2019 05:17 (four years ago) link

also

the computer is so boring play against ppl imo

― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 12, 2019 3:16 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 November 2019 05:17 (four years ago) link

on lichess they drop u in at 1500 so youll may get beat pretty bad but it only take like 3 or 4 losses to get all the way down to 1000 (or up to 2000) when u first start, theyll figure out yr level p fast

― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 November 2019 05:20 (four years ago) link

I may give that another shot, what's the best format for idiots who want to lose quickly but still learn something

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 18 November 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link

5+3 prob

― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link

also watch chess videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkScNFyR8L0

― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link

videos! can't stand em

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 18 November 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link

what how dare

― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link

they're so long, you gotta look at em, gimme a book any day

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 18 November 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/SNU3xX5.jpg

― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link

There we go

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 18 November 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link

hahaha actually using chess books and working out positions on a real board and calculating lines by yourself is probably superior to watching videos but videos give insight for very little effort and working out positions from a book take a lot more effort. if u want to get better quickly imo play lots of tactics and maybe research an opening line for white

― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link

yeah lets use books and boards like were pioneers in a wagon train about to be attacked by mormons

― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link

F puzzles and positions, just play

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Monday, 18 November 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link

puzzles are actually the only way to improve sad but true

― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link

how do you guys deal w/ openings? like getting better at them? i always feel like i'm just kinda playing random moves at first, obv there are like a billion different openings you can memorize but that seems pretty overwhelming.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 18 November 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link

i studied a few openings for white + black (more for black since it's more reactionary) and try to review them regularly. chessable.com is good for that as are videos + books.

if you really want to get better prioritize longer time format games since calculating in game (and then reviewing your game afterwards) will make you better. i am v guilty of not doing this enough it's much more pleasurable to play a bunch of shorter time format games (my preference is 10m but shorter w/ an increment can be good too) but like 15m+10s format or just 30m are excellent for getting better.

― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:39 (four years ago) link

i just played the same opening and couple of defenses every time til i got familiar w their ins and out

― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:41 (four years ago) link

i tried playing longer time formats and im so habituated to moving fast that i cldnt help myself lol

― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link

i saw someone maybe john bartholomew say that shorter time formats basically just challenge yr habitual knowledge - you play about as well as you currently are when you play them - but you need the longer formats to develop new ways of thinking/seeing the board

― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link

iirc

― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link

yeah i mean it for sure makes sense

― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link

weirdly at least on lichess it seems like the longer formats are a lot softer tho, diff prob smaller pool of players i guess

― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:47 (four years ago) link

just ended an 8 match losing streak with a win. guess who's back babee.

― Graham Kendrick Lamar (cajunsunday), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link

hell yeah

― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RetIukw56T0

― Mordy, Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link

lagoon do you ever play bullet? i find it extremely difficult but one thing i struggle w/ in shorter time constraints is that i'll get ahead for most of the game but then run low on time and end up blundering or flagging. so i'm hoping bullet will be like when you're on deck and you swing a few bats so that when you swing one bat at the plate it is much lighter -- that after bullet 10m will feel like a luxury.

― Mordy, Friday, 22 November 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link

i finally reached > 1600 in blitz on chess.com :D

this was my goal after i started getting into chess in late 2016 when i was ranked ~1000. i feel v accomplished!

― Mordy, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link

i was close (at 1543) back in June but then had a huge points drop (down to a low of 1296!?!) before bouncing back. during that time i retooled my openings (i stopped playing the roy lopez primarily and switched over to london variations for white, added nimzo-switch for d4 openings), played a lot more tactics (actually got my tactics rating above 2000) and started playing bullet which i really think did help.

― Mordy, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link

i finally reached > 1600 in blitz on chess.com :D

this was my goal after i started getting into chess in late 2016 when i was ranked ~1000. i feel v accomplished!

― Mordy, Friday, November 22, 2019 2:16 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

nice!

― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 03:56 (four years ago) link

i do not ever play bullet is too fast

― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 03:56 (four years ago) link

just did a checkmate w 0.9 seconds on me clock :]

― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 06:55 (four years ago) link

chess is so weird some days u can see the combos and others u cant

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link

Crosby and Nash face off
Anyone care to analyze the position?

https://i.imgur.com/ay1ahTp.jpg

― calstars, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link

my blitz rating is a provisional 648, I'm not even a little bit good at chess

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 28 November 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link

tried playing a 15+15 ended up offering a draw in a game which the computer later said i was +2, i had 17min left on my clock lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link

now its saying +.9 idk man

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link

alright i won one w ~15mins left, think i mightve been playing against another blitz player tho he had 18 lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link

my blitz rating is a provisional 648, I'm not even a little bit good at chess

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

no one is born good at chess evan!

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link

i think maybe short formats makes u more of a positional player

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link

I’m disgruntled by everything I’m not immediately good at with no effort >:(

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link

lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link

i bet if u play 10 games youll improve

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link

played another 15+15, those games are def soft on lichess, similarly rated players play worse despite having way more time

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link

i almost offered a draw at the beginning of a game i crushed cause i was a closed position and i didnt know if i cld stand a half an hour of this shit lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link

i bet if u play 10 games youll improve

― lag∞n, Thursday, November 28, 2019 2:31 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ill even give u a lil tip, if youre going to castle king side dont move the f pawn, the f stands for dont fucking touch it

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link

the most basic chess advice i guess is to get all yr pieces out and yr kings castled (aka developed, when your rooks have nothing between them [aka connected]) as quickly as possible with as few pawn moves as possible, dont move any piece more than once if you can help it until youre developed

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link

the second most basic piece of advice is to not leave pieces unprotected (aka guarded by other pieces or pawns), and likewise to target your opponents unprotected pieces

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link

the third most basic piece of advice is to keep yr pawns chained together

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link

if u do those things u cn prob get up to ~1000 pretty easy

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link

(if u play a lot of games)

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link

also the middle of the board is the best part try to capture it

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link

an example of a position where both sides are fully developed

https://www.payetteforward.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/realistic-fantasy-1083x1080.png

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link

its also totally symmetrical for some reason

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link

here white is developed but black is not

https://i.imgur.com/RhK3QbK.png

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link

tho some wld prob argue that black is effectively developed there

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link

lagoon thank u for this tutorial

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link

enjoy yr march to GM

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link

Crosby and Nash face off
Anyone care to analyze the position?

https://i.imgur.com/ay1ahTp.jpg

― calstars, Wednesday, November 27, 2019 2:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

https://i.imgur.com/4cHhEuo.png

not sure whos turn to move it is but based on the body language looks like nash, if so hes in position to take the c pawn and equalize material, crosbys position is better considering the two advanced pawns but its a close game

if its crosbys turn hes up a pawn and has a better position so is clearly ahead, still playable for nash but crosby shd be able to convert

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link

p boring position tbqh

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link

anyway happy thanksgiving chess club gonna go honor the fallen pilgrims now

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link

considering the game is being played on both sides of the board nashs bishop is prob a lil more valuable than crosbys knight...

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link

I did better! The computer sez I lost a forced checkmate sequence uwu https://lichess.org/RciiZoIr/white

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link

several times in fact

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link

I’m disgruntled by everything I’m not immediately good at with no effort >:(

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, November 28, 2019 12:23 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hello evan, evan here (also) and i agree with this message

― gbx, Thursday, 28 November 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link

the cool thing about chess is you can stay frustrated and feeling like you suck at it no matter how good you get

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link

i saw a super gm leave his queen just straight up hanging on a livestream once lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link

Lagoon is right the better you get the worse you realize you are (just like gaining skills in any other field) happy thanksgiving all!

― Mordy, Thursday, 28 November 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link

chess is so weird some days u can see the combos and others u cant

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 27, 2019 12:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

you wont even really understand why youre good or bad!

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link

its really is the best game (except for maybe poker)

― lag∞n, Friday, 29 November 2019 00:48 (four years ago) link

hey I won one

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 29 November 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link

nice

― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 November 2019 02:03 (four years ago) link

Both of these albums are garbage

― calstars, Saturday, 30 November 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link

I'd completely forgotten about this thread and the fact that I wasted so much of 2005 playing internet chess against long-since-vanished ILXors.

― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 30 November 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link

is it ok if i dump chess videos i like here also if u guys can post some i always need more to watch i'm getting tired of eric rosen (he's great tho)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg4X8983_5Q

― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link

plz feel free

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 04:20 (four years ago) link

white (me) to move find the sick combo

https://i.imgur.com/M9CEGbe.png

― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 December 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link

Nf5 forking the king + rook, g6xf5, Ne6 forking the K+Q?

