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you can make it a goal to try to up your rosen score and see for yourself how wild your chess can get. without even keeping them in mind i've earned 18 trophies across 6 categories, and they each feel good
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:you can make it a goal to try to up your rosen score and see for yourself how wild your chess can get. without even keeping them in mind i've earned 18 trophies across 6 categories, and they each feel good 
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I have randomly gotten Pawn Cube, Pawn Diamond and Promote a Pawn Within 8 Moves. Just love doing weird things with pawns apparently
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jesus WEP posted:tell me you play too much bullet without etc   
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No help because it's an ongoing game but: Today in Winning Positions I'm At Least 50/50 to Blow 
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I would blow that so hard.
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former glory posted:I would blow that so hard.  , but as either side
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Mate in 1 puzzles being rated 2000ish just feels wrong
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:you can make it a goal to try to up your rosen score and see for yourself how wild your chess can get. without even keeping them in mind i've earned 18 trophies across 6 categories, and they each feel good oh it actually links to the relevant games, too, this is fun  lol
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was this another dubov / nepo game
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Saw on TikTok an analysis board that actually explained why something was an inaccuracy, mistake, or blunder, rather than just saying x was best. Does anyone know what might be? Thought it was lichess but can't find it.
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Saw on TikTok an analysis board that actually explained why something was an inaccuracy, mistake, or blunder, rather than just saying x was best. Does anyone know what might be? Thought it was lichess but can't find it. Lichess lets you do that, but doesn't do it for you. Convert your analysis to a study, comment away
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Chess.com's game review will do this behind a paywall. I know the top tier gives you unlimited and the middle tier gives one per day. I'm not sure if below that you also get one per day or not.
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Huxley posted:Chess.com's game review will do this behind a paywall. I know the top tier gives you unlimited and the middle tier gives one per day. I'm not sure if below that you also get one per day or not. You get a free one every day with no subscription I think. It's mostly pretty good, it'll tell you why a move is categorized in a certain way and then show you the line that results from it. So if you blunder, it will say "this loses a rook" and then show you the line of computer moves ending with the rook gone. The only issues with it are: A: that it sometimes fails to do this, especially on moves that are good/inaccuracy where the shift in value is due to subtle positional stuff and B: it does not scale the advice to your level and will label something a blunder and then show a line of like 20 brilliant moves in a row from your opponent who, in real life, hung mate in one on the next move because this is a like 700 rated game.
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Huxley posted:Chess.com's game review will do this behind a paywall. I know the top tier gives you unlimited and the middle tier gives one per day. I'm not sure if below that you also get one per day or not. It's the coaches commentary you get one of at middle tier. Game analysis is unlimited.
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The game had reached a drawn position, and I offered the other guy a draw. He declined, and then spent the last few minutes on his clock very carefully thinking through his moves. He offered me a draw with 2 seconds left on his clock. I declined.
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Who wouldn't? My strategy of playing one move a day on the chess.com tournament is paying off. Wild how people who don't want to play 1 day time control sign up for 1 day time control tournaments. I do feel bad for the people who had a decent elo getting it erased by me starting out at 400. I haven't lost and am up to 700 but that is way lower than what I am, so there is more damage to come lol
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Did someone make a youtube video advertising the Englund gambit recently? I have seen it more often this week then in the whole of 2023.
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Today in Time Better Spent Than Thinking About Openings: Doing this until it is impossible to get wrong ever again. https://www.chess.com/endgames/pawn/winning-king-and-pawn/challenge
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Huxley posted:Today in Time Better Spent Than Thinking About Openings: Doing this until it is impossible to get wrong ever again. Getting my head around king opposition took forever and I still get mega stressed I’m going to bungle into a draw/stalemate….and often do just that.
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Huxley posted:Today in Time Better Spent Than Thinking About Openings: Doing this until it is impossible to get wrong ever again.
