Chess

The Batlord · 01-21-2021, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Isn't your name ****ing Charles lol

No it's just Charles.

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Originally Posted by Exo

Yo Bats, what do your (minimal) friends and fam call you?

Charles?
Charlie?
Chuck?

****ing Charles.

OccultHawk · 01-21-2021, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

No it's just Charles.

****ing Charles.

ok Scott

Plankton · 01-21-2021, 02:15 PM

He's white and creamy.

**Exo** · 01-21-2021, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

No it's just Charles.

****ing Charles.

I respect that, though.

**Frownland** · 01-21-2021, 07:17 PM

At work they call him the Char King.

**Marie Monday** · 03-30-2021, 01:20 PM

lmao some psychopath invented '5D chess with multiverse time travel' and it looks glorious. The user reviews are great too:

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My AI opponent attempted to change time in order to escape fate, not knowing I WAS 5 PARALLEL DIMENSIONS AHEAD OF HIM, WAITING TO SPRING MY TRAP IN THE NEXT 2 UNIVERSES!

... I didn't know WTF i was doing but I won! hurray!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...e_Time_Travel/

AstridWilma · 03-31-2021, 12:19 PM

Am the KING at Knight Queen. Haha.Who doesn't like PUNS. Anyway, Chess is the thinkers game. The Changers.

**Marie Monday** · 03-31-2021, 12:42 PM

ps. that's a very Dutch-sounding username

Maajo · 07-13-2021, 03:14 PM

I don't play FIDE rated chess yet, I just started in like 2019 or something but I've gotten pretty good, I'm rated ~1500 online in most time formats other than bullet, which I used to be a lot better at but my mouse sucks so I always lose on time. I would estimate my actual rating somewhere around 1200, which is like a mid tier patzer (chess lingo for someone who sucks), but I've been steadily getting better over the course of the last two years I've been playing. I was really bad at first though lol.

Maajo · 07-13-2021, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

have you ever seen The BongCloud?

there's a rumor that Bobby Fischer played a set online against a GM using some variation of this suspect opening pictured in the video thumbnail there

idk if you can win against good players without knowing how to open but you can win with crap openings against the best players in the world

That didn't actually happen I don't think, as Nigel Short actually says now that he's certain it wasn't Bobby Fischer, but probably someone using an engine lol. It sounds hard to believe that it was an engine user in 2000, but I believe it and I think they did have them back then although I think engines were more beatable at the time. Bobby Fischer was easily the best player of his time, but in 2000 he probably was very out of shape and I doubt he could have obliterated someone as strong as Nigel Short while giving him a massive advantage in the opening.

You definitely don't need to know opening theory when you're lower leveled, you need to focus on not blundering your ****. When I was 900 in rapid a couple of years ago, I just remember how often other players would hang their pieces or walk right into a fork or play a random move when they had to defend against mate in one. That's how you get better when you're under 1000 is becoming more tactically sound.

01-21-2021, 02:15 PM	#83 (permalink)
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01-21-2021, 07:17 PM	#85 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	At work they call him the Char King. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

03-31-2021, 12:19 PM	#87 (permalink)
AstridWilma Groupie Join Date: Mar 2021 Posts: 1	Am the KING at Knight Queen. Haha.Who doesn't like PUNS. Anyway, Chess is the thinkers game. The Changers. __________________ continue discover Last edited by AstridWilma; 07-19-2024 at 05:19 AM.

07-13-2021, 03:14 PM	#89 (permalink)
Maajo Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Colorado Posts: 513	I don't play FIDE rated chess yet, I just started in like 2019 or something but I've gotten pretty good, I'm rated ~1500 online in most time formats other than bullet, which I used to be a lot better at but my mouse sucks so I always lose on time. I would estimate my actual rating somewhere around 1200, which is like a mid tier patzer (chess lingo for someone who sucks), but I've been steadily getting better over the course of the last two years I've been playing. I was really bad at first though lol.