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hmmm.... ng6, g6x, then qh8?
hmmm.... ng6, g6x, then qh8?
i think that that is a checkmate by force, yes? I really want it to be a queen sack though...
Right, sorry, I only know notation looking from the white side, and have the mirror everything, and often forget.reverse the notation but yes !
nb3 clears the path for the queen check on a1 and battery checkmate at b1 . and yes it is forced after this move , white might have given up their queen to remove the knight threat .
Right, sorry, I only know notation looking from the white side, and have the mirror everything, and often forget.
No. When I can speak this language fluently, I might take a look around though. Right now, I am at ~1400 level, though I have beaten players ranked as high as 2000 on Chess.com. My publicly known profile, one which I nearly exclusively play bots, shows my level of play in rapid and blitz, though I have yet to play a bullet game. Once I have a few more openings a bit better understood, and once I have a better understanding of pawn structures and end game concepts, I'll certainly try to expand my learning further.have you ever explored alternative notation systems ? there are some interesting ways of slicing it , they used to refer to pawns by their origin pieces etc . imho it changes the view
No. When I can speak this language fluently, I might take a look around though. Right now, I am at ~1400 level, though I have beaten players ranked as high as 2000 on Chess.com. My publicly known profile, one which I nearly exclusively play bots, shows my level of play in rapid and blitz, though I have yet to play a bullet game. Once I have a few more openings a bit better understood, and once I have a better understanding of pawn structures and end game concepts, I'll certainly try to expand my learning further.
My rating is just under 1400, but I win about 80% of the games as white, and about 40% of the games as black, so.... yes, I need to practice as black much more. Chess.com regularly rates my white games 200+ points above my rating, and my black is much more variable (and lower), with that peak and valley on my eval that indicates chaotic play. My account shows significantly higher wins to losses (compared to the generally expected) but apparently not statistically too anomalous.) That's because I play about 10-1 number of bot vs. human games, which I am told is unusual (to prefer training to play),the acc't that I know seems to play the one bot nearly exclusively and i also notice plays exclusively as white . but if you say 1400 ok i guess ? what is your rating playing as black ?
My rating is just under 1400, but I win about 80% of the games as white, and about 40% of the games as black, so.... yes, I need to practice as black much more. Chess.com regularly rates my white games 200+ points above my rating, and my black is much more variable (and lower), with that peak and valley on my eval that indicates chaotic play. My account shows significantly higher wins to losses (compared to the generally expected) but apparently not statistically too anomalous.) That's because I play about 10-1 number of bot vs. human games, which I am told is unusual (to prefer training to play),
Sorry, I'm a private person, but am fairly exposed on the internet because of what I do, and so I enjoy a bit of anonymity.
I play bots to study lines (so, I end up playing Caro Kann Advance, French Advance, Sicilian, Latvian gambit, and Scotch game, most of the time) and practice tactics. Bots at that level play similar games. I play the same bot simply because I just hit "New Game" and blast through to a new training game, that's all. Scrolling through seems to a be a PITA, especially since I don't really care about the dialogue or whatever. It's just canned responses. I sometimes play on mobile, a the dialogue is not even visible, and I am simply playing the game without the person. However, I can understand why some players (Anna Cramling, for example), prefer to play people, because they are some what more predictable in the types of tactics and tricks that they fall for and what they see. You don't need to take my word for it, you can ask @greekgeek , who I've played twice, and we have gone in detail over the ideas and then tricks in the games together.
If you look at my bot games, you'll see a red a couple of days ago. I was playing a Scotch, and my son (12) decided that he wanted to backseat it, and when I told him that he needed to count attackers and defenders before taking on a space, he decided that his intuition was fine, and so I said "Okay, you can drive". Results, predictable, even when I warned him against some moves that turned out to be disastrous, and then one in which I told him that he was not making the most out of a tactic. But hey, some people like learning the hard way.
I've listened to GM Hammer commentate the Botez sisters classical tournament games in the past few days, and actually gotten some very useful advice on how to think of contesting a square, and how the move of a pawn changes things completely, and also on what to think about on a take, whether I want a certain file opened up, whether the opponent's doubled pawns are actually a hindrance, how to choose between short and long term advantages (like keeping the bishop pair, etc...) Learning is fun.
That's my brain dump about the last few months of the 10 months since I learned the rules. No real goals this year (that I just find stressful), but it would be nice to get to be consistently 1600 ELO.
Watching crazy king runs is always fun. I know that apparently openings don't matter for beginners, but if you are a full rook and knight down by move 10, it might be worth looking at some openings?