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I think the idea is, you should be able to do these 100% of the time as cleanly as you do King and Queen mating (which this will also make you absolutely bulletproof at, since you have to do it every time). My record so far is 1:46.4. I still get screwed up stalemating in the corner every now and then, but a week ago I couldn't do them at all.
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Huxley posted:Today in Time Better Spent Than Thinking About Openings: Doing this until it is impossible to get wrong ever again. this is cool, thanks for sharing. eventually chess dot com tried to hassle me into logging in, so i found this alternative https://chess-endgame-trainer.firebaseapp.com/home
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Cool daily puzzle on lichess today (Black to play) https://lichess.org/training/ALBny 
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fisting by many posted:Cool daily puzzle on lichess today (Black to play) who needs another queen, when I could have a knight instead?
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Is it Qg1+ Kg3 f1=N+ winning White's queen via discovered attack?
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Maugrim posted:Is it Qg1+ Kg3 f1=N+ winning White's queen via discovered attack? You can do the puzzle at the link and find out yourself!
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fisting by many posted:Cool daily puzzle on lichess today (Black to play) I like that these puzzles aren't always about getting a checkmate but I often get stuck because a given puzzle really looks like I'm supposed to be getting a checkmate but in this case having wasted time trying to calculate move 3 before making move 1, I went ahead and tried the correct moves 1 and 2, and then it only took one fuckup before I realized the white queen was hanging. I feel like IRL I'd have hosed it up insisting to myself that there was a checkmate on the board and then failing to take the white queen. nice puzzle!
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i love the little icons they use for the different puzzle themes https://lichess.org/training/themes but especially the one for underpromotion (attached)
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:heck yeah 1000 elo? I'm trying to figure out how your opponent could let that happen without a blunder, and it feels like a 1k kind of mistake
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The fact that the rook blocking the king's escape is discovered feels non-obvious to me.
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Depending on the previous move its not that easy to stop. Imagine if the bishop was on c1 the move prior.
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ikanreed posted:1000 elo?   It's the first checkmate I've gotten in this chess.com daily tournament. These daily games are fun. e: and the computer gave me a ! 
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L.H.O.O.Q. posted:Getting my head around king opposition took forever and I still get mega stressed I’m going to bungle into a draw/stalemate….and often do just that. The ones that kill me are like, "King Opposition Works! Distance Opposition Works! Same-color Corner Opposition Works!" Unless it doesn't! 
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Huxley posted:The ones that kill me are like, "King Opposition Works! Distance Opposition Works! Same-color Corner Opposition Works!" I don't know what any of those terms mean, and a few days ago I would have bungled that endgame for sure. But I trial and errored my way through the King and Pawn endgame section of the link posted by Helianthus for a while until I got a bit of an intuitive understanding of things and could get through all the exercises without making mistakes. I just tried out your example against the computer and had no issue with it, so that's my recommendation. (I haven't delved into the King and Pawn vs King and Pawn section yet, it looks scary). Edit: In hindsight, it looks like you are already using that site, in which case keep it up. Pteretis fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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The trick is, you can take opposition by making a rectangle, stepping into the same color as black just moved to. So you assume Ke2 must be winning, except in this case it doesn't work because when you play Kf4 he just reaches f6 and you lose. So you just have to do the math to see you need the extra tempo of going f2-g3-g4-f4 so you step in front of him, not the other way around. ie, all your opposition theory works (unless it doesn't)
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:
What was the time control on that game? Trapping the queen earns a !, but if it were me I might have gone g6 to attack the queen without even realizing it was trapped, which means the ! isn't necessarily like... earned, if you know what I mean.
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Leperflesh posted:What was the time control on that game? i just give myself the benefit of the doubt and credit any ! or !!s where the resulting line resembles the computer line at all as Something I Did On Purpose at <5 minute time controls you're basically just believing the heart of the cards for most moves anyway so you might as well assume that the background chess engine in your brain knew that was going to happen
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