I don't know which platform you play on but I'm on lichess which is apparently inflated since it starts new players at 1500 and then rise/fall from there. But my rapid rating is1649 over 230 games, classical at 1651 over 98 games. I haven't played blitz since May but that's 1356 over 28 games.
I asked in the other chess thread if you think you could beat Magnus if you had 2 moves to his 1. Most seem to think they could. Fair. What if he only had a King and Queen to your full set?
I just went on lichess and obliterated stockfish, which is far stronger than magnus, by giving stockfish a handicap where i deleted its queenside rook, knight and bishop. It had all of its other pieces. my rating is the bottom 3rd of all players on lichess. You're massively overestimating how much handicap a player can overcome.
From the vault! But yeah, just protect pieces and Magnus’ queen is near zero chance (but not impossible) to checkmate with only the queen. Magnus’ king would find it difficult to make it close enough to your side to protect the queen to win.
Can I beat Magnus when he only has pawns and a king and queen? absolutely yes. And 2-1 moving sets up all sorts of mating and exchanging threats.
I don't play chess at all but I do like to watch Hikaru and agadmator sometimes. I imagine my performance would look about like this (so, terrible):
Mannnn.... Is anyone watching PogChamps? WTF is this streamer? CodeMiko is unwatchable for me. Props to her for making money off a market for it, but I'm so creeped out by that. It doesn't help that everything she says is also nonsense.
Trying to figure out how to play against the Sicilian, so I'm messing around with move variations and wasn't sure what to do if this position ever happens (it has happened to me before), so I put it into an engine.... How to read this? It looks like it's telling me to go to bxc3. What am I doing wrong? (In actual gameplay I took with the pawn).
That explains a lot. I thought I could read notation, but would then get confused sometimes like now.
No doubt, it can get odd. The worst for me is when two rooks are on the same row or file, move along that shared row/file, and then it has to get written just right to indicate which one moves.
Stockfish 12+ is what lichess has to offer on their analysis boards and I always click the plus icon to let depth go as high as possible.
I only play like 4 openings. When I try to play openings I don’t know I just hemorrhage rating points.
Idk, I have a limited repertoire and just stick to core principles. Perfect play for 15 moves or something will yield maybe a pawn advantage? I just want to make it to mid game where tactics take over. I think I (and most) would be better served improving endgame conversion.
is there a better feeling in the world than getting someone on the stafford gambit? https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/17717460419?tab=analysis
Here we go again. Magnus v Nepo, world chess championship, kicks off Friday morning (7:30 est, nearly every day). Best of 14 (120 minutes for first 40 moves, +60 min for next 20 moves, +15 min for rest of the game, 30 second increment starting on turn 61), if necessary tiebreaker (4 rapid games [25m+10s increment]), then if nec. blitz and Armageddon. I doubt it will get to tiebreaks this time, while Nepo does have a 4-1 classical record vs Magnus, Carlsen will do what is needed to avoid where he could risk his title to tighter time controls (despite his unmatched superiority in that space).
Get ready for the first twenty moves to be memorized stockfish moves. I'm pretty excited to keep up with it though. Glad I will get to see some games and not have to work during them.
My daughter’s school hosted a chess event a few weeks ago with their chess class. Sam Shankland was a special guest. Turns out he was a student at her school back in the day. Same teacher he had is still there. Pretty cool. She played a handicapped game (she picked his pieces to take off table) and won.
First decisive game was this morning btw. Draws through five games but Magnus opted to go two rooks and a knight vs Ian’s Queen and a bishop and it was a slow bleed as Magnus picked off some connected passed pawns on the a and b file. Then exchanged one of the rooks for a pawn and the last bishop, just started slow marching his way up the kingside. 3.5-2.5 as it stands, eight matches to go.
Thank goodness. Probably a hot take but chess would be much more interesting if the players were banned from using computers to prepare (impossible to enforce). I would think the games would be more decisive and creative instead of each player using the same computer program to memorize all the moves.
Also, these three successive quotes from Kasparov on 960 are fucking hilarious: "Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position." — Garry Kasparov,[47]December 2001 "Random chess lets me enjoy myself and get publicity for chess without having to disrupt my life for months of preparation." — Garry Kasparov,[48] August 2018 "I think we're making theory or even making history because we're opening not even a new chapter but basically a new book on the game of chess. That's why I think all players are excited." — Garry Kasparov,[49]September 2018
I don’t really mind the computer prep all that much. I think it’s pretty cool how small the margin of error is for these guys. However, they should make the time control shorter. It’s hard to want to tune in when a game can go for 8 hours.