Chess games

Original post by PharaohFromSpace

Open game: https://lichess.org/2hHGVObk

EDIT: I'm going offline on TSR but the link is still open for anyone to join

Are you in a game now?

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Original post by 04MR17

Typical silly dupe question. I don't mind playing @Electrospective. I haven't played in years but I still maintain that there has been nobody that I have played and not beaten at least once.

Spoiler

I realise you've got a tournament going but I'm happy to wait 'til a next time unless you're doing a repechage system...

I think that tournament has died a death 04mr17!

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Original post by john2054

I think that tournament has died a death 04mr17!

Oh dear! And to think, that I was so hopeful. Would you like a game or are you about to die?

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Original post by PharaohFromSpace

@13 1 20 8 42 Sorry about that, I saw you'd entered but after I'd gone to eat. Should've closed it :tongue:

Are you up for a game now ?

Didn't see this, damn notifications..
Maybe later, watching TV at the minute.

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Original post by 04MR17

Oh dear! And to think, that I was so hopeful. Would you like a game or are you about to die?

yes i'm up for one, is 15 minutes okay with you, nothing added?

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Original post by 04MR17

Oh dear! And to think, that I was so hopeful. Would you like a game or are you about to die?

https://lichess.org/cn29VswY

https://lichess.org/cn29VswY

try this

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Original post by 04MR17

Oh dear! And to think, that I was so hopeful. Would you like a game or are you about to die?

Was that you i just played 04Mr? gg hey? you nearly won https://en.lichess.org/cn29VswY

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Just played a funny casual game on lichess; obviously my opponent was a complete beginner but I realised it might be fun to try and play as accurately as I can. I got 2 average centipawn loss over 27 moves LOL! (I know, I shouldn't be spending my time like this...)
https://en.lichess.org/qw8VO3SX/black#54

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Original post by 1 8 13 20 42

Is it me or do people always play worse in tournaments on chess.com? I just got bronze with 5/7 in an open (nobody over 2000, a few around 1800+) 5|0 tournament, going into it rated 1353 and beating 3 1600s and a 1900. And while I came up with some decent stuff, it was mostly down to them sucking. I dunno if more people who play tournaments tend to play them nearly exclusively, and thus the rating pool has a different distribution there or what.

I'm pretty surprised the 1900 you played played so badly; it makes you wonder how they got to 1900 in blitz...

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Original post by john2054

Was that you i just played 04Mr? gg hey? you nearly won https://en.lichess.org/cn29VswY

It was. It wouldn't allow numbers to start a username so I improvised.

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Original post by IrrationalRoot

I'm pretty surprised the 1900 you played played so badly; it makes you wonder how they got to 1900 in blitz...

Yeah. In fairness he manufactured activity near the end from a vastly worse position, primarily because I was panicking lol.
Looking on his page there are people accusing him of cheating: "This dude was losing all game and then made like 10 perfect checkmate moves in a row when he had under 10 seconds left. Hmmmm" and "This guy cheats!"; then again entirely unfounded accusations of cheating are common. He's played thousands of blitz games so it's no matter of rating instability allowing him to climb high.

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Original post by 04MR17

It was. It wouldn't allow numbers to start a username so I improvised.

it was a good game because neither of us took it too seriously and we enjoyed it. After all that is what chess should be about after all isn't it? Or at least i did!

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Original post by IrrationalRoot

Just played a funny casual game on lichess; obviously my opponent was a complete beginner but I realised it might be fun to try and play as accurately as I can. I got 2 average centipawn loss over 27 moves LOL! (I know, I shouldn't be spending my time like this...)
https://en.lichess.org/qw8VO3SX/black#54

1. f4 best by test

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Original post by 1 8 13 20 42

1. f4 best by test

Was actually a bit scared after 1.f4 that he was gonna crush me with the Bird XD

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Forum User

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Original post by IrrationalRoot

Just played a funny casual game on lichess; obviously my opponent was a complete beginner but I realised it might be fun to try and play as accurately as I can. I got 2 average centipawn loss over 27 moves LOL! (I know, I shouldn't be spending my time like this...)
https://en.lichess.org/qw8VO3SX/black#54

The evaluations are capped at +10, so once you get ridiculously far ahead average centipawn loss isn't calculated. For example, if you have an extra queen and two rooks, and give away one of the rooks, it won't get flagged as a blunder on lichess because the evaluation was +10, and it is still +10, so no centipawns have been lost.

