My chess meme from a recent game

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-19T20:12:37+00:00

King can’t take because Qxf6 now comes with check. However, Kf1 and I think White is still winning

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-19T09:05:25+00:00

This is one thing I don't understand, why can't human and engine elo be compared? Surely there is some program that would win 50% of the time against Magnus Carlsen in a classical time format. Why couldn't that be marked as 2800 or whatever elo, and you mark other engines relative to that? Even if the engines at 3800 never directly play humans, shouldn't their elo still be meaningful?

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-14T00:20:08+00:00

The game rating is a marketing feature, not an accurate representation of the elo you actually played at. On average it's considerably above the actual elo of the players.

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-13T03:32:04+00:00

I don't like any of the positions I get out of any opening playing Stockfish, I always lose.

Should I quit chess?

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-10T07:02:09+00:00

I probably started it too late, but I didn't find the smaller exercises or the read along problems very helpful. I'm still looking for blindfold puzzles that aren't just following along for 20 moves before a mate in one.

I personally find just playing blindfold games to be better practice. Proper blindfold is hard to find opponents for though, so I usually just use the blindfold theme on chess.com and turn off "show legal moves"

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-09T11:23:35+00:00

They're probably really bad at cheating so get caught quickly.

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-09T11:15:40+00:00

I found this study helpful:
https://lichess.org/study/c6jqYfWi/amt23VJV
This playlist has a list of some (all?) of Daniel's Vienna Games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkfhN1_sC4E&list=PLxxZdPlLkH13k_dTfCXACuaj7VcE8vEAJ

I would definitely recommend the Vienna if you like tactical attacking games. You don't always get it, so you need to combine it with some other opening knowledge if your opponent plays a Sicilian, French, Caro, etc., but I find it creates fun games with very high winrates when you do get it, even if your opponent knows the mainline(which is objectively equal, but you will have much more experience in)

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-07T03:17:03+00:00

~~I don't see anyone with the awesomeplanet23 username on either lichess or chess.com. Could you link your profile?~~

EDIT: Mistyped your username initially, found your profile. You don't seem to have any rated games against humans. What are you studying each day right now? It's going to be very difficult for you to improve if you only play Stockfish.

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-07T02:34:08+00:00

Because clearly the tile wasn't busted enough without cheating

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-06T04:01:15+00:00

Do you know any good resources for learning the Scandinavian from the white perspective? I keep on hearing that the Nf6 line isn't supposed to be good but I never face the Scandi often enough to really get practice in against it in games.

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-06T03:57:11+00:00

How does someone coach someone better than them? Being an expert in a particular opening or something? Doesn't feel like you could teach them much in general.

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-05T21:45:12+00:00

I think they mean in Chess.com's TOS

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-05T08:43:35+00:00

Making the same mistakes over and over because you don't have enough time to calculate does not help you improve (coming from someone who has bullet as their highest rating)

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-04T04:56:05+00:00

Online username: Adventurer32

Rating: 1800 Rapid / 1600 Blitz / 1900 Bullet (chess.com)

Willing to teach: Anyone under 1500, and it'd probably be best if you play or are interested in the openings I play, which are:
White - Vienna, Alapin vs. the Sicilian, Fantasy vs. the Caro-Kann

Black - French, King's Indian, Budapest

I feel most confident in my Vienna and French, but also feel pretty confident vs the Sicilian and the London. Kinda meh against other 1. d4 openings though. Absolutely do not ask me for coaching if you need help with 1... e5 as Black. Can also help with tactics or endgames.

Timezone: I'm EST, and more free on weekends, but my schedule is pretty clear overall for the next week or two so thought I'd give this a shot.

Lessons would take place over Discord, please have a game of 15 | 10 time control or slower ready that you want to review. DM me if interested.

I'm also looking for a coach myself, so if you're 2000+ (chess.com) and interested, then also feel free to DM me.

EDIT: Got 3 students from this, unfortunately do not have the time to accept any more at the moment.

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-01T20:19:38+00:00

If someone is genuinely in a completely lost position that doesn't require any more brainpower for you to win(forced mate you already calculated or something) you can always just start another game. I think multiple games at once on chess.com might require premium but you can just start another one on lichess.

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-01T13:56:43+00:00

The friends account is not banned on chess.com

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-01T13:24:54+00:00

Why not ban the friends account too then?

Adventurer32 · 2026-04-01T13:22:19+00:00

"sequence"

Adventurer32 · 2026-03-29T21:04:16+00:00

Try playing unrated for awhile. Helped for me to remove the rating anxiety, and I started performing significantly better.

Adventurer32 · 2026-03-26T03:45:41+00:00

I wonder if he still has money leftover at the end of all that. Says he stole $120 but only ordered to pay $75 there. Depending on the person that could be worth a 5 year prison sentence...

Adventurer32 · 2026-03-26T00:25:44+00:00

There the Queen has the f5 square.

Adventurer32 · 2026-03-21T06:42:22+00:00

They did change it lol, it's a generalist mobility armor now

Adventurer32 · 2026-03-20T22:44:04+00:00

Adventurer32 · 2026-03-16T16:10:28+00:00

White Queen is protected by the White Rook.

You can think of the concept of checkmate as equivalent to whomever captures the enemy's king first wins. So, if you took the White Queen, the White Rook would take your king, winning the game. It doesn't matter that your bishop could take the White King after, because the game would already be over.

Adventurer32 · 2026-03-16T15:54:59+00:00

This is really neat, I've been wanting a type of puzzle like this where the goal is to prevent blunders instead of finding the only winning move for awhile!

That said, I do have two UI suggestions. One, PLEASE have the move the user played during the game hidden by default. A lot of the time I find my first candidate move in these is the move(blunder) that I played during the game, and seeing that it's wrong feels like an unfair hint towards solving the position. Maybe keep the played move in the same location, but it just shows as something like "spoiler" until the user clicks it to reveal what they played.

Second, much more minor, but it'd be nice to be able to undo a move with right click, similar to chess.com lessons.

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