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regulargonzalez posted:I'm not very good but e3 is the move right. But if I had any kind of time pressure I'd probably go c4 and then 1... d2 and you're hosed. That's my 1400 analysis. I think you’re right e3 let’s you stop whites pawn, and makes white decide between defending their pawns and letting your b pawn queen, or go after your b pawn and letting you gobble up the white pawns
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dupersaurus posted:I think you’re right e3 let’s you stop whites pawn, and makes white decide between defending their pawns and letting your b pawn queen, or go after your b pawn and letting you gobble up the white pawns I can easily see myself making the same drawing mistake as the actual game if I didn't have time to calculate it all the way through. I think the main takeaway is that you can't instantly assume you're going to win just because you can take all the pawns, even if it initially seems like the white king will be way offside.
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Promethium posted:I can easily see myself making the same drawing mistake as the actual game if I didn't have time to calculate it all the way through. I think the main takeaway is that you can't instantly assume you're going to win just because you can take all the pawns, even if it initially seems like the white king will be way offside. oops, I meant I was thinking e6 not e3
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Oct 4, 2023 00:16
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Leperflesh posted:That 1500 average therefore represents not an average of all chess players, but rather, an average of dedicated multi-year online chess players. OTOH I just had a rapid game today with a 1400 who tried some scholars mate thing with a Queen and no bishop. His plan failed, then he stepped on a dozen rakes in a row and lost. So I think 1500 is probably pretty achievable at some point. I didn't even play well! Edit: Apparently it's called the King's Pawn Game: Wayward Queen Attack, Kiddie Countergambit. PerniciousKnid fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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Oct 4, 2023 04:26
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PerniciousKnid posted:OTOH I just had a rapid game today with a 1400 who tried some scholars mate thing with a Queen and no bishop. His plan failed, then he stepped on a dozen rakes in a row and lost. So I think 1500 is probably pretty achievable at some point. I didn't even play well! doesn't a brand new account start at 1500 though?
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Leperflesh posted:doesn't a brand new account start at 1500 though? Provisionally. This dude has 130 games played.
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Hmm. Yeah I dunno I'm just theorizin' here. 
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PerniciousKnid posted:OTOH I just had a rapid game today with a 1400 who tried some scholars mate thing with a Queen and no bishop. His plan failed, then he stepped on a dozen rakes in a row and lost. So I think 1500 is probably pretty achievable at some point. I didn't even play well! the wayward queen attack gives you a free rook if they try to kick your queen with a pawn and immediately fucks you over if they do literally any other reasonable move
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Yeah it's bizarre, on Lichess -- even discounting the 1500? label for new players -- at the 1400 level about 10% of games are some trash gambit that they should have outgrown at 900 ... although I did blunder into this stupid one that starts with 1. b4 2. Bb2. Saw it again later and stomped it but it was two different players. IDK if different accounts or some trendy thing from a streamer.
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cock hero flux posted:the wayward queen attack gives you a free rook if they try to kick your queen with a pawn and immediately fucks you over if they do literally any other reasonable move I played against that a few games ago. Just remember it because of its cool name in the database. I big-brained my way into moving the knight out to attack the queen because I figured it's better to develop a knight and attack the queen than it is to move a pawn and possibly destroy a pawn structure on the kingside castle.
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regulargonzalez posted:this stupid one that starts with 1. b4 2. Bb2. Isn't that just the Polish opening? Afaik it's perfectly fine as far as openings go, especially at that level...
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PerniciousKnid posted:OTOH I just had a rapid game today with a 1400 who tried some scholars mate thing with a Queen and no bishop. His plan failed, then he stepped on a dozen rakes in a row and lost. So I think 1500 is probably pretty achievable at some point. I didn't even play well! The kiddie counter gambit was your move
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ikanreed posted:The kiddie counter gambit was your move Yeah I just posted the whole name because it's funny.
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I just played my best game tonight, which isn't saying much considering I've played about 25 games in this particular adventure with chess, but I smile thinking of it. It was against someone who actually slowed the game down, not a "patient" game but literally taking their time over their moves. This meant I slowed down too, and didn't feel inclined to slam out moves. I still blundered (3 blunders, 1 mistake, 1 inaccuracy) but they blundered more, including what I have to presume is the move that allowed me to get checkmate because they forgot what purpose a piece was serving on a square as the game had advanced a few times. This is basically telling me I have to slow down games off my own back even if the opponent is pounding out moves. To resist the tendency to match the back and forth being set. I still didn't fully calculate out everything, but there was definitely more thought given to the pressure certain moves were gaining on the opponent, and what moves they were likely to make on me to threaten me. Whether I had time to make a positive move or whether I needed to be more precautionary in what I was doing. Definitely my most satisfying game so far. It felt like a "proper" game of chess. Similar in feeling to what I get otb.
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PerniciousKnid posted:With triple-digit Rating you shouldn't feel pressure. If you fall behind just keep focusing on counting correctly and half the time you'll come back when your opponent blunders a piece back. Definitely did this OTB in the office today, blundered a rook in spectacular fashion and managed to hang on long enough for my opponent to blunder a rook back to me. Ended in a draw with insufficient material, my king and bishop vs. his king.
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Mrenda posted:This is basically telling me I have to slow down games off my own back even if the opponent is pounding out moves. To resist the tendency to match the back and forth being set. Correct! Time usage is a critical skill in any live game.
