Estimate my rating based on 'play magnus' app

also Carlsen succeeded in getting his pawns on black squares. so that your bishop had no targets.

Sometimes I feel like hurling my iPad off the Empire State Building after losing time after time in a tactical struggle against Magnus. I pretty much had Magnus 9/3 beat, up the exchange and I threw it all away tactically...now it seems my biggest challenge is being able concentrate without my woman constantly interrupting my flow. Funny, I beat Magnus quite easily when she is not in the house. Sigh...

lol! I know how to solve that problem. :)

Lol....I am all ears bro

I have a better idea. Stop playing against an engine and learn some basic Chess.

Umm this is a false dichotomy... Why can't you do both? 

Everyone here can play well beyond basic chess in this thread...

at fenris > I have the Diamond membership so I spent a lot of time learning the basic in the chessmentor.

use a lot of time watching videos and do a lot of tactic trainer.

I play live chess, online chess and against whoever I want.

Hey guys could you take this quick rating estimation test? I'm wondering if this thing is at all accurate and data from more experienced players might be useful... http://www.chessmaniac.com/ELORating/ELO_Chess_Rating.shtml

I've seen that test before...the advice I got from most experienced rated players was when concerning elo tests was that the only real way to figure yr elo is to actually play rated tournaments.

Here's my latest victory vs. Magnus 9/3

Typical of a grinding endgame with the damn computer.

You did a fine job BlackAkres. How can I post mine? I'm using an android.

God I wanna cry?!?!?!?!  ×Close Game PGN [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "2015.02.03"] [Round "?"] [White "?"] [Black "?"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bd3 g6 7. O-O Bg7 8. Be3 O-O 9. Qd2 a5 10. Bh6 Nc6 11. Nf3 Bg4 12. Bxg7 Kxg7 13. Qe3 Bxf3 14. Qxf3 Qb6 15. Rab1 Kh6 16. Kh1 Rh8 17. Nd5 Nxd5 18. exd5 Ne5 19. Qh3+ Kg7 20. f4 Nxd3 21. cxd3 Rac8 22. f5 Qd4 23. Qf3 Rhe8 24. fxg6 f6 25. gxh7 Qe5 26. Qg4+ Qg5 27. Qh3 Rc7 28. Qe6 Rec8 29. h3 Re8 30. Rbe1 b6 31. Re4 Rc1 32. Rxc1 Qxc1+ 33. Kh2 f5 34. Qxf5 Qh6 35. Rg4+ Kh8 36. Qf7 Qf8 37. Rg8+ Qxg8 38. hxg8=Q+ Rxg8 39. Qxe7 Rg6 40. Qb7 Kg8 41. Qxb6 Kf7 42. Qxa5 Kf6 43. Qc3+ Kg5 44. b4 Rg8 45. b5 Kg6 46. b6 Ra8 47. b7 Rg8 48. a4 Rf8 49. a5 Re8 50. a6 Kh5 51. a7 Rg8 52. b8=Q Rg6 53. Qbh8+ Kg5 54. Qd2+ Kf5 55. g4+ Rxg4 56. hxg4+ Kg6 57. Qdh6+ Kf7 58. Q8f6+ Ke8 59. Qh7 1/2-1/2

that was Magnus 9-5

I was white

I had two queens could of had three. I'm so stupid!

Not sure you can do it via Android...I have the same phone and same problem. I was able to add it via computer easily.

http://play-magnus-replay.azurewebsites.net/#/Z1irhzHjc

that is the great thing about playing against computers not resigning you learn to look out for stalemate.

yeah. I totally agree and what's funny is a few moves before that I warned myself. heh...