ready to start edition>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad | September 16th - 27th- Lichess Autumn Marathon | October 24th- Chesscom Crazyhouse Championship | November 5th - 6th- Total Chess World Championship Tour: 2026 Pilot | November 10th - 20th- WR Women's Chess Tour: Grand Final | November 22nd - 23rd- US Masters | November 25th - 29th- FIDE World Championship Match | November 25th - December 15th>Previous thread:>>98487944
>>98723668First for Hans
>>98723668Second for best waifu Maria Jose Campos.
>>98723668>OlympiadRound 8:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD2bcOXy87c
>>98723681Love this guy, and good op. It has relevant information and isn’t obsessing over one player edition
>>98724766>good op. It has relevant informationThe calendar can be handy I guess but take a look at that rentry and tell me it's not the most bloated thing you have seen in your life
>>98724998You’re doing good work keep it up fren
Must be really stressful to play for your country in important events like the Olympiad.
>>98726315For sure, especially if it’s against a country you don’t like
The problem with chess waifus is that I can't play against them because I'd be constantly distracted.
>>98728519What would you be distracted by?
>>98728592Literally everything. I can wear a huge hat and try to focus on the board, but still, she can sneeze, she can ... fart...
>>98728791Nice haha share more pics if you’d like
>even in chess general you have coomers posting whoresFuck off.
>>98728519Only if they wear short sleeves.
>>98728935It’s better to join them than constantly complain about them!
>>98724698round 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHQ064FmCd8
>>98715480Sindarov, then Caruana.
Is checkers older than chess?
>>98730543probably
>>98730569How do we know?
>>98730596You can play with stones with zero piece design and a few rules, I suppose it was easier to invent. Africans have been playing games with stones (mancala) for thousands of years.
>>98728519You should see the game she played today. She needed a win to save a match draw, and somehow did it from a dead 0.0 position. She’s unbelievable.
>>98730838Post game?
>>98731027https://lichess.org/broadcast/46th-fide-chess-olympiad-samarkand-2026-women-matches-1-25/round-9/edZfnhoA/RYPcOBz1
Anyone else disappointed how whorish Dina is? It gets worse the more you look into her.
>>98730543older than modern chess, but younger than shatranj. In Spain, checkers was originally called "Dame" ("Queens") after the medieval chess piece, which moved like a promoted checker.
I went up to a girl at a chess club, I think she thought I was gay
>>98732149What happened? Details please!
Played unbelievably bad today. Ended up resigning most matches in the first 10 moves because I can't concentrate and ended up blundering a ton.
>>98733212I just feel like every girl I meet at the chess club thinks I’m gay.
>>98733646Tell them that you're a 4channer, that'll help for sure.
>>98729700Round 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OFm_VrDTCo
>>98733646Have you tried looking less gay?
>>98734688I just wish I could unfuck all those men, but the chess lessons ain’t gonna pay for themselves
This is so close:-Alua has white tomorrow, but against a strong opponent-Alice has black against a weak opponent
What to expect from this guy?
>>98736699Literally the exact same thing as Dvorkovich.FIDE will absolutely never unfuck itself so long as it continues being infested with the puccian rot.
That’s exciting
Beware, the last round at the Olympiad starts earlier so that half the spectators will miss it.
>>98737873What time
>>9873787720 minutes left
>>98737987Cool link?
>>98738049https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL-j4UXDb08https://www.twitch.tv/fide_chess
>>98738055You’re quick thanks
>>98738055>Chinese women win gold without their strongest playersthe absolute state of women chess
me on the left
>>98740399Imagine the smell
I'm totally not distracted...
>>98743007No arm hair, but very cute face.
>>98743150zoom in on the other arm
>>98743334Nice, I wonder what her natural hair color is, does she dye her head hair or bleach her arms.
very interesting drama videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX4bsl_R0rE
Any cool chess movies coming up?
>>98745106It's not a good subject for movies.
>>98723668Do you guys prefer chess.com or lichess? And why?
>>98746496What about another Bobby Fischer movie, or a tv series? It’s been a while since the last one
>>98746496The musical was pretty good.
