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Classic decoy account, and all of reddit fell for it.
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Got my first queen vs. rook endgame in a real game and naturally blew it. It's actually tricky, right? Trying against a computer and it's not simple to convert even with unlimited time.
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Apr 20, 2023 20:15
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Ding is just setting up a classic underdog comeback -- a great showman. Looking forward to the anime adaptation.
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Apr 20, 2023 20:56
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rollick posted:Ding is just setting up a classic underdog comeback -- a great showman. Looking forward to the anime adaptation.
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Apr 20, 2023 21:06
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You joke now but wait till Magnus shows up with a steel chair.
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Apr 20, 2023 21:17
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You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Ian Nepomniachtchi and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another grand master, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, to beat me. Then you add Richard Rapport to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning! So Ian Nepomniachtchi, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning the world championship. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning. See Nepo, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you.
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Apr 20, 2023 21:20
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jesus WEP posted:he’s going to bodyslam nepo in front of 120,000 screaming dingamaniacs, brother Huxley posted:You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Ian Nepomniachtchi and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another grand master, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, to beat me. Then you add Richard Rapport to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning! Lmao
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Apr 20, 2023 21:22
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jesus WEP posted:he’s going to bodyslam nepo in front of 120,000 screaming dingamaniacs, brother Ding sucks and has depression.
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Apr 20, 2023 21:33
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Huxley posted:You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Ian Nepomniachtchi and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another grand master, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, to beat me. Then you add Richard Rapport to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning! I love how Steiner Math can appear in 3/4 of my bookmarked threads across all sorts of sub-forums.
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Apr 20, 2023 21:45
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kalensc posted:I love how Steiner Math can appear in 3/4 of my bookmarked threads across all sorts of sub-forums. Might be an underestimation, yeah. Good stuff.
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Apr 20, 2023 22:52
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Huxley posted:You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Ian Nepomniachtchi and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another grand master, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, to beat me. Then you add Richard Rapport to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning! 
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Apr 21, 2023 06:18
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Thought the puzzle in the article here was super neat https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/21/chess-ding-misses-wins-and-his-prep-leaks-as-nepomniachtchi-keeps-the-lead I didn’t see the whole thing it even when I worked out it all had to do with the black g pawn. What’s the best way to set up boards online to play through lines? I get muddled picturing five moves in my head
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Apr 21, 2023 08:32
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lol how on earth is this 0.0 eval. this position is nuts
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Apr 21, 2023 12:21
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turns out world championship chess players are like, very very good and will walk into insane positions that make no loving sense to regular humans, and in this WCC match, they just keep doing it
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Apr 21, 2023 12:33
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I would prefer to defend the rook endgame as opposed to the knight endgame.
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Apr 21, 2023 14:28
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Hand Knit posted:I would prefer to defend the rook endgame as opposed to the knight endgame. excuse me, are you in the world championship?
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Apr 21, 2023 14:33
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fart simpson posted:excuse me, are you in the world championship? really shows the injustice of it all
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Apr 21, 2023 14:35
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I wanted the shot where it was straight on rather than overhead but these are pretty great 
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Apr 21, 2023 14:38
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This is the first really grindy draw this match, right?
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Apr 21, 2023 14:52
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VictualSquid posted:This is the first really grindy draw this match, right? The first game that made it to an endgame, even. update: The theoretically drawn endgame was a draw. I am surprised. Exercu fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Apr 21, 2023 14:53
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now that felt more like a world championship game in the end
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Apr 21, 2023 15:55
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Hand Knit posted:Yeah it's some of the worst chess commentary I've ever seen. Just ear-splittingly awful. I think next time a game goes on I'll see if Levitov is broadcasting in English or Russian. This is the dumbest take ever. you should resign out of shame. What the hell are you talking about dude. That moment was incredulous and their reactions were real as hell.
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Apr 21, 2023 17:46
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The thought process: "OK, so they've really overextended their Queen, and it looks like they want to get to the 2nd rank take my Rook with check. Well, I can bring up my queen, maintain the guard on the Bishop, then long castle and trap them! Yeah, I think I have a really good shot at trapping their queen here. Maybe chess is really starting to click!" The position, as I proudly analyze the game after winning: 
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Apr 21, 2023 19:37
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You mean you could have just taken their queen? This is my kind of chess. It's amazing how often I fail to consider I can just take a piece and instead try to come up with plans to defend. I think this is true in a broader sense, I often get caught considering how to defend against my opponent's threats and neglect my own attack.
