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Booyah- posted:is there a link to the current tourney? this one seems to link to the previous one or something https://lichess.org/tournament/WMEZdyxr https://lichess.org/tournament/qzRBGPLN It crashed again, though.
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I’m just watching hikaru on twitch, a few others are streaming too
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I've also been watching on Twitch or directly on Lichess, but this is the closest thing to an official stream (agadmator's channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0efZdnPnHQ Hopefully the servers recover soon  thankfully these crashes don't seem to be benefiting anyone in particular.
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I'm watching chessbrahs because Hikaru is annoying but I also want to swtich over to see him losing his mind. edit: ooh GM Hansen is challengin Magnus while they wait
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Dec 21, 2021 21:30
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By far the best I’ve calculated in a game: an 8 move sequence that ended in me getting a back rank mate 9. Qxd5 Qb4+, then 10. c3 Qxb2. So here’s the trick: instead of moving my rook out of danger, I play 11. Bd3, preparing it for a killer blow in a couple of moves. Then comes ..Qxa1+, 12. Ke2 Qxh1.  Oh no, my rooks! 13. Qxf7 h5, 14. Qe8+ and black’s only move is to block the check with Nd8. And *chef’s kiss* I have my light squared bishop, that I moved several moves ago, ready to go 15. Bf5+, forcing the black king back to b8, so I could play Kxd8#. ….aaaaand of course the computer is a total dick about my beautiful Bd3 move, because of course it is  E: actually analysing the game there a few ways black could have stopped the sequence 
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Dec 24, 2021 00:05
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...what is h5 for?
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christ knows, i was expecting Qa1 or Qc1. If they’d played Be7 instead of h5 they’re still winning, because it means that the knight will be covered when it comes in to block a check jesus WEP fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Dec 24, 2021 |
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Dec 24, 2021 00:20
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i don't normally have problems with chess.com puzzles, but it's kind of bugging me that this puzzle: https://www.chess.com/puzzles/problem/775094  white to move and this puzzle: https://www.chess.com/puzzles/problem/1548240  white to move are given essentially the same difficulty rating. got them back-to-back. one took 5 minutes of calculating various lines to get the solution, the other took me 20 seconds, the majority of which was spent thinking "it can't possibly be that simple". i think their random puzzle creator/evaluator is on the fritz
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Dec 24, 2021 02:11
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yeah one of those is ~2200ish, the other is... 1200ish? tough to give it a rating because every chess.com puzzle under 1800 is a back rank mate
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Dec 24, 2021 02:19
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I'd say more like 1700/500 If you're just doing rated puzzles they do throw a variety of ratings at you, and you get better rating gains for successfully solving ones higher than your own rating etc. But I think it's supposed to be within a certain range of your own current rating so yeah 
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Dec 24, 2021 02:23
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If you look at the stats, that second puzzle has had only about 1300 attempts, so is fairly new. The ratings take a while to normalise (they are dynamic based in the pass/fail rates of players at different elo, not set in stone by the creator) so for recently added puzzles the rating can be higher or lower than it probably should be.
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Dec 24, 2021 02:35
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tanglewood1420 posted:If you look at the stats, that second puzzle has had only about 1300 attempts, so is fairly new. The ratings take a while to normalise (they are dynamic based in the pass/fail rates of players at different elo, not set in stone by the creator) so for recently added puzzles the rating can be higher or lower than it probably should be. wait, then what are puzzles with a "pending" rating even for if they still dynamically rate the puzzles after they're rated? Spokes posted:yeah one of those is ~2200ish, the other is... 1200ish? tough to give it a rating because every chess.com puzzle under 1800 is a back rank mate when doing a puzzle rush i just keep clicking on a major piece and then the back rank as quickly as possible and it just always gets you passed, like, the first 15 puzzle
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Pending rating means the number of attempts are below the threshold where they even assign it a base elo. Not sure what the threshold is.
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Dec 24, 2021 03:22
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Spokes posted:every chess.com puzzle under 1800 is a back rank mate
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Dec 24, 2021 14:21
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chesstempo is imo far superior for puzzles to chess.com. I got a bunch of custom playlists to train mating patterns and basic tactical motifs, it rules. UI is absolutely god-awful though
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Castles roosting on an open file Black knights nipping at your pawns Wayward queens being hung without trial On chessboards like manicured lawns Everybody knows a queen and bishop in a row Help to make opponents sweat Tiny clergy in their fianchetto Will find it hard to dodge the threat They know that bishop's on his way To pin them to a rook and take them away And that weakened king is gonna wait For a pawn and queen in a lobster-pincer mate Now I'm offering this simple phrase To players from 300 to 2070 Although it's been played many times, many ways Don't push f6 or f3
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Dec 24, 2021 16:07
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Maugrim posted:Castles roosting on an open file Well done
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oh no computer posted:I've started doing puzzle rush recently, and man do they really love the pattern where the enemy king is on B8/G8 behind two pawns and you have a queen and a rook lined up on C7/F7. I get about 6 of those per rush. The best mating pattern is Philidor’s mate with a Queen on the long diagonal and a Knight on g5/c4. Knight check, then double check, then a Queen sacrifice, and then a smothered mate. I’ve seen it in a thousand puzzles and will never see it in a real game.
