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

anyone play chess on redhotpawn.com these days?

I haven't in ages, but would if you wanted to.

hi dere waht is it made? (kenjuggle)

anyone on chessworld.net?

my ass could be pwned hard there _ I at chess suck

ive started playing chess, on lichess, a good site

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

playing 5+3 blitz p cool

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

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

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

https://i.imgur.com/9Umm8ga.png

brutal

it actually wldve been pretty even if they made the right moves but if they didnt and i did, man lol

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?

youd just have to take the d5 pawn i think

fwiw i dont think its a waste of time its fun and also good for your mental acuity

then I sac my shitty bishop on B7 and pick up your other knight a move later. or do you not take the bishop?

'a move later' I mean it's the same move so not a sac at all rly

Nxf6 Qxf6
Qxd5 Bb7

then maybe

Qxb7 Qxg5

or??

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

after the madness

https://i.imgur.com/gg6x6mH.png

just noticed you're two sodding pains up, you push d5 stick a rook behind it and I probably resign xp

def time to "push the pawns"

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 :( )

gonna think of an insane Tal-esque tactic to disrupt your inexorable March to glory

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

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

Oh shit

After bishop sac on b7 then I leap in with Qxf2+!

WHAT NOW

I mean what now after Kh1 obv

obv Qxc2 asking to be played but Qxg3 has some kind of hard-to-describe appeal

if Qxc2 then Ne6 is crushing

(not using an engine BTW) ;)

if Qxg3 then your crushing Ne6 gives me a perpetual check and a draw, suckerrr

theres a rook sitting on f1 u lunatic

oh I set up the position wrong, ban me lol

had the rook on e1

ha

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

also the instructor is a charmer

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