― Mordy, Saturday, 7 December 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link

g6xf5 isn't necessary black can just lose the rook and not the queen but you did say sick so i'm guessing ^ is what actually happened

― Mordy, Saturday, 7 December 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link

i did get the queen theyre both good tho, also i set it up w ne3 sacking my c pawn, was a proud moment

― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 December 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link

I played twice irl with my friend yesterday and won both games, p cool. I need to switch to 10+0 from 5+3 online I think if I’m going to learn anything, in blitz I never have time for an endgame.

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link

this game is legitimately beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF9vPPwPWAE

― Mordy, Saturday, 14 December 2019 04:44 (four years ago) link

abstract positions

― calstars, Saturday, 14 December 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link

Played irl with my dad and won, pleased w myself

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 23 December 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I like chess now

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 12 January 2020 08:44 (four years ago) link

just my imo but anyone with a game completion rate under 98% should be banned

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 01:00 (four years ago) link

game firouzja played today against artemiev is insane

― opden gnash (imago), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 02:15 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YfobLZNLAw

― opden gnash (imago), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 02:45 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

So here’s why chess is a good game:
Queen on her color is an interesting asymmetry
Knights
You are always on the precipice of disaster

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 1 February 2020 06:55 (four years ago) link

chess boards engraved on park tables are always cool

― calstars, Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link

Is there a greater pleasure than flagging your opponent in a completely lost game

― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Saturday, 1 February 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link

that's what drove me nuts in my so called chess career. spending my time in trying to win a won position. waiting for the opponent to resign and then fucking it all up myself. i felt that it wasn't fair when people play until they are mated. as if they have no dignity. i gave up on playing chess regularly when i was about 16.

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link

thats funny i was just thinking how i respect ppl who play to the bitter end

― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link

(i almost never do)

― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link

unless youre some high level player u will pick up some of those lost games def, its also im sure good for yr development play those positions

― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link

Ppl should definitely make me win my won positions bc I don’t really know how to win a lot of the time.

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link

not gonna name any names but someone itt was spying on me

― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link

😬

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link

lol

― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link

I’ve had rough patches but I gotta keep playing, been daily for a minute now

― calstars, Saturday, 1 February 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link

ive havent been playing as much since i got zelda, rating taking a bit of a hit

― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 February 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link

I’ve decided that the knight is the best piece because it can jump over other pieces. No other pieces can do that!

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 1 February 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link

the knight is very unique

― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 February 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link

Working on the knight moves

― calstars, Saturday, 1 February 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link

Tryin to make some front page chess.com news

― calstars, Saturday, 1 February 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link

Hehe

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 1 February 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link

tfw your aggression compounds and isn’t being countered adequately

― ncxkd, Saturday, 8 February 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1SCXb2WA2U&t=898s

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 8 February 2020 13:31 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

i have been neglecting my long time form games to play exclusively 1m bullet chess for about a month and just hit 1400 in it. it's definitely enough of its own thing that you can't just carry over yr abilities in long form to it. i started playing bc i was having time management problems and i thought about bullet like warming up with two bats that it would be a luxury to play longer formats after that. but it's so addictive. games are over so quickly so you can get a game in whenever, and it's fun!

― Mordy, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link

I've been playing 10+0 and slowly dragging my rating out of the absolute toilet over the last month or so, I seem to be actually learning, which is spectacular. Currently 1077 for rapid on lichess, up from a low of 930.

Whenever I try 5+3 blitz again I just lose though!

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link

Took a week off but I’m back in black

― ncxkd, Sunday, 1 March 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link

like i mentioned i've barely been playing longer formats in lieu of bullet games (and watching lots of youtube chess) and i got nervous that it would hurt my long format rating when i finally got back to it but i played 3 games today and yesterday and won them all including beating the highest rated person i've ever beaten (a 1709). so close to breaking 1700 now in Blitz. why am i sharing this? first bc i'm now convinced that playing bullet really does help yr longer time format game, and second bc i'm also now convinced that watching lots of chess makes you better even if you're not consistently every day playing 10m games (or longer). nb that i do intend to get back into longer games.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link

this game was fun! Stockfish charges me with two blunders but I am proud of how well I exploited black's poor development and of this big oopsie they made https://lichess.org/BHdmRMP5/white#24

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 5 March 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The king’s gambit is my sh1t right now

― calstars, Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link

gotta be one of my better attacks https://lichess.org/hVnLEha8Li8p

― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link

I like how white's 14. Nxc6? ends up with your 17. …Bb4! and white is totally discomposed by it.

― silby, Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link

felt good man

― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link

very elegant at the end there

― Mordy, Sunday, 22 March 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link

thank you kindly

― lag∞n, Monday, 23 March 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link

I'm up a bishop in a Q+B vs Q endgame but I can't work out how to win. Frustrating!

― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link

i mean without knowing the pawn situation idk how to help you there

― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link

sounds like a draw tho w the queens one never know what u cn get up to

― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link

Play for blood, sunday

― calstars, Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link

this is the current position. seems tough to find a win but i'm gonna shuffle the pieces around for a while and hope he blunders lol

pic.twitter.com/1loNwAMldc
— Jeremy Steel (@jeremysteel) April 2, 2020

― cajunsunday, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link

Bf8

― calstars, Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link

there's no win, be the gent and offer a draw imo

― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link

qf6+ is the best draw offer obv

― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link

imo you are winning here but i don't have a solution (and i'm not sure i should give it to you if i came up with one). my advice is to get an advantageous position through zugzwang - right now the movements opponent can make are limited. you don't need forcing checkmate - just small improvements and force him to move into a bad position. i don't like Bf8 bc Qf7 gives him initiative and room to breath but maybe look at Bf6? Qg1+ is a resource to use at the right time too i think.

― Mordy, Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link

actually i think Bf8 just loses the bishop after Qf7 king can't save the bishop

― Mordy, Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link

Ugh
Yeah

― calstars, Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link

we bumped elbows and called it a draw

https://www.chess.com/daily/game/256531586

― cajunsunday, Friday, 3 April 2020 08:35 (four years ago) link

you went for the second best draw offer ;)

― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Friday, 3 April 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link

i go through extended periods where i cant be bothered to concentrate, chess is a journey of self discovery

― lag∞n, Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link

it even quantifies the difference between focused and unfocused phases, which is roughly 50 elo points lol

― lag∞n, Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link

sometimes i just like to move the pieces and see what happens.

― cajunsunday, Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link

da pieces move nice

― lag∞n, Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link

I love beating suqqas three times in a row

― calstars, Friday, 10 April 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link

My b1tch is on the run

― calstars, Saturday, 11 April 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link

don't hurt 'em calstars!

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link

A little unnerving when My opponents avatar is a close up of her face giving me an aggressive staredown

― calstars, Sunday, 12 April 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link

But hey, I’m up in material so

― calstars, Sunday, 12 April 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link

Poor bishop’s fatal flaw: he can never cross the tracks

― calstars, Sunday, 12 April 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link

I've been trying to learn how to play the sicilian. its so hard to remember all those moves - and then people do the wrong moves and you cant remember how to punish them. but still. you do get some fun games.

― cajunsunday, Sunday, 12 April 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link

i play da siciliano feel like rather than try to remember all the moves just pick a line u like and play it a bunch and youll get the hang of it, i recently compared what id been doing to theory and it pretty much made sense tho it wasnt the primary line for the variation i was playing but it was a known playable one

― lag∞n, Monday, 13 April 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link

its the khan w queens knight on d7 where the main line has it on c6

― lag∞n, Monday, 13 April 2020 00:27 (four years ago) link

apparently joe biden and bernie sanders both play chess

― Mordy, Monday, 13 April 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link

yes we caro-kann

― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Monday, 13 April 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link

Fianchetto Fidelio

― ncxkd, Monday, 13 April 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link

This is an amazing blitz match between Carlsen and Firouzja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJtyQLkmRsU

― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link

I love playing unrated players - never know until you do if they’re pros or schlubs

― ncxkd, Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link

usually scrubs tho

― lag∞n, Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link

love a surprise though

― ncxkd, Sunday, 19 April 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link

Anyone following the Magnus Carlsen Invitational? Its the final between Magnus and Hikaru in half an hour.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/magnus-carlsen-invitational-2020-final-4/2/1/1

― cajunsunday, Sunday, 3 May 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link

he got blood from a stone with that win there

― imago, Sunday, 3 May 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link

Yeah. He's a genius at endgames.

