Thread 96298748

Maia Edition

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>Calendar:
- Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters | August 7th - 15th
- Grand Chess Tour: Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz | August 11th - 16th
- 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
- US Masters | November 26th - 30th
- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st

>Previous thread:
>>96166479

>>96298748 (OP)
>Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz
Day 1 live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tct5SVF2Zko

Do you guys want to see some 600 kino

Personally, I think vertical castling should be legal.

>>96300135
I see this stuff every day.

>try to have some fun and play a couple of unranked ultra boollet games
>every opponent burns time by making random moves
>go play other games

>>96298748 (OP)
>Chennai Grand Masters
Round 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5aanWcbUrI

>>96298769
day 2 just started, comfy stream as usual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr744sAT7sQ

>>96304531
Titled Tuesday has more viewers lol

>sitting like this for hours
brutal

>>96303240
round 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TGZFFi_v3U

Is this normal? Recently every other game is against someone who doesn't make any mistakes whatsoever.

>>96311838
Post the PGN

>>96304531
Gukesh vs Fabi right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zdV_G1SQto

>>96311838
Only a very short game where the opponent blunders into a horrible loss should ever get that sort of accuracy.

Somewhat ironically, long games also have very high accuracy, boring queen's pawn games where you are playing super symmetrical and neither player is making any "mistake" but only because they're not moving anything forward in a meaningful way. You can move around and around and around and the accuracy is very high because there are no mistakes - but not 99% no, that is only super short games where the computer cannot find a real flaw.

Does anyone know a website where you can play richman bidding chess? I've been reading some papers about it and it sounds really neat.

>>96314285
It's unpractical for chess.

>>96315903
Why's that?

>>96317128
You'd need a computer to calculate the bids. Without it. the outcome will be random regardless of the intelligence of the two players. I'd play the poorman version if the money goes to a charity.

Divya vs Hou Yifan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdcCpW9fkqc

>>96317571
Oh come on that's so bullshit. You think you couldn't beat someone playing at random? If you find a way to play this I bet I'll kick your ass. Also it's not supposed to be real money.

>>96319243
I'll ask the dev at PyChess to add it.

>>96319482
Oh awesome, thank you

first blitz day in Saint Louis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fBNxLoC8gY

cute puzzle

I love the French Defense bros

>>96326698
I hate it like you wouldn't believe.

>>96320288
second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w3XYbt5UP0

>women chess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uEiKo5m3MY

>>96324864
I don't see it

White can block the rook with their rook or the queen but neither are winning moves.

>>96328902
Also I only see black winning.

>>96328902
>>96329544
Well one of them obviously works. Queen and Rook tactics coupled with checks can look very, very simple while actually being totally mindbending and shocking.

>>96328902
Queen f1 is a winning move because the bishop can give a discovered check if black takes the queen. Puzzle solution here:
https://chessentials.com/chess-tactics-105/

the game went in a different direction as black tried h5 to make room for the king; but there are other lines to study; see the notes by Stockfish in the PGN and then the comments down in this page:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008371&comp=1
you can also import the PGN in lichess.

>>96329704
>mindbending
Indeed.

>>96298748 (OP)
>Calendar
It's missing the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival. The masters section has a prize fund of 55,000 USD.

>>96336403
Next Tuesday will be fire.

uguuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

In case someone still doesn't know this trick:
if you open a chesscom user's avatar in a new tab, you can see the hi-res original file by simply changing the @2x.jpg at the end of the url with @4x.jpg

>>96338382
And why would I want to do that?

>>96338603
To better see the cat of course: https://www.chess.com/member/whitetinygirl

>>96338106
she's way cuter when she doesn't do the full teeth smile.

>>96338623
>123 friends
Christ is there anything wont turn into a vanity project simp farm

>>96339487
*women wont turn into

the Sinquefield Cup starts tomorrow
place your bet!

>>96341215
no hans, no watch. simple as!

>>96341215
Alireza > Pragg > Gukesh

>>96341640
>i suck at chess
she's honest

based Divya will play with the boys at the Grand Swiss

>>96345429
easy win for them lol

>>96345640
RUDE

>>96345645
women should just stay in their containment tourneys

>>96345652
>their containment tourneys
here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1spzTeMzK4

>>96298748 (OP)
I have a weird question. Caruana gets all this praise from Magnus, the media, etc. For essentially being on 'par' with Magnus due to the Championship Series where they held eachother essentially to 12 consecutive draws and then Caruana shortly got flatlined in the Tiebreakers.

