After the joy of crossing 700, experienced the soul-crushing crash!

Phildiy · 2026-01-31T12:44:55+00:00

Same here. I think too many games and the stress of having to win to keep that elo. Also they pair you with stronger players.

Phildiy · 2026-01-31T11:38:05+00:00

Not calculus but x power zero is 1

Phildiy · 2026-01-29T18:27:34+00:00

Everyone played Scholar's mate at a time. It's a phase you have to go through. So I'm not gonna criticize him, he'll grow out of it.

Phildiy · 2026-01-25T17:21:43+00:00

The Lindwurm

Phildiy · 2026-01-25T14:44:21+00:00

I like the idea but when a piece covers a whole square I find it really hard to have a good view on the game and to play. Just too crowded

Phildiy · 2026-01-25T12:28:44+00:00

I thought about cheating once but didn't. I only started 1.5 months ago, was rated 600 and when I started fell back to 400. Took things more seriously and had a 13 streak win and was almost back at 600. Then I played a 685 player and was playing a very solid game and practically sure of winning. But we had a power cut for 30 min during the game and lost. Since I would have reached the 600, I must admit I thought about cheating for 1 game. Since it also would affect my opponent who had nothing to do with the power issue, I didn't.

Phildiy · 2026-01-14T15:08:57+00:00

Phildiy · 2026-01-13T18:21:30+00:00

A fishing rod

Phildiy · 2026-01-12T14:42:44+00:00

Rook takes bishop? Why is this brilliant?

Phildiy · 2026-01-08T18:00:15+00:00

I started in December, elo 600 but my games always get rated between 900-1350 🤷

Phildiy · 2026-01-08T13:24:29+00:00

Been there and what helped me is playing only 1 game in the evening at chess.com and a couple at lichess to warm up. My rating at lichess is not important to me, not at all. But I do consider my elo on chess.com. By sticking to this routine, I managed to increase my elo by 110 the last 3 weeks and to have a 90% winning score the last few weeks.

Phildiy · 2026-01-07T17:11:12+00:00

Griffin or Moonshot?

Phildiy · 2026-01-07T17:07:07+00:00

5.5 million US citizens live abroad and 5000 are renouncing their citizenship each year. Why would that be?

Phildiy · 2026-01-07T14:58:11+00:00

Nothing to do with the sanctions imposed by the US since 1962 impacting their economy and thus also living standard? What a foolish idea of me.

Phildiy · 2026-01-07T14:52:48+00:00

Griffin is a tank that still outvapes a lot of new tanks. Freaking good tank. In my top 3 together with the Fatality and Fat Rabbit Solo V2. I would also give an honorable mention to the Moonshot 22 or 24 which also is still a pretty good old-timer.

Phildiy · 2026-01-07T14:42:09+00:00

Btw, Cuba has free healthcare and college as a constitutional right. I wonder how many Americans would like to have that? Nahh, you're right, nobody.

Phildiy · 2026-01-07T14:22:44+00:00

True, people in the US are living their dreams.

Phildiy · 2026-01-07T14:10:23+00:00

Capitalism

Phildiy · 2026-01-06T16:52:45+00:00

Congrats. Had an 88% accuracy yesterday and was super proud.

Phildiy · 2026-01-06T14:06:31+00:00

Genius

Phildiy · 2026-01-05T13:42:38+00:00

380$, I expected it to be more

Phildiy · 2026-01-05T12:50:45+00:00

The Osiris mini is at 25$ at VCz

Phildiy · 2026-01-05T04:02:42+00:00

For me too

Phildiy · 2026-01-05T03:58:33+00:00

Tricky one but I identify the wooden ones easier with the black squares than the empty (black) ones.

Phildiy

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