Chess

[Uppercut]

I feel like my biggest weakness is regular massive blunders too, but that might just be the way chess is.

I also go on long losing streaks and long winning streaks, though I do that in almost every game I play. Either I tilt badly or my mental sharpness varies a lot.

 

[GotSpin]

I went on a 130 point losing streak back in the beginning of January

That was grim

 

[Shady Slim]

one of my lecturers, his son is the top ranked player in the country lmao

 

[GotSpin]

Favourite openings for everyone?

I'm really enjoying playing the King's Gambit atm

Highly risky but the middle games are so interesting and different

 

[Spark]

Favourite openings for everyone?

I'm really enjoying playing the King's Gambit atm

Highly risky but the middle games are so interesting and different

As white, Spanish and QGD (still having real trouble against the Slav). As black, KID or Grunfeld (still haven't settled on a consistent reply to 1. e4)

 

[GotSpin]

As white, Spanish and QGD (still having real trouble against the Slav). As black, KID or Grunfeld (still haven't settled on a consistent reply to 1. e4)

Yeah Black for me is normally KID or Open Sicilian

QG as white I like as well

 

[GotSpin]

Felt good to get one back at uppercut after blundering my queen the match before

 

[Uppercut]

Favourite openings for everyone?

I'm really enjoying playing the King's Gambit atm

Highly risky but the middle games are so interesting and different

Yeah haha you seem to end up in very different games as white than you do as black.

I just go with e4 Nf3 as white. Lots of players at my rating allow the Fried Liver so it picks up a lot of quick wins. Or they play the anti-fried-liver which I think is much better for white.

As black I usually just play Sicilian. I don’t have any tricks as black, but Sicilian usually washes up as a pretty even game.

 

[GotSpin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dFKdiHMzMM

Good video on the fried liver

 

[GotSpin]

Yeah haha you seem to end up in very different games as white than you do as black.

I just go with e4 Nf3 as white. Lots of players at my rating allow the Fried Liver so it picks up a lot of quick wins. Or they play the anti-fried-liver which I think is much better for white.

As black I usually just play Sicilian. I don’t have any tricks as black, but Sicilian usually washes up as a pretty even game.

KG is so much fun because its basically a race to checkmate your opponent. Having said that, I've been completely smashed in some of my games using it

 

[Uppercut]

Felt good to get one back at uppercut after blundering my queen the match before

Yeah first time facing the King’s Gambit so I didn’t really know what I was doing. Great opening for novelty value.

The game before I managed to get into a mid-game that was easy for me but very sharp for you, so there were a lot of blunders out there. Marcuss has me in an even uglier spot aws.

 

[GotSpin]

Yeah first time facing the King’s Gambit so I didn’t really know what I was doing. Great opening for novelty value.

The game before I managed to get into a mid-game that was easy for me but very sharp for you, so there were a lot of blunders out there. Marcuss has me in an even uglier spot aws.

It creates for some fairly exciting chess opening with the KG. So much is happening

Yeah I think I misplaced a pawn and I wasn't able to kick out your knight from a really good position

 

[Marcuss]

MG had me worried but there was one move where she gave up a bishop unnecessarily which really gave me a point to capitalise on.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

MG had me worried but there was one move where she gave up a bishop unnecessarily which really gave me a point to capitalise on.

Yeah I should have taken with the pawn or just movd the bishop out of the way but got too greedy. Computer says you played really well too, once you had my rook in a fork it was pretty much game over.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

I have challenged Marcuss, Chuck and Bobby for two day game

 

[Marcuss]

Yeah I should have taken with the pawn or just movd the bishop out of the way but got too greedy. Computer says you played really well too, once you had my rook in a fork it was pretty much game over.

It makes for interesting reading... I wouldn't have picked up on the long term advantage of bxc6 when you used your knight instead.

The two moves that did surprise me were getting greedy with the bishop and then the revenge capture rather than b5 to pressure a6.

 

[honestbharani]

You guys are way too into chess for me to pose a realistic challenge of any of you , I think. But I would still love to give it a shot. I am there with the same sn as here. If someone wants to challenge me. I am obviously in India, so the timezones may not always match but it would be good to have a game against any of you lot, especially ones who have not won recently. I am the BD/Zim here, come on.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

I think I’m in trouble against Marcuss, backtracking a bit

 

[Marcuss]

I don't trust myself to look after my queen for long with where it is... that's the sort of stupid **** I can do.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

I don't trust myself to look after my queen for long with where it is... that's the sort of stupid **** I can do.

I thought you had my bishop with that check but realized good old knight is there