Karjakin did the same thing but more impressively. Magnus was more at his peak and not necessarily totally exposed yet as to what made him so good. He drew first blood in the match and lasted longer in the Tiebreaks yet nobody gives Karjakin credit in the same way.

Politics aside, Karjakin seemingly one of the more underrated super GM's that I think would fair quite well within a Super GM tournament now although I'm just surprised at the lack of credit given to him.

Nepo got swept by Carlsen
Caruana couldn't roll out a win in their match and is notably far worse in faster time controls.

If he wasn't such a dog for a putin he could be competing at the top right now, he style, like a lot of russian GM's has a lot of longevity and I want see how he fairs vs the new Indian pact.

>>96341215
round 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXzJst5Epg

>>96347064
He won against Pragg and Vidit in Tata Steel 2022. You have a point anyway, we need him back.
Sidenote: last July, for the first time ever, there were no Russias in the top 10 of the FIDE rating list: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/04/russians-absent-world-chess-top-10-first-time-since-official-lists-began-ian-nepomniachtchi

>bullet is harmful to young players
thank god I'm old

>>96349261
I don't take advice from insane people.

>>96345652
Are you scared?
https://www.chess.com/news/view/10-year-old-keya-defeats-grandmaster-breaks-us-record

ouch!
https://www.chess.com/events/2025-titled-tuesday-blitz-august-19-early/results

>>96347504
Round 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivOhsh6RnuQ
https://lichess.org/broadcast/gct-sinquefield-cup-2025/round-2/xkuW0Cpy#boards

>>96349261
His argument is that it hinders the development of your 7 year old prodigies.
You will never be good enough for his comment to ever be a problem to you.

>>96353764
>Magnus winning both TT while rolling dice to choose his openings
still the goat

Peter Leko is back at the board for Hungary!
https://s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan=1&art=8&turdet=YES&flag=30&SNode=S0&tno=1214003

This is why I like playing 1.d4 in low elo games. It keeps happening. The knight on c3 means absolutely nothing to them.

>>96354386
round 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMUxjF6BpI

>Divide the threads into /tg/ and /vg/ threads
>Both threads are dead

wtf are we doing here guys?

>>96362153
Why did that happen anyway?

Do pro chess players actually point with their middle finger or am I being baited? Is it a trait of high intelligence?

>>96362734
It's just the longer finger.

>>96361416
Cute interview by Abdusattorov
>my brain is not working
kek

>>96362734
Pointing with the middle finger keeps your thumb and index finger free to grab a pieces. It makes sense.

>>96359910
These semi-retired legends never stop to impress me: https://www.chess.com/news/view/2025-wscc-sf-hou-yifan-kateryna-lagno

>>96365426
Going against Ju Wenjun tomorrow will not be that easy.

>>96361416
Round 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7tnxyGFIlw
hopefully Duda wins today

4chan's chess team, Vietnamese Basket Weaving Forum, is competing in the lichess bundesliga. They're playing one right now at 5+0 time controls.
Come join in!
https://lichess.org/tournament/HrUQtLON

>>96362824
It looks like it's back at work.

the state of chess on twitch...

>>96368517
>AnnaCRAMling

Solving Chedoku puzzles is incredibly relaxing. I highly recommend it.

>>96334802
Xue Haowen looks promising. I've seen him playing in Titled Tuesday too in the meanwhile. Not to mention that he won the online event that was stacked af (Hikaru #25, Erigaisi #50, Hans #69):
https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/abu-dhabi-chess-festival-online-2025-5828723

>>96367899
round 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFym0Ekc1r0

>>96298748 (OP)
>Maia Chess Open
Lot of streamers, as usual.

>>96326714
lol

Cock and balls defense

what a move!!

Fell 100 elo in one day (again) award.

>2 blunders in a row
get a a coffee Phoebe
https://www.chess.com/events/2025-maia-chess-festival-open/02/Robin_LA_houmeau-Witte_Phoebe

Titled Arena is starting, 1,000 USD prize fund: https://lichess.org/tournament/aug25lta

>>96307996
still kino

>>96382760
live: https://www.twitch.tv/penguingm1

>>96378664
Ebin

>down almost 300 rating points from where I was a month and a half ago
>rating only keeps going down
Tips on a painless suicide?