― cajunsunday, Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link

yeah magnus signature is prob winning seemingly drawn games, kinda lame signature! no offense

― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link

there's a video where he takes bartholomew's end games you must know test and he says he never explicitly studied them and claims endgame is sorta a weakness for him iirc but then dominates the test either by knowing all the endgames or more bc he's able to somehow calculate a bunch of them on the fly and comes up with some solutions that aren't the given ones by the bartholomew program it's a cool thing to watch tbh

― Mordy, Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link

yeah i watched that its pretty nuts bartholomews all do you know the blhdy blah formulation and magnus is all no whats that and bartholomew starts to explain it and magnus is like yeah thats just obvious

― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link

btw i hate this thread title what do u guys think about changing it to "ilx chess club"

― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link

i don't mind either way what the thread is called.

i should work more on my endgames. the cool thing about being great at endgames is that a) at my level i've noticed a lot of ppl aren't great at them so it'll give me a huge leg up and b) a critical strategy when going up a piece or a few pawns is knowing how to crush the endgame with that advantage but if you don't really know it v well it's too easy to still make stupid blunders even in totally winnable end games.

― Mordy, Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link

I don't mind the thread title, and recognize it as a nod to the Yes thread, but I'm not married to it.

― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link

Another endgame in Game 2 but it looks like Hikaru has a chance...

― cajunsunday, Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link

blood from a stone 2: revenge

― imago, Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link

What’s the problem with the thread title?

― calstars, Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link

Don’t be changing thread titles just for UX purposes

― silby, Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link

Frankly embarrassing that lagoon would suggest changing a 15 year old thread title

― silby, Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link

carlsen takes it up a level again

― imago, Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link

Lagoon doesn’t like the word “hot” or the band yes, which one could it be

― calstars, Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link

we have another chess thread iirc we could use that one instead

― Mordy, Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link

i just dont feel its in the spirit of the great game of chess

― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link

i love attacking the kings indian and i dont care who knows it

― lag∞n, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link

four weeks pass...

goofiest perpetual ever

https://lichess.org/Ry84r85C#69

― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 June 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link

lol nice.

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link

freakin ring around the posey over here

― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link

on a heater just got my highest rating everrrr

― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/my3GHb3.png

― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link

nice! what's the secret to your success?

― NAthaniel (cajunsunday), Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link

check this game out. I hear they're calling it the Cajunsunday Immortal.

https://lichess.org/EdOA4y5fmIRQ

― NAthaniel (cajunsunday), Sunday, 7 June 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link

lol xp

https://i.imgur.com/5ARc4SC.png

― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 June 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link

wow nice!

― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 June 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link

Musical chairs

― calstars, Sunday, 7 June 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link

Getting back into chess after a break of about 20 years has been one of the few positives from the current situation for me

― paolo, Monday, 8 June 2020 06:34 (three years ago) link

Anyone on chess.com up for a game?

― paolo, Monday, 8 June 2020 06:34 (three years ago) link

enjoying following pogchamps

― ||||||||, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link

I asked Hikaru a couple weeks back if he was worried about the edge his tournament opponents can gain by analyzing all his streamed chess content. He said that he maintains a completely separate set of openings for stream so that OTB opponents can't do that. Wild and impressive.

― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link

I'm team hikaru, if we're picking sides in the ongoing chess eltism 'drama'. finegold is an annoying bast imo

I like john bartholomew's beginners videos

― ||||||||, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link

whats the ongoing chess elitism drama

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link

storm in a teacup. just finegold grousing about hikaru's pogchamps tourney and how it's sad scrub streamers are getting more views for their chess than GMs

― ||||||||, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link

Man why would you not rather watch scrubs, more educational for most surely.

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link

potted summary here
https://youtu.be/XOMACDhVv_U?t=341

― ||||||||, Thursday, 11 June 2020 07:38 (three years ago) link

xQc is an interesting character.

― NAthaniel (cajunsunday), Thursday, 11 June 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link

Anyone on chess.com up for a game?

whats your nick?

― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link

SameGelato

― paolo, Friday, 12 June 2020 08:13 (three years ago) link

Hmu

― paolo, Friday, 12 June 2020 08:13 (three years ago) link

think i leveled up (KNOCK ON WOOD) my rating is up 50+pts for the last week, feels a lil more stable/prolonged than just being on a heater, i somehow just started playing/seeing more dynamic positions, which is interesting cause it seems to come with more variance in winning/losing games with wider margins, also seems like players at my level arent necessarily comfortable playing those types of positions, im seeing people time out and make blunders

― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 June 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link

I’ve been off chess since the vid started but I’ve been off twitter for 36 whole hours so maybe I can get back to it

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Sunday, 14 June 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link

the age of the virus is the perfect time for chess

― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 June 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link

True

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Sunday, 14 June 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Currently even with what appears to be a 12 yo chess genius by the look of his avatar

― calstars, Thursday, 2 July 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link

...whom i subsequently vanquished lol

― calstars, Thursday, 2 July 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

on a run of getting my opponents to time out with confounding play in lost games

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link

dirty flagger

― ||||||||, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link

rude

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link

been enjoying the magnus / hikaru impactchess final - clear that there's no love lost between these two. magnus looks tired though

― ||||||||, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1387603

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link

defending an all out attack well is pretty satisfying

― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 August 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/jJBUbiw.png

https://i.imgur.com/VQ41z2q.png

― lag∞n, Monday, 31 August 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link

finally got busted with a perpetual

https://i.imgur.com/XnlJ09T.png

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link

ive gotten too good at chess im afraid to play now

https://i.imgur.com/6QjE7DF.png

― lag∞n, Friday, 4 September 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link

h8 when ppl wont let me take back a misclick

― lag∞n, Monday, 7 September 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Its all kicking off in the chess world!! Petrosian was accused of cheating in the final of the Pro Chess League. Here was Petrosian's response to those allegations.

https://perlenvombodensee.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/pipi-petrosyan-1.png

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 3 October 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link

who accused him

― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link

Wesley So accused him because in the video you can see him looking down during critical positions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4Rs9-rZNI

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link

How's your chess going lagoon? I mostly do puzzles/tactics at the moment - barely playing any blitz.

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link

I have stopped playing after not progressing to an expected extent after two years made evident by being being soundly defeated by a local high school

― calstars, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link

good still playing pretty much every day tho prob fewer games than before, been hovering around 1700 (lichess 5+3) recently xp

― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link

i believe wesley so, wesley is so nice, that other guy who stole tigran petrosians name is obvs a fucker

― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

four knights endgames are kinda wild

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:40 (three years ago) link

wesley so won a thing yesterday, adding substance to his niceness

― imago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link

congrats to wesley who is so nice

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link

carlsen playing bad in blitz is weird mind, but i guess blitz is blitz

― imago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link

four weeks pass...

obvious fork just sitting there for three moves with neither me nor my opponent noticing it, at what level do chess players become competent enough to calculate one move ahead lol

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link

Took a half year off , now time to get back into this shit

― calstars, Saturday, 2 January 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link

get it

― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link

is there a way to play this game without fretting excessively about every move, having it take up all your waking hours and threaten your mental health?

― ledge, Sunday, 3 January 2021 09:10 (three years ago) link

(that was my experience a couple of years ago, then I quit)

― ledge, Sunday, 3 January 2021 09:11 (three years ago) link

lol...not really imho. That was the reason I had to take a break from it

― calstars, Sunday, 3 January 2021 12:27 (three years ago) link

gotta be willing to lose, competition is interesting finding the right balance between caring enough about winning and not caring so much that you cant brush yrself off and try again --the sports psychologist

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link

one thing that imo can make losing at chess more fun is if youre down material and have no positional advantage, a lost game more or less, just do some super aggressive shit sacrifice a piece launch a pawn storm etc, sometimes youll get a cool win but mostly its just good practice for attacking seeing lines and so forth

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link

its funny with chess being matched to similarly skilled players no matter how much you improve youre still gonna lose half the time

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link

yeah it's all about being more **zen**, i've never played sports and all my other hobbies are non competitive so i wonder if i just haven't had enough practice at that. also the gamification (when playing through an app) doesn't help, each loss doesn't stand on its own but chips away at your precious rating.

just do some super aggressive shit sacrifice a piece launch a pawn storm etc

will try that if i ever go back.