>>98747024What was the musical called?
>>98747726Freddie Trump Pawn Star: The Cock Opera
>>98747758Lame I thought it was a real thing
>>98747876You seriously don't know?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(musical)
The London System, the Sicilian and the Queen's Gambit are niggertier openings
>>98747942Where can I watch it?
>>98746578The com is lagging and bloated, it has some nice variants though.
>>98749342Fav variant?
>>98750256Bughouse, Crazyhouse, Setup Chess.
Alireza is streaming! https://www.twitch.tv/alirezafirouzja
>>98750596That’s awesome
>>98747726guess
>>98728592just knowing that a foid is sitting opposite me would ruin my day
>>98754737Crush her! Believe in your superiority.
>>98754737It’s the one time you’re allowed to beat a woman senseless, so enjoy it
ITTCute girl that knows how to play = very cute.Cute girl that doesn't know how to play = ugly.
Last chance today to qualify for the Seirawan Chess Championship:https://www.chess.com/events/2026-chesscom-seirawan-chess-championship/schedule
>8 blunders>saw all the best moves yet still didn't play themHow do I stop being retarded?
>>98760415Play longer time controls.
>>98760697How much longer?
>>98760697I do fine in correspondence, having around 90% accuracy, but it doesn't translate well to rapid or classical. I have a gap of around 800 points between these time controls.
>>9876073015+10 rapid on lichess
>when your 500 opponent choses to not take the free queen but some other bizarre move that is 0.04 better according to the computerSome people dont even try to hide it.
>>98760408Cute variant. The new pieces are a bit too scary to handle because of their value.
>>98760408Seirawan himself tried to qualify but failed. Brutal.
>>98745106https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ411MMkf7o
>>98767022Seems kinda boring
>>98765592he's commentating the final:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w54j4foPFw
https://www.twitch.tv/magnums_condomsonlmao
Is chess a sport?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MucszwtI-y4How is she so perfect :3
>>98773244rekthttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/6N0KM7zbWbM
>>98773291I still don't get how a Russian camwhore is taken seriously as a chess mistress.
>>98773767 It’s gross desu
>>98774069Shut up, Elisabeth.
oh no Alice surpassed Alua in the rating list:https://ratings.fide.com/top_lists.phtml?list=girls
>>98777647Who’s Alice? Are they rivals Mario-Wario style?
>>98779044She's a Chinese playing for America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Lee_(chess_player)
>>98779121That dork will farm more elo at the US championship. Plenty of scrubs there.
I am an elo farmer. Been farming for years. Now backgammon farming. Chess before. Good day to you, gentlemen.
>>98780206>backgammonThat would be the first choice for when I'll get bored by chess.
>>98779121Just call her Chinese or call her American
>>98744753Thanks, I didn't know anything about this.
>>98723668>Chessis it the game you play using buttplugs?
This is far and away the most devastating brilliancy I have ever seen.
a good onehttps://www.twitch.tv/layanneontilt
>“I generally always rely on technology. That is, for example, I have never read chess books, nothing at all. I was born in the era of computers. For example, Magnus and Kasparov had to read books back then… but with computers everything has become much simpler now, all the learning.” -Faustino OroAaaaaand I’m officially out on this goober. Team Erdogmus
>>98787515He's correct though. Back in the day you could read like 3-4 chess books and always play that and get really good results, nowadays you have to play like a computer or you're nothing.
>>98786323He's cheating.
Andrea is playing in Greece! https://www.twitch.tv/botezlive
Anyone playing tonight? It’s snowing and I might go out later.-Mixer
>>98792034>snowingPlay card solitaires by the fire.
which one of them is more likely to cheat? >an american named john with a diamond membership who created their account 6 days ago>an indian with a name ending in -esh and a very low-quality selfie taken in their bathroom>an indonesian with a stock image of a flower
>>98795307the indonesian
>>987953071 3 2
>El Nino for another 6 monthsComfy chess winter incoming.
>>98784771No, that's the game of life.
>>98768532There is Wesley, so it's not boring.
