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Anonymous No.96298748 [Report] >>96298769 >>96303240 >>96334802 >>96347064 >>96376300 >>96394801 >>96400906
/chess/ - Chess General
Maia Edition

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

>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
Anonymous No.96298769 [Report] >>96304531
>>96298748 (OP)
>Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz
Day 1 live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tct5SVF2Zko
Anonymous No.96300135 [Report] >>96301369
Do you guys want to see some 600 kino
Anonymous No.96300179 [Report]
Personally, I think vertical castling should be legal.
Anonymous No.96301369 [Report]
>>96300135
I see this stuff every day.
Anonymous No.96303158 [Report]
>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
Anonymous No.96303240 [Report] >>96309787
>>96298748 (OP)
>Chennai Grand Masters
Round 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5aanWcbUrI
Anonymous No.96304531 [Report] >>96306125 >>96313242
>>96298769
day 2 just started, comfy stream as usual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr744sAT7sQ
Anonymous No.96306125 [Report]
>>96304531
Titled Tuesday has more viewers lol
Anonymous No.96307996 [Report] >>96382984
>sitting like this for hours
brutal
Anonymous No.96309787 [Report]
>>96303240
round 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TGZFFi_v3U
Anonymous No.96311838 [Report] >>96312614 >>96313518
Is this normal? Recently every other game is against someone who doesn't make any mistakes whatsoever.
Anonymous No.96312614 [Report]
>>96311838
Post the PGN
Anonymous No.96313242 [Report]
>>96304531
Gukesh vs Fabi right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zdV_G1SQto
Anonymous No.96313518 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.96314285 [Report] >>96315903
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.
Anonymous No.96315903 [Report] >>96317128
>>96314285
It's unpractical for chess.
Anonymous No.96317128 [Report] >>96317571
>>96315903
Why's that?
Anonymous No.96317571 [Report] >>96319243
>>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.
Anonymous No.96317691 [Report]
Divya vs Hou Yifan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdcCpW9fkqc
Anonymous No.96319243 [Report] >>96319482
>>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.
Anonymous No.96319482 [Report] >>96319703
>>96319243
I'll ask the dev at PyChess to add it.
Anonymous No.96319703 [Report]
>>96319482
Oh awesome, thank you
Anonymous No.96320288 [Report] >>96326878
first blitz day in Saint Louis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fBNxLoC8gY
Anonymous No.96323610 [Report]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ULrdNhg2s
Anonymous No.96324864 [Report] >>96328902
cute puzzle
Anonymous No.96326698 [Report] >>96326714
I love the French Defense bros
Anonymous No.96326714 [Report] >>96378480
>>96326698
I hate it like you wouldn't believe.
Anonymous No.96326878 [Report]
>>96320288
second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w3XYbt5UP0
Anonymous No.96328784 [Report]
>women chess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uEiKo5m3MY
Anonymous No.96328902 [Report] >>96329544 >>96329704 >>96330355
>>96324864
I don't see it

