i love when ILX gets all chessed out (ILX hot chess action is here)

i don't mind either way what the thread is called.

i should work more on my endgames. the cool thing about being great at endgames is that a) at my level i've noticed a lot of ppl aren't great at them so it'll give me a huge leg up and b) a critical strategy when going up a piece or a few pawns is knowing how to crush the endgame with that advantage but if you don't really know it v well it's too easy to still make stupid blunders even in totally winnable end games.

I don't mind the thread title, and recognize it as a nod to the Yes thread, but I'm not married to it.

Another endgame in Game 2 but it looks like Hikaru has a chance...

blood from a stone 2: revenge

What’s the problem with the thread title?

Don’t be changing thread titles just for UX purposes

Frankly embarrassing that lagoon would suggest changing a 15 year old thread title

carlsen takes it up a level again

Lagoon doesn’t like the word “hot” or the band yes, which one could it be

we have another chess thread iirc we could use that one instead

i just dont feel its in the spirit of the great game of chess

i love attacking the kings indian and i dont care who knows it

goofiest perpetual ever

https://lichess.org/Ry84r85C#69

lol nice.

freakin ring around the posey over here

on a heater just got my highest rating everrrr

B)

https://i.imgur.com/my3GHb3.png

nice! what's the secret to your success?

check this game out. I hear they're calling it the Cajunsunday Immortal.

https://lichess.org/EdOA4y5fmIRQ

lol xp

https://i.imgur.com/5ARc4SC.png

wow nice!

Musical chairs

Getting back into chess after a break of about 20 years has been one of the few positives from the current situation for me

Anyone on chess.com up for a game?

enjoying following pogchamps

I asked Hikaru a couple weeks back if he was worried about the edge his tournament opponents can gain by analyzing all his streamed chess content. He said that he maintains a completely separate set of openings for stream so that OTB opponents can't do that. Wild and impressive.

I'm team hikaru, if we're picking sides in the ongoing chess eltism 'drama'. finegold is an annoying bast imo

I like john bartholomew's beginners videos

whats the ongoing chess elitism drama

storm in a teacup. just finegold grousing about hikaru's pogchamps tourney and how it's sad scrub streamers are getting more views for their chess than GMs

Man why would you not rather watch scrubs, more educational for most surely.

potted summary here
https://youtu.be/XOMACDhVv_U?t=341

xQc is an interesting character.

Anyone on chess.com up for a game?

SameGelato

Hmu

think i leveled up (KNOCK ON WOOD) my rating is up 50+pts for the last week, feels a lil more stable/prolonged than just being on a heater, i somehow just started playing/seeing more dynamic positions, which is interesting cause it seems to come with more variance in winning/losing games with wider margins, also seems like players at my level arent necessarily comfortable playing those types of positions, im seeing people time out and make blunders

I’ve been off chess since the vid started but I’ve been off twitter for 36 whole hours so maybe I can get back to it

the age of the virus is the perfect time for chess

True

Currently even with what appears to be a 12 yo chess genius by the look of his avatar

...whom i subsequently vanquished lol

on a run of getting my opponents to time out with confounding play in lost games

dirty flagger

rude

been enjoying the magnus / hikaru impactchess final - clear that there's no love lost between these two. magnus looks tired though

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1387603

defending an all out attack well is pretty satisfying

https://i.imgur.com/jJBUbiw.png

https://i.imgur.com/VQ41z2q.png

finally got busted with a perpetual

https://i.imgur.com/XnlJ09T.png

ive gotten too good at chess im afraid to play now

https://i.imgur.com/6QjE7DF.png