>Meet Ivana (‘call me Vanny’) Jones, a sexy, beautiful, warm-hearted professional chess-player. She has a problem: she’s only attracted to guys who can beat her… so what’s she to do when a chess amateur, the Russian billionaire Boris Bogolyubov, proposes marriage?
>Not only that, but as Vanny tries to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a chess grandmaster, she develops a crush on Norwegian sex-god Sven while also falling for a stunning and adoring Frenchwoman. Meanwhile, Vanny’s hoping a revolutionary new drug treatment will save her best friend Charlotte’s life.
>Set in London, Monaco, Budapest, Helsinki, Odessa, New York… and Leicester, this sparkily written, passionate, emotional and entertaining novel will rock your boat… even if you’ve never shouted ‘Checkmate!’

The Mating Game by Jovanka Houska

https://www.amazon.com/Mating-Game-Romance-British-Champion/dp/1911546104

>>555532213
women were a mistake

>>555530705
Hey guys, tourist here. I don’t know if the original poster is aware, but that picture SERIOUSLY looks like a swastika. I’d like to remind you this is a blue board; we keep things “work safe” here. Please be considerate of this in the future.

>>555534231
Sir, are you not racist sir? This is the ancestral symbol of our people, the people of Bharat, and we have conquered Chess just as we have conquered many arts in the past. The swastika is a symbol of peace and nothing less. Daneil naroditsky, the Prophet, is imprinted on this symbol of peace, a star (the sun) of hope and truth and knowledge in chess.

>>555532213
Jovanka really wrote a fanfic about herself and Magnus and published it on amazon... astonishing

Thibault 10% lurks here btw, or used to. I was always complaining about lichess’s shit boards and how a lot of the textures would be fine if they just had more color options, next thing you know the “hue” slider appears. He knew I was making a good point and got on it.

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ChessWithPatrick got to day 1000 recently of playing chess every day. He is now up to 1670 chesscom rapid.

>>555545207
you know anyone can submit PRs

>>555532213
I wonder if she'd be embarrassed if she was asked about this on air.

>>555545207
nah, he's a mega-lefty. he probably thinks 4chan is a white nationalist fascist site. also back in the days he would do 8 hour coding streams, so he doesn't seem like the type to be addicted to 4chan, tiktok, IG, and other goy traps. he is actually quite productive and doesn't waste his time.
>>555541084
>>555555314
she didn't use a pseudonym so she probably doesn't care

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>>555555314
She seems like the kind to get off on a bit of public humiliation. You got to keep in mind that female gooners are much worse than male gooners

Has anyone itt taken the Korchnoipill? I need some recommendations for based Korchnoi game collections and other related Korchnoi-coded content.
>>555559078
>he probably thinks 4chan is a white nationalist fascist site
It literally is. I bet you've said "sieg heil" at least once in the past week.
>>555564838
Jane is such a fraud holy shit.

>>555559078
>the guy used to do eight hour coding streams
>so obviously he wouldn’t use something nerdy like4chan
>and he certainly wouldn’t waste his time
zoomer brains will have to be studied one day for cavities.

Racists ruined /chess/. Notice that almost all the worst spammers and shitposters say racist shit or otherwise blatantly race bait.

>>555577883
Everyone on 4chan is racist, else they would be on reddit.

>>555577883
get lost streetshitter

>>555581315
I'm not.
>>555581528
All this hate and spite is also hurting yourself.

>>555581315
I'm not racist I'm just edgy and appreciate the culture. I mean this is bait obviously but I wanted to throw that out there.

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Guys, when you think about openings that are supposed to be really theory-heavy like the Najdorf Sicilian, is that meant to be theory heavy for the black side particularly or for both sides? Because white has the advantage, so is it just him choosing which direction to swing his wang and black has to memorize a ton of lines to cope, or is it a mutual endeavor?
In the past I have played anti-sicilian stuff lately and even when I played open sicilians I took some pussy variations because I was afraid of my opponents. I do play masters all the time, so it's not like I am 900 elo and they will definitely know some lines, so what are your takes on it?

>>555577883
agreed. can we go back to our roots and start hating on w*men again? w**** are the indians of gender.

>>555588982
You are correct, the difficulty of the njadorf is there are many points early in the opening where white has several good responses which need to be handled differently.
I'm regurgitating advice from grandmasters and don't have anything to give you beyond that, if you're playing masters you, your peers, or your coach should have a better idea about how to tackle this issue than virtually anyone itt.

My typical advice would be theory only matters if your opponent knows substantially more, but against masters that's a real concern, so...

>>555588982
>white has the advantage
This is an outdated way of thinking and the Sicilian is THE fighting response for black where black is trying to do more than simply equalize.
>B-but le engines say—
No. Humans are the ones playing the game, and there is no great inherent advantage to playing white compared to black. It’s a very slight advantage, basically negligible. This has been known since Bobby Fischer proved it and revolutionized the game to make players play to win with both colors.
So to answer your question, yes, black is playing for his own initiative just the same as white. The only Sicilian where white is the only one pressing is the Hedgehog.

>>555590912
I think John Lennon has a song about that.

>>555590912
>Haha look at me, I’m just like my heroes Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes! :P
>Haha foids! Haha
>Make me a sandwich, bitch! :P Haha Nick would say that

Go back.

Can we not use the swastika emblem, not because of my or anyones morals, but because it makes libtards feel they must denounce the OP and chuds feel they must ragebait and I'm sure most of us searched chess in the catalog to talk about chess...?

>>555591253
i've been hating on them since i was a wee lad, an og misogynist before puberty. i don't need señor nicholas fuentes to tell me femcunts suck donkey shit.

>>555590974
I don't think people share that opinion. And the stats don't back it up either.

In my last 3 games on licheats, I’ve misclicked and had to resign in 2. What is actually wrong with this site

>>555592419
I really don’t care what you think, since you’re ignorant and I’m objectively correct. You can either hear what I’m saying and learn something, or be wrong and retarded, no skin off my back either way.

>>555595686
You’re gay and bad at chess.

>>555595883
Yeah whatever you say idiot, you’re the one embarrassing yourself by not even knowing the basics while being aggro and assmad about it. You’re clearly hopeless and will be mad for the rest of your life

>>555595686
>Bobby fischer who could have beat the field of his day a pawn down from move one says 1 tempo isn't enough to decide a game.

Ok, but most people of all ratings are playing people of comparable ability, and +0.30>+0.00
Maybe in the year 4000 everyone will be 5k elo and every game will be the same draw, but white is currently scoring more at every elo, including computer chess.

>>555596535
Embarrassing myself in front of who? No one agrees with you.

>be gay and bad at chess
>Stay on my best behaviour
>Anon gives my stolen valor to some loud mouth 1300
unu

>>555596851
Yes, yes they do. It is basic chess history that you alone do not know. You are a a disgustingly smarmy faggot while being completely ignorant, such a repulsive person

>>555590974
>>555595686
Bro even MVL dropped his Najdorf and switched to e4e5. It's over, the dream is dead.

>>555594246
skill issue

>>555599440
It really isn’t, it’s never been an issue on chess.com at all. Ironically right before I wrote this I misclicked my first move yet again.

Karla meltdown.

>>555597526
You’re right. I’m the only one in the world who thinks white has an advantage in the game of chess. It’s a minority position with me alone as its chief advocate.

>>555601779
You’re an extremely low IQ faggot who types like a tranny and thinks he’s the smartest person in the room while actually being a total idiot in a conversation that’s clearly permanently above his head. That’s what you are.
Nobody said white doesn’t have an advantage, a nuanced point was made that you are incapable of grasping. This is due to both pure retardation and ignorance of the game
You will always be disgusting, cry about it more

>>555603008
Name 5 supergms who still play the sicilian in currentyear (in classical).

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>>555603008
>You’re an extremely low IQ faggot who types like a tranny and thinks he’s the smartest person in the room while actually being a total idiot in a conversation that’s clearly permanently above his head. That’s what you are.
Nobody said white doesn’t have an advantage, a nuanced point was made that you are incapable of grasping. This is due to both pure retardation and ignorance of the game
You will always be disgusting, cry about it more

>>555605051
I messed up the wojak which would have obliterated you.
I offer a draw.

>>555605984
Declined.
>gives you time

>>555600362
what mouse are you using? do you have the board set up to be the same size on screen on both sites?

>>555606831
It's probably not the mouse.
Chesscom and lichess handle castling and movement/premovement slightly differently by default, as well as animations which can make things confusing.

But you are correct that not familiarizing yourself with the settings and making input errors is anons issue and crying about it, as if it isn't, is something she should reflect on.

1. Kasparov
2. Fischer
3. Karpov
4. Carlsen
5. Hikaru

Simple as.

>>555600362
retard

>>555618709
1. Morphy
2. Tal
3. Ivanchuk
4. Dubov
5. Barnes

>555395472
This is amazing, now I can listen to Fabi teach me the Ruy Lopez for 40 hours on demand
ty anon, great tip

>>555395472
Sorry, messed up the (you)

>>555618709
>5. Hikaru
lol

>>555624713
It sounds funny at first but it’s actually true. Who in history do you actually think would beat Hikaru in a match other than those top 4?

>>555626104
me

>>555618709
>>555620332
1. Kasparov
2. Karpov
3. Botvinnik
4. Lasker
5. Carlsen

>>555626104
Prime Caruana would pimpslap him all the way back to Japan.

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>licheats

It's hilarious that you guys take this site seriously

>>555627893
Someone made a significant blunder and lost the advantage, that alone is not very suspicious.
With that said, I do think some people can't handle getting positionally crushed and assume that, because they are losing to strategic play that is completely beyond their understanding, their opponent is cheating. And therefore, that they should toggle on the engine

>>555627893
That's not what a cheater graph looks like, my low elo friend.

>>555628330
Obviously I blundered, that's not news lol. "Well they didn't cheat because as you can see, you must have blundered". Yes, good job, that's how losing in chess works.
The question is how they managed to get enough pressure to make me blunder from a position that was resignable the entire game. He folded me up like a dead body stuffed into a suitcase. It's just ragecheating.
People like this who throw a tantrum an entire game instead of resigning are the same sort of people who switch on the cheat extension, it's the same spiteful psychology.
I'm not even mad about this btw, I just find it an amusing licheats moment
>>555628521
Shut the fuck up

>make a bad move
>CH-CHEATER

>>555629438
What you should ask yourself is why you’re determined to imagine the least charitable possible scenario instead of reading what I wrote
It’s because you don’t want to feel stupid for playing on licheats

>>555628887
Is the blitz pool on chesscom really less cheat infested?

>>555629813
Yes, because the difference is that chess.com responds to reports. So even though they have more players they’re constantly playing wackamole. Licheats genuinely doesn’t respond to reports at all. You have to be extremely stupid and obvious to get banned. So they have fewer players but far more cheats.

>>555629731
>why you’re determined to imagine the least charitable possible scenario
the ironing

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Is it finally his time?

