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Re: chess

Post by haplo » Wed Mar 03, 2021 7:02 am

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/me never plays Bullet ever again in order to preserve my perfect rating
how are you gonna get over 9000 with that attitude

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Re: chess

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Re: chess

Post by pterrus » Mon May 10, 2021 12:56 pm

Pawn to a8
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Sat May 22, 2021 6:50 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYiil5yOHjQ i admire the level of shamelessness of this clickbait
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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Sat May 22, 2021 12:24 pm

it's a good series!

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Sun May 23, 2021 4:40 am

huh, the title changed to be less shameless
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Tue Jun 15, 2021 11:55 pm

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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:11 am

why are you making the bad moves, crunchums

try making the moves that win the game instead. for example, if you're picking between two moves, one that will lead to a forced mate and one that won't, try the forced mate move

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:05 am

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:15 pm

now i'm up to 2339; thanks for the tip, Ashenai
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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:24 pm

good job, feel free to look me up any time you need hot chess tips

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Re: chess

Post by Blissful » Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:43 am

isnt 2339 like, really good?
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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:48 am

not in puzzle, the scores are different. it's still pretty good!

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Sat Jul 10, 2021 5:19 am

2363 puzzle rating high
time to lose some rating points : 3
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Sat Jul 10, 2021 5:43 am

missed 3 and then made 3 so new high 2368 wooooooo
edit: 2383 babyyy
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:57 am

2395 wooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Sun Jul 11, 2021 10:23 pm

peaked at 2432 but now i'm back down to 2403
finally hit the borderline between "i'll get this eventually if i'm patient enough" and not actually being able to do it
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Sun Jul 11, 2021 11:09 pm

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bruh you're 1661, why are you hanging mate in 1
(edit: with like 12 minutes on the clock)
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Mon Jul 12, 2021 12:16 am

btw bracketbot i've been playing the Qd8 scandi and i love how little theory there is; good call
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:29 pm

i spent hours on this 2492 rated puzzle https://lichess.org/training/zl4hT and still didn't get it right ;_;
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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:44 pm

I spent five minutes on it and also didn't get it right!

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:55 pm

Spoiler!
i got the first three moves right and then got the fourth one wrong. i didn't understand that after exf6 that pawn is going to be giving black problems; i guessed Bxg5
a lot of the difficulty i'm having now is at this level of difficulty the "at the end of all of this your position is great" is caused by more than just being way ahead on material
the engine plays Qxfg in response to exf6, and then when the dust settles you have queen for rook + bishop + 2 pawns. but i didn't see that if the king tries to run instead then the pawn is going to win you the rook
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Wed Jul 14, 2021 7:36 pm

i solved a puzzle, but the site went down and it didn't give me any ratings points
this is an outrage >: 3
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Thu Jul 15, 2021 6:55 am

i spent hours on this puzzle https://lichess.org/training/JIUNG (2382 rating) and eventually i solved it and i feel so satisfied :)
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Qb7 - creates a discovered attack on the queen while also attacking the bishop. and then there are more moves that you have to see, but at the end of it you end up material
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Mon Feb 21, 2022 11:48 pm

Crunchums wrote: Sun Jul 11, 2021 10:23 pm peaked at 2432
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Wed Feb 23, 2022 12:43 am

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:56 am

https://lichess.org/training/jHhWy
very pleased that i managed to solve it, but how in the world is this puzzle only rated 2383
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Re: chess

Post by Ashenai » Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:45 am

It was 2410 for me, pretty sure the ratings are dynamic and based on how people do on them

(I wasn't close to getting it right)

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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Wed Mar 02, 2022 3:52 pm

oh i know, just still surprising that it wasn't rated higher (and apparently my surprise was justified :P )
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Re: chess

Post by Crunchums » Fri Mar 25, 2022 11:28 pm

managed to solve this
https://lichess.org/training/hyScy
2451 when i solved it but 2476 (!) looking at it now
it was hard for me because
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Ra8+ Kd7; Ne5+ Kd6; is all pretty plain, but then what? Nf7+ Kc5 and somehow you've got nothing. Rxd8+ Kxe5 and now black is actually up material (two Knights for your Rook)... but it's the right answer because black's king is drunk
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