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

Damn bro

Member since 28-Jan-2018

Time spent playing: 18 days, 21 hours and 30 minutes

eek

just noticed this oddity

https://i.imgur.com/ydSavu2.png

LOWEST RATING: 1018
Jan 30, 2018, 8:50 PM

I'm liking the Smith-Morra Gambit opening for white at the moment. It gets you some quick attacking opportunities and you can beat weaker opponents pretty quickly imo.

Playing everyday, one game going all the time. Slowly getting better

i was getting bored playing the roy lopez so often so i started playing the london system and they've generally turned into really exciting games w/ lots of possible sacrifices and sharp positions - i highly recommend if you're looking for something new as white

“Game drawn by insufficient material”

such sweet words!

i didn't know there was a chess thread at ilm.

my fave opening to get some nice open positions with attacking potential is the king's gambit. especially from's gambit with tactical chances on both sides is a treat.

with black i like to play french after e2-e4 or the wolga gambit when d2-d4 is the first move. that is more of a positional gambit that pays off in the long term.

ile not ilm, of course.

Playin' the Italian game

https://www.dailydot.com/wp-content/uploads/364/04/c816f6bf7ea8b526652487e3479943cc.jpg

I need to learn my openings :( I know first two moves and that's it, none of these terms

Also my late-game is garbage

I’m kind of stumbling into learning the openings just by playing a lot. I knew the IG position had to have a name and the chess.com interface told me, pretty convenient.

feel like u learn openings just by playing them over and over and fucking up, i mean u cn watch videos/read but thats secondary to getting the reps

think the end game is a lot abt calculation and some principles like infiltration and active pieces, putting yr king in the middle of the board, bishops being better than knights especially when the game is being played on both sides of the board

but yeah calculation so often games are won by a king being one square closer to something than the other king

also knowing when yr position is favorable to entering the end game which is often p tricky

got bored decided to try to attack more is more fun am worse at chess but feel like itll make me better in the long run

Couldn’t agree more. Have to remind myself to have fun while playing (or else why play) and sometimes that means willfully exploring interesting positions

getting some cool checkmates also getting cool checkmated

have any of you had any luck joining real-world chess clubs or anything like that? i enjoy playing online but sometimes i miss playing w/ the actual board and pieces. also feel like i need more reasons to leave the house besides work.

I played at a volunteer event at a local junior high school, it was great. And the real board and pieces threw my off my game completely, ended up getting bested at least twice. I might join a local club but I have so little time. Another idea I had was to have one of the local bars promote a chess night but haven’t done this yet

joining a club seems fun, i live in the middle of nowhere but maybe if i move back to the big city

i have played in clubs in my teens in the 70s and later on i founded a club in the 90s. i stopped playing "serious" games in clubs after my youth as it took too much time and i didn't have fun anymore playing those long games for hours and hours. when we founded the club in luxembourg for a while we played in pubs and brought our own games and clocks. we played either blitz or 30 min per game per player games. i loved it. for a year or so i played with a member of the scottish olympic team and lost almost every game. one reason being that i always played king's gambit with white which makes very open games with attacking chances on both sides. i haven't played chess for almost 20 years. what i also loved about our little club, we drank and played. we just played for the company and not to win. it was great.

welp i tried playing e4 for a couple months and it didnt go so good, now im back on my queens gambit bullshit

i am kinda fascinated by chess lately, even though i really dont know much more than how to move the pieces.

anyway i'm on lichess @grbchv -- nb i am truly awful

I started playing a lot more when I found out lichess has a phone app

do puzzles (lichess has infinite of them) its the only way to get better, in my experience its the only way to play up to your current ability xp

feel like i play better on the computer than the app tho im not positive thats actually true

tbh i really like the puzzles, esp when time-limited or w/e

Current rating is 1027 but still every day. Playing a 1100 rated from South Korea at the moment with a my little pony avatar

Pinning is my business...and business is good

pins are so crucial

was bossing stockfish and feeling p proud of myself and then blundered into history's most embarrassing mate u_u

@MagnusCarlsen Is the highest rated chessplayer in the world, out of 360.00.

In FPL, fantasy football, he is ranked 20 out of 7.000.000

Ridiculous from a statistical point of view. pic.twitter.com/0wlXEyWVAt

— Peter Heine Nielsen (@PHChess) November 10, 2019

good at games

This my little pony fan from s Kor has another thing comin

chessed out
for a couple of days now
if it's daylight
together we might

was bossing stockfish and feeling p proud of myself and then blundered into history's most embarrassing mate u_u

― gbx, Monday, November 11, 2019 9:03 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

the computer is so boring play against ppl imo

Hell yeah

i have never rage quit a game i always resign i am the chess nice boy

its honestly so rude to make some one wait there for the clock to time out

agree, this higher rated hooligan made an obvious blunder three moves in and then just abandoned the game. Have to expect it though

its happens all the time these people are just living their lives like this

Living their worst lives

ppl who trash talk i will never understand it

its pretty goofy

I’ve worked my way up from “barely remember how the pieces move” to “pretty consistently beating the computer on level 3 at chess.com.” I downloaded lichess because - unlimited puzzles! - but it’s a whole new ball of wax... stockfish lvl 1 takes me in under 25 moves nearly every time. And the solutions to some of the puzzles are... mystifying?