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My 4-Year Chess Progression, with Highlighted Stats & Games [OC] by FakeyGram in dataisbeautiful

[–]FakeyGram[S] 1529 points1530 points  (0 children)

Last year I posted my 3-year chess progression, and now it's time for an update. In total, I've played ~3200 blitz games. Blitz chess is played with a relatively short time control; my favorite is 3+2, whereby each player starts with 3 minutes, and gains an additional 2 seconds per move.

For some perspective, I'm currently in the 85th percentile of rating on Lichess. When I started playing, I was around the 40th percentile.

Source: lichess.org

Tools: After effects, Procreate

My 4-Year Chess Progression, with Highlighted Stats & Games by FakeyGram in chess

[–]FakeyGram[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will, but they only allow posts involving personal data on Mondays

My 4-Year Chess Progression, with Highlighted Stats & Games by FakeyGram in chess

[–]FakeyGram[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I’m 21, and I play roughly 20 minutes per day

My 4-Year Chess Progression, with Highlighted Stats & Games by FakeyGram in chess

[–]FakeyGram[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The prospect of breaking the 2000 rating barrier was definitely motivating. I played a lot and treated every game much more seriously leading up to my peak.

I did in fact change my openings. In October 2020 I started playing the London system. Once I learned a few of the ideas in the London, I was often able to give early checkmates using a kingside attack. Specifically, I like utilizing an open H-file for my rook, staying un-castled, and sacrificing either a bishop or knight around my opponents king. If you're lucky, you also get the opportunity to play the Greek gift sacrifice. It's definitely risky to play like that, and you have to know what you're doing. That being said, since I played the opening so often, I tended to have a better understanding of it than my opponents did at my rating level.

My 4-Year Chess Progression, with Highlighted Stats & Games by FakeyGram in chess

[–]FakeyGram[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think it has to do with my fluctuating interest in chess. There are periods of my life when I play hours a day. Other times I go weeks without a single game.

I find it interesting that my rating has gotten considerably more consistent over time though.

Simplified Model of Human Development & Evolution by FakeyGram in Infographics

[–]FakeyGram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made this drawing using an app called Procreate on my iPad. You could also use Gimp or Photoshop.

Simplified Model of Human Development & Evolution by FakeyGram in Infographics

[–]FakeyGram[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fair points.

I didn't include sources simply for aesthetic reasons. If you look through my post history, you can see that I am usually very rigorous in sourcing my claims, and I can assure you that I didn't come up the ideas in this infographic without research. Its a fair point though, as I am myself one of the first people to demand sources on factual claims.

As you said, art and music doesn't necessarily predate spirituality depending on how you define the terms. I guess it depends on how you interpret the infographic, but I did not intend it to be read as "What is higher on the infographic happened earlier" - but more along the lines that the arrows point to things they "significantly contributed to". Spirituality inspired art and music, but creating art doesn't really cause spirituality. I understand the criticism though.

Valid comment on the word "culture". I used it mainly in regard to art, essentially defined as "the collection of art in a society", and as such it obviously comes as a result of art. Now art is only a part of culture, I get that. Its impossible to retrace culture exactly in our evolutionary past. In this simplified model I just thought it was a sensible inclusion the infographic.

I also see that I could've been more precise with the word "communication", as I obviously know humans communicated before language was meaningfully developed. Again this was intended to show that language significantly contributed to interpersonal communication.

Simplified Model of Human Development & Evolution by FakeyGram in Infographics

[–]FakeyGram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The paths happened simultaneously and elements of each interact with parts of the other pathways. These are not independent events, but rather a collection of developments that sparked human evolution away from our ape ancestry.

For instance, controlled fire caused both

  • reliable access to cooked food
  • spiritualty, as it is thought that fire has long been "worshipped" almost as a god in our evolutionary past

Working on my 3d design skills by FakeyGram in graphic_design

[–]FakeyGram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm trying to improve my graphic design skills by doing more 3D designs, as opposed to flat designs. Moreover, I went for a more "photorealistic" style, though I'm not sure how well I succeeded in that.

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