Got a membership request from Cuthillius. I assume he's the user of the same name here, so I approved it.
Got a membership request from Cuthillius. I assume he's the user of the same name here, so I approved it.
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
I am "Montmorgency".
Put me down for individual or team games this weekend.
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
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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.
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
I think I've played most everyone.. and as expected took a loss to novice.
Anyone else play each other yet? How's it going?
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
good lord| if you're telling the truth you're setting new records for scumminess as a townie -Renata on IM, 16/09/2011
Feles deliberatissimae subiugare humanitiati sunt, et res solae quae eas desinunt canes sunt.
I see I've been sigged yet again -Askthepizzaguy, 02/08/2012
Hindsight is 20/20 Askthepizzaguy, 10/07/2013
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.
This also doubled as a test to see if I can embed games in forums posts.... looks like I can.
Edit:With annotations!
Last edited by Xiahou; 09-18-2017 at 03:32.
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
For some reason, the 'iframe' formatting does not work outside the Gameroom.
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.
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
I can see it alright.
good lord| if you're telling the truth you're setting new records for scumminess as a townie -Renata on IM, 16/09/2011
Feles deliberatissimae subiugare humanitiati sunt, et res solae quae eas desinunt canes sunt.
I see I've been sigged yet again -Askthepizzaguy, 02/08/2012
Hindsight is 20/20 Askthepizzaguy, 10/07/2013
So this is another game I really liked (probably because I won convincingly )
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:
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
Black moves the knight forward and then… then what did White do?
good lord| if you're telling the truth you're setting new records for scumminess as a townie -Renata on IM, 16/09/2011
Feles deliberatissimae subiugare humanitiati sunt, et res solae quae eas desinunt canes sunt.
I see I've been sigged yet again -Askthepizzaguy, 02/08/2012
Hindsight is 20/20 Askthepizzaguy, 10/07/2013
Yup. Which would've avoided the Ng4 threat, but would have deprived me of opportunity to play the 'oh so tempting' Re1 pin.
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.
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
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.
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. .
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.
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
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?
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
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.
good lord| if you're telling the truth you're setting new records for scumminess as a townie -Renata on IM, 16/09/2011
Feles deliberatissimae subiugare humanitiati sunt, et res solae quae eas desinunt canes sunt.
I see I've been sigged yet again -Askthepizzaguy, 02/08/2012
Hindsight is 20/20 Askthepizzaguy, 10/07/2013
I've been playing Skyrim with all of my free time, which is extremely limited.
Dude, didn't that come out in, like, 2011??
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.
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....
Last edited by Xiahou; 04-01-2018 at 05:36.
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
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.
The same goes for ability in other games… ;)Originally Posted by Xiahou
good lord| if you're telling the truth you're setting new records for scumminess as a townie -Renata on IM, 16/09/2011
Feles deliberatissimae subiugare humanitiati sunt, et res solae quae eas desinunt canes sunt.
I see I've been sigged yet again -Askthepizzaguy, 02/08/2012
Hindsight is 20/20 Askthepizzaguy, 10/07/2013
Also, re:shame
good lord| if you're telling the truth you're setting new records for scumminess as a townie -Renata on IM, 16/09/2011
Feles deliberatissimae subiugare humanitiati sunt, et res solae quae eas desinunt canes sunt.
I see I've been sigged yet again -Askthepizzaguy, 02/08/2012
Hindsight is 20/20 Askthepizzaguy, 10/07/2013
I burned myself out several times over years just trying to mod Skyrim...
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)
/satisfiedwithW7
Last edited by Montmorency; 04-02-2018 at 04:19.
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Last edited by El Barto; 04-02-2018 at 05:31.
good lord| if you're telling the truth you're setting new records for scumminess as a townie -Renata on IM, 16/09/2011
Feles deliberatissimae subiugare humanitiati sunt, et res solae quae eas desinunt canes sunt.
I see I've been sigged yet again -Askthepizzaguy, 02/08/2012
Hindsight is 20/20 Askthepizzaguy, 10/07/2013
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