White can block the rook with their rook or the queen but neither are winning moves.
Anonymous No.96329544 [Report] >>96329704
>>96328902
Also I only see black winning.
Anonymous No.96329704 [Report] >>96330355
>>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.
Anonymous No.96330355 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.96331884 [Report]
Anonymous No.96334802 [Report] >>96372513
>>96298748 (OP)
>Calendar
It's missing the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival. The masters section has a prize fund of 55,000 USD.
Anonymous No.96336403 [Report] >>96336935
Anonymous No.96336935 [Report]
>>96336403
Next Tuesday will be fire.
Anonymous No.96338106 [Report] >>96338629
uguuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Anonymous No.96338382 [Report] >>96338603
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
Anonymous No.96338603 [Report] >>96338623
>>96338382
And why would I want to do that?
Anonymous No.96338623 [Report] >>96339487
>>96338603
To better see the cat of course: https://www.chess.com/member/whitetinygirl
Anonymous No.96338629 [Report]
>>96338106
she's way cuter when she doesn't do the full teeth smile.
Anonymous No.96339487 [Report] >>96339528
>>96338623
>123 friends
Christ is there anything wont turn into a vanity project simp farm
Anonymous No.96339528 [Report]
>>96339487
*women wont turn into
Anonymous No.96341215 [Report] >>96341282 >>96341640 >>96347504
the Sinquefield Cup starts tomorrow
place your bet!
Anonymous No.96341282 [Report]
>>96341215
no hans, no watch. simple as!
Anonymous No.96341640 [Report] >>96343930
>>96341215
Alireza > Pragg > Gukesh
Anonymous No.96343930 [Report]
>>96341640
>i suck at chess
she's honest
Anonymous No.96345429 [Report] >>96345640
based Divya will play with the boys at the Grand Swiss
Anonymous No.96345640 [Report] >>96345645
>>96345429
easy win for them lol
Anonymous No.96345645 [Report] >>96345652
>>96345640
RUDE
Anonymous No.96345652 [Report] >>96346242 >>96351565
>>96345645
women should just stay in their containment tourneys
Anonymous No.96346242 [Report]
>>96345652
>their containment tourneys
here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1spzTeMzK4
Anonymous No.96347064 [Report] >>96347635
>>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.
Anonymous No.96347504 [Report] >>96354386
>>96341215
round 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXzJst5Epg
Anonymous No.96347635 [Report]
>>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
Anonymous No.96349261 [Report] >>96351370 >>96354768
>bullet is harmful to young players
thank god I'm old
Anonymous No.96351154 [Report]
Anonymous No.96351370 [Report]
>>96349261
I don't take advice from insane people.
Anonymous No.96351565 [Report]
>>96345652
Are you scared?
https://www.chess.com/news/view/10-year-old-keya-defeats-grandmaster-breaks-us-record
Anonymous No.96353764 [Report] >>96357833
ouch!
https://www.chess.com/events/2025-titled-tuesday-blitz-august-19-early/results
Anonymous No.96354386 [Report] >>96361416
>>96347504
Round 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivOhsh6RnuQ
https://lichess.org/broadcast/gct-sinquefield-cup-2025/round-2/xkuW0Cpy#boards
Anonymous No.96354768 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.96357833 [Report]
>>96353764
>Magnus winning both TT while rolling dice to choose his openings
still the goat
Anonymous No.96359910 [Report] >>96365426
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
Anonymous No.96360506 [Report]
This is why I like playing 1.d4 in low elo games. It keeps happening. The knight on c3 means absolutely nothing to them.
Anonymous No.96361416 [Report] >>96362824 >>96367899
>>96354386
round 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMUxjF6BpI
Anonymous No.96362153 [Report] >>96362310
>Divide the threads into /tg/ and /vg/ threads
>Both threads are dead