>>98750407>BughouseWhat a pity that the player base is so small. There are tournaments every 3 hours but sometimes they get cancelled because there are less than 8 players :(
lmaohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dRCrpazGYM
Go, the 19x19 game played with stones on a board with 361 intersections, is a great stoner game. An excellent alternative to chess and a tiny bit like a checkers game, but with many more pieces and different rules
U.S. Chess Championships 2026: Round 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1S6va5adWQ
I started watching jjk because of those gothamchess surreal thumbnails, don't regret
>>98805306That game is for Chinks.
>>98806217round 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaAFhiN0D04
>>98804671He’s going to be playing Alua soon.
Iykyk
How do I develop good middlegame strategy? After I'm done with the opening I just have no idea what to do.
>>98814094Gain space, control important squares, attack pieces, defend your own pieces. It's not that difficult. One step at a time, don't hurry.
>>98814094Play an opening that you know what the middle game plan is. If you get to the middle game and don't know what to do, it's probably because you didn't understand the point of the opening moves that got you there.
>>98811064Round 3, go Alice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QP4JV18-kQ
>>98812095Maybe the other guys from Kazakhstan will help her to prepare the opening.
>>98787515>Team ErdogmusCount me in.
I want the chess world to be cleaned up of all the schizos and the ultra autistic weirdos.
>>98821255Would eliminate almost all world champions and candidates
>>98821266I'm ok with this honestly.
>>98792034go to a park and re-create the Charles Addams cartoon.
>>98809479don't discriminate! it's for gooks and nips as well
New chessfu just dropped:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V--vjwOOiTM&t=273s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZFV11veQj8
Imagine playing on lichess and suddenly your game get professionally commentated live: https://www.twitch.tv/chesswithjordan
love this girlhttps://www.twitch.tv/marichess
>>98815578round 5:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh1LDJ9Pe-I
In case I am somehow unfortunately not banned anymore, I'd like to mention that shogi is quite good.
>>98812095tough tournament, it should be in the calendar
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xzdDNT0CNkUDid anyone here NOT think she's mid-40s?
>>98830575Round 6:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p70FXf4N_Ek
>>98834080Make a thread.
>>98836018I think that she deserves cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/08A9ktDwTCckek
>>98839834Why does she do these things? It's not endearing at all at this point, it just seems mean.
>>98836701Round 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7MRVU3zdkE
>>98840969Nazi losing another game, at this level must be a record even for women chess standards
>>98841796>Naming your daughter NaziUmmm BASED
>>98841796Shit, i jinxed her, she actually won a game
>>98842338Never trust Women Chess ah ah.
>>98840969round 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U7E-WmZwqQ
How can you enjoy chess? It is practically a solved game where every possible opening and follow up has a name.
>>98845883I play against players that don't remember a damn thing.
Going into my first ever OTB tournament tommorrow after getting a CFC membership.I know I'm going to get wrecked but I might be able to get a couple of wins.There is at least one player I know will absolutely destroy me so Im planning on playing the Polish for shits and giggles.If I' going to lose anyway might as well make it interesting/funny.
>>98846880Take photos if there are girls.
>>98847956There wont be.It will late 30's and older white males and young asian boys with their parents.
>>98848057And no I will not take photos of the young asian boys.
>>98848057Maybe there will be some ladies with hairy arms, you never know. Good luck!
Possibly my first discovered checkmate.
chesd:DDDDD
>>98845883The beauty of chess is that the game gets more difficult as the game progresses. Memorizing 20 moves of theory really doesn't help you all that much. It's not as useful as you'd think. Endgames are where skill is expressed and games are won or lost. The complications in endings are often beyond the best in the world. Even though endings with 7 pieces or less are solved, it is too much for anyone to memorize. The worlds best will blunder in "solved" positions.
Anna-Maja is playing in the streamers' team at the European Chess Club Cup! https://www.twitch.tv/annamaja
>>98849437Not watching her until she regrows all her forearm hair, sorry.
>>98849460She won!
