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

Right on, thank you.

I read Fischer's and Kasparov's books years ago. Not surprisingly, they took radically different approaches. I did learn from them, but I haven't played in years. A friend of mine and I just started playing online.

playing online is good cause you can always get a game and it will match you with similarly skilled players, and you can analyze yr games after with and engine, use other stats/tools etc

I went to a chess tournament years ago, my buddy was upset that he lost to a blind guy.

that is pretty wild

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/chinese-chess-champion-stripped-of-title-after-defecating-in-hotel-bathtub

https://i.imgur.com/ZNN0EP3.png

Thankfully this graphic doesn’t reveal how bad I am at this stupid game

i played 7000 some odd games this year lol

Welp

That’s uhh, 18 per day?

i do play 2+1 fwiw

Damn here I was thinking my 916 was a bit much! I do split my time between chess and lichess tho

bout an hour of chess a day, the cool thing about playing bullet is if you work on the computer you can just take a lil break and play a couple games no prob

prob not gonna play yr best under those circumstances but hey who cares you know, i def play best with a longer block of time and at night for some reason

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

Endless endgame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ouOyAPIQs

"when I watch this game I imagine Rashid Nezhmetdinov watching the game and saying "nice"".

Love this one

nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Bb_TyhC1A

some light viewing here

Just reached 1400 blitz and am feeling ready to take on magnum, ding, and the ghost of bobby Fischer all at once, blindfolded.

Literally unstoppable right now, don't even talk to me 😤

Was sitting high 1300's went 2-13 to get myself down to a nice 1200's figure again, then the next day pull a 14-15 streak to get a new top rating. My brain literally just chooses each day whether it can play chess or not. Streaky as hell

nice re the pb, feel like spend most of yr time in about 100pt range is pretty normal with occasional visits to above or below, and of course the midpoint is subject to change too

tho the other day i looked at this guys graph cause he was higher rated than me but id beat him seven out of seven, and his swings were all over the place veering wildly two three hundred points, maybe he drinks idk

I get caught chasing the rabbit after a loss. The next game is all about making up for the previous one, so I'm not completely focussed. It then snowballs until I finally give up and give my brain a refresh. Thankfully I am not a gambler, I would have all my money sucked dry in a day

I think 200-300 swings maybe more common the lower the rating, definitely rarer when swinging that much within a the 4-digit rating range

the big swing guy was at like 1750 iirc

sometimes people resign when you do a cool move on them even if its not that big of an advantage theyre just like oh no i gotta get outta here

yes hello

Gotta love a bluff win

thats why one should keep playing, also its good practice

I think I've practiced losing enough

(But yes obviously you fight to the bitter end)

or at least until the position simplifies

a big comeback is fun too

https://i.imgur.com/kbXShZ0.jpeg

Liam Gallagher commentary after move 67: “this game is gonna live forevah…”

Lost

the fools havent moved

https://i.imgur.com/q22iAt7.png

Thinking about bringing a board to the bar and setting it up on a table outside … who wants to send me some crypto backing $$$

ive done it again friends

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

That is massive

feels good

nice

17 year old playing for the world championship, wild stuff

while ago i looked around for some explanation of whats going on in india to suddenly produce all these great young players but didnt find anything, assume they have some sort of program thats just killing it, maybe anand is behind it all idk, anyway kudos to them

Chess is basically wait til the other guy fuvks up

I’m trying to make it to 800. Such a loser

I have to accept that my rating will always suffer from the fact that I love to play when I drink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy1s1Q3knZA

from https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/08/in-world-first-russian-chess-player-poisons-rivals-board-with-mercury/

Tonya Harding vibes

i swear this was an actual episode of Poirot or something

Back above 800! I’m a loser baby