>>555626990
>3. Botvinnik
Holy pseud. The guy’s peak rank in the world was 7 lmao, what are you talking about

>>555532213
>>555555314
I would guess they just paid her to put her name on the cover and secondarily for proofreading the chess related paragraphs.

>>555626104
Kramnik
Anand

>>555631323
he is the most deserving, but the most boring outcome

So did Lord Bentham finally lose his touch? This seems like a far cry from his usual 5 acp
https://lichess.org/OvcbZoFC/black

>>555638608
He decided to not cheat as his new years resolution.

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After 2 glasses of wine I had the courage to send a game. Went well, kind of neat that lichess added the blunder thing and the analysis board shows you like the long term plan for pieces.

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How come SF says nf6 is perfectly valid but hardly anyone plays it? Is it one of those moves that like, gives a lot of opportunity for white to get some big imbalance and trick the under prepped black player?

>>555628887
>The question is how they managed to get enough pressure to make me blunder from a position that was resignable the entire game.
You are very stupid. An engine won't help you pile on pressure in a way that gives you swindling opportunities but gradually further tanks your objective eval.
Use your fucking brain for once, Karla.

>>555632051
Botvinnik was 60 years old and way past his prime by the time FIDE implemented a rating system, brainlet.

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that was a first. Never faced a japanese stockfish cheater before. Of course his username is chinese (guangy tang) not actual japanese

>>555640385
Idk, I have found similar moves in popular openings. Maybe it’s tough to tell how easy it will be to play if it’s not tried and nobody wants to be the first if it goes wrong.

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>>555628887
Here's a win I had a few days ago. I didn't cheat. That's chess, it happens.
Look at Gukesh's wins. Every other win he is being positionally outplayed the entire game and then his opponent makes a mistake and he wins.

>>555643471
Did you win? I'm not watching that whole gif but I remember you had your masterpiece where you crushed stockfish level 8

>>555650450
I won again, he got tired of having to look up my two moves every turn, then go onto stockfish and enter my two moves, then wait for engine's two moves and put them on the board, and repeat that 30-40 times with 4 second increment. They usually give up halfway each game when they see they're doing all that work and stockfish hasn't even won 1 pawn in 30+ moves.

>>555643471
i stopped liking you when I saw you posting about yourself on tg can you stop incessantly posting about your unrelated cuck variant congrats your the biggest autist that devoted enough time to a random variant no one cares about

>>555654996
you're a literal nobody furious everyone is better than you, so I definitely care very deeply what your opinions are, very deeply.

>>555655926
im a nobody on an anonymous board? Ouch, just stop posting your shit. Make a cuck thread if you want.

>>555655926
Whoa watch out there big guy. Your liquid intelligence is boiling over.

>>555656275
Did I hit a nerve cuck fag? Quit spamming both generals it’s fucking pathetic your attention seeking

>>555656275
I am not spamming either general and haven’t posted on tg in well over a year. You are fantasizing with your big liquid brain again.

Quit with the lazy ad hominem nonsense, I’m trying to have an adult conversation with you. Yes or no, did you post the vanziqx games on tg?

>>555656792
In case you’re actually retarded, this post was intended for you:
>>555657402

>>555654996
based glad someone finally said it

>>555658681
Yeah, everybody hates that guy. Especially when he was talking about his grandmaster level chess abilities (but he is a 1600 chesscom because can't be bothered to memorize theory) and that someone like that ohnomyqueen guy has fluid intelligence and would be better than hikaru at a game that doesn't require so much memorizing like scrabble.

>>555659995
I don’t hate him.

>>555660143
You will learn to hate him.

the world champion of duck chess posts here and people disrespect him? LMAO, get a life. Losers.

>>555657402
you gonna answer this, cuck fag?

>>555660694
I’d rather call him out and shame him publicly to pressure him into correcting his behavior. If it works on dogs, it’ll work on a duck.

>>555661030
You need to specify who you're talking to. Everyone here's a cuck fag. I assume you are talking to the duck faggot? that he was posting "his" own games there, right? (still never provided proof it's his account even when asked, and if it is his account then he's obviously cheating with a bot he programmed specifically for the variant)

>>555647498
See where your graph says Endgame? You misplayed the endgame and failed to convert, that’s common because endgames are complicated. You probably didn’t understand your pawn structure. Mine didn’t even reach the endgame. I was up 10+ in material with an unstoppable passed pawn on b2 and nothing to worry about. The game was beyond over. I ended up getting crunched by magical positional maneuvering in the middlegame. He kept making pesky moves that had deep threats that I had to respond to that only opened the door for deeper threats etc., exactly the way the engine sees every possible fighting chance. Completely different

>>555660719
Is that real? Is he really #1?

>>555656792
But… you should be posting on /tg/

Quiet PBT

>>555663837
He’s the one who won dumbass. You’re actually retarded

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>>555666064
Not really important. Just switch “you” in my post to “they”.
Also, white’s advantage in his game isn’t even as big as mine was, it looks like +4. Mine was -8

>Y-yeah well he’s the one who won ackshually, DUMBASS! d-DUMBASS RETARD!

The Licheats Defense Force always gets so upset, it’s hilarious.

Here’s a fun question for licheats defenders: Why do you think the guy didn’t resign? The game was completely over. Not only was I way up in material, I had an unstoppable passed pawn and he had no counterplay. He had nothing to play for and was only playing on to be spiteful and throw a tantrum.
It seems like someone who 1. is not the most dignified individual and 2. REALLY does not want to lose.
Wow. I wonder what else such a person might be capable of doing, other than refusing to resign.
And then, miraculously, he won, of course. He was just too strong for me, unfortunately.

