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>>533824224

>>535699330 (OP)
Garnine Classic (1961) pieces.

>>535700606
could have been cool if not for the bishops looking like buttplugs

here for botez

why is the chess general so dead? did interest just drop by 90% after the chess booms or are there generals in other boards again?

I remember these threads being super active

>>535710226
i just realized i hate playing chess and the indian/cheating problem is going to get worse and worse, so why waste the little free time i have on a stupid game that's rigged that i don't even enjoy.

>>535710541
i hate danny as much as the next guy but i think chesscom are doing well in the cheating department, haven't gotten refunds in ages and no suspicious games.

>>535710226
this is a boomer general, i guess a lot of people struggle to find time for chess and shitposting alongside everything else they need to do

Is Spock stronger than stockfish?

stinkfield cup is on

never got Star Trek. it's kindergarten -tier with stiff actors goofing around on silly, cramped sets in cheap costumes.

https://youtu.be/T_Io7jbHsYs

Based player

>>535721802
a lot of things from that era are only really notable because they were unique/new. they don't stand up to the test of time

Hello /chess/, I have a question.
Is there a persona / symbol / anything that Indians hate with passion?
I would like to change my nickname and picture on chess.com to something that would make indians seethe.
Thank you

>>535725359
Idk but I remember an anon that used to say to them " I wish black death upon your mother and family" many times, and they got all crazy and mad

>>535722847
check this out, patio flavour

>>535721802
I'd say it's middle school -tier, at least.
>>535701364
I like the bishop designs that make them look like flowers instead of mitres.

For those who care, here's a good site about the evolution of chessmen design:
https://chesshistory.github.io/

sinquefield? more like sinking into irrelevance lol

>>535725359
I am myself in the process of learning to become a top tier SSS rank racist. A few tips.
>turn on the flag of Pakistan
they hate the Pakistani and they cheat against the Pakistani. They see an INDIAN vs PAKISTANI battle as not just something personal, but a match on which the honour of their country depends.
>a nickname and profile picture related to one of them:
>Aurangzeb
an emperor that fucked up India and put taxes upon the Hindus. The indians are committing terrorist attacks on things Aurangzeb-related, like tombs or temples, and raid Muslim communities that like the guy (because he was good to Muslims).
>General Reginal Dyer
genocided the Indians in some massacre

I personally have the picture of a chad-looking Aurangzeb and a Pakistani flag. They say in India that he "killed one thousand Brahmins per day". The most fucking hated figure in their history. Like Hitler for Poles.
Now, Indians WILL cheat against you. Let them. And report them. I scored like 20 bans against indians already lol.

>>535725359
a toilet

Damn, we got a lvl. 99 Racism Master itt.

Can someone teach Alireza to manage his time better? Homie has been sitting around for like 30 minutes not moving.

>>535729659
Holy based

>>535729659
I have a North Korean flag and some South Korean gook cheated against me and got banned the same day

>>535727530
very interesting list, thanks for the link
My geometry and puzzle autism likes the Lanier Graham design: minimal and fits together into an 8x12 rectangle. Would make a nice beginner woodworking project.

>>535727530
I’m sick and fucking tired of liberals and jeets saying Indians invented chess. They didn’t do shit, it was invented in Europe, clearly and obviously

brilliant!!

>>535734598
I say this right before playing the London.

>>535745424
>saying Indians invented chess
Good thing that site doesn't say that at all.

>>535745424
I mean 2000 yo game sounds cooler than 500 yo game

>>535748412
Yes, I know

>>535755058
>video game related

>>535755058
Reply was unintended. Sorry for the confusion.

>>535755170
Some of the worse chess pieces I've ever seen. They used coins as pawns.

>>535756608
They also thought it was a good idea to put Mario and Luigi as the king and queen.

>>535756854
fucking lol

I'm a braindead moron who's hard stuck in the 650 range. I need to learn some actual openings, what should I learn?

>>535774496
Over 1000 games played btw. I feel like a retarded child, there are 5 year olds who are less fucking retarded than I am. I don't even know if I should keep playing or if it's a massive waste of time

>>535699330 (OP)
YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP

>>535774496
Openings won't help you because your opponents haven't studied them and at your rating, you're not going to be able to exploit their deviations from the main line. Your problems are probably with tactics and board awareness. Keep playing games. Analyze them afterwards. Keep grinding tactics. Take as much time as you need to solve them. There's no magic to getting better; you just have to invest a lot of time.

>>535774496
just do puzzles until 2000 fide and then you can learn some opening stuff

>>535774496
Follow the chessbrah habits series unironically. Opening theory won't help you at all.

>>535745424
it was brought to india by indo-aryans, at the same time as they also migrated to persia, its why both countries had the game and both were named similarly (chaturanga / shatranj)
this is a fact

http://live.shogi.or.jp/oui/kifu/66/oui202508190101.html
https://abema.tv/now-on-air/shogi
The first day of the fourth game of the 66th Oi title match is being played, between Sota Fujii (sente, the Oi title holder) and Takuya Nagase. The time control is 8 hours per player over two days, and the match is a best of 7 (Fujii leads 3-0).
The opening this game was bishop exchange, reclining silver.

>>535735773
he becomes 2900 with less than 10 minutes, it's part of his strategy.

>>535786461
On move 72, Nagase sealed a move.

