What if you had to earn points to sleep? What if sleep were a privilege handed out only after racking up merits at work? Sound interesting? Help yourself, it's totally free this week, so if you find it's absolute crap and you hate it, you didn't...
Kramnik is dangerous. Let's be honest, his harassment campaign was probably what caused Danya to snap. https://www.change.org/p/consequences-for-vladimir-kramnik
I've been working at reframing a few things. I was losing a game earlier, and feeling the tilt and anger set in. My opponent had mate in one. I considered mashing the resign button, but played on on the off-chance he didn't see it. Seconds l...
A bit off topic, but I thought I'd share anyway. If you like zombie fiction you might like this. Here's a lil promo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-5rrw__CtLI and here's the book on Amazon if anyone is interested. https://www.amazon.co....
I'm most likely out of the running for first place, but second is possible, and I'll probably manage to get third or fourth. Quite proud of that because long form chess is not my forte. I'm all about the manic premoves and dirty flagging.
But remember: I am nothing but a mohawked thug who thinks with her adrenal glands. No skill. No intellect. No calculation. No nuance. No delayed gratification. I am absolutely nothing but some adrenaline, noradrenaline and an index finger ...
A little off topic but: Early last year I happened to see the band name 'Sleep Token' on a forum and it piqued my curiosity. Sleep tokens? What the hell? Tokens you have to earn to sleep? What a macabre idea...and an intriguing one... I know it'...
I say 'novel' so people get the idea. It's more a novella, just 36 000 words. She said she really enjoyed it and would draft a positive review. Super looking forward to reading it.
I honestly just accepted that I'd lost this game and kept playing sheerly for the calculation practise. It turned out I had a passed pawn that my opponent had a very hard time fighting off and they resigned just as I was calculating how to promote...
I had a free 15min consult with him recently and it helped lift me out of my year long rapid plateau. I struggled to get out of the 1000s all year and I am now at 1099!
I had a close friend from this site for about two years. She was much higher rated than me and often helped me with skills. For two years we got on really well and then...things went a bit awry. We were oil and water personalities and mainly b...
I'd like to get back to serious improvement and not just excessive bingeing of blitz and bullet. To help with motivation I overhauled my background and board themes. The figure in the AI art is a fictional character of mine named Vernichtung. I mi...
Quite proud of my two achievements today!
I was enjoying playing ultrabullet last night...so I kept going. I played one arena and then another. Three. Four. Inevitably, I pushed myself into a tilt attack. Why did I do that? It's not as if I'd never experienced tilt before, and it's not ...
I won a 30min game by a hair today. I had no heavy pieces, but on the other hand my opponent's king was too far away to work in synchrony with his rook. Down to 4 seconds, he resigned. It wasn't my proudest game. I didn't pull off anything impre...
Chessmood have just launched a new course called 'The Rise of Champions', aimed at complete beginners. The course provides an all-round set of basic skills to get people started. It explains the rules, how the pieces move, opening principles, some...
I'm feeling a bit daunted. Some context here: For anyone who doesn't know me personally: my other big hobby besides chess is writing scifi and fantasy. I recently got a very late invite to a creative writing contest. The only thing I have on m...
I'm not hugely proud of being two pawns down in an endgame, but I am absolutely proud of my thought processes that allowed me to dig my heels in and be difficult prey for my opponent. I didn't get mad, I didn't tilt, but most importantly I didn't ...
You can now get 20% off a premium membership if you want one. https://chessmood.com/?r=Voran You absolutely don't have to of course. It's a harsh economy and we all need to save money. If you can afford to spend on a hobby though - I'd highly re...
I've always enjoyed designing things. I designed T-shirts for a favorite trio of opera singers once. I had a lot of fun tailoring different aesthetics to each singer's voice. One seemed red and gaudy; another was rough and earthy while another I h...
I always wrote off the two bishop checkmate as something I simply wasn't smart enough to do. I understood vaguely, abstractly, how the concept worked, but when I tried to implement it against the engine, I was hopelessly lost. Recently I watched ...
I was severely tilted and in a bit of a low mood today. Part of me wanted to delete my various accounts and just quit. Why inflict that stress on myself? None the less I get very bored while eating if I don't have something to do with my hands so...
I lost of course...but I put up enough of a fight that he jokingly told me to stop using an engine. Not bad considering I've only been playing a year and only consistently since last April. I'm taking a tilt break today. I'm very run down after...
I played a bit of rapid today and got a draw. I typed 'gg' in the chat - I'm pushing myself to be more positive and always say good game rather than just nope off - and right that second I see he had typed 'loser'. I'll maybe rethink pushing mys...
I'm working through Danya's 'How to be Lucky' course and I...have no words. I feel tiny and humbled. Some of the rapid-fire sequences these guys calculate in a few seconds are just beyond normal human comprehension. These men aren't human. They'...
