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

cute

there it is lads

https://i.imgur.com/43mZg1q.png

baller

thanks, feels good

congrats to this lil guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fjvZqerL4g

I like how nobody cares about the actual World Championship as much as about Firouzja

firouzja is cooler

https://i.imgur.com/yNI0mIX.png

Fuckin’ street fight

My first thought was that white is absolutely fucked but looking at it some more they might just be able to hang in there

Your initial assumption proved correct

After I resigned my opponent had the chutzpah to mention that I “need to improve my game”
I was like no shit 😊

Non standard openings mess me up

What are peoples ratings on chess.com here? I hover at a straight 1000 right now if anyone wants to game me

recommend lichess its better imo

when i started playing there four years ago these number were typically three thousand and nine thousand, not sure how much of the growth is due to a chess craze and how much is just the site getting more popular

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

i like it so much i give them money even tho it is free

i do play every day so it seems worth it

i did a good checkmate https://lichess.org/RQitVOHK

My rating is down to the 800s, shameful. Rusty and impatient af

That was a nice checkmate

tyvm

I love losing and playing a killer move

Chess has been the greatest tool for keeping my ego in check. Credit it as the supreme humility device in my life

https://i.imgur.com/4g0xaof.jpg

I love it when chess.com tells me I'm playing some niche opening. Excited to be playing the "Sicilian Defense: Open, Pelikán and Sveshnikov, Retreat Variation" today.

sounds cowardly

Well I did get pretty scared tbf

lol

“Don’t play while drinking” is a lesson I can’t seem to learn

https://i.imgur.com/azutg6s.jpg

lmao maybe use some of that time to think about if you really want to put your king right between all my pieces, consider advancing those two nice pawns

https://i.imgur.com/u8jvgk6.png

definitive proof that knights are better than rooks

got em lol https://lichess.org/iwfxqzqIwqLJ

plz ignore the obvious rook fork i missed earlier

was getting really chessed out until elden ring took over my life

bad at both, smh

Bartender friend has 15 games going on simultaneously
I advised him that was too many

I love playing non book moves and confounding the enemy. I usually lose but it’s fun as hell when I win

i started playing bullet and am now insane

Chess is life. Finally finding a way to win with black by going sicilian instead of my thouhgtless e5 response.

I love getting chessed out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTyNXNwF-1I

the good thing about bullet is how weird the positions are the bad part is all the timeouts and that it makes you worse at chess

https://i.imgur.com/ulLb5NB.png

king on g5, both rooks and knight on starting squares, u were playing a clown i regret to say

clown life

Clown’s gambit

lol

I enjoy the flexibility and laissez faire that comes with playing lower level opponents. Moon shot strategies suddenly become possible

I'd be interested to see how black's king has ended up on g5 when white's queen, queen's rook and king's cleric are all on their starting squares and the king's rook has apparently just moved for the first time

enjoy https://lichess.org/AFuvYTDBSzUQ

pretty funny reviewing bullet games and seeing obvious missed tactics on every move

im still 300+ points worse on bullet than blitz not sure im ever really gonna get it but its pretty fun to play a million games and just never think