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Study edition. >Play online:
before and after your opponent plays 1.d4
>oh no he's a c**t instead of a wanker
Is morphy the best player to study sub 2000?
I'm going to suggest steinitz or lasker. They basically took morphys ideas of rapid development to the next level and added a little bit of positional understanding.
Morphy is good because his opponents are probably around the same level as your opponents.
Capablanca. His moves are a perfect flow of logic
how do you study a person?
just try to find their games and analyze them or is there another step?
You also need to do Freudian psychoanalysis, obviously.
Print a picture of them out and jerk off onto it. If you do this to all chess world champs you will gain 200+ rating in playing power immediately.
all fide champs or can I skip those during the break with Kasparov
So I got my computer literate friend to pirate chessbase 17 for me, and now I have to learn this ugly and intimidating new computer program >:(
Me before and after discovering the chessable video I downloaded is password protected with something not in the standard immortal list.
>A First Book of Morphy by Frisco del Rosario
>Paul Morphy: A Modern Perspective by Valeri Beim
Any other books to be aware of?
>A First Book of Morphy by Frisco del Rosario
I've been reading this one and I'm not super happy with the annotations, the games are cool but I think he's trying to post-hoc justify all of Morphy's moves instead of being objective about it. The notation is also annoying and I think the author is only mid 1700s.
why are you reading a beginner book?
because he's a beginner of course
>only mid 1700s.
the author is stronger than him and even books like the best move by hort are full of dubious commentaries and flawed analysis
jacob aagaard books are not perfect either
this beginner is too arrogant
Never resigners are absolute scum. Just had one guy who played on down 11 points of material and another who wouldn't resign with a simple mate in 3 on the board. Rapid games. I fricking hate these people.
If you're opponent hangs a piece and doesn't know Q v R endgame you can still draw. You're leaving rating points on the table, just finish your games.
The only way to communicate your displeasure with them in a way they will understand is to play with your food (time permitting) and torture them. Now obviously don't go blundering stalemate here but aside from that have fun. Sometimes I make patterns with my pawns. Sometimes I make a bunch of rooks. Sometimes I make one of each piece I lost earlier in the game.
I do that and also berate them in chat. They don't care. For them it's some perverse point of pride to never click the resign button. Sometimes when I start fricking around they disconnect instead of resigning. But when I check their profile a few minutes later they are playing another game.
>also berate them in chat
Nope this doesn't work. This gives them a sense of satisfaction that they are annoying you.
I never resign because I assume every person I play against is a moron and will frick up even certain mates.
Try doing that OTB. I would genuinely beat the shit out of you if you stalled and forced me to play through a trivially won game. Resigning is fundamentally about manners, and if you have none then you deserve nothing but contempt.
no you wouldn't pussy
you want to fight me bro? make a challenge! I swear to god I'll wreck your king
this guy's a fricking pussy, won't even make a challenge to settle this like a man
>opponent refuses to resign in lost position OTB
>get up and wander around the hall, staring at the opponent the entire time
>go outside and smoke while staring at them through the window
>come back to the table
>sit down
>get up and walk around again
>walk behind them and fart
what are some other subtle ways to express your displeasure
>It's about manners
>Which is why I would beat you up if you did something I didn't like
Well, you're definitely a moron.
You won't do shit, yt boy
You aren't being well mannered if you resign a game you could potentially salvage. You're just being dumb.
I used to do this at lower ratings just because of the success rate being worth it. At some point I started waiting until they demonstrated some indication they had their technique down. For example of it's a rook mate they're trying to do, you will know in two moves whether they understand what they're doing or they're flailing around. Eventually rating gets high enough I just trust as there is no way anybody gets to 1900+ without at least knowing that mate. MAYBE they might be sketchy on the dual bishops one but not the rook one.
I've literally blundered a R+K vs K when it was two moves away from mate. Time scrambles and itchy trigger fingers will make fools of us all.
Why? My favorite part of the game is when I dominate the opponent who has no hope. I hate someone that resigns when I just start having fun.
The duality of man
If it's so trivial to win just mate them. Almost every time when you're up something like +11 there's unstoppable mate on the board just by virtue of how few defensive resources they have. If you waste time grinding endgames when up ludicrous amounts of material, you're just a fool.
i take pleasure in wasting as much of their time as i can
This is why when I resign immediately when I win material or know I'm in a winning position. no reason to waste my time if I've theoretically won, and ratings points are a number only autists and women care about. lichess pairs me against people with 100 more elo than me anyway.
>Never resigners are absolute scum
lol we had a rather long debate regarding "if you're going to play 15+10 well have fun waiting around for 10 mins every time your opponent loses" whereas in blitz of course it only takes a minute or so
There are enough morons that stalemate you or hang a shit mate either way. Never resign unless it's trivial like pushing a pawn while being cutoff by a rook and he has lots of time.
>I just lost my 15 game winning streak after gaining another 100 points. I guess that's my cue to quit playing. Always remember that the key to improvement is to not play or think about chess for long stretches of time, interspersed with periods of manic focus. I'll see you all again in a few months. When I return I will be stronger than ever.
Hello again, everyone. I am back like I said I would be over a month ago. I am already 50 points higher than my peak and still climbing. This method really does work. I broke 2k lirapid using it. The key is to forget that chess exists for at least a few weeks. When you return, players that were formerly your equals will seem really weak and you will climb at least 100 points. Rinse and repeat.
Anything interesting happen in the last month? Also, are ratings inflating due to a surge of low quality players or something?