Like come on. Have higher standards for your brains.

>>555668942
Bodied those freaks

>>555669394
Why did you reply to yourself blunder-kun?

>>555672773
>t. bodied freak

>>555564838
>your grunfeld defense is no match for his classic spanish game
This is how I thought openings worked when I first got into chess. I also wondered why anyone would play the French Defense when the Advanced French Defense would obviously be so much better.

this bitch just CANNOT fuck off and stay fucked off
and it's always the same shit over and over and over again like a fucking lunatic

>>555659995
Yeah duckfag is fucking unbearable, not just because he's so delusional about his own talent he has the most retarded opinions all around and argues them in the dumbest most unhinged ways, for example he's the anti-stalemate tard too
>>555660719
he's not world champion in fact he failed to even qualify to the world championship tournament, he's just the one who wastes the most time farming random people trying it for the first time

>>555668942
>Why do you think the guy didn’t resign?
1)Reddit told him to never resign.
2)He correctly suspected that you're of a weak and neurotic constitution and will crack against prolonged hope chess.

>>555631323
he's been working out for years and he's still DYEL. what is he paying that coach for? carlsen on the other hand played football and did swimming casually without a coach as a teen and looked more muscular. is this just the difference between scandinavian and mediterranean genes?

>>555677892
Cardiomaxxed leanpiller is the optimal build for a chess player, Ian.

>>555673984
Stop crying

>>555654996
>i stopped liking you when I saw you posting on tg
Does this mindbroken homo really? Kek
We’re on /tg/ btw

>missed the melty

Is it attention whoring to post games? Don't you guys want to see eachothers games?? How is anon supposed to critique and get critiqued if all we talk about is twitch gossip, jeets, cheaters, and chess baddies n' daddies?

>Eline vs Carissa ie Greasy vs Pookie
clash of the /chess/ sweethearts

>>555693020
>greasy
she started washing her hair ages ago.

Do we still have a weekly tourney? I haven't frequented /chess/ for like 3 years

>>555693125
she's always gonna be greasy in our hearts

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>>555663837
Notice that the change in eval happened before the endgame designation. My opponent blundered a rook, but I had pressure on him.

>>555693367
I stopped participating because I'm not good enough. Maybe I'll return one day...

>>555693367
No, the board was split and mentally ill people have been making it tough to use, so we have hardly any activity anymore.

>>555626990
>>555620332
>>555618709
1. Bobby
2. Judit
3. Botvinik
4. Philidor
5. Kasparov

I wish I could put judit at #1, but that sexist anti-semite was unfortunately the greatest to ever touch wood.

>>555668942
>>555694962 (me)
I agree though that it's probably realistic to be paranoid about cheaters in online chess. There's nothing stopping them from looking at their phone at any time, and very few people have a kind of innate conscience that exists when no one is watching. When even blatant cheats like lordbentham aren't caught, then clearly subtle cheaters are getting away at a huge scale.

>>555668942
>Why do you think the guy didn’t resign?
Same reason I don't resign. Because there's a chance for black to blunder. And he did!

>>555696260
>phili-
How dare you say that rot in this household.

>>555695852
I had the feeling, the thread is much less focused on discussing the game than I remembered...

>>555697976
He invented positional play and worked out theoretical endgames at a time where the next best player couldn't beat a class-A junior from today.

He is to chess what newton is to physics, or Euclid to geometry.

Calling Philidor less than great, let alone "rot" is blasphemy of the highest order.

Ever heard of the philidor position? It's still taught, and still correct 200 years later.

All while being a highly regarded opera composer, dude was the best chess player in 100s of years as a side hustle

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>>555697449
Not resigning dead lost games isn’t some kind of high IQ move with foresight, if you aren’t pulling up an engine all you’re doing is wasting time and throwing a tantrum. Sure, there’s a 1 in 1000 chance that your opponent gets hit by a meteor or misclicks or something, that doesn’t justify anything. You’re just a desperate elogrubber who’s priorities are in the wrong place. You prefer to see le number go up rather than have actual value as a person or chess player. Many such pseuds. The funny thing is you’re just going to lose the rating back anyway, so you’re still wasting your own time lol. Just resign the game.
In the case of my own game, I did not commit a random one-move “blunder” to justify Never Resigning, the game was too winning for that. Even if I blundered my Queen it still would have been winning. I was outplayed and gradually crunched up until my entire position was lost. What you guys don’t understand is that when you’re objectively and completely winning, and someone switches on an engine, the eval isn’t going to steadily rise in their favor. Because again, the game is over. It doesn’t matter what the engine does, in concrete terms. As long as you continue playing the best moves, not even the best engine in the world can save the position. But what it CAN do is pose threats and, impossibly, with fewer pieces, a dead lost position and no counterplay, create enough complications, because it’s an engine, to cause you to contort yourself and eventually blunder. You guys see this one blunder and go “well clearly that’s all that happened”, no. You can’t blunder away a game that winning in one move like that. It was the result of the engine’s war of attrition.
You need to get over the fact that cheating happens, and it happens on licheats more than anywhere. You’re still opposing every claim of cheating, especially on licheats, on principle, which is something I will never fully understand.

