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Meanwhile Hikaru is not remotely crushed and happy to go back to his day job.
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Here's a piece of beginner chess advice that I should listen to because it just lost me yet another exchange: before you attack a Knight with a pawn, draw an arrow to ALL EIGHT places that Knight can go. Even to its own pieces. So many Knight blunders, from personal experience, are calculating how you're fine because you "kick the Knight to d2," except then he goes to e3 and you look like a dummy. Draw the arrows every time. Huxley fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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Huxley posted:Here's a piece of beginner chess advice that I should listen to because it just lost me yet another exchange: before you attack a Knight with a pawn, draw an arrow to ALL EIGHT places that Knight can go. Even to its own pieces. Bonus points if you do this OTB.
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Apr 23, 2024 20:27
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CubicalSucrose posted:Bonus points if you do this OTB. I have played like, 2500 games between the two big sites in the past 18 months and have never in my life played a game over the board. I should!
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Apr 23, 2024 20:29
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I have this cute little wooden set I bring to friends or work. OTB is super enjoyable in good company, in between beers or meals.  One of my most prized possessions, and for only 26 euros.
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Apr 23, 2024 21:14
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Huxley posted:I have played like, 2500 games between the two big sites in the past 18 months and have never in my life played a game over the board. When playing over the board as a beginner make sure you're playing against someone better than you, because in my experience I really need someone to tell me when checkmate has happened.
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Apr 23, 2024 21:18
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An old man at the park invited me to play chess with him when we met up (almost daily back then), which I gladly took up thinking I'd have an ersatz, skilled coach -- he was terrible. Not only was he terrible but he refused any advice I had, so he just stayed terrible. I myself am Very Bad but only ever lost by blundering insanely, effectively beating myself.
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an old guy used to hang out at a bar i went to used to watch us play chess and give me bad ideas that were obviously not going to work. and then last year he suddenly collapsed on his walk back home and died. rip.
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Yeah sudden collapse after a bad move is pretty common.
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I was playing chess on a plane a year ago and the guy next to me noticed and asked a question or two and then suggested a move, and I showed him how that immediately hung my rook, and then he didn't suggest any more moves I'm not good at chess but it's fun how much better a ~1050 rated player is than a rando on a plane
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Apr 24, 2024 22:56
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Leperflesh posted:I was playing chess on a plane a year ago and the guy next to me noticed and asked a question or two and then suggested a move, and I showed him how that immediately hung my rook, and then he didn't suggest any more moves Chess players fly a ton, someone must have done a speedrun type video on an airplane against a noob in another seat.
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Apr 24, 2024 23:13
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Salt Fish posted:Chess players fly a ton, someone must have done a speedrun type video on an airplane against a noob in another seat. Gonna need a vid of Hikaru playing randos on that chess app all of those airplane entertainment systems have
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Apr 24, 2024 23:33
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dupersaurus posted:Gonna need a vid of Hikaru playing randos on that chess app all of those airplane entertainment systems have Speaking of, I recently realized I can play chess on the embedded MS Edge app on my work computer. Even on the highest ELO it's terrible so it makes for a great time waster at work. Still can't figure out how to play as black tho.
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:Speaking of, I recently realized I can play chess on the embedded MS Edge app on my work computer. Even on the highest ELO it's terrible so it makes for a great time waster at work. Still can't figure out how to play as black tho. h3
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Salt Fish posted:Chess players fly a ton, someone must have done a speedrun type video on an airplane against a noob in another seat. Lmfao. Grand master playing a simul against every single person on the plane.
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e6 (premove) Ke7 (premove) Ke8
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The Cheshire Cat posted:When playing over the board as a beginner make sure you're playing against someone better than you, because in my experience I really need someone to tell me when checkmate has happened.
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Crossed 1700 on standard tactics rating at chesstempo with this one.  Hint: hard to see, easy to calculate
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khazar sansculotte posted:Crossed 1700 on standard tactics rating at chesstempo with this one.
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jesus WEP posted:is it just pawn to f5? seems like black is at best losing their queen Yes, the slightly tricky line continues with 1...Ne3. E: sorry, I meant 1...Rxg2+ 2.Kxg2 Ne3+, although the first one is good to think about too. khazar sansculotte fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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I am once again asking That when people post puzzle, they include a lichess link FEN 3R4/6bk/p5pp/1p5q/2n2P1N/6B1/r5PK/3Q4 w Aggro fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Apr 28, 2024 02:58
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Yes please, the amount of times I've tried drawing right click lines on a JPEG makes me look very stupid
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OK here's another one just to start Building Habits. This is a famous tactic but worth seeing again even if you already have. FEN: 5rk1/pp4pp/4p3/2R3Q1/3n4/2q4r/P1P2PPP/5RK1 b - - 0 1 link 
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khazar sansculotte posted:OK here's another one just to start Building Habits. This is a famous tactic but worth seeing again even if you already have. I don't get it. This is clearly winning without any tactics...
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