>play another 1600 first game ever account
>he loses and never plays another game
>just made another profile
I played a 1500? brand new in bullet last week. In chat he said his bullet rating on com was 400 and he didn't realize lichess started at 1500 on all time controls. I said sorry and wished him well. He hasn't played another game since. 🙁
Some time last year I played a guy who'd obviously dunning-kruger'd himself into thinking he was an advanced player because he knew how the pieces moved and how to castle and maybe played a few scholastic tournaments when he was in grade school or whatever.
Anyway I blow him off the board.
I check his profile later and he's logged off after going from 1500 to 300-something in ten straight losing blitz games. I keep checking his profile to see if he'll come back and after like ten days he does. He loses another two blitz games and ends up something like 200.
I still check his profile every month but he's never logged in again.
I wonder if he owns a Rogue One tshirt.
>lichess is so laggy it is affecting my games
I'm not even talking about the network. The animations are dragging frames
I still remember that day magnus carlsen found proof. It was incredible.
the proof is in the pudding
anyone play that black lion thing simon williams is always talking about? is it any good? I'm an alekhine player and want something aggressive to answer beta moves like 2. Nc3 and 2. d3. Scandinavian variation mainline just isn't clicking for me.
>playing a Black person
did they ban you yet Saeger?
is the hippo trash?
Every opening named after an animal is trash so yes
Take me on in the giraffe you piece of shit
dragons are animals tho
Exactly, refuted since 60s Fischer
No it's fine. First of all, very few people have any meaningful experience playing against it and that novelty alone is going to mitigate your theoretical 0.5 pawn deficit in the eval. Second, there is much sketchier garbage people play successfully all the time. If you know the hippo ideas and are familiar with all its permutations, you will have equal success with it vs any more reputable opening. Eventually. There will be learning curve. Before you play it, as yourself if you like closed positions. You're going to get locked center majority of games.
A tournament is held, with one very annoying and one very amusing stipulation. Each time that a check is played, the player must press the clock, stopping it, and also press a button causing Busta Rhyme's "I got you all in Check" to play in its entirety at low, reasonable volume. The player checked must allow the track to play in its entirety and conclude before he may reply. The song itself (and its time/endurance delay) thus become a further psychological challenge which the players may wield against each other. I am a good person with good ideas.
>learned playing after dinner makes me play terribly
>okay I will play puzzles
>get fricking bamboozled by 1600 puzzles in puzzle streak twice in a row
Okay that's NO CHESS WHATSOEVER for a couple hours after eating.
You’re just making excuses, sneedlord.
I collected two months of data indicating a dramatic decline in average accuracy and corresponding win rate on my games played specifically within 3 hours of evening meal.
What are you eating? You are what you eat after all
Maccas
tsk, tsk
You should spam as many puzzles as possible.
>47k lichess puzzles in 9 months
autism
>getting addicted to chess puzzles
>3000 a day
how? how can someone be this autistic?
I don't even think that's possible; that's like two puzzles a minute for 24 hours, no?
I have no clue, that's just what she claimed in the video. She got up to 2800, which if on Lichess is somewhat impressive.
Can you not become 2800 by just getting like 500 puzzles correct in a row? Why would you have to grind 40 thousand?
The other day I did 1000 M1 and M2 puzzles. They often take less than 10 seconds
I'm pretty sure she claimed that she wasn't playing themed puzzles
what's the point of this? this pace for such a long time is only possible through grinding very easy mates, right? no way that improves your chess.
I enjoy doing puzzles but I only do around 150-200 per day
I feel like it's not that bad to "drill" in some tactics that way but of course I like doing more challenging ones that take more than a minute to solve after I've warmed up
why do people play time controls they are too slowbrained for
whats the point of getting half way through the middle game then running out of time before anything has even happened
Chances are the person you played isn't always like that. You may have got him in to an unfamiliar position and he wound up burning off a bunch of time trying to figure it out.
no he was playing every move incredibly slowly (for the time control) from the start
Big Ben has spoken
that only applies to chess.scum, lichess puzzles ratings are inflated but not to a ridiculous degree
Ok I can see why tactics books are recommended. I downloaded this random pdf, flipped to a random page and saw this. It's beautiful and I haven't seen anything like this in 600+ lichess puzzles. The difference is that the first two moves seem fairly benign / not an obvious major piece capture or check. This is the kind of stuff that actually pops up in games often I feel.
Can you find it? I already gave you big hints.
I don't see how this is a puzzle
just play the two most obvious moves in a position where you're clearly winning and you're just better
big whoop
sometimes im surprised my dumb ideas work
Do you make sound effects out loud when your playing otb with your friends?
I make farting noises when I perceive my opponent to have made an inaccurate move or blunder in tournaments.
What do you think, /chess/?
>not pickle botvinnik
That would be peak TylerCore
>Nigorin Defense
>miss mate in 1
>shart
Online or otb?
Formerly Bart's
Ya boy just placed 3rd in a local OTB Blitz (5+3) tourny.
Beat a number of very strong players, lost against the weakest guy I played, costing me the trophy.
Alas, it is still my best OTB result so far.
>indian
>1654 bullet
>2251 rapid
>23 puzzle rush
Just your normal high rated rapid player bro, nothing weird going on here
Did you beat him?
Yeah, in bullet.
This isn't sus. Some people are just slow. I'm 1800 rapid and 1400 blitz.
It is. 2250 rapid is extremely high.
I would abort our game if we matched.
