Thread 536073276

murdered by /zzz/iggers edition

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>>535699330

>>536073303
what's going on with the gachabros

>>536075443
oy vey its like anudda shoah

>>536073303
/vg/ moment

let's go alireza

We in a 5+0 ligma today, starts in 2hrs. 44min.
https://lichess.org/tournament/HrUQtLON
Be there or be square.

>>536093141
Precision engineered to lick white butthole

Okay the liga is starting in 4 minutes!

>>536096025
Catmixer pls carry

If you play less than 30 hours of bullet per week lower your voice when speaking to me

>>536116957
He strategically withheld support in our time of need, typical catmixer

A few days ago I was bitching about being in the 600 ranks and someone recommended chessbruh's habits series to me. I watched the first three episodes and have taken the lessons to heart but honestly they seem just as bad as what I was doing before, and my rank isn't budging.

>>536133937
post games and let us analyze, that's the only way

>>536134935
There's nothing to analyze, I just make retarded moves. Ever since I started doing the "habits" (which is just basically play with you're brain off) I just throw even harder and am down -60 just today.

>>536133937
I know you're still blundering pieces, you need to stop that. If you can avoid hanging your pieces and you take your opponent's hanging pieces, you will be 1000 easily.

>>536136545
post games, stop being a retarded nigger. Let's analize. It seems this is something that you don't do very often
>*smacks lips* NAAH DAYUM LOST AGAIN
>next game
>dayuum again fuck dis shit

You must learn from your mistakes

>>536136545
Nigger I’ve been telling faggots how retarded the “habits” are for decades. Go to the archive and read some of my posts

>>536136665
I am, I just need to calm down and stop playing impulsively. Everyone says you can be 1000 easily, and that's why I feel like a retarded child.

>>536137547
There is nothing to fucking analyze, all you're gonna say is "ya you're retarded". I try to learn from mistakes but I've always been garbage at that.

>>536138694
Quit crying like a faggot and lrn2study. Have you ever improved at anything before? Chess is the same, you spend time practicing and learning and overtime your performance will increase until you hit your natural ceiling at which point you will need PEDs to progress

>>536140718
>Have you ever improved at anything before?
Nope. I've either been naturally good or cried. That's my whole life.

>>536141138
Well, if you’ve ever read one of these threads before you know what I’m going to say. Hit the gym and read the Soviet chess primer

>>536138694
>Everyone says you can be 1000 easily
I didn't mean that it would be easy, but that if you stop dropping pieces then you will certainly be able to play at that strength.
Learning to not drop pieces isn't easy, you need to pay attention and force yourself to think before you move. You don't need to just think in a general sense in whatever manner you're used to thinking about the position, but to make a conscious effort to check whether your move is hanging something.
Eventually it will become more or less automatic, but it requires effort at first

Also solving some chesstempo tactics every day should help you, at the low levels there are a lot of basic hanging piece problems, hanging mates, simple pins/skewers/discoveries/promotions, etc. which should all become second nature

>>536142810
>Soviet chess primer
what is this?

>>536143692
Exactly what it says.

>>536143678
I will keep trying to do this, I know I'm already developing these skills. When I was on ADHD meds I actually got up to 900 very easily a few years ago. But then I stopped taking them and stopped playing for a couple years and now I'm below 600 as of today.

>press new opponent button
>be lichess
>I'll do you one better...
>the same opponent!

JUST FUCKING THROWING END GAMES AFTER BEING UP 5.1 FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

>>536143841
this nigga ain't gonna do that, too lazy to calculate, just read his posts, he's acting like a bitch.

>>536138694
Post them, we are gonna say you're retarded BUT we are gonna give you the reason and HOW to fix those mistakes, that's the difference. Don't be scared, if you don't want to post your username, download the game as a gif and then upload that to lichess or just edit the fucking gif idk

>>536148104
here's my most recent game. I thew away a bishop for free, and that cost me the game because I didn't look

>>536148613
and another one I just played and managed to not throw

>>536148613
>>536149576
ya you're retarded

>>536148613
imo you played extremely well for a 600, you were crushing until you hung your bishop. Even then you could probably have gotten a draw. I think you should have sac'd the rook for the promoted queen and tried to promote your remaining pawn (keeping your king nearby)

But obviously the main problem was the classic <1000 blind spot of playing a mostly half-decent game, then losing concentration and playing an egregiously horrible blunder. You can improve that a lot with a week or two of effort.

>>536148064
Calm down fabi

>>536150860
This is after two weeks of effort, I must have been even worse before. But thank you. Perhaps just going back on ADHD meds is the best option since I keep losing track of myself

>>536148613
Play Nc3 against that to make him lose tempo, at this level most people would go for the check and you'll laugh at them by developing and they will crumble easily.

You just gave away d4, some may say " LE DEVELOPMENT XDD" but the idea is to bring forces and fuck their development, watch Paul Morphy's games, the guy was a genius: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1336329

>also
Nigger you don't know how to mate with queen, rook, or rook and queen. Learn some patterns, do this : https://lichess.org/practice do every lesson, DO NOT CHEAT, THINK MOTHERFUCKER, THINK.

>read pic related and do 1001 chess tactics for beginners by Roberto Messa

>>536160164
I have no idea what I'm supposed to be looking for in this Morphy game. Also ya I don't know many mate patterns but I haven't had that much trouble with this yet, the game is won or lost long before that

>lichess
>report someone for cheating
>less than a minute later, get a message saying someone I reported was banned, and get back ten rating points.
Sometimes, the lichess mods are okay.

>>536149576
>Hanging pawns
>Missing rb8 winning a knight
Tbh I expected 600 to be much much worse though? Idk if I could beat you down a queen

>>536164914
>immediately closes his account
Just BTFO all over the place.

I hate this fukcing game. I only want to be good at it because it makes me feel smart but it's retarded to waste this much fucking time on it when I don't have a job or real life. Actually learning it isn't fun, trying hard isn't fun, only the part where I feel smart

>>536175157
let the hate flow through you

I fucking HATE endgames.

nodirbek's getting rekt in america

>>536187920
Its time.

>>536188832
>blue and white squares
a man of culture

>>536188832
The knee high socks get me everytime lol

What's the best strategy for the Liga? This guy Vadym hardcarried his team and he berzerked every game. I don't think I could berzerk every game for the 3+2 and definitely not for the 3+0 Ligas but 5+0 seems more doable. Do you think we should have a dedicated berzerker? I'm thinking Czerka because he's one of the strongest bullet players in this general.
Also sorry for turning up late yesterday. I had guests over. I'll be there nice and early for the 3+0 Liga.

