EPTOn March 09 2014 04:52 urboss wrote:
A big moment in chess history:
A big moment in chess history:
I saw this trending on reddit last night, Jerry is so great haha.
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
I saw this trending on reddit last night, Jerry is so great haha. | ||
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don_kyuhote
3006 Posts
On March 08 2014 01:34 3FFA wrote: What do you guys do to prepare for tournaments? Do you follow any sort of day to day schedule of some sort? Is it better to relax the day before or study rather hard the day before? A mix of the two? Mang, you planning on going to a tournament soon? Because SO AM I  Local club is having a club championship next week. Gonna be the 1st over the board chess I play in about 4.5 years. The one and only chess tournament that I ever went to was 6 years ago. I lost the 1st game due to leaving a knight en prise in otherwise an even game, but fought back to win 3 in a row to finish the day 3 win 1 loss. Just have fun mang. Don't take yourself too seriously if/when you lose. It's more important to just have fun.  | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
Kasparov paid a visit to Bobby Fischer's grave this week, made for an interesting little vignette | ||
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Omnishroud
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On March 11 2014 21:30 Omnishroud wrote: Chess is probably the single thing that can make me so infuriated with myself. If i make a stupid move i will immediately get vexed at myself, tilt and have to stop playing, doesnt matter if im in a commanding position or not, i just cant stand watching myself make stupid moves. Being a novice at the game myself, I can sympathize. I liken it to a quote from Hunter S. Thompson regarding ether but when you get into those situations where things are spiraling out of control in chess this can kind of apply: "...severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally...you can actually watch yourself behaving in the terrible way, but you can't control it." | ||
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Raysalis
Malaysia1034 Posts
On March 09 2014 23:12 don_kyuhote wrote: Mang, you planning on going to a tournament soon? Because SO AM I Local club is having a club championship next week. Gonna be the 1st over the board chess I play in about 4.5 years. The one and only chess tournament that I ever went to was 6 years ago. I lost the 1st game due to leaving a knight en prise in otherwise an even game, but fought back to win 3 in a row to finish the day 3 win 1 loss. Just have fun mang. Don't take yourself too seriously if/when you lose. It's more important to just have fun. Haha, I just finished playing a tournament in the weekend after 3 years of chess inactivity. The TL close tourney must have been pretty inspiring :D As for advice for 3FFA, one of the biggest problems i faced was the terrible visualization and calculation skills after not playing chess for so long. I have only been playing blitz online where calculations were superficial or the online correspondence chess where one can be lazy and just move the pieces on the analysis board without visualizing anything :p. Unfortunately bad visualization & calculation = take long time = time trouble = unnecessary loss. If you think you might have this problem, i suggest going over games of masters and try to calculate and visualize the ideas and moves just to warm up the calculation muscles. Probably a good idea to use a real tournament size chess board instead of the computer screen. Also do some tactics everyday to warmup. I don't think studying any new stuff before the tournament will help too much, unless is some basic important stuff that might be lacking or you know your specific opponent and is preparing something special for him. Most of the learning will be from the games after the tournaments have finished. Well good luck to both of you and hope you guys have fun . | ||
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loginn
France815 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/yvqDGof.jpg) Just got this one in a recent game. White to play and get a massive advantage. It's not very hard tbh but I was glad I was able to see it. + Show Spoiler + Qb5+ Ke7. Bc5+ Ke6. Qxe2+ Kf5. Rxd8 (black resigned) | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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Ettick
United States2434 Posts
Here's the position I ended up in (as white), it's quite straightforward now that I look at it again. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/OCXvT4y.jpg) I played Nb6 without thinking about it aside from "oh hey it's a check it must be good," and was pretty surprised to see "Ettick wins by checkmate" pop up on my screen after the move. + Show Spoiler [super low level game] + 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Bb4 4.Nc3 c6 5.d3 d5 6.exd5 cxd5 7.Bxf4 f6 8.Qe2+ Qe7 9.Qxe7+ Kxe7 10.O-O-O g5 11.Nxd5+ Kd8 12.Nxb4 gxf4 13.Re1 Bg4 14.Nd4 Ne7 15.Ne6+ Kd7 16.Nc5+ Kd6 17.Nxb7+ Kc7 18.Rxe7+ Kc8 19.g3 a5 20.Nd5 Ra7 21.Nb6# 1-0 I saw this game recently and figured I'd give the opening a try, I know it's not the most sound opening ever but I don't think that really matters at my level of play... | ||
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