So there might be some sense in which your move 17 was a mistake (after all it loses a bishop that you could easily have saved), but since the position went from 'totally winning' to 'still totally winning' it doesn't get flagged up and doesn't lose you any centipawns.

(edited 7 years ago)

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Original post by Forum User

The evaluations are capped at +10, so once you get ridiculously far ahead average centipawn loss isn't calculated. For example, if you have an extra queen and two rooks, and give away one of the rooks, it won't get flagged as a blunder on lichess because the evaluation was +10, and it is still +10, so no centipawns have been lost.

So there might be some sense in which your move 17 was a mistake (after all it loses a bishop that you could easily have saved), but since the position went from 'totally winning' to 'still totally winning' it doesn't get flagged up and doesn't lose you any centipawns.

I noticed that, yeah, I was pretty sure my last few moves weren't accurate because at that stage I couldn't be bothered lol. There's definitely a cap at ±10.

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The_Big_E

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Classic back row mate!

https://en.lichess.org/3yFfBf2d/white#0

I'm not an amazing player, decided to mess around with openings in this game and it led to a nice triple battery at the end haha. When players completely ignore pawn development, I like going for back row mates.

Any tips on openings? I want to get better at them.

(edited 7 years ago)

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Original post by The_Big_E

Any tips on openings? I want to get better at them.

Well 1. d4 2. Nc3 hurts my eyes a bit and the computer does say that white's tiny edge from having the move has dissipated after that. In general, in d4 systems, white wants to establish more central control by playing c4 at some point. It's usually preferable to do this before deploying the knight to c3 so that you don't block the pawn (as in this case if you ever wanted to play it you would have to move the knight again, wasting a tempo) Obviously not a hard and fast rule, but yeah. Although the most important thing is to follow general opening principles, there are main lines for a reason. There are often videos around that explain a lot of moves of main lines, telling the purpose behind each move, which helps you to understand the systems a bit more. Personally I like playing d4 because, although there's still loads and loads of theory, the e4 theory is even more daunting, and even some weak players seem to like to know a lot of openings. However both moves are good. 1. Nf3 and 1. c4 are also worth considering. In fast games stuff like 1. b3 and 1. g3 won't hurt.

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Original post by The_Big_E

Classic back row mate!

https://en.lichess.org/3yFfBf2d/white#0

I'm not an amazing player, decided to mess around with openings in this game and it led to a nice triple battery at the end haha. When players completely ignore pawn development, I like going for back row mates.

Any tips on openings? I want to get better at them.

13's is good advice, particularly about the Nc3 stuff since playing Nc3, while not a bad move per se, shows no understanding of 1.d4 as an opening.

Best advice would be not to learn theory or study/try lots of different openings at your level; that definitely won't help (may even hinder your chess development).
Learn the opening principles and try to play by them. Develop pieces, control the centre, get castled etc. That's it; just get good at that and you'll have a better position from the opening against players all the way up to 1700 tbh (and sometimes higher lol).

To do this effectively, it's best to only play one or two openings. I only play 1.e4 as white, Sicilian against 1.e5 and going to start playing d5 against 1.d4 since I feel that QGD positions will be essential for my improvement.

Playing like 3 different openings as white sounds reasonable, but then you realise that black has a move too, so you end up branching into 50 different openings. Best to stick with 1.e4 exclusively for now, that'll already give you enough variety of openings.

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