wtf are we doing here guys?
Anonymous No.96362310 [Report]
>>96362153
Why did that happen anyway?
Anonymous No.96362734 [Report] >>96362800 >>96363360
Do pro chess players actually point with their middle finger or am I being baited? Is it a trait of high intelligence?
Anonymous No.96362800 [Report]
>>96362734
It's just the longer finger.
Anonymous No.96362824 [Report] >>96368404
>>96361416
Cute interview by Abdusattorov
>my brain is not working
kek
Anonymous No.96363360 [Report]
>>96362734
Pointing with the middle finger keeps your thumb and index finger free to grab a pieces. It makes sense.
Anonymous No.96365426 [Report] >>96367195
>>96359910
These semi-retired legends never stop to impress me: https://www.chess.com/news/view/2025-wscc-sf-hou-yifan-kateryna-lagno
Anonymous No.96367195 [Report]
>>96365426
Going against Ju Wenjun tomorrow will not be that easy.
Anonymous No.96367899 [Report] >>96375517
>>96361416
Round 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7tnxyGFIlw
hopefully Duda wins today
Anonymous No.96368250 [Report]
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
Anonymous No.96368404 [Report]
>>96362824
It looks like it's back at work.
Anonymous No.96368517 [Report] >>96368878
the state of chess on twitch...
Anonymous No.96368878 [Report]
>>96368517
>AnnaCRAMling
Anonymous No.96369959 [Report]
Solving Chedoku puzzles is incredibly relaxing. I highly recommend it.
Anonymous No.96372513 [Report]
>>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
Anonymous No.96375517 [Report] >>96390921
>>96367899
round 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFym0Ekc1r0
Anonymous No.96376300 [Report]
>>96298748 (OP)
>Maia Chess Open
Lot of streamers, as usual.
Anonymous No.96378480 [Report]
>>96326714
lol
Anonymous No.96378664 [Report] >>96383515
Cock and balls defense
Anonymous No.96379803 [Report]
what a move!!
Anonymous No.96380811 [Report]
Fell 100 elo in one day (again) award.
Anonymous No.96382013 [Report]
>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
Anonymous No.96382760 [Report] >>96383182
Titled Arena is starting, 1,000 USD prize fund: https://lichess.org/tournament/aug25lta
Anonymous No.96382984 [Report]
>>96307996
still kino
Anonymous No.96383182 [Report]
>>96382760
live: https://www.twitch.tv/penguingm1
Anonymous No.96383515 [Report]
>>96378664
Ebin
Anonymous No.96383872 [Report] >>96383949 >>96388837 >>96388900 >>96407810
>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.
Anonymous No.96383949 [Report] >>96384161
>>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.
Anonymous No.96384030 [Report]
I keep opening with a4 h4 and it makes my opponent freak the fuck out
Anonymous No.96384161 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.96386758 [Report]
https://www.twitch.tv/azizana
she has a point, fuck money
Anonymous No.96387143 [Report] >>96390245
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)
Anonymous No.96387940 [Report]
Obvious cheater from a few days ago just got banned, thank you chess.com!
Anonymous No.96388818 [Report] >>96389092 >>96403615 >>96413930
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.
Anonymous No.96388837 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.96388900 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.96389092 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.96389995 [Report]
>it's another "Anon becomes enraged at blatant cheating during his game when the other player turns into Garry Kasparov halfway through, reports him for cheating during the game, calls him a cheater in chat, then runs computer analysis to prove how blatantly the guy was cheating, only to find out that he made 6 blunders" episode
Anonymous No.96390245 [Report]
>>96387143
https://www.chess.com/play/arena/4401525?clubId=807332
Anonymous No.96390921 [Report] >>96397331
>>96375517
round 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMsExxmQ8gQ
Anonymous No.96393627 [Report]
>spending money on chess
Remember that it's a pyramid scheme: only the very top get their money back.
Anonymous No.96394801 [Report]
>>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
Anonymous No.96396026 [Report] >>96396562
any other based retards in the thread?

>t. 744 on chess.com
Anonymous No.96396562 [Report]
>>96396026
That's too high lol
Anonymous No.96397331 [Report] >>96404897
>>96390921
round 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnNL9nORW-8
Anonymous No.96400906 [Report]
>>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
Anonymous No.96402279 [Report]
kek
https://lichess.org/EJvoTSHgAuWR
Anonymous No.96403615 [Report] >>96406728
>>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.
Anonymous No.96404897 [Report] >>96410449
>>96397331
round 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4dxYgU_Mag
Anonymous No.96405486 [Report]
Last Titled Tuesday with the 3+1 time control, they are changing the format next week:
https://www.chess.com/play/tournament/5874943
Anonymous No.96406728 [Report]
>>96403615
Agreed. Don't get how so many people have trouble understanding this.
Anonymous No.96407810 [Report]
>>96383872
>Took a break for a week
Don't do this.
Anonymous No.96408007 [Report]
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.
Anonymous No.96409077 [Report]
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.
Anonymous No.96410449 [Report]
>>96404897
round 9 and playoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKUmU8lHsoA
Anonymous No.96413930 [Report]
>>96388818
Tip: use lichess, you can have 10 games analyzed a day for free plus the regular analysis board.