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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:47 pm

wait isn't that the Skyrim Mods Weekly guy? Am I confusing him with someone else

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Tue Nov 22, 2022 5:09 am

got nerd sniped by this
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I think it's Re1
Kxe1 -> Bc3#
Kc2 -> Qd1#
Kd3 -> Qe2#
engine says yes, woo
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:12 am

https://lichess.org/training/Qqv3f
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got this wrong : (
i thought Nb4 won material but it doesn't
i don't know if i ever would have seen Nf4 - not intuitive to attack a pawn
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Sun Nov 27, 2022 1:59 am

https://lichess.org/training/ELFzK
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very pleased to have gotten this one right! especially since it's rated 2482
at first it's like, how could i possibly do anything here. but black is also in a tangle - moving the king loses the rook, moving the rook loses the bishop, and if the bishop moves then Rb5+ will in the rook. so now i'm thinking zugzwang and the question is what's going on with the pawns
black has a few threatening looking things: f4, fxg4, e5 and then exd4, e5 and then e4+. white can't prevent them all

candidate moves that i came up with: gxf5, f3, f4
it's important that the white bishop is preventing Rxd4+
f3 f4 and now the bishop has to move and can't prevent Rc1 and things are complicated
f4 fxg4 and the bishop is going to be overloaded between preventing Rc1 and dealing with the passed pawn
gxf5 exf5 f4 and now black has zugzwang issues because your bishop can bounce between e3 and f2
gxf5 e5 i didn't calculate correctly - i thought that if exd4 then Bd3, but i missed that Rb5+ would no longer win the rook because the pawn no longer controls c5. but it turns out dxe5 works out for white

so I went with gxf5 and that was the right answer (and then f4 feels pretty obvious); woo
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Re: chess

Post by Doug » Mon Nov 28, 2022 3:12 pm

Crunchums wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 5:09 am got nerd sniped by this
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I think it's Re1
Kxe1 -> Bc3#
Kc2 -> Qd1#
Kd3 -> Qe2#
engine says yes, woo
This one's really great, because, what guarantees his king will take your rook? He has other moves. Except, any other move also leads to checkmate
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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Mon Nov 28, 2022 4:20 pm

It is very cool and unintuitive

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Re: chess

Post by KingRamz » Thu Dec 08, 2022 10:37 pm

Ashenai wrote:ImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImage

just a physical wave of nausea
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:56 am

i've played a few rapid games today and i'm doing much better than i've ever done before by having my #1 focus be avoiding big mistakes
i just played a game

3 inaccuracies
1 mistake
0 blunders
25 Average centipawn loss
91% Accuracy

and i am pretty pleased with those numbers. like yeah i don't really know how to play good chess very well, but i avoided blundering and then they blundered a knight even though they were 1667 on lichess

edit: 1657 is definitely the highest my rapid rating has ever been
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Thu Dec 15, 2022 9:36 pm

0 inaccuracies
0 mistakes
0 blunders
14 Average centipawn loss
97% Accuracy

in a 5+3 game; woo
though maybe that's less impressive when it was -4.5 (i was black) on move 14
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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Thu Dec 15, 2022 9:42 pm

still very nice

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Tue Dec 27, 2022 6:05 am

https://lichess.org/training/pJ1h2G
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i thought this puzzle was kinda neat because hey imma just throw my rook where you can take it, but actually you can't take it
but really i am posting this because
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new all-time high for my puzzle rating :)
(I stopped posting about every single puzzle that i attempted because i figured it probably wasn't very interesting)
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:17 pm

i've been playing puzzle storm a bunch recently
i keep tying my record, grah >: 3
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Re: chess

Post by Skeletor » Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:29 pm

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wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:31 pm

what were the prompts for those : S
edit: oof, the teeth
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Re: chess

Post by Skeletor » Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:32 pm

the teeth are so bad

i thought we were gonna get fingers monstrosities cause the prompt was: hyperrealistic pirate with youtuber face hands on cheeks astonished --v 4 --q 2
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Re: chess

Post by Skeletor » Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:34 pm

there was also this attempt at using the home alone image
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wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Fri Dec 30, 2022 5:11 am

Crunchums wrote:i've been playing puzzle storm a bunch recently
i keep tying my record, grah >: 3
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let's gooooooooo
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Re: chess

Post by Skeletor » Fri Dec 30, 2022 5:39 am

congratulunchums
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Fri Feb 03, 2023 4:26 am

i've been trying to improve at middlegames (aka Chess, heh). just watched this video and it felt like it was a tipping point for my conceptual framework.

the base of the pyramid is tactics/calculation. if i don't understand strategy very well but i never open myself up to tactics and every time my opponent opens themselves up to tactics i pounce on it, i'm going to be pretty highly rated. conversely, i'm not going to get very far if i have a great understanding of strategy but etc

strategy is the next level of the pyramid. but the thing that i've always struggled with is, in position X the best strategy is Y, ok, but if you hand me some middlegame position (that's not just some forcing tactical problem to be solved) how do i think strategically about it? and obviously it's not like there's One Weird Trick and boom, now you understand strategy. but i think the place to start is piece quality - i.e. how can you improve your pieces or make their pieces worse. and again in truth it's this mega-complicated thing with pawn structure and a million sometimes-applicable-sometimes-break-them heuristics and not all plans are about piece activity (e.g. pushing a passed pawn or attacking their king). but whereas before i felt like i was just drowning in a sea of complexity, now i feel like i have a place to start
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:49 pm

playing blitz games is easy because it feels like there's no ego on the line. dumbest blunder ever? well it was blitz. i should play rapid games instead and not have an ego
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:53 am

Crunchums wrote:i should play rapid games instead and not have an ego
counterpoint: rapid is boring
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Thu Feb 09, 2023 11:11 pm

been winning some and losing some playing rapid. i've learned that i really need to be in the mood to focus or else i don't enjoy it. feels so satisfying to play games like this
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i feel like i've finally reached the point where i'm grasping at trying to make good moves as opposed to just feeling like i don't know what i'm doing at all
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Tue Feb 14, 2023 11:18 pm

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very pleased with this (rapid) game. i'm still at the level where the key is to just not make dumb mistakes and let them beat themselves.

one thing that's difficult about chess is often you end up in an attacking/defending mindset but you need to be looking for both offensive/defensive moves at all times. in this game they sac'd the exchange to damage the pawn structure around my king, and the two mistakes were playing unnecessary defensive moves when i should have instead played an offensive move. yes my king was exposed, but he didn't actually have an immediate threat
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Re: chess

Post by Rylinks » Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:16 am

i don't know the scale on that graph but it is totally possible that the defensive moves are better from a practical perspective

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:07 am

i know what you mean, but this was not one of those times
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the engine wants Qb6 threatening d4 and b2 (-7.5)
i played Ke7 (-2.5), which doesn't really accomplish anything
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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Wed Feb 15, 2023 10:41 am

I think that's a bit strong, Ke7 gives the rooks more space on the 8th row. I can see why Qb6 is better, but Ke7 looks natural to me. You have a winning endgame, small improving moves are a good way to convert.

I'm sure Qb6 is a better move, but I think you were thinking in the right direction.

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Re: chess

Post by pterrus » Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:18 pm

I don't even play chess but this is cool:

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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:24 pm

that is cool!

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Thu Feb 16, 2023 9:43 pm

Crunchums wrote:Image
here is number, in case number go down
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number go up 😤
this is my new all-time high rapid rating
also i noticed that lichess tracks your all-time high, so now i don't need to post here in order to have a record of big number if number go down

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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:01 pm

you can, though

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