going professional but still cute edition>Calendar:- Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz | May 6th - 13th- Champions Chess Tour: Chess.com Classic | May 8th - 15th- Sharjah Masters | May 13th - 23rd- Norway Chess | May 26th - June 7th- Teplice Open | June 15th - 23rd- Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Chess Classic Romania | June 24th - July 6th- Grand Chess Tour: SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia | July 8th - 15th- Biel International Chess Festival | July 13th - 26th- Champions Chess Tour: Event 3 | July 17th - 24th- Open Internacional Vila de Sitges | July 22nd - 30th>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Previous thread:>>92633598
Who else going to US National in Vegas this June?
>>92703081congrats to Alexandra Botez for winning the Open B tournament at the Sardinia World Chess Festival
ok i guess. i'll start playing chess. im going to watch a bunch of chess streams and then look at a bunch of openers
is this guy the most chad streamer
question: does anyone know a resource I could use to look up fairy piece values? i want to use it for a game design project im working on
>>92703589Maybe Pychess?I'm not really sure
>>92703589I've found some info here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess_pieces#Relative_value_of_pieceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fairy_chess_pieceshttps://www.chessvariants.com/index/mainquery.php?type=Piececlopedia
>>92703164Not enough money, maybe next year.
>>92706032Do wish it was cheaper.Paid $50 to go to LVL Up Expo and $15 to enter a fighting game tourney there by comparison.I suppose chess tournaments don't often draw similar numbers though.
cheap chess sets should be declared illegal: https://twitter.com/southtexasisdpa/status/1785792697413902494
>>92706157>>92706032It's a weird that an open with a 125K prize fund has very few players above 2500; GMs don't pay the entry fee but they still fail to attract them:https://www.vegaschessfestival.com/registration/advance-entries/?event=NATLOPEN§ion=OPENlast year:https://www.chess.com/events/2023-us-national-chess-open/games
what's the best way to organize your opening lines?I've been creating lichess studies, feels easy enough when adding moves and comments, but not particularly great when you come back and try to read through all the variations, that view on the right sucks
>>92708120>all the variationsCreate more and smaller studies, starting from a certain position, not from the beginning.
>>92708120Chesstempo is great for storing and memorising, but Lichess is still better for analysis
>>92701987https://www.twitch.tv/annamaja
place your bet
>>92703081I read "Bobby Fischer teaches chess" a few years ago and I really like it; are there similar books that are known to be similar ? I'm an absolute beginner but I had a lot of fun with the "puzzles"
>>92712002Magnus, wtf?
>>927120021) Erigaisi 2) Carlsen 3) Abdusattorov
>>92712004https://archive.org/details/CapablancaChessFundamentalshttps://archive.org/search?query=chess+beginners
should fide officialize the super GM title?
>>92715226You have to pay to get a title from FIDE; so, how to monetize this one? and what if a top player doesn't want to pay for it? or doesn't want it at all even if it's free? that would be embarrassing.
>>92712011It's not classical, and he's free to participate in both GCT and CCT.
>>92717643I meant Magnus is an easy bet
>>92712004Yes, the "Winning Chess" series by yasser seirawan. There's a volume on Tactics, but the other volumes teach the basics about strategy, openings, and there's even a volume that's essentialy a game collection. If you just want a tactics book, I recommend 1001 Chess Exercises for Begginers, Chess Tactics for Champions (by Judith Polgar) or Learn Chess Tactics by John Nunn. They're all similar to Bobby Fischer teaches chess, but harder (I cited them in difficulty order).
Where can I find pirated chessable courses? I want the Killer Dutch videos, but they're obviously not worth 150 dollars
>>92719787There used to be immortalchessforum, but that's been shut down for a while. Apparently, chess piracy's moved to telegram groups, but I don't have any links.
>>92718919yeah he seems focused
In my opinion, the way the World Championship should work is this:Start out with #1 rated player as Champion. Then, there is only a WC match if the WC is no longer #1 rated and it has been at least 2 years since the last WC match. The challenger in the WC match is always the highest rated player who isn't the WC and who doesn't decline the match.
>>92721440Are you crazy? China will do a series of closed tournaments until one of the players "magically" gets to 2900.
>>92723265Your implication doesn't follow from your scenario. Someone is inevitably going to rank up in that situation, it wouldn't even need to be falsified like you're scaremongering.
This guy just broke 1900 rapid in less than a year from starting chess.What's your excuse?
>>92721440We can simply use the FIDE World Cup to decide the world champion. It needs only a few things to be fixed, like using Chess960 for tiebreaks.
>>92724086That guy can't even tie his shoes. Weird lie.
>>92721440You give too much importance to ratings. Their main purpose is to determine the starting rank of players in open tournaments. They became irrelevant if used for something else.
>>92724086I don't have the money to spend 12 hours a day grinding chess. Even if I did, chess wouldn't even be on my top 10 on how I would spend that time.
>see that tyler1 broke 1900>get depressed>get off my dead end job's shift>get home tired as fuck, consistently on 5-6 hours sleep daily for the last 16 years>play rapid>40 game lose streak because I reason by move 15 after blundering a piece>try to shoot myself >ran out of ammo years ago and cant afford more so all I hear is a click from my rusty trusty rugerAnyone else? I dropped to 1400s. I want to die. I really should just kill myself.
