Dude, just attack LMAO

oh boy here we go
>All those guys, including Tal, knew their openings inside and out.
>Since children they were trained in classical chess in the very strict Soviet chess schools.
>Just because all the famous Tal games feature wild tactics
>doesn't mean Tal didn't know his openings and didn't know defense
>he won hundreds of quiet games that never make it to youtube
duh duh and duh. it didn't take much to get you to try and drop knowledge... what was it?
>They had a much more comprehensive knowledge of theory and openings than today's guys do
you could not be more wrong. opening theory has progressed tremendously, the openings are much more "mapped out" today. that is objectively reflected in the games themselves. you'll find players as strong as fischer, tal, spassky and petrosian making extremely basic opening mistakes that 2000 FIDE players know not to do. and it of course simply because we have the advantage of very convenient, very complete opening books. the opening books i have access to are, i don't know, 100x more complete than the ones bobby and the russians had? and yes, that engine can come up with some incredible TNs which are obviously relevant to opening theory

>Today's guys know the latest computer lines, but get destroyed as soon as you introduce a novelty like Vishy did to Carlsen in that game he won last WCC
it sounds so easy; i guess that's why carlsen has handled vishy like a child these past few years. you're giving me very low-level memes from the chess world. and you're making a bizarre distinction between "computer lines" and reading Šahovski informator. carlsen is more booked up than any of the past legends, however you want to look at it

if you were even 1500 USCF i would be surprised

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Why does afagmador have a cult like following?

now thats a face i havent seen in a while

Why the FUCK is chess divided by gender? It's CHESS. It's a board game for fuck's sake.

...

Not a sport.

I got to 1700 on lichess by playing the meme 1. Nf3 and going into KIA or QGD
Rate
Whomst is it?

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Got a mate who's trying to become GM, he's currently at 2400, what can I say to him that will make me sound smart?

Not a sport, bye.

why arechess girls always so cute?

do you really need to ask?

so that women would be interested in playing it too

And it's not completely divided by gender There's an open league for both men and women, and then a women's league

Chess is a sport. It's even recognised by the olympics:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_sports#Recognized_international_federations

C U T E

>dude, just attack LMAO
*blocks your path*

>I got to 1700 on lichess by playing the meme 1. Nf3 and going into KIA or QGD
I also got to 1700 by starting out at 1500 and playing just two games against other beginners who were very bad, while I'm just regularly bad and would probably end up around 1000 if I played regularly.

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1. d4 = Best by test

morphy would booty blast both these players

>try to find some qt Russian pornstars
>top page has blonde qt playing chess

How the fuk is russia so poorly managed as a country if even their retarded bottom of the barrel sluts like and play chess? Pretty wild desu. Our slags should learn from them

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T. John Nunn

never play f3

> 1. Nf3 and going into KIA or QGD
I hate studying theory so that's all i do with white too and i really enjoy it, have you found any light content about this two openings?

Ok this is based. Anish utterly btfo caryuwana

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define light

Pls gibbe anything breddy gud
t. The guy that gianluigi replied to

Mathew Sadler - The Queen's Gambit Declined
McDonald - Queen's Gambit Declined
Dunnington Angus - The Ultimate KIA (although this one is primarily for white)
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3FD192A0B04B26A71B2B2C85D52A9E20E46C3EE9&dn=Opening

>although this one is primarily for white)
That's all I really care about desu. I just play alekhines defense or the nimzo Indian as black against literally any first move

Based

Hey guys
Games go on Bye

chess is a sport

>loss streak on normal difficulty computer chess is now 114 straight games.

I just don't think I understand the game well.

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What's your rating?
Watch some beginner videos, study some basic lines of popular openings, and practice tactics on chesstempo or lichess.
It's really not hard to jump from u1000 to 1500.

Normal difficulty is not meant for beginners. Start at the bottom (very easy) and work your way up.

Don't rush moves either.

1700 blitz on lichess, so probably like 1200 ELO

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Play against real people retard and then look at the analysis to learn from your mistakes

Nope, it's not.

so they can win

see:

Any good methods to get better at it? Just keep playing it online until you hit your wall?