https://i.imgur.com/4g0xaof.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 22 January 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
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.
― ceci n'est pas une messi (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 13:38 (two years ago) link
sounds cowardly
― imago, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
Well I did get pretty scared tbf
― ceci n'est pas une messi (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 14:36 (two years ago) link
“Don’t play while drinking” is a lesson I can’t seem to learn
― calstars, Saturday, 29 January 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/azutg6s.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 29 January 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link
definitive proof that knights are better than rooks
― ceci n'est pas une messi (cajunsunday), Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
got em lol https://lichess.org/iwfxqzqIwqLJ
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link
plz ignore the obvious rook fork i missed earlier
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
was getting really chessed out until elden ring took over my life
bad at both, smh
― gbx, Thursday, 31 March 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
Bartender friend has 15 games going on simultaneously I advised him that was too many
― calstars, Monday, 2 May 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
I love playing non book moves and confounding the enemy. I usually lose but it’s fun as hell when I win
― calstars, Saturday, 7 May 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
i started playing bullet and am now insane
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
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
― hrep (H.P), Friday, 17 June 2022 11:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTyNXNwF-1I
― lag∞n, Sunday, 19 June 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
king on g5, both rooks and knight on starting squares, u were playing a clown i regret to say
― imago, Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
clown life
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
Clown’s gambit
― calstars, Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
I enjoy the flexibility and laissez faire that comes with playing lower level opponents. Moon shot strategies suddenly become possible
― calstars, Sunday, 10 July 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
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
― paolo, Monday, 11 July 2022 08:22 (one year ago) link
enjoy https://lichess.org/AFuvYTDBSzUQ
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
pretty funny reviewing bullet games and seeing obvious missed tactics on every move
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
Exploitation of doubled pawns is my game
― calstars, Sunday, 17 July 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
Feel like putting on some Yes and playing all night 😂
― calstars, Sunday, 17 July 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
magnus tired of being world champ, crazy
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
Anyone seen “queens gambit?”I could watch ATJ play fake chess all day
― calstars, Sunday, 24 July 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
Sadly the report doesn't say whether the robot was losing, or not:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62286017
"A robot broke a seven-year-old boy's finger during a chess match in Moscow last week, Russian news outlets report.
"The robot broke the child's finger," Sergey Lazarev, Moscow Chess Federation President, told Tass news agency. "This is of course bad.""
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 24 July 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NWe3LXg.pngAnarchy in the USA
― calstars, Saturday, 6 August 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
playing e4 is crazy man
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 August 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
All of my opponents have the advantage of not playing drunk
― calstars, Friday, 2 September 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
weird stuff going on in chess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN3zNrvO8b4
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
Niemann's response
https://i.imgur.com/H3bsuRl.jpg
― cajunsunday, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
https://twitter.com/0x00B1/status/1566996167518744578/photo/1
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
http://https%3A//pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb8Ws2IaMAAMefY%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D360x360
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb8Ws2IaMAAMefY?format=jpg&name=360x360
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 19 September 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
what does sam sloan think of the magnus/hans drama
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 19 September 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
magnus just does not want anything to do with the lad
Magnus Carlsen turned his webcam on, made one move, resigned, then turned his camera off and disappeared. He did not say anything. https://t.co/WPsUsktN8P— Motherboard (@motherboard) September 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
i don't blame him tbh
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 19 September 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
yeah i tend to trust magnus on this, and a number of other top players seem to be suspicious of hans too, but its a pretty weird situation where magnus is just being extremely passive aggressive
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
mb magnus is convinced that hans is cheating but doesnt have any hard proof
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
he admitted to cheating. twice. in tournaments. and chess.com implied it was worse than that! it's insane he's even invited to these tournaments.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
getting caught cheating online doesnt seem to be that big of a deal in the chess world for whatever reason, theres other players whove cheated online but still get invited to live tourneys, tho i dont think theres anyone at the absolute top level, part of it i think is theres no formal admin relationship between the sites and fide
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
another thing that complicates it is those cheating instances were when he was a child
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
COVID changed everything because tournaments went online. He wasn’t cheating in marches to boost his Elo, he was cheating in tournaments and accepting cash prizes. This also wasn’t when he was much younger. The last incident happened at the beginning of COVID.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link