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>Previous thread:
>>95885154

>>95909814
Avoid the related gambits, they aren't that special, and if you really want to be a retard go out early with the queen.

do people actually play chess here
https://lichess.org/zfWe3FdO

>>95917728
is anyone here? i posted me challenge in a fresh general seems dead just wanna play chess

>>95917858
Why? It's a waste of time.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1278768&kpage=1
Karl Marx was good at chess

>>95917864
excuse me? this is a CHESS general im here to post challenges, just beat the last guy, are you losers open to chess tourists?
https://lichess.org/6hzByVux

>>95917913
very dead here, this is the 4chan chess general? i just posted a challenge and no one is here to take it, i want to play chess show me your best

>>95917913
I play only the VARIANTS my friend.

>>95917950
chess tourist here is it spam to post challenges here? why is it so slow here
https://lichess.org/J6rcFRH9

>>95917985
cool post a variant challenge

>>95917992
are there any strong players here willing to head the challenge?
https://lichess.org/J6rcFRH9

>>95918015
so quiet here, is there a better place on 4chan to post chess?

>>95918046
just beat the last two players why is this place so weak?

only play if your 1500+
https://lichess.org/3FMdb52M

>>95917010 (OP)
how strong are you OP? ive beaten all your best players so far

>posts Karl Marx on 4chan
>plays on a Marxist website
holy cows what a troll

>>95918143
are you here to play chess or not? stop being stupid

>>95918153
no one playing chess in a chess general

>>95918177
This. Even on r/chess (1.7 million members) you can't post a challenge and expect to find a sparring partner. That's why chess websites exist.

Pic related is a fair representation of our general: we hang out with the boys... I mean, the girls.... and chat a little about some tourney or the latest chess happening.

>>95918255
Have you posted on r/chess? It's in fact very busy, im here to play chess and post slightly edgy chess related humor. Btw you're here why don't you accept my challenge?

im trying to get to 1000 rating on chess dot com blitz. play me if you're similar rating. my username is sunlandial

>>95918451
Post a challenge its easier and normally how we do things around here

>>95918480
https://link.chess.com/play/mbqsp7

Thank Christ I finally found a worse opponent than me to finish out the night. I'm going to go with the excuse that aside from half a dozen games a couple of years ago I haven't played since I was a kid.

>>95920497
You really need to play everyday or your brain will start to forget how things work in chess. It's not like swimming or riding a bicycle.

oh wow they invited Erdogmus: https://www.chess.com/events/2025-bullet-chess-championship

>>95917010 (OP)
I love the Scotch opening. If only I was good at it.

>>95922474
Nihal Sarin is such a supervillain name

>>95925416
Tiniest chess villain ever lol

>>95922474
Duda bros the norwood reaper is near

I am brand new to chess, climbing in the 200 elo shitter league.
I don't understand how draws work. How is this a losing/drawing position?

>>95927042
>and new to chess, climbing in the 200 elo shitter league.
>I don't understand how draws work. How is this a losing/drawing position?
Black is not in check but has no legal move. Moving your bishop to e6 screwed you because it cut off the black kings only escape.

>>95927068
Right but him having no legal move shouldn't result in draw, it should result in a lose.
I thought moving bishop to e6 would setup a checkmate.

>>95927085
In these situations it's better to always check the king until you find the right way to checkmate. If you trap it in a corner like you did, make sure it has a few squares available, then bring in the piece that will support the mate without further limiting it's movement; in your case, king to c2.

>>95917010 (OP)
>Uzchess Cup
round 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp2RDBEkoos

>>95927210
Thanks

>>95927085
>Right but him having no legal move shouldn't result in draw, it should result in a lose.
its simple:
>make non-legal move, loose (not possible online)
>can't make a legal move, draw

it's just the base rules you have to accept them. All that "but I could have won because I was in the advantage" doesn't matter. If you are ahead but not able to checkmate, then you don't deserve a win.

>>95927042
this is called "Stalemate", a draw
(In shatranj and medieval chess, this was a win, along with taking all the opponent's pieces. Stalemate only became a draw in the 1400s, shortly before the Queen and Bishop got their powerful long range moves.)

This setup is sick: rooks already doubled, queens looking at the king next door, and the pawns are so well defended that I can't figure out any attacking plan.

Did no one notice chessbae was on the 4chan mods/janny list?

what's the best resource to learn endgames for the discerning autist? I value neatly organized material, comprehensiveness, and pure no nonsense logic

>>95934277
https://listudy.org/en/endgames
https://lichess.org/study/search?q=endgames
https://lichess.org/training/endgame

>>95934535
thank you brother

>>95932850
Poor bishops :(

>>95934244
Irrelevant.

>>95934244
>Did no one notice chessbae was on the 4chan mods/janny list?
Source?

