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

ive exclusively played 5+3 so far, shd start playing longer im sure itd help my game overall

suc a commitment tho lol

that's what i've heard - that you get much more out of playing longer formats. but it's just so nice to play in these 10 min bursts and not have to worry about games dragging on.

yeah u cn play so many games too

I guess reps don’t help so much in chess lol

welp just tried a 10+0 and beat a 1620

he did miss me leaving my queen hanging tho

ive played 3 10+0 games and am rated 1675 there, abt to get repeatedly owned lol

lol yeah when i first started playing 10m my score was ridiculously high for 3-4 games and then it came down to earth

amazing to beat a 1675 tho and sounds like an uncharacteristic mistake at that level of play

oh nm i misread

a 1620

today, a new apex 1365 (lichess 5+3)

1374 actually!

Pathetisad 1017 atm

i will pray 4 u

I pray so much I need knee pads

my blitz ratings on all the chess sites:

Chess.com: 1156
Lichess: 1355

My aim is to be world champion by 2020.

same, i will see u in the candidates tournament

thats quite a spread between the two sites btw whats goin on there

lichess ratings tend to be higher than Chess.com for some reason. Something to do with a different pool of players.

i was curious abt that a lil while ago and read some online threads on the topic and there didnt seem to be any real consensus as to which site is harder

lol youre not even allowed to talk about it on the chess.com forums

david #9 Oct 6, 2017
Mentions are okay if it's about a game you played there recently or something like that. Any comparisons, however, are not okay, and unfortunately asking how ratings there compare to ratings here is included in that. Chess.com policy is that any such comparison is not allowed in our own forums - it's a matter of it leading to claims and counter claims and arguments that are essentially irreconcilable, much like politics or religion.

I am now locking this thread.

Thanks,

David, moderator

or maybe there is idk https://www.quora.com/How-inflated-are-the-online-chess-ratings-offered-by-lichess-org

anyway theres no way im playing on a site that gives me fewer points

lol maybe I should switch

the first rule of chess.com is don't talk about lichess

the second rule of chess.com is that the horseys jump in an L-shape

the opposite of feeling terrible bc you lost on time when you had pieces up is winning with only 13 seconds left on the clock when your opponent has 5 min left but he blundered a bunch of pieces away bc he was trying to force a win on time

cracks me up when someone starts losing and then they wait til there's almost no time left on the clock for every single move in order to drag it out

mating someone when youre almost out of time is a godly rush

decided i need to start playing longer games in order to get good at chess, tried my first 15+15, finished with 16:52 on the clock lol

(won)

damn actually played a good game

3 Inaccuracies
0 Mistakes
0 Blunders
19 Average centipawn loss

hopefully i can find a way to chill and notice if im making "holes" and "weaknesses"

won again with 19:17 left this time, feel like the longer games might be softer than blitz on lichess i just mopped up a 1620, seems like the players minds are just moving slower rather than taking the time to make better moves, tho in this game i thought i had my opponent trapped and he managed to dig his way out after a long think, maybe training yrself to think fast in blitz then taking time to think in longer time controls is the way to go, just have to have enough discipline to actually take the time to think lol

maybe doing jerry style thinking out loud wld help, have some stock questions u ask yrself and so forth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqf6lFXzFDI

5 Inaccuracies
5 Mistakes
1 Blunders
58 Average centipawn loss

almost gave that game away a couple times when i was up, def cldve thought longer

https://i.imgur.com/qfF4AvV.png

i get annoyed when ppl let the clock run down instead of resigning but then i think about them closing a tab in anger and its funny

I’ve rage uninstalled the chess app on my phone more times than I’d like to admit

love to trade a minor piece for two pawns totally destroying an opponents defense

double up those pawns bro

roguelike chess:

https://jonathanlessard.net/chogue/

Sacrificing for position is my m o

a successful sacrifice feels so good

Chogue is awesome. The sound of a piece sliding somewhere in the dark!

friends ive done it, im a grandmaster now

https://i.imgur.com/efYyy2Q.png

Well done

thanking u :)

the sicilian is good cause there are so many way to own the hell out of yrself