What Chess Personality Am I: Using and Commenting On Chess.com's Chess Personality Test

Good morning everyone!

Today I'm going to take the chess personality test provided by chess.com. I'll see my results, and I'll decide whether they're accurate or not. We'll look at the test itself and maybe you all will learn a little bit about me!

It's a very interesting test with a few questions about your chess decisions. It's not perfect, but it is cool.

Let's get right into it! 

I gave the second answer. I definitely don't rely on intuition this early into the game. In this position, it's honestly too likely the king will be able to "castle manually" (maneuvering the king into a castled position in multiple moves).

If it does, then I don't think that any lead in development I can get will compensate for the loss of material.

This is a good question! What's my reaction to being Bongclouded? Is Bongclouded even a word?

This honestly depends on my mood. If I'm playing chess because I'm frustrated with the outside world (which is often), I'd be pretty upset. 

This is bringing back good memories of a time I crushed someone rated higher than me in daily with the Bongcloud . It was brutal, but I pulled it off, and it was genuinely hilarious.

However, most of the time I wouldn't care. I'll choose the second one again.

Alright, I'm going to be so honest with you, I've literally never played 3 minute, instead opting for survival every time, so this feels a little one-sided. 

This one is another really easy one. I'm going to be so honest with you all in saying that I despise Bullet and only play it when I don't have time to play anything slower.

So Rapid. No contest.

This one is hard to say. I've played in real tournaments before, but only once against adults. I went into the tournament with fellow kids a while back when I was still young enough. My thought process was "I doubt I'll be able to win this, but it's always possible." I did go on to tie for the win, although I lost the tiebreaker blitz game.

The other tournament I was in was with adults. I didn't think I'd stand much chance of winning, but I went in and played my hardest, winning one game against a 1300 (which I was losing until he blundered back rank mate). 

Being honest, I wasn't super nervous either time. My experience wasn't exactly what either of these questions describes, but I'll pick relaxed.

I'm going to be so honest on this one, I wouldn't even stop to think about it. I hate having bad pawn structure, and I'll absolutely sacrifice an attack for more king safety. Bxf6 wins.

This one definitely depends. I'll probably say game review, given that I play a lot of rapid and blitz, but after a game of bullet, I really don't care what my blunder was; I realized it was a blunder the second my fingers left the mouse.

However, after any game slower than bullet, I will absolutely run a game review.

This one doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because it would never have occurred to me to sacrifice the knight. 

However, I'd pick the first one, because I don't trust my intuition that much, especially in slow games. I think this is somewhat true for everyone, but in blitz and bullet, I try to rely more on intuition, and in rapid and daily, I definitely go for calculation. I've never played classical, but it seems to be just extended rapid. 

Maybe someone will yell at me in the comments for saying that, but whatever.

Ok, this one is easy. Being the 900 that I am, I'll look for whatever is most obvious, and unless someone got their king into the center of the board, I'll be counting material.

I'll play Nf3. This might be a personal weakness, but I HATE moving the f-pawn and consider it a bad decision whenever someone plays the King's Gambit or the Dutch defense (it is the Dutch right?) on me, so I'd play the knight move.

I've never personally been in this position, but if I were, I would definitely defend the pawn. I don't sacrifice pawns for no reason, because being down material in an endgame sucks.

I'm also really good at converting or drawing endgames, so I would be more than happy trading queens.

Now, don't get me wrong, I like brilliant moves as much as anyone, but I'm going to be honest and say that accuracy is just better. When I make a brilliant move, I congratulate myself and move on, but when I play 97 in blitz, I dwell on it for months. 

So I'll pick accuracy.

This is an experience I can't say I've ever had (the breaking, not the loss, I've had plenty of those ), so I'll answer no. Sometimes I am upset about a game, but I don't break stuff.

Call me crazy, but I don't believe in tilt. 1 AM is waaaaay too late, and I'll probably be in bed by 11 on most Friday nights-also, my parents would literally delete my chess account if they caught me up at 1. I'd definitely call it quits.

This is easy. There's nothing I hate more than falling for opening traps, so I'll go for knowledge. I only play bullet on my phone anyway, so I don't really care about mouse speed.

This one has changed pretty significantly in the past six months. At the beginning of my rediscovery of chess, I only played openings that I'd watched a Gothamchess video about, but these days I mostly stick to the English and the Caro-Kann, except in bullet, where I play the Danish Gambit.

This is another fairly easy one. I don't do sacrifices like that unless I have a good reason for them. I do enjoy making sacrifices, but only if I'm sure it'll work. 

The other day, I played a game of bullet, sacrificed both rooks, and let go of a knight as well, only to realize that my attack was completely unsound. I then went on to lose by checkmate, which is kinda pathetic in a bullet game.

This one is hard to answer. I don't dislike trash talk. I never start it, but if my opponent does, I respond in kind. I don't really mind either way, so I'll choose the second one, but I don't mind.

This is another easy one with one condition. If it's a bullet game, or I'm low on time, I'll naturally take the piece. Rapid or daily, however, will result in calculation. That's probably fairly common among players, but that's my take.

So I'll answer the second.

This one shouldn't come as a shock to the people who've been reading so far. I'll always try to calculate to the maximum depth, even if it takes a lot of time. I don't trust myself enough to honestly say the second, so I'll go with the first.

That's all the questions! Let's see what I got. 

A technician! I'm not altogether surprised by this result, but it's still cool! 

It says I am great at extracting a win from any position, and once I have a win, I don't let it slip. That's mostly accurate, although there are often spots where I slip up.

I'm in control of my emotions-that's accurate. A player with my same style is Ding Liren.

It says I should try the Four Knights Opening (if any chessplayer says they've never seen this opening, they're lying) and the Slav Defense (d4 c6 c4 d5). I have played the Slav, but mostly when I was pre-moving the Caro-Kann in bullet...

That was interesting! I'd rate it as mostly accurate, if not perfect, and a very fun experience. If you want to try it, you can do so here.

Let me know in the comments what you got! 

That's all for today. Thanks for reading.

May your tactics stay sharp.