F puzzles and positions, just play
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Monday, 18 November 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
puzzles are actually the only way to improve sad but true
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
how do you guys deal w/ openings? like getting better at them? i always feel like i'm just kinda playing random moves at first, obv there are like a billion different openings you can memorize but that seems pretty overwhelming.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 18 November 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
i studied a few openings for white + black (more for black since it's more reactionary) and try to review them regularly. chessable.com is good for that as are videos + books.
if you really want to get better prioritize longer time format games since calculating in game (and then reviewing your game afterwards) will make you better. i am v guilty of not doing this enough it's much more pleasurable to play a bunch of shorter time format games (my preference is 10m but shorter w/ an increment can be good too) but like 15m+10s format or just 30m are excellent for getting better.
― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:39 (four years ago) link
i just played the same opening and couple of defenses every time til i got familiar w their ins and out
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:41 (four years ago) link
i tried playing longer time formats and im so habituated to moving fast that i cldnt help myself lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
i saw someone maybe john bartholomew say that shorter time formats basically just challenge yr habitual knowledge - you play about as well as you currently are when you play them - but you need the longer formats to develop new ways of thinking/seeing the board
― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
iirc
yeah i mean it for sure makes sense
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link
weirdly at least on lichess it seems like the longer formats are a lot softer tho, diff prob smaller pool of players i guess
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2019 03:47 (four years ago) link
just ended an 8 match losing streak with a win. guess who's back babee.
― Graham Kendrick Lamar (cajunsunday), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
hell yeah
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RetIukw56T0
― Mordy, Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
lagoon do you ever play bullet? i find it extremely difficult but one thing i struggle w/ in shorter time constraints is that i'll get ahead for most of the game but then run low on time and end up blundering or flagging. so i'm hoping bullet will be like when you're on deck and you swing a few bats so that when you swing one bat at the plate it is much lighter -- that after bullet 10m will feel like a luxury.
― Mordy, Friday, 22 November 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
i finally reached > 1600 in blitz on chess.com :D
this was my goal after i started getting into chess in late 2016 when i was ranked ~1000. i feel v accomplished!
― Mordy, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
i was close (at 1543) back in June but then had a huge points drop (down to a low of 1296!?!) before bouncing back. during that time i retooled my openings (i stopped playing the roy lopez primarily and switched over to london variations for white, added nimzo-switch for d4 openings), played a lot more tactics (actually got my tactics rating above 2000) and started playing bullet which i really think did help.
― Mordy, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
― Mordy, Friday, November 22, 2019 2:16 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
nice!
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 03:56 (four years ago) link
i do not ever play bullet is too fast
just did a checkmate w 0.9 seconds on me clock :]
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 06:55 (four years ago) link
chess is so weird some days u can see the combos and others u cant
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
Crosby and Nash face offAnyone care to analyze the position? https://i.imgur.com/ay1ahTp.jpg
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
my blitz rating is a provisional 648, I'm not even a little bit good at chess
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 28 November 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
tried playing a 15+15 ended up offering a draw in a game which the computer later said i was +2, i had 17min left on my clock lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
now its saying +.9 idk man
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
alright i won one w ~15mins left, think i mightve been playing against another blitz player tho he had 18 lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
no one is born good at chess evan!
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
i think maybe short formats makes u more of a positional player
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
I’m disgruntled by everything I’m not immediately good at with no effort >:(
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
i bet if u play 10 games youll improve
played another 15+15, those games are def soft on lichess, similarly rated players play worse despite having way more time
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
i almost offered a draw at the beginning of a game i crushed cause i was a closed position and i didnt know if i cld stand a half an hour of this shit lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, November 28, 2019 2:31 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
ill even give u a lil tip, if youre going to castle king side dont move the f pawn, the f stands for dont fucking touch it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
the most basic chess advice i guess is to get all yr pieces out and yr kings castled (aka developed, when your rooks have nothing between them [aka connected]) as quickly as possible with as few pawn moves as possible, dont move any piece more than once if you can help it until youre developed
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
the second most basic piece of advice is to not leave pieces unprotected (aka guarded by other pieces or pawns), and likewise to target your opponents unprotected pieces
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
the third most basic piece of advice is to keep yr pawns chained together
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
if u do those things u cn prob get up to ~1000 pretty easy
(if u play a lot of games)
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
also the middle of the board is the best part try to capture it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
an example of a position where both sides are fully developed
https://www.payetteforward.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/realistic-fantasy-1083x1080.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
its also totally symmetrical for some reason
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
here white is developed but black is not
https://i.imgur.com/RhK3QbK.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
tho some wld prob argue that black is effectively developed there
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
lagoon thank u for this tutorial
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
enjoy yr march to GM
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
Crosby and Nash face offAnyone care to analyze the position?
https://i.imgur.com/ay1ahTp.jpg
― calstars, Wednesday, November 27, 2019 2:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
https://i.imgur.com/4cHhEuo.png
not sure whos turn to move it is but based on the body language looks like nash, if so hes in position to take the c pawn and equalize material, crosbys position is better considering the two advanced pawns but its a close game
if its crosbys turn hes up a pawn and has a better position so is clearly ahead, still playable for nash but crosby shd be able to convert
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
p boring position tbqh
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
anyway happy thanksgiving chess club gonna go honor the fallen pilgrims now
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
considering the game is being played on both sides of the board nashs bishop is prob a lil more valuable than crosbys knight...
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
I did better! The computer sez I lost a forced checkmate sequence uwu https://lichess.org/RciiZoIr/white
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link