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

he lost again btw, to a teenager this time

https://i.imgur.com/cUKNj9r.jpg

nice i used to live a few blocks away from there

hehe

https://i.imgur.com/hf1wkpV.png

Poor bloke

Got my first brilliant move (that I’ve checked). I thought I was playing like Carlson this game, until I checked the review and found I was losing 99% of the time lol

https://www.chess.com/live/game/92452854427

Bishop to f6 being the brilliant in question

im going to become a serious puzzle man, its time

i bought a chessable course, on sale

several xps lovely stuff, u could have sacd your queen on f8 to really rub it in

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/578208361

i got i think my first smothered mate since high school chess club recently. idk how to embed an image from chess.com on here and i refuse to find out

watch ava DESTROY the najdorf in just FIFTEEN MOVES!!!

several xps lovely stuff, u could have sacd your queen on f8 to really rub it in

― ava (paolo), Wednesday, November 8, 2023 3:50 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol rude

fwiw i just took a screen shot of the final position and posted it

Got this higher rated German punk on the ropes

get that german

Forked both of his knights with a pawn, amateur hour over here

Team ILX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqKGSl2CTXk

Decided whenever I verbally say "wow" to a Chess youtube video, I'll post here. Karpov's smarmy face in the bottom left really embodies his play in this game. Every move like a laugh at his opponents face

what a bastard lmao

I’m giving up. I get worse with each game

I'm certainly not covering myself with honours. though I guess it's early days. Also realised my ~1000 rating for correspondence is completely bogus since I don't play with randoms.

xp yeah i know the feeling :( kinda obvious advice, but my tip when you're on a bad run is to give yourself loads of time to think through moves (if possible)

also that karpov vid, he made a GM resign with almost all the pieces still on the board, fuckin hell

kramnik accusing hikaru of cheating is pretty delightful considering he streamed them all

anal beads don't show up on stream

hans is back baby

Organizer of the Zagreb event with a pretty shocking quote to Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten:

"Niemann's performance is out of this world, but we have no definite proof that he is cheating. We have some indications, but we don't know if anyone wants to report him." https://t.co/8vEPLQitH3

— Tarjei J. Svensen (@TarjeiJS) November 30, 2023

“Nobody’s Fault (Butt Mon)”

Two lone Americans up against the world, facing immeasurable odds

Victorious 53 years apart at the legendary Tournament of Peace

8/9: 2946 performance rating

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible pic.twitter.com/qjZlhRIYJp

— Hans Niemann (@HansMokeNiemann) November 30, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_4gGUJ3qxs

loving carlsen's troll era

its really something

fucker didnt let me finish it but there it is baby the famous smothered mate

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

i would like to thank my new found commitment to "doing puzzles" for this spectacular win

probably the most i've ever laughed at a chess video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3G4KenJolU

fucker didnt let me finish it but there it is baby the famous smothered mate

???

Rook takes Queen?

What am I missing?

rook takes queen, then knight to f7 checkmate (king smothered by rook and pawns, hence the name)

Very nice! Yesterday I reached a draw by insufficient material as I let my opponent promote his last pawn to a knight, forking my queen and king. If he promoted to queen it was mate in 1. Safe to say, I'm not having a good run right now

Very difficult for me to watch a Chess video without a Croatian accent but that Magnus magic video was worth it.

Your chess simp though Imago....I want to invoice you for the time

3 minutes, including the 2 greatest premoves of all time? money's worth imo

It's my fault, I should have turned it off the second I heard that grating robotic voice but I thought whatever was going to happen would be worth the pain. What happened was good, but there is no good in the world that can make up for the sin of being overdubbed with text-to-speech

rook takes queen, then knight to f7 checkmate (king smothered by rook and pawns, hence the name)

Ah yeah, of course.

its considered one of the sickest mates

theres a known pattern with the q + n to execute it, which i had just been doing puzzles of and was stoked to recognize, which i def would not have without the puzzles

I need to do more puzzles, what skills I had have atrophied.

i have done puzzles here and there but never really with any focus, and still im not focusing that hard, but i saw a video by this guy who was saying just doing a bunch of random puzzles even if theyre loosely grouped as like forks or whatever isnt that effective for training your pattern recognition, he was into studying more specific patterns together and repeatedly, he made this chessable course that has ~600 puzzles grouped by type which i bought and have just been working my way through repeatedly, he wants you to do them until you know them so well that you can basically solve them instantly, im not nearly there yet except for the easy ones but def in a few games ive recognized patterns that ive drilled and i feel like maybe im just thinking more tactically generally, i have leveled up since i started doing the puzzles tho its something that mightve happened anyway, its within my general trend

https://www.chessable.com/common-chess-patterns/course/13348/

Right on, thank you.

I read Fischer's and Kasparov's books years ago. Not surprisingly, they took radically different approaches. I did learn from them, but I haven't played in years. A friend of mine and I just started playing online.

playing online is good cause you can always get a game and it will match you with similarly skilled players, and you can analyze yr games after with and engine, use other stats/tools etc

I went to a chess tournament years ago, my buddy was upset that he lost to a blind guy.

that is pretty wild

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/chinese-chess-champion-stripped-of-title-after-defecating-in-hotel-bathtub

https://i.imgur.com/ZNN0EP3.png

Thankfully this graphic doesn’t reveal how bad I am at this stupid game