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

chess life

I posted that^ when Ding froze in game 7 but actually I'm feeling absolutely sick for Nepo now

poor fuckin bastard

https://i.imgur.com/7TJmt9M.png
Da fuq

heh

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

https://i.imgur.com/m5TyDco.jpg

u trapt bro

das right

https://i.imgur.com/B6QeWUl.png

so they couldn't prove he stuck vibrating beads up his anus huh?

its kina unclear to me exactly what happened cause they did have very strong evidence towards him being a chronic online cheater and he even admitted to doing it a few times but then chess dot com went and let him back on to the site, the evidence for live cheating was not nearly as strong and he was never banned from live play, he sued magnus et al for defaming him which seemed pretty lame and now magnus agreed to play him again, seems like all sides were just ready to move on which is understandable, but chess.com letting him back on after making such a strong public case that he was a big time cheater is pretty weak imho

seems like he successfully bullied them all via the the legal system

who did, magnus or niemannnn

niemann

put anal beads up your bum then sue everybody who says you did, its a good strategy

Remote control anal bead gambit

Hans is such a heel, I absolutely hate the bloke and love to hate him. Great for the sport. Hope he leans into it in his glorious comeback tour

Neimann 2: turbo anal beads

Ever lose a game so stupidly you never want to play again?

Ice cold chess action

Daily

My new toxic trait: messaging “really” when someone doesn’t resign before a super obvious mate in 1

The obvious response to which is offering a draw

My new toxic trait: messaging “really” when someone doesn’t resign before a super obvious mate in 1

― H.P, Saturday, September 9, 2023 8:27 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

dont do that

I feel like I’m improving but I keep losing

i'm back on chess.com, trying to be more zen, enjoying the game and not getting stupidly stressed out about winning or losing. i'm ledgr on chess.com, hmu if it's not passe now.

ledge beat me. Almost had him tho

feel like my current level is very much "don't be the last to make a massive blunder"

i won a game with 100% accuracy, analysis gives me an adjusted ranking of 2300. trying not to get too overexcited here though

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/565668547

lol, incredible moves from a chess mastermind.

the triple smurf gambit accepted

congratulations grandmaster

is anyone on here [MODERATOR REDACTION]? happy to accept games from randos but not friend requests.

The initials line up with a certain Australian serial comment-baiter ;)

I reject that description >:(

Also lol guess the name is out to the world now!

gukesh d in the top 10 now, hes 17

youngest player in the top 100

I'm astonished to learn that over 99% of games played on chess.com are speed games - even given you could fit in 100 or more in the time it takes to play a single one or three day limit game.

i dont play on chess dot com but just doing a lil googling and they categorize all of their default time controls except "daily" which is kind of a correspondence game i guess as speed so it kinda stands to reason

Speed Chess Time Controls
Speed chess is subdivided into rapid, blitz, and bullet time controls:

Rapid time controls on Chess.com are any time control longer than 10 minutes per player. The most popular rapid time controls on Chess.com are 30|0 and 15|10

https://d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net/docs/assets/5d43501e2c7d3a2ec4bfbfe0/images/632347a6b0f178684ee3b054/file-z5Rv0IALnD.png

if they count 10/0 as blitz and not rapid then i bet 99% of games are blitz/bullet

this article says 10 minute games are the most popular on there which is kinda surprising since rapid is usually considered the most annoying time control but i could see it having appeal to less experienced players who want to take a lil more time, on lichess the player pools def get more skilled as you move down in time, tho ive never played correspondence so idk whats up with that

https://www.chess.com/article/view/interesting-chess-data-time-controls-and-game-results

then this post points out that when you measure it by time spent playing 10 minute games are way ahead

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/most-popular-time-controls-weighted-correctlyhttps://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/most-popular-time-controls-weighted-correctly

increments really not popular, ive wondered if theres a difference in quality of play between the incremented and non incremented games cause on lichess at least your rating is just by larger category bullet blitz rapid, i always play increments its nice to have a lil movin around time

if they count 10/0 as blitz and not rapid then i bet 99% of games are blitz/bullet

― ciderpress, Saturday, October 7, 2023 11:04 AM (thirty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

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Rapid time controls on Chess.com are any time control longer than 10 minutes per player. The most popular rapid time controls on Chess.com are 30|0 and 15|10

seems like they were considering 10+0 blitz when this was written or maybe they were just confused

lichess has 30+0 as classical where fide has the shortest classical game at 60+0

If I can teach nothing else to my novice friend, it’s just to defend against the fried lover

lol

I’ve been defending against the fried lover my whole adult life

(I actually love playing against that opening, it’s just so smarmy, feel great to chuck in a D4 followed by a knight on the rim and watch the game transform)

1/2 I was completely crushed in my game today. This is not to accuse my opponent of anything, who played an amazing game and deserved to win, but honestly, as soon as I saw my opponent was wearing a watch early in the game, I lost my ability to concentrate.

— Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen) October 12, 2023

feels like magnus has lost the plot

'is that incoming notification chime coming from your butt?'