The Chess Thread

I have a picture in my head of Kasparov playing a simultaneous Street Fighter exhibition against top pros at Evo.

Participants so far in the 2018 Candidates Tournament:

Sergey Karjakin

Levon Aronian

Ding Liren

At beginners level the most important skill that needs to be improve is tactical skill. At below master level, there are abundance of blunders. Solving/studying chess tactics will improve your tactical skills.

** 13 checkmates you must know**


**
Basic Examples of Pin,Fork and Skewer Tactics**

http://www.usefulchess.com/tactics/forkpin.htm

The Fundamental Chess Series by Bartholomew are instructive

There was an event where Justin Wong and Magnus Carlsen were attending at the same time. Carlsen let people play against him in his booth at chess, while a few booths down, Wong let people play against him in Street Fighter…

Oh shit!!! Here we go!!!

Street Fighter 5 and Marvel VS Capcom: Infinite, take a seat, take a hike!!!

Anyone here play on chess.com? Add me jieyangh, I like the 3 day or 7 day games, BUT NO CHEATING!!!

maybe 1 day games on chess.com or I usually play 1|0 or 3|0 games

ok add me. 1 day per turn still feels like a lotta pressure cause sometimes shit comes up and i’m playing multiple at the same time. w/ 7 day its more relaxing

edit: also i tried doing 1 minute but its impossible. i have a 900 rating on bullet lol by the time i figure out what moves i wanna make i’ve already lost on time. my blitz and daily chess ratings are hundreds of points higher than bullet lawl

trick to playing 1|0 games is to play them on an iPad where you use your fingers on the touch screen to move a piece during your opponent’s time and only release the piece on the square when it’s your time to move. Makes it seem like you moved your pieces almost instantly like the CPU…

nah bullet is too rough. i can play you blitz or daily chess cmon add me plsssssssss i started getting into chess again

@fishjie I usually only troll around in tactics and lessons but add me. Same screen name as up here on chess.com

I prefer 10 min blitz or 15 min w/ 10 sec increments. If I’m playing seriously I like to break out my computer for a better board view so if you want me to play seriously you gotta set a time. Otherwise you kinda just get what you get depending on the day. But in the evening I’m at least logged into the app on mobile. Message me on the app and I probably will answer back

My name used to be Jion_Wansu on chess.com but now it’s JuergenWerner

ok i added you guys, i dont like playing the live chess because then we have to schedule a time in advance, whereas daily chess can be played whenever.

@fishjie I didn’t see your invite. Username?

LOL @FIDE…

wtf i added both you mofos as friends, username jieyangh

STOP GHOSTING ME

jion wansu profile has hilarious comments on it people are mad at him

edit: also my 1700 rapid rating is a lie, i beat some friends which inflated my rating, then in a real match i beat one 1500 who was actually winning but blundered at the end, and it bumped my rating up way too high

@fishjie lol.

People get salty in chess too…

Also,

Looks like Carlsen will get 3,000 FIDE blitz rating soon…

jion wansu you added me yaaaay!! i am excite

but holy shit at your 1600 bullet rating thats gdlk. our blitz rating is about the same tho. lemme know if u wanna do a bro date bullet, you’d crush me tho, or blitz