>>98808486Queen to A1
>>98850186yeseasy puzzle, still very satisfying
>>98834080Lately banned means having no reason to visit, basically. Kind of easier that way ツ
Fuck this fucking game for fags. I'm learning the fucking caro kann. Sick of this shit
>>98850440King's Gambit, Polish, Bird, Scotch, Sicilian, English Opening, then Italian and flank openings, also fianchetto openings designed to hide the king etcSeirawan's chess openings book really helped. It made it possible for totally lazy people to learn chess. Highly recommended. Read it twice, in fact.
Then play me checkers one day. After you are sick of the chess drama. lol
>>98850558>bird
Thank God there aren't openings named after cats and dogs.
>>98728519iktf, i could never beat Andrea Botez after watching her getting fucked
>>98780206Music? This is good https://youtu.be/b16_UBiP4G0?si=_yekG57GrxIHMsyh
>>98845854Round 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2vL5FYSo90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM8d9DsFX5oschizo is having his live meltdown again
God damn, I wish I started playing casual/non-rated chess years ago. I'm a little bitch about my rating and now I'm actually having fun just fucking around. Also my chess is somehow better.
>>98802388He draws too many games.
>>98854234Round 10:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWJf5bsNLg
>>98855994>I'm a little bitch about my ratingIt's just a number, relax.
>>98862532Calm down Hikaru, he's gonna be back, he just had a bad tournament
A trap for white with a 77% win rate:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7LEGo8des
>>98862788Are jeans allowed in all big tournaments now?
>>98858833playoff:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfHS4jMWhnU
>>98864142best man wins
>>98864514
>>98864522GMs should wear armour
>>98864556Only the dudes. Women should wear cute lingerie or be totally naked if hot enough. That will get more people to chess, and ironically, probably more women too
>>98864982I wonder it anyone’s ever been asked to show less boobah
>>98864556>wear armour>sit at a table for ours moving little wooden piecesnice sport bro
>>98864092I think so. The only doubt now is for the world championship.
>>98850580Checkers and Othello are impossible for me. I can't grasp the mechanics.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mrS_h_VICdwWow look at her all whored up.
>>98867954Dina is such a shameless whore. Doesn't she have an OnlyFans account ?
>>98864982Muslim players would call the arbiter.
>>98870703I’m pro muslim
>>98868047I've seen her ass so probably.
>>98871573Have you seen the hole? Is it bleached?
Speedrunning back to 2k lichess (5k chess.com) with the alejandropill repertoire.I still never got good recommendations for the sideline tries from Black...
What is the actual best online resource for practising/learning openings (besides "just play games" hurr durr)?I just want a straightforward "here is the moves you make and why" before going into variations and puzzles etc.
>>98873229Videos on youtube to learn, lichess to practice, WintrChess to analyze.
>>98870703Based muslims
Is it worse to cheat on your horse-faced wife of 15 years or worse to cheat at chess against your fellow fren?
>>98873229Chessable courses pirated through shady telegram channels.
>>98874168What are some good telegram accounts to follow?
>>98873229This depends. There is not one source that's best because within the same source quality can vary per opening. Chessable is pretty good because it uses rote memorisation plus explanations, but it depends on the course. Still, the base quality is quite high.I personally really favor textbooks, but you need a good author to explain the main ideas, so here too quality depends. The example of a perfect text book for an otherwise meme opening is the Killer Kalashnikov by Tony Rotella - variations, typical maneuvers and ideas, cohesive repertoire, it's all in there. Video courses can be good too. Eg: GingerGM is really good at explaining ideas, as are Yasser and Ben Fine(((gold)))Any particular openings in mind? Studying openings you don't play is a common improover trap.
>>98874169I'm not gonna post links but there are channels from Latin America that post new courses for 1 day only and then delete them to avoid copyright strikes
>>98874176How do I find them? Is it safe to download telegram?
>>98874175I'm mostly looking for normie stuff.My problem is I dont have a good enough memory to discern what is what because the opening is different based on what black plays.Up til now I've mostly played openings that are versatile to everything because of that memory problem but I actually want to learn how to do things normie like.