That's because you're a homosexual pussy.
materialcels fear the compensationchad
In most gambits the compensation is completely superficial.
aside from the fact that that isn't true at all, you can also soundly give up material for the initiative in all phases of the game, not just opening gambits
babe wake up, new tyler kino just dropped
>lose
>open messages with opponent
>"have sex incel"
>send message
>throw phone at a wall
I hate when Tyler plays a "?" account because he can actually beat them down
I am actually unironically literally going to kill myself
what the frick am I looking at
my last precious moments on this wretched earth
please tell me this was 1+0
It was 15+10 but I played like it was 1+0 after he made it clear that he wasn't going to develop or castle or do anything really
>he plays Nc3 and not Nf3
I think you panicked when you blundered the knight. You should have kept the queen on the board and played against the rooks
no that was calculated, I knew my 3 to 1 majority was winning and I didn't want to have to bother with the rooks
bullet brain
Hes right though. Simplifying to an auto win is the right play. Somehow he lost though.
Anon you didn't even need to escort the pawns lol, a king can never take the 2nd pawn because the other one then promotes
he literally fell for a typical last ditch attempt boolet trick
it was the only way to lose the position too
It was the correct technique to force an advanced passer, not a "bullet trick." All he had to do was walk his king over to the queenside pawns.
I dont think anything is more frustrating than blundering a drawn ot winning pawn endgame into a loss.
when you have connected passers like that you can just abandon them and go eat your opponent's pawns to clear the way on the other side of the board, your opponent has to waste time stopping them from promoting anyway
the position with just the pawns is insanely simple to win, queen vs 2 rooks is much more complicated
Improover bros... why can't we stop dropping like flies?
Just grim how Tyler plays or maneuvers himself into these closed up positions time after time
Chess isn't even a career path for most GMs. This kid should take up a trade and not waste his life in college.
Tyler shid and pissed all over his opponent. He won a game. What's your excuse, /chess/?
I win games too and I'm 1000 pts higher rated than he is.
Good for you homosexual. Tell someone who cares
You asked for my excuse and I told you, gay man.
For me it's Botvinnik.
>I turned myself into the world champion Smyslov!
>I'm pickle Vik!!!!!
In chess when your opponent attacks something, don't defend it because that gives him the initiative.
Sometimes you have to defend it or you lose. Maybe then you defend it. Maybe.
What would you do if you aren't defending it?
Counterattack of course. Make productive moves of course. Your mindset should be best represented by the attached image. You are the main, and your opponent is the hufflepuff.
Zoomers were a fricking mistake
I am not a ZOOMER.
It's been a while since I enjoyed the game as much as this one, there was such beautiful harmony in this game, all pieces exactly where they should be, nice coordination and the opponent could not do anything. I loved that he resigned after I achieved peak harmony with Nd3.
This goes beyond "I won" or "Engine liked my play", it felt so satisfying. Damn I love chess sometimes.
Yeah also in this game I let his Bg4 and Rb2 threats resolve instead of scrambling to defend.
Im an eternal 1400 shitter and just played the top computer move for almost every turn. My best game so far perhaps. (white in the gif)
Tyler cannot fathom a game looking like this existing
breddy gud game there anon
thank ya!
How do I get my anger issues under control and at what age should you start worrying about high blood pressure? I feel like every loss is shaving a couple days off my life expectancy.
by realizing you are only playing a game and stopping to take it all so serious.
>muh blood pressure
Just keep yourself in shape and don't eat like shit. You can sperg out over chess as much as you want.
Play solid London and Caro Kann, sir
Double fianchetti very strong sir good opening 500 lakhs of wins with this strong open!
Realize that every mistake you make in chess is your fault and that there is nothing and no one else to blame for your failures in this game. If you play bad moves, you don't deserve to win. That's where losing anger usually comes from: the feeling that you didn't get a win you felt you deserved. If you get rid of this delusion, you won't be mad for losing chess games anymore.
Who's the ost objectionable poster in here and why is it the guy who calls everyone zoomers every single post?
Nah it's larpov, but fortunately he doesn't post often.
I kinda like Larpov because his posts are so unhinged
Yeah who can forget those halcyon days of the "all Indians are cheating subhuman street shitters" posters?
Dan the Fan here, my vote is for all the namegaygers out there
which option is better?
tactic books or lichess/chess.com?
I like the websites due to convenience but tactics books potentially have the advantage of being hand picked by an author so they may teach better
lichess puzzles are not very convincing
i am gonna ignore your advice
i am picking books
lichess, but only when you generate the puzzles from your own game and play out the entire game for every puzzle.
>Blundered my knight in a queen trade so only up a pawn
I'm going to grind this Hispanic into dust in the endgame
Personally, for me, I like lichess puzzles a lot.
It's simply playing a string of best moves in really messy, tactical positions.
Pure calculation training.
A lot of people don't like it because they think it's unfair or something since the puzzle solutions don't "look" like puzzle solutions sometimes. But simply that's the beauty of it. You try to calculate like a god from a machine.
>Pure calculation training.
i do that with complete games
i visualise the games in my mind
and i solve chess puzzles blindfold
Nice tbh ne and also tbh ga. But lichess puzzles can help too!
>But lichess puzzles can help too!
lichess is a waste of time
I'm sorry, I tried to be nice to you, but you're gonna have to leave the thread now.
Ritsu sex
Disregard dicky, play the grunny.
>super high rated lichess puzzle
>it's some cheesy very subtle move
>or else it's an attack where the computer says you end up with like a +4 evaluation despite still being down material and not checkmating you just win because their king is exposed or something
Honestly pretty based and practical
>try to do lichess puzzle
>fail it
>the solution results in an even trade of material and a slight positional advantage
>put it into an engine to see if it leads to a mate that I missed or something
>it just gives +.5 of eval or something
that's bullshit.
Literally no lichess puzzle is that way.
There's always an advantage of at LEAST 2 or something.
COPE
Danny needs better shills
lying moron
Link the puzzle.
>have a slightly manic blitz episode
>lose a lot
>wake up next day
>play a blitz game
>went from like 1580 to just under 1400
bros..