>>536203092
Czerka: I don't want you to feel like you need to do this btw. It's just a suggestion.

>>536201359
aren't they those medical geriatric socks that help circulation?

>>536201359
I thought it was for hiding the second phone

El Bumpo returns!

>>536073276 (OP)
Threads are dying now after 100 posts? Even when a loser is sitting around to necrobump it every few hours? On a slow board? DIRE.

>>536240554
we got genocided by gachafags >>536073303

>We have detected that one or more of your recent opponents has violated our Fair Play Policy. As compensation for potentially unfair rating losses, we adjusted your following ratings:
>Rapid: 605 + 8 => 613
we're all gonna make it bros

the FIDE World Champion

https://lichess.org/analysis

Do you really need anything else?

>>536250831
can lichess provide me love and support?

>>536240554
El Bumpo will save everyone

>>536247118
pause the music Chad, we gotta interview this nerd now. oh, and take a photo for us, they paid extra for selfies and "community engagement" *rolls eyes*. yeah, we'll see you back at the hotel room haha

>>536262707
gukesh is 5'7" and the botez sisters are still not much taller than him in those giant heels. are they midgets?

>>536269929
Most women are around 5’5 to 5’7 and goblinas are gonna skew shorter

I miss slurp posting

>>536275679
Are Goblinas good at chess?

>>536289047
No, they are not

>>536278210
he's waiting for nodirbek

Did anyone ever play this? Apparently, back in the 90s, they were doing so many MK games they started adding gimmicks like chess and a racing game to increase sales.

draws should be replayed until there's a winner

Love this sexy checkmate
(found in 2.7 seconds from mate in 5 in bullet obviously, slowbies cope)

>>536327169
That rook in front of knight mate pattern is pretty common, good to know (and always aesthetically pleasing)

Checkers > Chess

White to play and win. This one I couldn't solve at all, so I'm wondering if any of you poozlers will get it. Don't cheat with an engine please.

>>536340758
Rxf5 exf5 Qxh6! gxh6 Nf6+ Kh8 Rg8#

>>536342234
Good, you got half of it. What about kxh6?

>>536343917
(nta)1.Rxf5 exf5 2.Qxh6 Kxh6 3. Rh1+ Kg6 4.Bh5+ Kh7 5. Bxf7+

>>536340758
nta, i think
rxf5 exf5 qxh6 (gxh6 nf6+ king back mate) kxh6 rh1+ kg6 kf4! threatens bh5+ kh7 bf7# (discovered check with the rook)

though i only found these lines so fast because you basically said that checkmating was correct

>>536346385
you need to see that kf4 covers f5 in stead of the knight getting taken by the pawn and that the bishop's threat can't be stopped with the tempo, though, bh5 can't be played on move 4

>>536346709
lmao true... I pulled off a larpov, oops!

>>536306918
i want Diablo gimmick chess made by blizzard or Sonic Chess made by sega with cheesey garbage lines when you move them.

>play pajeet
>they afk 30 seconds to turn on engine
fucking street shitters

>>536365328
>play pajeet
That’s where you went wrong. Just abort

>>536366032
its okay they started making retard moves when they only had like 5 seconds left thankfully

Does anyone else think chess.com artificially labels normal moves as "brilliant" to get players more invested?

>>536377650
Nice meme zoomer. You stupid kids don’t have the balls to play OTB. I remember playing blitz games in the pub. Jazz was playing and everyone was smoking cigars. Zoomers these days just don’t have what it takes. I’ve had enough of this general, I’m gonna go put on a skin tight onesie and ride my bicycle around town. Later nerds

>>536377086
they definitely do this
they also pretend your game has some brilliancies in it even though it doesnt to get you to buy premium for more game reviews

Could you win?

>>536386172
ya white's bishops are literally free

I'm 2150 liblitz so about 2000 FIDE classical id say

>>536346613
>>536346709
You got it!! It's such a beauty of a mate, right?

>>536386172
What's the evaluation here

I thought chess was /tg/?

>>536400387
you thought wrong

Materialwinnercuckbros.........

>>536378420
sounds like big boy needs a nappy

>>536401175
saaaaar you cannot redeem winning sar I am having extra pieces

We are reaching levels of deadness never thought possible. Necrobumps of a magnitude never seen before.

>>536409350
ur gay

>>536378420
>You stupid kids don't have the gall to inhale carcinogenic fumes for hours on end while playing balding geezers with children your age?
>Heh
Organized OTB chess is a thinly veiled pederastic activity, always has been.

I might be able to help out in the Liga tomorrow

>>536411435
thank you seriouschad, I knew you would save us when we needed it most

>>536411167
Carcinogenic, but the nicotine is a nootropic which would lead to better chess
It makes me a little sad that I'll never have the experience of drinking 3 cups of coffee and smoking while playing 1+0 games at a 2600 level
Maybe I'll try those Zyn things someday though

>>536400004
+2 for white

I hate the London.
I HATE it.

>>536425008
just play nf6 c5 they dont know how to handle it

>>536425008
look up the most obscure gambits against it and play them every time

>>536425209
Interesting, time to book up.

>>536425483
I think the spielmann indian or something is the name for it but I might be confusing that with something else

>>536425483
also when they push d5 and you go b5 you can sit back in your chair and laugh maniacally as they freeze up and go into a think

fucking gachafags need to chill Im sick of necrobumping this thread

Poasting Londonsystem-chan to fight back against the gachafriends

whenever i look up /chess/ on the catalog i see like 4 /zzz/ threads and am overwhelmed by a mighty urge to download and beat off to tens of pictures of chinkshit girls

How often are there chess threads on /v/?

>>536449370
We have them here instead

Am I not understanding this correctly? The engine says to go to e7 (which gives +2.3 for white), yet going to f6 would give +0.6 for white.

Why isn't it saying to go to f6?

>>536453856
Maybe the cached cloud analysis is from an older version of stockfish, idk. Could be a glitch. I ran the local analysis up to depth 40 and it prefers Kf6 as +0.4

professional advice for my correspondence player friends: During the opening phase, try to figure out your opponents sleep schedule. Use their flag to get a rough guess, but pay attention to when they have a large gap between moves, basically when they go to bed. The trick is to send your move while they sleep, so that when they wake up in the morning they are more likely to play their move. Morning brain is significantly weaker than evening brain, you will notice a difference if you can make this happen.

https://lichess.org/tournament/jrTVzJh2
https://lichess.org/tournament/jrTVzJh2
https://lichess.org/tournament/jrTVzJh2

3+0 La Liga in 9 hours! Come play.

