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

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

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

the third most basic piece of advice is to keep yr pawns chained together

if u do those things u cn prob get up to ~1000 pretty easy

(if u play a lot of games)

also the middle of the board is the best part try to capture it

an example of a position where both sides are fully developed

https://www.payetteforward.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/realistic-fantasy-1083x1080.png

its also totally symmetrical for some reason

here white is developed but black is not

https://i.imgur.com/RhK3QbK.png

tho some wld prob argue that black is effectively developed there

lagoon thank u for this tutorial

enjoy yr march to GM

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

p boring position tbqh

anyway happy thanksgiving chess club gonna go honor the fallen pilgrims now

considering the game is being played on both sides of the board nashs bishop is prob a lil more valuable than crosbys knight...

I did better! The computer sez I lost a forced checkmate sequence uwu https://lichess.org/RciiZoIr/white

several times in fact

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

the cool thing about chess is you can stay frustrated and feeling like you suck at it no matter how good you get

i saw a super gm leave his queen just straight up hanging on a livestream once lol

Lagoon is right the better you get the worse you realize you are (just like gaining skills in any other field) happy thanksgiving all!

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!

its really is the best game (except for maybe poker)

hey I won one

nice

Both of these albums are garbage

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.

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

plz feel free

white (me) to move find the sick combo

https://i.imgur.com/M9CEGbe.png

Nf5 forking the king + rook, g6xf5, Ne6 forking the K+Q?

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

i did get the queen theyre both good tho, also i set it up w ne3 sacking my c pawn, was a proud moment

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.

this game is legitimately beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF9vPPwPWAE

abstract positions

Played irl with my dad and won, pleased w myself

I like chess now

just my imo but anyone with a game completion rate under 98% should be banned

game firouzja played today against artemiev is insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YfobLZNLAw

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

chess boards engraved on park tables are always cool

Is there a greater pleasure than flagging your opponent in a completely lost game

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.

thats funny i was just thinking how i respect ppl who play to the bitter end

(i almost never do)

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

Ppl should definitely make me win my won positions bc I don’t really know how to win a lot of the time.