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After 2 years of sorta kinda trying, I learned the rules of chess and can barely edge out the worst maia bot:  Its so much more fun to play than other bots. I wish it didn't have a deterministic opening book and I don't think it understands 3-way repetition, but other than that its really fun to play.
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Aggro posted:Once you take the bishop, Rf4 sets up a nearly unavailable mate on the h file because the Queen is too far away to help defend. The only move that saves the game is pretty unintuitive. Oooooh. I found it after realizing the threat that needed to be stopped, but yeah that's an unusual puzzle!
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Feb 22, 2023 03:45
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maia1 is very fun to play
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Mar 1, 2023 20:17
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Salt Fish posted:maia1 is very fun to play No accusations of cheating, that'd get a 1 from me on the human scale. (I've never had anyone even use the chat in any of my games)
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Mar 1, 2023 20:38
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Why on chess.com trying to play Daily games, sometimes it gives me a game immediately and sometimes it starts an Open Seek that never actually matches me with anyone? Is there somewhere on the site I'm supposed to be accepting other people's challenges? Should I just delete any seek that doesn't immediately start a game and try again? How do people have 100s of games going at once? I'm trying to play 10 and half my seeks never match and half my matches never make a move. I feel like I must be misunderstanding a system somewhere. e: Ah, apparently under custom there's a long list of challenges (including mine, I guess) that I can grab. Huxley fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Mar 3, 2023 15:54
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If you want a shitton of daily games just sign up for tournaments. You will not go begging.
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Mar 3, 2023 16:54
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OK! There's an U1k thing up currently, I'll just hit the button and see where it goes.
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Mar 3, 2023 17:00
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Mar 3, 2023 19:39
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Neat. Always appreciate a nice underpromotion
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Mar 3, 2023 19:42
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Salt Fish posted:After 2 years of sorta kinda trying, I learned the rules of chess and can barely edge out the worst maia bot: I'm going to try this out. Sounds like good practice that I won't feel bad bailing on when the kids inevitably toss a crisis on me. totalnewbie posted:Neat. Always appreciate a nice underpromotion I've never had one in a real game yet.
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Mar 4, 2023 00:38
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former glory posted:I'm going to try this out. Sounds like good practice that I won't feel bad bailing on when the kids inevitably toss a crisis on me. I know I'm supposed to be playing 10- and 15-minute games to improve, but it seems like every time I fire one up some emergency flares up and I have to bail or can't give it my full attention. I've settled on daily and blitz and just getting as good as I happen to get.
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Mar 4, 2023 01:07
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promote the g2 pawn to a knight check, king forced move to h4, knight to f3 check, king forced move back to h3, rook to h2 mate. Is that right?
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Mar 4, 2023 01:08
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Leperflesh posted:promote the g2 pawn to a knight check, king forced move to h4, knight to f3 check, king forced move back to h3, rook to h2 mate. Is that right? That works, but there's a faster mate. g1=N 2. Kh4 Rh7# I've never had a serious underpromotion, although I have occasionally promoted a pawn to a rook for fun when it's mate in one or two.
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Mar 4, 2023 01:31
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oh yeah lol!
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https://lichess.org/training/bkhBn Here's a lichess puzzle I found tricky.  I correctly identified the "theme" of the puzzle: Removing the Defender, where driving Black's knight off from the defense of the light square bishop would win a piece. But it looked to me like the goal would be accomplished by either moving BxB first or b4 to attack the knight, I got the correct answer by sheer luck, BxB appealed to me more since it looked like it limited Black's options more. But what I didn't see is that moving in the wrong order allows Black to severely punish White and get the win.
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Mar 5, 2023 22:02
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 https://lichess.org/training/ZWMoy So annoying with the trap line: 1.h6, Bxg5 2. h7, Ra8 3. Rg7, Bf7 4. Rg8, my calculation stops here missing 4..Nc7
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Mar 8, 2023 18:52
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SA has a pretty active forums Mafia community, and a chess themed game is starting up that should be new player friendly: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4026551&pagenumber=1 Come play!
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Mar 8, 2023 21:05
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Salt Fish posted:
I solved this puzzle according to lichess, but I don't understand what I accomplished? Black can still get his rook to the 8th rank before the pawn can promote, right?
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Mar 9, 2023 00:49
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Leperflesh posted:I solved this puzzle according to lichess, but I don't understand what I accomplished? Black can still get his rook to the 8th rank before the pawn can promote, right? Black’s rook is tied down defending your h pawn, you can then push the g pawn and win.
