i love when ILX gets all chessed out (ILX hot chess action is here)

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

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

Oh shit

After bishop sac on b7 then I leap in with Qxf2+!

WHAT NOW

I mean what now after Kh1 obv

obv Qxc2 asking to be played but Qxg3 has some kind of hard-to-describe appeal

if Qxc2 then Ne6 is crushing

(not using an engine BTW) ;)

if Qxg3 then your crushing Ne6 gives me a perpetual check and a draw, suckerrr

theres a rook sitting on f1 u lunatic

oh I set up the position wrong, ban me lol

had the rook on e1

ha

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

also the instructor is a charmer

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

yeah i just discovered that dude and i think hes really good

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

i knowww which was why i was upset i blundered it away

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

o wait right his name is arjun lol

guess thats hindi not arabic

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

My favourite streamer is John Bartholomew. I highly recommend his Chess Fundamentals series.

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

sweet will check him out xp

If anybody wants a quick win, look me up on chess.com. Same username. I play every day and am ranked 980 atm.

h8 running out of time

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

i hope i can be a grandmaster (GM) soon

well played Magnus!

thank you, soon probably i will be able to beat alpha zero

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???

I was impressed by these, being printed at the same screenprint studio I sometimes use:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bff-NXKnkFK/

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

that illustration is something lol xp

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.

oh i see i misunderstood yr post

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

whats a cool defense for d4

Nf6 daring d5

ok let's say they call your dare

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.

thinkin like a pro

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...

u cld def get pretty far in blitz just by memorizing a single obscure not totally fundamentally sound opening

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

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)

ppl are so wary of accepting pawn sacs (i mean rightly so)

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?

competition really brings it out in ppl