>>536469239
better tip for correspondence players: play a real TC instead of wasting your time on that garbage

Black to play

professional advice for my correspondence player friends: During the opening phase, try to figure out your opponents sleep schedule. Use their flag to get a rough guess, but pay attention to when they have a large gap between moves, basically when they go to bed. The trick is to find out where they live and kill them while they sleep, so that they can't wake up in the morning to play their move. you will notice a difference if you can make this happen.

>>536441067
What's the deal with feet, I wonder. Not just the occasional thread image, but nearly every single one.

>>536472110
>correspondence
actual correspondence or li/.com correspondence? the former is just engine vs. engine at this point.

LMAOO lordbentham is online playing blitz, and yes... motherfucking is on and off every time, see it by yourself right now

>>536484291
What does that mean, btw? I've played against people who had all green bars, but their connection kept dropping in and out.

>>536484907
you're talking about jew.com but there on lichess if that dot is off it means that you changed tabs and you are not on the lichess page. This guy does that constantly in fucking blitz , unfortunately I couldn't record it but it was fucking obvious that this guy cheats (like we didn't know that already kek) but I imagine this is how he plays rapid as well

>>536470923
i think nd3 g3 nxb2 and whichever piece goes to take the knight back you threaten black's knight with a pin by the queen and three pieces (rook bishop and queen) against two, though i don't feel like typing out the lines...

nvm nd3 nf3 nxg2 qxd6 bxd6 rfb1 wins the piece back

>>536470923
1....nf3+ 2. Nxf3 resign.

>>536484291
>off the tab on opponent's time
might be browsing 4chan

>>536489857
>heh heh, let's see if my stalker is accusing me of cheating

>>536073303
Whoa BASED? lucy is the best characfter?

>>536474517
i think it's a running meme that the 3d models in the game have good-looking feet

>insists on saying "captures" every single time instead of "takes"
what's the deal with people who do this

>>536497063
what about people who say "eats"

>>536501209
I like to eat the horsies

>>536503025
you must be one real hungry fella to do that

it appears some newfags are triggered by correspondence chess. Newfrens, please understand that this is a correspondence friendly general. It is, unequivocally, the white mans time control. Cheaters do not occur anywhere near as frequently as you would think, even on .com. Brownoids tend to flock towards blitz/bullet and the more uncivillized time controls, as it were. The white man finds refuge in the slow pace and relaxing environment of a correspondence analysis board. This is something incomprehensible to the brownoid and the brownoid adjacents such as slavs and italians.

>>536505787
>Cheaters do not occur anywhere near as frequently as you would think
>let me open my opening full book
>let me see this tablebase here

You don't think in those games, you just pretend to think, a game must be here and now, not 3 weeks or 1 year "thinking" about a move

>>536488632
or you just mate in 2

>>536506468
Thankfully its not mutually exclusive with other time controls, you can play a few games of correspondence while also playing live chess regularly. I dont know how long you have to make a move in ICCF but for lichess/.com 24 hours or 36 hours are the most popular time controls. One thing lichess doesnt have that I wish they did was correspondence tournaments the way that .com does. Those are also either 24/36 hours and you get put into a bracket with 7 other players and if you win your bracket you advance to the next round, its pretty fun. So in that circumstance youre not thinking for one year per move, you have to make 1 move a day in 7 different games

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>536506468
ah but we redefined those as not cheating for this particular TC thus i have won the argument

>>536175157
>hate
Got me thinking, and I realized I don't hate chess, I just hate my opponents. It's probably why I don't play against chess engines; I'm indifferent toward them, so I have no hate to drive me to play against them.

>>536470923
are the minor pieces in the white position just lose enough to allow you to keep the knight after nxc4 nf3 qxd1 rfxd1 re8 re1 bg4 (bc2 bxf3 gxf3 be5) (nh4 rd8->rd2)

Most difficult 2600 rated chess.cum puzzle.
Yes, it's M1

>>536509902
Scuttlebutt says hardware failure, and it may be hours before it comes back up. Probably no ligma today.

>bluesky
>mastodon
wtf is this crap

>>536514395
Thibaut isn't about to aid and abet Martian Hyperfascism by offering status updates on X

>>536514395
You damn zoomers and your social media sites civil war, nothing like OTB games in Philadelphia which the cheating weavers (or cheavers) know nothing about.

>>536514097
They identified the problem.

Just had a jeet think for 20 seconds about how to defend a pawn in a bullet game KEK greedy little jeetoids

>>536514694
x won that battle months ago. no one cares about the meme lib sites anymore. is this just thibaut doubling-down like he did on the STLCC ban no one else cared about? that was hilarious

where were you when lichess is die?

you get what you pay for

>>536515342
x has been losing users ever since musk took over. there are more bots than ever on x too.
this is the x experience:
>make new account
>check feed
>porn
>gore
>more porn
>bots seeding political hatred, dividing the west even more
it's a shithole, buddy.

>>536515975
i dont really care what x is or isn't (i have none of those problems you describe, but maybe you just dont know how to use it). it is the mainstream site and mastodon and bluesky became irrelevant months ago. a lot of the liberal users mad at musk came slowly creeping back because guess what? there's a lot more engagement there. but im sure thibaut will eventually come crawling back just like he does with every one of his vanity project decisions. probably take another 6-12 months going by the STLCC stuff.

>>536411167
Holy shit have you zoomers reached a new level of shut-in cope hahaha

>I don’t want to be raped by a pedophile
Pretty sure they don’t go after fat 20-somethings… pretty sure they’re attracted to cute white boys.

>I don’t want to get cancer from secondhand smoke
I am imploring you kids to actually go outside and experience life instead of huffing memes all day. Maybe the Tal pictures have confused you but smoking hasn’t been an issue for decades. They banned it everywhere.

>>536512397
literally impossible

So lichess is "temporarily back but might have to be offline soon", is it even worth it to play in the liga under these conditions?

Just watched Christine (1983) and the word shitter was used more often than here. Kinda forrgot it has other meanings.

>>536517626
just got back from the shitter, what did i miss?

damn im so good at this game

>>536516924
There's just two of us, and we need more.

>>536518346
I hardly slept last night so I'm planning to just play a few games and try to avoid relegation

>>536518325
are you trying to give your visual cortex cancer with that color scheme or what?

the lichess moderation team has taken action against weavers for cheating over and over again. the results are telling.

>>536520013
We were framed by those OTB pederasts from Philadelphia.

>>536520013
what happened?

>>536521176
Team destroyed, only two active members.

>>536521809
its 3+0 and in the middle of lichess server issues
retard

>>536521948
Need to work on your cover story a bit more.

Why did capitalism do this :,( lichess false flag 2025

>>536518325
how'd you get that board design?

