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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
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calgar
United States1277 Posts
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don_kyuhote
3007 Posts
On September 08 2014 11:35 calgar wrote: I practiced KQ vs. KR for about 3 hours today and I can sort of do it now... haha I've played 1000+ live chess games ever since I started playing on chess.com, but I can honestly say that I reached a pure KQ vs KR position exactly once. I was the one with the Queen, and I knew at the time that KQ theoretically wins (how was a different story  )but unfortunately, it was a 30/0 game, and I had less than a minute left, so I had to perpetual check and claim a draw by repetition or else I was just going to lose on time. I guess it pays to know.  That was when I decided playing with 0 increment sucks | ||
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
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calgar
United States1277 Posts
On September 08 2014 17:53 GolemMadness wrote: I've never had any of the unusual ones either but I figure they might show up eventually when it really matters. I saw someone else with KBN a year ago in a money round and he couldn't do it in 50 moves. His opponent was making check marks instead of notating though so he couldn't claim a draw. KBN got extra moves with the TD watching and was able to finish it the second time around.I don't know if I've ever had a game with queen vs rook. Not even in bullet or blitz or anything. Playing with increments is definitely better. No more crazy stuff with draw claims either. | ||
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36161 Posts
e.g. ![[image loading]](http://www.chessvideos.tv/bimg/3smcefqq8q54.png) This is a zugzwang position, black to move loses very fast, white to move wants to give black the move, e.g. 1.Qg5+ Kd7 2.Qg4+ Kd8 3.Qf5 and we have the original position with black to move. | ||
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
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don_kyuhote
3007 Posts
http://www.chess.com/tournaments/pairings?id=93474&round=2 GL HF to all 10 of you. This is where I believe shit starts to get real. | ||
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calgar
United States1277 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Re91OJC.png) | ||
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paddyz
Ireland628 Posts
Ty for linking so many resources on the first page, appreciated. | ||
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mishimaBeef
Canada2259 Posts
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mishimaBeef
Canada2259 Posts
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don_kyuhote
3007 Posts
Meanwhile, Chess.com randomly just inflated people's live standard rating by anywhere from 150 to several hundred points. Their explanation (I just skimmed over it) seem like they wanted the live standard rating to match more closely their OTB rating? which is funny because I thought people's online ratings were generally lower than OTB ratings. | ||
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calgar
United States1277 Posts
On October 24 2014 15:30 don_kyuhote wrote: Mine didn't change at all - it's still over 300 lower than otb. Their standard is pretty deflated so it seems like a good change though. I don't think you can generalize about online ratings being higher or lower because they are calculated differently. Congrats man.! Meanwhile, Chess.com randomly just inflated people's live standard rating by anywhere from 150 to several hundred points. Their explanation (I just skimmed over it) seem like they wanted the live standard rating to match more closely their OTB rating? which is funny because I thought people's online ratings were generally lower than OTB ratings. | ||
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Ettick
United States2434 Posts
I had the first game locked down, a piece up, though I missed a tactic that would have gotten me a rook for a knight. The opening was a Sicilian, if I recall correctly. I exchanged too much and it ended up as a king and pawn endgame that I should have won, but I blundered and let his king behind the pawn that I was going to promote. I resigned because he had a pawn that was going to queen. The second game was the same story in the early game, a Sicilian where I trapped one of my opponent's pieces, but it turned out how I wanted it to in the late game and I ended up winning. Third game was against a beginner, was so short that we played another for fun and finished it before most other people finished one game. Fourth game was a Slav defense exchange variation. It was close all the way until the endgame where I threw away a rook and couldn't come back. I had a lot of pressure against his king, but I cracked under pressure and missed a fork. They gave out free chess books at the end and there was free pizza as well. Was a lot of fun. I found out that I'm a much better player when the games are more serious and I'm also miles better OTB than online, but I barely play online now so I dunno. | ||
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don_kyuhote
3007 Posts
On October 26 2014 05:44 calgar wrote: Mine didn't change at all - it's still over 300 lower than otb. Their standard is pretty deflated so it seems like a good change though. I don't think you can generalize about online ratings being higher or lower because they are calculated differently. Yea I didn't get any rating boost either. I didn't play live standard for maybe 5 days before this happened, so I guess they considered me inactive or something? It's really inconsistent because I know people who have been "inactive" for longer days than me who got the boost. Not that I care too deeply about it. I guess I'll enjoy my time beating up on people who are rated about the same as me but really 200 points weaker | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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don_kyuhote
3007 Posts
On October 26 2014 08:53 Ettick wrote: My college's chess club went over to another college and played a tournament with them today. Was my first tournament, though it wasn't rated or anything. I had the first game locked down, a piece up, though I missed a tactic that would have gotten me a rook for a knight. The opening was a Sicilian, if I recall correctly. I exchanged too much and it ended up as a king and pawn endgame that I should have won, but I blundered and let his king behind the pawn that I was going to promote. I resigned because he had a pawn that was going to queen. The second game was the same story in the early game, a Sicilian where I trapped one of my opponent's pieces, but it turned out how I wanted it to in the late game and I ended up winning. Third game was against a beginner, was so short that we played another for fun and finished it before most other people finished one game. Fourth game was a Slav defense exchange variation. It was close all the way until the endgame where I threw away a rook and couldn't come back. I had a lot of pressure against his king, but I cracked under pressure and missed a fork. They gave out free chess books at the end and there was free pizza as well. Was a lot of fun. I found out that I'm a much better player when the games are more serious and I'm also miles better OTB than online, but I barely play online now so I dunno. You should annotate your game and write a blog | ||
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Ettick
United States2434 Posts
On October 26 2014 10:26 don_kyuhote wrote: You should annotate your game and write a blog Didn't record any of them  | ||
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Grumbels
Netherlands7032 Posts
Reconstructing games from memory is good practice. | ||
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