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I am going to give you a game, and you have to guess the elo for WHITE. Tell me in the comments. I will say the answer soon! Thanks, Magicaldragon

Ok I guess this is basically a blog but I don't want to make my own blog so I'll just post it in scattered club. Also if you actually thought you would learn something from this post, you're getting scammed, all the games here are too trash lmao Last year I also tried to get people from my school to come to state championship, but no one in my grade showed up, so our school didn't place even though I got ez 5-0. This year I managed to drag someone along (I'll call this person "🤓"). My sister also played, as well as two juniors, who I will call 😏 and 🤔. My sister is like 700, and the emoji people are all around 1600. The two juniors mostly went because we were all friends and they wanted to play; I didn't really expect them to win anything because there were two 2200s in their section. However, for 10th grade, my goal was for me to get 5 points, my sister to get 2 points, and 🤓 to get 3-4 points. Anyway, apparently the old TDs like Hal and Noreen (tbh I don't know if these are spelled correctly) had retired since last year. Normally, the games started like an hour late, but this time, they started on time since they had new TDs, so we were super late for the first round. However, my opponent was dumb: not only did he not know how to set his own clock, he didn't think to ask someone for help 💀 Yeah so normally I would annotate my games but it's literally not worth annotating... opponent just played like trash Round 1 results: I won trivially. My sister thought it would be funny to play the worst possible move, so she threw the game like @BananaPeelEater throws multiclub arenas. 🤓 was up two pawns and lost because he is a 🤓. 😏 lost as well for some reason. Note that both 🤓 and 😏 were playing against lower-rated players. Lastly, 🤔 signed up for the wrong tournament (westfield quads 💀) and didn't get paired, but the TDs hunted down some guy who got a bye, and 🤔 managed to beat that guy. After round one, we sorta just fked around, bought a bunch of overpriced drinks, and walked around doing nothing. We sorta just wandered downstairs into the playing area and realized that the round started 7 minutes ago... Yeah so this game is about as interesting as mixed integration strategies AP Calculus C problems... opponent just played terribly. I spent a total of3 minutes over the course of the entire game Round 2 results: I won trivially. My sister hung a rook and lost. 🤓 won because his opponent was trash. 😏 somehow lost to a 400 because he was tilted. 🤔 lost as well but I didn't really see how because watching them play is too painful. After round 2 I had a lot of time so I bought lunch; the tournament was held at Brookdale Community College, so I guess we were eating cafeteria food that was served in community college. They had these suspicious-looking blobs of tinfoil, and I didn't actually know what it was, but I couldn't only buy french fries, so I had to get one of the lumps. It was apparently a hot dog wrapped in more layers of aluminum foil than the number of gallons of nitroglycerin @BillBelichick01 has in his house. After I ate the food (which was pretty mid) I went outside to touch grass, and then it was time for the next round. Yes, another Caro. My opponent actually offered a draw in the middle of the game (he was losing). Other than that, really not much to say here. It's not an interesting game. Round 3 results: I won trivially. My sister was up an exchange but somehow blundered a rook. 🤓 beat an unrated in like 5 minutes. 😏 finally stopped being braindead and won a game. 🤔 won his game as well. So this time we were kinda tired of being late every game so we just camped in the tournament room until the next round. At this point, several small demons started running around and playing an abominable amalgamation of tag, hide and seek, WWII trench warfare, and among us, while screaming like @BananaPeelEater screams when she sees a soda can. Now you see, this is a community college, not a nuke-proof bunker, even though we were miles below the surface for some reason, so the doors were not remotely soundproof. People were getting kinda annoyed, so I asked 🤓's dad to tell the kids to shut up since 🤓's dad looks like a KGB agent. It kinda worked, but only for 5 minutes. Anyway, next round. Shocking, I know. My opponent has a name! That's because he's 2200, so he deserves a name. Not that he played well, he really didn't. The position was equal out of the opening because I played the opening really passively, but then he just kinda let me run over him for the rest of the game. Round 4 results: I won trivially. My sister somehow won because her opponent hung a queen. 🤓 offered a draw in a better position because his IQ is lower than the amount of games @timmaylivinalie has won. 😏 won again bc opponent was utter garbage. 🤔 lost because he is utter garbage. Nothing to say about time in between rounds because there was basically no time in between rounds since my 4th round actually took pretty long. Everyone from my school was just kinda crowded around my board when they were putting up the pairings, and people were staring at us like the banana club stared at @frog 's suspicious messages. Round 5! My opponent was obviously extremely terrified of me, which makes no sense considering that he has no way of seeing my hand grenades. As a result he played terribly. Round 5 results: I won trivially. My sister had a winning pawn endgame and somehow it turned into KQ vs KQ, but her opponent wouldn't accept a draw probably because he was sexist. Somehow the dude hung his queen, becoming the first person in history to lose KQ vs KQ. My sister checked him, "forcing" a queen trade, but instead of trading or protecting the queen with the king, the guy hung his queen.🤓 lost, getting him 2.5/5. As I said, I hoped he would get 3-4 points, so it was almost as disappointing as when I found out that @ScatteredWealth is not actually a pile of 10,000 disorganized pieces of currency. 😏 lost again because he is cringe. 🤔 won a losing position, giving him like 5th place or something with 3/5 and good tiebreaks. Meanwhile I ended 5/5 and my sister ended 2/5, and our school won with 9.5 total points, a 1.5 point lead over the 2nd place school.

