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

yeah its lame kasparov has such a good reputation when hes a huge idiot baby whos been trying to start a war between the us and russia for the last decade+ and believes jesus was born in crimea in 1152, on the other hand he is maybe the best chess player ever, but still

"maybe the best chess player ever" -- the first and biggest red flag imo

second best: bobby fischer 🙄

normal guys

chess.com says hans cheated over 100 times on their site https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-cheating-hans-niemann-report-magnus-carlsen-11664911524

yeah but chess.com says all kinds of shit

I was depressed yesterday so I put on some Tim Buckley and poked around the slides. A lot of the analysis is suspect but I think the conclusion is the same if the analysis was sound: Hans cheated frequently and cheated during tournaments.

yeah seems pretty clear hans is a cheating ass

wonder what fides gonna do, i dont think they have a policy for cheating thats not at the tourneys they run, and it could be harder for them to find evidence of cheating in their tourneys since they have so many fewer games to look at, they might just say fuck him anyway tho idk

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/adafruits-cheekmate-gets-to-the-bottom-ahem-of-chess-cheating-controversy/

Imagine if hans shoved something like this up his ass…for what?

A game in the US championship just ended in 10 moves. I know the feeling lol. https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/us-championship-2022/7/1/6

It's quite late so I am probably being dumb but does black really need to resign there? Fairly sure he's going to lose a piece no matter what but bit early to throw in the proverbial towel

i've just started playing for the first time since I was a kid. way better at it now but still making dumb mistakes.

high level game if you lose a piece with no positional compensation its over xp

heh, love to play bullet chess

https://i.imgur.com/xXo65XP.png

On move 55 of this game fuck this shit

bullet solves this

Whenever en passant presents itself it’s imperative that you execute
Coolest move in the game

I love the feeling of playing lower ranks and just feeling like a god

https://i.imgur.com/96e6lg4.png

Pretty knights all in a row

https://i.imgur.com/6OQaxn1.png
Damn this felt good

POGGERZ

https://i.imgur.com/Ra4m1ho.png

Checking from a castle is such sweet honey

https://i.imgur.com/gS62XzX.png

I love gettin suckas on the ropes early

this game is seriously annoying: https://www.funnyhowtheknightmoves.com/

thought the bump would be for some juicy tata steel chat, but let's see

AAAAAAARGH

okay, bottom right is where the magic happens

I've been enjoying Tata Steel a lot - first time I've followed a chess tournie for a while. Carlsen lost 2 games in a row but seems to be back on form now.

In other news this was an interesting game from John Bartholomew - also the opponent's comments made be lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VQu33G-_ls

we've all seen the Szabo game by now right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mnnzdi6jRA

crazy stuff

Stop tweeting, you're fighting for your fucking life https://t.co/fY76VmUrql pic.twitter.com/Ts6HeqHXHS

— PROFESSIONAL_DRAFT_DODGER (@PunishedGenetic) March 9, 2023

lol

Incredible game, constantly shocked

noticed chess trending in the manosphere think it traces back to andrew tate figured he was just using it as a prop but it turns out he can play a little cause he learned from his father was an im https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_Tate

this defense the computer digs up is real wild stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3BrPZKMkAg

Taking sides : playing stoned and drunk vs playing not stoned and drunk

magnus played texas holdem on a live stream last night. pretty fun watching him sweat!

its so funny that he resigned the world chess championship and is playing poker instead, he made the final table of wpt tourney a while ago iirc, also hes really good at fantasy soccer, magnus carlson good at games

he’d be so insanely good at poker if he studied, actually might not be fair

Magnus seems pretty funny, hopefully he doesn’t say some sort of Nordic Racial Oopsie on television

always a risk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbh0d7WXxB8

just watching a few hands he likes to get in there and play some hands you love to see it

botez is chess too right

Saw the 7-2 cooler earlier

Ding is back. Exciting

et encore!

this is such fun

i retract

nothing has gone from being fun to being the least fun thing ever so quickly