From Jeffforever in chat
>Tonight’s results will not count, sorry! Repeat on Thursday

>>536523434
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Czerka is killing these nerds

My efforts were in vain, but I gained some elo and smashed a 2330 with 11 centipawn loss and 98% accuracy
Also playing this against a 1900 was fun

>>536524618
You did very well today, Czerka. I hope to see you on Thursday. I didn't play today because of the server issues but I'll be there on Thursday for sure.

>opening
>calm and collected

>middle game
>calm and collected

>endgame starts
>anxiety sets in
>hands shaking
>tunnel vision
>fear of blunders

>>536524979
Thanks, I should be around on Thursday

noncebibros...

How likely is it that there exists an undiscovered chess genius who's better than Magnus but just stays incognito? Or secret chess societies leagues beyond the public one?

Play the opening like a patzer, the middlegame like a maniac, and the endgame like a buffoon

>>536533515
You've been watching my games, I see.

>>536532773
There's an extremely likely chance that there's someone more naturally inclined than Magnus to be good at chess out there somewhere, just based on how few people ever try to be good at chess.

Zero chance that someone actually made that effort without participating in the scene

Remember: every blunder you make is actually a gambit.

im new to chess whats the difference between the general on tg and the general on here what purpose should i use each for

>>536546245
one is classical and one is rapid

>>536546245
just forget about the one on /tg/. Youre not going to believe me but the entire general is just one discord tranny samefagging back and forth with himself. This is the real one that everyone uses

>>536546245
not much, honestly

>>536546826
this

>>536521809
My cat died last week, haven't had motivation for chess recently.

I have not won a single game in weeks. I have lost at least 50 games in a row. Thank goodness I only play anonymous casual games.

>>536569736
Sorry, Ive been playing a lot in the anon pool recently. Didnt mean to bully you like that, keep your head up

>>536570656
You must be the bongcloud player I eventually aborted against every time I saw it.

>>536571220
I love when they run

>>536571543
Bongcloud is banned btw

>>536572634
works on my machine

ok nerds last necrobump before I go to bed. Keep this thread alive for me through the night. Thanks.

Here you go king
>>536573084

>>536569736
This is a really strange claim to make, you'd have to be like 600 elo for this to happen
Solve a few tactics or something, come on

>>536569736
Come play me anon, you will finally win some :D

>>536581504
You're welcome.

>>536609636
Thank you sir, get some rest. I’ll take it from here

Do you think there is any money in teaching people how to cheat to not get caught?
I don't know where to offer such services

>>536617067
https://www.reddit.com/r/chessindia/

>>536621346
reminds me of that anon
>Sir i can teach you chess for $60 sir

are there any cute shogi players (female)?
you guys only post some old dudes and skinny guys
you think i care? i MIGHT consider learning shogi if there are cute girl involved (only might)

>>536617067
I think that's probably too easy and also unrewarding+pointless for anyone to pay to learn it

>>536624163
yes, but they keep them away from stinky barbarians like us. Karolina often reported on them, check her Shogi Harbour channel from when she was still an active pro.
The best ones are animated anyway, cf. Ryuuou no Oshigoto! and Karolina's anime ad.

>>536630931
I'm not a lookist but those are some sad standards bro

I really need to stop playing online blitz. It pisses me off way too much. All it takes is one bad, unprincipled patzer move from my opponent in the opening for me to immediately take it as an insult and lose my cool. Which then leads to me playing even worse, of course. Then i lose to some total retard that i should have crushed easily if i just played calmly and soundly and get even angrier. I hit "new game" and the cycle starts all over again.

I wish there was an option to hide everything below ten minutes on the lichess main page. Every time i play fast chess, i hate it, yet i just can't stop playing.

Nazi Paikidze

Anyone got this for free? I want to see the blueprint.
https://chessvibescourses.thinkific.com/courses/chess-skills-teir-list
I can't find it on pirated sources.

>>536647278
an anon posted a script to do just that, look it up

>>536647278
this but I'm a bullet monkey. it's less than ironically ogre

I can't understand blitz and bullet monkeys. I have fun from calcooolating. Just today I calculated a few paths and saw that I have a winning in-betweener on like move 4 and I felt like a top tier grandmaster, i still feel like a pro.
I never have fun from blitz. I want to calculate everything.

>>536651101
blitz and bullet have all the fun parts of calculation (finding a cool idea) without the boring parts (seeing if it actually works before you play it)

>quit chess
>uncle builds me a sick chess table a week later
Someone have belt I gotta find a vein.
Sorry to all the tiny glass chess set fans but its finally getting retired.

>>536648675
I'd have to agree with this post. Nazi is a qt and super strong

>>536658025
it looks sick
pieces also look great

>>536647278
blitz is important to get in the reps. you don't get enough games in longer time controls

gukibros...

>don't know shit about openings
>against d4 especially, you just go d5 and try to go c5 because it's cool
>as white just do random development, against e4 try to do caro kann because you know the first four moves usually and then just go with the flow
>literally don't know any openings, someone can tell you a name and you're like uhhhhhhhh whaaat? because you have NEVER learned them
>currently 1794 chesscom, still have no opening and making up shit as you go
>but you're an endgame autist
>all your chess training are endgames
>you beat a few courses on endgames and repeat endgame drills every day
>as long as you get into the endgame, you'll win
>analysis always says you suck in the opening but you're great in the endgames
>wouldn't be an overstatement if you said your endgames is literally titled level
>if you just learned more tactics and openings you'd easily go to 2k+
>tfw every chess player you know is the other way around, knows 9000000 openings but doesn't know shit about endgames
>right now drink gin with tonic and do some endgames course with a dick in your hand because endgames are amazing
Any endgame autist like me here?

>>536659906
Learning the endgame first is the right way to go. Recommended by Capablanca himself and books like Amateur to IM, Chess (Maizelis), etc.

>>536659906
That's pretty respectable.
Desu I don't think I've ever heard of a player around your strength studying Dvoretsky and having good results, but I think that's because most club players just lack the patience necessary to seriously study endgames.
My endgames and openings are both pretty weak, but I'm strongly considering gitting gud at endgames and studying some Dvoretsky rather than resorting to the desperate measure of actually learning opening theory

>>536658985
Just need to drill and add lead shot to base and recork. They're slightly too large to fit 4 pawns per square but he's not a player and just bought the pieces so it's all good.

>>536660286
Rashid Nezhmetdinov was stuck with his progress until he solved a whole book on endgames by Leonid Kubbel, then he got first place in some tournament and such...

Wow, who could have possibly foreseen that Pragg is the future………. Years ago……. while calling out that Fraudruza was not really #2 in the world, and would drop hard…….
Truly, who among us……….
Ahem.