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Mrenda posted:I just played my best game tonight, which isn't saying much considering I've played about 25 games in this particular adventure with chess, but I smile thinking of it. It was against someone who actually slowed the game down, not a "patient" game but literally taking their time over their moves. This meant I slowed down too, and didn't feel inclined to slam out moves. I still blundered (3 blunders, 1 mistake, 1 inaccuracy) but they blundered more, including what I have to presume is the move that allowed me to get checkmate because they forgot what purpose a piece was serving on a square as the game had advanced a few times. I know what you mean. All of my satisfying games are long drawn out ones because its fulfilling to see enemy plans, twart then and come up with your own convoluted clusterfucks. I sometimes play correspondence games vs two of my friends who are 1200 and 1400 rated respectively and end up winning an ok amount of times. But then I get into online rapids / blitz games and I just have this overwhelming urge to bust out moves. And I'm making the dumbest mistakes locking me in at 700 rating. I hope I'm at least learning something blitzing moves but my gut tells me no, and its just feeding into some addiction. I think, if you play rapids, and most of your games leave you with 3-5 minutes on the clock, might as well play blitz.
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I hit 1400 on Lichess last night. I was very excited, not by the magnitude of the number but by how round it is. 
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PerniciousKnid posted:I hit 1400 on Lichess last night. I was very excited, not by the magnitude of the number but by how round it is.  I'm also managing to hold on to my 1400 for the first time
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VictualSquid posted:Had draws in 2 successive games for the first time. Cant check out the link right now, but Im hoping this game ended with you stalemating yourself e: close enough I guess lol Control Volume fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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https://lichess.org/training/0FpK9
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errr seems p straight forward? h5# Ive done so many puzzles by know I know that pawn structure
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Pretty cool, took me embarrassingly long to find.
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Mikojan posted:errr seems p straight forward? h5# Yeah I agree. Once I decided the rooks nothing useful to do, briefly considering F5+ and then ooh. e On second thought I think you are "supposed" to worry about getting your rooks forked. Bruce Hussein Daddy fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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ikanreed posted:
I hosed it up and played some more, now I'm an unround 1404. Also I played a really bad game where I went up a rook (which hung for five turns before I grabbed it) and then blundered the advantage away while ignoring my opponent's hanging knight for like three turns. Oops! I need more endgame practice too, I keep stalemating won positions now that opponents don't just let me shove pawns up the board unimpeded.
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Lol white went from +5 to mated in one with that rook move, oops!
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:Yeah I agree. Once I decided the rooks nothing useful to do, briefly considering F5+ and then ooh. I don't know how these puzzles are selected, but I do agree sometimes it comes with a suspiciously juicy fork to worry / salivate over
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I vote down puzzles when they were too hard, or too easy, or made me think I was trying for a mate when actually it's just a "best move", or after doing the moves the puzzle expected me to do it looks like my position is worse (an engine probably says it's better but if I can't tell, then it wasn't a good puzzle for my elo) I vote up puzzles that took me two or three minutes to figure out and then I felt good when I did and felt like I had learned something
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kinda funny blitz game where i played the white pieces -- good illustration of how to launch an attack that doesn't work. still turned out ok for me, because my opponent blundered in the endgame, and i was able to premove a dozen times in a row to checkmate my opponent with 00:00.31 on my clockcode:i thought this position from the game was cute. i play 39. Rc8 and 40. Rc7 in this position to harass black's trapped bishop until he gives up and lets me take it (still losing for white, but funny nevertheless)
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PerniciousKnid posted:I hit 1400 on Lichess last night. I was very excited, not by the magnitude of the number but by how round it is. I'm just around this level too (Blitz)! One thing I've discovered is that although the Ruy Lopez "centre fork" trick is only a small gain in material advantage, the psychological damage is causes your opponent is incalculable.
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I've been a 1.d4 player this far but decided to add a 1. E4 opening. Played the Giuoco Piano without knowing any concepts beyond the first 4 moves and stomped my opponent. So at 1100 chesscom / 1400 Lichess, is it good or is wack?
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regulargonzalez posted:I've been a 1.d4 player this far but decided to add a 1. E4 opening. Played the Giuoco Piano without knowing any concepts beyond the first 4 moves and stomped my opponent. So at 1100 chesscom / 1400 Lichess, is it good or is wack? https://lichess.org/pJUVQt0g/white#31 Seems okay to me.
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another precious moment from having the black pieces in 3 minute blitz -- black is winning, but how to proceed here? lots of moves are possible... anything is good, as long as it doesn't allow white to play Qh8# (which i neglected to check)
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That's tough when your blitz brain is screaming to save the rook. I spotted it but only after a minute, and I absolutely would have also hung it in a game. Your brain eventually goes, well what do they have after the rook moves? Qh8 looks nasty but I have Ke7 ... No I can't ... Wait ughhhhhh ... What's the actual best defense? Kg8? And then try to escort one of those q-side pawns after they take the rook? Huxley fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Oct 8, 2023 |
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Huxley posted:That's tough when your blitz brain is screaming to save the rook. I spotted it but only after a minute, and I absolutely would have also hung it in a game. Your brain eventually goes, well what do they have after the rook moves? Qh8 looks nasty but I have Ke7 ... No I can't ... Wait ughhhhhh ... Qd3+ saves the rook and gives you a tempo to stop the mate
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When you have a massive material advantage, the best defense is probably more offense and/or simplification. I only see one move for Black that accomplishes that.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:another precious moment from having the black pieces in 3 minute blitz -- black is winning, but how to proceed here? lots of moves are possible... Me, checking my answer: oops!
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My 5yo always wants to know when he and daddy can play "chest" again.
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Magnus got crushed and is tweeting about cheating again lol
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Hadn't even noticed that there is a tournament on. Anyways while trying to find a good place to watch I stumbled onto the coolest, but also most cursed, tournament, which happened yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMW273SqMv8
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