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Every Rubinstein variation is still good
Every bronstein variation is fun and cool

>>555628887
>I'm not even mad about this btw
meanwhile: >>555699829

>>555699829
2/2
Part of it is clearly just Licheats Defense Force, there are committed licheats enjoyers here who don’t want to believe that they’re playing on a cheat-infested site. But these same people will deny deny deny just the same about a game on chess.com. To never give any credence to claims of cheating whatsoever is actually the insane behavior, not the person who justifiably suspects it. It’s probably terminal midwittism or something, thinking you’re too intelligent to be beguiled by the allure of suspecting opponents while sitting there playing a cheat in reality, meanwhile feeling very smug about yourself and high-minded. There are people who just cross their arms and go “nuh uh” to everything and think it makes them more intelligent. They will never be fooled! They’re far too discerning. Then as I’m reading their posts about how nobody ever cheats I’m literally getting points refunded on chess.com for playing cheats simultaneously. Which doesn’t happen on licheats, because I’m an insane person who suspects everyone and is always wrong, it’s the only ever explanation.
>>555700764
I’m a little irked about the people itt like I described ^, I wasn’t mad about the game itself. I didn’t even intend to keep the account

>>555700980
post the pgn

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It's tough out there for the king's gambitinos.

Why is Keymer shit suddenly

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>>555699829
>>555700980
>Midwittism
I'm in the upper range for midwittism, so it's possible...
Post your insights so we can see the actual odds of you making a game losing blunder. If it's really 1 in 1000 I will start resigning everytime I lose a pawn or more.

Otherwise if you are below 2.3k odds are you give away pts with blunders at a higher rate than the database average for best play.

But let's take your specific example.
Why on earth are their books and lectures on converting winning positions if it's so trivial to do? Has it occured to you that paranoia and distrust in your chess lead you to less than accurate play?
Additionally there is this wounded animal affect, where when someone loses a piece it frees them from the fear of losing material and they naturally play very actively.

Also, in chess you almost never have a clean advantage, sure we can say one player is clearly better for taking a piece, but often the other side is able to damage your structure or misplace your pieces, or otherwise get some inadequate compensation that can cause troubles and panic for the player with the better position.


You're just a whiny baby that doesn't want to finish her games.
It is possible they cheated, but it really isn't worth concerning yourself with, if he's only cheating enough to maintain 1300 you should still beat him if you're sufficiently stronger, and if he's abusing the engine blatantly he'll get banned when his rating sores and your pts will be refunded.

>>555701449
I might start playing 3...d5, that looked much better than my games vs the KG.
I was taught to play 3...g5, and I always get cooked because it is way too double edged for me, but I never spent the time investigating because my opponents rarely play KG

>>555703727
Yeah, I have found it's the easiest way to play vs. it. You don't even need to memorize much, just play principled. I used to play the 3...Nf6 variation because it's what my 1.e4 e5 book recommended, but that's way harder, and I started getting better results immediately after switching.

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gms are just like me. fr fr

>>555701768
He forgot Leko’s preps

>>555701768
it's funny how most of his wins are over the indians and hans

>>555708060
If I were Eline I wouldn't wash my hair a single time. I would listen to what my perverted fans have to say, and that's what she never did.

Thoughts on the Schliemann?

>>555708060
the +1-10=0 face

>>555705967
the tata has really been a blunderfest

My roommate swiped on a girl that claims to be 2200 chesscom in her bio, I hope they match so bad.

Gay chess bestie and a patzer boyfriend is quite the bogo deal :fingers crossed:

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>>555708060
*smothers*

>>555708484
Im shleemin all over divya if you nom sayin

Ez hans dub

>>555710371
That’s what happens when 100 retards are staring at you from five feet away while shidding snording and farding

>>555712769
I wonder how much methane 100 humans release over an average hour...

>>555711410
Both of those retards played like shit
I miss Magnus so much it’s unreal

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DAS RIGHT

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We did it reddit!

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Btw, here’s some undiulted cringe: “LenaRybakina” is Anna
I want to kms every time I see her post

>>555719185
Source?

>>555718074
Say his name.

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Do any of you have tips for overcoming ladder anxiety? Everything is all good when I'm just auto piloting visually good moves without much work.
When I really force myself to scrutinize my ideas and try to play tournament quality chess I get very anxious about losing.

Also I literally am a non functioning retard when someone is sitting across from me in an otb game, picrel

>>555618709
1. Morphy
2. Philidor
3. Fischer
4. Kasparov
5. Carlsen

>>555698771
You’re correct but what could possibly be your reason for putting Judit over him?

>>555719185
Is Anna really that obsessed with tennis?

>>555721256
Probably, does she not seem white enough?

>>555719185
Chackmate!

>>555719313
Every time there’s a post glazing Anna or her mom it’s that account
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1hovxh2/does_anyone_else_absolutely_love_pia_cramling_as/
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1fkfn7t/til_that_anna_cramling_and_trackmania_streamer/

She does this constantly. It’s just a way to self-promote without doing it “herself”, which would be undignified.

>>555720530
Well for 1 she shattered the ceiling.
She proved that segregated chess hurts women's growth and that women aren't genetically inferior at children's board games.

Also one of the best by strength of all time, Gary Kasparov, had to cheat not once but twice against her.
She beat all the world champions that reigned during her career, aslo.

Plus I'll admit my bias for Judit, she's a strong role model for fems and foids, so I have a favoritism of her for that as well.

>>555722454
>>555719185
i'll believe it

>>555722859
Post tits.

>>555719857
an old strategy i heard of is to have 2 ranked accounts - you always play on whichever account is lower ranked, thus you are never at risk of losing your peak rating

>>555719857
Nigga it's just imaginary internet points. Get over yourself.