>>536659906
>not just a rook endgame autist
We can go autister...........

>>536666404
Wouldn't you just be like
>yep, it's a draw
80% of the time?

>>536659651
Very nice game by Wesley in the Berlin. He just waited for Gukesh to come to him, and all it took was a couple of inaccuracies

>i-i am a end-endgame autistic
>i-i am not a bl-blitzbrain
Swear the memes get less funny and more forced every day.

>>536669443
What else can you expect from this zoomer shithole full of cheaters who never played OTB because some eceleb told them it was full of pederasts?

>>536669443
you’re right, these zoomer memes will never be funnier than you running away from a 1600 libullet HAHAHAHAHA

>>536668134
With best play. If you knew what little insignificant moves were blunders you'd be a beast

>>536685419
Wow. Le epiq.

>be super drunk
>play a guy
>beat him lol, both o f you have 60 accuracy
my guy probably also having fun

can we talk about my nigga wesley so?

>>536690071
>one of the most based chess players in history
>now BTFOd an indian
my guy

>>536685419
You might be right. Rook endgames come up so often, probably there are like 75+ elo points up for grabs from a month or two of study

>>536690071
w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing.

>>536690071
I only like the "american" American players

>>536693778
of which we have...hans...who lives in europe

>>536073303
>lucyniggers are porn-spamming cringelords
Nothing unexpected there.

>>536696585
Awonder Liang is just a few points shy of 2700 now.

>>536705714
well that would be a filthy gook so not exactly what we're talking about here

>>536706482
He was born and raised in America and has represented America internationally. He is more American than you.

America is a multiethnic country and not just Germanics you fucking piece of shit racist. There is no place for racism in chess or our society in general.

>>536706970
so true sister, have my upvote brave stranger!!!

http://live.shogi.or.jp/oui/kifu/66/oui202508260101.html
https://abema.tv/now-on-air/shogi
The fifth game of the 66th Oi title match is being played, between Takuya Nagase (sente) and Sota Fujii (the Oi title holder). The time control is 8 hours per player, and the match is a best of 7 (Fujii leads 3-1).
The opening this game was bishop exchange, with Fujii playing a right-side king setup instead of one of the mainlines.

>>536706970
>There is no place for racism in chess or our society in general.
Why does White go first then? Checkm8

>>536716991
We're about to change that

https://youtu.be/VPFI3-W8Fqo

>>536727630
It was so dumb. What were they even thinking about?

>>536709142
on move 71, after thinking for almost 3 hours, Nagase sealed his move.

lol

>>536730460
>"looks like a tranny"
>google the name
>a tranny
Kek.

>>536730460
it begins
fide was supposed to crack down on it and women players were also aupposed to be based about so we'll see how it goes

>>536730460
If I were a woman, I would be one of the strongest players in my country. I can only imagine free money from national women section tournaments.
It's definitely unfair.
also, even if a woman won,
>role model to young female players
what bullshit. Role model to female players would play in the open division and win by BTFOing men.

>>536730460
lmao

>>536730460
>>536730902
womens titles are a joke anyway, this could be a good thing maybe they'll abolish it and the foids will have to actually learn how to play chess instead of being given money for nothing

>>536730460
Some gay player like Baduur Jobava or Maxime now has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and become women world champion lol.
On the other hand, this whole trans movement sprung up from the feminist movement, I say let the women deal with the consequences of their actions.

What stops you from becoming a tranny, moving to a shitty country and becoming #1 top female player?
I'm looking through the FIDE ratings and there are multiple countries where I would be the best.

>>536734105
Being a mediocre man is better than being a woman

>>536730460
That's the tranny that proved Hans cheated his way to 2700 rating OTB.

White to move and checkmate in 2.
Find it or else.

>>536073276 (OP)
>zoomer, non video game in the OP
glad this garbage general is dead

>>536736391
What's wrong with one of the best players of said video game being on the OP pic? And what's zoomer about that?

>>536736302
I'm guessing Qg8 Nf6+ but honestly I've never been a big fan of these composed puzzles where you're winning with any move

>>536746969
yeah. i don't even think about that, i look at the position and immediately trade my rook, take the pawn with the horse, and mate with the queen+king.

>>536687038
Still recovering my elo from the 8 lokos I had last week.

>>536728919
Easy payday probably, magnus secretly loves trump

I AM COMING FOR YOU, 1200FAGS
I AM CLOSE

>>536772305
>danny rensch answers his phone
>"yes, activate the losing streak now and then pair him with weaker opponents tomorrow. we almost have him."

>>536706970
>America is a multiethnic country

Not what the forefathers said

>chess
what do you think of pic related

>>536772305
GOT TO 1200 WITH A RETARDED GAME WITH 50% ACCURACY
I AM IN
TIME TO RAPE

Can someone recommend me an easy to learn, non-retarded opening for white that will teach me stuff? i am a shitter with no white opening, I tried to get into the ruy lopez but it has like 919412890291831230189u1095 various lines and the only courses I find recite me the lines instead of telling me wtf is this shit even about.
Can be for both e4 and d4 (or whatever).

>>536780738
There are no openings at the gigashitter level because your opponents won't play theory. Put pawns in centre, knights out, bishops out, castle, rooks connected

>>536781470
yeah but if I grow while trying to play this opening, my knowledge about this opening will grow with me. just want something with no big theory so i can understand the plans and use them universally

>>536781589
Everything has a lot of theory that you don't need to know.
E4 repertoire would be
Ruy Lopez/italian, open Sicilian, rubinstein French, exchange caro
But you only need to know the first 6 or 7 moves and the basic plans aka weak opponent pawns, your pawns breaks, and know some of the basic traps like why the opponent can't take the e pawn at times in the ruy etc

>>536781589
Can't go wrong with the Scotch Gambit.

>exact same opening discussions copy pasted from the archive
>tranny memes!
This is some funny right here… a real barrel of laughs.

>>536786097
What do you want us to discuss, anon?

At what ELO do they not fall for this anymore?

also fuck d4 players

>>536787760
>jeetlund gambit shitter

I can't understand people who play shitty trappy dubious gambits. Do you want to ever get better?

>>536773301
who gives a fuck what some dudes who died 200 years ago said? we're talking about the reality of the here and now

>>536789284
>NOOOO you can't have fun with chess you can only play stockfish approved lines even though more exploitative play would work better at your current level

>>536789859
Yes.
>at your level
That's the point I was making. You will stay at your level if you play that bullshit, you will never get better.

>>536789947
If the shitty gambits work, then you play them until they don't work anymore. And you get to have fun doing it. You have nothing to lose.

