Chess - classic or dud?

This girl from NYC schooled me via same side knight advance in 3 moves to target king or queen, covered by same side bishop in one move. Fuckin deadly

I tend to avoid chess nowadays because it makes me feel so fucking dumb :( My rating went down to 950 over the years. It's not dumbness per se, rather that I do not play enough. That and alcohol probably.

Not making any excuses but I've learned the hard way that while I love to play while drinking, it's a bad idea if you care about your ranking

Yeah. Thing is I played chess best during my uni days, playing in the cafetaria, on the steps or in town, cafes. Drink was always there. The two have become intertwined.

i did some informal testing and my rating was a full 100-200 points lower when playing baked

I'm at around 1000 now, which is good for me.

tfw when you're up against someone worse than you

I was up 21 against this one dude and he insisted on playing it out...

I've been trying to play in a more conservative, defensive way, but it just doesn't suit me

Anyone tried 4 player chess on Chess.com? Looks pretty fun. Here's a video of Tal Baron playing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSH0kWcxqL0

Haven't tried

I always play with a 1day timer but I tried a real-time (5 min) game last week and just got destroyed.

5 min is insanely hard. 10 min is still very challenging but at least actually manageable and I can still run out of time

I play a lot of 10-minute. It may have helped my long game but probably not much, judging by the errors I still make

Also, while four-player chess is very interesting to me, who the hell crowdfunds a crushed laptop lol

watching finegold vs williams rn, simon's letting his country down something rotten

tfw your opponent's ranking increases by 100 + points during the course of your game

Rating now at 1001
I play every day but it’s still apparently amateur hour over here

Classic!

I had the most frustrating game yesterday. Did really well to get up a piece and a pawn, but then managed to blunder two pieces as I was trying to finish him off, and then lost pretty quickly.

Those days I’m framing my games like I’m just waiting for a weakness in my opponent and then exploiting it. Waiting for the other guy to fuck up...a column of pawns, an unprotected piece..

tfw when you come back from an early deficit (my opening game is awful) to be a real contender, +10

+15

Mated that shit

Back to 1000
Proud = me

Nice! Well done. I'm trying to get my Blitz score back over 1000.

What strategy do you go for in the opening btw? Whenever I start trying a new opening my rating ends up dropping about 100.

scandi black, v conventional king's pawn white

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-novice-challenged-magnus-carlsen-1510866214

not sure where else to post this, but this guy is pretty fascinating

thx for sharing

“I hope you at least keep an interest in the game, because it’s very interesting,” Magnus said. “I wish I could learn it new.”

<3

Thanks Cajun

To answer - no set strategy
I’ve visited a page with the classic openings
Didn’t do much for me. Seemed kind of obvious?
Oh well, I’m happy to not read music , it’s not about that

I'm on fire today. Got my highest blitz rating (1116).

my opening game is just knights for days

Some Kazakhstani dude just took my pawn en passant and at first I thought it was an error in the code..

fabiano caruana has won the right to challenge carlsen for the world title -- he's the first u.s. contender since fischer in 72:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-american-will-play-for-the-world-chess-championship/

Ugh, I just lost a second game on time. Was 12 points ahead this time. I guess it's just not a good time to be playing correspondence.

Wanted to take a break for awhile but only lasted 2 days til I jumped back in.

Yeah S I think you lost our last game on time ( as opposed to you probably winning by mate eventually)...

Why don't you try 14 days? Give yourself a bit more of a cushion?

I won with a bit of a dirty trick here lol: https://www.chess.com/daily/game/190758208

Can’t decide to be zen or not. Like golf

Mated someone ranked +100 and up 40 points in the last few weeks, word up

Nice work. Have you figured out En Passant out? It took me about 3 months to work out that rule lol.

Yeah for sure. I’ve only had the chance to use it against someone else once since I learned what it was, and jumped at the opportunity just because

Ten Fiddy

this is a dumb question but what is the best site to get started playing online/get a rating etc

chess.com or lichess are your two best options

chess.com - Kevin look me up, you’ll get your first win I’m sure

I'm MarteauSansMaitre. I think I'm ready to try playing again.

have any of you found any books useful for improving your game?

Bobby Fischer's book covers a lot of basics well.

game 5  👍🏻