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Aggro posted:After Qh4, White has no way to stop Qxh2+ followed by Bg3# 
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chesstempo is super granular about puzzle categories so it might be worth a look. atrocious site layout compared to chess.com or lichess though
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Sep 28, 2021 09:49
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Still a beginner, but I was quite pleased with myself finding and executing mate in 5. Also mating with a pawn in the middle of the board is always just lovely
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Sep 30, 2021 11:55
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my best guess is they expected a queen’s gambit and wanted to play like 3..Qb4+ for some reason
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Oct 5, 2021 10:02
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i started going to my local chess club the last few weeks and usually play a few different people in an evening. today i just played one person - the club’s best player - a few times and got spanked so bad 
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Oct 5, 2021 23:00
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as someone who has spent many many hours studying the gothamchess d4 opening course, i can confirm it’s close to useless to study openings when you’re sub-1000 your opponent will play any random nonsense before they play one of the moves you’ve prepped for, and because you’re also inexperienced you won’t know how to improvise and punish them for playing a bad line i think puzzles are good but only if you solve the whole puzzle in your head, rather than playing what looks like the best move and then continuing if you get it right. you won’t improve at calculation by just making a best guess (source: me, who ground his way to a puzzle rating of like 1300-1400 by solving lots and lots and lots of puzzles at like 52% success rate, while not improving at all)
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Oct 7, 2021 23:41
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BUG JUG posted:The reason it's a bad move is I trade off my stronger piece (the queen) for at most one of their awkwardly placed pieces and a check on my opponent. Had instead played Nb2+ Ke1, Qxc3+ I would have forked the king and the rook while still keeping my knight and queen, and putting my opponent in a weaker position, while their queen remains out of play as my knight remains protected. Of course had they played QxNb2 then I can take with my queen and still have the rook in a bad position as well. this idea of keeping a picture in your mind’s eye where pieces will be after you move them is a really annoying bump in the learning curve, in my experience jesus WEP fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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Oct 7, 2021 23:58
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here is my favourite daily game i ever played *extremely eric rosen voice* oh no my bishop 
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Oct 8, 2021 10:04
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Captain von Trapp posted:Ok, I think I need to learn some checkmate patterns...
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Oct 8, 2021 23:38
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if we did that it might be timely to make the new thread to coincide with the world championship next month maybe
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Oct 11, 2021 11:14
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here’s a reasonably simple puzzle from a game i had the other day. mate in 4 after black played 7 ..g5. I found the general idea but messed up one step. still got mate a few moves later anyway i have a surprising number of wins because people pushed their f and g pawns to chase a bishop or something jesus WEP fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 09:40
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dhamster posted:https://lichess.org/N1ZxRPJC/black#32 nice!
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Oct 13, 2021 06:50
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Maugrim posted:Nd6+ doesn't work because rook can take. I think it's -
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Oct 14, 2021 09:59
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i win at bullet posting
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Oct 14, 2021 10:01
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i know poo poo happens in chess games but i am very amused at black’s little f7-h7 pawn shield while the king is chilling out on the c file
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Oct 14, 2021 12:05
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Maugrim posted:"Le Bongcloud" that gives me a fun idea for a chess variant - swap the legal moves of king and queen but mating the king is still the objective
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Oct 18, 2021 08:38
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Oct 18, 2021 10:05
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there’s a couple of the big hitters that use lichess. rosen is the biggest one probably
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Oct 29, 2021 19:28
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is there a term for the dick move where your opponent is clearly losing so they just walk away from the board and make you wait for the timer to expire? gently caress people who do this
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Oct 30, 2021 13:49
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dhamster posted:If I see this happening I start giving them extra time until they give up
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Oct 30, 2021 13:52
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totalnewbie posted:The first thing I do with any puzzle is to spend a minute just looking for themes. Not even identifying moves or lines but just trying to find patterns in how the pieces are set up.
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Nov 6, 2021 08:16
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i mostly play chess against this one old dude i know, we meet in a cafe and play without a clock and a game takes like 2 hours or so
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Nov 10, 2021 21:44
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the caro can’t
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Nov 12, 2021 17:57
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how many danish gambits declined are in that series, i think there were like 5 straight games with white with it
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Nov 25, 2021 19:37
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yasser has a little series on chessbrah on the fundamental elements of chess (piece value, tempo, king safety, some other things I can’t remember) that’s in-depth and at the same time chilled out. i really liked it
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