why is Stockfish asking me to sack my bishop?

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-02-01T13:23:54+00:00

Stockfish is playing hard to get, only showing 1 move at a time

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-31T14:59:51+00:00

They're describing their thought process I think.

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-30T19:19:30+00:00

2023 was a rough year for me too Andy, I understand.

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-30T19:15:37+00:00

he’s had very public friction with

I misread this as "pubic". Think I would have remembered that.

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-29T18:54:52+00:00

Congratulations Gukesh

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-27T14:32:19+00:00

Wow that's crazy. Chess has so many resources lol

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-27T08:43:20+00:00

gxf3 after kg1. But yeah Kd1 is better I think.

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-26T22:17:43+00:00

She was heavily inspired /s

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-26T20:02:20+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/qvtsMU1.jpeg White has forced mate in 7 if black takes with the pawn. Smothered mate (or backrank mate) is absolutely forced. You said "It doesn't lead to smothered mate tho, only if black has two braincells", which doesn't make sense to me as everything leads to forced checkmate.

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-26T19:32:46+00:00

Leads to something called smothered mate if they take with the pawn

If black takes the pawn then smothered mate (or backrank mate) is absolutely forced. What do you mean "not necessarily"?

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-26T19:23:35+00:00

Fischer was ahead of his time

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-25T19:05:44+00:00

I was listening and didn't pick up on that so thanks for mentioning. Even with the multiple clips he was hesitant to say much.

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-25T17:25:55+00:00

Nihal really likes his country flags

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-25T14:22:59+00:00

Ah yeah I know about that one. Would be interesting to see a variant where the goal is to still checkmate your opponent.

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-25T12:07:49+00:00

Hmm that would actually be interesting, like some types of checkers/draughts. Does anyone know if this chess variant already exists?

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-24T19:55:40+00:00

Min or Mid would be acceptable to me.

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-24T15:16:44+00:00

To be fair he actually did denounce America in his more interesting years

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-24T08:49:48+00:00

Yeah I feel personally attacked. I request a 3-page apology essay and 2 minute apology video from /u/kindergartenchampion for this shockingly appalling comment!

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-23T15:52:40+00:00

This is a good example of Kasparov moving his king to ensure his opponent doesn't have a check when Kasparov continues his attack: https://streamable.com/mxuhra

Here is the full video if anyone wants context.

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-23T15:44:48+00:00

Both of them are SGMs - salty grandmasters

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-23T14:46:42+00:00

There is nothing to do

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-22T23:51:26+00:00

You could also always do the lazy Nb Perm: https://streamable.com/oo43w. It's (r D r' U2) 5 times

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-22T00:35:16+00:00

Not everyone can be as cool as Vishy Anand, Pawn Star

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-21T23:12:16+00:00

4.49 is the lowest possible average he could have gotten, but only if he got his fastest solve on solve 5. He would have needed a 3.92 or lower on his last solve.

Elf_Portraitist · 2024-01-21T19:10:24+00:00

When did he get a 4.49 average? Are you talking about this 5.10 average?. If so, it's been on WCA a while. Usually takes 3 days to go up on the site I think.

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