Anyone on chess.com up for a game?
― paolo, Monday, 8 June 2020 06:34 (three years ago) link
enjoying following pogchamps
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
I asked Hikaru a couple weeks back if he was worried about the edge his tournament opponents can gain by analyzing all his streamed chess content. He said that he maintains a completely separate set of openings for stream so that OTB opponents can't do that. Wild and impressive.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
I'm team hikaru, if we're picking sides in the ongoing chess eltism 'drama'. finegold is an annoying bast imo
I like john bartholomew's beginners videos
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
whats the ongoing chess elitism drama
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
storm in a teacup. just finegold grousing about hikaru's pogchamps tourney and how it's sad scrub streamers are getting more views for their chess than GMs
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Man why would you not rather watch scrubs, more educational for most surely.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
potted summary herehttps://youtu.be/XOMACDhVv_U?t=341
― ||||||||, Thursday, 11 June 2020 07:38 (three years ago) link
xQc is an interesting character.
― NAthaniel (cajunsunday), Thursday, 11 June 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
SameGelato
― paolo, Friday, 12 June 2020 08:13 (three years ago) link
Hmu
think i leveled up (KNOCK ON WOOD) my rating is up 50+pts for the last week, feels a lil more stable/prolonged than just being on a heater, i somehow just started playing/seeing more dynamic positions, which is interesting cause it seems to come with more variance in winning/losing games with wider margins, also seems like players at my level arent necessarily comfortable playing those types of positions, im seeing people time out and make blunders
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 June 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
I’ve been off chess since the vid started but I’ve been off twitter for 36 whole hours so maybe I can get back to it
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Sunday, 14 June 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
the age of the virus is the perfect time for chess
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 June 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
True
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Sunday, 14 June 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
Currently even with what appears to be a 12 yo chess genius by the look of his avatar
― calstars, Thursday, 2 July 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
...whom i subsequently vanquished lol
― calstars, Thursday, 2 July 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
on a run of getting my opponents to time out with confounding play in lost games
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
dirty flagger
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
rude
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
been enjoying the magnus / hikaru impactchess final - clear that there's no love lost between these two. magnus looks tired though
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1387603
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
defending an all out attack well is pretty satisfying
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 August 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jJBUbiw.png
https://i.imgur.com/VQ41z2q.png
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 August 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
finally got busted with a perpetual
https://i.imgur.com/XnlJ09T.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
ive gotten too good at chess im afraid to play now
https://i.imgur.com/6QjE7DF.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 September 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
h8 when ppl wont let me take back a misclick
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 September 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
Its all kicking off in the chess world!! Petrosian was accused of cheating in the final of the Pro Chess League. Here was Petrosian's response to those allegations.
https://perlenvombodensee.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/pipi-petrosyan-1.png
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 3 October 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
who accused him
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
Wesley So accused him because in the video you can see him looking down during critical positions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4Rs9-rZNI
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
How's your chess going lagoon? I mostly do puzzles/tactics at the moment - barely playing any blitz.
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
I have stopped playing after not progressing to an expected extent after two years made evident by being being soundly defeated by a local high school
― calstars, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
good still playing pretty much every day tho prob fewer games than before, been hovering around 1700 (lichess 5+3) recently xp
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
i believe wesley so, wesley is so nice, that other guy who stole tigran petrosians name is obvs a fucker
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
four knights endgames are kinda wild
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:40 (three years ago) link
wesley so won a thing yesterday, adding substance to his niceness
― imago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
congrats to wesley who is so nice
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
carlsen playing bad in blitz is weird mind, but i guess blitz is blitz
― imago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
obvious fork just sitting there for three moves with neither me nor my opponent noticing it, at what level do chess players become competent enough to calculate one move ahead lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
Took a half year off , now time to get back into this shit
― calstars, Saturday, 2 January 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
get it
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link
is there a way to play this game without fretting excessively about every move, having it take up all your waking hours and threaten your mental health?
― ledge, Sunday, 3 January 2021 09:10 (three years ago) link
(that was my experience a couple of years ago, then I quit)
― ledge, Sunday, 3 January 2021 09:11 (three years ago) link
lol...not really imho. That was the reason I had to take a break from it
― calstars, Sunday, 3 January 2021 12:27 (three years ago) link
gotta be willing to lose, competition is interesting finding the right balance between caring enough about winning and not caring so much that you cant brush yrself off and try again --the sports psychologist
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
one thing that imo can make losing at chess more fun is if youre down material and have no positional advantage, a lost game more or less, just do some super aggressive shit sacrifice a piece launch a pawn storm etc, sometimes youll get a cool win but mostly its just good practice for attacking seeing lines and so forth
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
its funny with chess being matched to similarly skilled players no matter how much you improve youre still gonna lose half the time
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
yeah it's all about being more **zen**, i've never played sports and all my other hobbies are non competitive so i wonder if i just haven't had enough practice at that. also the gamification (when playing through an app) doesn't help, each loss doesn't stand on its own but chips away at your precious rating.
just do some super aggressive shit sacrifice a piece launch a pawn storm etc
will try that if i ever go back.
― ledge, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
the thing about the rating tho is you can always get those points back, i feel like fwiw i only play at my best or near my best like 20% of the time, and its very streaky, so ill play pretty mediocre or bad 50-100 points below where id be playing good for like a month and then have a short run of good play, and sometimes those runs coincide with a general over all improvement, but often not, feel like you have to enjoy chess and be interested in it not just be totally consumed by the winning and losing otherwise its kinda not that fun
like watch this sick ass game, chess is cool, dubov os cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BgG4bUDHa4
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link