>>536790256
I absolutely skullfuck englund shitters every time without fail, i encourage you and all your indonesian buddies to keep playing it.
The only good englund line is the queen sac but every englund shitter is too one trick pony to try it except for some aussie or canadian chads it seems

Bros, what rating on chess.cum do I need to have to be able to reach the CM level IRL? What ratings do CMs usually have?

>dick and balls
Out
>zyn
In
>c6
Premoved
>bullet
Loaded
>rightwing extremist podcast
On
>sneed
Feeded
>Hitler
hailed
>blacks
In jail
>femoids
Ignored

It's chuddin time

>>536773301
Just wait for a Chess King sale and go through their university and CT-Art courses.

>>536791294
these days like 2600+ blitz

>>536786157
How much zoomer memes suck, how badly weavers cheat, OTB chess tournaments in Philadelphia computer god Frankenstein controls communist gangster government catmixer earphone radio slavery

how do I find an online partner friend to play, talk and train chess with? i just want to have a chess bro

>>536787760
Usually by the time they finish Eldorado.

>>536793893
you can chat and add friends on chess c*m
start with glhf, compliment their moves, add them as a friend and maybe after a while you create a bond and you can erp on discord or whatever platform zoomers use these days

>>536793024
>sale

>>536793893
download grindr and just link your chess.com account in your bio

How does he make a living now?

bros why is my mans alireza doing so bad? also what competition will determine him playing in 2026 candidates?

>>536796106
this nigga aint making the candidates

>>536796106
that fraud faggot is the only reason pookesh was able to worm him was to the wc to barely beat that fraud gook. Fuck everyone involved

>>536787760
The refutation to this isn't really trivial to find OTB but at around ~1600 i'm pretty sure everyone knows it. It's a very common trap line.

>>536734105
Being a tranny in a shitty country sounds pretty miserable

>>536796315
i hope someone from a normal country fucks up pookesh and we get finally a normal champ

>>536796268
why not? :'( im not going to root for anyone thats ugly, and thats all of them except chadireza

im up 120 elo in the last 24 hours. its only a matter of time till i'm gm at this rate

>>536796106
>bros why is my mans alireza doing so bad?
he moved to france

>>536798138
well, yeah. . .duh

>>536736391
bruh. . .?

>>536729148
Nagase's sealed move was 71. Dx42

>>536796106
I think it's because he got a hot volleyball player gf

A vacation from lichess is always fun.

>>536796106
Yeah… losing to Pragg and Nodirbek back to back… wild… Who could have known??

Hm… huh

>>536709142
Nagase won in 91 moves. The next game will be played 9/9-10.
notably, this is the first time Fujii has lost two consecutive games in a best of seven title match.

>>536849575
How's Nodirbek doing now? I liked that nigga back in the day but I haven't followed pro chess for some time.

what chess books do you own, and which do you recommend?

>>536864104
I only own Robert Hübner's 'Twenty-Five Annotated Games', and it's the only one I recommend.

i'm so fucking bad at this game
i had an advantage, didn't see an obvious easy to spot tactic, like low level puzzle, and lost the game with shitty accuracy due to hanging a pawn in the endgame
i'm so fucking bad

>>536795018
lol. He probably coaches in countries that don't care about him trying to fuck a 17yo and some old hag. Latam, Europe, Asia, choose your pick.
And btw, was he even charged with anything by the police?

>>536867583
Yeah, I'm sure he sits in some Thailand, coaches for a living and has one or two cute chess girls willing to fuck him for free coaching.

>play a great 95% accuracy move over 37 moves
>no mistakes, every tactic capitalized, great positional chess, peak
>look up your opponent's account after the game
>"YOU HAVE BEEN BLOCKED BY THIS MEMBER"
Lmao, dude reported me for sure.

>play a great 95% accuracy game over 37 moves
>no mistakes, every tactic capitalized, great positional chess, peak
>look up your opponent's account after the game
>"YOU HAVE BEEN BLOCKED BY THIS MEMBER"
Lmao, dude reported me for sure.

>>536875709
Even better if they're several hundred points higher rated than you.

>>536864985
very cool

Anish getting some competition

>>536865542
You have to be ok with being bad otherwise the journey towards getting better will just be painful and not fun.

>>536900074
I am not okay with being bad. I want to be better at this shitty game.

>>536900232
Sounds like you need to take a week away from chess.

>>536900232
Drill puzzles for 30 minutes (the correct way, no blind guesses), then take a small break and go play some games. You will notice an immediate boost in performance. This will give you motivation to continue improving.

>>536899862
le SLURPEE BAAAAANDE
+2 doe so Maxime ros are winning even when they aren't

>>536860013
He’s having a bad event but just beat Firouzja, seems to be psychologically handling the slump well. I still expect him to be top 3 in 5 years, with Pragg

>be tired and stressed out
>"lets play a round"
>hallucinate a tactic, dude just takes your piece for free with a pawn that suddenly spawned, didnt see it
>ten hang a few more
>played a game like a complete newbie into chess
>dude types "?"
>close the website
jesus christ

i don't wanna brag but i just had 5 greats! in one game and i'm feeling pretty good about it

>>536912875
chess c*m is cancer

>>536912875
Cool! Now that will be 10 dollars a month plus tip for those little feel good annotations on your game review that stockfish does for free

>>536915349
oh i don't pay lmao

>>536912875
Nice, but don't get too carried away by those. Having no blunders or mistakes is more important than trying to get these exclamation mark moves.

>>536917148
i usually keep it under 5 blunders per game

another great game by my nigga wesley. nice idea to walk the king over to the queenside

Is it worth it to buy a .com diamond membership just for the preferential matchmaking?

>>536924259
no just play on lichess

>>536924259
No. It's a site for retards and third worlders

>>536923654
Wesley's going all the way.
I can FEEL it.

>>536925627
Not listed: sucky fucky 800/hr

>>536925627
god i hate w*men

>>536924708
Fun fact: Napoleon Bonaparte was indeed a chess player, but it just happens that the dude played like a 900 rated queenshitter, kek
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1250610

>>536926702
Larpov was right, manlets really are bad at chess

>>536926887
Chess being decided by height status is “yesterday”. It is now about bald status.

Man Nazi Paikidze is 10x better for this broadcast than Jen Shahade or Jovanka Houska. Great choice to have her partner Yasser.

Wesley silencing the haters.

>>536926702
He absolutely demolished Madame de Remusat and actually played a nice mate vs. Henri Gatient Bertrand https://lichess.org/study/PefdW24g
Maybe he was around 1200, surrounded by 600s. But against whoever was inside the turk, probably at least a 2300, it wasn't going to end well for him

>>536928804
nice meme bro! thats so cool and funny and not old

>>536944280
What do you think about this one?