On March 12 2014 08:18 Ettick wrote: Just had a funny accidental mate in 1 in a 5 min blitz game Here's the position I ended up in (as white), it's quite straightforward now that I look at it again. I played Nb6 without thinking about it aside from "oh hey it's a check it must be good," and was pretty surprised to see "Ettick wins by checkmate" pop up on my screen after the move. + Show Spoiler [super low level game] + 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Bb4 4.Nc3 c6 5.d3 d5 6.exd5 cxd5 7.Bxf4 f6 8.Qe2+ Qe7 9.Qxe7+ Kxe7 10.O-O-O g5 11.Nxd5+ Kd8 12.Nxb4 gxf4 13.Re1 Bg4 14.Nd4 Ne7 15.Ne6+ Kd7 16.Nc5+ Kd6 17.Nxb7+ Kc7 18.Rxe7+ Kc8 19.g3 a5 20.Nd5 Ra7 21.Nb6# 1-0 I saw this game recently and figured I'd give the opening a try, I know it's not the most sound opening ever but I don't think that really matters at my level of play... Rc7 is mate also | ||
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
On March 12 2014 07:38 loginn wrote: Just got this one in a recent game. White to play and get a massive advantage. It's not very hard tbh but I was glad I was able to see it. + Show Spoiler + Qb5+ Ke7. Bc5+ Ke6. Qxe2+ Kf5. Rxd8 (black resigned) Qc6+ is mate in 4 On March 12 2014 08:02 Nyxisto wrote: there are several ways to simply mate here. For example: Rxd8 Kxd8 - Bb6+ Ke8 - Qc8# That isn't mate; black can play Ke7. | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
On March 12 2014 09:23 GolemMadness wrote: That isn't mate; black can play Ke7. Edit: sorry you're right, Bb5# is mate after Ke7 | ||
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
Live Streams: http://www.chessdom.com/candidates-2014-video-stream-live http://www.twitch.tv/internetchessclub http://candidates2014.fide.com http://www.chessdom.com/candidates-chess-2014-live http://chessbomb.com http://www.twitch.tv/amazingoid Day 2: Andreikin vs. Kramnik Svidler vs. Andreikin Topalov vs. Anand Aronian vs. Mamedyarov Day 1: Kramnik vs. Karjakin Karjakin vs. Svidler Mamedyarov vs.Topalov Anand vs. Aronian March 13 - March 31 Games start every day at 09:00 GMT (+00:00) Location: Ханты-Мансийск, Россия (in the middle of nowhere) Average rating: 2770 Prize money: 600000 EUR Format: Double round robin (14 rounds) Time control: 120+60+15 (like in WCS) The winner will face Magnus Carlsen in autumn. Official Site: http://candidates2014.fide.com/ Who will win? Featuring: 1. Viswanathan Anand (IND, former World Champion) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/J20kBnI.jpg) 2. Vladimir Kramnik (RUS, World Cup 2013 winner) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/D1hFdUj.jpg) 3. Dmitry Andreikin (RUS, World Cup 2013 finalist) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/LCru5S5.jpg) 4. Veselin Topalov (BUL, Grand-Prix 2012-13 winner) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/WIQ06Lt.jpg) 5. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE, Grand-Prix 2012-13 runner-up) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/tWWqcGl.jpg) 6. Levon Aronian (ARM, rating list 2012-13) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Lt9cY2e.jpg) 7. Sergey Karjakin (RUS, rating list 2012-13) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/WfFBIwT.jpg) 8. Peter Svidler (RUS, host nominee) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/3iMbqWR.jpg) Poll: Who will be Carlsen's next challenger? Vladimir Kramnik (25) Levon Aronian (23) Viswanathan Anand (4) Sergey Karjakin (2) Dmitry Andreikin (1) Veselin Topalov (1) Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (1) Peter Svidler (0) 57 total votes Your vote: Who will be Carlsen's next challenger? (Vote): Viswanathan Anand | ||
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wingpawn
Poland1342 Posts
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
Every day at 09:00 GMT (+00:00) http://www.twitch.tv/internetchessclub http://www.chessdom.com/candidates-2014-video-stream-live http://candidates2014.fide.com http://www.chessdom.com/candidates-chess-2014-live http://chessbomb.com http://www.twitch.tv/amazingoid | ||
Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
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JazVM
Germany1196 Posts
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36161 Posts
On March 13 2014 19:43 JazVM wrote: I don't really understand Andreikin's strategy (or "philosophy") that he followed in the game against Kramnik today. Why would you follow a line that was a dead draw before and show no novelties at all? He might have just offered him the draw on move 1. Philosophy = I am happy to get a draw against Kramnik | ||
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
On March 13 2014 19:43 JazVM wrote: I don't really understand Andreikin's strategy (or "philosophy") that he followed in the game against Kramnik today. Why would you follow a line that was a dead draw before and show no novelties at all? He might have just offered him the draw on move 1. He didn't know what Kramnik was going to play. It's not unusual for players to prepare only for some replies and have safe draws for everything else. | ||
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/QMmT4kN.png) Edit: OK, Karjakin - Svidler also got interesting all of a sudden after 23. Be4!? ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/l5ktI4M.png) | ||
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