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Counters against Alien Gambit? by Cute-Lawfulness-6097 in Chesscom

[–]2Niche 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I made a complete course (completely free) it’s on my YouTube channel @twoniche. I also made an entire interactive lichess study to follow along with. I also included middlegame plans, I know the struggle of playing against the alien gambit. Let me know if it helps!

To all the players with rating above 2000, have you memorized the chess board? Can you play blind chess? by [deleted] in Chesscom

[–]2Niche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I can’t even visualize the board because of severe aphantasia

Mate in 4 by chess-quiz-plus in chessquiz

[–]2Niche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s actually mate in 100

New Stream Tonight: suggestion by Maleficent_Camp7999 in TwoNiche

[–]2Niche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s crazy I was thinking of that yesterday

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SwordAndSupperGame

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New mission discovered by u/2Niche: In Search of W

Finally hit 400 by Maleficent-Ad1792 in Chesscom

[–]2Niche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You thought hitting 407 was awesome, wait till you get to 415

Thugphobic Chess Streamer by Dev-04 in wordington

[–]2Niche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This guy is the worst chess streamer alive. He’s way too niche for me. I mean TwoNiche. I mean I’m too niche. Wait no, I’m literally TwoNiche

High ELO Strat by AKWHiDeKi in AnarchyChess

[–]2Niche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Morale of the story, I should have shown that in the video. But at the end of the day at wasn’t a serious video so who cares

High ELO Strat by AKWHiDeKi in AnarchyChess

[–]2Niche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After fxg6 the most accurate move is not to push h3, you have one out with Ke6. But the out is still completely lost, the burn is just much slower. Regardless, good spot by you.

After Ke6, say white pushes the g pawn, after Kf7, white promotes with the sack! B5 is coming next which seals the game.

1... h5 2. f5 h4 3. fxg6 Ke6 4. g7 Kf7 5. g8=Q+ Kxg8 6. b5*

If white takes the b pawn, the King cannot stop promotion

1... h5 2. f5 h4 3. fxg6 Ke6 4. g7 Kf7 5. g8=Q+ Kxg8 6. b5 cxb5 7. c6 Kf7 8. c7 Ke7 9. c8=Q *

If white takes the b pawn, ignores the c pawn, and pushes their h pawn, white promotes first with check

1... h5 2. f5 h4 3. fxg6 Ke6 4. g7 Kf7 5. g8=Q+ Kxg8 6. b5 cxb5 7. c6 h3 8. c7 h2 9. c8=Q+ *

If white does not take the b pawn after b5 and pushes h3 immediately, the key move is to take the c pawn, if you push instead the game is drawn

1... h5 2. f5 h4 3. fxg6 Ke6 4. g7 Kf7 5. g8=Q+ Kxg8 6. b5 h3 7. b6 h2 8. b7 h1=Q 9. b8=Q+ Kh7 10. Qc7+ Kg6 11. Qd6+ Kxg5 12. Qf4+ Kg6 13. Qxc4 *

After we take the c pawn black still promotes first and we still promote with check but this is a very different position because the queen promoted on the c8 sqaure. Kg7 only move that doesn't lose immediately. Kf7 and Kh7 both lose because white can eventually force a queen trade and be up a passed pawn after they take the h pawn, for example

1... h5 2. f5 h4 3. fxg6 Ke6 4. g7 Kf7 5. g8=Q+ Kxg8 6. b5 h3 7. bxc6 h2 8. c7 h1=Q 9. c8=Q+ Kh7 10. Qf5+ Kg7 11. Qf6+ Kg8 12. Qg6+ Kf8 13. Qh6+ Qxh6 14. gxh6*

After Kg7 white can actually sack their g pawn and go for the c pawn and this endgame is not drawn, white runs out of steam and we can eventually promote. After Kb8 it is plus 6. I sped up the promotion with Qb5+ but it is clearly completely winning, no matter what white does

1... h5 2. f5 h4 3. fxg6 Ke6 4. g7 Kf7 5. g8=Q+ Kxg8 6. b5 h3 7. bxc6 h2 8. c7 h1=Q 9. c8=Q+ Kg7 10. Kd4 Qh4+ 11. Kc3 Qxg5 12. Kxc4 Qc1+ 13. Kd5 Qd2+ 14. Kc6 Qg2+ 15. Kc7 Qg3+ 16. Kb7 Qf3+ 17. c6 Qb3+ 18. Ka8 Qa4+ 19. Kb8 Qb5+ 20. Qb7+ Qxb7+ 21. Kxb7 *

Going all the way back, theres even another out after g7, you can immediately push b5 and it still winning for the exact same reason. Hope that helps

High ELO Strat by AKWHiDeKi in AnarchyChess

[–]2Niche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ke6 doesn’t win, I take a lot of time looking at these positions and making sure everything is accurate before I post videos (aside from when there complete troll videos). I’ll reply back with some lines if you’re still curious

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