>>536944280
larpov why are you scared of that 1600 bullet guy... why are you avoiding him

>>536522813
Pretty sure it's just the theme for the kebab bot and others.

I think I hit a new blunder record.

>>536093141
I didn't expect such a long tongue. Excellent.

>open chesscum for the first time in weeks
>it's all fucking new accounts at 2000
This game is so fucking dogshit

>>536951093
games fine, that website is cancer. Thankfully it exists tho because it acts as a containment chamber

i am so tired of losing to
>1 inaccuracy, 0 mistakes, 0 blunders
with
>2 inaccuracies, 1 mistake, 0 blunders
with white against 1700s
something is not right man
maybe i should start desperately avoiding trades like leela

>>536899862
Is MVL MGTOW?

>>536924259
Paying for chesscum diamond is a status thing, like buying an iPhone

>>536957040
iphone SE costs like 400 bucks, how is that a status symbol in anywhere other than third world countries?

>>536959129
Exactly, you get it

>>536959129
I'm waiting for the new iPhone coming out next month. Will post pics when I get it.

good morning sirs

>>536925627
tfw i'm not sure it's fake at this point
i've seen thing you people wouldn't believe

how long until gukesh gets exposed as a cheater and india gets nuked?

>>536981507
the final flush approaches

Lee-ga today. 3+2.

https://lichess.org/tournament/npQdhnPk
https://lichess.org/tournament/npQdhnPk
https://lichess.org/tournament/npQdhnPk

Come play.

@BeggingForSoMuchMore
add me

>>536955362
just don't put your queen where it can be traded by force

Why isn't 1.c4 played more? It immediately solves any issues developing the b-knight and leads to comfy positions and by quick googling is even statistically marginally the best. Is there some secret GM near-refutation a dumb mid player like me doesn't' understand?

>>536944459
>en pissant

>>537006443
I've been facing 1.c4 a lot more recently. I usually do 1....b6 because I think it's funny.

>>536924708
It's funny how litards claim this while literally playing on the charity site. I'm pretty sure the site you have to pay for is not the one for "retards and third worlders". You play on a Marxist site staffed by reddit volunteers who ban accounts for microaggressions. I promise you're the retarded third worlder

>>537007587
nigga just don't be a racist

>>536925627
How much for a massage and a happy ending?

One CM told me,
>shut up and play bullet, play blitz, why are you playing only rapids? if you want to improve, you should do a bit of every time format, that's why you suck with calculation under pressure

maybe I should start playing booollets and blitz games from time to time... i'm maining 15|10 time format

>>537007587
>not wanting to become Danys paypig makes you a libtard
Nigga, put down the crack

>>537007587
take danny's cock out of your mouth shartie

>>537007587
I'd rather be a Marxist than pay for free shit.

how do i get better at chess

>>537010993
Or you can choose not to view monetary transaction through the lens of paypig and piggy bank like a toddler. Be normal
>>537012254
It isn't free, you're not getting the same experience on lichess. Dummy

>>537013546
kys retard

>>537013546
Lichess is unironically a better experience. The only good thing about chess.com is the endgame and "from-position" trainers.

The people who pay for chess.com are sub-1500 shitters who do it because they are idiots who need a computer to print out pretty exclaimation points so they can feel better about themselves.

>>537012541
play chess
think about why you lost
don't do the same thing that caused you to lose last time

the thinking about why you lost is the hardest part and requires the most effort. most people are too lazy for that one

>be a shitter, 1200 elo chess.cum
>time to learn openings
>"i remember someone saying ruy lopez is cool"
>watch GMs play ruy lopez for a few days 24/7
>memorize some ideas
>go in, first game (against an indian)
>this happens

I love this shit, just look, this shit is OP at my elo lmao

>>537014278
Seethe
>>537014920
It's not even about game review, it's about having the staff to deal with cheats

>>537015469
I have over 20k blitz games on lichess and am 1900 liblitz. There's been maybe 10 times in 20k games where I felt like I was playing a cheater.

I'm 1700 chesscum blitz with around 10k games. Probably around 100-200 of those have been against cheaters.

I think the whole cheating problem is overblown on both sites. I just shrug and move on. Maybe it's different for different rating ranges.

anyone got any advice for managing nerves during chess games? it was never a problem for me but as i'm getting stronger i've been getting more and more nervous when i play. i'll completely ruin a winning position or endgame because as soon as i know im winning i feel this wave of anxiety come over me.

>>537016253
You're better.
Think that you're better. Always think your opponent is a noob and you will completely rape him. You know everything better, the opening, the strategy, the endgames. You're super underrated.
You'll start winning. You being nervous comes from believing your opponent is strong and can still beat you, and that fucks up your cognitive rationale. There was an anon yesterday who talked about Nodirbek looking at his opponent as if he wanted to kill him.
>>536849575
That's how you need to approach the game.

>>537016662
that's extremely helpful actually thanks.
i agree with you, that's where my anxiety is coming from

>>537016253
this advice will be less useful if your level is too high, but to build confidence converting winning positions i think you should

- be able to convert basic endgames in your sleep (k+q v k you should be able to premove the win, k+r v k you should be able to win with < 5 s on your clock)
- understand basic plans for converting winning positions so you don't have to come up with with original plans every time. usually this means creating a passed pawn, stopping your opponent from promoting their pawns, and promoting your pawn
- give up material to simplify the position to one you can convert in your sleep
- know how to identify your opponent's potential counterplay and stop it before proceeding with you plan. in some positions the opponent even if they are losing can make things tricky by giving up material to get a passed pawn that is hard to stop

one thing I noticed from watching gm games is that they really take their time going in for the kill. their goal is to maintain control first, and win later. they'll make very subtle moves to stiffle all counter play before proceeding with their winning plan

>>537016145
>There's been maybe 10 times in 20k games where I felt like I was playing a cheater
Yeah this is the typical game knowledge of the litard, stopped reading

>>537014464
>The people who pay for chess.com are sub-1500 shitters who do it because they are idiots who need a computer to print out pretty exclaimation points so they can feel better about themselves.
indeed. the website literally redefined what a brillinacy is specifically for this purpose
OMG so brilliant of u!! good girl!!!

>>537018529
Deep breaths. It's ok if you can't afford it

>>537018915
i could buy your whole family and enslave you pussy

Sometimes I wonder if it's Danny Rensch himself shilling chesscum in these threads.

