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Puzzles involving en passant moves tend to give people like me difficulty because it occupies a ‘blind spot’ since it comes up infrequently and is such a different type of move. But because there are so few pieces and moves possible here I considered it right away, but still took a little while to arrive at the solution because somehow my brain kept calculating that the king could escape to g4 if checked by the rook at h4, then I realized I was being dumb and got the solution.
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Spokes posted:looking at the pawns my initial thought was gotta be a zugzwang and figured it out pretty quick after that but what a cool puzzle! Well, it still is a zugzwang, just a different type of one than you had considered originally.
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My brain just wants to sack the rook
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I had to sit and think about that one because my baby chess brain would have never at any point gone to en passant.
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Just wondering. Does just going f3 or h3 amount to the same thing where the only legal move is to take? Or does it have to be en passant?
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L.H.O.O.Q. posted:Just wondering. Does just going f3 or h3 amount to the same thing where the only legal move is to take? Or does it have to be en passant? f3, h3, and for the record h4 (i got distracted by this one for a bit when i was solving) all leave a legal move for black that doesn't involve taking. there is only one move that force black to take
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L.H.O.O.Q. posted:Just wondering. Does just going f3 or h3 amount to the same thing where the only legal move is to take? Or does it have to be en passant? Only 1. f4 works because black can follow up with 1 ... f4 otherwise and then you don't have enough time to mate.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:f3, h3, and for the record h4 (i got distracted by this one for a bit when i was solving) all leave a legal move for black that doesn't involve taking. there is only one move that force black to take Arrhythmia posted:Only 1. f4 works because black can follow up with 1 ... f4 otherwise and then you don't have enough time to mate. Oh yeeeahh super silly of me to miss that. What a nice puzzle position. What’s a good uploader/host people use these days for image sharing on SA btw? L.H.O.O.Q. fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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Dec 29, 2023 22:55
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L.H.O.O.Q. posted:What’s a good uploader/host people use these days for image sharing on SA btw? imgur Everyone please enjoy 1 minute of the greatest chess ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVaNGOaWmDo&t=295s
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Dec 29, 2023 23:26
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I read the comments and there are people legit mad at that. There are people that seriously think the berlin draw is great because its a series of top computer moves, while this is a disgrace. I am glad those people are mad and I hope they stay mad.
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Dec 29, 2023 23:41
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Hand Knit is still active on lichess btw, but I feel like he would really appreciate the image of a tournament director holding a piece of paper that says 1.Nf3, Nf6, 2. Nd4, Nd5 and their hand is shaking with rage.
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Classic World Championship gaming.Salt Fish posted:I read the comments and there are people legit mad at that. There are people that seriously think the berlin draw is great because its a series of top computer moves, while this is a disgrace. This is much funnier and I'm all for it and/or for changing the rules to just allow agreed-draws.
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Dec 30, 2023 02:58
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Everyone pees in the pool. To stand on the diving board and pee in the pool, you're gonna get tossed out. Quick Berlin draws can very easily happen without actually pre-arranging the draw. Trying to go into the line itself is effectively the draw offer. This is not that. This was very clearly prearranged. 0-0 was a good and correct decision.
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I would like it on record that I don't pee in the pool.
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Arrhythmia posted:I would like it on record that I don't pee in the pool.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Fyi, chess.com is holding a big daily tournament that seems fun. Time control is one move a day, no vacations, 12 player sections with 22 simultaneous games, 1 game with each color per opponent. Prizes are for best video analyses, best blog analyses, best game l, and best move This started with 63352 players, lol. I like joining gigantic tourneys where 90% of the players lose by timeout, dunno why
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Maugrim posted:This started with 63352 players, lol. I like joining gigantic tourneys where 90% of the players lose by timeout, dunno why I've actually got moves on the board in most my games so far, which is pretty cool since it just opened for us around noon EST. I wonder if there was any seeding or just random pods. We have a pretty good mix in our 12 with a few 400-600s, a few 1100-1500s and two 2200s.
