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Dlugy is on reddit trying to clear his name now, but a lot of what he's saying doesn't make much sense like he played titled Tuesdays with his students suggesting moves and some of them cheated. Also weirdly bringing in Hikaru's step dad who also teaches chess nearby as being his rival.
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Oct 12, 2022 14:54
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An excuse for two sinners to go hungry and poor.
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Oct 12, 2022 15:35
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neaden posted:Dlugy is on reddit trying to clear his name now, but a lot of what he's saying doesn't make much sense like he played titled Tuesdays with his students suggesting moves and some of them cheated. Speedrunners who have been caught cheating use defenses like this all the time.
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Oct 12, 2022 16:53
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who is winning in this position? all of black's pieces are hanging, so at first glance, it looks completely winning for white here. but stockfish tells me that it's winning for black after 11... Bxe5 12. Bxe5, because 12... Qxe5+ comes with check, and white has to either move the king, block with the knight (hanging the pawn on b2) or block with the queen (letting black's rook in a8 survive). chess is hard!
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Oct 12, 2022 18:15
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i might be missing something obvious but why wouldn’t white just take the rook immediately instead of the bishop?
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Oct 12, 2022 18:31
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jesus WEP posted:i might be missing something obvious but why wouldn’t white just take the rook immediately instead of the bishop? There’s some lines in the Kan where you give the rook for a pawn and the dark-squared bishop. The dynamics of the position are such that that your dark squared bishop is incredibly strong if unopposed, especially if white castles kingside. e: for example, look at the position after 1…Bxe5 2.Qxa8 Bxf4. What does white do now? White can’t castle queenside, but 0-0 runs into Bxh2+. Or maybe black doesn’t even take the pawn but just plays 0-0 and Bb7 immediately. If white plays 3.Qf3 then Bb7 is really strong, but it’s not like white can leave the queen on a8.
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Oct 12, 2022 18:36
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Poisoned Rook Variation  Material isn't everything. Sure it helps, but that's why gambits and the like exist because you get compensation for your material sacrifice in the form of a stronger position / development. I think this position is a really good example as Hand Knit points out the various ways black can try to get compensation for the rook.
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Oct 12, 2022 18:56
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An unfortunate game in the latest round of the US championship: https://lichess.org/broadcast/us-chess-championship/round-7/PVVXNTKT/raNgiAZF I had to check a couple of tries in the engine like 11...Qf5 12.Nxe4 Qxe4 13.Re1 which is a pretty funny way to lose a piece. I can only imagine anyone losing this way to start channeling Bobby Fischer and yelling about theory.
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Oct 12, 2022 22:30
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neaden posted:Dlugy is on reddit trying to clear his name now, but a lot of what he's saying doesn't make much sense like he played titled Tuesdays with his students suggesting moves and some of them cheated. If your students are suggesting moves by throwing darts at a chessboard, you're cheating. You can't get external help, period. Magnus himself is on video doing this though, so 
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Oct 12, 2022 23:13
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I watched the magnus/ludwig vs botez/botez doubles chess event and this guy was telling magnus which piece to move, every move! The cheating has to stop!!
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Oct 13, 2022 00:17
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Redmark posted:An unfortunate game in the latest round of the US championship: https://lichess.org/broadcast/us-chess-championship/round-7/PVVXNTKT/raNgiAZF lol this looks like one of my anonymous gloryhole blitz games
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Oct 13, 2022 00:57
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Redmark posted:An unfortunate game in the latest round of the US championship: https://lichess.org/broadcast/us-chess-championship/round-7/PVVXNTKT/raNgiAZF Wow, that's nasty. Retake with the queen, queen gets skewered and you lose the bishop. Retake with the bishop, Q+B get forked, move the queen, bishop is taken, and taking the knight with the queen results in the same skewer. Stockfish says the blunder was castling instead of taking with the pawn in the first place, but it looked so safe, the pawn was protected by the queen!
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Oct 13, 2022 01:42
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Redmark posted:An unfortunate game in the latest round of the US championship: https://lichess.org/broadcast/us-chess-championship/round-7/PVVXNTKT/raNgiAZF Moradiabi is having an absolutely awful tournament. Going for the "just trade, draw and go home" and losing in 11 moves is... demoralizing.
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Oct 13, 2022 02:44
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Hans passed the rear end wanding with flying colors and now he's 2nd last in the US championship, curious
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Oct 13, 2022 04:59
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the rear end speaks for itself
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Oct 13, 2022 06:21
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Good thing he’s on C# now instead of rear end-embly
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Oct 13, 2022 07:51
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Spokes posted:Good thing he’s on C# now instead of rear end-embly Oh no, that's so dangerous. I think it's because his generation doesn't know that it's not C-Hashtag, it's C-Sharp  . These drat kids 
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Oct 13, 2022 12:17
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Magnetic North posted:Oh no, that's so dangerous. I think it's because his generation doesn't know that it's not C-Hashtag, it's C-Sharp
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Oct 13, 2022 14:56
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jesus WEP posted:calling it c hashtag is a great way to annoy your coworkers. up there with "c plus" C plus plus
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Oct 13, 2022 15:01
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jesus WEP posted:calling it c hashtag is a great way to annoy your coworkers. up there with "c plus" what are you supposed to say? c augmented like the chord?