>>535785996
Good morning sir. Shiturangah was an entirely different game, 4 players and rolling dice. Chess didn’t exist until Europeans decided to invent it. Simple as. Jeets and shitskins had absolutely nothing to do with it

>>535814391
look at the map you fucking moron those are early europeans who migrated to iran/india and brought it with them

>>535816015
There's a lot of lichess spinoff sites, but there needs to be one that has the "obsolete" chess games like courier chess available.
No, I will not make it myself.

>>535816409
Or Grant Acedrex (more like grand assdrecks lmao)

>>535785996
historically accurate
>>535816015
pathetic jeet cope

bump

sometimes i feel like i alone bear the powers of understanding
took me 3 minutes, i was so proud of finding that line until i played nf6

>>535836446
could never get into this site, something about the puzzles just feels off

>>535844185
There some shitty ones too
> kh4
>Correct!
>shows you a 20-move line so you can "check"

lmao, chesstempo is a dead site, let it die

>>535844185
>>535845813
There are weird puzzles there, but this is the best website for puzzles. Muuuuch much much better calculation training than any other website can offer you. I used lichess, chesscom and chesstempo, and always go to chesstempo if I want to seriously just sit and calculate multiple moves in for a long time. They're just the best.

Another Pragg masterclass incoming

I will now pray to the Lord above that every i*dian loses.

>>535699330 (OP)
What was wrong with this guy tho?

>>535814481
settle down pipsqueak

What's the cat's name?

>>535756854
>money as pawns
>koopas as pawns instead of goombas

They had one job

>>535844185
What site is the best for puzzles then?

>>535880965
chesstempo

>>535877189
I'd love to see that sweater.

>>535890265
how did they get a picture of a cat on a sweater in 1935, was the technology to do so even available?

>Up 6.6 blunder m2
Alright closing my account fuck this retarded as game. Lost 150 elo this month from my PB. What a waste of 5y you were right Chest.

>>535699330 (OP)
Chess is boring

>>535892404
what a feminine thing to say

>>535890670
A picture doesn't necessarily have to be a photograph.

getting a classical game on lichess while unrated is pretty much impossible

>>535878056
They were selling it 60 USD

>>535896370
I’m just trying to understand. Was it knitted? Did he draw a picture of the cat and safety pin it to his shirt? What could’ve been achieved with 1930s technology?

>>535786461
>>535803673
Nagase's sealed move was 72. Px66

>>535891848
join a chess club anon, online chess is indeed meaningless in comparison

>>535897504
when I still played classical (at that time, 15+15 was the preset time control), it wasn't that hard. Are people abandoning, or are you just not finding games?

No one got this right, so I'm reposting it. White to move.

>>535786461
Nagase won in 130 moves. The next game will be played on 8/26-27.

>>535938276
F5 bxf5 qc7?

>>535940715
You got it

>>535916623
correct

you know, chess has had a pretty big shelf life. I wonder why no one has tapped the labubo/ferby/beanie baby market by making something similar to the chessboard star wars scene by mixing rng monsters/cute things and chess yet?

>>535971083
What if each piece was a cute anime girl and you could unlock different waifu chess pieces thru loot boxes?

Imagine if Poopoopeepeedananda became WC...
That would suuuuuck

>>535980054
Either nepo or caruana will win candidates and either one of them will flush pookesh with ease

>>535710226
>same old boring tranime pics
>same old boring opening talk
>same old boring jeet memes
issue that zoomers have on every general on every board. originality is at a standstill because they constantly repeat what some e-celeb told them so it’s just an endless echo chamber meant to sell shit.

Hey guys remember when larpov posted a wall of text talking about how he would play anyone anytime and then immediately ran away from a 1600 libullet? HAHAHAAHA

>>535980054
>hello sir im world champion sir

>Chokes

wtf is his problem, highest rated player in these non magnus non hikaru tourneys and he still loses.

Grand chess tour standings.

>>535990883
>World champion
>Projected to Finish 7th
SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS

>>535774970

Go to chesstempo and spam tactics

Go to chessgames and study Giaocino Greco

You can do this. You will get to 1000 elo

Watch Ben Finegold videos on YouTube. He will be your virtual chess coach. Please ignore anything he has to say related to veganism

Anyone got book recommendations for Chess?

>>535998884
it's genuinely unbeliavable that a 4chan enjoyer could stomach watching that fat kike more than 5 seconds

>>535990606
>>535106182
F A B I
A
B
I

>oops my bishop
>lol watch him blunder
>play through mate in 7
jej
https://lichess.org/vCtnokmU/white

>>536003558
Attacking manual vol1 by aagaard

>>536009181
>1997 Linares
>Kasparov: Well, he irritated me a lot when I said, before the game: "J'adoube", and with a smile he said to me: "S'il vous plait". He was also hitting the clock sometime. And the worse thing is to see how badly he was playing here almost every day and how well he played against me.

>>536003558
25 Annotated Games by Robert Huebner

>>535891848
Take the Stratego pill

interesting puzzle:
https://chesstempo.com/chess-tactics/61867
i played for exd6 bxd6 nf6+ kh8 rxg7 kxg7 nh5+ kh8 qg3 ng6 bxg6 but rg8! pinning the bishop or just bf8 after qxg6, which i missed because i really wanted to checkmate

i would like to go through fischer's 60 games book and become FM-strong but damnit the mosquitos are killing me

Motherfucker

Materiool winner bros......

Will she ever make GM?

>>536044525
If you're that far up in material and you let two pawns wander up that close, it's your own fault

Any body awake?

i am quitting online chess i think
the games are never interesting, i just don't care

>>536044582
No, but she WILL buy a bottle of Head & Shoulders