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

the second rule of chess.com is that the horseys jump in an L-shape

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

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

mating someone when youre almost out of time is a godly rush

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

(won)

damn actually played a good game

3 Inaccuracies
0 Mistakes
0 Blunders
19 Average centipawn loss

hopefully i can find a way to chill and notice if im making "holes" and "weaknesses"

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

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

https://i.imgur.com/qfF4AvV.png

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

I’ve rage uninstalled the chess app on my phone more times than I’d like to admit

love to trade a minor piece for two pawns totally destroying an opponents defense

double up those pawns bro

roguelike chess:

https://jonathanlessard.net/chogue/

Sacrificing for position is my m o

a successful sacrifice feels so good

Chogue is awesome. The sound of a piece sliding somewhere in the dark!

friends ive done it, im a grandmaster now

https://i.imgur.com/efYyy2Q.png

Well done

thanking u :)

the sicilian is good cause there are so many way to own the hell out of yrself

it is a great feeling to play a completely stupid opening and then win crushingly

e4 e5

g4?!

anyway move 24 was Ra8# don't @ me

<3 lag00n

https://imgur.com/D7GPxlS.jpeg

we should play 4sho

nice dude! is that chess.com

yes

friends, hello

https://i.imgur.com/DjLtgy0.png

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

lol

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

jo********tin declined a draw
jo********tin resigns

is there no more beautiful combination of words

what openings do u guys play i do queens gambit w white, sicilian and english w black

i play all the openings in a sort of improvised fever dream. it is no good for my rating

ruy lopez white / scandi black

i play all the openings in a sort of improvised fever dream. it is no good for my rating

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p awesome tho ive moved the wrong pawn a few times and just gone w it and it was cool, done p well iirc

scandinavian is wild xp i like when ppl play that v me its usually a p fun game, i always take

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

yeah i think its generally agreed that its best

i'm addicted to ben finegold videos

i cant deal w his presentation/jokes, i like jerry (aka chess network)

both of them are good but as a proud european i am far more commonly seen with the holy trinity of agad/mato/suren

agadmator def my most watched

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.

For streamers its all about John Bartholomew for me. How can you resist that winning smile?

friends, theyre playing for all the marbles https://deadspin.com/magnus-carlsen-and-fabiano-caruanas-fight-for-the-world-183020884

will this be the best WC of modern times? imo....maybe

cld be

https://www.twitch.tv/gmbenjaminfinegold

game 1 looks drawish but who knows