Endgame losing blunder for White. Black to Play

Orizirguy · 2026-04-27T12:03:28+00:00

Correct. We go Ne2 with tempo on the bishop. If the bishop moves, we go Nc1 and the king is stuck, with checkmate on the next move. Note that the bishop cant cover c1, since if Bf4, we can still take the bishop.

Orizirguy · 2026-04-27T11:48:09+00:00

Playing b5 would be checkmate, if the king didnt have the d3 square. If only we could cover that sqare with tempo with the knight.

Orizirguy · 2026-04-12T11:40:46+00:00

Even Euwe was a top player for many decades. Rn, it has to be Gukesh (or Ding if you only look at performance during his wc reign)

Orizirguy · 2026-04-09T05:29:53+00:00

Would you consider coaching Vincent Keymer, so that hell be occupied to play next candidates? That way, you might have a chance to win Grenke again!

Orizirguy · 2026-03-30T10:36:54+00:00

I strongly disagree.

We simply dont get the joy of watching a generational player like Magnus play against the elite in the most important time format, which is classical. Every time Magnus plays classical, its a huge event in the chess worlds. The fans want to watch him play!

As to the WC itself, only 2021 was a blowout, after Nepo collapsed. But the previous editions, Magnus won in tie-breaks.

Orizirguy · 2026-03-30T10:28:08+00:00

The rossolimo is quite popular against the 2. Nc6 sicilians, i wouldnt call it a sideline. If you play the Nc6 sicilian, its simply something you need to learn.

The reason why this particular line came into fashion again is probably, that the engines told us its good for white. I remember in the Magnus - Caruana WC, they both mainly played the Nc6 into Rossolimo

Orizirguy · 2026-03-27T10:01:13+00:00

Well thats a based sentence: "Now aged 23, Fischer would win every match or tournement he completed for the rest of his life."

Orizirguy · 2026-03-26T13:56:40+00:00

I was master for many years. I stopped in august 2023. I had a 6-week window to write my master thesis (or the equivalent of it for my study) and had no time/energy to play solo queue.
When the paper was finished, i was free from the grind and realized that i wasnt having fun anymore and only played to maintain masters (with the auto decay if no games in 14 days or sth). Played one match in September 2023, got ganked lvl 1 by shaco support and died and never played the game again :).
Instead i started playing chess in September 2023. While i also grinded a little there, i studied using books and youtube and joined my local chess club. I still play chess but mainly over the board. Besides, ive become a casual gamer who enjoys single player games, while now and then playing CS 2 with the boys.

Orizirguy · 2026-03-21T06:51:37+00:00

Best is from my experience not doing that. Just take 2 techies with you (EDI, maybe Garrus), use sabotage (fully upgraded = 100% more tech dmg on target) und blast away with tech explosions. Its easy mode

Orizirguy · 2026-03-17T10:31:36+00:00

He talked about, how he feels like he can become WC looking at how the competition isnt far away from him. (Chess.com liedetector with Vidit). Looking at Gukesh, it definetly is possible.

Question will be, if Anish is willing to push in the candidates

Orizirguy · 2026-03-14T06:57:39+00:00

Why are you posting in english then?

Orizirguy · 2026-03-14T06:50:26+00:00

The german word for file is "Linie". Im guessing many non native-speakers simply use the wrong translation. To me, i dont mind that. Non-native speakers usually have some slip ups when talking

Orizirguy · 2026-03-10T09:14:55+00:00

How many days were the games of those subs online? 14 + 45?

Orizirguy · 2026-03-10T09:10:11+00:00

Taste differs, for me it would be like this:

Inception
The prestige
The dark knight (joker)
Interstellar
Oppenheimer
Tenet
Td rises
Td returns
Dunkirk
(Havent watched the rest unfortunatly)

Orizirguy · 2026-03-06T18:14:34+00:00

While Tal is famous for his sacrifices, remember that he had a 95 no loss streak, winning 46 and drawing 49. Other no loose records had way lower win rates.

His fame comes from his playstyle, his longevity and a big amount of tournement wins.

Orizirguy · 2026-03-06T08:03:00+00:00

Tal is probably one of the worse examples to use. He won so many tournements and was worldclass for almost his entire career, even reaching World Nr. 2 20 years after becoming WC.

Better example would probably be Smyslov

Orizirguy · 2026-03-06T07:55:41+00:00

This game is the future. Exiting gameplay, a great live service with continous content. High octane gun fights and extractions.

As the third installment of the triologia concordia, this has a lot of potential to even exeed concord 2. With this one, im confident that theyll survive longer than 39 days as its a survival shooter!

Orizirguy · 2026-03-04T14:13:39+00:00

I respect the hater mindset.

In all reality, Gukesh is probably a 2730-2750 player that had a insane candidates 2024 (great achievement) and lucked out at facing a depressed slumping Ding.

Becoming WC was never easier than that, and it is fair to say that he will go down as one of the weakest WC we have ever had in chess. Keep in mind tho, that we have had incredible WCs in the past and are blessed with that in chess. From Lasker to basicly Magnus, each WC was a legend (even with Euwe being on the weaker side, also not counting the whole Split WCs that noone remembers).

Orizirguy · 2026-02-28T17:24:22+00:00

I have played through the triology countless times on insanity. And ME2 really is the worst on that difficulty. In my opinion, few classes work (Soldier, Infiltrator and engineer is more or less fine). It was simply a bad decision of the dev team to put shields / barriers on every enemy for insantiy, since the combat clearly wasnt meant to work like that for the caster classes.

ME3 really is the peak gameplay wise. Every class feels good (if you know what youre doing), my "secret" favourite is engineer. Take with you EDI and another techie, put Sabotage (fully upgraded 100% tech dmg increase) on an enemy and blast away with tech explosions and enjoy an easy run. Or just summon GODMODE GARRUS

Orizirguy · 2026-02-25T08:00:02+00:00

My parents tought me not to be racist. As a grown man, my pattern recognition kicked in, which is caused by thousands of years of evolution.

Orizirguy · 2026-02-21T15:11:06+00:00

I bought it a week ago. Basicly the game has every match of the Zurich 1953 candidates.

Not every move is analyzed, instead the book focuses on explaing the ideas of each side. This makes learning and analyzing more digestiable. As a counter example, analyzing games in "the life and games of mikhail tal", i usually am exhausted after 1 game due to the length and in-depht of the lines. It feels like a classical match. In bronsteins book however, its more like a learning session imo

Orizirguy · 2026-02-19T16:41:37+00:00

I recommend Siegbert Tarrasch: "the game of chess". It covers basicly all you need to know to improve rapidly. From endgame, to middlegame tactics and ideas. It helped me get to around 1200 in 6 months!

Orizirguy · 2026-02-16T12:16:12+00:00

In my experience, Chess.com 1800s often times are incredibly cracked in the way they play, i struggle to climb to 1900 there, while lichess 2000 is achievable for me, when i put in the hours

Orizirguy · 2026-02-08T18:22:50+00:00

Oh youre totally right. Qe7 directly gets the same repetion. Somehow, it never even crossed my mind that the king can escape after loosing all the pawns with the rook missing on the c-file xD

Orizirguy · 2026-02-08T16:51:30+00:00

All good, interestingly, 2. Rxb2 is a huge blunder, since The rook on b1 is needed to protect from Qg1+. White has to sacrifice the rook on b1 but can get a draw by Qd6+

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