I know some people in this club are really good at bullet. I have started playing it more and my raiting is now 820. Can you give me tips?

this is a cool endgame puzzle that I came across.

Just fill in the blanks: According to all known laws of ____, there is no way that a ____ should be able to ____. Its ____ are too ____ to ____. The ____, of course, ____ anyway, because ____ don't care what humans think is impossible.

React using emoji: = Aagaard = John Nunn = Kotov = Dvoretsky = Coach (specifiy if possible) = Grinded games/puzzles, never really learned how to calculate properly = other, and specify in the thread also, share your thought process for finding moves in the thread

Hi! Sorry that I gave you a heart attack on the last one. But here is some openings I would recommend! White: 1. e4 Most players play this. It gives you a great, dynamic position if you play: The Ruy Lopez So if you look further into the Ruy Lopez, you have good improvement and positions that you can play very easily. The Italian The Italian is like the Ruy Lopez, but a little different. 1. d4 The Main Line 1. d4 is a dynamic line. It is great for attacking. Black: The Sicilian Defense! It is a great attacking opening and has some advantage of the bishop pair. The Sicilian Defense has a lot of use, but it depends on what line you use. That's all for this time! I'll be making more of these. Feel free to give me feedback! Stay Tuned!

Credits to @ScatteredWealth for giving me this topic. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Okay, those were REALLY weird openings, but guess them in the chat! I'll be making more! Stay tuned! -Magicaldragon

what are yall's favourite tv shows of all time

Asked by @Brooksvillechess, here it is. Once Nakamura and Carlsen repeated moves in the Double Bongcloud. It ended in a draw, and both were laughing. REPERTOIRE: Most of the games end in a draw. @Brooksvillechess there it is. Have a great day!

Hi! The first person who says their favorite opening: I will make a forum about it. Also, I'm just curious--- plus, if I get a lot of comments, I will try to make small forums about them. Just some of my Opening Favorites. White: 1. d4 and 1. e4 Black: Can you guess??? Thanks! I will try to make them if I have times. Thank you everyone! Have a great day.

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Topic. Describe an opening badly, and see if others can guess it. Be sure to quote the description when you're guessing, or stating whether a guess is correct or not. Credit to a main forum on chess.com.

I think we should vote on what this club really is. Vote either puzzle or spam.

Request some ideas that I can blog about and I might blog about it. I will give you credit, of course.

i highly recommend you look at the eval bar with this game, my heart was going to so many places [Event "Live Chess - chess"][Site "Chess.com"][Date "2022.11.17"][Round "?"][White "Denkovski1"][Black "Time_2008"][Result "1-0"][TimeControl "600"][WhiteElo "000"][BlackElo "000"][Termination "Denkovski1 won by resignation"] 1. e4 c5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nd4 4. Nf3 e6 5. a3 b5 6. Bxb5 Nf6 7. Nxd4 cxd4 8.Ne2 Nxe4 9. d3 Nd6 10. Nxd4 e5 11. Nf3 Nxb5 12. Bg5 Be7 13. Be3 Nd4 14. Nxd4exd4 15. Bxd4 Qa5+ 16. c3 Qb5 17. Rb1 Ba6 18. c4 Qa5+ 19. b4 Bxb4+ 20. axb4 Qa221. O-O Rb8 22. b5 Bb7 23. Bxg7 Rg8 24. Be5 Rxg2+ 25. Kh1 d6 26. Bxd6 Rd8 27.Re1+ Kd7 28. Bg3 Re8 29. Qg4+ Kd8 1-0

