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Postby Autarch » Sat Jan 14, 2023 5:38 pm

That’s a shame because rapid is definitely, to me, the more enjoyable game. I never even play blitz or bullet. To me, if there’s no time to think, then there’s no fun.
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Postby draw » Sun Jan 15, 2023 12:39 pm

yeah sooner or later i'm just going to have to man up and play the 8 year old children in person
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Postby Pokemon Blue » Sun Jan 15, 2023 12:59 pm

15+10 is the sweet spot for me

Anything less than that and I just start running into time trouble
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Postby draw » Sun Jan 15, 2023 2:25 pm

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Postby draw » Tue Jan 17, 2023 6:09 pm

Doing my periodic housekeeping on what openings I suck with and found a few that fit me like a glove. Rossolimo with white is amazing as someone who likes nimzo & closed ruy, many ideas are the same, so much less theory to know. Have also been crushing people with the pawn center variation of the tarrasch (the one where your plan is to king walk to g2). Really good in blitz, seems to induce noncalculators to go for tactics that don't exist because the white king visually looks vulnerable. Haven't found any other glaring weaknesses, except I tend to struggle against basically all lines of the French Sicilian. Score especially poorly against the taimonov. I think there are big picture ideas in these open Sicilian structures I'm still missing somehow
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Postby draw » Tue Jan 17, 2023 6:11 pm

Started on the woodpecker method and was feeling tangible improvement but work/life is not allowing me to train 5-6 hours per week
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Postby draw » Sun Mar 05, 2023 4:55 pm

desperately need some theory that makes sense to me against the prins variation because the mainline shit as black makes no sense to me & is concrete as fuck & white goes into it so infrequently that I forget everything I studied previously

dedicating less time to openings these days because my repertoire is pretty solid for my level but the prins is one that if you stumble as black you wind up positionally lost by move 15
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Postby broodstar » Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:53 pm

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Postby Autarch » Fri Apr 07, 2023 4:22 pm

Just got smothered mate in a game. I think that’s a first for me. Second straight game where I got a very tactics trainer-like mate. :)
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Postby Skerple » Fri Apr 07, 2023 4:23 pm

timely bump - hans moke niemann was put to death last night
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Postby Autarch » Fri Apr 07, 2023 4:24 pm

Also had a really fun game in the smith-morra gambit earlier today where I definitely made a couple mistakes but also made a couple of pretty nasty moves and got the W
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Postby draw » Fri Apr 07, 2023 5:43 pm

more like smith more fun gambit
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Postby Autarch » Fri Apr 07, 2023 6:20 pm

Yeah it’s the best. The worst though is when your opponent declines the gambit. I mean it’s not like those lines totally suck shit. There are some decently fun ones, but it’s not nearly as fun as when they accept the gambit.
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Postby Swelling Itching Brain » Fri Apr 07, 2023 6:21 pm

My listening experience in balanced mode reveals the great depth of EARTH
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Postby dcm » Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:30 am

Skerple wrote:timely bump - hans moke niemann was put to death last night


lmao
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Postby draw » Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:48 pm



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Postby dcm » Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:55 pm

Bernie opens with the bongcloud
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Postby Autarch » Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:42 pm

draw wrote:
Autarch wrote:specifically the pirc defense

150 attack


uh, i finally looked into this like a month ago and I don't think I've lost a game to the pirc ever since. it's too easy.
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Postby draw » Fri Apr 28, 2023 7:18 pm

Autarch wrote:
draw wrote:
Autarch wrote:specifically the pirc defense

150 attack


uh, i finally looked into this like a month ago and I don't think I've lost a game to the pirc ever since. it's too easy.

