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

the cool thing about chess is you can stay frustrated and feeling like you suck at it no matter how good you get

i saw a super gm leave his queen just straight up hanging on a livestream once lol

Lagoon is right the better you get the worse you realize you are (just like gaining skills in any other field) happy thanksgiving all!

chess is so weird some days u can see the combos and others u cant

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 27, 2019 12:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

you wont even really understand why youre good or bad!

its really is the best game (except for maybe poker)

hey I won one

nice

Both of these albums are garbage

I'd completely forgotten about this thread and the fact that I wasted so much of 2005 playing internet chess against long-since-vanished ILXors.

is it ok if i dump chess videos i like here also if u guys can post some i always need more to watch i'm getting tired of eric rosen (he's great tho)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg4X8983_5Q

plz feel free

white (me) to move find the sick combo

https://i.imgur.com/M9CEGbe.png

Nf5 forking the king + rook, g6xf5, Ne6 forking the K+Q?

g6xf5 isn't necessary black can just lose the rook and not the queen but you did say sick so i'm guessing ^ is what actually happened

i did get the queen theyre both good tho, also i set it up w ne3 sacking my c pawn, was a proud moment

I played twice irl with my friend yesterday and won both games, p cool. I need to switch to 10+0 from 5+3 online I think if I’m going to learn anything, in blitz I never have time for an endgame.

this game is legitimately beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF9vPPwPWAE

abstract positions

Played irl with my dad and won, pleased w myself

I like chess now

just my imo but anyone with a game completion rate under 98% should be banned

game firouzja played today against artemiev is insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YfobLZNLAw

So here’s why chess is a good game:
Queen on her color is an interesting asymmetry
Knights
You are always on the precipice of disaster

chess boards engraved on park tables are always cool

Is there a greater pleasure than flagging your opponent in a completely lost game

that's what drove me nuts in my so called chess career. spending my time in trying to win a won position. waiting for the opponent to resign and then fucking it all up myself. i felt that it wasn't fair when people play until they are mated. as if they have no dignity. i gave up on playing chess regularly when i was about 16.

thats funny i was just thinking how i respect ppl who play to the bitter end

(i almost never do)

unless youre some high level player u will pick up some of those lost games def, its also im sure good for yr development play those positions

Ppl should definitely make me win my won positions bc I don’t really know how to win a lot of the time.

not gonna name any names but someone itt was spying on me

😬

lol

I’ve had rough patches but I gotta keep playing, been daily for a minute now

ive havent been playing as much since i got zelda, rating taking a bit of a hit

I’ve decided that the knight is the best piece because it can jump over other pieces. No other pieces can do that!

the knight is very unique

Working on the knight moves

Tryin to make some front page chess.com news

Hehe

tfw your aggression compounds and isn’t being countered adequately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1SCXb2WA2U&t=898s

i have been neglecting my long time form games to play exclusively 1m bullet chess for about a month and just hit 1400 in it. it's definitely enough of its own thing that you can't just carry over yr abilities in long form to it. i started playing bc i was having time management problems and i thought about bullet like warming up with two bats that it would be a luxury to play longer formats after that. but it's so addictive. games are over so quickly so you can get a game in whenever, and it's fun!

I've been playing 10+0 and slowly dragging my rating out of the absolute toilet over the last month or so, I seem to be actually learning, which is spectacular. Currently 1077 for rapid on lichess, up from a low of 930.

Whenever I try 5+3 blitz again I just lose though!

Took a week off but I’m back in black

like i mentioned i've barely been playing longer formats in lieu of bullet games (and watching lots of youtube chess) and i got nervous that it would hurt my long format rating when i finally got back to it but i played 3 games today and yesterday and won them all including beating the highest rated person i've ever beaten (a 1709). so close to breaking 1700 now in Blitz. why am i sharing this? first bc i'm now convinced that playing bullet really does help yr longer time format game, and second bc i'm also now convinced that watching lots of chess makes you better even if you're not consistently every day playing 10m games (or longer). nb that i do intend to get back into longer games.

this game was fun! Stockfish charges me with two blunders but I am proud of how well I exploited black's poor development and of this big oopsie they made https://lichess.org/BHdmRMP5/white#24

The king’s gambit is my sh1t right now

gotta be one of my better attacks https://lichess.org/hVnLEha8Li8p