>>98874205Sorry, you're gonna have to get a better memory then because that's what openings boil down to. You have to at least know your first few moves and some common ideas.The London is a system opening that's normie as fuck but if you mean e4, you will have to pick subopenings for each of Black's replies.At that point, I recommend picking a repertoire and sticking to it. Keep It Simple 1.e4-2.0 by Sielecki is a very solid beginner's/intermediate pick, he's very instructive and the repertoire is not the hardest to pick up.If you want separate recommendations per opening:e5: Italian (Nf3 Nc6 Bc4), book: The Slow Italian, it's a bit dry but good on the ideas. But any video on the Italian will do I think. It's just so eminently classical.c5 (Sicilian): Going into the open Sicilian is best for the sake of fun, it's a lot of learning, but I really do think you should commit to the Open Sicilians. That means Nf3, d4, and dealing with all of Black's potential setups. In which case, the way to minimize the workload is to play g3-Bg2 setups; but that's too timid. The problem is, there is no catch all solution.tl;dr Just play main lines, accept that you won't always know what to do, and learn in practice. Don't want that? Follow Sielecki's repertoire, which is Bb5/Bb5+ Closed Sicilian sidelines.e6 (French): meet d4 d5 with e5, the Advance. That way you don't have two forks in the road (Nc3 has the Classical and the Winawer). Recommended: The Complete French Advance by Svesh^2Offbeat:Caro Kann: just exchange. I don't think you want to get into a theory pissing match at your level, and you deny the typical structural play they love.Alekhine's: Play the Classical and don't bother with theory, just accept being slightly better.Scandi: 2...Qxd5, it's gonna be a lame game, get used to it. Nc3 and develop your pieces. 2...Nf6, please play 3 Bb5+ and stop learning there. Do not do anything else, because the gambits, and stuff like d4 Bg4, are what Black wants.
Anyone else upset about the recent news?
>>98874432What?
>look at the big list of recommended booksWhich book would (you) recommend for a beginner?Are there any that incorporate visualization techniques and playing without moving the pieces on a board very early?
>>98875264>for a beginner?Simple Chess>visualizationget a wooden board without coordinates
>>98875056Oh, have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard
>>98875962wot u fartid mate?
nice placehttps://www.twitch.tv/maxomariev
>>98836018Why is every chess woman a mean asshole or a whore, or both?
Six Million Ways To Die
>>98853946Here's a good one, too!.. Kinda neato!https://youtu.be/cEq1_FBBO_w?si=RrqIJIXR9AekO5oB
>mfw I realize the sheer volume of material to study if I want to be even semi-decent at chess
Just played my second OTB tournament game ever today.Nothing spectacular but I'm happy I won.
>>98878232The right piece goes to the best square. End of theory.
>>98878022idgi
>>98834080>>98838321>shogiUnironically if you make a thread I will try to participate. I like the idea and what little I tried of it was very fun but I wish there were more people to play/learn and talk about it with. Basically the only reason I chose Chess+Go over Chess+Shogi.
>>98875264>>98875641Soviet Chess Primer and some other russian books incorporate visualization and calculation techniques and exercises right away.They are beginner books but require more dedication so I wouldn't recommend them before you tried something shorter and gentler first like Simple Chess as the other anon recommended.
>>98879981How do you know the right place THO?
>>98798871true, hoping for some rainy evenings
>>98877431All the chess men have autism. This game is cursed.
Heh.
>>98881520In Nethack you can start with both an uncursed clove of garlic and 4 bottles of blessed water. Also +1 blessed mace, an uncured (wow thanks) small shield.. err
>>98882656..
>>98812095She lost in the first round, and will play Lazavik in round 7 with white. We need a miracle this time.
>>98880462I want a lot of snow.
>>98885230that'd be even better but we really haven't had much snow these past years hereMaybe Super El Niño will provide, but I don't want to ask for too much
So I just started getting a bit of interest in Chess. I knew the rules but nothing more beforehand.Bullet is pretty damn fun I must say. Is playing it really as useless or even harmful for overall skill as they say?Other than that I really like doing puzzles.
