Hi, this is a crosspost from the lemmy community. It doesn't seem that there is an option to crosspost to Kbin, so I had to manually copy the post. Also, the pictures are a bit of a mess, with most of them not showing, and the rest super big. Sorry for that.
I think it is important to have some coverage of a big tournament with players like Carlsen, Anand, Nepo, Rapport, Duda, Aronian, etc. I hope you don't mind the crossposting.
I play g5 on move 3 - don’t remember what it’s called. Very few people respond with the “best” h4 which gives me some attacking chances instead of just defending a passive position.
Did you ever try chess.braimax.com? The puzzles are from lichess, but you can also easily add those which you fail (or that you simply like) to a spaced repetitions system, for free. And some new big features are almost ready to be released...
Congrats on the Rosen trophy haha. I feel like playing on online is usually a great idea (unless you're just tilted). People don't necessarily know how to convert a position, so just losing a piece need not be the end. I also appreciate when opponents keep pushing, since frankly I could a lot more practice converting advantages myself.
I totally agree with you. If someone resigns, the game is lost for sure. But if someone decides to continue playing, even with lost position, there are many chances to draw or even win! So never resign!
One of my favorite chess books, and more generally puzzle books, is Raymond Smullyan's The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes. The book is a retrograde puzzle book, meaning all the puzzles ask you to figure out something about what happened in a game prior to the given position. For example, there's the problem on the cover, which asks you what must have been the last two moves in the game, or you might be required to figure out whether a player can legally castle in a given position, or which player must have been last to move, and so on. The first part of the book basically teaches you to do these kinds of puzzles, under the guise of Sherlock teaching Watson, and then the second part gives a bunch to solve. The puzzles are incredibly fun (Smullyan, a logician, wrote a lot of very entertaining logic puzzle books), and the Sherlock theming is cute.
This is a great list! I have been a pretty big slump with my chess recently, and have pretty much foregone any of the self-reflection that is necessary to improve. I think I'll try some of this out and see if it gets me anywhere
I hate it when someone talks to me while playing. I either completely ignore them or if it's someone I can't ignore, I prefer to resign and terminate my game. If it is other distractions that don't require my active participation such as music, TV or other people talking amongst themselves, it doesn't really affect my concentration.
Stop saying "New response just dropped" every time someone says something on this godforsaken sub, no, a new response did not drop, just an average mediocre statement that adds nothing more to a conversation, for the love of fucking god. if i see ONE more person mindlessly saying "New response just dropped" i'm going to chop my fucking pipi off. 🤬🥸🤬😠😠holy shit it is actually impressive how incredibly unfunny the entire sub is. 😠😠🥵🤬😠🥵it's not that complicated, REPEATING THE SAME FUCKING JOKE OVER AND OVER AGAIN DOES NOT MAKE IT FUNNIER. this stupid fucking meme has been milked to fucking death IT'S NOT FUNNIER THE 973RD TIME YOU MAKE THE EXACT SAME FUCKING JOKE. WHAT'S EVEN THE JOKE?????? 🤬😠🤬😠IT'S JUST "haha it's the funne nEw ReSpoNsE thingy" STOP. and the WORST part is that new responses were actually funny for like a few years and it got fucking ruined in like a week because EVERYONE POSTED THE EXACT SAME FUCKING JOKE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP. SEEING ALL YOUR SHITTY MEMES IS ACTUAL FUCKING MENTAL TORTURE YOU ALL ARE NOT FUNNY. COME UP WITH A DIFFERENT FUCKING JOKE PLEASE...🤬🤬🤬
I've played several orders of magnitude more games online, so I can think and calculate much better with 2D pieces. I'll play OTB occasionally, but I always feel like I'm playing much worse.
Usuallly I am pretty lazy with Puzzles, but I tried all three Platforms. I think I also liked chesstempo the most. However the Puzzle Games on Lichess and Chess.com are also fun
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