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Dec 24, 2021 16:43
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:https://www.chess.com/puzzles/problem/1548240 I think the rating of the second one might be inflated from people falling for the red herring of the rook capture and not seeing the obvious winning move
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Aggro posted:The best mating pattern is Philidor’s mate with a Queen on the long diagonal and a Knight on g5/c4. Knight check, then double check, then a Queen sacrifice, and then a smothered mate. I thought I never would but then got two of them within about a week. If you are attuned to it you will see the necessary elements of the pattern in the game.
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Maugrim posted:Castles roosting on an open file
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Maugrim posted:Castles roosting on an open file
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Aggro posted:The best mating pattern is Philidor’s mate with a Queen on the long diagonal and a Knight on g5/c4. Knight check, then double check, then a Queen sacrifice, and then a smothered mate. Also, I've had it once where the opponent let me checkmate him a couple moves early (moving the king to h6 instead of h8 after the double check) instead of retreating into the corner to allow the queen sac and smothered mate. Not sure if he just gave up or was denying me the satisfaction on purpose.
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Is there such a thing as an annotated interactive endgame trainer? I'm sure there are great books but no matter how detailed, it's hard to beat being able to play a move and seeing "ohhh the tablebase does this, that's why it doesn't work". But for sites I've found like https://chess-endgame-trainer.firebaseapp.com, it presents you with a bunch of positions where you kind of have to guess and the only moves are mystifying if you don't understand them. If someone could say for a given position "you need to control this random square / push this random pawn /triangulate the king because XYZ" it would be the best of both worlds. Endgame feels like the hardest part of chess to learn through spontaneous online play since many games will end early due to tactical battles leading to mate or large material imbalance, and of the games that reach a reasonable end game often someone's in time pressure. Meanwhile most of the learning material (beyond basics like opposition) focuses on specific worked problems or technical topics (eg. Lucena position) which isn't that practical, at least at lower skill levels.
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You have to pay for it, but 100 Endgames You Must Know on Chessable is a fantastic interactive course that does exactly what you are after. Probably the single best course you could buy anywhere on the internet imo.
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So, one one hand the world rapid championship has started and is always kinda fun to watch. On the other hand I can't find any commentary channel that I actually like. Fide has terrible recording quality, chess.com has a very boring guy, chess24 has 90% breaks...
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I'm watching Bok and Canty on Hikaru's channel.
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tanglewood1420 posted:You have to pay for it, but 100 Endgames You Must Know on Chessable is a fantastic interactive course that does exactly what you are after. Probably the single best course you could buy anywhere on the internet imo. Thanks! I'll probably wait to get a bit better before committing to buying stuff but it's not too expensive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCBw2XTQEO4 This one from the rapid championship was brutal. I don't feel anything when blundering in online chess but if this happened OTB I'd be escaping the venue. loving diagonals, man.
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The ol' "I can't believe I just got that loving lucky" headshake.
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ah, got 'em with the old "didn't read the rules"
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Abdu beat the field to become Rapid World Champ, good poo poo, dude. He's only 17 too. Poor Nepo tho, made it to a tiebreak with white first and lost finals...again.
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Incredible. Congrats to Abdu! Can anybody explain me why Fabiano Caruana agreed to a draw in his round 13 game after just 6 moves? It doesn't make sense to me at all.
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Walh Hara posted:Incredible. Congrats to Abdu! Spokes posted:ah, got 'em with the old "didn't read the rules"
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carlsen must be kicking himself over getting greedy in his game with the central asian teenage dork and dropping an unnecessary half point lol
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feelin pretty good right now. i joined one of the lichess 1+0 bullet tournaments for <2000 rated players. ive been right around 1500 for a few months. won the first 2 games against people about 200 points above me, and then got a winning position against a 1900 and lost on time (he only had 0.7 seconds left on the clock too)
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https://twitter.com/FIDE_chess/status/1476533556876828673 https://twitter.com/GMHikaru/status/1476530422117019649 Related reminder to never read anything in the chess.com stream chat
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I started teaching my girlfriend chess. It's been super interesting to really try to think about the best way to break it down and teach it, and, as a 1000 ish blitz player, I am learning a tonne by trying. First, we covered how the pieces moved then we did a game, with her playing both sides and talking about the possible moves. Next, after some research, I found this amazing video from Yasser explaining why the pieces are worth what they are (hint: it's how much control they have on their best squares, which I didn't know!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDw8yfeUiBg What should I teach next? Has anyone got any basics videos as beautiful as that one?
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In a stunning turn of events, despite Hikaru's auto-withdraw from the tournament, Magnus has just lost his 5th game of the tournament, dropping his Blitz rating to 2837 and leaving Hikaru as the World Rank #1 rated Blitz player again
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started playing daily games and i got some guy rated way higher than me trapped so bad, i think he’s gonna resign but it’s a 14-day game and he’s making me wait it out 
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