Chess with friends

[Suicide King]

Anybody play? I'm terrible but trying to get more games in. Grand puba

[RegGaymer]

Chess is better than poker imo

[4Dragons]

Last time I mobilized a Bishop it was in a Catholic Church.

[Krypt]

Last time I mobilized a Bishop it was in a Catholic Church.

[4Dragons]

Anybody else watch the re-burial of Richard III?

[4Dragons]

Somebody crush reg's soul for me, i'm going out and getting drunk.

[herbertstemple]

0-0 > 0-0-0

[gimmick]

I quit playing and studying when i was 12 years old. I didn't see a future for myself in professional chess. Way less than a 1% of all the players ever make a living playing and if you didn't put in your 10k hours training before your early teens you likely have no shot at it.

I played a lot against my uncle as a kid. Out of 2k matches i got 1 draw. I figured he was soft playing, tired and/or had migraine. I think he was around 2k elo player in the 90s. He mostly played and studied chess for 2 decades. But he wasn't good enough to make living out of it.

Chess is a brutal game.

[RegGaymer]

I quit playing and studying when i was 12 years old. I didn't see a future for myself in professional chess. Way less than a 1% of all the players ever make a living playing and if you didn't put in your 10k hours training before your early teens you likely have no shot at it.

I played a lot against my uncle as a kid. Out of 2k matches i got 1 draw. I figured he was soft playing, tired and/or had migraine. I think he was around 2k elo player in the 90s. He mostly played and studied chess for 2 decades. But he wasn't good enough to make living out of it.

Chess is a brutal game.

At a guess I think a player would have to be 2500+ rating to make a living at it.

It can be brutal and frustrating, but also quite fun and rewarding. It's more of a gentleman's game, doesn't attract the degen crowd because of the lack of money buy-in games.

[BetCheckBet]

I quit playing and studying when i was 12 years old. I didn't see a future for myself in professional chess. Way less than a 1% of all the players ever make a living playing and if you didn't put in your 10k hours training before your early teens you likely have no shot at it.

I played a lot against my uncle as a kid. Out of 2k matches i got 1 draw. I figured he was soft playing, tired and/or had migraine. I think he was around 2k elo player in the 90s. He mostly played and studied chess for 2 decades. But he wasn't good enough to make living out of it.

Chess is a brutal game.

At a guess I think a player would have to be 2500+ rating to make a living at it.

It can be brutal and frustrating, but also quite fun and rewarding. It's more of a gentleman's game, doesn't attract the degen crowd because of the lack of money buy-in games.

Doesn;t get degen crowd because luck plays almost zero role in outcome. games with low variance will never get degen crowd. Wish I would have studied chess when I was younger or taken it more seriously.

[Suicide King]

I'm talking about the app and playing for fun. Not sure how being a professional got brought into this.

[sonatine]

Fucking chess.

[sonatine]

Lothario whats your rating these days?

[limitles]

Anybody else watch the re-burial of Richard III?

No, I just couldn't bear it, too soon as they say.

But I did hear about the story on Snap Judgment, another Podcast worth a listen. Very strange stuff, and maybe one for the conspiracy theorists to take a look at because the woman who was researching his story basically acted as a human bone sensing divining rod and said something to the effect of "dig here' at a parking lot and yeah well they found him.

Apparently he was dumped in or near a lavatory of sorts and then those who did the dumping kept dumping on him verbally, so muck so that his distant relatives had troubles qualifying for a credit card.

[4Dragons]

Anybody else watch the re-burial of Richard III?

No, I just couldn't bear it, too soon as they say.

But I did hear about the story on Snap Judgment, another Podcast worth a listen. Very strange stuff, and maybe one for the conspiracy theorists to take a look at because the woman who was researching his story basically acted as a human bone sensing divining rod and said something to the effect of "dig here' at a parking lot and yeah well they found him.

Apparently he was dumped in or near a lavatory of sorts and then those who did the dumping kept dumping on him verbally, so muck so that his distant relatives had troubles qualifying for a credit card.

Better than your conspiracy theory, when they went to dig him up, they picked a spot in the parking lot marked with a large letter R.

documentary stream: http://fullepisode.info/richard-iii-...-the-car-park/
a different doc: http://fullepisode.info/secrets-of-t...g-richard-iii/
and yet a third: http://fullepisode.info/the-kings-sk...-iii-revealed/
a stream of the burial: http://videobull.to/richard-iii-the-burial-of-the-king/

[Daniel72]

i play chess since the 80s, learned frome some books

now the technology changed it all

now everyone is solid

back in the day there were a handful of GMs

now there are 1000s of Grandmasters, even 12 or 13 year olds

game databases, programs and Internet people to play against

and there´s still no money in chess (for most of the players)

poker is simpler and more lucrative

but i still love chess and play in some team games (offline)

and watch some training videos of Karpov and Carlsen

by the way, i have 2040 international rating (highest was 2165)

[Zap_the_Fractions_Giraffe]

I'm the Borispoker Othello champion

[gimmick]

Most i hated about chess was memorizing openings and knowing there was no way around it. It's just too effective and even though i'm fairly solid in the delusion of grandeur department, i didn't think it was too likely i was ever going to come up with say a better 4th move of any known opening when players before me had collectively studied that opening for millions of hours. I could also see that the length of openings would keep inflating.

I still have random memories from the 80's and early 90's playing against chess computers and following the most important matches from chess magazines. Being around chess players as a child also prepared me how to deal with a variety of characters. The spectrum of people that devout most of their time to studying a single game for decades tends to vary from mildly insane to bat shit crazy. Still mostly nice people.

[sonatine]

effectively memorizing the standard openings and spending 10 minutes on middle/endgame basics will take you to a solid 1650 rating on the most popular chess sites, thats how important they are. particularly with blitz/bullet where youre under time pressure long before you hit middle game.

that said.

knowing a couple of common openings super intimately and having strong middle/endgame instincts is also the grounds for a solid 1650-1750 rating. but you'll never go higher, you cant evolve past that point really ratings-wise if you dont start to study the other opening books.

basically you can only beat very bad players if you fuck up an opening and they dont.

i studied under an excellent eastern euro IM for some time in my late 20s and was able to tread water at the 1700-1800 level but i knew, absolutely, that if i wanted to go a point beyond that, chess was going to utterly take over my life. i was already having chess dreams pretty much every single night and it was getting scary. so i bailed because if im going to get that fucking crazy about something it needed to be something profitable.

i still play and maintain about a 1750 rating for standard chess (24h+ per move), but my bullet/blitz rating can vary from 1350-1680 depending on my emotional disposition/ability to concentrate/general sense of life alignment. which is crazy fucking variance and underscores how much the game really demands in terms of mental acumen and conditioning.

[Crowe Diddly]

I like the piece with the horse.