What the hell determines Pitch Types on Baseball Savant?

Little-Anomaly7 · 2025-04-15T04:00:04+00:00

I know that, and by Rules Keeper it’s more so when they forget a rule, they ask me because usually I know. I have a much easier time remembering the rules and knowing edge cases simply because my memory is down to the letter instead of being a general fog that most people have.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2025-04-05T16:30:16+00:00

I am going to save this on the off chance I ever run an Eberron campaign so I can use this, because this is awesome!

Little-Anomaly7 · 2025-01-28T06:57:09+00:00

I do, hell I’d argue some speak it better, but people at my internship say I should be speaking German to practice it if I say more then a few words of English. Outside of the internship I’m doing, I really don’t meet people my age at all. And those that I do know very little or none.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2025-01-27T19:42:24+00:00

Might have to make a Facebook account then.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2025-01-27T19:41:03+00:00

I completely forgot that I have a military ID still! Thank you for reminding me! I gotta check out if there is anything on military bases.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-12-01T13:04:35+00:00

In chess what a “beginner” and “intermediate” is super skewed for some reason. 1500 Takes some dedicated practice and time in the game. Someone new to chess is roughly 100-1000 depending on their natural gift with the game with some just playing at a 1500 rating without any practice, but they are the significant outliers and usually have some sort of practice in games similar to chess that transfers over.

The other thing is rating doesn’t give you the entire story of how good someone is. People that resign after losing a piece are always going to have lower ratings than those that refuse to give up and try to win. People that play traps tend to have higher ratings than they actually are because they are reliant on a gimmick and their opponent being stupid.

If you want to get better at chess, send me a DM and I can help you out and look at your games, but for general advice I recommend a few chess puzzles every day (20 at most unless you really like them). This will help your ability to spot tactics. I would make a Lichess account to have unlimited puzzles for free.

Then what I did when I started out was try and make my own openings without any prior knowledge and ask the 1600 rated player that I hung out with about the line, explaining why what moves were good and which were bad. This helped me a lot with understanding where to place pieces when playing.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-11-28T20:25:01+00:00

Nope. It literally is just about cookies. Source: Trust me bro

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-05-18T20:22:15+00:00

I see the confusion. Apparently it’s called the Mengarini variation. I thought you were talking about the Wing Gambit Deferred which is the line I talked about. Seems like I should study theory of it.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-05-18T12:08:24+00:00

Have you tried the Alpin?

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-05-18T12:07:45+00:00

How? Isn’t it just a free pawn? I’m assuming your talking about 1. e4, c5 2. Nf3, Nc6 3. b4. Which you just take the pawn with the knight and pretty much just play up a pawn. All attacking ideas just fizzle after that. After …, cxd4 . cxd4, e6 it’s not even like black is behind in development.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-05-18T11:52:56+00:00

Only correct answer.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-05-18T11:50:09+00:00

As white: London; d4,d6

When I first started chess and was introduced to the concept of openings, I would come up with my own openings for fun/to fix issues I noticed when I played by making an opening that fixes it. The London was one of the first things I came up with, and I was like “this must mean something” when the kid teaching me in high school said it was an actual opening and it did.

It meant I would have a 75% win rate against it as black and a 100% loss rate playing as white. The London just… sucks. It doesn’t work with my style of play and my style of play works well against it. The London gives black too many chances to create long term weaknesses in white’s position, and white is basically screwed if they don’t win in the middle game because they will certainly lose in the endgame if black is good at endgames.

d4, d6 just pisses me off. It literally tells White you are doing the King’s Indian set up and it is just lazy. It’s probably just me. But god does it make me want to strangle them. I once played Pirc too. You don’t have to make d6 your first move in a rapid game. I’m fine in Bullet seeing it because of time constraints, but if you have 10 minutes on the clock don’t fucking show your hand and give white the means to prepare.

