Got a membership request from Cuthillius. I assume he's the user of the same name here, so I approved it. :bow:
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Got a membership request from Cuthillius. I assume he's the user of the same name here, so I approved it. :bow:
I am "Montmorgency".
Put me down for individual or team games this weekend.
I sent you a club invite.
Anyone can send challenges to anyone else. For Daily/Correspondence games, just click on the club member list and click on the Chessboard icon near their username.
Live games seem a little tougher to setup... I think you both have to be in the liveplay section of the site and you have to create a challenge and put in the username. I've only managed to get those going with Csargo so far.
I think I've played most everyone.. and as expected took a loss to novice. :help:
Anyone else play each other yet? How's it going?
Which hasn't happened yet. I wish the semester were over.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Barto
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I love games like this. I play the London System/Mason Attack a lot, so when I saw him mechanically making the early moves I decided to mess up his plans for him. :yes:
This also doubled as a test to see if I can embed games in forums posts.... looks like I can. :2thumbsup:
Edit:With annotations!
For some reason, the 'iframe' formatting does not work outside the Gameroom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xiahou
Well, maybe it does, but I've tested in the Watchtower, Frontroom, and Backroom, and it doesn't create a display, for this Chess.com embed or for Youtube videos.
Either the post preview shows only the text of the formatting, or (in Chrome) the page shows a BLOCKED_BY_XSS_EDITOR error.
I can see it alright.
So this is another game I really liked (probably because I won convincingly :beam:)
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So 11. Kd1 apparently was a "bad" response to 10 ...Qxe4, based on computer analysis. Luckily, the pawn move he made next pretty well lost it for him. Can anyone see what the "best" response to 11. Kd1 was?Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
The only other move is Kf1 right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xiahou
Black moves the knight forward and then… then what did White do?
Yup. Which would've avoided the Ng4 threat, but would have deprived me of opportunity to play the 'oh so tempting' Re1 pin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Csargo
With 11... Ng4, Black is threatening a mate in one by playing Nxf2 next turn. My idea was to pin the black Queen using my Rook. Ng4 would put that idea out the window, and instead I would've had to try to deal with a pretty strong mating threat. Luckily he didn't see it, and I won. :sweatdrop:Quote:
Originally Posted by El Barto
Not sure if it is entirely on topic but I've been watching agadmator's chess videos lately and they've been thoroughly enjoyable. Can't quite translate what I've learnt yet though. :laugh4:
Would definitely recommend it for quick, easy to listen analysis of games.
Yours isn't the first recommendation for agadmator that I've seen. I'm going go look him up on Youtube and add some of his videos to my watch list. :yes:.Quote:
Originally Posted by nl.
I've enjoyed watching a bunch of Hutch's chess streams. He also had a pretty good series being coached by GM Tal Baron.
Lately, I've been watching John Bartholomew's videos. His Fundamentals series is a good starting place.
And, of course, I can watch almost anything by Anna Rudolf. ~D
Not sure if anyone else is, but I'm still playing with some regularity. I've improved my blitz rating by close to 200 points since I last posted- currently at 1338, with a peak of 1375. Not a master by any means, but it apparently puts me in the 85th percentile for blitz on chess.com.
I found another good chess resource- chessable.com. It's a site that is designed around drilling you on various openings. Some advanced repertoires are pay only, but there's enough free content to keep my busy for a long time. It drills you using spaced repetition to help you memorize moves. But I think the real benefit as you start to learn openings, is getting a sense of what the moves are trying to accomplish. Once you start to see the "why"s, you can start improving.
I haven't noticed any activity in the club, but is anyone still playing otherwise?
Heh, no… I've finally found the time to engage game developers who make games that run on Linux and wo-wee it's being a blast.
I've been playing Skyrim with all of my free time, which is extremely limited.
Dude, didn't that come out in, like, 2011?? ~:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Csargo
That does sound interesting. Worth posting a thread in the Technology forum? I use Linux Mint almost exclusively at work and run it on my laptop at home. I'm slowly learning more and more about the OS as I use it.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Barto
Trying to improve at chess can seem like a lot of effort, but I think it's good brain training for other things I do and it's very satisfying when you can see improvement over time....
Yeah, well I didn't play it in 2011 Xiahou alright, stop shaming me.:no:Quote:
Originally Posted by Xiahou
Shame!Quote:
Originally Posted by Csargo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_EuNmQOpbw
Hmmm… I haven't ever posted in the Technology forum, but it might be worth it. I don't know that much about Linux -I know enough to know how little I know. But then most people who use Windows know nothing about it either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xiahou
The same goes for ability in other games… ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Xiahou
Also, re:shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy4CN9DVPII
I burned myself out several times over years just trying to mod Skyrim...Quote:
Originally Posted by Csargo
My CS teacher in high school (I was never any good) used to say: "Windows and Mac are learner-friendly, but user-unfriendly. Linux is learner-unfriendly, but user-friendly." (Sounds a bit elitist come to think about it)Quote:
Originally Posted by El Barto
/satisfiedwithW7
Hehehehe, I've just updated Blender to the latest available version and fated myself to weeks of pain (they've changed the controls from the last, admittedly outdated, version I did know how to operate).Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency