Thread 96166479

Bughouse classic checkmate edition

>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:
https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5

>Calendar:
- Oskemen Open | July 20th - 30th
- Esports World Cup Chess Tournament | July 29th - August 1st
- Lichess Summer Marathon | August 2nd
- Sparkassen Chess Trophy - 52nd Dortmund Chess Days | August 2nd - 10th
- Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters | August 6th - 15th
- Grand Chess Tour: Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz | August 9th - 17th
- Sinquefield Cup | August 16th - 29th
- Maia Chess Open | August 22nd – 30th
- Fujairah Global Chess Championship | August 24th - September 3rd
- FIDE Grand Swiss | September 3rd - 16th
- Grand Chess Tour Finals | September 26th – October 4th
- FIDE World Senior Championships | October 20th - November 2nd
- FIDE World Cup | October 31st - November 27th
- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st

>Previous thread:
>>96076156

>>96166479 (OP)
Last round in Biel today: https://s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=10&turdet=YES&SNode=S0&tno=1215291

>>96167059
Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCzqMcn0Ox8

>>96166479 (OP)
>Esports World Cup
last chance qualifier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev85y_61rHA

Is there anybody who frequents this thread who also doesn't play any TTRPG's? Or do you all overlap with the rest of the board

>>96173623
I'm here because of traditional games like Backgammon and Go.

>>96173286
These are such typical moves I was curious to see how often they occurred in the database and what the results are - and I found something really crazy - just see for yourself... viewer discretion is advised.

>>96171748
Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNI-1frAHKA

Divya FTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQEe1QmTgdw

>>96182635
nice try

Did you guys tried the new chess website sponsoring Hans?

>>96166479 (OP)
>Can't make it past 400 elo
Brainlet bros, it's really fucking over.

>>96185393
Play Chess960.

>>96185393
We can make it brother, I believe in you.

>>96182635
>>96184244
We try again, never give up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQlBR1HbAWA

>>96184983
Didn't help against flagging :D

Anyone else finding it takes a while (~ minute) to pair up with opponents on lichess? I only play standard 10+0

>>96195036
10+0 feels too long for online casual games; 5+3 is much better.

>>96195427
I really can't imagine or understand why people play without increment. If you're a queen up you should always win.

>>96196019
You might need to prepare for a tournament where there is no increment.

>>96190285
>never give up
See?

I tend to get back into chess for a week or two every year or so. Did they make the chess bots on the phone app easier over time? Because I remember when this dude was a pretty big hurdle for beginner me, now I'm munching on "advance" bots first try, with no practice whatsoever.

>>96199851
That website try everything to increase customers. And for bots, you should play only the Maia bots, on the better website.

Happy to see so many people choosing Wei Yi.

>>96166479 (OP)
>Esports World Cup Chess Tournament
Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsr7rvPEkOw

>>96204838
Always a pleasure to see Naka getting rekt.

black to move

>>96200542
It's also possible to play Maia directly on its website: https://www.maiachess.com

KWAB

>>96204838
Day 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E4hpzlrlKA

>>96213085
priceless

Congratz Hikaku Namamura

Danish Gambit Arena, it'll be wild: https://www.chess.com/play/arena/4346187

>>96209614
Nd4 and white has no choice but to take the knight and lose the queen to avoid being mated on h2.

White is down a piece but can play on.

>>96217439
>can play on
I'd resign.

>>96210401
Thank you for posting this. Never heard of it. Works great! I never played with computer before because it felt so different than human players.

>>96213091
Day 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdAPnvdIV0c

Kawaii

Magnus is playing like a WFM

Why is Magnus so ass nowadays?

Where is Zoomer Nieman? Did he not make it to the bing bang wahoo esport chess club?

>>96222002
Lost in the last chance qualifier: https://www.chess.com/events/2025-esports-world-cup-lcq-playoffs/results

>>96222086
Kwab

erm why are they playing chess on pc when they are literally 5 feet away from each other

>>96222132
Its esport tournament. The setups are the same as for 1v1 video games

>>96222140
lol

Is Fagnus actually that bad or he's playing the retard for views and profit? Maybe the game was fixed for an Armagaddon before the tournament even started. He always does these blunders in chess.cum tournaments, not serious tournaments.

