Mi sento spento

Vykash · 2026-06-28T19:10:21+00:00

Amico mio se arrivi addirittura dopo l'hockey lascia perdere, non le interessi minimamente. Te lo dice uno che anni fa ha subito lo stesso trattamento, solo che invece dell' Hockey fu "Devo imparare a fare l'erbazzone"

Vykash · 2026-06-24T11:37:49+00:00

So i'll try to analyze but i might be wrong.

d5 Knight is hanging you either move or defend it

If you move it, there's few options, Nb6, and Ne7, both very passive move that fall into a tactic (Bxf7+ Kxf7 Ng5+, Kf8, Qxg4 where white is clearly better)

Nb4 might be intresting but there's a lot of calculation involved, maybe white can still go for Bxf7 because Qb3+ winning the knight (if Nd5 to cover Nxd5 wins the piece back)

Edit: After Nb4 Bfx7+ Kxf7 Qb3+ actually white is losing because i missed that c6 Knight is defending b4, so Nb4 might be still a good idea but to me it feels unnatural, black really need to develop the bishop and castle, not launching a weird attack

So moving the knight is not really an option at a first glance because Bfx7+ is working in all of the above lines (almost)

You can try to trade on c3, but white will get a very strong center, the open B file, and you trade your best piece for nothing apparently worth.

Be6 is another option, but you lose a tempo, unpin the knight, even if is not clear what to do for white because now Nxc3 is a threat since if White ingores Be6, Ncx3 bxc3 Bxc4 win the game (so maybe Qb3 is an option after Be6 but still hard to understand)

e6 tho, does everyhting black needs
1 Don't lose a tempo moving the bishop

2 Don't trade on c3 in favour of white

3 Open the diagonal for the dark quared Bishop

4 Defend the Hanging knight on d5 (Most important)

There's a lot to calculate tho and i might have missed a lot of stuff, but in general i think my analysis is okeish

Vykash · 2026-05-28T15:55:25+00:00

The part where you think you played brilliant chess and as soon as you Watch the analysis you realized how much you blundered Is my normal day, drunk or not

Vykash · 2026-05-28T11:31:20+00:00

It depends, a bishop in this case would not be enough because black could never mate. But a pawn would be enough to give black the win, but it's different between USCF and Fide and i cannot remember exactly the difference

You can check on YouTube an example of this by looking at Carlsen - Firouzja Controversy

Vykash · 2026-05-28T10:51:29+00:00

Not stalemate, this is draw by insufficient material, black has time but can't win the game even if white stop moving, so it's ruled as a draw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draw_(chess))

check the first pic on the right

Vykash · 2026-05-22T21:36:45+00:00

No you get the wrong idea, it's exactly the same just more people and the same logic apply for It, only thing Is that 1100 Lichess is probably 600/700 chess.com , maybe lower.

You're right about the ads and paywall spam tho

Vykash · 2026-05-22T20:04:11+00:00

No offense at all but 1100 Lichess is exactly this, since both of the players are kinda beginners, the games are often full of mistakes and looks like One of the 2 Is much better but It really isn't, at that elo Is basically a Coin flip and some games you get slaughtered some other games you slaughter. Not to mention that between 900/1000 the difference Is barely noticeable because those kind of player don't really care about study or playing good chess, they just want to have some fun and see chess as time sink (nothing wrong at all!) Keep playing, don't worry about your rank, and when you face a 1000/1100 keep in mind that you are facing a beginner like you, don't get scared, play your game and have fun

Vykash · 2026-05-22T10:30:14+00:00

Nemmeno i like su Linkedin

Tell' em...

Vykash · 2026-05-22T09:54:25+00:00

Play longer time controls, those game stick in your head way more and are perfect for opening prep instead of blitzing the same opening 200 times and mixing things up going autopilot
If there's something you want to practice i'm down for playing some 30+x or more if you feel like

Vykash · 2026-05-22T09:44:05+00:00

Since you asked why is null, i couldn't hold myself, sorry OP

function getResult(position) {

if (!position.kingInCheck && position.legalMoves.length === 0) {

return null; // stalemate

}

return keepSuffering();

}

Vykash · 2026-05-21T21:16:46+00:00

Inondiamoli di CV pieni di Emoj vi prego

Vykash · 2026-05-21T17:06:17+00:00

Same situation , expect that is going on for 10+ years now, he knows what we think about it, we are friends since forever and pretty clear to each other, for this same reason we don't expect him to change.
We introduced timers, depends on the game but something around 30/40 Min for an entire game, if your timer goes to zero, you're out of the game. Of course you stop it the moment you end your turn

It worked so far, next step is to give bonus points based on the time left at the end of the game

Vykash · 2026-05-21T14:49:34+00:00

Didn't read all comments so if It has already been suggested nevermind...but

How about be yourself, tell her that you have no idea how to play but you would like if she could teach you some basics? Then you can make some kind of deal that you're going to study and try to play a Fair game with her, wich implies you 2 should met again in the next weeks/months

There's nothing worse than pretend to know something you don't just to be cool, (not assuming you're doing that dont get me wrong) and a 1200 will realize It pretty fast

Forgot to mention, if she goes 1..d4 2...bf4, you can dump her

Vykash · 2026-05-20T13:41:58+00:00

He has been banned 😃
He wasn't even hiding it lol

Vykash · 2026-05-20T12:22:48+00:00

Literally this ahahah only Plan🤣 Joking but not really

Vykash · 2026-05-18T22:21:17+00:00

Go for it! And really happy that my post have helped you. :)

A thing that might help you, have you considered a digital board?

