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By far the most annoying thing about playing online are the people who cheat. I've just played a game where I was absolutely crushing someone, and somehow lost. When I checked the analysis board after the game I was at a plus 20 advantage after move 15, then there was a mate in 8 moves after move 16. I missed the mate, but still had an advantage of almost plus 19. Then, for the next 15 moves, my opponent made the top move choice according to Stockfish each and every time. I can't even report them because it was an unrated game. What kind of sad, insecure twonk cheats in unrated games?
Cheating is unforgivable, but even more so when the game is unrated, because there isn't any gain. You're literally just doing it out of spite.
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You’re not debating here you are advertising for players................
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That sounds good I may go premium in the near future when I start playing again , I got chess saturation recently but playing to much so I'm on a break
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Same here it's a lot of fun
. I keep silent throughout until the end when I have the checkmate. Oh, that reminds me. I once beat a guy 10 times and he got really mad. But I think what really made him mad was when I said "I'm drunk to"
Ha ,Ha love it. I play in a pub now and then and various annoying individuals usually stand around and nod sagely or tut , tut at every move played ,one guy gave a rather loud tut, tut at a move I played and when the game finished ( draw) starting telling me about a slip up I made , I challenged him to a game but he said " I'm actually leaving " I said " oh well it's saved you a savage beating " he immediately challenged me to a game the same place and time a week later.I accepted.
The pub owner couldn't stop laughing and said " Dee that guy is an IM " my mates said " you cannot chicken out now" , so the following week he duly arrived I played white and opened with the Ruy Lopez which I'm well versed in ,the opening went along fairly predictable lines until his phone rang and he said " emergency, I have to go " I gloated and crowed and said " you really do like the good old phone ruse , don't you "? he left in a fury.
I of course beamed smugly away for the rest of the night
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I've just played a really cagey game which was neck and neck until my opponent threw their queen away and immediately resigned (we've all been there), but when I analysed the game I realised that if I'd played a different move on move 21, I could have forced the queen capture.
So I played Rd1 here, because I was anticipating a discovered attack against the knight on d7 if my opponent forced the pawn trade (22. dxe4, dxe4). My opponent didn't see that the rook is protected by the light-squared bishop so took it with the queen.
However, the engine shows that, instead of playing Rd1, if I'd have played Bd1, I could have trapped the queen. That one move would have immediately given me a plus six advantage.
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Never, ever try to scholar's mate anybody who has been playing chess for longer than a year.
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Great stuff Nom.
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Thanks Dee. I had about 10 games yesterday and two of them were really good. Damn, I love this game.
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It's a truly satisfying game nothing I think comes close. Have you ever tried the Stonewall opening ? I love it as it leads to tremendous play and totally destroys those who are unfamiliar with it .......
For those who want to keep opening theory to the minimum, you are unlikely to find a better chess opening than the Stonewall Attack.
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Hi Dee. Nope, I've never tried that one. I'm just looking it up at the moment.
I do sometimes put my knights on d2 and f3 though. It's a much better defensive setup than c3 and f3. The only issue is that the knight on d2 can imprison your own bishop if you're not careful. I usually play that setup more with black than white.
I went through a stage last year where I was playing the Hungarian opening, albeit with mixed results. I've found my play has improved since I stopped fianchettoing the bishops.
I do sometimes still play the Ruy Lopez, but the trouble is that it's such a well-known opening that it becomes more of a memory test than anything. I like defending against it more than attacking with it.
I've tried the English opening also, usually followed by Nc3, then d5. Mainly because I noticed Kasparov liked that opening.
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Have a look at how hard I had to work for this victory, Dee. I thought I was completely lost here, but somehow I managed to fight back. My opponent had to resign after I forced the queen trade, because his king was too far away to catch my passed pawn. Very tough game.
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I do not think that Fischer would stand a chance against prime-time Kasparov. The truth is, chess has changed significantly since Fischer's times: openings and strategies have been polished and thoroughly analyzed with engines, many new endgames have been solved, and the "meta" has become much more robust.
Fischer could get away with initiating reckless attacks due to how flawed his opponents' understanding of the position was, but nowadays such a strategy is doomed to fail against a strong grandmaster. Kasparov in 2004 still could get away with some things that nowadays no one can, but the room for "having fun" had significally narrowed even by then.
As such, I believe that the Fischer of 70-s would get rolled over by the Kasparov of 2000-s. Of course, if we are instead talking about the hypothetical case where Kasparov and Fischer both grow up at the same period of time and learn from the same material, then it is much less unclear - but then, at least, the play style of one of them will be unrecognizable, and we will not be talking about the same player(s).
