yes, chess is a table game, but you can play it on your computer, using steam, or our preferred site - lichess.org/ so it IS vidya related.
with lichess you can play anonymous games, at any skill level, any method, and with lots of customization options
it gives you a private link and whoever you share it with can join in or spectate: such as this lichess.org/NIbXHKEe first person to join can play me in a semi blitz mode
Who is your favorite chess player? what is your ranking? favorite opening?
Chess quiz of the day: Black to move, and win (4 moves)
Daily reminder that Fischer was right about everything, his talent can only be matched by Morphy, and Kasparov sucks shit
Mason Ross
I've never seriously studied, just watched letsplays on youtube and played against randos, although I've been doing this for a while. I also avoided getting an account/elo for fear of facing the painful truth of my room temperature IQ. If I were to guesstimate my elo, I'd say around 1400 as measured by lichess, and that's pretty generous.
I would suggest five minute as opposed to bullet for someone playing for 4 weeks though. Bullet is hell.
Logan Gomez
you're right - I was just trying to get people interested since these threads dont last very long ;_;
Connor Cooper
Fischer was right about everything, but most of all, chess. It's a goddamn shame that nobody plays his variant - it could deliver chess from gayass memorization circlejerk it has devolved into over the years
Aaron Allen
I got to a 1900 lichess bullet rating, not too bad. I'm afraid to play now because that was a few months ago and I know I'll drop down to
Ryan Thomas
QI is too low to be good at this game
Christian Jones
isn't this more of a /tg/ topic?
Owen Anderson
If you’re worried about rating just make another account to warm up with
Connor Kelly
king to f1, checkmate
Chase Kelly
>get tilted after getting BTFO by an Iranian guy on chess dot com who mocks me in the politest way possible >switch to alt acct and turn my engine on Ahahaha
Isaiah Collins
Too easy to track the engines. And its boring to play that way
Eli Torres
It's always sad to realize how effective those simple taunts are on you. There's literally no rational reason to flip your shit, but you always do, to the point of having to mute the chat.
Ra1 Kf2 Pawn promotes Kg3 and then I stopped giving a shit.
Jeremiah Hill
Why not fucking king takes after the check?
Aiden Miller
Queen can move pretty much where she fucking wants. Fuck the Matriarchy!
Isaiah Collins
Are you pretending to be retarded? >Kxe2
Michael Gray
idk about 4 moves but can't the king slowly stroll towards b1 then Ra1 then Ka2 then it's easy (e pawn dies at some point who cares)
Benjamin Scott
Hint 1: Can you give up the e-pawn and still win?
Hint 2: Once the white king is on e2, find a trick to promote the a-pawn.
heres a meta hint: For best results, take hint 2 with a grain of salt.
I will give one more final clue if nobody gets it soon
Julian Price
nah you bring your fucking king over there
Nathan White
Ohh, how about Ra1+, Kxe2, Rh1 threatening to promote. Rxa2 and then Rh2+ skewering the king and rook.
Josiah Phillips
uh never mind I missed some moves in there. But the concept is promising
Andrew Parker
the pawn is still on a3 not a2
Adam Miller
So Ra1+, kxe2, a2. If the king leaves the second rank, then check with the rookc and then promote. If not, play Rh1 and go with the skewer idea.
Oliver Hughes
Ah I get it, you push the a pawn and swing the rook over to the other side, that way if rook takes you can give check and grab it, and if king moves, you promote.
The problem is, it's not gonna be four moves because white can give you lots of nigger checks to prolong his suffering, and you can bet your ass he will, seeing as he still hasn't resigned.
top comment for this puzzle when first introduced: >A beautifully conceived skewer. White has no choice but to fall into black's trap of the rook.
A good puzzle since it is not immediately obvious that the win hinges not on actually achieving promotion, but on exploiting white's need to prevent it. White could play some pointless checks in the meantime but that would be to no avail, and if on white's 2nd move the king goes to the 3rd rank, a quick check is all black needs to see.
Jaxon Long
and on top of that: The game is between Pal Rethy and Euwe. The position is after 60. Ra8. The game continued 60 - - - Ra1+ 61 Kxe2 a2 White resigned.
Aiden Richardson
Do you mean win as in win material or win as in mate?
Jonathan Johnson
wrong
Elijah Bailey
Op here, I totally fucked up. The tagline (since it was taken from a real game) is: >"Black to move, and wins in 4"
Benjamin Cooper
so does my 1400elo slowly walk king down plan work or not
Adam Harris
is it really 4 when he nigger checks you 4 times
Aiden Morgan
It absolutely does. Just slide the king along the diagonal to your a pawn. There's fuckall black can do. I guess OP's point was to do it "elegantly".
Nolan Brown
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Brayden Sullivan
>Who is your favorite chess player? Alexandra Botez >what is your ranking? sub 1200 >favorite opening? i dunno, one of the middle pawns
yeah I beat stockfish with it, white is pretty fucked one way or another
Nathaniel Reyes
I think the problem is that it's doing the moves that white did in the real game. If white doesn't play f2 but c3 for example, he can temporarily stall. Run it through any engine and you will see.
Jeremiah Martinez
meant d3
Jayden Foster
white can check and check and check and check and check into oblivion, but the fear of pawn getting promoted will always make him a kitty going after the string - can you find any way that white wins?
Kayden Miller
that doesn't help, you check with Rd1+(freeing a1) then promote. not into oblivion(that would be a draw), only until your king makes it to his rook
Gavin Thompson
anyway thanks for keeping me up until 3am faggot OP, I'll be mad tired in my wagecage tomorrow, fuck chess and fuck chessfags
Chess is racist, white shouldn't have a higher winrate. Proposed changes: >Black knights replaced with BVLLS, they jump farther because of superior genetics >Black can deploy a Mutt (moves like Kangz) shogi style after capturing the white queen
whites should enslave blacks, but only temporarily, blacks should be able to NTR wh*tes, permanently
Jaxon Miller
What's should I focus on learning to improve my rating on chess.com?
I dropped down to ~800, learned a bit then climbed back to 1k
Kayden Long
chess is kind of weird that a lot of it is just memorizing what to do, and branching out, a few 'if thens' and it really is a race to who can memorize the most traps and it isnt so creative at the start. i love the end game though.
Henry Wright
Not dropping pieces, that should get you to 1200. Also you should definitely practice the basic tactics - forks, pins, skewers. And below 1000, always watch out for vulnerability to back rank mates, both for you and your opponent.