Zefcat on playing against children:
>We always trade queens against children um because they don't know the value of the pawns yet. They don't yet understand pawns because they still are one. That's their system.
epic streamer moment, newfriend
Zefcat is /ourbitch/, nothing new about that. She's like a less psychotic Karla with bigger arms.
>loses anyway
I feel like zefcat could be hot if she wasn't so autistic
best to worst
1. puzzle books
2. chesstempo
3. lichess
thinking of moving to d4 having played e4 for 10 years. not sure if i should because i'm having fine results with e4 but d4 seems more interesting at this point. i've played so many scotches, sicilians, caros, frenches, pircs, etc that i'm getting bored now.
>e4 for 10 years
>not super GM yet
>having fine results
big kek, brother!
I was exactly in your same position. I played e4 all my life but got bored TO DEATH. So I play mainly d4 now. The switch was easy.
i'll make another account and try d4 on it. thanks.
But what about all those years of e4 theory you've learned? All for nothing? And as a new d4 player, you're starting from scratch.
I can use some of the principles from e4 theory. More important is knowing ideas. I can play some games and remember the d4 theory in a few days. ezpz
Now you can play the Blackmar-Diemer
It's very useful to learn both eventually. Then you can branch even further in to flexible transposition stuff like 1.Nf3 and 1.b3 (and 1.c4 to a lesser degree) to massage positions in whichever way you wish.
>nyooooo what about le heckin theorino!!!
if you know how to play the opening phase of the game you can play reasonably well in any opening
rote memorization is a meme
I mean, after 10 years you're gonna pick up on stuff, not just moves, but also plans. Starting over wouldn't be very fun
Actually the novelty is very fun.
if you understand the plans you're executing then you can apply their mechanisms to any opening and if you're a strong player you have the toolkit to have a good basic understanding of any position you end up in
of course you sacrifice some of specific knowledge but the impact is pretty minor imo, especially at a non-master level in the main online time controls where no one is too booked up. I can switch openings pretty effortlessly and the only thing that changes is that I have to spend more time thinking through the opening phase for a few games
Don't play the Ruy Lopez if you're an adult improver. You'll have to make do with the italian.
I refuse. Chest approves.
For me it's playing boring slightly subpar chess until the opponent blunders.
Four Knights grindset
>Benko gambit
>declined
what now?
I feel like you should know that position better because it will be more common than the accepted.
There are a few playable options:
b4
leaving the pawn and playing Bb7
the old main line in the declined is g6
I like the b4 line best.
>decide to smurf on my ex's account cause I'm hungover and tired
>meet this absolute genius
I was in disbelief the second time he did it, also LMAOing at the moron claiming to be 700.cum and 1600 lichess the other day, you are worse than this guy give me a break
I will give him this though, the second game he was attacking like a rabid dog and found a couple cool tactical ideas, they didn't work but he still showed some creativity
I used to smurf on my ex girlfriends account too, people would send her creepy messages after I beat them
I'm calling bullshit on this. I ran an experiment a couple years ago with a thot profile picture and thot account name. All it got were thirdies saying my picture was beautiful and more friend requests than usual.
>more friend requests than usual.
you guys get friend requests at all?
On very rare occasion when guy strikes up a conversation in chat after the game. Also I have animu profile picture and weebs like to friendly up with other weebs.
The art of being a suave gentleman has survived the former colonies which is not only expressed in the average speech register (more refined than that of the modern anglosphere) but also in behaviour. I for my part regard india as britain's true heir.
nah it's true, it was a chess dot com account I made with my ex's Facebook profile so I wouldn't have to make a new email. So it automatically used her profile pic. She wasn't even that hot, just an average glasses-wearing girl.
Maybe that's why people were trying to shoot their shot with her. She seemed attainable.
Whoever rec'd Coach Andras some threads ago was on point. I just watched one of his "inside mind" videos and was able to learn something that finally made Kasparov's "make 10 threats" quote click. Basically, it comes down to removing easy responses by the opponent. It's not just making one move threats but increasing the number of concurrent things the opponent has to pay attention to so that the ratio of good/bad moves decreases for him and it gets hard to find a good move amid a sea of bad ones. As a 1300 shitter it opened my eyes a lot and I can see now why engine evaluation doesn't really tell the whole story in a position.
I wonder if there's an engine that can explain these kinds of things in its analysis instead of just giving a score eval.
Is there anyway to mark positions/moves on chesscum while playing? I want to mark places where I didn't know what to do so I can review them later. OTB I can just circle the move number on the move sheet.
No, you'd have to write down the move number or something.
>can memorize a brazilian moves of opening theory
>can't even remember one move from a game you just played
Who is the highest rated midget?
>inb4 caruana
Too tall, I'm talking about men below 150cm.
Currently I don't know. It might be Nihal Sarin at 5'3". Steinitz is usually cited as the shortest historical player of note, allegedly about 5'0".
>nobody talking about the latest beary video
>a dozen posts about tylerblunders
shame on you
be the change you want to see
I'm watching it right now later I might talk about it
I really liked this one, it was a tactical mess and instructive, I can truly relate to the "ghost piece" miscalculation and it's nice to see even at his level it still happens.
It's the first time I went on his account to look at the game with the engine on my own(on a side note linking the game in the description would be nice) cause I still had questions about some moves, for exemple while watching I thought nc6 could work already on move 21(it doesn't cause of qe8 or qd7 crates a double pin of sorts and gets two pieces for the rook) I somehow did see that 22...Bxb5 was holding though but it's always easier when you are not the one playing
Isn't it weird how his opponent flagged like that?I wonder if he thought it was a lost endgame,which I doubt, or if just got lost in thought cause he was moving on pace with the increment then he just let 15 whole second run out
>(on a side note linking the game in the description would be nice)
I definitely want to do that, but guess what, Youtube doesn't allow it until I've either verified my account by giving them all my personal infortmation like scanning my driver's license or, what I've chosen to do, request the ability and then attempt to build up enough credibility or something to be granted such an illustrious privilege.