>>98885963At the beginning you can do whatever you like. I'd recommend only to alternate between 2 or 3 different time controls to get some flexibility.
>>98885963Bullet is useful for time management and for getting loads of games for opening practice, but once time runs out it becomes a meme. I recommend at least going 2+1 for the increment.
Why did my opponent immediately resign?
>>98886375He had bad experiences with doubled pawns.
Chess.com or Lichess?
>>98886506Lichess, simple as.
Former World Champion Garry Kasparov believes that the Grandmaster (GM) title has experienced significant inflation over the years, with nearly 2,000 grandmasters worldwide today.Speaking to Dutch media outlet Sport in Antwerpen, Kasparov explained that young players now have access to computers, online coaching, and extensive chess resources, allowing them to develop their skills much earlier than previous generations.“Children of eight, nine, and ten years old are now winning against grandmasters. Perhaps that implies that not all grandmasters today are ‘real’ grandmasters,” Kasparov said.He recalled that when he was young, competing against experienced adult players was much more difficult, and it took years to develop the chess maturity needed to reach the highest level. Kasparov also highlighted how rare the title once was. He noted that when Walter Browne received his GM title in 1971, there were reportedly only two grandmasters in the world. The other was none other than Anatoly Karpov.While acknowledging the achievements of today's grandmasters, Kasparov believes the title has lost some of the exclusivity it once carried.
>>98886699Now I am no master of any kind. But that sounds like what kids these days would call cope.Unless he is arguing that with rising overall skill and peak abilities, the requirements for a GM title should be raised as well. Which is an argument that can be made.I think the other way around GMs should be able to lose the title if they fall under a certain threshold again or don't play any rated matches for too long. This too would make the title more prestigious.
>>98886769Yeah, maybe keep the titles only if you're active.
Favorite non-world champion?
What goes through a young man's mind - often from a nice, middle-class, respectable family - that he decides one day to go on a chess server and after being matched with a random stranger without warning to play the Englund?
>>98887017The best variations of the Englund give a little more than 1/2 a pawn of compensation. A single pawn advantage is not enough for white to win a game. A lot of people, even grandmasters, are willing to be a pawn down as black without full compensation for it, especially in fast time controls.
Could someone explain why the actual FIDE is deleting from history the actual FIDE champions from 1993–2006?
>>98887323Crazy. So they're just going to ignore and not recognize their own world title champions from those years. Are they hoping younger people won't notice or something? Like what the fuck.
Threadly reminder that once queens are exchanged king activity is more important than king safety
mfw trolls
>>98888008..
>>98886908Seen a move ahead
>>98886908Korchnoi. A thorn in the sides of a whole generation of GMs and world champs, retaining his edge all the way into his seventies!
>>98886375Too much of a faggot to handle doubled pawns in the center.Assuming literally any other reason like having to take a shit.
>>98887323I'm guessing it's because these are the only undisputed world champions.
>>98890384If that were the case they should leave the disputed years empty and not put them with Kasparov and Kramnik.
>>98887017The entire premise of the Hartlaub Englund is to give me headaches whenever I play against it, and they always do the Bishop sacrifice to get my Queen.I learnt to ignore that threat and going over, they usually blunder something in the next 4 moves
>>98873229I helped translating and editing Chessbook, an Android app: quite useful and lite
>>98874348This guy is right.As a Scandi player, whenever I play 2. Nf6 White can do a lot of stuff:3. c4 is a win for Black, but quite obnoxious3. d4 is a win for White, and Black has some problems in equalizing it3. Nc3 Nxd5 4. Nxd5 Qxd5 is usually a win for Black
>>98890761Are you playing Nf3 after d6? A lot of relatively high rated players (I have my filters here set to at least 2000 or something) play exd6, and while Stockfish doesn't give a huge difference either way Nf3 delays black just enough to cut out a lot of threats. I mean exd6 Bxd6 and black has a beautifully developed bishop, it's surprising Stockfish doesn't see that much difference and even more surprising how so many online players just play exd6.
