white to move
Fun watch here, this is Jan Gustaffson playing someone he thinks is a GM friend of his but secretly Magnus Carlsen is playing on his account. It’s amusing to watch as Jan gets increasingly bewildered as he gets smashed by Carlsen blitzing out sick moves.
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I’ve linked him a few times before, Jan Gustaffson is a chess treasure. I witched him and Svidler do the coverage for the last candidates on chess24, excellent. Kramnik was getting into all of these losing/lost positions and claiming chances, they were loling hard.
Why do they call Anish Giri the artist?
RadioJan: Because he always draws.
Omg I posted the wrong position a few moves in. Try to edit that and forget it existed as it gives away one of the crazier moves.
k, I was able to delete my post
Attention Unstuck, did I just vanquish Olivier Busquet for our holy honor in a completely random chess.com 3 minute blitz game? Not a perfect game, 12. Nxg5?? is intentional but bad, and I missed the queen fork at 14. Nd5?? but otherwise mostly ok.
This is the profile
I have a Borgata Open 1k sighting of an Olivier Busquet from Edgewater, NJ, so like yeah? I mean it’s a brag but not a brag, my in shape ELO is ~150 points higher, bring on Allen Cunningham I guess?
I have no idea who that guy is, but he can suck it imo.
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He was/is an online heads up sng superwizard turned MMA from time to time figher, did/does a lot of poker commentary, ~10 million in tournament cashes
Don’t resign and try to stalemate swindle Unstuck? Get mated in a sort of humiliating fashion. Black to move, mate in 3 (multiple solutions but mine has the most flex)
- … Kc3
- Ka3 c1=B+
- Ka4 Bb3#
Sort of humiliating in that the under promotion to B+ mates the same way as Q+.
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i did …Ra1 but …Bb3 has sex appeal
or under promote to a knight to really fuck with them
- … Kc3
- Ka3 c1=N
- Ka4 Ne2
- Ka3 Nd4
- Ka4 Bb3+
- Ka3 Nc2++
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Also, hit my peak blitz rating on lichess today. 1967.
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chris have you noticed anything about the relative strength/rating of players on lichess since they changed to stop giving so many points for wins (4-6 months ago now I think?). It used to be you could get at many as 15 points for a win, and ~equal rating wins gave about 10 (now I don’t even think it gives 8 all the time?). One of the main reasons I split my time on chess .com and lichess was that you can gain rating faster on lichess, and with the elo seeming to be +150 higher than on chess .com and I could flirt with the 2k rating. Don’t recall, I think my peak on my old account was either 1956 or 1978, probably the former. With an incredible amount of run good I got to 1928 on chess .com but 1900+ on chess com feels like 2k+ at least on lichess.
No idea, I didn’t even realise they changed it and I don’t play anywhere else.
I have definitely made real rating gainz over the last year, I’d attribute this to:
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Watching agadmator’s videos, his analysis isn’t that groundbreaking but just seeing master games played through gives me a pattern-recognition idea of what the plans and pitfalls are in certain positions I think
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Being more patient in positions I hate. Sometimes you just have to play boring positions and make moves without having a plan, I used to try to force these positions too much (and probably still do).
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I was on an agadmator kick for a while, but haven’t watched much chess analysis since the sinquefield cup. I recently tried going through one of those relatively detailed opening videos on the Taimanov Sicilian, which is what I tend to play probably with horrible results (mainly wanted to know wtf the difference between Paulsen and Kan).
I think I’ve gotten stronger positionally this year, a better appreciating for dominating squares whether it’s putting knights in the right places or more actively going for bishop pairs. I’ve also developed less of a hatred for boring symmetrical positions. All my sacrifices remain frivolous and I still don’t know how to queen/mate with king and pawn with opposition.
I’ll try playing a bit more on lichess, if you want you can add me my account is UnstuckPatzer
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Y’all ever play real people across the board? I’m thinking this would be a way to meet some people around where I live.
Just with friends, they suck plus I don’t know, I don’t like it, so used to the screen at this point. I don’t have any particular read on the types of people you’d meet at a club these days, can’t be any worse than casino regs though.
I play real life occasionally, people vary but most are not particularly sociable, I wouldn’t recommend it as a way to meet people.
Anywhere you’d recommend to learn the Taimanov smrk4? I hate my repertoire against e4 as Black (mostly the Qa5 Scandinavian, it’s awful).
This is the one video I looked at about it, I just noticed that I tended to play e6 a fair bit and this is one of the common ways to go in the French Sicilian.
But tbh I can’t say there’s anything particular about it that I understand and use to exploit, I just know some of the lines 8-10 moves deep and that’s it. I only play blitz, I should just trash it an play some fianchetto dragon.