It's odd because I can put links in my homepage just fine, just not on videos.
Could you not just put the code that goes at the end of the lichess URL?
Yeah, I could do that sure.
I will edit it into the descriptions when I get a chance.
I find this bit interesting (see picture).
The ideas highlighted in the thumbnails are exactly the same against isolated pawn positions. Even though I believe one was a caro and the other a tarrasch.
Both positions look fricking boring.
He should play more enterprising chess.
If you think playing against an IQP is boring then how can you call yourself a chess player??
Pretty sure the tarrasch can transpose into the caro panov depending on how the central tension is handled when both players have the same center structure
Bit of a stinker, beary got lucky. Is "the tactics really got me" a Tyler reference?
Yeah, I'm kinda embarrassed to be uploading such garbage, but it's all part of the process. It's the ugly reality of online chess.
No need to be embarrassed. If you didn't frick games up occasionally it would be less interesting (and also suspicious).
>trying to learn KID
>no idea what I'm doing I know I should play f5 or something
>f5... uh... h5... uh... g4...
>it works
Someone give me some tips
exchange on d4 to avoid the bayonetta
>tfw no 3000 chess puzzles a day gf
do you also want her to be attending highschool?
No not really why do you ask?
I was going to ask some Indian convenience store workers if they were following pragg in the world cup finals but I didn't because I thought it might be racist.
Thoughts? And what are the chances a random Indian dude has any idea about Indias chess presence? I gotta think it's pretty high
>I thought it might be racist.
Why on Earth would it be? Some people are absolutely fricked in the head about this shit. Chess is getting incredibly popular among sirs.
Ya I dont know what I was thinking. Maybe I didn't mean racist but patronizing somehow. In hindsight probably some of them were into it and it's not like I'd be upset if someone made me aware that someone from my country were in the finals of some big event
>And what are the chances a random Indian dude has any idea about Indias chess presence?
Pretty low. Similarly if you asked random people on the street in US or Canada who Magnus Carlsen is, you would have a low rate of recognition. I bet there would be a few who would guess he was a world's strongest man competitor or something. Indians are more universally in to footie and cricket.
Well what about Norway? Canada and USA aren't countries that promote chess or care about it. India I think is. But ya when I worked in kitchens I had Indian coworkers and none of them cared about chess though they did know who anand was
>Who exactly is this Tyler guy and why are so many anons posting about him?
well you have to understand the zoomer mindset: it's easier to laugh at someone else than try to do things yourself. that is why they spend every moment of their teens and 20's watching a small screen showing another person's computer screen playing a game. it's the "watch people do life" generation. yesterday it was a different e-celeb and tomorrow it'll be a different one. the only constants will be
>player has to be bad (to get sadistic satisfaction from his losses)
>he can't be good-looking or happy (for the same reason)
>has to have a million videos on youtube (where zoomers spend 99% of their time)
Take your blood pressure meds, grandpa.
weren't you going to put on a trip Va Chier Larpov
Amusing take. I'm over 40, work 10+ hours a day, and mostly got back into chess so that I could teach my kid the basics the way my dad taught me and also so that he wouldn't be wrecking my shit before he was ten (unless he turned out to be some kind of prodigy, which he didn't).
Anyway I am Tyler enjoyer and in it for the lulz. I barely watch his videos but I watch one every now and then when people here make a big stink about it because it's almost an instructional on how not to play.
Whatever, gonna be an anonymous boomer shitposting as a zoomer again. Until next time, homosexual.
rentfree homosexual
looks like you hit a nerve
i hate endgames more than anything else on the fricking planet.
you guys were talking a lot about books for beginners... it's definitely the area where chess literature is weakest. obviously we have ten million books for every opening and approach to chess for people around 2000 FIDE strength. but what about books for people who are maybe 1200 USCF or 1700 lichess? every author suffers from the same illness which is trying to drop sick high-level knowledge that will impress strong players instead of using universal language that newbs could appreciate
and we (authors and chess teachers) have a tendency to overwhelm with highly complicated seemingly contradictory chess concepts like
>king safety above all
>material means nothing; momentum is all that matters
>1 pawn up is often all it takes to have a winning endgame
in basketball there's an understanding that no player can do everything because we all have our own unique strengths and weaknesses. are you 6'1" and skinny? then be careful hanging out around the rim where the big boys play. are you 7'0", 300? then don't for a second think you can put moves on a guard - they'll take the ball from you casually
in chess there's this ultra-perfectionist sense of "well you're gonna' have to learn to do everything" and "you might not like endgames but you still have to study them"
wish there were more personalities and authors who talked like this
>you and i both know you're not gonna' be a master. ever.
>doesn't matter. what matters is that we're going to get some filthy checkmates off on masters
>and then they'll see your rating and be that much angrier
>frick openings, frick endgames, frick evals
>you lost the advantage after 7 moves?
>no problem
>we're check-mating this b***h
it's an attitude represented in
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frick off, and stop posting about lunchtime rowdy ball and rappers every fricking post
>larpov is an unironic viper fan
kek I din't even know when i made this
>we (authors and chess teachers)
Dude shut the frick up
>reach elo milestone
>start playing like shit and yoyoing immediately after
why does this always happen?
Regression to the mean. It's simple mathematics.
