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Maugrim posted:Can I have an invite too please? Assuming it's not completely dead. Sent
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I don’t have plat but is there a way to get a discord invite? I’m a little over 1100 in daily and trying to work my way over 1,000 in rapid but I only have time for dailies and enraging myself being horrible at blitz.
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Maugrim posted:Can I have an invite too please? Assuming it's not completely dead. ditto
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I would also like to join the discord.
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Maugrim posted:Can I have an invite too please? Assuming it's not completely dead. c ur pms
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https://discord.gg/67ushxsJ
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Finally got a lichess puzzle generated from one of my games  Chess goal #1 achieved. It's a 6 month old game so I guess their processing pipeline runs a long backlog.
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Redmark posted:Finally got a lichess puzzle generated from one of my games Do they notify you when this happens?
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I made a weird thing that this thread might like. In the old video game Battle Chess, there's a unique capture animation for every combination of one piece capturing another. The maximum possible number of distinct captures in a game is 25. I recorded a series of moves against the Novice AI to achieve 25 different captures as quickly as possible. Of course, a faster solution might still exist, but this was the best I could find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O57QX-UBUs If you want to see the game on a standard online chessboard, click here.
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Redmark posted:Finally got a lichess puzzle generated from one of my games lets see!
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Zwabu posted:Do they notify you when this happens? You can check yourself at Puzzles (top menu) -> Puzzle Dashboard -> From my games. smiling giraffe posted:lets see! https://lichess.org/training/s2BjT
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Chamale posted:I made a weird thing that this thread might like. In the old video game Battle Chess, there's a unique capture animation for every combination of one piece capturing another. The maximum possible number of distinct captures in a game is 25. I recorded a series of moves against the Novice AI to achieve 25 different captures as quickly as possible. Of course, a faster solution might still exist, but this was the best I could find. The big question for me is: if pawns just step out of the way for knights to pass surely they could do it for a Queen or rook, right?
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Redmark posted:You can check yourself at Puzzles (top menu) -> Puzzle Dashboard -> From my games. didn't know this, turns out i have one too https://lichess.org/training/CvWQf
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Well at least I solved both of your puzzles on the first go.
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Interesting sort of tactic from a game I played today. Black to find the only good move. https://lichess.org/editor/r3k2r/pp2bppp/3p1n2/1N2p1B1/4P3/8/PPP2PPP/R3K2R_b_KQkq_-_0_12 I thought "Oh no, Nc7+ forks my rook" and played ...O-O. But that's a blunder, the correct move is ...Nxe4. If white insisted on Nc7+, after Kd7 Nxa8 the knight is trapped, so Black could take the hanging bishop instead and White is down two pieces for Black's rook. Obviously.
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I made a chess.com account, did one lesson about the Italian game, and beat the lowest-ranked AI available.  I'd forgotten how utterly loving lost I am with this game but hey maybe this time I'll learn something.
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Good reasons to look over even the games you win: Finding better moves than even the winning moves you made in the game. In this game White had sacrificed a knight to start a withering attack on my king, which I wasn't sure I'd survive, but I found the critical move or two I needed to hold onto my king and the material. Then afterwards I had anticipated the fork that is the winning move here (Black to move), but if my opponent hadn't immediately resigned after I put him in check, I never would have found the continuation sequence that turns this from winning the exchange to a smashing easy victory. Obviously after ...Ne2+ White has only one move that avoids mate, and I did consider following with ...Qf3+ to flush the king out to h3, but I didn't see an immediate way to mate or win White's queen by force, so if we'd played on I'd probably have settled for winning the exchange. So after puzzling over it I asked Stockfish to take a look and it taught me something.
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Zwabu posted:Good reasons to look over even the games you win: Finding better moves than even the winning moves you made in the game. Cool. I saw Qf3+ was annoying but had no clear move after, and thought back to Danya's advice, looking for a way to bring another piece in, but I couldn't find it. I didn't see that Kf7 to prepare Rh8 is unstoppable.
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fisting by many posted:Cool. I saw Qf3+ was annoying but had no clear move after, and thought back to Danya's advice, looking for a way to bring another piece in, but I couldn't find it. I didn't see that Kf7 to prepare Rh8 is unstoppable. Yeah. I did have the idea to try and bring a rook into it to attack the king or pin the queen by swinging the rook up and over the king, but it looked like White's bishop and pawns had everything covered. The king move is the kind of move that seems counterintuitive to me because it seems to expose the king to further attack, and that prevented me from considering it.
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NY Times profile of Daniel Naroditsky. He's starting a weekly chess column for them.
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Here is the first (free) puzzle: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/crosswords/chess/chess-replay-you-versus-frumkin.html I hate their piece graphics so here is the same position: https://lichess.org/analysis/r1b1qr1k/5ppp/2p1p3/p1PpP3/P2N1PQB/2P1R3/6PP/3n2K1_w_q_-_0_1
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I think that game/puzzle was also featured in Chessmaster 10 by Josh Waitzkin himself 
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Salt Fish posted:
Great on Naroditsky to land the NYT column, but I'm trying to decide if I hate the NYT chess graphics worse or the piece set that gets posted here where the pieces look like cartoon chickens.
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I liked that puzzle.Zwabu posted:Great on Naroditsky to land the NYT column, but I'm trying to decide if I hate the NYT chess graphics worse or the piece set that gets posted here where the pieces look like cartoon chickens. Wow just putting that dude on blast.
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algebra testes posted:I liked that puzzle. He's not wrong though is he?
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Yeah, whomever the poster is that has those wack pieces I've got nothing but love for you but seriously I just skip past all of your posts because it hurts my brain trying to figure out what the gently caress you're talking about.
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it's Fart Simpson
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Doctor Malaver posted:No Candidates thread? in the past they've gone in SAS. You can make one if you want.
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i've only casually followed the last two candidates tournaments, but this year with nakamura's seemingly out of nowhere return to the top levels of professional chess, ding's marathon qualification attempt, and firouzja's first candidates appearance, it seems like there are some exciting story lines. i just wish the games didn't start at 6am pacific time
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I thought we created this thread with the idea of discussing major tournaments in it as well as general chess since there's not so much activity it's worth making them separate. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing candidates discussion here. But if anyone makes a new thread please link!
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Hand Knit posted:in the past they've gone in SAS. You can make one if you want. Must be cowboy themed.
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algebra testes posted:I liked that puzzle. These long mating lines are just so much fun.
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Looks like the answer to "will Rapport play complete nonsense and will he get killed because of it?" is, so far, "yes and maybe."
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What's the longest a player ever held a piece during a tournament before making a move?
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(move 37) Duda-Ding is really interesting, because it looks like Ding is trying to create a win with black despite not actually being better. I've been learning a bit about these structures and they're pretty interesting, where the pawn blob in the middle (I know it from the white side, though Ding is black here) gives you quite good practical chances with a kingside attack even if the position never really locks up. Duda's queenside space advantage looks possibly strong, but so long as Ding controls the centre he's always going to have a threat on the kingside.
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