>>98883700She kind of got a shitty draw for the tournament, starting with two blacks against fellow KAZ players who will know her and familiar with her style. But she is resilient and can back bounce still, got a draw today to stop the bleeding. GM norm almost certainly out but she can still gain rating.
>>98891180Nf3, then later Nc3 prevents the Rook for Queen sacrifice, or at least mitigates it, since Black sacrifices a Bishop and a strong Rook for a very passive QueenIt seems that, on a certain point, h3 somehow helps with the Bishop in g4 that pins the Knight. The whole point of this opening is: Black castles long, Blacm pins the Knight on f3, to which Nc3 somehow helps, but everytime Black tries to do these tricksThey help, but White can ignore this shit and go on, since Black is too thrilled to even think coherently
>>98886908Nezhmetdinov
What is tactical ability and what is positional understanding?
>>98886908Peter Leko
Sindarov not even world champion yet and already has more exciting and memorable games than Magnus had in his whole career.
>>98896621>MagnusWhat a boring player to watch.
>>98748652Don't let any stupid visuals distract you, just listen to the OG studio album. It's composed by the ABBA boys.
Recommend me some good youtube teachers, starting from beginner stuff.(not pic related)
>>98901042Hanging Pawns
>be using AI story app>story goes to me playing a game of chess with another good player (both low 2000s)>I respond to 1.e4 with c5>chat calls it "a defensive response"I'm done. I'm so fucking done. I'm tempted to tell the story to skip the whole thing.
>>98901042Unironically mortal chess.
>>98902249>expecting AI to understand chessjust use it to goon like a normal person
>>98902855But muh alphazero
>>9889475Savielly Tartakower came up with the aphorism, "Tactics is what you do when there is something to do; strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do." In more elaborate terms, tactical ability embodies the vision towards short-term gain of advantage in a position—the creation of threats, forcing of certain outcomes, and counteractive measures against your opponent's tactical opportunities. (i.e, just like the puzzles that chess.com and lichess puzzle mix have you solve). Positional understanding is about arranging your pieces and pawn structure to have more effective long-term prospects, and shutting down your opponents ability to do the same. (i.e pushing a pawn to guard a square that a knight wants to jump to, rerouting a knight or bishop to have more central activity or square control, taking a particular trade to damage structure, and developing your pieces with no particular tactical idea in mind.) These two work together in tandem, and a good player embodies both. Good positional understanding often makes your opponent commit to tactical errors that you can take advantage of, and good tactical ability lends itself to better positional play by understanding what your opponent immediately wants, amongst other things.
>>98873229Anon, putting "hurr durr" next to an idea doesn't make it stupid, nor does it make it any less good of an idea because it's an answer you don't want to hear. A thousand opening books will not prepare you for when some opponent immediately throws out bullshit, thus making you freeze because you don't know what the exact best move is. In truth, these opening courses don't differ so greatly that any particular course is "optimal", they really only differ in how in-depth they go, and that's really only as good as your ability to sit down and actually retain it. My advice is to pick an opening for black and white and just go with them, you'll learn all the tricks and traps your opponents want to use on you. You'll even learn openings you didn't set out to learn because they'll be forced upon you. I don't play the scandinavian, but I'm an e4 player so I generally know what to do in the ensuing position despite not having picked up a book or watched a video because I learned it first-hand. And I'm not saying that opening courses are a waste of time, they really are quite valuable, but scoffing at the (without a doubt) best way to learn how to play openings practically is a setback. Reserve the heavy theory for the tournaments and high stakes competitions, just find a youtube video whose narration is enjoyable to you, learn the basics of the opening, and play it a fuck ton of times, don't focus so much on "best" because a marginally better opening course isn't going to unfuck your subsequent middlegame position that you created out of a lack of practice. I know it's the answer you absolutely don't wanna hear, but you have to.
>>98883700>Lazavik in round 7It's today!
>>98906566Game against Dubov was interesting but she got owned lowkey. She played some rapid and blitz events before this and had a 2100 performance rating so something is off with her. I think it's the Olympiad hangover.