>>555723301
>Fems AND foids
I'm a gay man
>>555702623

>>555693367
the tournaments are still being automatically created if anyone wants to join/shill them and try to get them going again

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>>555723432
Hey that sounds like a good id—
>DID YOU JUST CREATE MULTIPLE HECKIN ACCOUNTS? YOU WERE EXPLICITLY TOLD WHEN YOU WERE CREATING AN ACCOUNT THAT YOU ARE NOT!!!!!! TO CREATE MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO APPEAL YOUR BAN, PLEASE CONFIRM THAT YOU DID NOT CREATE MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS. OTHERWISE, YOUR APPEAL WILL BE REJECTED. WE DO NOT ALLOW MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS IN THIS WORLD OR THE NEXT. YOU ARE PERSONA NON GRATA WITH THIS WEBSITE FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIVE BECAUSE YOU MADE MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS. MAY GOD REST YOUR CHUNGUS SOUL

>>555723583
It's not particularly about the number it's about trying really hard and falling short.
I play on zen mode

>>555723765
i assumed most people here already have multiple accounts so dont know how much they actually enforce this if you arent one of the retards like karla who piss them off and keep making new accounts to ban evade

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>>555722859
>She proved that segregated chess hurts women's growth
She proved the contrary. Her sisters never reached her strength despite so she was just exceptionally talented
>Also one of the best by strength of all time
She's not even the strongest Hungarian of her generation(Peter Leko was)
>She beat all the world champions that reigned during her career, aslo.
she's like 12-1 against Gary, with the only win being in a blitz game

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KWABNUS RIGGING SOCCER MATCHES

>>555723971
Nah I got nuked just for multiple accounts, it was after I made a third one

>>555724413
I trust Loek Van Wely about as much as I trust any other MAGA affiliate.

>>555723765
it's literally allowed in the tos for that exact purpose jakposting retard

>>555726459
No retard, it isn’t. That greentext is a meme rewording of what it actually said when I went to appeal my random ban. It said multiple accounts are strictly not allowed and to only proceed with the appeal if I didn’t create multiple accounts
Dumbass

>>555726760
Multiple accounts - Having more than one account is not allowed, barring specific circumstances. For example, titled players are automatically entitled to one "public" account, for play in certain prize events hosted either by Lichess or another tournament organiser, and one "private" account, for casual play online whilst still displaying their titled status. Untitled players can create a second account for similar reasons, with some examples including having a private account to hide opening preparation, playing "blindfold" games, or playing games with any other self-imposed impairment. Creating an excessive number of accounts (typically any more than three) will generally not be allowed, regardless of reasons. Creating and closing multiple accounts will also be treated as contributing to this maximum number. As with all other rules, the specific circumstances where multiple accounts are allowed remain at Lichess' discretion.
kys

>>555726965
Are you being unironic or can you actually not read? Holy shit

>>555727132
if 3 accounts aren't enough 4 you, kill yourself
it's also ridicolulously easy to get around that so double kys

>>555727346
>I-if 3 accounts aren’t enough for you, chuddy—!
Yeah cope retard, I won’t accept your concession until you make it explicit and stop moving the goalposts.

It was my third account that got banned btw, it wasn’t even more than 3
They’re just tightasses

>>555705967
A GM suffering from puzzle-brain?

>>555718074
It was clearly not his first time playing. He brought a little queen sac and seemed all set to go. His friends were standing at the back of the room rubbing their hands incessantly and emitting at intervals "Uh huh!" and "You know what time it is!"

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>>555723647

>>555723432
Damn why do people care about this shit so much. Peak rating is peak rating, not current rating. It already doesn’t move unless it gets increased.

>>555728163
Kek

>>555728271
Everybody cares about rating, even Magnus. Stop trying so hard to be different and ascended

>>555728271
ladder anxiety is a pretty common thing across basically all competitive game
that approach helps to remove it because you can think to yourself "i'm not playing on my REAL account so it doesnt matter if i lose"

>>555728163
>That’s how we do it, you know what I’m saying?

>>555728418
I literally am ascended though. The rating represents status, and I have evolved beyond the need to care about status. You haven’t, which is why you need multiple accounts and other assorted cope methods.
>>555728425
Common among ape-minded people who care about such things.

This game is ass compared to CODM. I have no ladder anxiety on CODM because I’ve already made Legendary 3 times. Meanwhile none of us retards will ever be titled. Fuck chess forever. I’m off to tear up Nuketown

>>555728765
>and I have evolved beyond the need to care about status.
You are saying that as an assertion of superior status.

>>555729670
Got his ass

seriouschestchess, you're going to return to OTB someday and wreck some NMs right?

>>555724126
I think I might have formatted that bit wrong.
I mean to say Gary was the strongest, and iirc he violated touch move twice.

Also crazy to me that being better than all but 7 men doesn't qualify her as a phenomenal player.

>>555731897
yep

>The avg Never Resign subhuman in action:
https://lichess.org/74cyvCYC/white

Rubinstein is top 5 fyi. I don’t see you guys mention him enough.

>>555737723
1. Garry
2. Magnus
3. Bobby
4. Karpov
5. Rubinstein

I’ll just give the full 5. This is not up for debate btw.

How do you people even have takes on a nigga like “Rubinstein”
Where tf are you coming across games of “Rubinstein” and “Botvinik” and shit
Are you from 1950?

/vg/chess is so back bros. We're so fucking back.

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>>555722454
You're right.
https://www.reddit.com/user/LenaRybakina/search/?q=cramling

>>555739874
wait um. You're completely incorrect, actually. u/lenarybakina mods
https://www.reddit.com/r/elenarybakina/
and this is her youtube
https://www.youtube.com/@lenarybakina
and instagram
https://www.instagram.com/lenarybakina

She's a tennis player. Who just simps for Anna Cramling I suppose.