Yes, it is crazy how this one has not stopped working for me either. Pirc players below master level just don't know handle this opening you can basically premove
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Postby Cronos » Sun Apr 30, 2023 8:37 am

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Postby dcm » Fri May 05, 2023 12:37 am

what's like a respectable rapid rating on chess dot com in the eyes of this here thread
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Postby draw » Fri May 05, 2023 10:57 am

dcm wrote:what's like a respectable rapid rating on chess dot com in the eyes of this here thread

I think anything over 1000 means you would beat any person that doesn't consider chess a hobby, so I think that's respectable. 1500-1600 I think of as "advanced hobbyist" and would be considered "respectable" by just about anyone. You have to have put in some serious work to get to that point. Definitely means you've put some serious time in. 2000+ you are entering moderately talented child or tryhard adult territory. 2200+ every third account is cheating, so generally you lose 70% of your games and get your points refunded a week later.
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Postby draw » Fri May 05, 2023 11:00 am

The higher in rating you get as an adult, the more obvious it becomes how far you are from top talent. I look at my posts from 1-2 years ago talking about trying to get an NM title and lol. Improvement is log scale
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Postby Autarch » Tue Jun 06, 2023 3:32 pm

Been sick as a dog the past week, which has been seriously affecting my play, but I did find a rather sick sequence of moves from this position in a game against a computer (where I had, up to then, already blundered 2 pawns, completely giving up the center, and totally sucking ass). Black to move:

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27 ...Nxe5! 28. dxe5 Bb6+ 29. Kh1? Rxf4 30. Rxf4 Nxh3 31. Rd4 Nf2+ 32.Kg1 Rf8Toggle Spoiler

probably the best ~5 moves I've ever played
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Postby dcm » Tue Jun 06, 2023 8:06 pm

Thanks for those very good responses, draw, missed them until now.

I am hovering around 1300 because my lazy ass can't be bothered to crack open any of the 10 books at my bedside
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Postby Autarch » Fri Jul 07, 2023 11:48 pm

Ngl, when lichess user CheckmateGuy321 sac’d his queen on move 3 I was a bit shaken, but I had no reason to be worried, he now us a 17 game winless streak :lol:
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Postby Pokemon Blue » Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:36 am

I’ve been using the Caro Kann recently and I’m now doing better with black than with white.

Anyone know of any good openings for white that work well if you’re really comfortable playing the Caro as black? I’ve tried Queens Gambit a bit recently with mixed results - also considering looking into Colle Zukertort system and Jobava London, but idk
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Postby Autarch » Sat Jul 08, 2023 2:12 am

I treat white and black as basically 2 different games and don’t seek “compatibility” between them whatsoever. Like, as black, I usually end up with similar pawn structures against e4 and d4 with a French and QGD respectively. But I don’t look to get a French-like pawn structure when I play with the white pieces. So to answer your question, no.
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Postby draw » Sun Aug 06, 2023 3:59 pm

in a nice change of pace from hanging a piece in the opening of every 4th game I beat an IM in a 100 move online game
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Postby draw » Sun Aug 06, 2023 4:16 pm

Pokemon Blue wrote:I’ve been using the Caro Kann recently and I’m now doing better with black than with white.

Anyone know of any good openings for white that work well if you’re really comfortable playing the Caro as black? I’ve tried Queens Gambit a bit recently with mixed results - also considering looking into Colle Zukertort system and Jobava London, but idk

My first suggestion would've been the QGD but I will offer some alternative suggestions if I'm correct and assuming you like the Caro because it allows a safe positional game with pretty comfortable development and you're an intermediate level player

One strategy would be to play 1 e4 because it will allow you to play into the Caro as white, and your understanding of the position and pawn structures will translate well. 1 e4 1 e5 is pretty intuitive for white and there are many positional ways to play it esp if you keep the position closed. Your main problem to solve is how to approach various sicilian setups. There are many anti sicilians that can force the game in a positional direction, to this end I like the alapin or alternatively some combination of the rossolimo (for 2 ..nf6), marcozy bind or delayed c3 (vs 2 ..g6), moscow variation or another delayed c3 (vs 2 ..d6), and chekhover or yet again c3 (seeing a pattern?) (against 2 ..e6). In short you can either play the alapin or deviate into a delayed alapin setup if you're not too comfortable with their 2nd move after you play 2 nf3 and the game will generally veer into more positional territory.

Another idea is to play the english. Opponents at your level will probably not have a deep theoretical book against it, and as a result it tends to be an opening where people just get their pieces out and play normal chess, with slight edge to white (or a larger edge if you know main ideas of the opening and your opponent doesn't)
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