>>95927085
>it should result in a lose
No it shouldn't. You were incapable of finding check and black physically can't move and is not currently in check.

>>95922474
Faustino is trying to get in: https://www.chess.com/play/arena/4293251

https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-countries

>>95917010 (OP)
>Aktobe Open
Round 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZy29QXF0U

>>95927085
this is true. The new chess stalemate is designed to reward mental retards who lose the battlefield. That's one part of why variants are so much superior to playing regular chess. Stalemate in original chess is a win as his king has been captured by your army, and chaturanga bare-piece rule means a naked king is simply defeated.

Though the very best is the way duck chess does it, where the king is simply allowed to step in front of pawns and die, so there's no reward at all for having your retard king trapped in a spearwall of enemies, the king is only rewarded for having escape squares, not rewarded for putting itself in a trash corner spot. Of more than a thousand rated duck games, I have a grand total of zero draws. Without the stalemate gimmick, whoever is the better player essentially always wins. The stalemate flaw is literally the reason "chess is a boring game" exists.

Hans seething hard ah ah https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/145097969391?tab=review

24 hours hyperbullet 10 seconds arena, because why not: https://www.chess.com/play/arena/4298693

>>95940724
Im surprised India isn't up there. Also some random ones like Seychelles and Ireland are kind of surprising

Are you one of those retards who insists on playing even though you're down 27 points? Cos that shit is annoying

>>95948116
NEVER RESIGN

>>95947984
It's per capita. The surprise for me is Singapore: I thought that the whole Asia was more into Go, Backgammon, Shogi, Xiangqi and other local stuff.

How do we solve the women's problem in competitive chess?

>>95952258
What's the problem exactly?

>>95952258
>in every women's only tourney, they should have one guy as a wild card with a similar rating as the field.
>women's world champ gets an automatic qualification for the men's candidates.
>make it socially acceptable to laugh at W* titles

it wouldn't fix it, but it would make it more interesting to watch.

>>95952360
if the man wins the women's tournament in that situation internet will explode

>>95952258
Abolish FIDE.

Weird news, the ELO is deflating! I was sure of the contrary. Source: https://lichess.org/@/Vlad_G92/blog/fide-ratings-revisited/BN89yF7d

Bullet Chess Championship live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWNbh1i5GIw

I want to do KID as black but I feel too often my opponent does weird off kilter shit that just throws me off my game. Know what I mean?

>>95958348
There are 40 types of KID. Leave the suffering of learning all of them to GMs.

>>95948116
I no diff this position as black

Can someone redpill me on the Englund Gambit? Why are low elo players so fascinated with this Englund queen check variation?

I've unironically played this EXACT opening (or some variation of it) probably hundreds of times in casual unranked games.
Is this like the new scholar's mate or something?

1. d4 e5
2. dxe5 Nc6
3. Nf3 Qe7
4. Bf4 Qb4+
5. Bd2 Qxb2
6. Nc3 Bb4
7. Rb1 Qa3
8. Nd5 ....

The thing that bothers me is you would think that for how easy it is to get the queen trapped or get forked in this line, it would be nowhere near as common as it is. So that begs the question, are retards just losing in this line and playing it the EXACT SAME WAY every single game? Surely this is an Indian/Middle East cheese right? I refuse to believe people that have an IQ above 80 play this.

>>95959467
Don't they take the bishop? I can't see any big problem.

>>95959622
If you sit down and spend about 15-20 minutes analyzing the Englund and its possible lines, you unironically will never lose against it again. It's an objectively third world tier opening.

https://wcc2025.fide.com/1021/fide-world-cup-under-8-12-leaders-emerge-after-day-4/
Russia still stronk!

Have you ever gotten Tetris effect from chess? It happened to me when watching football.

>>95963354
Chess gives me the Procrastination Syndrome.

>>95963354
It happened to me earlier. I was taking a nap and as I was drifting off, (virtual) chessboards and their pieces started manifesting behind my closed eyelids, quite vividly.

For a board populated with autists and pseudo-bigbrains this general is surprisingly slow.

>>95965648
Chess threads afe split across multiple boards (/v/, /sp/, even /vm/ I think)

white to move!!

>>95958180
day 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PceaWE7N8zc

>>95965793
Trade queens obviously. Anything other than that is beta shit and incorrect.

>>95967981
You can push the a and b pawns to free the diagonal and win the bishop. Black can only capture the e pawn with the knight.

>>95942453
round 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuFWMpPXd2k

>>95965818
Grand Final is starting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da0Y5Cgws4U

>>95918317
lmao

>>95952360
>make it socially acceptable to laugh at W* titles
Isn't this allowed already?

>>95975270
of course you can say a lot of things over the internet, but in polite company, no, you can't point out how ridiculous these titles are without becoming a social outcast. the only ones that can get away with it are top female players, i recall pragg's sister and judith polgar advocating for abolishing W* titles.

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