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Apr 21, 2023 21:34
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Yeah, that was my joke. I spent a minute of clock walking through all the possible ways I could bait them into letting me trap the queen ... which was already just fully hanging. Because I am not very good (yet).
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Apr 21, 2023 21:37
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Bishops moving backwards is every newbie's blindspot.
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Apr 21, 2023 22:34
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stratdax posted:Bishops moving backwards is every newbie's blindspot. Pieces moving backwards never stops being a blindspot. I seem to remember that there's a Karpov game that he punts because he forgets the queen can move backwards.
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Apr 21, 2023 22:39
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Not just bishops 
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Apr 21, 2023 22:42
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I am still very bad at chess. But some things I'm starting to "get" that I think make me slightly better than I was four months ago:
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Apr 21, 2023 22:50
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Hand Knit posted:Pieces moving backwards never stops being a blindspot. I seem to remember that there's a Karpov game that he punts because he forgets the queen can move backwards. I remember seeing Finegold lecture about this. The game was against Larry Christiansen and the queen forks two pieces from the starting square: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1069116
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Apr 21, 2023 23:30
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Pawns that are pinned are not actually defending anything. Pieces defending two things are not really defending the things. If I could learn that I would probably get a 100 Elo.
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Apr 21, 2023 23:32
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drat yeah noticing when a pawn (or a piece) is pinned is another one of those things I never used to do and now can do like, nearly half the time! oh yeah and
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Apr 21, 2023 23:45
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Redmark posted:I remember seeing Finegold lecture about this. The game was against Larry Christiansen and the queen forks two pieces from the starting square: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1069116 It's nice to be reminded that literally everyone ever is bad at chess.
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Apr 22, 2023 00:22
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You haven't lived until you've tried to input the solution to a chess puzzle and your first move doesn't work because its not legal.
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Apr 22, 2023 01:18
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Salt Fish posted:You haven't lived until you've tried to input the solution to a chess puzzle and your first move doesn't work because its not legal. gently caress, I'm in check?
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Apr 22, 2023 02:58
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L.H.O.O.Q. posted:Thought the puzzle in the article here was super neat https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/21/chess-ding-misses-wins-and-his-prep-leaks-as-nepomniachtchi-keeps-the-lead As lichess alluded to in their tweet, running your own private instance of lichess (which is open source) would be an option. sure, you need a bit of technical know-how to do that, but surely a team of people preparing for a world championship with a EUR 2m prize purse could contract someone. or wait if you mean like for yourself and not for world championship prep, get the chessvision.ai browser extension. it captures the screen and then spits out a link to an analysis board.
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Apr 22, 2023 03:17
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My totally unfounded theory: Ding's English skills (the language, not the opening) are much better than he lets on, and he chooses not to use an interpreter, so that he can selectively answer questions he likes and  at the ones he doesn't at the post-game press conferences.
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Apr 22, 2023 10:27
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Two things I'm learning as I start taking the game more seriously: I am like, 200 points worse on my phone than I am on a computer. I have an old ipad floating around, I'm interested to see if that splits the difference. I paid for a year of dotcom, which makes my dotcom rating feel very serious and sweaty. So I started using Lichess for "practice" because it was a place I felt free not to care about my "actual rating." And now 99% of my playing is on Lichess because not really caring is what makes it fun. I'm 100% aware of how this is all just my brain playing a trick on itself, so maybe what I need to do now is go get a FIDE rating, so THAT feels like my real rating. Brains are funny things.
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Apr 22, 2023 17:14
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Inferior Third Season posted:My totally unfounded theory: Ding's English skills (the language, not the opening) are much better than he lets on, and he chooses not to use an interpreter, so that he can selectively answer questions he likes and thats obviously true to some extent
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lonter posted:This is the dumbest take ever. you should resign out of shame. What the hell are you talking about dude. That moment was incredulous and their reactions were real as hell. nah he's right
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