AFAIK the popular places are the best.
Every now and then I'll use google search for the lesser known chess sites.
Usually they have less than 1000 people playing for example.
Those usually have unskilled / untrained players trying ridiculous attacks and openings even at higher ratings.
@Farm_Hand, yes some ridiculous 'attacking' chess can be seen on some popular sites as well.
Are there places where you develop healthy habits of playing and others which encourage reckless attacks. I'm not going to name names but is this so?
Are there places where you develop healthy habits of playing and others which encourage reckless attacks. I'm not going to name names but is this so?
How can a website encourage reckless attacks? It's you who is making the moves, not a website.
yes i've never been able to figure it out but it's true.
Are there places where you develop healthy habits of playing and others which encourage reckless attacks. I'm not going to name names but is this so?
How can a website encourage reckless attacks? It's you who is making the moves, not a website.
It's a good question, but less popular sites do seem to attract poor players... although I guess it's the reverse. If you're a strong player you go to the popular sites. Especially players with titles. The strongest person you might run into on a no-name site is probably master level.
For example I can go to https://www.chessanytime.com/ and play unrated anonymous chess and it's common to win 10 or 20 games in a row. But when I do the same on lichess I'll almost always lose a few during a session.
And then you have places like this http://www.flyordie.com/chess/
Where pretty much everyone is a noob and everyone cheats. If you play well enough to see more than 1 tactic during a game, and you win the game, the next game they'll use a weak engine against you... which is hilarious because they even cheat poorly (I could turn on stockfish and beat their engine)
There's another site even worse than that I can't find at the moment. You know it's made by and for noobs because there's no 2D!
That's right, you can only play using that atrocious faux 3D crap that NO ONE likes except extreme beginners. I played a few games there and it was so hard to see the board I blundered my queen.
The beginner starts trash talking.
He had to resign about 10 moves later LOL.
Are there places where you develop healthy habits of playing and others which encourage reckless attacks. I'm not going to name names but is this so?