This is a fun endgame puzzle to solve.
https://lichess.org/training/sn6OU
White to move.
easy
who do the hell do you kids think you are?
you’re any kind of chess player!? anybody know who you are!? maybe everybody else wants to enjoy the IMs and strogn players of Ganker. it used to be one of the most important places in all of Ganker and who are you? who are you!?! you miserable presumptuous babydick /misc/ zoomers.
you’re no chess player. a chess player respects the silence, it serves as the foundation of creativity. you obviously don’t have the talent. you don’t have enough respect for yourself or other people, or know what it means to respect yourself! In chess or any form of creativity!
and i’m a USCF circuit veteran. sucker!
i've been on the internet longer than you were alive and I know every general and why they were ruined by zoomers.
you suck!
you’re a weakie!
if you really have talent, go practice. and then get yourself an otb rating, instead of ruining the end of the day for everybody down here! you're a disgrace! you are everything that’s gone wrong in this world!
you’re a self consumed, no-talent, mediocre piece of shit! and I’ve earned my right to say it! okay?
i beat NMs in the 2000s.
i gave lessons to kids and i'm a premium chessgames.com member. who the frick are you kids!?
karjakin would be lucky to draw me. who the frick are you kids!?
you’re nothing! you're nothing! you are nothing! and you will never be anything! never! how dare you! how dare you.
you misogynist, little incels! shame on you!
you crack your stupid little israelite jokes, you little /misc/cels!
go learn to play. go learn to play.
you’re a weakie!
you can’t even mate with a fricking rook! i don’t care about your little lichess account, it doesn’t mean you know how to play!
you’re weakie!
i’m trained classically, i’m trained contemporaneously, and you suck little zoomers!
frick off
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/16oidvh/ding_liren_withdrew_from_the_gct_because_of/
Hikaru leaking that Ding Dong is medically unfit to play chess
>Hikaru just goes on reddit and calls people morons
Gradually I began to like him
Damn. Hope he's okay if some health issue really is the reason.
>captcha: vaxxmh
Uh oh
I've been really sick and I wasn't able to breathe yesterday and I was thinking it'd be pretty embarrassing if I died of covid pneumonia as a proud antivaxxer. Just a bad sinus infection tho
at least you'd die as a real human bean
Yes, I play the QGD and slav exchange
Are you me? Because that is what I do as well.
At the same time?
Can I just skip mate in 1, it seems really easy 😡
That's the warm-up section.
So am I supposed to pace them, like start with 2 pages mate in 1, then do a big session of mate in 2?
If they were at least mate in 1 from middle games it would feel relevant to my games, but who wouldn't find mate on a bare king.
it gets like that later on if yu're talking aout the polgar book
I'm just going to push through in that case, I'm only about 1/4 through the mate in 1s 😡
It doesn't matter that much. There are only about 300 mates in one, so you can actually go through all of them fairly quickly if you're feeling confident.
Dried mushroom crisps and delicious rainwater straight from god's tap
An old lady gave me the dehydrate mushrooms and I thought they looked cute and earthy. I don't eat them.
are you actually supposed to imagine the whole chess board in your mind?
I can only imagine pieces of a position for now
for example I can imagine 3 thirds of the chess board at the same time but I can't put them together if that makes sense
terrible fit
would be alright if he changed the pants
Easily fixed with a necklace, more bracelets and some better shoes, with shades. I don't hate the pants, but I really really really hate the basketball shoes.
>necklace and bracelets
homosexual alert
I bet you don't wash your butthole because you think touching it in the shower is gay.
and I don't wash my dick either
Any anons know of any decent resources for learning about playing against d4 systems (london, colle, stonewall, veresov, etc)? I am aware of the book "GM Repertoire: Beating 1.d4 sidelines" and the chessable course "Beat d4 systems" - but both are aimed at fairly advanced players who just need to be told "this is the best setup when faced with a london, this is the best setup when faced with a colle" and so on.
I would like something more like a precis on the systems, what the main goals are, tactics, traps, and tricks that people are most likely to throw at me and then how I should play to win.
It's a long shot, but does anyone know of where I kind find such material?
Next time you play someone who plays the opening you have trouble with add them and challenge them to blitz games until you figure something out, repeat as necessary.
Opening knowledge is bad for beginners, it will make you narrow minded. Once you feel like you have had some good games/ideas you should start looking to outside resources, which given your experience will become more digestible.
You are a repulsive pussy. System learners disgust me. Be a real chess player for once in your life.
>t.someone whos rating is higher than yours
Nta, but they were asking how to beat system learners, not to learn a system themselves. They just worded it funny.
I hope this is copypasta. Saving anyway.
Thank you for replying - that's generally what I do to, but I still keep on having very mixed results against these apparently "bad" systems.
I generally play something akin to: 1.d4 d5 2.[Nf3,Nf6, e6], Nf6 3.[whatever], c5, 4 [whatever], Nc6. Usually there will be complications if they take on c5 which I will have to resolve. I then try to get my light squared bishop out of the pawn chain before playing e6. From there it's just a game of chess, hopefully.
Out of all the systems I find the Jobava the easiest to deal with because most people playing it have one basic plan which is the c6 knight jump trying to go for the fork before you can castle. If you can pin their c6 knight with your DSB then play the c5 break you're generally good as they're out of plans and out of luck.
I seem to do worst against the colle for some reason. Generally some seemingly unsound sac on h7 or f7 followed by a mating sequence.
The London is a mixed bag. A lot of people will just crumble against c5 but other people have actually studied theory and don't immediately lose their entire queenside to Qb6 after you busted the center with c5. Most London players will only want to attack a castled king on the kingside and don't know the queenside plans at all - these are easy to thwart by castling long and playing the aforementioned plans. The players that know the queenside plans are much harder to beat.
