Chess

Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I've noticed that after I've been playing chess for about an hour my mind switches into chess mode and i start viewing everything around me in terms of making moves, clicking things into place etc

I had a similar thing when I was obsessed with call of duty, after playing it I'd be in some sort of hyper problem solving mode
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Can a chess person tell me how I should have checkmated here (I stalemated by moving the rook to E8)
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Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Me on the chess.com app trying to understand checkmate vs stalemate

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JubeWalrus

JubeWalrus

Active member
Vaguely remember chess.com having endgame lessons or puzzles that helped me when I played a few years ago. Worth checking
 
subvert47

subvert47

I don't fight, I run away
Corpsey said:
Can a chess person tell me how I should have checkmated here (I stalemated by moving the rook to g8)
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There were loads of ways. For instance:

a) 1 Rd5 Kg4 2 h3+ Kh4 3 Rf4 mate (my first thought)
b) 1 Rf5 Kg4 2 Ne3+ Kh4 3 Rd4 mate
c) 1 Rdf8 Kg5 2 Rg3+ Kh6 3 Rh8 mate
d) 1 Rf5 Kg4 2 Rdd5 h4 3 h3 mate (which is quite nice)

But if you want to be especially careful, throw in 1 b4 first to rule out the stalemate and then win with the rooks at leisure.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
There's no casual games it's instant intensity what do I do next every move could be my downfall

This is what WW1 FELT LIKE
 
luka

luka

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How can you be bothered i dont get it. Im playing a samurai game on playstation slaughtering scores of mongols with my samurai sword thats obviously way better
 
version

version

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Chess is the ultimate board game. Monopoly is not in its league and Checkers doesn't compare at all. It's civilized war. It's a mathematical thing, its science, and it's strategy. That's life all the time. Just planning your day, being ten steps ahead and seeing the moves ahead. That's what chess is about. I'm not the greatest player. I'm not a master or a grandmaster. I lose a lot, but I learn. I've been defeated plenty times. I play online and I might have 900 wins and 850 losses but I play all the time. The game is fascinating and I am captivated by that. The album I just dropped is called Grandmasters. That's the highest level you reach when playing chess and it's also the highest level of emceeing, producing and deejaying. Most of the titles are chess slang 'Queen's Gambit', 'Destruction of a Guard', 'Unprotected Pieces', and 'Illusory Protection'. I incorporate chess into certain rhymes. I use chess all the time. Chess is a big part of what I do.
— GZA

 
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GhostofKinski

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Love the game! Only get to play on my phone these days. Which is insane, if I move the difficulty bar a fraction of a micrometer to the right. I get smashed. The exact same way left, it’s too easy. I miss playing regularly with people.
My kid was in the school chess club for 2 years (? I think) she finished 1st 2x, 2nd once & third 2x, which was thrilling for me because we’d play at least one game every night.
Alas, all her friends that were in the club quit, so she didn’t want to play anymore. They all went to band & now I have to sit through their
Excruciating concerts, lol.
I played a lot with the inmates. It was a great way to pass time. Jail chess is like park hustler chess, all trick moves, pathetic attempts to exert dominance. Real easy to beat them. The exception being in the mental observation houses. Some of those crazies were savants.
I had the privilege of knowing befriending IGM William Lombardy. Bobby Fisher’s lone 2nd. When Spassky had a team including Tal (one of my favorite players). We were quite close for a few years. He was a retired Catholic priest. He was older, lonely. We had him over for thanksgiving Xmas etc.
Taught me some good stuff to work on.
We kind of lost touch when I started working for city & had practically zero leisure time.
I did get to visit him in hospital before he passed & brought him a coffee cup full of his favorite drink, dry gin martini. We had a lot of laughs and I treasure his memory.
 
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GhostofKinski

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It’s amazingly disappointing to remember how little respect & forgotten he had become. He lived on a very small pension and had serious health issues.
The U.S. chess federation just kicked him to the curb (chess, like everything else is rife with envy, resentment & politics) While Bobby Fisher was still alive, even in the depths of madness would always send him a card & check for $1k on his birthday. The Russian chess journals would print acknowledgment of his place in history every year on his birthday. I am unaware of any English speaking periodicals that ever acknowledged him in any way.
 
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