Yeah 5 0 and 3 2 are very comparable, the difference is just that it’s harder to get flagged at 3 2, but you should be spending roughly the same amount of time on moves in either format
i seem to be timing out a lot
Very nice. Would that make you roughly a 2000 ELO? Is that candidate master territory? I’m about 1500 on rapid time control and 1400 on blitz, would I have a comparable ELO rating if I played live?
In the original Indian precursor to chess, the bishops were called elephants. And the Queen was an “advisor” to the King/Raja.
Gg Nepo. No queens for a night for you. Queens are for winners.
Pretty sure I would not be 2000 ELO. If I had to guess I’m probably something like 1800 ELO. Candidate Master is 2200.
The rapid player pool is weak. A friend of mine is 1064 rapid and is like 76th percentile. There are a lot of weak players who play rapid and not blitz, and a lot of strong players who play blitz and not rapid. You can see in that image I’m 99.8th percentile in rapid, but that number is ~96 in blitz and ~93 in bullet, where I hover around 1700 and 1500 respectively. Partly I’m just worse at faster time controls, but partly the rest of the field is stronger. Real life chess tournaments are also going to have stronger fields. I play real life a bit here, but none of it is FIDE rated. I don’t know if I’ve ever even played classical games. If I have it was when I was a kid.
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Interesting. Is there a straightforward relationship between chess .com/lichess ratings and ELO, or is it not that simple?
Lichess are all I think roughly 300 points higher because the starting ratings are 1500 instead of 1200. Not sure what the relationship with ELO is but seems to be lower than chess com. GothamChess for example is like 2750 at blitz and 2350ish ELO.
Ok. It’s not linear though, surely? Starting at 1500 does not mean all ratings are going to be 300 higher. I’d imagine it’s almost logarithmic, once you get to something like 2300+?
I don’t know how ELO is calculated, is there a log in there somewhere?
Magnus Carlsen is a 2900 ELO blitz player and 3200 on Lichess blitz. So maybe a 300 spread is just a Lichess feature.
“It’s been clear to me for most of the year that this world championship should be the last,” he said. “It doesn’t mean as much any more as it once did. I haven’t felt that the positive outweighs the negative.
“For those who expect me to play the world championship next time, the chance that they will be disappointed is very great.”
“There is so much more I can try to do,” he said. “I am very motivated to get the rating to 2900. I have never had it as a goal before, because I felt it was difficult. I have raised the rating a bit again now, to 2865, and it is at least a goal you can set. It does not feel completely impossible.”
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QxD4?
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yep Queen and bishop taking with check on D4 is the key here, once bishop recaptures white queen on D4 the white king is in check and has to move, we take white bishop with our rook and go into the endgame with a 3 pawn advantage.
What I spent the most time on is figuring out if you can take the bishop. Re8+ Bf8 and at first I was like wtp, but there’s Rd8 and d5 evicting the queen from the diagonal, which is gonna be an issue.
Edit: Oh were taking the bishop at the end anyway. I just woke up.
yeah the main takeaway from doing a ton of puzzles is that the forcing lines are almost always better. if we start with Rxa3 white is not forced to do anything, he can make any move he wants. starting with Qxd4 forces white to capture on D4 and then we just take the bishop anyways after the king moves.
Was Bxf3 that obviously wrong? It took me a minute to figure out not to do that. Obviously, I suck at chess.
Also if the white queen was on e5, why didn’t white just play Qe8?
Yeah it can’t have been on e5, there’s also just QxQ.
Wasn’t the previous evaluation mate in 2 (Qe8 Bf8 Qxf8#)?
Greg is saying there was a knight on f6. So, Qe8 leads to NxQ.