Chess - classic or dud?

ledge no problem dude, maybe in the future

Aargh, I timed out on our 24h game when I was driving to Canada all day. Might accept your challenge or start another on the weekend. (Today is another travel day.)

dud

I'm up for a 24h game - cajunsunday. I'll add you lot on chess.com.

I've watched a few John Bartholomew videos and now I'm ready to take the world on.

If anyone's on Chess With Friends though hit me up - vastly prefer that interface.

meanwhile in the geopolitics of games that matter:

No website, without exception, may carry a live stream of the go match between Ke Jie and AlphaGo https://t.co/zy6q5RFmHt

— Ministry of Truth (@Mini_Truth) May 23, 2017

OK, I have wifi on the train so challenge accepted.

After awhile I just like to go on the offensive. Much fun

Crap, timed out on another game. Sorry, cajunsunday. (You would have probably won anyway.)

Cajun beat me

Ah I didn't know that was you Sund4r. Good game! Sorry you timed out.

Up +7 vs this 900 level schlub but he insists on playing it out

https://www.chess.com/news/view/death-match-returns-to-settle-internet-feud-2173

this is the event of the decade

Transforming a chess match into some wrestling type death match with foul language and "rivalry" to "entertain" people sounds like the worst thing ever. Give me Fischer vs Spassky any day of the week.

you don't watch their videos clearly :P

Correct. Merely read the rumbling announcement and saw the "explicit content" image. I'm old fashioned when it comes to chess. Got a video link for me to see why I should bother with these jackasses? :-)

My ranking on chess.com has fallen precipitously to a shameful 1000

This girl from NYC schooled me via same side knight advance in 3 moves to target king or queen, covered by same side bishop in one move. Fuckin deadly

I tend to avoid chess nowadays because it makes me feel so fucking dumb :( My rating went down to 950 over the years. It's not dumbness per se, rather that I do not play enough. That and alcohol probably.

Not making any excuses but I've learned the hard way that while I love to play while drinking, it's a bad idea if you care about your ranking

Yeah. Thing is I played chess best during my uni days, playing in the cafetaria, on the steps or in town, cafes. Drink was always there. The two have become intertwined.

i did some informal testing and my rating was a full 100-200 points lower when playing baked

I'm at around 1000 now, which is good for me.

tfw when you're up against someone worse than you

I was up 21 against this one dude and he insisted on playing it out...

I've been trying to play in a more conservative, defensive way, but it just doesn't suit me

Anyone tried 4 player chess on Chess.com? Looks pretty fun. Here's a video of Tal Baron playing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSH0kWcxqL0

Haven't tried

I always play with a 1day timer but I tried a real-time (5 min) game last week and just got destroyed.

5 min is insanely hard. 10 min is still very challenging but at least actually manageable and I can still run out of time

I play a lot of 10-minute. It may have helped my long game but probably not much, judging by the errors I still make

Also, while four-player chess is very interesting to me, who the hell crowdfunds a crushed laptop lol

watching finegold vs williams rn, simon's letting his country down something rotten

tfw your opponent's ranking increases by 100 + points during the course of your game

Rating now at 1001
I play every day but it’s still apparently amateur hour over here

Classic!

I had the most frustrating game yesterday. Did really well to get up a piece and a pawn, but then managed to blunder two pieces as I was trying to finish him off, and then lost pretty quickly.

Those days I’m framing my games like I’m just waiting for a weakness in my opponent and then exploiting it. Waiting for the other guy to fuck up...a column of pawns, an unprotected piece..

tfw when you come back from an early deficit (my opening game is awful) to be a real contender, +10

+15

Mated that shit

Back to 1000
Proud = me

Nice! Well done. I'm trying to get my Blitz score back over 1000.

What strategy do you go for in the opening btw? Whenever I start trying a new opening my rating ends up dropping about 100.

scandi black, v conventional king's pawn white

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-novice-challenged-magnus-carlsen-1510866214

not sure where else to post this, but this guy is pretty fascinating

thx for sharing

“I hope you at least keep an interest in the game, because it’s very interesting,” Magnus said. “I wish I could learn it new.”

<3

Thanks Cajun

To answer - no set strategy
I’ve visited a page with the classic openings
Didn’t do much for me. Seemed kind of obvious?
Oh well, I’m happy to not read music , it’s not about that

I'm on fire today. Got my highest blitz rating (1116).

my opening game is just knights for days