A General Chess Discussion Thread?

oh I didn’t get THAT update

I got a different one lol

It won’t let me check notifications either and it looks so weird…

Phone on website

oh lol i use macbook so didn't see the update

I played it in 1.5 seconds because I'm so tilted lmao

i mean if white played perfectly, it's hard to get advantage for black, but like i guess there are so many lines that favor black with slight inaccuracy by white

Oh sorry I saw this 50 min later. Maybe 6-8 pacific time? That’s all that works today.

guys is it just me or the servers are slow? 'cuz i had lost multiple games where I premoved but some of them takes time to actually be played

my opponent recently had 0.001 for the last 6 moves idk what's going on

i just checked the game, he seems to have only 0.001 in the end (guess network problem). but like i still see that he played a move at 0.001? what's going on?

Who got muted???

EDIT: it was croton

Anyway, what I was going to say was that I think having piece values (like rook is five) hurts chess, since

1. Players won’t make sacrifices as much at lower levels

2. players are more likely to trade just because they can and by material points it’s a fair trade, which is a huge problem for beginners. 

#1531 I tend to sacrifice a lot of pieces for my rating

Find the mate in six to win for black:

Qx gx Rx Kg1 Rfg6 (Qg5 Rx if they want to sac the queen) Bg2 Rx Kf1 Rh1 # I think I am right

Qxh4+

too lazy to write the rest

That's my guy

i came across one of lasker's games and this is one of the interesting positions (or puzzle you can say)

it's not THAT difficult, but it's worth trying to solve it (i actually had a bit of hard time solving it lol i had the idea, but i didn't know how to reply to a certain black reply until i thought for 2 whole minutes)

engines will make it less interesting, so don't use one please

Idk if you don’t know or just didn’t feel like it, but you can make a puzzle by pressing theme then puzzle and then making your moves. Nice puzzle adkins!

I can't find it even with trying pretty hard lol

Puzzles are less interesting because you are tempted to just go with your idea and just take back if you're wrong instead of calculating the whole line