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Maugrim posted:This started with 63352 players, lol. I like joining gigantic tourneys where 90% of the players lose by timeout, dunno why I signed up, completely forgot about it and then wondered why I have 16 messages on chess.com I have a 400 elo on chess.com because I only use it to watch games not play myself. lol
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Huxley posted:I've actually got moves on the board in most my games so far, which is pretty cool since it just opened for us around noon EST. I wonder if there was any seeding or just random pods. We have a pretty good mix in our 12 with a few 400-600s, a few 1100-1500s and two 2200s. I got lucky then, I'm top rated in my group as a 1500. About half of the group are 400/800/1200 meaning they have never played a daily.
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yeah 7 in my group are 800 or below, 4 of us in the 900-1300 band and then one 1748 who i'm assuming will be sweating it out trying not to lose to any of us idiots who don't know how the knight moves
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Spokes posted:yeah 7 in my group are 800 or below, 4 of us in the 900-1300 band and then one 1748 who i'm assuming will be sweating it out trying not to lose to any of us idiots who don't know how the knight moves It moves like an L, OP, hope that hopes.
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CubicalSucrose posted:It moves like an L, OP, hope that hopes. Like I've always said: Either the knight moves or your score-sheet, there will always be an L
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CubicalSucrose posted:It moves like an L, OP, hope that hopes. Explain this: 
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Salt Fish posted:Explain this: You should've paid for the whole board.
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I’ve been learning Go and something so funny to me is that people play seriously on a little 9x9 board a quarter of normal size. Coming from chess that’s just bizarre to me but clearly the games are different enough that it makes sense
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Spokes posted:I’ve been learning Go and something so funny to me is that people play seriously on a little 9x9 board a quarter of normal size. Coming from chess that’s just bizarre to me but clearly the games are different enough that it makes sense It's literally for small children
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ikanreed posted:It's literally for small children It's also good for quick games. 9x9 is still an interesting puzzle, if not as interesting as the full board.
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I've already won 4 games on time in this tournament. 3000 chess.com elo here I come.
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also had 4 players in my section drop on move 1 or 2. there's someone rated 2200 daily in my section though, so i'm pretty much writing off those games as lost already edit: lol, 58% of games are already complete GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:also had 4 players in my section drop on move 1 or 2. there's someone rated 2200 daily in my section though, so i'm pretty much writing off those games as lost already Never say never. I've beaten a FM once and been trounced by 1100s a number of times. 11 games won on time - shoutout to the guy who has been moving in one of his games vs me but let the other lapse. 
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I forgot to sign up for that, and it's probably ok because apparently 60% of people forgot they signed up for it.
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Olothreutes posted:I forgot to sign up for that, and it's probably ok because apparently 60% of people forgot they signed up for it. Same. Would have been fun.
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I ended up with 18/22 of my games firing, and have quite a few completed games already. I played a couple of super accurate losses (85% vs 89% in one, 92% vs 97% in the other) against a 2200 Rapid player where I misplayed a defensive move to lose an equal position in one and missed an endgame tactic in the other that would have equalized a –3 position). But I also beat/drew a 1300 Rapid player, which felt nice! Both of these dudes were rated 400 Daily though, so I'm down a huge chunk of Daily Elo haha
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lol, some poor soul gifted me a 99.3% accuracy game. basically forced me to play the best moves by making them so obvious
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:lol, some poor soul gifted me a 99.3% accuracy game. basically forced me to play the best moves by making them so obvious It's always funny getting these. You feel so smart looking at the game review and then you actually go through and look at each move and are just like "oh yeah I guess taking all these free pieces was probably easy to find"
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My objective is to play as slowly as possible and hope my opponents end up skipping a day. If I wanted to play strategy I'd play another rapid or classical game on lichess.
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Chess is a battle of attrition
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I had games against a guy today, we traded moves back and forth all morning and ended up with two equal games just after lunchtime. He disappears all afternoon then pops up right at 5 pm and proceeds to hang an exchange in both games, make one more move, then disappear again. Flair says Kenya. Local time in Kenya: 1 am. I feel like that really told a story about his day.
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https://www.chess.com/game/daily/602997971 possibly my best game ever, thanks chess dot com for making this guy 800 points higher play me
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I watch GM Daniel Naroditsky explain chess concepts in simple and logical ways and think wow, I can be good at chess too. Then I watch IM Eric Rosen set up a castle mate with circles for pieces and realize, no, chess masters were given different brains than normal people, it's not possible.
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