>>537018980
Just calm down. You're scaring me

>>537014464
>>537018529
Why not both?
I do have a diamond membership on chesscom, but I pay like one dollar a month for it. I use it for endgame trainings, drills, free lessons, courses, it has a vast library of useful stuff.
I also use chess tempo and lichess for tactics, and listudy for blind tactics (a titled guy recommended it to me) to train visualization with calculation. For serious analysis I use EnCroissant with stockfish loaded in, it's the best analysis tool.
I wouldn't pay the full price for the chesscom premium, it's too expensive. I agree it's not worth it. But if you can get it for a buck or two, it's more than worth it for the stuff it gives you if you want to learn.

>>537019689
Nothing against chess.com lessons. But if I'm going devote time to studying chess, I'd rather read a book. Just a preference.

I'm pretty lazy these days and mostly just play. Lichess is a better playing and analysis experience. In just the opening explorer: infinite depth, more master games, you can see how other lichess players played and how you played previously -- really useful once you have a large collection of your own games. The default analysis board interface is better, more lines, navigating between lines, the built in engine is stronger by default, etc.

>>537020456
You guys conspiratard about chess.com shills but you can't tell me this isn't literally an ad. I'm even hearing it in Billy Mays' voice

>>537021340
I'm just stating my experience. What did I say that is not true though?

>>537020456
Chesscom analysis sucks, I prefer lichess to chesscom, agreed. And it's retarded it's not free. Stockfish is literally free. They make you pay to use an open source tool lmao.
I use chesscom analysis for fast two minutes analyses after each game (can turn on the infinite depth with stockfish 17.1 in the options) because I play there, and encroissant for serious analysis of longer rapids/classicals with connection to databases, my own games etc. It gives you great game reports and tools.
Each website is better in some ways, worse in other ways. Puzzles on chesscom, for example, can be fucking stupid and weird. Recently I did a puzzle rush there and at like ~2700 I got a simple M1. It's the WORST websites for puzzles by far.

Endgame trainings, drills (from-position training), lessons, courses, studies: chess.com
Puzzles, puzzles by theme, puzzle streaks etc: lichess, listudy, chesstempo
Coaches: lichess (chesscom has the coaches category too, but lichess makes them give you a price and write about methodology, chesscom has just profiles for some reason lol)
Analysis online: lichess
Analysis in general: encroissant with stockfish 17.1 is the best

Chesscom can be a great resource to learn if you can grab the diamond for a dollar. Don't buy the full price.

>>537021340
Lichess isn't a product that you have to pay for tho.

>>537022423
You think they aren't making money off all the redditors that donate? Have you noticed any changes to the site at all? lol

>>537019689
>>537021770
i play on ccom too, but only because lichess is fucking ugly. something in that UI makes me sick

>>537022831
They are required to publish their finances as part of being a nonprofit. You can see the reports filed with the french government here:

https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/page/associations-recherche/?disjunctive.source&sort=cronosort&q.titre=%23search(titre_search,%22LICHESS.ORG%22)&q=#resultarea


Easier to read version of their costs here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSkHLJKJkb0ZuI4/preview

>>537023640
it won't let me link the search, but the 2024 report is here:

https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/telechargements/ASSOCIATIONS/DCA/PDF/2024/3112/830378717_31122024.pdf

>>537023640
>>537023820
it states the surplus (1.5k euro 2024) is being donated to non-profit organizations

Still gay

>>537024436
Nice to meet you, Still Gay. I am Daniel.

Didn't ask

https://lichess.org/broadcast/fujairah-global-2025--superstars/round-5/CopLhevo/UPLCUU4t#38

why didn't salem take the rook? is this a known draw? why is he playing for a draw with white?

>btfos kikes
>btfos schizos
>btfos crayon eaters with his simple design
>proves that one competent man's passion project > jeet-coded kike ran bloated shit trying to profit off of retards
how can one man be so based?

>>537026329
he's cool and all, but I can beat him chess - which was suprising to me

https://lichess.org/broadcast/fujairah-global-2025--superstars/round-5/CopLhevo/b23O3aTT#84

The fact that a 2670 gm can blow the win in this kind of position multiple times in one classical game makes me feel better about my games.

just hung queen in a winning game ama

>>537026868
I still hang my queen and I'm 2000. Will it ever stop?

>>537027012
when you die

Is d4 or e4 better for beginners? I've had more success with d4, but maybe I'll grind e4

>>537026746
gms and even sgms fuck up rook endgames all the time

This is the average licheat game.

https://lichess.org/8RoSWptgpTmt

These people are not constrained to rated. They are all like this on that site. You outplay them and get a winning game and suddenly they level up to 9000 and win anyway. This guy was so heated after cheating he started me in chat as well. Bye! Bye! Good Game! Bye! This is the litard. Cannot take a loss at all.

>>537028631
e4
any serious coach will tell you to train e4 until advanced level because it teaches you the most

>>537029080
*started spamming me in chat

they need to add a confession booth to the next wcc and require the players to visit at least a couple of times per game

>>537029080
main reason why I play on chess.com is because they have a waaaay better cheat detention. 99% of cheaters WILL get caught, and you will get your points back

>>537029684
Yep

>>537028631
it doesn't matter if you're a beginner. play both e4 and d4 in one game if your opponents let you. just get your pieces out, control the center, get your king to safety, don't hang pieces

yall niggas attach way too much importance and self-worth to a made up number derived from playing anonymous strangers in a board game

>>537029082
what will e4 teach that d4 won't? or c4 or Nf3 for that matter?

>>536982432
>https://lichess.org/tournament/npQdhnPk
JOIN!!!

HOLY SHIT I LEARNED THE PHILIDOR POSITION TWO DAYS AGO AND TODAY I WON A GAME BECAUSE OF IT LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOLY FUCK IM SO EXCITED
DUDE HAD A ROOK AND 2 PAWNS, I A ROOK AND A PAWN, AND I FUCKING WON LETS GOOOO HAHAHAHA HE FUCKED IT UP SO MUCH I HARASSED HIS KING, FUCKED UP THE PAWNS, FOUND A TACTIC AT THE END AND ENDED UP WITH AN EASY R+K VS K

>>537030170
>play both e4 and d4 in one game if your opponents let you
I do this against any any single-space pawn opening from black lmao

>>536982432
I thought it was 3+2 and flagged kek

>>537031536
Didn't happen

>>537033092
https://lichess.org/83EO9TAi/black
i need to learn more endgames now. i'm a new player

>>537033427
Beautiful.

Loser necrobump defense force has been activated!

Where were you guys the past months? All the 404’s could have used this spam.

Sorry Lycan, I played really badly today, not a single 4.
But it wouldn't have made a difference anyway, I think we need at least one more player to have a decent chance at promotion