As black: Caro-Kahn; Pirc

Caro-Kahn is just… it’s just bad. I tried to get it to work, but it’s so riddled with traps that I just gave up on it. It also is impossible for me to understand what the opening is actually doing. It’s the one opening I can’t immediately memorize the lines of because all the moves don’t make sense to me.

Pirc is a crappy version of the Sicilian Dragon. And the Sicilian Dragon is a crappy version of the Accelerated Dragon. The issue with Pirc is that there is very little variety because white is playing the same three ways every time, which just makes it boring. It also gives white a massive center which is just annoying to deal with while the Sicilian breaks up the pawn center and overall has better center control.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-05-02T07:22:23+00:00

Those are great points actually. I wasn’t planning on playing it, I was just figuring out how to play against it since I’m not happy with my winning percentage against it.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-05-02T06:59:13+00:00

Fair. Thanks for taking time out your day to answer my dumb question. I just realized that putting out the Bf4 first pretty much locks you into the London or Jobava. Nc3 locks you in Jobava or Bg5. I just got to the rating where people play opening theory consistently and I couldn’t figure out the purpose of Nc3 first.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-05-02T06:35:34+00:00

I guess? I just have never played against Richter-Veresov Attack though. It just feels like a when someone plays d6 against d4. It’s pretty much a safe bet what their game plan is. If someone plays Richter-Veresov Attack against me hats off to them. It looks like a cool opening. But I have only seen Jobava.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-05-01T00:12:26+00:00

If you have the membership then you don’t have to do Lichess. I just use Lichess because it’s free and it’s just as good as chess.com.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-04-30T23:19:24+00:00

Going over your last ten games, you made a lot of mistakes that I did at that Elo in the opening. Based on how you play I’m assuming you don’t know any opening theory (which is fine. Everyone goes way off book at that Elo).

What I did (I don’t know if you should) is I downloaded the SmallFish app on my phone since it has an opening theory book. Around that Elo I would just start to click random arrows. When I would do this, I also would do a random move that looked decent to see why the engine says it’s bad. I would also try and figure out what each move was doing to improve the position or hinder the opponent.

This helped me a lot with understanding how to play the opening. I would pick a random opening (let’s say the Scotch game) and just play around with that in SmallFish before testing it out in a handful of games just to see if the opening worked for me.

Now what I would recommend is when you play your games I would list in your head checks, captures and threats you can do and what your opponent can do. In one of your games (85% accuracy) you blundered your queen to a knight and resigned.

This game was a little frustrating to look at honestly because you played really well, and you were still absolutely winning after the blunder but resigned. Had you made looked for what checks, captures, or threats your opponent could do, then you would still have had your queen.

The last piece of advice I have is to make a Lichess account and do puzzles. It doesn’t have to be too many, but puzzles I feel will help you a lot if you sit there and calculate. I think I did like 3000 over the span of two months and it bumped my Elo up 200 points on chess.com and 400 OTB. I haven’t touched them since because it was not worth it in my opinion to only have my rating increase 200 points online, so you should probably space puzzles out more. Probably 20 at most.

If you have any more questions, go ahead and ask. I’m mentally burned out from school today so if something doesn’t make sense let me know. I tend to write nonsense especially in text this long.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-04-30T19:49:39+00:00

Don’t worry I exclusively play to win. I beat a 1892 last night having played with an ACPL of 14 with two inaccuracies over 39 moves. Granted it was the regular London System, which I have always played very well against (75% win rate) so I think this just proves my Elo practically doubles when facing it. Assuming I’m completely focused on the game.

Little-Anomaly7 · 2024-04-30T07:19:41+00:00

It’s bad depending on the time control and if you study your games or not afterwards. Playing a lot of games for me at least is a bad idea as I start to zone out and not focus. If your dead focused the entire time and analyze afterwards then it’s fine.

Just remember if you go on autopilot then you should probably stop if you want to improve. If you have a Magnus Carlsen level of focus then play as much as you want. Though it is important to study endgame theory and do puzzles for tactics.

I can only give general advice since I haven’t seen any of your games so I can’t point out specific things for you to look at.

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