hikaru’s recap is hilarious with an additional fabiano sideburn.
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Definitely just played a game Gotham would love for his How to Lose at Chess series.
15 | 10 though
I won and was actually in the lead most of the game but there’s a ton to criticize and make fun of. Actually played a half decent endgame too to recover from blundering my queen.
I’ll post it if people are interested and also find out how to post game files here.
At the expense of embarrassing myself…
https://www.chess.com/live/game/76320635461
Should note that the analysis doesn’t work on my smartphone for some reason. Works on my laptop no problem though.
Also, GothamChess requires you to be a paid Twitch subscriber to send in games so fuck that.
The game looks lost for black by move 7. I think that your opponent pushing pawns out in front of his king like that and not developing any pieces is just breaking too many opening principles.
Here’s a little constructive feedback - I don’t think it mattered a lot but when you played 10. a4 my instinct there would have been to push a pawn in the center instead and try to open the center. When you have a huge lead in development and your opponent’s king is in the center, opening the position is probably going to give you more winning chances. He probably won’t be able to parry all the tactical threats.
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Yeah I was crushing early but blundered my queen and it all went upside down.
That is until he blundered his queen
EDIT: Any constructive feedback is appreciated. Honestly, I was posting this for the lolz. Constructive feedback is a win for me 
Ding Chilling!!!
Dude has crazy courage to go for the win in the last game!
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Also chess post-game conferences are the worst conferences in sports history.
Interviewing the players together is insanely cringey. Even the UFC stopped doing that with their fighters.
it’s a shame this is more of ian choke than ding won cause of ian blunders especially that game he had the title won and blew it but chess gonna chess.
play clap classical clap time clap controls clap in clap the clap classical clap world clap championship clap
It’s like these bums are on a 70 pitch count.
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Just do sets of 2 until there’s a winner. One a day, rest day in between.
lol US and Russian dominance
Daily Mail is such a rag
This is so weird. Played a 10 minute game, chess.com says 90% accuracy and maybe an 1800 rating.
I did feel pretty good in the game but I’ve never been rated that high or had an accuracy number that high.
Yeah well I just played a classical game wirh 55% accuracy and an 800 rating. I’m around a 1300
I always think of chess as low variance, but maybe it isn’t? Just weird to luck into good decisions in chess.
Those ratings things are bullshit. I had 90% accuracy in a game with no blunders, mistakes, or misses.
Was rated 1150 for the game.
Also, does anyone else have a very different winning percentages with white and black? I have a small sample of rated games (just 39) but I have a 83% win percentage with white and a 62% win percentage with black. Anybody else lose a whole lot with black and not so much with white?
You’re supposed to. Especially at our ratings
There’s less luck than most games, but for sure still quite a bit. It depends a bit too on how we define “luck.”
If you blunder in an obvious way at say 1100 rating, you’re opponent might notice it half the time or so. Whether they notice or not in a particular instance comes down to luck.
Or if you are choosing between two moves and can’t decide which is best when in reality one is brilliant and one a blunder, I’d say there’s some luck about how things actually turn out if you mostly just pick one option at random.
Maybe you’re really bad at facing a particular opening and get unlucky to face it several times in a row.
Stuff like that. A big list of examples of chess luck would be fun.
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When I was under 1000 on chess.com I had a better winning % with black. I theorize that this is because white was more likely to blunder first.
Also in shorter time controls for every position there is a probability, less than 100%, that you will find a good move in the time allotted. I think a lot of the randomness in chess comes from that.