I guess Anna could be in kahoots with her and stealing her identity or something but I kind of doubt that.

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>>555738624
>Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
>-Mikhail Botvinnik, international grandmaster and 6th world chess champion
He was based.

>>555741418
I'm sure he lost and was seething all his life because of it kek
>b-but I can't think!!11

>>555738624
Because I play the Botvinnik-Carls.

>>555743952
Botvinnik has such cool openings named after him.
>botvinnik-carls caro
>botvinnik semi-slav
>botvinnik english

>>555741418
Based fuck blitz

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When I get the kind of positions I like, it's uncanny how accurate I am for 3+0
https://lichess.org/dKsQI02i/white

>>555738624
Reading chess books, as (You) should be.

>>555746206
The botvinnik-carls is an unambitious waste of time, but we are talking about caro-kann players, though, so they're used to playing like limp-wristed twinks.

Bait

>>555746206
the Botvinnik setup against the Closed Sicilian is indeed a pain to deal with.

>>555741418
>>555746895
Capablanca, Tal and Anand, all better players than Botvishit, were renowned blitz specialists, to say nothing of, you know, Magnus Carlsen. Nice attempt at an appeal to authority though

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>>555738624
I have played over a ton of Rubinstein's games. I used to play guess-the-move with his games on chessgames.com. He was a phenomenal player.

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Botvinig

>>555756906
He liked my tweet once.

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>>555757179
Botvinnik liked your tweet?

>>555728960
>Meanwhile none of us retards will ever be titled
don't be so sure anon...

>>555758394
No, Maurice did.

>>555722859
>She proved that segregated chess hurts women's growth and that women aren't genetically inferior at children's board games.
No, judit proved the exact opposite. The best 0.0000000000000000000001% of female players that ever lived (a total genetic freak different from other women players), made it to retirement without anything but failures in the end. She was given a spot in a world championship round robin tourney purely because the rules were so lame that Kasparov, Karpov, Kramnik etc. just said "fuck your stupid rules, have fun only having the shit players at your new tourney FIDE" and even then, she scored the worst performance of any player in any World Championship tournament, scoring 4 1/2 points (loss, draw, loss loss, loss draw, draw draw, loss draw, win loss, draw draw) while Topalov scored 10, Anand and Svidler scored 8.5

She was utterly humiliated and sprinted crying from the entire sport.

And no women will ever do it again, because they now just play in women's tournaments to have artificial fake ELOs and fake titles, facing weak opponents, that is not how someone becomes as strong as a Hikaru/Caruana/Pragg/Aronian. But they'll always do the easy fake route because otherwise being weak, women would never win prize money or scholarships or get coaching jobs.

Hence why it's been over 20 years since then no woman has ever come anywhere close to performing like a Polgar (who was already too weak to ever come close to being on any GOAT list, if judit was a man she'd be considered the 50th best player in history on any objective list.
Not horrible but not "proves women get r done")

>>555764198
She proved that even though men use their prehensile penises to move the chess pieces, once in a while the natural variation in the size of women's clitorises overlaps with the size of men's penises, and they too can become chess masters.

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Lol, I played a karla. He said this after a casual blitz game. I didn't even play with high accuracy, it was 89% 39 cpl.

I've been exclusively playing 960 for a while and now regular chess is too hard for me (I get trounced in the opening). As long as you don't fuck up completely, 960 is incredibly forgiving in the beginning before turning into chaos in the middlegame.

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>>555767295
You probably have fluid intelligence so chess960 is easier for you.

>>555767359
I don't know what the means, but I do find 960 more intuitive and a lot more fun. The only thing that sucks about 960 is getting good pairings is a crapshoot sometimes.

the second my opponent repeats a single move in a position where I might be worse I offer a draw immediately
either they accept and I get a draw or it increases the chance of them tilting, it's called a plus-EV play

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looking forward to the Judith movie she used to be really hot

>>555767536
It means the ability to think through and figure out novel problems without memorization or preparation. Kind of like a in game of scrabble.

>>555768883
>scrabble
>without memorization or preparation
good bait

>>555764198
You're way too angry that I like Judit...

On second though, I get why women would want their own league if you're the type to play at a tourney :o

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>>555693367
deader than a fucking doornail.

the usual manlets tried to hype up the christmas tournaments only for it to be another massive failure.

>>555768883
Scrabble is a bad example, I've heard Nigeria has a lot of heavy hitters in that game

>>555766286
It’s not about the accuracy of the overall game, nice try licheat. I support your opponent and condemn you to hell

>>555751831
Botvinnik >>> CACAblanca/SHITal/SCAMand
Am*ricans just hate him because he built a chess empire.

>>555779082
sick meme yo damn

>>555779082
no everyone hates him because he was a commie puppet

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>>555783676
Bronstein lost.

>>555786019
turns out it's real easy to win when your oponent's family is being threatened

>>555787132
This is he kind of extravagant excuse coping burgers cope up with when attempting to keep papa Botvinnik out of the top 3 and salvage a spot for Fischer.

up

>Jan: Vishy showing that not every Indian has to do badly in Wijk Aan Zee
lmao

Pretty crazy that we're all but guaranteed a new world champion regardless of who wins the candidates.

>>555812046
Pretty crazy how that's not true at all.

>>555814175
Cope Rajesh

>>555815204
I am not Indian, just a realist. I like Gukesh and think he's a good representative of the game. He conducts himself well and plays aggressively.