>>96222217
>act like a diva cause nobody else could touch you
>just party and get a wife etc
>everyone else still autistic about chess 247
>think you still have it without trying
>keep fucking up
>tantrums
Fagnus Madsen

>>96222132
ping zero

>>96222268
Fagnus probably makes more money from views than from the tournament prize itself. He has every interest to prolong a "Magnus vs Hikaru" game than just win it the fastest and most boring way.

Generational talent

>millions on the table
>it's scripted
yeah sure

>>96222365
His smile and optimism: gone.

>>96222385
The biggest sporting event in the world was paid and scripted (Argentina soccer world cup)

>>96222385
>"""millions""
it's just 250,000 for first place. That's literally nothing for Magnus. He probably loses or wins that much in a single day in his stocks or crypto without even checking it.

>>96222418
Top team gets 7 millions, then you add the money from the sponsors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Esports_World_Cup#Prize_pool

>>96222132
These matches are played very quickly and pieces can be moved much more quickly/easily on computer than a real board. There is also no increment (aka tard chess) for some of the games and that obviously isn't going to work very well with a real board. Also whatever claim chess could hold to have e-sport status on a computer, if you take away that aspect of it it's pretty throwing away all e-aspects of it.

>>96222395
That is false and ridiculous.

>>96221906
He's getting old.

>>96220861
Day 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm6SUZENN40

Why are people like this?

>>96228499
They want you to lose something, even if it's very little: a few seconds, one cent of electricity, and patience.

>>96228600
I lose my mind watching them be retarded.
They lose the game.
A fair trade.

KWAB
>goat

>>96229077
He's getting old :(

This finale feels scripted as fuck.

>historic traditional game treated as a videogame
>it's a blunderfest
sad

>Luckily for Magnus, he's white.
BRUH. ANNOUNCER. WTF.

>>96229172
That Indian girl commentating (forget her name, I only recognize her voice) sure gets hot for that white conqueror blood, you can hear it how she says "Magnus!".

>>96229430
She is probably so wet thinking about Magnus shooting a fat load inside of her making future chess champions

$50,000 for 16th lmao

>>96229495
Did the players really have to join esport teams to participate?

>>96229743
They got paid to sign with them. They did promo videos too as part of the contract. https://www.youtube.com/@TeamLiquidChess

>boomers like aronian are still doing pretty well
based

I'm a 900-1000 about to battle a 1900 in a workplace tournament. How cooked am I? How should I improve my odds? I'll be playing white.

>>96230137
there's something inspiring about watching Levon Aronian and MVL continuing to bitchslap the "next generation leela chess computer prodigy" children despite being middle aged non-confrontational non-celebrity chill dudes with no zero scandals and no need to be twitter memelords like firouzja/anish giri/cheater niemann

>>96233603
Move one of their pieces while they're not looking.

>>96228600
>>96228618
I know this is a common mindset to have in chess but man you guys are blindly autistic

>>96233603
You have no chance. Statistically the odds you have of winning against him are the same odds he would have against Magnus Carlsen.

>>96241069
ELO is cruel.

>>96233603
Odds are he's going to win handily. The best thing to do when you're outmatched is to play crazy (i.e. increase the volatility of potential outcomes). You might get lucky if he misses something in a complicated position.

>>96234120
I wish I had friends like MVL and Rapport.

>>96166479 (OP)
>Sparkassen Chess Trophy
Round 3: https://lichess.org/broadcast/sparkassen-chess-trophy-2025--a-open/round-3/aEjJ72z1#boards

>>96229495
>lmao
lmao what? Every tournament should be like this.

are there any archaic lines that people usually aren't equipped to handle? im thinking e.g. bishop's gambit which I find baits out horrendous moves pretty consistently
like they are technically not good lines but nobody really plays that way anymore so you can still whip them out

>>96254928
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Gambit

>>96255002
>im thinking e.g. bishop's gambit

watching the black panther playing titled Tuesday https://www.chess.com/member/sarablackpanther

>>96259208
>#17
Holy cows she's good.