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Mar 9, 2023 01:48
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greatZebu posted:Black’s rook is tied down defending your h pawn, you can then push the g pawn and win. Also hard to spot at a glance but white's rook combined with the black pawn block in the black king from all directions. It takes black too long to reposition the knight or the pawn and king to stop the pawn push.
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Mar 9, 2023 14:00
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Playing in an OTB tournament and was running very low on time in this position as White. While I take consolation in finding the only drawing sequence, I am extremely bummed not to have spotted the only (super fun) winning sequence.
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Carbolic posted:Playing in an OTB tournament and was running very low on time in this position as White. While I take consolation in finding the only drawing sequence, I am extremely bummed not to have spotted the only (super fun) winning sequence. is it underpromote to a knight with check, then use the rook to check on the c file? e7 c1=Q e8=N+ Kc6 Rc7+
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Carbolic posted:Playing in an OTB tournament and was running very low on time in this position as White. While I take consolation in finding the only drawing sequence, I am extremely bummed not to have spotted the only (super fun) winning sequence.  That is delightful.
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Mar 12, 2023 05:25
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That's a fun winning sequence.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:is it underpromote to a knight with check, then use the rook to check on the c file? e7 c1=Q e8=N+ Kc6 Rc7+
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Mar 12, 2023 08:59
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That is fantastic and it makes me want to do a bunch of chess puzzles. Here's a situation I just had in a game where I should have been thinking about it more like a puzzle. Can you see what White should do? (In the end I won anyway because my opponent blew it in an 3v4 pawn endgame)
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Mar 12, 2023 09:28
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Chamale posted:That is fantastic and it makes me want to do a bunch of chess puzzles.
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jesus WEP posted:am i missing something or is Qxe7#? As best I can see, that's mate in one, yeah.
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Mar 12, 2023 15:19
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Chamale posted:That is fantastic and it makes me want to do a bunch of chess puzzles. Qxe7# That's a pretty neat move to win the game in one! I've actually been mostly doing various puzzles on Lichess (pins, forks, hanging pieces, etc.) over playing actual games to build my strength with tactics and identifying movies like the one that's possible here. Also been trying to use Levy's (GothamChess) "Checks-Captures-Attacks" as a template/checklist to avoid missing stuff like this. BadOptics fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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Mar 12, 2023 17:21
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The greatest moment in online chess is when you are playing a short time control and your opponent blunders their queen, they realize, and immediately hit the resign button. But your brain was already a move ahead so you blitzed out something that didn't take the queen and it registers the move before the resignation happens. So they get to see it.
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T.C. posted:The greatest moment in online chess is when you are playing a short time control and your opponent blunders their queen, they realize, and immediately hit the resign button. I feel exposed
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Mar 17, 2023 13:37
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T.C. posted:The greatest moment in online chess is when you are playing a short time control and your opponent blunders their queen, they realize, and immediately hit the resign button. I simply don't play blitz (but still blunder in rapid occasionally  )
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Mar 17, 2023 13:44
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Has anybody here paid for premium on Chess.com? Was it worth it?
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Mar 18, 2023 13:07
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Depends on how you define ”worth it” I guess, technically you can get roughly equal functionality for free on Lichess. I pay for Platinum on chess dot com because I like the game reviews and puzzles there more. (also I pay the old price which is less than what it costs now.)
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Obfuscation posted:Depends on how you define ”worth it” I guess, technically you can get roughly equal functionality for free on Lichess. I pay for Platinum on chess dot com because I like the game reviews and puzzles there more. (also I pay the old price which is less than what it costs now.) I'm very new to chess so I''m only really starting to learn. I like the puzzles and think that the game reviews would help me understand the game better.
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computer analysis can be a bit… not useful at the beginner level, since often it boils down to “this was a blunder because after 6 perfect moves (that no pair of 700s will ever play) your queen is trapped”
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Mar 18, 2023 16:26
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Ah so probably not worth it as such a novice level. Thanks.
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Mar 18, 2023 16:28
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I just use lichess' stuff. It's also useful in that you can filter stuff by game (Blitz/Rapid/Classical) along with rating level.
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I remember checking chesscom diamond because it was free and deciding it wasn’t worth the bother when I had lichess. I think the big thing membership offers for non-masters are things like video lessons.
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Lichess also has a nice feature called Studies, which are like annotated games that can be set up as lessons. Can't vouch for the quality of all of them since they are user made, but there's some good stuff in here: https://lichess.org/study
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