Who are the ILX chess ninjas btw? I sorta assume Skidmore is one somehow.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Ken pick a username!
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
or maybe you'd think i'd be useless: well i am
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 10:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link
VICE I TELL YOU!!!
― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
(Anyone fancy an ISC date at lunchtime? SOWPODS, 13 mins void?)
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link
*flounces back to Scrabble*
― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
chess game analysis is abt as dorky as it gets (edit: well, there is go game analysis...)
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm like that with most things really as a matter of fact!! :D
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
3 minutes, including the 2 greatest premoves of all time? money's worth imo
― imago, Friday, 22 December 2023 00:40 (three months ago) link
It's my fault, I should have turned it off the second I heard that grating robotic voice but I thought whatever was going to happen would be worth the pain. What happened was good, but there is no good in the world that can make up for the sin of being overdubbed with text-to-speech
― H.P, Friday, 22 December 2023 00:55 (three months ago) link
rook takes queen, then knight to f7 checkmate (king smothered by rook and pawns, hence the name)
Ah yeah, of course.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 13:02 (three months ago) link
its considered one of the sickest mates
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 19:00 (three months ago) link
theres a known pattern with the q + n to execute it, which i had just been doing puzzles of and was stoked to recognize, which i def would not have without the puzzles
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 19:03 (three months ago) link
I need to do more puzzles, what skills I had have atrophied.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 19:11 (three months ago) link
i have done puzzles here and there but never really with any focus, and still im not focusing that hard, but i saw a video by this guy who was saying just doing a bunch of random puzzles even if theyre loosely grouped as like forks or whatever isnt that effective for training your pattern recognition, he was into studying more specific patterns together and repeatedly, he made this chessable course that has ~600 puzzles grouped by type which i bought and have just been working my way through repeatedly, he wants you to do them until you know them so well that you can basically solve them instantly, im not nearly there yet except for the easy ones but def in a few games ive recognized patterns that ive drilled and i feel like maybe im just thinking more tactically generally, i have leveled up since i started doing the puzzles tho its something that mightve happened anyway, its within my general trend
https://www.chessable.com/common-chess-patterns/course/13348/
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 19:21 (three months ago) link
Right on, thank you.
I read Fischer's and Kasparov's books years ago. Not surprisingly, they took radically different approaches. I did learn from them, but I haven't played in years. A friend of mine and I just started playing online.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 22:08 (three months ago) link
playing online is good cause you can always get a game and it will match you with similarly skilled players, and you can analyze yr games after with and engine, use other stats/tools etc
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 22:45 (three months ago) link
I went to a chess tournament years ago, my buddy was upset that he lost to a blind guy.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 22:50 (three months ago) link
that is pretty wild
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 22:51 (three months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/chinese-chess-champion-stripped-of-title-after-defecating-in-hotel-bathtub
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 08:09 (three months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZNN0EP3.pngThankfully this graphic doesn’t reveal how bad I am at this stupid game
― calstars, Saturday, 30 December 2023 01:52 (three months ago) link
i played 7000 some odd games this year lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:02 (three months ago) link
Welp
― calstars, Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:36 (three months ago) link
That’s uhh, 18 per day?
― calstars, Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:37 (three months ago) link
i do play 2+1 fwiw
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 December 2023 03:00 (three months ago) link
Damn here I was thinking my 916 was a bit much! I do split my time between chess and lichess tho
― H.P, Saturday, 30 December 2023 04:56 (three months ago) link
bout an hour of chess a day, the cool thing about playing bullet is if you work on the computer you can just take a lil break and play a couple games no prob
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 December 2023 16:26 (three months ago) link
prob not gonna play yr best under those circumstances but hey who cares you know, i def play best with a longer block of time and at night for some reason
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 December 2023 16:29 (three months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dOVoBUh.pngEndless endgame
― calstars, Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:06 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ouOyAPIQs
"when I watch this game I imagine Rashid Nezhmetdinov watching the game and saying "nice"".
Love this one
― H.P, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 04:13 (three months ago) link
nice
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 16:44 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Bb_TyhC1A
some light viewing here
― imago, Monday, 29 January 2024 21:11 (two months ago) link
Just reached 1400 blitz and am feeling ready to take on magnum, ding, and the ghost of bobby Fischer all at once, blindfolded.
Literally unstoppable right now, don't even talk to me 😤
― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:15 (two months ago) link
Was sitting high 1300's went 2-13 to get myself down to a nice 1200's figure again, then the next day pull a 14-15 streak to get a new top rating. My brain literally just chooses each day whether it can play chess or not. Streaky as hell
― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:19 (two months ago) link
nice re the pb, feel like spend most of yr time in about 100pt range is pretty normal with occasional visits to above or below, and of course the midpoint is subject to change too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:42 (two months ago) link
tho the other day i looked at this guys graph cause he was higher rated than me but id beat him seven out of seven, and his swings were all over the place veering wildly two three hundred points, maybe he drinks idk
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:43 (two months ago) link
I get caught chasing the rabbit after a loss. The next game is all about making up for the previous one, so I'm not completely focussed. It then snowballs until I finally give up and give my brain a refresh. Thankfully I am not a gambler, I would have all my money sucked dry in a day
― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:53 (two months ago) link
I think 200-300 swings maybe more common the lower the rating, definitely rarer when swinging that much within a the 4-digit rating range
― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:54 (two months ago) link
the big swing guy was at like 1750 iirc
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 01:17 (two months ago) link
sometimes people resign when you do a cool move on them even if its not that big of an advantage theyre just like oh no i gotta get outta here
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:37 (one month ago) link
yes hello
― gbx, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:06 (one month ago) link
Gotta love a bluff win
― H.P, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 22:34 (one month ago) link
thats why one should keep playing, also its good practice
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 23:45 (one month ago) link
I think I've practiced losing enough
― H.P, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:03 (one month ago) link
(But yes obviously you fight to the bitter end)
or at least until the position simplifies
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:09 (one month ago) link
a big comeback is fun too
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:10 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kbXShZ0.jpeg
― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:47 (three weeks ago) link
Liam Gallagher commentary after move 67: “this game is gonna live forevah…”
― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:49 (three weeks ago) link
Lost
― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2024 23:37 (three weeks ago) link
the fools havent moved
https://i.imgur.com/q22iAt7.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 March 2024 23:16 (two weeks ago) link
Thinking about bringing a board to the bar and setting it up on a table outside … who wants to send me some crypto backing $$$
― calstars, Monday, 15 April 2024 21:26 (yesterday) link