🤔🔥What's your biggest chess HOT TAKE🔥🤔 - Chess Forums - Page 134

smiley_face10 · 2026-01-04T07:45:16-08:00

I think the topic speaks for itself. Just post your biggest chess HOT takes🔥 and watch as your one singular post sparks the biggest controversy you've ever seen(it probably won't but...). Give an explanation to your take(or don't that could also work lol) and just hope you don't

shru

Feb 19, 2026

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#2661

nonotrocosto2011 wrote:

crotonninja1isagm a écrit :

This isn't a chess hot take really but guys should I try blitz and bullet? I literally only do rapid and I'm like 400 blitz and bullet. I kinda wanna get my blitz and bullet up. Am I good enough now to start doing these time controls because people have told me not to do blitz until I get semi good at chess otherwise it'll make me worse at the game.

If you're tired of rapid, you could play Blitz and bullet especially as your games will be very easy. But if you still have fun in rapid and you improve there is no reason to change imo

I only play them when I am too tired or tilted to play rapid. I think they make you worse

cheeseblackbelt

Feb 19, 2026

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#2662

crotonninja1isagm a écrit :

fraserhm wrote:

nonotrocosto2011 wrote:

crotonninja1isagm a écrit :

This isn't a chess hot take really but guys should I try blitz and bullet? I literally only do rapid and I'm like 400 blitz and bullet. I kinda wanna get my blitz and bullet up. Am I good enough now to start doing these time controls because people have told me not to do blitz until I get semi good at chess otherwise it'll make me worse at the game.

If you're tired of rapid, you could play Blitz and bullet especially as your games will be very easy. But if you still have fun in rapid and you improve there is no reason to change imo

I only play them when I am too tired or tilted to play rapid. I think they make you worse

Honestly I would play them but my blitz ELO is so low that I don't wanna grind all the way up to my level

You could keep playing only rapid for like 3 mths and then play Blitz so you have high RD so you climb up faster

smiley_face10

Feb 19, 2026

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#2663

crotonninja1isagm wrote:

This isn't a chess hot take really but guys should I try blitz and bullet? I literally only do rapid and I'm like 400 blitz and bullet. I kinda wanna get my blitz and bullet up. Am I good enough now to start doing these time controls because people have told me not to do blitz until I get semi good at chess otherwise it'll make me worse at the game.

Bullet imo isn't that important and it's really just for fun but blitz is pretty good. You should probably keep focusing on rapid chess over blitz but playing it once in a while is pretty fun and it improves your intuition and instinct though too much of it is bad for you.

cheeseblackbelt

Feb 19, 2026

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#2664

smiley_face10 a écrit :

crotonninja1isagm wrote:

This isn't a chess hot take really but guys should I try blitz and bullet? I literally only do rapid and I'm like 400 blitz and bullet. I kinda wanna get my blitz and bullet up. Am I good enough now to start doing these time controls because people have told me not to do blitz until I get semi good at chess otherwise it'll make me worse at the game.

Bullet imo isn't that important and it's really just for fun but blitz is pretty good. You should probably keep focusing on rapid chess over blitz but playing it once in a while is pretty fun and it improves your intuition and instinct though too much of it is bad for you.

Yes exactly. First, as you (@crotonninja1isagm) mostly play 10|0, Blitz can help to improve your intuition and get better to deal with a position when you're in time scramble. And past a certain level (around 2200 I would say), rapid is not considered as the main time control, but Blitz is, because everyone at that level can calculate difficult things further, so the way to see who is superior is to see who can do it the fastest. Imo intuition should be trained as much as calculation to improve in the most efficient way.

EdibleEevee333

Feb 19, 2026

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#2665

the australian opening is meta

thereturnofthesnowfox

Feb 19, 2026

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#2666

c4?

smiley_face10

Feb 19, 2026

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#2667

EdibleEevee333 wrote:

the australian opening is meta

I'm not sure what meta means but I take it that this is some kind of troll lol.

smiley_face10

Feb 19, 2026

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#2668

Guys is it just me or did chess.com remove the ratings off the game displays on forums? Like just take a look at this game which I literally played today. It no longer shows the ratings and it doesn't for any previous posts either.

If so then hot take: chess.com is slowly turning everything to crap

shru

Feb 19, 2026

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#2669

smiley_face10 wrote:

Guys is it just me or did chess.com remove the ratings off the game displays on forums? Like just take a look at this game which I literally played today. It no longer shows the ratings and it doesn't for any previous posts either.