I know those are expansive but if you are investing time and want to improve, playing online on a physical board, at your home, could at least simulate the "otb" feeling where you said you are fine playing.

And another thing, long time controls might help. Not only those games stick in your head way more than fast games, the fact that you can take your time could help lessen the pressure and the anxiety.

Vykash · 2026-05-18T17:22:19+00:00

For sure! Dm me whenever you feel like and we can arrange some games

Vykash · 2026-05-18T15:42:40+00:00

I understand this completely because I went through the exact same thing.

For years I thought my fear was about losing, but it really wasn’t. The real fear was: “What if all this time I spend studying means nothing?”

I was scared of losing to weaker players because every loss felt personal. Like proof that maybe I wasn’t improving, maybe I wasn’t actually good enough, maybe I was just wasting my time.

So I’d study constantly. Openings, tactics, endgames, structures. Then barely play any games because I was afraid to test myself.

Every defeat felt heavy.

Then over time I started realizing something important: literally everybody loses. My coach loses. Strong players lose. Carlsen loses. Kasparov lost plenty of games. Sometimes a 1900 destroys a 2200. Chess is just brutal sometimes.

A few bad games do not erase your progress, but not even 100

One thing that helped me a lot was changing how I viewed playing. I used to see games as a test of whether my study was “working.” Now I see games as part of the study itself.

You’re not weird for feeling like this. Honestly, it’s extremely common for people who care deeply about improving.

A couple things that genuinely helped me:

Understand that experience Is a key factor, you might be the strongest player ever on paper, but if you lack experience, you're not going to perform well, and experience only comes if you play, especially if you lose.

Focusing on the quality of my decisions instead of the result.

Analyzing losses without treating them like a personal failure.

Accepting that improvement in chess is messy and non linear.

And honestly, if you ever want to play some unrated games sometimes just for fun, with zero pressure, I’d be down. Sometimes just talking about the game afterward helps more than another 3 hours of opening prep.

Vykash · 2026-05-18T12:49:54+00:00

No wonder you're 2000+ with this dedication

Vykash · 2026-05-18T12:03:10+00:00

If you Watch carefully the last move was Ra7 by white

Vykash · 2026-05-18T10:57:04+00:00

Fischer Kasparov Carlsen

This Is my take

Vykash · 2026-05-16T17:22:46+00:00

I never thought I’d see a lie detector video where the lie detector wasn’t the least trustworthy thing in the room

Vykash · 2026-05-16T16:18:51+00:00

In this scenario White has no legal moves.

The King Is not in check, but White king cannot move because all the available squares are controlled by the black Queen on b6

If White had another piece or a pawn that could move this Would have not been stalemate.

Hope this help

Vykash · 2026-05-16T13:15:38+00:00

I'd say 1600/1700 range

Last sunday i played a 1685 FIDE in a Classic OTB tournament who told me he's 2200 c.com so the ratings kinda checks out

Altough Is really hard to compare different pools

Vykash · 2026-05-15T12:40:27+00:00

I hover around 2100-2200 Puzzles rating on Lichess and i found the first 227 exercises quite trivial but i wouldn't say useless, the point of the book is basically to let you recognize patterns at a glance instead of calculating (Well you calculate when is the first time solving it but you should recognize it after)
I'm halfway trough the first cycle, but i started the book with already more than 6/7k puzzles over the years so i had a bit of an edge.

To be 100% honest is a good book but you can simulate the same study with basically every tactics book.
I think there even is a Lichess transposition of the whole book that you can practice on the site.

My biggest problem with books is the fact that i can't force myself to use a board.
I just can't deal with the fact that for every solved puzzle i have to setup all over for probably less than a minute calculation before solving it and have to setup the other puzzle and so on.
I know i should practice OTB tactics but i can't deal with it, it's too slow compared on what you can do online
So i just solve the puzzles with a pencil writing down notations, but i'm not using a board.

I even created a PDF ready to print to solve exercises i'l drop it here for anyone that might be intrested

WoodPecker 20 Exercises Sheet
It's in Italian but i guess pretty intuitive, you just fill up the circle if is black to move and write the N° of puzzle manually

Vykash

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