― ledge, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link

the thing about the rating tho is you can always get those points back, i feel like fwiw i only play at my best or near my best like 20% of the time, and its very streaky, so ill play pretty mediocre or bad 50-100 points below where id be playing good for like a month and then have a short run of good play, and sometimes those runs coincide with a general over all improvement, but often not, feel like you have to enjoy chess and be interested in it not just be totally consumed by the winning and losing otherwise its kinda not that fun

like watch this sick ass game, chess is cool, dubov os cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BgG4bUDHa4

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link

btw its kinda funny that after that somnolent carlsen caruana championship the entire chess world went from considering analyzing speed games being the dumbest thing in the world to it being actually good

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link

also seems like theres just more of it in top tournaments now which is cool as it allows someone with an attacking style like dubov to flourish rather than having to deal with an opponent making 10 perfect defending moves in a row in a classical game

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link

Real chess players know that just because you lost a queen doesn't mean you need to give up on a king 😤 pic.twitter.com/NPR7KB6LSr
— desertscrub🌵 (@_weedman69_) January 4, 2021

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link

re: not fretting over every move

Slow chess and fast chess inform each other. Getting better at fast chess will improve your slow game, and getting better at slow chess will improve your fast game. Playing blitz games made me fret less, because it was easier for me to forgive a bad move knowing I was under time pressure. Also, knowing I can immediately queue up another game after a fuck up made me less invested in each individual game.

In all cases, I go back to the game analysis on lichess and use the "Learn From Your Mistakes" tool. Thinking of mistakes as learning opportunities, while cliche, has been useful.

― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Monday, 4 January 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link

i try to play longer games sometimes but im so habituated to blitz that i end up just playing at blitz speed lol not great

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link

yeah I had that trouble for a bit too--restraint and slowing down is something to practice, though. slow chess is for practicing thinking about longer lines.

― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Monday, 4 January 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link

the opening explorer/tablebase tool is good for analysis too, particularly if youre having trouble with a particular opening position, cool to see what other people have done an learn that youre playing the 20th most popular move and it always loses lol

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/rmVMUwO.jpg

― calstars, Sunday, 10 January 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link

#ENDGAMEDRAMAZ

― calstars, Sunday, 10 January 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link

Aghhhh

― calstars, Sunday, 10 January 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link

looks like white in 3 no

― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 January 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/ZafGJdX.jpg
Yup

― calstars, Sunday, 10 January 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link

people should keep track of their queens better!! some chess advice its the most important piece

― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link

#midgamemadness

― calstars, Friday, 15 January 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link

Up a queen in the endgame and the Norwegian won’t capitulate

― calstars, Monday, 18 January 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link

I’m fairly certain that my current opponent online is running the game through a computer. He’s ranked 400 points lower than me but seems to be very cunning

― calstars, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/qKwKwTV.jpg

Coming 4 u

― calstars, Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link

I'm liking black there.

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 6 February 2021 09:40 (three years ago) link

tfw an aggressive queen meets an untimely demise

― calstars, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/mNLuEGh.jpg

This mate snuck up on me. I was too focused on offense.

― calstars, Monday, 15 February 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link

Emotional moves

― calstars, Saturday, 27 February 2021 04:07 (three years ago) link

Crazy end to pogchamps!

🏆 POGCHAMPS3 - RESULTS 🏆

🇫🇷 Sardoche (@Sardoche_Lol) wins the chess tournament PogChamps3

📺https://t.co/rq4EIso45Q #Pogchamps #Chess pic.twitter.com/19guBkpvIJ
— Eirik Holdal #Trackmania (@EirikHoldal) February 28, 2021

― cajunsunday, Monday, 1 March 2021 00:18 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://kotaku.com/chess-champion-plays-bongcloud-move-which-is-very-fu-1846490914

bongcloud mode

― calstars, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link

Saw the video popping up on chess24's twitter, Hakamura's reaction is priceless

― willem, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link

cute

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

there it is lads

https://i.imgur.com/43mZg1q.png

― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 June 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link

baller

― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 3 June 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link

thanks, feels good

― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 June 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link

five months pass...

congrats to this lil guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fjvZqerL4g

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link

I like how nobody cares about the actual World Championship as much as about Firouzja

― imago, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link

firouzja is cooler

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

https://i.imgur.com/yNI0mIX.png

Fuckin’ street fight

― calstars, Saturday, 8 January 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link

My first thought was that white is absolutely fucked but looking at it some more they might just be able to hang in there

― paolo, Saturday, 8 January 2022 11:11 (two years ago) link

Your initial assumption proved correct

― calstars, Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:36 (two years ago) link

After I resigned my opponent had the chutzpah to mention that I “need to improve my game”
I was like no shit 😊

― calstars, Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link

Non standard openings mess me up

― calstars, Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link

What are peoples ratings on chess.com here? I hover at a straight 1000 right now if anyone wants to game me

― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 9 January 2022 01:40 (two years ago) link

recommend lichess its better imo

― lag∞n, Monday, 10 January 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link

when i started playing there four years ago these number were typically three thousand and nine thousand, not sure how much of the growth is due to a chess craze and how much is just the site getting more popular

https://i.imgur.com/DspwKyp.png

― lag∞n, Monday, 10 January 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link

i like it so much i give them money even tho it is free

― lag∞n, Monday, 10 January 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link

i do play every day so it seems worth it

― lag∞n, Monday, 10 January 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link

i did a good checkmate https://lichess.org/RQitVOHK

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link

My rating is down to the 800s, shameful. Rusty and impatient af

― calstars, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link

That was a nice checkmate

― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link

tyvm

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link

I love losing and playing a killer move

― calstars, Friday, 14 January 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link

Chess has been the greatest tool for keeping my ego in check. Credit it as the supreme humility device in my life

― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 15 January 2022 13:09 (two years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/4g0xaof.jpg

― calstars, Saturday, 22 January 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link

I love it when chess.com tells me I'm playing some niche opening. Excited to be playing the "Sicilian Defense: Open, Pelikán and Sveshnikov, Retreat Variation" today.

― ceci n'est pas une messi (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 13:38 (two years ago) link

sounds cowardly

― imago, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link

Well I did get pretty scared tbf

― ceci n'est pas une messi (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link

lol

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 14:36 (two years ago) link

“Don’t play while drinking” is a lesson I can’t seem to learn

― calstars, Saturday, 29 January 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/azutg6s.jpg

― calstars, Saturday, 29 January 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link

lmao maybe use some of that time to think about if you really want to put your king right between all my pieces, consider advancing those two nice pawns

https://i.imgur.com/u8jvgk6.png

― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link

definitive proof that knights are better than rooks

― ceci n'est pas une messi (cajunsunday), Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

got em lol https://lichess.org/iwfxqzqIwqLJ

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link

plz ignore the obvious rook fork i missed earlier

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link

four weeks pass...

was getting really chessed out until elden ring took over my life

bad at both, smh

― gbx, Thursday, 31 March 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Bartender friend has 15 games going on simultaneously
I advised him that was too many

― calstars, Monday, 2 May 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link

I love playing non book moves and confounding the enemy. I usually lose but it’s fun as hell when I win

― calstars, Saturday, 7 May 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link

i started playing bullet and am now insane

― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link

four weeks pass...

Chess is life. Finally finding a way to win with black by going sicilian instead of my thouhgtless e5 response.

I love getting chessed out

― hrep (H.P), Friday, 17 June 2022 11:11 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTyNXNwF-1I

― lag∞n, Sunday, 19 June 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

the good thing about bullet is how weird the positions are the bad part is all the timeouts and that it makes you worse at chess

https://i.imgur.com/ulLb5NB.png

― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link

king on g5, both rooks and knight on starting squares, u were playing a clown i regret to say

― imago, Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link

clown life

― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link

Clown’s gambit

― calstars, Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link

lol

― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link

I enjoy the flexibility and laissez faire that comes with playing lower level opponents. Moon shot strategies suddenly become possible

― calstars, Sunday, 10 July 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link

I'd be interested to see how black's king has ended up on g5 when white's queen, queen's rook and king's cleric are all on their starting squares and the king's rook has apparently just moved for the first time

― paolo, Monday, 11 July 2022 08:22 (one year ago) link

enjoy https://lichess.org/AFuvYTDBSzUQ

― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link

pretty funny reviewing bullet games and seeing obvious missed tactics on every move

― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link

im still 300+ points worse on bullet than blitz not sure im ever really gonna get it but its pretty fun to play a million games and just never think

― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link

Exploitation of doubled pawns is my game

― calstars, Sunday, 17 July 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link

Feel like putting on some Yes and playing all night 😂

― calstars, Sunday, 17 July 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link

magnus tired of being world champ, crazy

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link

Anyone seen “queens gambit?”
I could watch ATJ play fake chess all day

― calstars, Sunday, 24 July 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link

Sadly the report doesn't say whether the robot was losing, or not:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62286017

"A robot broke a seven-year-old boy's finger during a chess match in Moscow last week, Russian news outlets report.

"The robot broke the child's finger," Sergey Lazarev, Moscow Chess Federation President, told Tass news agency. "This is of course bad.""

― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 24 July 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/NWe3LXg.png

Anarchy in the USA

― calstars, Saturday, 6 August 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link

playing e4 is crazy man

― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 August 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

All of my opponents have the advantage of not playing drunk

― calstars, Friday, 2 September 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link

weird stuff going on in chess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN3zNrvO8b4

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link

Niemann's response

https://i.imgur.com/H3bsuRl.jpg

― cajunsunday, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link

https://twitter.com/0x00B1/status/1566996167518744578/photo/1

― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link

http://https%3A//pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb8Ws2IaMAAMefY%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D360x360

― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb8Ws2IaMAAMefY?format=jpg&name=360x360

― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link

lol

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 19 September 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link

what does sam sloan think of the magnus/hans drama

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 19 September 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link

magnus just does not want anything to do with the lad

Magnus Carlsen turned his webcam on, made one move, resigned, then turned his camera off and disappeared.

He did not say anything. https://t.co/WPsUsktN8P
— Motherboard (@motherboard) September 19, 2022

― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link

i don't blame him tbh

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 19 September 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link

yeah i tend to trust magnus on this, and a number of other top players seem to be suspicious of hans too, but its a pretty weird situation where magnus is just being extremely passive aggressive

― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link

mb magnus is convinced that hans is cheating but doesnt have any hard proof

― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link

he admitted to cheating. twice. in tournaments. and chess.com implied it was worse than that! it's insane he's even invited to these tournaments.

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link

getting caught cheating online doesnt seem to be that big of a deal in the chess world for whatever reason, theres other players whove cheated online but still get invited to live tourneys, tho i dont think theres anyone at the absolute top level, part of it i think is theres no formal admin relationship between the sites and fide

― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link

another thing that complicates it is those cheating instances were when he was a child

― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link

COVID changed everything because tournaments went online. He wasn’t cheating in marches to boost his Elo, he was cheating in tournaments and accepting cash prizes. This also wasn’t when he was much younger. The last incident happened at the beginning of COVID.

― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link

yeah he was 16 at the beginning of covid, and fwiw hes been rolling since tourneys have gone live again, so if hes not cheating over the board then hes prob not cheating online either hes just that good

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link

i mean he beat magnus, his first classical loss in like two years

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link

I like to imagine Magnus is just salty as can be and is claiming foul to protect his ego. I say this in admiration to Magnus because Lord knows I would do the same in his position.

Seriously tho, Kinda messed up to let cheaters in. Don't care if it was when you were a kid or whatever. Bans need to be made public and enforced. Magnus is able to do what he is doing (and imo is justified) because FIDE and Chess.com are giving too much leeway and not being transparent with their response to cheating (speaking of the past). Hope this fixes things and we get some public stoning's in the future.
no formal relationship between sites/FIDE really does mess with this. Team Magnus lets gooooooooooo

― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link

"weird... odd... unusual"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQuhjvFXNYk

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link

seems like magnus thinks this dlugy guy is in on the scheme

"Unfortunately I cannot particularly speak on that but people can draw their own conclusion & they certainly have. I have to say I am very impressed by Niemann's play & I think his mentor Maxim Dlugy must have been doing a great job"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c50PJmOj2-U

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link

Is Magnus mainly mad that someone in his team leaked his opening prep? it seems too implausable that someone would be able to engine cheat during an on the board classical game.

― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link

you could do it, some of the things people have done to cheat at gambling are unbelievable, chess would be relatively easy

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link

one interesting thing i read is magnus before this whole thing was speculating about cheating and said that hed only need to have two or three moves a game given to him to be totally unbeatable

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link

and people have done engine cheating over the board before fwiw tho not at as a high profile a tourney as sinquefield

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link

its anal beads

― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link

you dont even need to get the moves from the anal beads just having them in there is an advantage

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link

Oh I guess Dlugy is a known cheater huh.

Maxim Dlugy is an infamous New York based GM and coach, who has been accused of cheating online. He took some credit for Niemann's success when he made world's top 50, calling him his student.
— Tarjei J. Svensen (@TarjeiJS) September 21, 2022

― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link

Shirov recently suggested he was suspicious of Hans cheating during an OTB Tournament in 2020. This game—almost every move is Stockfish #1— was played by Niemann during that tournament (via: The Zugzwang Blog) pic.twitter.com/kkeopYe6XD
— Bed Bath & Beyond (@pabloroblesgast) September 21, 2022

― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link

lol before he got good at cheating

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link

Team Magnus send Hans to the gallows

― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link

LOL. I didn’t know about the Dlugy relationship. Absolutely incredible. He’s such a wildly shady character. In addition to cheating (and I suspect most people don’t know this), he’s been arrested multiple times for every financial crime imaginable.

― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 22 September 2022 02:14 (one year ago) link

gukesh currently #23 in the world at 2726 is also the youngest, 16 y/0, player in the top 100!

feel like he hasnt got as much hype as some of the other very young players but then he just went on an insane run recently gained 100pt in 6 months, wild

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 September 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link

4 indian teenagers in the top 100

― lag∞n, Friday, 23 September 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link

they found multiple games where hans played 100 computer perfect moves

Pretty cool analysis. TLDR: Fischer, Carlsen, Kasparov at their best played with 69-72% correlation to chess engines. Niemann played at >70% correlation in many tournaments, and 79% correlation in two tournaments in a row. https://t.co/8P3GkEQaVS
— Ludwig Yeetgenstein (@yeetgenstein) September 26, 2022

― lag∞n, Monday, 26 September 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link

her accent is hard to follow, i turned on subtitles

magnus carlsen, hans niemann, not sure how much more evidence you need pic.twitter.com/GErWdqPuGY
— br◎seph (@on3ness) September 26, 2022

― lag∞n, Monday, 26 September 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link

and magnus finally said something

My statement regarding the last few weeks. pic.twitter.com/KY34DbcjLo
— Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen) September 26, 2022

― lag∞n, Monday, 26 September 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link

Knight is a silent assassin with many targets

― calstars, Saturday, 1 October 2022 11:05 (one year ago) link

ive been doing puzzles "more seriously", cant tell if its working, my puzzle rating is higher tho

― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 October 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link

troubling things i learned from the defector piece on the history of cheating in chess = there are two tigran petrosians

― mark s, Sunday, 2 October 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link

one always lies, one always tells the truth

― mark s, Sunday, 2 October 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link

lol

― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 October 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link

actually i also learned that kasparov is a cheat and behaved like a complete dick towards a teenage girl who nearly bested him once

this is less of a surprise tho

― mark s, Sunday, 2 October 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link

yeah its lame kasparov has such a good reputation when hes a huge idiot baby whos been trying to start a war between the us and russia for the last decade+ and believes jesus was born in crimea in 1152, on the other hand he is maybe the best chess player ever, but still

― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 October 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link

"maybe the best chess player ever" -- the first and biggest red flag imo

― mark s, Sunday, 2 October 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link

second best: bobby fischer 🙄

― mark s, Sunday, 2 October 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link

normal guys

― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 October 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link

chess.com says hans cheated over 100 times on their site https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-cheating-hans-niemann-report-magnus-carlsen-11664911524

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link

yeah but chess.com says all kinds of shit

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link

I was depressed yesterday so I put on some Tim Buckley and poked around the slides. A lot of the analysis is suspect but I think the conclusion is the same if the analysis was sound: Hans cheated frequently and cheated during tournaments.

― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 6 October 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link

yeah seems pretty clear hans is a cheating ass

― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link

wonder what fides gonna do, i dont think they have a policy for cheating thats not at the tourneys they run, and it could be harder for them to find evidence of cheating in their tourneys since they have so many fewer games to look at, they might just say fuck him anyway tho idk

― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/adafruits-cheekmate-gets-to-the-bottom-ahem-of-chess-cheating-controversy/

Imagine if hans shoved something like this up his ass…for what?

― calstars, Thursday, 6 October 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link

A game in the US championship just ended in 10 moves. I know the feeling lol. https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/us-championship-2022/7/1/6

― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 12 October 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link

It's quite late so I am probably being dumb but does black really need to resign there? Fairly sure he's going to lose a piece no matter what but bit early to throw in the proverbial towel

― paolo, Wednesday, 12 October 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link

i've just started playing for the first time since I was a kid. way better at it now but still making dumb mistakes.

― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link

high level game if you lose a piece with no positional compensation its over xp

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 October 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

heh, love to play bullet chess

https://i.imgur.com/xXo65XP.png

― lag∞n, Sunday, 6 November 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link

On move 55 of this game fuck this shit

― calstars, Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link

bullet solves this

― lag∞n, Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

Whenever en passant presents itself it’s imperative that you execute
Coolest move in the game

― calstars, Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link

I love the feeling of playing lower ranks and just feeling like a god

― calstars, Saturday, 26 November 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/96e6lg4.png

Pretty knights all in a row

― calstars, Saturday, 26 November 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

https://i.imgur.com/6OQaxn1.png
Damn this felt good

― calstars, Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link

POGGERZ

― calstars, Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/Ra4m1ho.png

Checking from a castle is such sweet honey

― calstars, Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/gS62XzX.png

I love gettin suckas on the ropes early

― calstars, Saturday, 21 January 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link

this game is seriously annoying: https://www.funnyhowtheknightmoves.com/

― ledge, Thursday, 26 January 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link

thought the bump would be for some juicy tata steel chat, but let's see

― imago, Thursday, 26 January 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link

AAAAAAARGH

― imago, Thursday, 26 January 2023 15:37 (one year ago) link

okay, bottom right is where the magic happens

― imago, Thursday, 26 January 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link

I've been enjoying Tata Steel a lot - first time I've followed a chess tournie for a while. Carlsen lost 2 games in a row but seems to be back on form now.

In other news this was an interesting game from John Bartholomew - also the opponent's comments made be lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VQu33G-_ls

― cajunsunday, Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link

four weeks pass...

we've all seen the Szabo game by now right

― imago, Sunday, 26 February 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mnnzdi6jRA

― imago, Sunday, 26 February 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link

crazy stuff

― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 February 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link

Stop tweeting, you're fighting for your fucking life https://t.co/fY76VmUrql pic.twitter.com/Ts6HeqHXHS
— PROFESSIONAL_DRAFT_DODGER (@PunishedGenetic) March 9, 2023

― 龜, Friday, 10 March 2023 12:34 (one year ago) link

lol

― imago, Friday, 10 March 2023 12:37 (one year ago) link

Incredible game, constantly shocked

― hrep (H.P), Friday, 10 March 2023 12:59 (one year ago) link

noticed chess trending in the manosphere think it traces back to andrew tate figured he was just using it as a prop but it turns out he can play a little cause he learned from his father was an im https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_Tate

― lag∞n, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

this defense the computer digs up is real wild stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3BrPZKMkAg

― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 March 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

Taking sides : playing stoned and drunk vs playing not stoned and drunk

― calstars, Friday, 14 April 2023 01:20 (one year ago) link

magnus played texas holdem on a live stream last night. pretty fun watching him sweat!

― k3vin k., Friday, 14 April 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link

its so funny that he resigned the world chess championship and is playing poker instead, he made the final table of wpt tourney a while ago iirc, also hes really good at fantasy soccer, magnus carlson good at games

― lag∞n, Friday, 14 April 2023 01:39 (one year ago) link

he’d be so insanely good at poker if he studied, actually might not be fair

― k3vin k., Friday, 14 April 2023 01:47 (one year ago) link

Magnus seems pretty funny, hopefully he doesn’t say some sort of Nordic Racial Oopsie on television

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 14 April 2023 01:51 (one year ago) link

always a risk

― lag∞n, Friday, 14 April 2023 01:53 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbh0d7WXxB8

just watching a few hands he likes to get in there and play some hands you love to see it

― k3vin k., Friday, 14 April 2023 02:02 (one year ago) link

botez is chess too right

Saw the 7-2 cooler earlier

― nxd, Friday, 14 April 2023 02:30 (one year ago) link

Ding is back. Exciting

― hrep (H.P), Friday, 14 April 2023 11:12 (one year ago) link

et encore!

― imago, Sunday, 16 April 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link

this is such fun

― imago, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 12:36 (one year ago) link

i retract

― imago, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 12:55 (one year ago) link

nothing has gone from being fun to being the least fun thing ever so quickly

― imago, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 13:03 (one year ago) link

honestly makes me regret getting into chess. time to turn away

― imago, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 13:04 (one year ago) link

chess life

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link

I posted that^ when Ding froze in game 7 but actually I'm feeling absolutely sick for Nepo now

― imago, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:27 (eleven months ago) link

poor fuckin bastard

― imago, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:27 (eleven months ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/7TJmt9M.png
Da fuq

― calstars, Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:51 (eleven months ago) link

one month passes...

heh

https://i.imgur.com/vzRwcMw.png

― lag∞n, Sunday, 25 June 2023 14:10 (nine months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/m5TyDco.jpg

― ciderpress, Sunday, 25 June 2023 15:57 (nine months ago) link

u trapt bro

― calstars, Sunday, 25 June 2023 18:46 (nine months ago) link

das right

― lag∞n, Sunday, 25 June 2023 18:48 (nine months ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/B6QeWUl.png

― calstars, Saturday, 15 July 2023 23:50 (nine months ago) link

one month passes...

so they couldn't prove he stuck vibrating beads up his anus huh?

― 龜, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 18:22 (seven months ago) link

its kina unclear to me exactly what happened cause they did have very strong evidence towards him being a chronic online cheater and he even admitted to doing it a few times but then chess dot com went and let him back on to the site, the evidence for live cheating was not nearly as strong and he was never banned from live play, he sued magnus et al for defaming him which seemed pretty lame and now magnus agreed to play him again, seems like all sides were just ready to move on which is understandable, but chess.com letting him back on after making such a strong public case that he was a big time cheater is pretty weak imho

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 18:41 (seven months ago) link

seems like he successfully bullied them all via the the legal system

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 18:42 (seven months ago) link

who did, magnus or niemannnn

― 龜, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 18:46 (seven months ago) link

niemann

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 18:47 (seven months ago) link

put anal beads up your bum then sue everybody who says you did, its a good strategy

― 龜, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 19:20 (seven months ago) link

Remote control anal bead gambit

― calstars, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 05:55 (seven months ago) link

Hans is such a heel, I absolutely hate the bloke and love to hate him. Great for the sport. Hope he leans into it in his glorious comeback tour

Neimann 2: turbo anal beads

― H.P, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 09:03 (seven months ago) link

Ever lose a game so stupidly you never want to play again?

― calstars, Friday, 8 September 2023 22:25 (seven months ago) link

Ice cold chess action

― calstars, Friday, 8 September 2023 22:25 (seven months ago) link

Daily

― H.P, Saturday, 9 September 2023 12:10 (seven months ago) link

My new toxic trait: messaging “really” when someone doesn’t resign before a super obvious mate in 1

― H.P, Saturday, 9 September 2023 12:27 (seven months ago) link

The obvious response to which is offering a draw

― imago, Saturday, 9 September 2023 13:51 (seven months ago) link

My new toxic trait: messaging “really” when someone doesn’t resign before a super obvious mate in 1

― H.P, Saturday, September 9, 2023 8:27 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

dont do that

― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 September 2023 13:53 (seven months ago) link

I feel like I’m improving but I keep losing

― calstars, Sunday, 17 September 2023 19:16 (seven months ago) link

i'm back on chess.com, trying to be more zen, enjoying the game and not getting stupidly stressed out about winning or losing. i'm ledgr on chess.com, hmu if it's not passe now.

― behold the thump (ledge), Thursday, 28 September 2023 12:41 (six months ago) link

ledge beat me. Almost had him tho

― calstars, Saturday, 30 September 2023 18:54 (six months ago) link

feel like my current level is very much "don't be the last to make a massive blunder"

― behold the thump (ledge), Saturday, 30 September 2023 19:03 (six months ago) link

i won a game with 100% accuracy, analysis gives me an adjusted ranking of 2300. trying not to get too overexcited here though

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/565668547

― ava (paolo), Sunday, 1 October 2023 08:45 (six months ago) link

lol, incredible moves from a chess mastermind.

― behold the thump (ledge), Sunday, 1 October 2023 09:13 (six months ago) link

the triple smurf gambit accepted

― imago, Sunday, 1 October 2023 10:21 (six months ago) link

congratulations grandmaster

― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 October 2023 11:35 (six months ago) link

is anyone on here [MODERATOR REDACTION]? happy to accept games from randos but not friend requests.

― behold the thump (ledge), Sunday, 1 October 2023 12:30 (six months ago) link

The initials line up with a certain Australian serial comment-baiter ;)

― imago, Sunday, 1 October 2023 12:43 (six months ago) link

I reject that description >:(

― H.P, Sunday, 1 October 2023 13:24 (six months ago) link

Also lol guess the name is out to the world now!

― H.P, Sunday, 1 October 2023 13:24 (six months ago) link

gukesh d in the top 10 now, hes 17

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 October 2023 22:56 (six months ago) link

youngest player in the top 100

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 October 2023 22:58 (six months ago) link

I'm astonished to learn that over 99% of games played on chess.com are speed games - even given you could fit in 100 or more in the time it takes to play a single one or three day limit game.

