On March 14 2014 02:51 mordek wrote:
Dear chess gurus in this thread. I can trade queen for both rooks. That would leave us with both our knights, me with a rook and him with a bishop, even on pawns and similar structures. I'm a chess noob beyond tactics. Could probably get a shot of the board up if needed. I feel like queen for both rooks is the right choice but I hate to sac Q when I have one and he doesn't.

It is generally the better choice as 2 rooks are about equal/slightly better than a queen.

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

March 13 2014 18:11 GMT

#28265

qh4+ wins a knight and the king is stuck in the centre, potentially game winning attack

(the king is stuck defending the knight and R-c2 is probably lethal)

Lord Tolkien

United States12083 Posts

March 13 2014 18:11 GMT

#28266

On March 14 2014 01:29 Shelke14 wrote:

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With only a little bit of manly grunting noises.

Want more nudity.

I'll be seeing it today so we'll see. The last one was kinda lulzy in plot.

On chess: trade it. Unless you are in imminent threat of checkmate or he's likely to promote, knight+rook is vastly superior endgame than bishop+knight.

Zess

Adun Toridas!9144 Posts

March 13 2014 18:14 GMT

#28267

On March 14 2014 02:06 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Apparently I forgot to cancel my Amazon Prime trial. Hopefully I'll remember to do it next year l0l

You can cancel it and they will give you a prorated refund (if its within 30 days and you haven't bought anything then you get the full refund)

mordek

United States12705 Posts

March 13 2014 18:16 GMT

#28268

On March 14 2014 03:11 Slayer91 wrote:
qh4+ wins a knight and the king is stuck in the centre, potentially game winning attack

(the king is stuck defending the knight and R-c2 is probably lethal)

Holy crap I'm blind. Need more tactics

What does Rc2 do?

jcarlsoniv

United States27922 Posts

March 13 2014 18:17 GMT

#28269

On March 14 2014 03:14 xes wrote:

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You can cancel it and they will give you a prorated refund (if its within 30 days and you haven't bought anything then you get the full refund)

It renewed in January =P Not a huge concern, I'll get use out of it.

Gahlo

United States35174 Posts

March 13 2014 18:18 GMT

#28270

derp.

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

March 13 2014 18:18 GMT

#28271

after qh4+ g3 QxN the black threat is Rc2 Rd1 N-c3 winning more material so white has to move R-d1 straight away so you then go like N-c3 R-c1 Q-e3 threatening mate
white really is in trouble here
white can just move the knight but then you move into E3 again and you have rook and queen aimed at the bishop with mate threat once you get into c2

actually you can't play rc2 early cause of back rank mate LOL

in that case going for Qe3 to prevent castling into Nc3 is still a hard to stop plan, and counter like Ne4 with F5 freeing backrank and gaining a tempo chasing the knight

ComaDose

Canada10357 Posts

March 13 2014 18:20 GMT

#28272

I was looking for things to do on my phone and started playing final fantasy tactics for gameboy advance. I have since spent more time reading about it than playing and still have no idea what im doing

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21245 Posts

March 13 2014 18:20 GMT

#28273

On March 14 2014 03:17 jcarlsoniv wrote:

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It renewed in January =P Not a huge concern, I'll get use out of it.

They're raising the price to 99 in April~

On March 14 2014 03:05 Frudgey wrote:
Hey Anime fans, I got a question about Code Geass.

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Poll: Do you think Lelouch is dead?

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Castlevania (3)

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Yes.

jcarlsoniv

United States27922 Posts

March 13 2014 18:22 GMT

#28274

mord, what chess app are you using? Would you mind playing with me? I'm not very good, but would love to get better.

On March 14 2014 03:20 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:

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They're raising the price to 99 in April~

That's why I noticed I even had a subscription. I won't be charged 99 until next Jan

mordek

United States12705 Posts

March 13 2014 18:23 GMT

#28275

On March 14 2014 03:18 Slayer91 wrote:
after qh4+ g3 QxN the black threat is Rc2 Rd1 N-c3 winning more material so white has to move R-d1 straight away so you then go like N-c3 R-c1 Q-e3 threatening mate
white really is in trouble here
white can just move the knight but then you move into E3 again and you have rook and queen aimed at the bishop with mate threat once you get into c2

actually you can't play rc2 early cause of back rank mate LOL

in that case going for Qe3 to prevent castling into Nc3 is still a hard to stop plan, and counter like Ne4 with F5 freeing backrank and gaining a tempo chasing the knight

Yeah was gonna say I can't have the rook leave back rank until he moves files. I'm going to try to process what you wrote in between some work. Thanks again. I really need to get more feedback on why you do what you do. If I see a tactic or how to get a fork/skewer a few steps ahead it's one thing, but I'm really lacking in overall strategy.

@soniv chess.com and yes of course

you can see my tag on the pic

Crusnik

United States5378 Posts

March 13 2014 18:29 GMT

#28276

Incontrol's casting is so worthwhile to listen too, even without having watched a lot of SC2 recently. Ret isn't bad either, though, nice complement imo.

Requizen

United States33802 Posts

March 13 2014 18:29 GMT

#28277

Oh man I wish I stayed with chess growing up, just never had anyone to play with.

Alaric

France45622 Posts

March 13 2014 18:31 GMT

#28278

Eh, FFTA's super simple tho, because there's so much abusable stuff and the AI is as shitty as its NPCs sets of equipments and abilities so you can pretty much win the game with a-move.

Did a 1v4 at level 14 just to test a class combo, so if you can destroy stuff this early, think about lategame when all the AI has is balls of stats on bosses and doesn't scale nearly as well as you on all the rest...

wei2coolman

United States60033 Posts

March 13 2014 18:32 GMT

#28279

I barely know how to play chess. :/
For a beginner is there some a short read for basic chess strategies?

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

March 13 2014 18:34 GMT

#28280

I guess its mostly instinctual to me since ive been out of the loop so long but I guess it's that you should be trying to attack weaknesses ruthlessly. Checks are good because it buys you more time while allowing you to reposition, and also allows you to set up more checks in the future and mating threats. Pins and forks and skewers are things you work around when looking for things to attack.

A check can be like a free card draw in a card game. Since you can only move one piece at a time forcing ineffectual king moves while moving around is often invaluable.

Seeing that position I wouldn't have even considered the queen sacrifice, I would have simply realized there was a threat on the queen and an easy way to get out of it and displace him with qh4+, and then you see the knight is undefended. Even if qh4 wasn't on the table I'd go qf4.

The black squares are completely undefended and his bishop is dead, all 3 of his pieces are potential targets as well as his king, and the rook is completely out of the game. at a glance I'd think there should be a winning position within 5 moves and no need to try to exchange off.

A weakness is anything that he can't easily defend. The second thing you look for is his moves which are bothersome and look for ways to nullify them, moving pieces out of the way, or taking control of the square that they would be troublesome in. His only troublesome piece is his rook but you can force it on the defensive and knock it around pretty easily with your queen and knight threats.