Seriously though, I'm at my wits end. It feels like the harder I try the worse I do. I've tried everything I can think of. Took a break for a week, no change. Tried doing puzzles and warming up before jumping into rated games, no change. Tried playing OTB, no change.
>inb4 you just weren't at that level to begin with and only got there by luck
I'll acknowledge that I had a good run before I reached my peak at around 2270 but for the past few months I've hovered pretty consistently around 2100-2150. I'm at like mid 1900 now. I seriously have no idea what to do and at this point it's making my quality of life worse.

>>96383872
have you analyzed your loses and figured out why you lose? you probably have some specific weakness that your opponents get "lucky" and manage to take advantage. maybe it's a specific opening or your endgame technique is bad or you're just not managing your time well.

I keep opening with a4 h4 and it makes my opponent freak the fuck out

>>96383949
I do frequently get into time trouble, so I've tried going through routine recaptures and openings etc. quicker and that seems to help. Otherwise it just feels like completely random stuff. I mess up an opening here, I miss a tactic there, I make a blind blunder somewhere else.
I'll also add that I tilt very easily and I'm certain that's contributed quite a bit.

https://www.twitch.tv/azizana
she has a point, fuck money

JX Arena today at 3:45PM EST / 19:45 UTC
if you are rated 2300+ in Bughouse you can ask GM Jeffery Xiong for a spot (GMJX on The House discord server)

Obvious cheater from a few days ago just got banned, thank you chess.com!

So I just played a guy. I played a pretty clean game and finished it with just 1 trade. But at the end the guy made a move that allowed me to mate in 1. But it's not a blunder? Just a mistake? It seemed like a borderline psychotic error to me when he played it. Was my position just too strong at that point and it was already mate in 3 or something if he played with stockfish tier accuracy? I'm relatively new so I don't know how to evaluate the strength of my position and I'm not letting chesscom jew me out of money.

>>96383872
Do you think you're going to be able to reach Magnus tier or something? You're at the level where people plateau, simple as.

>>96383872
Read more chess books,

Only play incremental,

and gain the self control to stop playing after you lose 3 in a row or you will blow all your gainz on tilt.

>>96388818
>But it's not a blunder? Just a mistake?
Automated tools aren't 100% accurate.
>money
Get a coach and go to OTB tournaments if you have money.

>>96387143
https://www.chess.com/play/arena/4401525?clubId=807332

>>96375517
round 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMsExxmQ8gQ

>spending money on chess
Remember that it's a pyramid scheme: only the very top get their money back.

>>96298748 (OP)
>Fujairah Global Chess Championship
round 1:
https://s3.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=1&turdet=YES&flag=30&SNode=S0&tno=1173203
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fujairah-global-2025--superstars/round-1/KZUs2HWd

any other based retards in the thread?

>t. 744 on chess.com

>>96396026
That's too high lol

>>96390921
round 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnNL9nORW-8

>>96298748 (OP)
>Calendar
Duck Chess Championship in September. It's a cute variant, give it a try: https://www.chess.com/events/2025-chesscom-duck-chess-championship

kek
https://lichess.org/EJvoTSHgAuWR

>>96388818
It's because the position is completely winning for black. In one sided positions the computer thinks every move is fine because it doesn't change the evaluation much. Going from -4.2 to mate in one, shifts the evaluation just enough to be a mistake. If it was -7.0 or something it might only be considered an inaccuracy.

>>96397331
round 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4dxYgU_Mag

Last Titled Tuesday with the 3+1 time control, they are changing the format next week:
https://www.chess.com/play/tournament/5874943

>>96403615
Agreed. Don't get how so many people have trouble understanding this.

>>96383872
>Took a break for a week
Don't do this.

All is well - I made it back up to 2100.
Last opponent pulled a classic case of marginally outplaying me the entire game until they made a normal looking move in the endgame that actually turned out to be a blunder that they didn't see because they were low on time and didn't have time to calculate 10+ moves ahead.
I feel your pain opponent, I've been there many times.

Finally got a physical tournament sized set. Tried using a combination of speech synthesis on Lichess through Edge and voice controls to move the physical pieces. Worked pretty well.

>>96404897
round 9 and playoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKUmU8lHsoA

>>96388818
Tip: use lichess, you can have 10 games analyzed a day for free plus the regular analysis board.