>>92726325fucking hell i cant even type resign right. i need to die right fucking now theres no end in sight otherwise
In the Freestyle event earlier this year, which numbering system did they use to assign each position a number?
>>92703081>consistently matches me with players either 100 elo above or 50 elo below me>feel like i lost unfairly if high elo beats me>feel like retard if lower elo beats me>feel like win was undeserved if crush lower eloremind me why i use this shitty site again?
>>92726566You can adjust the maximum rating difference you want to face.
>>92726177Spoken like a lazy retard.
>>92726566> feels he lost unfairly if a better player beats him Do yourself a favor and choose another hobby
>>92726875Wait till you see the retards at /ic/
>>92724443https://clips.twitch.tv/RefinedCooperativeIguanaThisIsSparta-XcsFn9YbSFodpC59
>>92726337same as in Chess960, but they did mistakes; for example in rapid day 1 the position was 49 but they swapped rook and queen:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFz0So_M80k&t=1458shttps://chess960.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/chess960-starting-positions.pdf
>>92726332NEVER RESIGN
>>92726325>Tyler1If its anything like League, he's above average but not that good. He just grinds the shit for 12-16 hours a day so eventually he'll force results.
>>92712002day 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwyH9MGJ-cg
>>92734077oh wow they have Jovanka in studio
Fuck it, I've decided I want to learn, where do I start?
>>92736347From the video section in the OP pastebin, then you can alternate playing on Lichess and puzzles on Chesstempo.
>>92737162I played some games and I'm like 350. This is going to be a long learning journey. I'll check those videos.
>>92726325In your situation I'd have gone to work on an oil rig or a crab boat, or do trucking, for a year or two then see what I could do with that money.
>>92724086>top 5 of chess streamerslmao
I just found out I could play against bot accounts on lichess (as opposed to the "play with the computer" option), but I keep getting "I'm not accepting challenges with this time control". How do I know ahead of time what time controls they ARE willing to accept so I don't have to keep guessing? I'd like to play with as much time as possible. It's a bot so why does it even care how long I take?
>>92741063https://lichess.org/player/botsHas all the bots and the description usually shows the times. Lichess bots can play unlimited time control games. The community ones are limited, probably because they're hosted on a private server.
>>92734077day 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83PHZgkNsxc
>>92703081>Chess.com Classicunwatchable
>>92724086https://m.twitch.tv/clip/SwissDoubtfulMonitorUnSane-dMunPjpEhoEO0ALi>2000Can he reach it?
>>92743510based Wei Yi
>>92744812much better today with David
>>92726325This guy >>92739212 probably has the right idea. I chased similar opportunities to get myself out of a dead end job situation years ago. Prior to finding those opportunities I was cutting every cost I reasonably (and unreasonably) could to save up resources and learned how to get enough REM cycles every week even if my schedule didn't allow for ~8 uninterrupted hours every day.
https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1787841482457579919>Tyler1 reached 1900 Elo in chess, placing him in the top 0.5% players worldwide after just 10 months of learning
>>92703081What are the best FOSS chess playing and studying tools that work offline for Debian/Ubuntu/Mint and stock Android? I've been lugging a circa-2003 chess computer board around but it takes up a lot of space in my laptop bag, it gets turned on accidentally sometimes, it seems somewhat fragile, and I'm already missing one black pawn. What's the modern computer chess board market like?
>>92748778>What's the modern computer chess board market like?Expensive as hell because people want high quality wooden boards like those used by super GMs.
>>92748778>offline for Ubuntuhttps://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/downloads
>>9274812810*30*12 = 3600 hoursSeems about right.
>>92744946He should copy the Botez and get a famous coach.
>win all day long>lose all progress playing in bed before sleepWhy do I do this to myself every day?
>>92748128How stupid are you, exactly? What's 10 minus 4, genius?
>>92743510day 3:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77IRk5h0r2M
>>92746505indeed
>>92744946His accuracy is still around 75, so I suspect that 1900 is a fluke, and 2000 is unreachable.
>>92748947I also want that but my circa 2003 computer board was $5 at Goodwill and the circa 1996 one I was using before that was free as a gift from my Grandpa so "expensive as hell" would be quite the escalation. I saw that some of the ones available these days can be used to play online chess with a physical board without looking at a monitor, which is cool enough that it might sell me on getting something nice. >>92748981Thank you, I'll try to make time to play around with it tomorrow.
>>92753310day 4 (9 rounds blitz 5+2):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hLCsTO9HLQ
https://www.uscfsales.com/dgt-projects-electronic-chess-set-bluetooth.html>$1,937.00I hope that the queens also make coffee for me and clean the house.
>>92748947a better bet is to grab a used 90's era chess computer from eBay. Built like tanks, their old processors will never die, and they are plenty strong enough for normal folks like us. Bonus: you have a hope of beating them unlike the fish.
>>92764810another option is the Centaur chess computer, which has a version of Stockfish with adaptive strength. Selling for a few hundred bucks from DGT.
>one week bump limitNEW>>92766279>>92766279>>92766279NEW
>>92766292>one week bump limitI'm glad other slow boards don't have that. Why does /tg/?