― behold the thump (ledge), Saturday, 7 October 2023 14:44 (six months ago) link

i dont play on chess dot com but just doing a lil googling and they categorize all of their default time controls except "daily" which is kind of a correspondence game i guess as speed so it kinda stands to reason

Speed Chess Time Controls
Speed chess is subdivided into rapid, blitz, and bullet time controls:

Rapid time controls on Chess.com are any time control longer than 10 minutes per player. The most popular rapid time controls on Chess.com are 30|0 and 15|10

https://d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net/docs/assets/5d43501e2c7d3a2ec4bfbfe0/images/632347a6b0f178684ee3b054/file-z5Rv0IALnD.png

― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 October 2023 14:53 (six months ago) link

if they count 10/0 as blitz and not rapid then i bet 99% of games are blitz/bullet

― ciderpress, Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:04 (six months ago) link

this article says 10 minute games are the most popular on there which is kinda surprising since rapid is usually considered the most annoying time control but i could see it having appeal to less experienced players who want to take a lil more time, on lichess the player pools def get more skilled as you move down in time, tho ive never played correspondence so idk whats up with that

https://www.chess.com/article/view/interesting-chess-data-time-controls-and-game-results

then this post points out that when you measure it by time spent playing 10 minute games are way ahead

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/most-popular-time-controls-weighted-correctlyhttps://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/most-popular-time-controls-weighted-correctly

increments really not popular, ive wondered if theres a difference in quality of play between the incremented and non incremented games cause on lichess at least your rating is just by larger category bullet blitz rapid, i always play increments its nice to have a lil movin around time

― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:04 (six months ago) link

if they count 10/0 as blitz and not rapid then i bet 99% of games are blitz/bullet

― ciderpress, Saturday, October 7, 2023 11:04 AM (thirty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:06 (six months ago) link

Rapid time controls on Chess.com are any time control longer than 10 minutes per player. The most popular rapid time controls on Chess.com are 30|0 and 15|10

seems like they were considering 10+0 blitz when this was written or maybe they were just confused

― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:12 (six months ago) link

lichess has 30+0 as classical where fide has the shortest classical game at 60+0

― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:14 (six months ago) link

If I can teach nothing else to my novice friend, it’s just to defend against the fried lover

― calstars, Sunday, 8 October 2023 22:19 (six months ago) link

lol

― imago, Sunday, 8 October 2023 22:20 (six months ago) link

I’ve been defending against the fried lover my whole adult life

― H.P, Sunday, 8 October 2023 23:44 (six months ago) link

(I actually love playing against that opening, it’s just so smarmy, feel great to chuck in a D4 followed by a knight on the rim and watch the game transform)

― H.P, Sunday, 8 October 2023 23:46 (six months ago) link

1/2 I was completely crushed in my game today. This is not to accuse my opponent of anything, who played an amazing game and deserved to win, but honestly, as soon as I saw my opponent was wearing a watch early in the game, I lost my ability to concentrate.
— Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen) October 12, 2023

feels like magnus has lost the plot

― 龜, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:11 (six months ago) link

'is that incoming notification chime coming from your butt?'

― calstars, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:17 (six months ago) link

yeah i think magnus isnt that into playing anymore but he cant really stop since his brain is mostly chess

― lag∞n, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:22 (six months ago) link

listening to top guys in general tho they are all super concerned about cheating, seems nearly consensus that online chess is completely compromised

― lag∞n, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:24 (six months ago) link

which is kinda weird as magnus and the other top guys still crush online tourneys regularly

― lag∞n, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:25 (six months ago) link

like hikaru pretty much agrees with dubov here, tho hes a lil less extreme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuQl3_Jgrw

― lag∞n, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:26 (six months ago) link

I think it’s a justified sentiment, and Magnus has the clout to actually make a change in this regard. Yeah the rhetoric feels a little “wah wah I lost that isn’t supposed to happen”, but I don’t think anyone can argue with the substance of the post. That Hikaru/Dubbo video shows how easy it is to cheat, and with the stakes of chess at this level, to allow people to wear things in Chess that could easily be compromised and where there’s really no downside to banning these items? Feels a bit silly.

― H.P, Friday, 13 October 2023 23:17 (six months ago) link

Magnums can never have a sense of humor now

― calstars, Friday, 13 October 2023 23:31 (six months ago) link

i like how anna cramling always calls it CHASS

― mark s, Saturday, 14 October 2023 09:08 (six months ago) link

This game had me yelling “nooooo” in disbelief at my computer screen and I currently have 0 beers in my system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BgG4bUDHa4

― H.P, Saturday, 14 October 2023 10:11 (six months ago) link

agad viewer, man of culture etc

― imago, Saturday, 14 October 2023 11:10 (six months ago) link

He sends me to blissful sleep each night, much to my better half’s chagrin

― H.P, Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:34 (six months ago) link

Been trying to convince myself to buy one of these for about a year now

https://agadmators-swag-store.creator-spring.com/listing/i-am-an-excellent-subscriber?product=46

https://agadmators-swag-store.creator-spring.com/listing/design-with-a-story-tm?product=46

― H.P, Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:37 (six months ago) link

If you buy one I’ll buy the other one imago

― H.P, Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:38 (six months ago) link

lol

my own evening schedule is very similar to yours ofc

― imago, Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:41 (six months ago) link

right down to the chagrin

― imago, Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:42 (six months ago) link

magnus mad

Just to be clear, I am not accusing my opponent today of cheating. Constantly using my name for clicks is fine, but this is just lame. Do better. pic.twitter.com/qBURl4JutS
— Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen) October 12, 2023

― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 October 2023 15:01 (six months ago) link

he lost again btw, to a teenager this time

― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 October 2023 15:02 (six months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/cUKNj9r.jpg

― calstars, Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:41 (six months ago) link

nice i used to live a few blocks away from there

― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:48 (six months ago) link

hehe

https://i.imgur.com/hf1wkpV.png

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:38 (six months ago) link

Poor bloke

― Peach’s burner account (H.P), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 22:20 (six months ago) link

Got my first brilliant move (that I’ve checked). I thought I was playing like Carlson this game, until I checked the review and found I was losing 99% of the time lol

https://www.chess.com/live/game/92452854427

― #1 García Fan (H.P), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 01:09 (five months ago) link

Bishop to f6 being the brilliant in question

― #1 García Fan (H.P), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 01:09 (five months ago) link

im going to become a serious puzzle man, its time

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 23:35 (five months ago) link

i bought a chessable course, on sale

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 23:35 (five months ago) link

several xps lovely stuff, u could have sacd your queen on f8 to really rub it in

― ava (paolo), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 08:50 (five months ago) link

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/578208361

i got i think my first smothered mate since high school chess club recently. idk how to embed an image from chess.com on here and i refuse to find out

― ava (paolo), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 08:52 (five months ago) link

watch ava DESTROY the najdorf in just FIFTEEN MOVES!!!

― ava (paolo), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 08:53 (five months ago) link

several xps lovely stuff, u could have sacd your queen on f8 to really rub it in

― ava (paolo), Wednesday, November 8, 2023 3:50 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol rude

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 14:13 (five months ago) link

fwiw i just took a screen shot of the final position and posted it

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 14:14 (five months ago) link

Got this higher rated German punk on the ropes

― calstars, Saturday, 11 November 2023 02:51 (five months ago) link

get that german

― lag∞n, Saturday, 11 November 2023 02:53 (five months ago) link

Forked both of his knights with a pawn, amateur hour over here

― calstars, Saturday, 11 November 2023 03:02 (five months ago) link

Team ILX

― calstars, Saturday, 11 November 2023 03:03 (five months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqKGSl2CTXk

Decided whenever I verbally say "wow" to a Chess youtube video, I'll post here. Karpov's smarmy face in the bottom left really embodies his play in this game. Every move like a laugh at his opponents face

― H.P, Saturday, 25 November 2023 01:42 (four months ago) link

what a bastard lmao

― imago, Saturday, 25 November 2023 09:25 (four months ago) link

I’m giving up. I get worse with each game

― calstars, Sunday, 26 November 2023 02:51 (four months ago) link

I'm certainly not covering myself with honours. though I guess it's early days. Also realised my ~1000 rating for correspondence is completely bogus since I don't play with randoms.