>>555816390
You’re not a realist at all actually, Gukesh is playing like shit and is widely expected, by everyone, to lose in his first defense
He also doesn’t “play aggressively”, except when he aggressively blunders. He tries to play like Magnus and mostly fails

>>555816608
Ok, we'll see.

The only way Gukesh retains is if he cheats

>>555817954
Gukesh would never cheat, neither at chess nor on his wife. Take notes, betas.

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We're getting Jan and Svidler commentary at the candidates yay

>>555818329
Is that from the new episode? That’s messed up.

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>>555768003
>used to be
low T detected

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>>555820770
yikes desu ne

>>555820770
She’s so hot, I’d smothered mate her all night long til the cows came home. Yee-haw!

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>>555820658
Yes, they're going full on TDD(Total Demon Death)

>>555821428
That’s awful, no wonder Kanehito Yamada refuses to include POC in his story.

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>>555820658
>Is that from the new episode? That’s messed up.

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>>555822654
Idk why people like that show. Its animation is cheap and shitty.

>>555797739
poobros arent gonna like this one

>>555823032
They splurge their budget on the fight scenes. The show is pretty slow at times, but it has some powerful subtle moments. Also, I identify with Frieren not understanding humans, she’s clearly autistic coded. IMO, it’s the reason the show is so popular: an OP autistic racist elf slaughter demons without mercy.

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>>555823032

>>555824746
That scene was intense.

Stockfish has leveled up.

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/stockfish-18/

>>555829868
What’s the elo rating now, like 3400?

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and we humiliate yet another stockfish cheater. A 2 games account from catalonia, we're accumulating the rare flags of new fake account stockfish users who instantly play like experts with 5000 games

>>555832670
Shut the fuck up bitch

>>555833358
uhoh doc, found some mad-because-bad

>>555832670
Is there more nuance to this game type than block obvious plan and bludgeon to death?

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>>555818329
Hell yeah

>>555833467
You are a dumbass. No one wants to see the gay variant you are obsessed with. This is a chess board and that’s not chess.

>>555834162
especially not the even gayer opinions and walls of cope

>>555834162
I didn't want to be the one to say it but this guy's right. Fuck a duck.

>>555833869
for sure, there's 10-20 very high level tactics going on you wouldn't understand until you train at duck or have a high level commentator pause each turn and explain what the tricks and threats are.

It's why the game is so complex that I manage to win even against max-stockfish often.

It's a shame the world championship is 2 second increment, so the commentators never able to explain any of the nuances to any non-duck players watching.

duckmixer

>>555832670
>2500 playing against 1500
wtf is this shit?

>>555834162
>>555834290
>>555834364
you 500 elo players shit your pants at literally anyone above 1500 who posts as a defense mechanism because you're shit at the game. It's really quite pathetic. Literally allergic to talent.

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>>555834875
I'm actually 1200 elo on lichess

>>555834875
Lol, you used 1500 as an example because his actual chess rating is only 1600 chesscom.

>>555834875
keep telling yourself that cope boy
the funny thing is that you have no chance in normal chess and 960 against a good chunk of this thread

>>555832670
Look Vanziqx, you have my permission to post one game per thread. You need to stop posting all over vg and tg. I’m okay with hearing occasional updates from you, but you’ve pushed the attention whoring too far.
Even the shogi fag doesn’t over do it like you’re doing.

>Hans made a complete bullshit piece sac versus Cuckesh and still managed to draw the game
lmao

>>555834820
He said before he does this to rating farm noobs that don’t know the rules and he refuses challenges from other high rated players to avoid losing points.

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If I were the duckfag, I wouldn't post a single game. I would listen to what the actual chess players have to say. And that's what he never did.

>>555838349
I guess you could call him a lame duck.

>>555838349
If he did that otb he'd be a titled player on demand; y'all just jelly

>>555840997
There are no titles for playing with a duck like a faggot ass bitch (nigger).

>>555841462
The guy is an ass, check out his mean-spirited posts on tg. Anyway, let’s just leave it here for now. If Vanziqx cares about /chess/ and the people here, he’ll dial it back.

>>555841462
there's titles for farming thou

>>555842781
I haven't been going to /tg/. It's silly to me that the general remains split, and I have no idea how much is one autist spamming and bumping and copy-pasting from reddit vs. real discussion, but I guess I will take a look.

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How come Kazakh chess players look like that

>>555843074
God, I wish that chair was my face.

>>555839927
kek

>>555822654
God I love this racist elf so much its unreal

>>555850401
You take Frieren I’ll take Fern

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>>555852005
She’s so real it’s unreal

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>>555852005
Deal, the fatso is yours

>>555839676
I wasn't even aware of the original "and that's what x never did" until I started seeing your posts but now it's just become funny by repetition.

>>555854047
I’m a different anon and I also sometimes post it on demand

>>555843074
Do they specifically select the hot ones to train up for the national team, or is it the other way around where the hot ones naturally become the strongest

>>555854849
I think it’s more connected to wealth, all these hot girls come from rich families which select for hot wives, hotter daughters

>every day women
>the hot ones

>>555856076
Rene Good is your every day woman nowadays.

What book should I get on the reti?

>>555856406
Reti or Not by Gothamchess

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>>555856076
I understand if you hate simps out of principle and lot of chess girls here are overrated but I really want to live on the planet you do where this is an average woman

>>555857197
And they’re petite

>>555856293
I am about to hit you wif da troofs. All those qts are going to morph into Renee Goods.ong frfr. It's just how it be.
>>555857197
Beauty and intelligence are all distributed equally. There are qts everywhere. Even in your local home town area.

>>555857197
looks like a mid latina, theyre everywhere