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Not sure how you can come to that conclusion considering I didn't even talk to you.
Getting telepathically trolled by spirits. Like in the X-Files?
I'm not too familiar with X-files but I understand your implication
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- d4 e6 2. Nf3 f5 3. c4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Be2 b6 7. O-O Bb7 8. d5 Qe8 9. Nb5 Bd8 10. d6 c5 11. b3 a6 12. Nc3 Qg6 13. g3 Ng4 14. Nh4 Bxh4 15. Bxg4 fxg4 16. gxh4 Bf3 17. Qe1 Qf6 18. Bb2 Qxh4 19. Ne2 Qh3 20. Nf4 Rxf4 21. exf4 Qg2# 0-1
Not annotating this one because he's a ■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ who sidelines computer evals every game and I made a one move blunder. The only guy I consistently lose against. I got shanklands chessable course on d4 sidelines so I stop doing that
Doesn't that guy have mate in 1
I got a nice chess set recently to play w. my dad when he comes over, it's nice
I think no home is complete without a nice chess set
thursday's game:
- e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Bg7 5. Bc4 {not sure what the correct
move is after Bc4. e6 would have been safe, but I didn't feel I needed to play
it. i wanted to focus on activating my knight on g8 by covering e5.} Nc6 6. c3
{wasn't expecting this. seems like a bad move. Be3 would have been better. i
wasn't planning to take his knight on d4, and now his b1 knight needs to
develop awkwardly} d6 {trying to prevent him from playing e5} 7. O-O Nf6 8.
Nxc6 bxc6 9. e5 {he does it anyway! seems like a mistake} dxe5 10. Qxd8+ Kxd8 - Bxf7 e6 {clearly winning now although i followed up poorly} 12. Re1 Ke7 13.
Bxe6 {maybe taking with the bishop was the move here. i wanted to keep the e5
pawn, but i could likely have won with less stress if i gave it up} Kxe6 14. f4
Nd7 15. Nd2 Kf7 {trying to move my king away from the center} 16. Ne4 Ba6 17.
Be3 Bd3 {maybe another mistake, but i thought i could make my bishop more
active while forcing his knight to move earlier than he might have liked} 18.
Ng5+ Kg8 {not the ideal place for my king to be, but i have a simple plan of
h6-Kh7 if i'm allowed to execute} 19. Rad1 Bf5 20. h3 h6 21. g4 hxg5 22. gxf5
gxf4 23. Bxf4 {i didn't calculate this when i played h6, but i should have.
not losing but slightly worse than i thought i'd be} exf4 24. Rxd7 gxf5 25.
Ree7 Bf8 26. Rf7 Rh5 {and it's very hard for him to do anything while i break
out with Rg5+-Rg7. i thought about h4 here, but decided i was still okay} 27.
b4 {preventing Bd5+ to attack the a-pawn, but it's too late} Rg5+ 28. Kf2 Rg7 - Rxg7+ Bxg7 30. c4 Rb8 31. a3 Bb2 32. Rd3 Kf7 33. Kf3 Bc1 34. Rd7+ Ke6 35.
Rxa7 Rh8 36. Kg2 Rg8+ 37. Kf1 Rg3 {recovering the lost pawn while pushing his
king back and solidifying the win} 38. a4 Rxh3 39. b5 cxb5 40. cxb5 Kd6 41.
Ra6+ Kc7 42. a5 {Rc6+ doesn't work} (42. Rc6+ Kb7 43. Rxc1 (43. Kg2 Rg3+ 44.
Kf1 Be3) 43... Rh1+ 44. Ke2 Rxc1) 42... Be3 43. Rc6+ Kb8 44. a6 Rh1+ 45. Ke2
Rb1 {with his king too far back and my bishop controlling everything his push
collapses} 46. b6 Rxb6 47. Rxb6+ Bxb6 48. Kf3 Be3 49. Ke2 Ka7 50. Kf3 Kxa6 51.
Ke2 Kb6 52. Kf3 Kc5 53. Ke2 Kd5 54. Kf3 0-1
2300 on lichess if i'm remembering right
Damn
2300 is my peak but most of the time i hover in the 2000-2200 range because im impatient and fire off guesses and don't solve properly (a proper solve involves calculating all lines ahead of time and seeing the whole puzzle, an improper solve that still gets the points often involves just intuiting the moves one by one, which is what i do often)
proper solves are important because a lot of the time the puzzle wont even make you play some of the more testing lines that still lose for the opponent but require you to find different moves that dont show up in the puzzle
also i just hit 2500 on chess dot com but their scoring system is fraudulant and gives you points even when you dont solve the puzzle for getting like 3/4 moves and people have accounts with like tens or hundreds of thousands of puzzle points, which makes no sense
lichess still sticks to a proper rating system for the puzzles and there's no such inflation
this is an example of a 1979 rated puzzle where i just guessed the answer without even seeing the line that wasn't even that hard to calculate (i feel stupid for not seeing it)
you have to see that attacking the queen with a pawn puts the queen on a forkable square if it takes the pawn and thats why the queen just trades itself for the knight when you play the pawn move, but somebody could plausibly get the points in this puzzle without even seeing that
this is like a dumb simplified illustration of the general point that solving puzzles properly requires often going through lines that you dont actually end up having to play
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why doesnt the queen go right there?
ive been slowly climbing hitting like 1500 now and getting more accustomed to solving them properly. but it seems like im hitting that proper solve wall becuase i get tripped up on the unconvential sacrificial gambits or the ones that bait you into unskewering your own 5+ worth piece
i just get lucky and hit that standard puzzle thing you mention seeing really common stuff like black king g8 move your white queen with a rook behind it to f7 to make the king corner himself and get some of my points back or one of those funny/easy late game ones
sometimes it feels like the bot makes a weird move mid puzzle and i cant tell if it's supposed to be making a mistake or im just not seeing the fallout from the move. theres probably a way to find out but ill probably figur eit out as i get better at doing lines in my head