― organ doner (ledge), Sunday, 26 November 2023 14:55 (four months ago) link

xp yeah i know the feeling :( kinda obvious advice, but my tip when you're on a bad run is to give yourself loads of time to think through moves (if possible)

― ava (paolo), Monday, 27 November 2023 10:14 (four months ago) link

also that karpov vid, he made a GM resign with almost all the pieces still on the board, fuckin hell

― ava (paolo), Monday, 27 November 2023 10:14 (four months ago) link

kramnik accusing hikaru of cheating is pretty delightful considering he streamed them all

― lag∞n, Monday, 27 November 2023 20:10 (four months ago) link

anal beads don't show up on stream

― ciderpress, Monday, 27 November 2023 22:47 (four months ago) link

hans is back baby

Organizer of the Zagreb event with a pretty shocking quote to Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten:

"Niemann's performance is out of this world, but we have no definite proof that he is cheating. We have some indications, but we don't know if anyone wants to report him." https://t.co/8vEPLQitH3
— Tarjei J. Svensen (@TarjeiJS) November 30, 2023

― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 22:01 (four months ago) link

“Nobody’s Fault (Butt Mon)”

― calstars, Saturday, 2 December 2023 22:03 (four months ago) link

Two lone Americans up against the world, facing immeasurable odds

Victorious 53 years apart at the legendary Tournament of Peace

8/9: 2946 performance rating

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible pic.twitter.com/qjZlhRIYJp
— Hans Niemann (@HansMokeNiemann) November 30, 2023

― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 22:05 (four months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_4gGUJ3qxs

loving carlsen's troll era

― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 09:52 (four months ago) link

its really something

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 13:22 (four months ago) link

fucker didnt let me finish it but there it is baby the famous smothered mate

https://i.imgur.com/FcAAxhx.png

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 13:47 (four months ago) link

i would like to thank my new found commitment to "doing puzzles" for this spectacular win

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 13:57 (four months ago) link

two weeks pass...

probably the most i've ever laughed at a chess video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3G4KenJolU

― imago, Thursday, 21 December 2023 23:47 (three months ago) link

fucker didnt let me finish it but there it is baby the famous smothered mate

???

Rook takes Queen?

What am I missing?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 December 2023 23:53 (three months ago) link

rook takes queen, then knight to f7 checkmate (king smothered by rook and pawns, hence the name)

Very nice! Yesterday I reached a draw by insufficient material as I let my opponent promote his last pawn to a knight, forking my queen and king. If he promoted to queen it was mate in 1. Safe to say, I'm not having a good run right now

― H.P, Friday, 22 December 2023 00:07 (three months ago) link

Very difficult for me to watch a Chess video without a Croatian accent but that Magnus magic video was worth it.

Your chess simp though Imago....I want to invoice you for the time

― H.P, Friday, 22 December 2023 00:20 (three months ago) link

3 minutes, including the 2 greatest premoves of all time? money's worth imo

― imago, Friday, 22 December 2023 00:40 (three months ago) link

It's my fault, I should have turned it off the second I heard that grating robotic voice but I thought whatever was going to happen would be worth the pain. What happened was good, but there is no good in the world that can make up for the sin of being overdubbed with text-to-speech

― H.P, Friday, 22 December 2023 00:55 (three months ago) link

rook takes queen, then knight to f7 checkmate (king smothered by rook and pawns, hence the name)

Ah yeah, of course.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 13:02 (three months ago) link

its considered one of the sickest mates

― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 19:00 (three months ago) link

theres a known pattern with the q + n to execute it, which i had just been doing puzzles of and was stoked to recognize, which i def would not have without the puzzles

― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 19:03 (three months ago) link

I need to do more puzzles, what skills I had have atrophied.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 19:11 (three months ago) link

i have done puzzles here and there but never really with any focus, and still im not focusing that hard, but i saw a video by this guy who was saying just doing a bunch of random puzzles even if theyre loosely grouped as like forks or whatever isnt that effective for training your pattern recognition, he was into studying more specific patterns together and repeatedly, he made this chessable course that has ~600 puzzles grouped by type which i bought and have just been working my way through repeatedly, he wants you to do them until you know them so well that you can basically solve them instantly, im not nearly there yet except for the easy ones but def in a few games ive recognized patterns that ive drilled and i feel like maybe im just thinking more tactically generally, i have leveled up since i started doing the puzzles tho its something that mightve happened anyway, its within my general trend

https://www.chessable.com/common-chess-patterns/course/13348/

― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 19:21 (three months ago) link

Right on, thank you.

I read Fischer's and Kasparov's books years ago. Not surprisingly, they took radically different approaches. I did learn from them, but I haven't played in years. A friend of mine and I just started playing online.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 22:08 (three months ago) link

playing online is good cause you can always get a game and it will match you with similarly skilled players, and you can analyze yr games after with and engine, use other stats/tools etc

― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 22:45 (three months ago) link

I went to a chess tournament years ago, my buddy was upset that he lost to a blind guy.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 22:50 (three months ago) link

that is pretty wild

― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 22:51 (three months ago) link

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/chinese-chess-champion-stripped-of-title-after-defecating-in-hotel-bathtub

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 08:09 (three months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/ZNN0EP3.png

Thankfully this graphic doesn’t reveal how bad I am at this stupid game

― calstars, Saturday, 30 December 2023 01:52 (three months ago) link

i played 7000 some odd games this year lol

― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:02 (three months ago) link

Welp

― calstars, Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:36 (three months ago) link

That’s uhh, 18 per day?

― calstars, Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:37 (three months ago) link

i do play 2+1 fwiw

― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 December 2023 03:00 (three months ago) link

Damn here I was thinking my 916 was a bit much! I do split my time between chess and lichess tho

― H.P, Saturday, 30 December 2023 04:56 (three months ago) link

bout an hour of chess a day, the cool thing about playing bullet is if you work on the computer you can just take a lil break and play a couple games no prob

― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 December 2023 16:26 (three months ago) link

prob not gonna play yr best under those circumstances but hey who cares you know, i def play best with a longer block of time and at night for some reason

― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 December 2023 16:29 (three months ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/dOVoBUh.png

Endless endgame

― calstars, Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:06 (three months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ouOyAPIQs

"when I watch this game I imagine Rashid Nezhmetdinov watching the game and saying "nice"".

Love this one

― H.P, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 04:13 (three months ago) link

nice

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 16:44 (three months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Bb_TyhC1A

some light viewing here

― imago, Monday, 29 January 2024 21:11 (two months ago) link

Just reached 1400 blitz and am feeling ready to take on magnum, ding, and the ghost of bobby Fischer all at once, blindfolded.

Literally unstoppable right now, don't even talk to me 😤

― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:15 (two months ago) link

Was sitting high 1300's went 2-13 to get myself down to a nice 1200's figure again, then the next day pull a 14-15 streak to get a new top rating. My brain literally just chooses each day whether it can play chess or not. Streaky as hell

― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:19 (two months ago) link

nice re the pb, feel like spend most of yr time in about 100pt range is pretty normal with occasional visits to above or below, and of course the midpoint is subject to change too

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:42 (two months ago) link

tho the other day i looked at this guys graph cause he was higher rated than me but id beat him seven out of seven, and his swings were all over the place veering wildly two three hundred points, maybe he drinks idk

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:43 (two months ago) link

I get caught chasing the rabbit after a loss. The next game is all about making up for the previous one, so I'm not completely focussed. It then snowballs until I finally give up and give my brain a refresh. Thankfully I am not a gambler, I would have all my money sucked dry in a day

― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:53 (two months ago) link

I think 200-300 swings maybe more common the lower the rating, definitely rarer when swinging that much within a the 4-digit rating range

― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:54 (two months ago) link

the big swing guy was at like 1750 iirc

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 01:17 (two months ago) link

four weeks pass...

sometimes people resign when you do a cool move on them even if its not that big of an advantage theyre just like oh no i gotta get outta here

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:37 (one month ago) link

yes hello

― gbx, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:06 (one month ago) link

Gotta love a bluff win

― H.P, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 22:34 (one month ago) link

thats why one should keep playing, also its good practice

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 23:45 (one month ago) link

I think I've practiced losing enough

― H.P, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:03 (one month ago) link

(But yes obviously you fight to the bitter end)

― H.P, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:03 (one month ago) link

or at least until the position simplifies

― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:09 (one month ago) link

a big comeback is fun too

― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:10 (one month ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/kbXShZ0.jpeg

― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:47 (three weeks ago) link

Liam Gallagher commentary after move 67: “this game is gonna live forevah…”

― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:49 (three weeks ago) link

Lost

― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2024 23:37 (three weeks ago) link

the fools havent moved

https://i.imgur.com/q22iAt7.png

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 March 2024 23:16 (three weeks ago) link

two weeks pass...

Thinking about bringing a board to the bar and setting it up on a table outside … who wants to send me some crypto backing $$$

― calstars, Monday, 15 April 2024 21:26 (four days ago) link

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