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The entire game of chess evolved after (and largely because of) Fischer, so the competition Kasparov faced was much stronger than the competition Fischer faced. Kasparov was objectively a better player, and he was playing competitively for much longer. Fischer only won one world championship.
With that said, it's unfair to compare players from different eras because Fischer didn't have the resources or the accumulative knowledge which became available to future players and Kasparov never had to play before the game had reached its current level. These types of questions are interesting to contemplate, but essentially pointless. It's like asking if Mike Tyson in his prime would have beaten Mohammed Ali. Almost certainly he would, for the same reasons (i.e. because the sport had moved on and the bar was higher), but that takes nothing away from the achievements of Ali, who was the best of his era.
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That's the sort of game I like a good fight fight right to the end
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I've read many times that Bobby Fischers presence at the board terrified opponents as he exuded menace and danger such was his intense will to win.
It's also been noted that no other player worked so hard at Chess and Fischers whole life was chess, his descent into madness I think was the result of the unbearable pressure put on him by the America media driven by politicians and those in power who used him in a game of us and them.
If Kasparov , Carlsen, Nepomniachtchi etc,etc only had access to the latest chess literature of the 70's I think fischer would have beaten the 3 of them.
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Me too Dee. It feels like an achievement if you manage to win.
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The third game I was outclassed fair and square. He caught me in a brilliant trap to end the game. I thought I had a clear checkmate.
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Well played Nom.
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Thanks Dee. I was kicking myself for missing that winning move in my first game and carried the anger over into the next three games. Took a break and went back to it.
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I know that feeling , it's amazing what you miss when you look at the analysis of your games on Lichess.
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You can say that again Dee. Truly amazing.
The worst thing though was that I didn't even need the engine analysis on this occasion. I saw the move the same moment I clicked the mouse to make another move. If I'd have just hesitated half a second longer I'd have found it.
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In the end I managed to exchange enough pieces off the board to slow him down, and then he fell for a nice trap to end the game, taking a poisoned pawn which cost him his queen. He resigned a couple of moves later.
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Opponent left the game rather than resigning like a gentleman. Mate in one.
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This is why you should never resign when playing chess.
This guy is a better player than I am. He was slowly picking me apart. Then he made just one mistake and I mated him.
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Exact same thing. My opponent outplayed me the entire game, slowly chipping away at my material. Then he got complacent and realised he was either going to lose a rook or get checkmated, so he resigned.
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Can't believe I pulled this off. I saw mate if I sacrificed my queen.
I'm a little bit annoyed that my opponent resigned rather than let me finish the mate, but after Kg7, Rh7 is checkmate.
If he'd have left the queen alone he could have avoided the mate with Kf8.
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He won't ever play you because @MayCaesar is a jealous, delusional braggard who comes here to pretend he's ten times smarter than he actually is. Read through a few of his posts and you'll quickly find his language dripping with intellectual desperation.
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I have no idea what I was thinking in this opening. It was a total mess.
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Sacrificing a piece and actually having it work out in your favor looks like a great feeling. Wish I was that good.
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I'm quite an experienced player, Luigi. Like anything else in life, the more you do it the better you get. Even so, chess is quite a long ladder and there are plenty of occasions where I cross paths with a superior player and get crushed. My biggest weakness is playing under time pressure. I prefer playing without any clock, but in competitive games I usually need 30 minutes to stand a good chance of winning.
In the above example, you can see I have what is called a battery. That is, my queen and bishop are occupying the same diagonal. I saw the checkmate on h2 and so did my opponent, which is why he tried to block it with his knight. What he didn't anticipate is that I could simply sacrifice my rook, which wasn't involved in the attack, in order to remove the defending piece.
In actual fact, he didn't have to take the rook at all. Doing so is what enabled me to checkmate him. He could have simply moved his pawn from g2 to g3 to block the incoming queen, although this would have only prolonged the inevitable. Not only would he then be at a material disadvantage, but I have four attacking pieces strangling his king, whereas he has no defenders outside of pawns because his queen and rook are on the wrong side of his king. The engine analysis has me at a massive advantage after rook takes f3. I'd have to make very serious blunders if he hoped to get back into the game.
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9 moves guys.
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100 percent agree with you my friend.
Exactly. The internet is chockablock full of self-declared experts. Actual experts don't need to tell you they are experts because it is apparent in their arguments themselves. They are also generally smart enough to understand the fallacy of appealing to themselves as a form of authority.
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