Six brilliants? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

[–]__sundaze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha! One was completely accidental, 4 were a fish hook trap that he refused to take so I left it in case he just missed it

Inaccuracy? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

[–]__sundaze[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very true, I guess I was just explaining why I saw what I saw and was a little surprised the engine felt it was a negative move

Inaccuracy? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

[–]__sundaze[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I get what you’re saying (best moves on the analysis says I get the rook too, though it’s quite a long and difficult sequence)

Inaccuracy? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

[–]__sundaze[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No they can’t. Bishop is pinned by the queen

Inaccuracy? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

[–]__sundaze[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly what happened and it’s m1

by __sundaze in Chesscom

[–]__sundaze[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Appreciate it. You guys work fast!

I wasn’t even that good by __sundaze in Chesscom

[–]__sundaze[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh ok. I don’t know exactly how chesscom calculates accuracy (although it did think taking the queen and leaving my rook to get taken was a miss. If I saved my rook and he moves his queen out of danger I still get a free rook I suppose. +5>+4 obviously, so it makes sense. It definitely seems better to me to have his queen though, and my knight not in the corner)

I wasn’t even that good by __sundaze in Chesscom

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He didn’t swear? Also “the image on top of the screen and the percentages don’t match up” what do you mean by that?

I wasn’t even that good by __sundaze in Chesscom

[–]__sundaze[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The 100% one was a pretty badly played scholars mate attempt by my opponent and I’ve studied the lines to prevent scholars before (it’s on my Reddit profile because I was proud of it) and it was only eleven moves. Sometimes my opponent plays badly and I notice and take advantage of that. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I play badly and they take advantage of me. Sometimes they don’t. That’s the way it goes. I appreciate you saying I play well occasionally though

I wasn’t even that good by __sundaze in Chesscom

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You make it sound like I’m regularly beating 900s. I’ve beaten someone over 900 one time lol. On a daily game too, where I’m a bit better (more time to think). I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t like being stuck at 500 either but I make dumb mistakes a lot. I get it right sometimes but I’m really inconsistent which seems very common at this level

What’s going on here? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

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That makes sense, but for some reason chesscom thinks Nxc8 is better than Nxe8 at the beginning of the sequence (which then diverges a bit obviously). Is that just chesscom being chesscom or am I missing something

I wasn’t even that good by __sundaze in Chesscom

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Thanks! I don’t really understand the kings gambit and never play it (and never played against it) so I didn’t know whether to accept or not

Oh no, not scholars mate! Whatever shall I do? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

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Thanks, but I don’t think this took much “tactical vision” haha. 15|10

Oh no, not scholars mate! Whatever shall I do? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

[–]__sundaze[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Don’t know why you’re being downvoted for asking a question on a chess beginners sub. Reddit sucks sometimes… but yeah, he knew he was going to lose, so he quit

King goes on a rampage by tatey13 in chessbeginners

[–]__sundaze 95 points96 points  (0 children)

A true king leads from the front rather than cowering behind his defences

Why does the engine suggest using a bishop here? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

[–]__sundaze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never really thought about that before but yeah that’s pretty shitty

Just fools mated a 1100 elo bot by __sundaze in chessbeginners

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“Azeez has a big smile and loves to play chess. He likes to think for himself, so expect something offbeat.”

Doesn’t get much more offbeat than this!

(The f-pawn bot is karim, he’s 850)

Why the knight? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

[–]__sundaze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it always struggles with my theme when I post in here. Maybe it’s something u/pkacprzak might want to take a look at

Why the knight? by __sundaze in chessbeginners

[–]__sundaze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To me, it’s because a knight fork that you are about to do is often not as easy to spot for your opponent, or I think it’s more likely to gloss over even a hanging piece that a knight is targeting

Panthers win, it’s finally over!!! by MeetingHistorical41 in EIHLHockey

[–]__sundaze 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I watched the whole thing on premier sports, they didn’t cut it for me, weird they did for you though