>>96166479 (OP)
>Chennai Grand Masters
Postponed by 1 day due to a fire alarm in the hotel. Rest day cancelled.

>retarded early queen sorties
>wanna be hyper aggressive playstyle that they can't actually pull off
>randomly trading everything every chance they get, to the benefit of neither player
>spamming draw offers when losing
>rage insta re-challenges after they lose
why are Indians so annoying to play against

>>96265517
They learn chess in kindergarten so they think they are still there.

What I don't get is people who play incorrectly, and knowingly play incorrectly. Like playing the Marshall or Owens, and for some reason they get some sort of fetish pleasure from it by annoying the person trying to play properly.

I also have a theory some of them play improperly later on just to piss the opponent off, for example refusing to put the pawns on the opposite coloured squares to their bishop or deciding to play with 2 knights vs 2 bishops on a wide open board.

What I don't get is people who play incorrectly, and knowingly play incorrectly. Like playing the Marshall Defence (not of course to be confused with the Marshall Attack) or Owens, and for some reason they get some sort of fetish pleasure from it by annoying the person trying to play properly.

I also have a theory some of them play improperly later on just to piss the opponent off, for example refusing to put the pawns on the opposite coloured squares to their bishop or deciding to play with 2 knights vs 2 bishops on a wide open board.

>>96266482
I enjoy winning, and I get annoyed only when I lose. If it was a bad game or a good game it doesn't matter.

>>96264256
Round 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBGcJpLm0J4

>>96166479 (OP)
>Calendar:
missing:
https://www.chess.com/events/2025-womens-speed-chess-championship-main-event

Is there a puzzle type where you have to determine if there's a winning move first or no before you move a piece?

>>96276498
I don't think so. On lichess
https://lichess.org/en/training/themes
if you click on "healthy mix" you'll not know the theme of the puzzle, and sometimes a defensive move is needed.

>>96271070
round 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HssYWQ5fpWI

>>96266482
You get annoyed when your opponents play poorly? Weird.

At what point do players stop releasing tension? Im 1700 on lichess and it feels like no one realizes you dont have to capture a pawn just because you can

>>96281178
Seirawan always recommends to take the pawn, and it's a good advice.

>>96265517
Indians are seriously the worst sports on chesscum and they always abandon or let time run out instead of resigning when their queen gets captured by move 6.

>>96277617
Round 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqrOTUnbgR8

>>96281178
Probably 2000 or so. It's human nature to want to do something, trading does something. No one under 2000 just sits on their position. Checks, captures and threats are always overvalued under 2000. You train yourself to look at those moves first. So that's just what gets played usually. To reject everything you first look at requires a certain patience or sense of danger that only exists in strong players.

>>96265517
Middle, far east and south east asians in general tend to do this. They have some really bizarre hyper striver culture in all aspects of life we cant comprehend. I dont play against singaporean flags anymore

>109 posts in 17(SEVENTEEN) days
>most if not all is the pastebin tranny posting random links and replying to days old posts again and again
the real general is on vg and it's ten times more active
>>>/vg/533824224

Saint Louis is starting
place your bet

>>96283347
I wonder how Indians feel seeing Keymer dominating their strongest tournament.

>>96283347
round 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J5cymn2KFk

>>96289045
I refuse to post in that general because chess isn't a fucking video game

>>96290224
Chess.com and Lichess are literally video games.

>>96290618
No they're not retard. They're digital platforms for playing chess. By your logic if I use the Scrabble app I am playing a video game. Idiot.

>>96289127
I watched the yt promo and there is a middle age battle
>in Missouri
ah ah ah ridiculous

>>96290847
>By your logic if I use the Scrabble app I am playing a video game.
You are in fact playing a video game port of Scrabble.

>>96291309
So playing Wordle is playing a video game too. Wordle is a word game, it happens on a screen. Wordle is a video game according to this logic.

>>96291400
You're starting to understand, yes.

>>96291639
wordle isnt a video game faggot

I always start a chess session with a losing streak, then I start winning and my ELO goes back to normal. It's weird.

>>96292357
i hit my new highest ever rating then immediately plummet, every single time. starting to think its a conspiracy

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