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Oct 13, 2022 15:20
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Charles Ingalls posted:what are you supposed to say? c augmented like the chord? c-poundsign
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Oct 13, 2022 15:30
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One to make you feel ... sharp  
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Oct 13, 2022 18:43
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former glory posted:One to make you feel ... sharp d2. the pin means white has no choice but to trade queens and the bishop can't stop both pawns from promoting very nice
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Oct 13, 2022 18:49
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I'm a poo poo level player, but one trying to get a little better. I can play any other online games, board games, video games, anything... maybe a little toxic at Rocket League but that's about as bad as I get. Chess makes me loving rage like noone's business. It's literally stopped me from playing more often in anonymous online matches because I get so drat frustrated Not sure I'm looking for tips or validation or anything, just venting. I've been able to rip off a small smattering of daily 3min games online lately, just trying to slowly build up a resistance.
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Oct 13, 2022 18:53
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former glory posted:One to make you feel ... sharp I can't believe it but somehow ...Qc2, Qxc2, dxc2 is winning for white. Stockfish also says it's bad because of the weird move ...Qc2, Qe1
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Oct 13, 2022 19:08
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Salt Fish posted:I can't believe it but somehow ...Qc2, Qxc2, dxc2 is winning for white I assume it's because you win the king race in that scenario e:it's complicated if white just starts pushing their own passed pawn and ignores black's nonsense though. endgames are hard ee: oh I misread and thought you said black was winning. White is probably winning because black can't both force through their own promotion and block white's cheetah7071 fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Oct 13, 2022 |
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Oct 13, 2022 19:09
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Omnikin posted:I'm a poo poo level player, but one trying to get a little better. I can play any other online games, board games, video games, anything... maybe a little toxic at Rocket League but that's about as bad as I get. My hypothesis is that people rage at chess because of the stereotypical connection with intelligence. So when you lose you feel like you got outsmarted and that stings. Instead I look at it like any other video game. If I'm in a winning position and hang a piece, that's like playing Street Fighter, dropping a 2-frame link and getting reversal supered by some button masher. It doesn't mean anything other than "lol practice your combos".
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Oct 13, 2022 19:10
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Omnikin posted:I'm a poo poo level player, but one trying to get a little better. I can play any other online games, board games, video games, anything... maybe a little toxic at Rocket League but that's about as bad as I get. I find that playing longer, more thought out games helps a lot. Fast blitz games just make the tilt spiral so much faster and more easily
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Oct 13, 2022 19:13
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Salt Fish posted:I can't believe it but somehow ...Qc2, Qxc2, dxc2 is winning for white. Stockfish also says it's bad because of the weird move ...Qc2, Qe1 It's all about the blockade. For the first line: after trading queens, white is going to play Bd2 and eventually Bc1. It's going to take black forever to get the king to either d1 or b1 to convert the pawn. This is going to give white time to either convert the a-pawn or bring the king over to collect black's c-pawns. For the second line: it's all about maintaining control over the e1-a5 diagonal. Without the d2-trick to break that, white just controls that forever, and denies black the possibility of any advance or entry.
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Oct 13, 2022 19:19
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former glory posted:One to make you feel ... sharp can't believe i got this one saw the pin, thought it wouldn't work after Bxd2 then remembered the other pawn. very nice
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Oct 13, 2022 20:33
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Redmark posted:My hypothesis is that people rage at chess because of the stereotypical connection with intelligence. So when you lose you feel like you got outsmarted and that stings. for me its a combo of this, plus working really hard in chess to get an advantage and then tossing it away with a blunder is just the worst feeling.
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Oct 13, 2022 22:07
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Yeah I think because chess is fully deterministic when you gently caress up it's entirely on you, you can't blame rng or anything
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Oct 13, 2022 22:30
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tractor fanatic posted:Yeah I think because chess is fully deterministic when you gently caress up it's entirely on you, you can't blame rng or anything Just blame Hans (Hans Gruber, Hans Moleman, Hans from the SNL "Pump YOU Up" skits, ...)
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Oct 13, 2022 22:45
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If i wanted to learn chess, should I use the chess or lichess app (or something else)? Anything that works offline?
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Oct 13, 2022 23:17
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 Here's a nice situation I found myself in. There's only one winning move for Black, and I played it. poe meater posted:If i wanted to learn chess, should I use the chess or lichess app (or something else)? They both let you play offline against bots. I think Lichess is better if you don't plan to spend money. I'm still using chess.com out of habit.
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Oct 13, 2022 23:37
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Today I hit 1000 in my 2|1 bullet rating!! I then tilted and lost 5 in a row to drop down to 930. The last one I missed a forced mate and blundered into my own forced mate. Feels bad man.
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Oct 13, 2022 23:45
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Chamale posted:
My best guess is Bg7. Attack the Queen, defend against mate, keeps a line free for our own Queen to escape. Aggro fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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Oct 13, 2022 23:48
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it's ...Bd6 to also stop Rxd8# without losing a piece
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Elyv posted:it's ...Bd6 to also stop Rxd8# without losing a piece Doesn't this just drop the rook? What's wrong about Qf6?
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