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

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

Currently even with what appears to be a 12 yo chess genius by the look of his avatar

...whom i subsequently vanquished lol

on a run of getting my opponents to time out with confounding play in lost games

dirty flagger

rude

been enjoying the magnus / hikaru impactchess final - clear that there's no love lost between these two. magnus looks tired though

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1387603

defending an all out attack well is pretty satisfying

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

https://i.imgur.com/VQ41z2q.png

finally got busted with a perpetual

https://i.imgur.com/XnlJ09T.png

ive gotten too good at chess im afraid to play now

https://i.imgur.com/6QjE7DF.png

h8 when ppl wont let me take back a misclick

Its all kicking off in the chess world!! Petrosian was accused of cheating in the final of the Pro Chess League. Here was Petrosian's response to those allegations.

https://perlenvombodensee.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/pipi-petrosyan-1.png

who accused him

Wesley So accused him because in the video you can see him looking down during critical positions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4Rs9-rZNI

How's your chess going lagoon? I mostly do puzzles/tactics at the moment - barely playing any blitz.

I have stopped playing after not progressing to an expected extent after two years made evident by being being soundly defeated by a local high school

good still playing pretty much every day tho prob fewer games than before, been hovering around 1700 (lichess 5+3) recently xp

i believe wesley so, wesley is so nice, that other guy who stole tigran petrosians name is obvs a fucker

four knights endgames are kinda wild

wesley so won a thing yesterday, adding substance to his niceness

congrats to wesley who is so nice

carlsen playing bad in blitz is weird mind, but i guess blitz is blitz

obvious fork just sitting there for three moves with neither me nor my opponent noticing it, at what level do chess players become competent enough to calculate one move ahead lol

Took a half year off , now time to get back into this shit

get it

is there a way to play this game without fretting excessively about every move, having it take up all your waking hours and threaten your mental health?

(that was my experience a couple of years ago, then I quit)

lol...not really imho. That was the reason I had to take a break from it

gotta be willing to lose, competition is interesting finding the right balance between caring enough about winning and not caring so much that you cant brush yrself off and try again --the sports psychologist

one thing that imo can make losing at chess more fun is if youre down material and have no positional advantage, a lost game more or less, just do some super aggressive shit sacrifice a piece launch a pawn storm etc, sometimes youll get a cool win but mostly its just good practice for attacking seeing lines and so forth

its funny with chess being matched to similarly skilled players no matter how much you improve youre still gonna lose half the time

yeah it's all about being more **zen**, i've never played sports and all my other hobbies are non competitive so i wonder if i just haven't had enough practice at that. also the gamification (when playing through an app) doesn't help, each loss doesn't stand on its own but chips away at your precious rating.

just do some super aggressive shit sacrifice a piece launch a pawn storm etc

will try that if i ever go back.