I wanna see more moves leading up to this ending. Dude has mate in 1 possibilities but can’t get his king out of forced mate.
Speaking of Hikaru, apparently he got married the other day. To Iranian WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan. Chess players always seem to marry each other, and it’s gotta be frustrating for those kids when they naturally grow up to be really strong chess players too, yet both their mom and dad can still easily crush them blindfolded at 80. https://www.chess.com/news/view/nakamura-finds-his-queen-marries-pourkashiyan
playing as black and we just exchanged bishops. i knew what was happening from here and smiled the entire way. y'all see it?
This would be better if you posted the screenshot after they went h6 on the next move. If they somehow find Kc2, there’s still a possibilities for black to:
if they go c2, I'm playing e2 and still queening a pawn before they can. it's not an immediate mate but i am still winning from there. besides, i liked the move because it seemed like they tunnel-visioned on the queen after i lost my bishop whereas i had other ideas. :)
Magnus and Hikaru play tomorrow in the final of the Speed Chess Championship at 2pm Eastern. Should be great viewing.
hell yeah. Out of curiosity, what’s your rating? I’ve sadly obliterated mine because I only ever get the gumption to play when I’m fucked up these days. Should’ve done two accounts, but yolo.
It’s honestly the best board game there is. I don’t think there’s anything else out there that offers truly limitless opportunities for improvement.
I'm still playing several games a day usually 10 minute rapid and I'm pretty consistently around 875-925. Crazy how much my game suffers if I don't play for a few days
Yeah where I am and try for one game a day. Take a few days and pick it up and make some truly bonehead moves. Was +6 yesterday in my first game and just played way too fast for no reason and blundered it away. So frustrating.
Teaching my wife chess soon, she expressed a minor interest. This will be a battle between my poor teaching skills and her tiktok-long attention span.
Honestly early in learning, engines were so good for my advancement. It really help me connect everything
For post game analysis, absolutely. Replaying mistakes, etc. It remains something I do to this day. I bought a board that records my moves strictly so I can analyze over the board matches later. It’s janky though so I rarely turn it on.
I also think for a beginner that is really trying to gain his game, an engine really helps creating an opening they get comfortable with. Too many beginners make massive mistakes on the opening and than they'll never catch up.
The chess.com GM videos on openings are really great, learn an opening/defense, get comfortable and understand its theory/concept. No need to create your own opening, you got 600 years of history to leverage
just broke 1700 on lichess after about 9 months of playing on the site i migrated over to lichess from chesscom around the start of the year when chesscom started really hammering the subscription stuff. looks like my all-time high there was 1383 in 2021. anyone know how those ratings are calibrated?
i found this which showed that my scores were about equivalent: https://www.chessratingcomparison.com/graphs
Pretty pumped. Tried out blindfold mode on lichess today and after making a new account as to not destroy my elo I got my first blindfold win at ~1300 elo after losing 5 in a row (normal blitz elo there for me is 1700-1800 ish). I’m now around 1100 and 2-13 because it’s fucking hard lol. My last game before I rage quit for the night I was up +6.8 according to the engine postgame and then threw because I couldn’t remember if I had taken with my pawn or bishop on move 7 and 30 moves later it fucked me. Probably need to slow down to rapid so I have time to review the notation to remember where the pieces are but it’s really trippy to play with “invisible” pieces.
alright after about 30 games blindfolded 5min blitz, I'm 950-1000 lichess elo blindfolded which apparently according to that converter website is 550-600 chess.com elo. I'll take it. So frustrating though because like the last game I was +6 and threw because I couldn't remember where a bishop was and blundered my queen for a pawn. Really, really hard to keep track of minor pieces and open files. Interestingly I find it easy to visualize the pawn structures, but the fucking bishops are my undoing.
Haven’t played in a bit and thought Ian was going to run away with the candidates early on again. But tomorrow should be pretty fun to follow. Gukesh .5 lead facing Hikaru (who is .5 back) as black and then Ian vs. Fabi both within .5. Guessing Gukesh draws and then Fabi wins to force tiebreaks.
Was rooting for an alireza draw so that it could be a 4 way tie but gukesh winning and forcing 3 of the top 4 players to have to win tomorrow makes it much more exciting. And if Gukesh ends up winning it all we get a 17 yr old world championship challenger unreal
Worth mentioning is whoever wins will likely be a decent favorite against Ding. He’s been quite mediocre since winning the title.