Anyway that's enough of my general seething on the matter. Look out for my chessable course coming soon*: "Shitting on shitters: Understanding and mogging d4 shitstems".
*By soon I mean probably never I barely have time to study never mind write a fricking book.
**Maybe I should call the hypothetical course "GETOUTTAHERE: Understanding and mogging d4 system shitters". Just a thought.
You're completely wasting your time studying openings, do the coordinate trainer and play puzzle rush.
>do the coordinate trainer
that's even more useless than openings
To most of us, sure, the anon I replied to used incorrect coordinates almost as many times as they used correct ones.
A beginner is going to benefit dramatically more from working on their board vision than learning opening theory for sidelines, you are actually going to make people itt worse at chess and we will never get our revenge on those cute and valid transgirls.
Honestly the problem is less my knowledge of board coordinates and more this shitty text box more designed for posting "Black person", "MOAR", and "FRICK OFF homosexual" than for posts longer than four lines of text long.
I've seen a few people (or maybe it's just you?) get upset about coordinates with multiple people on here. I'll make sure to type up my posts in notepad and double check my notation in future so as not to trigger your pretty princess pants any further.
>Firstly
If you do 5 reps of coordinate trainer and mate in 3 a few times per week I actually guarantee you hit 1600 lichess in a couple months, or your money back.
I also bet you could spend 20 hours this month studying d4 sidelines and your rating will not be significantly impacted.
>And second
As a certified pretty princess I'm wearing a skirt so # 1-0
>I also bet you could spend 20 hours this month studying d4 sidelines and your rating will not be significantly impacted.
You're definitely right about that. Finishing some of the tactics and puzzle books I have would have an impact across all aspects of my game - for example actually completing Susan Polgar's Mastering Defensive Technique would probably have far more impact on my getting mated by d4 system players than any amount of time studying the tricks and tactics of said d4 systems.
Which one makes me feel like a big boy with his big boy pants on who pretty princesses want to play with, though? Sigh.
Agreed, it's totally fricking cringe but it's not this huge "AHA I've spotted an impostor who can barely play the game!" error that some people make it out to be. The first edition of Winning Chess Strategy got fricking *published* with more notation errors per page than I made in my post so yeah this shit happens when you're tired and editing text in a tiny fricking popup. REE. Still gonna keep taking notes on the general themes of the different d4 systems that get played against me though, it can't hurt to type that stuff up, especially after a loss.
Messing up coordinates is cringe but it has 0 impact on your ability to play the game. Other than the schizo here, you won't find a single chess teacher recommending that you drill coordinates. If you are still a beginner, just keep playing. The more you play the better you will become.
you should drill coordinates until I can name you a square and you can tell me the color instantly!!! c6?!
It affects your ability to talk about the game which is important if you want to be in a chess community and talk about games.
This also contributes to beginners calculating the same move multiple times, and calculating lines but forgetting the idea when it actually comes on the board, and so on.
Words help people understand things, that's why we made them.
Also I have the suspicion you have either never been to a coach or you were already fluent with the board coordinates when you did because a coach absolutely will insist you learn the coordinates if they see you are lacking.
>Foundations are meant to be beneath you, so if they are above it's a problem.
>calculating lines but forgetting the idea when it actually comes on the board
That's called being moronic, has nothing to do with knowing coordinates or not.
An early c5 against all of them in combination with Nc6 is all I know about it. I try to get e5 in if white let's me. Results are pretty decent. I start with d5 but I think Nf6 shouldn't make a huge difference.
https://lichess.org/VBkdTQEL
Ok you're seriously not going to want to miss this one
I truly believe I might have been temporarily possessed by the spirit of Bobby Fischer when I made the 'quiet' move: 15.Qd6
Nothing else to say other than this is by far the most technical game of my entire career and life so far, and you better believe I was smack-talking and autofellating live in the lichess chat after realizing how ingenious my moves actually were
What the frick is going on with lechess.
First time someone's played the Damiano and not instantly resigned in a slow game. Finally had to prove it.
God damn never resigner shitskin resigns ONE move B4 m8.
Oh well 1700 now!
It's fricking amusing to see someone who can play that well playing Damiano's defence of all things. It's an opening that is known to be busted for literally hundreds of years, almost anything else would be better. I can sort of understand these kinds of pet openings for blitz where you can play almost anything if it's surprising enough.
He held it together at a +4 minimum for a long time even while I played top 3 moves.
I think he just got lucky cuz uhh
>He held it together at a +4 minimum for a long time even while I played top 3 moves.
Yeah when you said you were 1700 I assumed that he was going to be too, unless by "slow game" you mean correspondence in which case uh yeah. Heh.
Yes Im the correspondance challenge spammer
post some challenges
https://lichess.org/78BzSBE3
GG anon, the game was very close at the beginning
GG let's do it again some time. I'll read chapter 2 first.
I should freshen up on my openings, I haven't studied in years
Get Marcs book. Unfortunately it's so fun it'll ruin any subsequent chess books you read
Dude's probably just played 2...f6 for his whole chess life thinking it's a good move and got crushed by the knight sacrifice so many times he developed his own system against it without ever realizing that f6 was the problem. Poor guy.
https://lichess.org/training/OJ8QS
What the FRICK is this
Batteries are dangerous, don't forget your umbrella
free piece
I saw bullshit immediately and unclicked the rated button. I was afeared of Rh8+.
am I the only one that taunts players by giving them 15 seconds over and over?
I played you as anonymous 1+0
common practice on anon lichess
I like to do it when I'm tilted and my opponent plays something I don't like and then get even more tilted when I lose anyway
I believe in you, Harry
They only draw one corner of the board and still get it wrong.
every time
they call me the blunderer
yeah, the blunderer
i roam around, around around around
how is tyler 1400 at puzzles? thats like learned chess a week ago tactics ability.
he isn't very good at chess, never will be
Knowing there is something to find is still an advantage for a player who is blind.
