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Depends on where you play, really. A roll-up board is fine for tournaments, but I mostly do my OTB play in a cafe on small round tables, and a solid wooden board that carries well is nice for that. For clocks, I have a DGT North American, which works fine. Kind of looks like a toy, though. If you're interested in tournament play, check out what the time settings are for tournaments in your area and make sure your clock can handle those.
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thanks for the suggestions and the link. definitely better than the stuff i was finding randomly searching on my own
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Seconding the Chronos clock - pricey but I love mine and I foresee it outlasting me. For the chess set - roll-up with plastic pieces, with a bag to hold them and your clock, is a great option. However - look for heavy pieces, they are always nicer to play with. For reference, the piece set linked by INTJ Mastermind weighs 1lb (as per the specs on the site) but my set of solid plastic pieces weighs in at 2.5lbs with roughly the same dimensions!! I'm no expert on where to buy though, I just bought a bag/pieces/board combo that I found at Winners for $20 CAD and got lucky with the nice pieces.
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cross posting from the piano thread... this guy impresses me! 2200 on lichess, and he plays piano during the games https://twitch.tv/videogamepianist
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https://lichess.org/@/phdhamster/perf/rapid Cracked 1300 today on lichess. Still well below average but it's been a steady climb since I started out at ~1000 a couple months ago.
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dhamster posted:https://lichess.org/@/phdhamster/perf/rapid Nice work! It's always nice to cross one of those barriers
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Tried to improve my bullet rating this morning and angered this fellow who timed out against me https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/522886141641228298/862701108039647242/Screenshot_20210708-072201.png
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dhamster posted:Tried to improve my bullet rating this morning and angered this fellow who timed out against me truly the only honorable way to win at bullet chess is to mate your opponent
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I bought Nimzowitsch's My System on a whim and... it's surprisingly readable! Like, my puny attention span gets tried by the drier chess videos on youtube (particularly match recaps), but this really strikes a nice balance for me between offering enough commentary to handhold an idiot like me and leave some space to necessitate independent thought. Also caught myself starting to visualize some of the simpler/shorter lines off annotation alone, feels like Neo seeing the Matrix. Though my native language edition is downright criminal, cutting out some of the old timey interwar jokes/metaphors. No fun allowed in chess.
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Jul 9, 2021 13:53
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6 of my last 7 games have come down to end games and I lost every single one of them. I want to throw myself out a first floor window.
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end game, best game
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Jul 10, 2021 07:31
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Helianthus Annuus posted:losing a drawn rook and pawn endgame because of time pressure in blitz Blundering early in a three days per move game, so now I'm looking forward to at least of month of struggling knee deep in poo poo to try to get a draw.
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I smelled blood seeing the f-pawn move the way it did, but I think Black would have had the upper hand if he had developed his knight before crashing his queen into my backline. I guess the Schliemann is not as vulnerable to this trick as the Damiano defense, but this move seems to cause some chaos for both sides. Just glad it worked and I didn't lose my queen or get mated in the process. https://lichess.org/amFA2gBX/white dhamster fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Jul 11, 2021 |
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Jul 11, 2021 03:19
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I remember playing the Schliemann for a few months. Qe7 is a mistake for black: you win the pawn back with 5...Qd4, because after 6.Qh4+ g6 7.Nxg6 hxg6 your queen is defending the rook on h8.
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Are people generally much better on lichess anonymous than ranked play? Are they using computer assist? I feel like I hold my own on ranked (floating around 1100) but get absolutely pounded on anon
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Jul 11, 2021 06:42
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I've been mostly playing anonymously on lichess and it feels the average opponent is about the same as the general user, which is to say around 1500.
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Its mostly average players with a few complete newbies and a few more club players in the mix IME
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The World Cup starts today, though all of the top players have first round byes. All games will be on chess24. And FIDE has Short and Miroshnichenko on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwi-caFPjRQ
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I am cheering on the one guy with both faceshield and medical mask while most people around him are wearing no mask at all.
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Has anyone tried out https://aimchess.com/ ? Its relatively cheap but I wonder if it gives any decent insights vs just going through a typical engine evaluation on your own.
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Had a weird desync on lichess where I thought someone was timing me out on purpose, but at the end the game said I was the one who timed out. To be fair the connection was super spotty where I was at.
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me after winning: Well, that was a solid game by me. My plan of attack worked perfectly, I maintained pressure throughout the entire game, and my victory was inevitable. evaluation: You were trailing by 9 pawns until your opponent gave you mate in 3. Here's the one move that would have destroyed your position at any time.
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fisting by many posted:me after winning: Well, that was a solid game by me. My plan of attack worked perfectly, I maintained pressure throughout the entire game, and my victory was inevitable. I loving love this poo poo. I have played I think, maybe 1 good game of chess in my life.
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i think the only "good" games i've had involve an opponent making early mistakes with the opening and the good moves snowball from there. but it's easy to have 97% accuracy when your opponent is playing at 23% accuracy
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I'm not sure how it works on chess.com but on lichess it stops caring when the position becomes fully winning. I'll have games where it says I made 0 inaccuracies but if you run through the moves I missed mate in 1, etc.