1. d4 players, I wanted to show you the MAKAGONOV: For the KID (King's Indian Defence) people, this might help you prepare for the Makagonov which starts with 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 4. h3 and that is the start of the Makagonov, E71 (ECO code). Here this long, long, repertoire line is so long. Please take a look at it even if you don't play it. It will be better if you learn some lines and I worked so long and hard on this. Please take a look at it! Thank you. It is below: It may not be the best, but I worked hard on it. You can put it on Chessbase if you would like to. If not, that's fine. Thank you! Stay tuned and I'm signing off. - Magicaldragon

Hello and welcome, Puzzle Patzers. I am here to honor @ScatteredWealth, the amazing owner of the Puzzle Patzers. I wanted to honor him because he is so friendly I just had to make this forum. He typed everything that I should do to make forums and blogs. Gave me so many instructions, typed by hand. I am so happy to meet him. @ScatteredWealth is such a welcoming person and he is very helpful. A great friend that you should follow. It's the best choice I've ever made to join this club. He made it such a wonderful environment, full of friends that are fun. That's why I am here to honor @ScatteredWealth. He is such a good friend.

Welcome to the Punchline Arena! Due to the enormous amount of unnecessary forums created in this club, I am creating this forum. The objective of this forum is to start and finish one's punchline. One person will start the punchline and someone else will finish it. Please use this forum to make a punchline joke instead of making thousands of other posts, thanks.

Idk if the PGN will work, but here it is: [GameNr "31438172"][TimeControl "10+0"][Variant "FFA"][RuleVariants "DuckChess EnPassant Play4Mate Stalemate=win"][StartFen4 "2PC"][White "HWK73"][WhiteElo "1500"][Black "ChessPawn921"][BlackElo "1500"][Result "0-1"][Termination "White forfeits on time • 0-1"][Site "www.chess.com/variants/duck-chess/game/31438172"][Date "Tue Nov 08 2022 19:34:31 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)"][CurrentMove "1"] 1. j5-j6Θ-h9 .. g10-g8Θh9-j52. g5-g6Θj5-g10 .. h10-h9Θg10-j53. Nj4-i6Θj5-h10 .. Nj11-i9Θh10-j54. Bf4-j8Θj5-h10 .. k10-k9Θh10-i75. Bj8xNi9Θi7-h10 .. j10xBi9Θh10-h86. Bi4-j5Θh8-j10 .. Ne11-f9Θj10-g77. O-OΘg7-j10 .. e10-e9Θj10-k68. Ne4-f6Θk6-e10 .. Bf11-g10Θe10-e89. h5-h7Θe8-h10 .. g8-g7Θh10-d710. Nf6-e8Θd7-h10 .. h9-h8Θh10-d611. f5-f7Θd6-f6 .. d10-d9Θf6-d612. Ne8-f6Θd6-h10 .. g7xNf6Θh10-g713. e5xf6Θg7-h10 .. Bg10-j7Θh10-h514. Rd4-e4Θh5-h10 .. Qg11-g10Θh10-h515. k5-k6Θh5-g11 .. Bj7xNi6Θg11-h516. Bj5xBi6Θh5-g11 .. Qg10xk6Θg11-j517. Bi6-j7Θj5-k7 .. Qk6xBj7Θk7-i618. Ri4-h4Θi6-g11 .. Qj7-g10Θg11-h519. Qg4-d7Θh5-g11 .. k9-k8Θg11-e820. Re4-g4Θe8-g11 .. k8-k7Θg11-e821. g6-g7Θe8-g9 .. k7xj6Θg9-e822. i5xj6Θe8-h9 .. h8xg7Θh9-g623. f6xg7Θg6-g8 .. Qg10-k6Θg8-e824. Rh4-h5Θe8-k5 .. Qk6xj6Θk5-i5+25. Kj4-i4Θi5-k10 .. Qj6-k6Θk10-e8+26. Ki4-h4Θe8-k5 .. Bi11-e7Θk5-i5+27. Rh5-g5Θi5-f6 .. Rk11-j11Θf6-e828. d5-d6Θe8-j5 .. Qk6-h6Θj5-i4+29. Rg5-h5Θi4-g5 .. Rj11-j4Θg5-e8+30. Rg4-g5Θe8-i4 .. Be7xRg5Θi4-e8+31. Kh4-g4Θe8-h4 .. Qh6xd6Θh4-e8+32. Qd7xQd6Θe8-i4 .. Bg5-e7Θi4-f5+33. Qd6xBe7Θf5-h4 .. Nf9xQe7Θh4-h6+34. Kg4-g5Θh6-e11 .. Kh11-i11Θe11-g635. Rh5-i5Θg6-e11 .. d9-d8Θe11-i836. T Post any good Duck Chess games here