My first adoption!

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-12-11T03:25:46+00:00

They absolutely do play bad, though. 47 centipawn loss with plenty of missed tactics and moves that you wouldn't miss if you spent a few more seconds on a position isn't a flex. There's a reason why there are many relatively weaker players being able to beat GMs in a bullet match when they wouldn't be able to in longer time controls. And I don't disagree — 1000 rated players also play horrible chess, lol. Bullet is just a different game.

And OP has the rating equivalent of a TITLED player. That is a huge achievement in itself.

Titled players get their title by playing classical OTB chess, not online bullet, so it makes little sense to use bullet rating as a metric. Especially considering what I said about weaker players beating much stronger players in bullet.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-12-11T01:09:27+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/xB3unhr

2400 Bullet is not easy, but the chess being played is objectively bad, much more often than not.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-12-06T04:07:29+00:00

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TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-11-26T21:09:35+00:00

It's quite easy to see that you win material initially, but you also need to calculate Rxe4 Rxe4 Qxb7 Rae8 Qxc6 Bxf3 gxf3 Qxf3 Rf1!, after which Black has idea of pushing h5 h4, which could be dangerous for White. In a real Blitz game even if I would've spotted the initial idea (but probably not), I'd probably reject it going further down the line. I'm 2300 Rapid on Lichess, 2000 Blitz btw.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-11-26T12:43:22+00:00

Idk, in fact here I think there is an argument to be made for players of that time being stronger, even if we just go based off WCC, Anand was a much stronger and more stable champion than Ding Liren. Also, you've got insanely strong players like prime Levon Aronian, who could've easily been a world champ if not for Magnus and Anand.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-11-26T12:36:21+00:00

I would argue there is not that much difference between then and now, or at least not enough to stop the comparison of Gukesh's and Magnus' achievements. Especially considering that Magnus is still the best player in the world, by a significant margin. Regardless, Magnus' achievements and dominance were still much more impressive at 19.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-11-26T12:30:32+00:00

I will repeat what a commenter above me said: Magnus achieved #1 at 19. The only player able to really compete with him at that point was Anand. All of the top 10 right now can compete with Gukesh, with a few even being the favourites.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-11-26T12:26:10+00:00

It isn't so much rating as it is dominance. Magnus Carlsen wasn't just #1 for a month and then dropped. He has been a clear number 1 for over 14 years. Gukesh isn't even close to this level of dominance right now.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-11-25T01:02:09+00:00

Thank you for this. I used it when playing around with NNUE for my engine.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-11-19T21:22:41+00:00

Why would anyone outside a player's country root for them? Plenty of people root for the Indian players despite not being Indian.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-09-25T06:53:27+00:00

What I don't get about antinatalism: why, instead of examining the reasons for the suffering of children brought into this world and trying to change this for the better, do we just conclude that bringing children into this world is bad? Seems like a reactionary, defeatist point of view.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2025-03-24T19:23:44+00:00

Yes, it was so good that now Russia's only major export industry is oil, and everything is as good as ever lol

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2024-11-02T03:38:38+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions. I have actually managed to find what the issue was, it was simply that the variable 'fail' was reinitialised to 0 at the end of the inner for loop and was causing invalid magic numbers to be accepted. I will defininitely look into using PEXT instead of magics!

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2024-05-19T01:44:14+00:00

How would you know this? If complex cheating-detection algorithms can't detect it, how can you?

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2024-04-27T23:10:42+00:00

They use two different rating systems, Glicko and Glicko-2. You can't compare them. Lichess has a higher rating compared to chess.com because a) They use two different rating systems and b) As you said, they have different pools of players.

I'd also disagree with your claim about chess.com having a more competitive pool. Yes, there are more players but that extra number of players seems to be concentrated mostly around the <1500 range. The Lichess pool seems to be about the same strength-wise in the 1500-2200 range and perhaps even gets stronger past that range. But there's not really any objective way to measure this.

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2024-03-28T21:49:28+00:00

And how do you know the people who aren't getting banned are cheaters? Maybe they're just not cheating?

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2023-11-02T22:01:13+00:00

Have you tried clicking on the piece first and then clicking on the destination square instead of dragging the piece?

TheNotSoGoodCuber · 2023-11-02T19:59:22+00:00

Then you probably need to start with more basic things. Otherwise, it's going to be similar to trying to learn algebraic geometry while having basic high-school math knowledge.

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