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

This is an amazing blitz match between Carlsen and Firouzja

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

I love playing unrated players - never know until you do if they’re pros or schlubs

usually scrubs tho

love a surprise though

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

he got blood from a stone with that win there

Yeah. He's a genius at endgames.

yeah magnus signature is prob winning seemingly drawn games, kinda lame signature! no offense

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

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

btw i hate this thread title what do u guys think about changing it to "ilx chess club"

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.

I don't mind the thread title, and recognize it as a nod to the Yes thread, but I'm not married to it.

Another endgame in Game 2 but it looks like Hikaru has a chance...

blood from a stone 2: revenge

What’s the problem with the thread title?

Don’t be changing thread titles just for UX purposes

Frankly embarrassing that lagoon would suggest changing a 15 year old thread title

carlsen takes it up a level again

Lagoon doesn’t like the word “hot” or the band yes, which one could it be

we have another chess thread iirc we could use that one instead

i just dont feel its in the spirit of the great game of chess

i love attacking the kings indian and i dont care who knows it

goofiest perpetual ever

https://lichess.org/Ry84r85C#69

lol nice.

freakin ring around the posey over here

on a heater just got my highest rating everrrr

B)

https://i.imgur.com/my3GHb3.png

nice! what's the secret to your success?

check this game out. I hear they're calling it the Cajunsunday Immortal.

https://lichess.org/EdOA4y5fmIRQ

lol xp

https://i.imgur.com/5ARc4SC.png

wow nice!

Musical chairs

Getting back into chess after a break of about 20 years has been one of the few positives from the current situation for me

Anyone on chess.com up for a game?

enjoying following pogchamps

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.

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

whats the ongoing chess elitism drama

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

Man why would you not rather watch scrubs, more educational for most surely.

potted summary here
https://youtu.be/XOMACDhVv_U?t=341

xQc is an interesting character.

Anyone on chess.com up for a game?

SameGelato

Hmu

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

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

the age of the virus is the perfect time for chess

True