Nice
for (you)
I think he was saying 1400 is really bad. How long has the Tyler guy been playing? I don't understand the /chess/ fixation on him. What's so special about him?
>What's so special about him?
flavor of the month to amuse anons. not a whole lot going on in chess right now, our normal mascot Stjepan is not posting videos, so we have discount Stjepan in the interim.
do these people lurk /chess/?
It's the same problem he has when he plays his games i assume.
There's a HUGE problem with the way Tyler chooses chess moves and it's what i call the "maybe" mindset. The guy doesn't calculate. He simply doesn't think about what he's doing. Everything's "maybe". Do the test yourself next time you watch him: count how many times he says "maybe" before making a move if you make it a drinking game you'll probably pass out before the video even ends. "maybe go here", "maybe there" "dunno...". Never considers the opponent's optimal moves, if he does it's only one variation one move deep and that's it. Must be some kind of brain damage from playing the London, i don't know.
And how does this relate to puzzles? Open the guy's profile and you'll see he gets half of them wrong (??). Every single session. The only explanation for such bad results is that he doesn't get puzzles wrong by miscalculating lines and playing a suboptimal move, he's getting them wrong because even at puzzles he plays by the "maybe". Like someone who has just learned how the pieces move. The reason you think "it's like learned chess a week ago tactics ability", is because it is.
>The only explanation for such bad results is that he doesn't get puzzles wrong by miscalculating lines and playing a suboptimal move, he's getting them wrong because even at puzzles he plays by the "maybe". Like someone who has just learned how the pieces move
dont we all do this? i calculate a bit but if i cant figure it out i eventually get to a "frick it" stage and just throw something out there that looks good
NTA but imo If you're doing puzzles, you're supposed to calculate until you see the end of the variation and only than move.
For games, unless you're playing bullet, you should calculate when there is tension in the position and when you find yourself in a critical moment. You're not supposed to calculate at every move, as that will burn yourself out, but when you do calculate you should calculate until you get to clarity. If the calculation is too complicated and you can't figure it out, then better to play a simple calming move(lets say you have to choose between a complicated attacking line that involves a sacrifice that you can't figure out till the end and a move that is equal and easy to play), but you shouldn't say "just frick it, I'll do it anyway".
>but you shouldn't say "just frick it, I'll do it anyway".
how else will you build your instincts baka
"frick it i'll just do it anyway" is the most effective way there is of building instincts, BAD instincts.
prove it b***h
How can you know if the instincts you're building are good if you haven't rationalized them? It's like playing russian roulette with your chess skill, with 5 chambers loaded.
you autistic calculationtards will never get it, sometimes you can just feel the move is good
C.O.E. is Canty's motto. Calculation Over Everything. Everything else is hopechess.
a shitter who has to pretend to be GM because he cant make it there for real
What's your FIDE rating again?
2839
I kneel
Hi Magnoose, lay off the booze
200
I'm guessing this is why a lot of lower rated players think they "have a chance" when they play significantly stronger players. They think chess implies much more random chance than it actually does
I was talking with a friend who plays casually and is ~1100 on lichess and although I'm more than 1000 points higher rated he was convinced that he's got, and I quote, "a decent chance of beating me", he just thought he needed "the right mindset and energy". The whole interaction felt incredibly funny to me
>but you shouldn't say "just frick it, I'll do it anyway".
That's called "taking your opponent into a deep dark forest."
You're right. It's like he doesn't understand that chess is a perfect information game. He does some combination of hope chess and magical thinking. I understand how he's lazy at puzzles as I used to do the exact same thing. Play the move that looks like it's probably right and then, if that one was right, do the same thing on move 2. Horrible habit and I wish I had someone to smack me in the back of the head for it back then. I didn't have that same problem during games. I tried my best to calculate it was just that my calculation was garbage (and not helped by my lazy puzzle approach).
You shouldn't do this outside of bullet and blitz time pressure.
im not gonna spend hours trying to solve a single puzzle, if i cant figure it out in a few minutes max im obviously missing something so might as well just find out what the answer is and try to learn from it
Give it 15 minutes at least. Grinding away at one puzzle is more valuable than knocking out a bunch of easy ones or going 50% success rate.
This. It's also a lot more rewarding (even in a "feel-good", dopamine sense) when you spend a long time to find the answer to a very hard puzzle you thought was impossible at first sight and then you confidently play the moves you found on the board and they are correct. Calculating puzzles until the end and getting them right not only feels good, it reinforces good habits.
I play like this and I'm 2000 lichess. Tyler's problem is that he constantly blunders pieces and plays incredibly passive chess.
ah looks like its time for the quarterly chess midlife crisis
absolutely the dirtiest moves ive ever had
he thought it was checkmate, didnt realize he lost his queen LOL
Jennifer Yu
Hou? Yifan.
Silman died.
Any article or obituary? All I can find is an entry on his wikipedia page that says he died today.
I could only find this tweet
https://twitter.com/USChess/status/1705066466914050491
Man that's a bummer. 🙁
Oh shit. IM Silman died.
>IM
Ah, so a nobody
Actually it's the exact opposite. I think therefore IM
anyone ever try the fred defense its full moron but actually not that bad, damiano is way more busted for example, this is only +1.7
Esserman streams are fire. If you're not watching you're missing out.
Coincidentally this is my first time watching for more than a few minutes, andromeda is such a lolcow
Yeah he is a character for sure.
I'm watching it now and god what a fricking degenerate chat. I feel sorry for Marc having to put up with these "people"