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I had a game like that today. I missed a few mates but it did not matter and the engine did not care after the point when mate was inevitable. https://lichess.org/HVoQK07v/white dhamster fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Jul 14, 2021 |
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Jul 14, 2021 02:48
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Tried and the reverse bongcloud and this happened. It's just that strong, people. http://imgur.com/a/4t3RYtg
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dhamster posted:Tried and the reverse bongcloud and this happened. It's just that strong, people. even more fun imo is the borg defense, which i am going to yet again hype in this thread check out this beautiful mate i just landed with it: 
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fart simpson posted:even more fun imo is the borg defense, which i am going to yet again hype in this thread This looks like you were really relying on your opponent falling for it. If they didn't walk into the trap did you have any recourse after losing that much material?
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Chamale posted:This looks like you were really relying on your opponent falling for it. If they didn't walk into the trap did you have any recourse after losing that much material? no of course not, it was bullet chess. i had faith
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Chamale posted:This looks like you were really relying on your opponent falling for it. If they didn't walk into the trap did you have any recourse after losing that much material? ok heres a more serious answer in this position, i find many people in bullet around my level totally miss that their queen is hit by the discovered attack. maybe 10-15% of them and then it's just an instant win as i pick up a free queen on move 3:  failing that, most people don't want to "waste" a move by bringing their queen all the way back to the starting square, so instead they usually leave it out in the center of the board somewhere. this allows me to play developing moves that attack their queen, and they often end up moving the queen around while i develop and then i get my compensation for the pawn. or even better, against anyone who plays the bishops opening it's almost always an easy win:  it's also fairly common i can bring my queen side knight out and end up getting their rook:  in this specific game once i could see he thought he was winning my knight by attacking it with the pawn as it was pinned, i knew in a bullet game he'd be focusing in on the details of actually winning it. at this point i was "only" down 1.1 points according to stockfish:  then at this point i saw the top engine move of attacking with my rook, but i was pretty low on time and didn't see much beyond just a general feeling that the rook move might be good. i also saw that if he actually took my knight he'd probably do it with the pawn and i'd be able to move my queen to d1 (this is why i put my bishop on g4, in anticipation of this). i could also see that the king still had an escape square and realized i might be able to sac my rook for the chance to cut off the king by placing my pawn on e3. the only thing i wasn't sure of was what if he took my bishop instead of my knight, then i'd be screwed. but i guessed that he was really focusing in on the knight and would more likely than not take the knight instead:  so that was my thought process. it was a calculated risk based on what i've seen in bullet chess before, and this time it paid off. more generally i find this opening forces my opponent out of their opening prep immediately and there are generally plenty of chances to harass their queen while developing on my own, and i've played it enough to know some little tricks that my opponent has likely never seen before
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fart simpson posted:ok heres a more serious answer All opening tricks aside, if White captures your knight with his bishop, with check, instead of with the pawn opening up the file for mate, you are totally lost instead of won. It's definitely a situation of "playing the man and not the ball" although it looks like a fun way to play.
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Zwabu posted:All opening tricks aside, if White captures your knight with his bishop, with check, instead of with the pawn opening up the file for mate, you are totally lost instead of won. It's definitely a situation of "playing the man and not the ball" although it looks like a fun way to play. yes you’re right but i think a 1500 bullet player would take with the pawn 8 times out of 10 just switching to this opening in response to kings pawn opening boosted me from 1350 to over 1500 bullet on lichess. i changed nothing else and i had been stuck at 1350 for a while
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thanks for the av, somebody in this thread
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dhamster posted:https://lichess.org/@/phdhamster/perf/rapid Make that 1400! I've mostly been working on playing my openings more accurately. http://imgur.com/a/5yl0umI
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fart simpson posted:no of course not, it was bullet chess. i had faith I didn't know it was Bullet, that makes sense. I play on 10 minute time controls.  Stockfish thinks I'm an idiot for not finding checkmate here. It's not an endgame I'm familiar with. Bh7+ wins the pawn or gets checkmate with: 2. Kg7 Nd7 3. Kh8 Kf8 4. Kxh7 Kf7 5. Kh8 Nf8 6. h7 Ng6#
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Did Dubov win the game? Had to take a break and then forgot about it.
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Chamale posted:I didn't know it was Bullet, that makes sense. I play on 10 minute time controls. from my understanding bishop and knight checkmate is by far the hardest. my end game resource is silman's complete endgames and he doesn't even include that checkmate in his course, as he argues that most people are only likely to see it a few times at most over their entire chess career and that the study time it takes to get a consistent grasp on how to execute it is much better spent on other concepts unless you're investing a serious amount of time into chess because you're going to try to get a title or similar
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Learning N+B mate isn't that hard. Watch a youtube video to learn the W method and then practice it until it clicks. (https://blitztactics.com/positions) I get Silman's point, it's not likely to ever matter, but it's a fun trick to know IMO.
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Just lost this endgame and I feel like I should just stop.  I've never felt so confident only to gently caress it to hell. I know I've only come here to bitch about endgames but Silmans is not sticking.
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