anyone play chess on redhotpawn.com these days?
― STINKING CORPSE (cozwn), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't in ages, but would if you wanted to.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
hi dere waht is it made? (kenjuggle)
― ILX Systern (ken c), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone on chessworld.net?
― nultybutnice (whatever), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
my ass could be pwned hard there _ I at chess suck
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
ive started playing chess, on lichess, a good site
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link
went from ~1100 to 1290 to 1150 to currently 1266 in the last few day im streaky man, been playing online for a couple weeks, never really tried to play chess before but i got hooked on these youtubes a couple months ago then started fucking around v the computer on an app but now online is so much better im kinda obsessed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxVr7nN7EzQ
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link
playing 5+3 blitz p cool
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link
Is it better to learn chess by actually learning or just start playing blitz online and do it over and over until things start to make sense
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 15 February 2018 05:24 (six years ago) link
the general consensus seems to be some mixture of study play and puzzles, ive def played way more than the other two and my study consists of watching youtube videos and am not very good lol, i aspire to learn some openings some day
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
lichess has a cool feature where after your game is over you can review the game with the computer telling you all about the best moves that you shdve done def a good learning practice especially if you had a spot that blew up in yr face, i messed mate in two then got owned the other day i was kinda steaming tbh
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9Umm8ga.png
brutal
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
it actually wldve been pretty even if they made the right moves but if they didnt and i did, man lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
have been moderately obsessed with chess for a couple of years now
it is obviously a colossal waste of time and mental energy but it's fun
w/e i kind of want to give it up
if N takes N there, what is the refutation of Q retakes N?
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
youd just have to take the d5 pawn i think
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
fwiw i dont think its a waste of time its fun and also good for your mental acuity
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
then I sac my shitty bishop on B7 and pick up your other knight a move later. or do you not take the bishop?
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
'a move later' I mean it's the same move so not a sac at all rly
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
Nxf6 Qxf6 Qxd5 Bb7
then maybe
Qxb7 Qxg5
or??
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
engine says yr white sq bishop to f5 then i take w my white bishop then queen takes knight bishop to e4 then trade queens and im up three pawns
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
after the madness
https://i.imgur.com/gg6x6mH.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
just noticed you're two sodding pains up, you push d5 stick a rook behind it and I probably resign xp
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
def time to "push the pawns"
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
well I have played Bb7 in the game so you'd have to deal with that lol (by exchanging N for B and pushing d5 obv :( )
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
gonna think of an insane Tal-esque tactic to disrupt your inexorable March to glory
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
just tried the Bb7 line with the engine and it kept the queens on the board with all else being pretty similar, which u wld think with my pawn advantage wld be preferable for you but the engine doesnt see it that way idk why
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
maybe it was just one of the other positions along the way had a better chance of tripping me up but didnt because i was actually the engine playing itself
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
Oh shit
After bishop sac on b7 then I leap in with Qxf2+!
WHAT NOW
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
I mean what now after Kh1 obv
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
obv Qxc2 asking to be played but Qxg3 has some kind of hard-to-describe appeal
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
if Qxc2 then Ne6 is crushing
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
(not using an engine BTW) ;)
if Qxg3 then your crushing Ne6 gives me a perpetual check and a draw, suckerrr
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
theres a rook sitting on f1 u lunatic
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
oh I set up the position wrong, ban me lol
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
had the rook on e1
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
ha
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
thought this was a cool lecture cause it kinda gives a glimpse into high level training broken down for ordinary ppl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tySL8qEVwhU
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
also the instructor is a charmer
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
nice
I watch all the usual accounts - finegold and the chess network along with everyone's favourite eastern european youtubers but that looks like a nice technical one
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
yeah i just discovered that dude and i think hes really good
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
btw that is a completely won position for white and I can't do anything except harass your queen with my rooks and hope you blunder a pawn or two
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
i knowww which was why i was upset i blundered it away
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
lol do you watch many of the st louis chess club videos there this kid whos always in the audience whos kind of infamous with the instructors they all know his name and chuckle when ever they talk to him and sometimes good naturally rib him cause he cant keep still and quiet, he has some sort of arabic sounding name i cant remember, the whole scene is a pretty good running joke
o wait right his name is arjun lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
guess thats hindi not arabic
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
amazingly I just finished teaching a kid called Arjun myself!
I know of the onrunning joke but thought it was just a Finegold thing - are they all in on it lol
― imago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
My favourite streamer is John Bartholomew. I highly recommend his Chess Fundamentals series.
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 15 February 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
― imago, Thursday, February 15, 2018 1:27 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha yeah ive seen at least three of them address arjun by name
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
sweet will check him out xp
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 February 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link