If so then hot take: chess.com is slowly turning everything to crap

Yeah. They recently changed the app look and notifications, app Home Screen looks garbage now

smiley_face10

Feb 19, 2026

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#2670

fraserhm wrote:

smiley_face10 wrote:

Guys is it just me or did chess.com remove the ratings off the game displays on forums? Like just take a look at this game which I literally played today. It no longer shows the ratings and it doesn't for any previous posts either.

If so then hot take: chess.com is slowly turning everything to crap

Yeah. They recently changed the app look and notifications, app Home Screen looks garbage now

I swear they're just downgrading everything

Pudding

Feb 19, 2026

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#2671

MoistPrinterBreath wrote:

Just_an_average_player136 wrote:

MoistPrinterBreath wrote:

Just_an_average_player136 wrote:

Printer you should donate me money so I can afford pudding

Poor Singaporean? Damn, I always thought Singaporeans were rich af

Meanwhile you have money to waste

So you admit you're a poor singaporean beggar?

Nah man I'm js lazy to go out

shru

Feb 19, 2026

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#2672

MoistPrinterBreath wrote:

fraserhm wrote:

MoistPrinterBreath wrote:

does anybody listen to eminem here?

I do

which ones ur fav

Idk Godzilla till I collapse rap god kill shot fuel without me real slim shady Houdini forgot about Dre Stan mocking bird and a couple others are in my playlist, and in roughly in that area of favourite (not really) also lose yourself but I’m not crazy about it, and I don’t really like the Rihanna ones but there’s monster and not afraid but they aren’t so good. How bout yourself?

TpaBayFlyFisher

Feb 19, 2026

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#2673

Lag stinks when trying to challenge (so you can collect passport flags). Four

Lobster62

Feb 19, 2026

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#2674

smiley_face10 wrote:

Hot take: Watching chess isn't that boring(at least the major tournaments aren't). Obviously nobody is going to sit in front of the TV for 7 straight hours watching the longest game of classical chess only for it to end in a draw but I actually kind of find it fun checking up on good matches every now and then especially for faster time controls like rapid and blitz. Also if you do already watch chess well then I've got a second hot take that fits right into this category! 25|10 rapid chess is the most entertaining to watch. It's fast enough so that you don't have to wait 40 minutes before someone plays a move but it's slow enough so that you yourself can somewhat analyze the position(of course sometimes it can take up to like 10 minutes before someone makes a move but that's pretty rare and it never goes farther than that).

Sort of like watching NASCAR.

ajetoe

Feb 19, 2026

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#2675

HOT cake

Day36_sad

Feb 20, 2026

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#2676

unrealated take but team water on alexa minigames will NEVER COME 1ST

Etymologist35

Feb 20, 2026

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#2677

Hot Take: Eminem is 🔥. Ig that is hot.

I need another opening to practice, expanding repertoire.

tag

Feb 20, 2026

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#2678

crotonninja1isagm wrote:

tag wrote:

nonotrocosto2011 wrote:

tag a écrit :

MoistPrinterBreath wrote:

does anybody listen to eminem here?

nope

but I DO listen to Mario RPG soundtracks

NO WAY could you please make us a list of your 10 favorite Mario RPG soundtrack ? And also tell us why we should play M&L games ?

Jk I am fine you REALLY dont have to

too late, you just unlocked my endless ranting session

10 - The Giant (BiS)

9 - Bowser and Bowser (PiT)

8 - Battle with Smithy (Mario RPG)

7 - Serious Trouble! (PiT)

6 - Cackletta, The Fiercest Foe (SS)

5 - We’re Off Again! (SS + BM)

4 - Antasma’s Theme (DT)

3 - In The Final (BiS)

2 - Midboss Theme (Brothership)

1 - Culex’s Theme (Mario RPG)

play them because they’re just so incredibly cool

hot take: those who haven’t played M&L games are missing out on peak life fr

Do u have the switch 2? I just got Mario Tennis Fever and it’s fun as hell. Also I've played so many Mario and Luigi games. I like the paper mario series the best tho I used to play on my 2ds

no, I don’t have a switch 2, I used to have a normal switch but that was confiscated to focus on school

and I love the paper Mario series too, but woah you had a 2ds? I’ve always wanted one of the 3ds models

King_of_Squids

Feb 20, 2026

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#2679

The best piece on the board is a promoted bishop 😂

smiley_face10

Feb 20, 2026

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#2680

Etymologist35 wrote:

Hot Take: Eminem is 🔥. Ig that is hot.

I need another opening to practice, expanding repertoire.

What openings do you know already?