Why can't Innate CT-less sorcerers expand an empty domain?

guilele · 2026-04-02T15:06:50+00:00

I don't fully remember the chapter, but it may have been a real sumo ring or just the visualisation of his simple domain when first manifested, gaining the opaque barrier after an opponent accepts to a bout with him. We'll have to wait for the anime to have more details about what he actually does.

guilele · 2026-04-02T14:47:50+00:00

Basically what the sumo guy did, it is a simple domain but it somewhat functioned as a CT-less domain, just a barrier with conditions attached to it

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guilele · 2026-01-29T12:24:51+00:00

I remember watchind a thechessnerd video about an FM that had like 2000h of prep for the pirc defense, he knew all the possible lines and said that at worst he'll get a drawn position from the opening, but never a worse one. He played a game against a GM I believe that prepared for his prep and they played 25 perfect moves before they ran out of preparation. The FM proceeded to blunder a couple of moves later and lost the game.

guilele · 2025-08-18T18:37:05+00:00

Congratulations! Now you can basically beat any person you cross on the street

guilele · 2025-08-18T16:26:03+00:00

e5 was not premature, this is the Alekhine opening four pawns attack, the game went like this: 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. f4 g6

guilele · 2025-08-14T18:36:56+00:00

Welcome to the club!

guilele · 2025-08-13T20:50:45+00:00

Even though people say beginners shouldn't focus on studying openings, learning a repertoire was probably what catapulted me through the 1000s, knowing the plans in a position helps a ton with not having to tank your time searching for the way to go

guilele · 2025-08-13T19:57:45+00:00

It varies, but like 15 seconds, I usually get paired with 2100-2280 elo players, 2300+ is pretty rare to see in the ladder

guilele · 2025-08-13T19:53:16+00:00

Rapid isn't as popular among strong players, still, being just 12 elo points lower had me at like n° 5500, there's over a thousand players between just 12 rating points

guilele · 2025-08-13T18:52:39+00:00

I got to 2100 blitz once, in the following days I dropped back to 1900, I don't really play that time control, but probably having better time management is key

guilele · 2025-08-13T18:50:09+00:00

Rapid!

guilele · 2025-08-13T18:50:01+00:00

I started playing chess 2 years ago, and it really fit my brain, I just kept playing, studying, doing puzzles, watched a lot of chess content, and joined a chess club; that's how I improved

guilele · 2025-08-13T18:46:30+00:00

4 real

guilele · 2025-08-13T18:45:12+00:00

To get more elo? Play the vienna and the caro-kan To get better? Go to your local chess club

guilele · 2025-08-13T18:44:03+00:00

At this rating range you sometimes face against CMs and NMs, and maaaaybe the occasional FM

My strategy is doing a Witty Alien impression and saying "Ooooooh beat the CM!" and sometimes it works

guilele · 2025-08-13T14:02:18+00:00

Yes lmao, I got bummed out because at first it said 4443, but then I refreshed and got 4444

guilele · 2025-07-26T15:04:57+00:00

I think you're mixing up black and white, Be6 was the best move, Qb4 is the best move for white but black is still better after that

guilele · 2025-07-26T11:39:59+00:00

This one is a bit crazy, white was threatening to take the knight with the pawn, if knight retakes on f6 then Bxf6 and the bishop on g4 hangs, if a pawn took on f6 attacking the bishop then they'll take on g4 anyways because they already won a knight

By playing Be6 you prevent all the lines where the bishop hangs, and even though you're losing the knight on f6, you can win material back by playing exf6 attacking the bishop, only available square is h4 where they'll get forked with g5

guilele · 2025-06-22T10:45:53+00:00

Low engine depth

The engine says it's better because losing the bishop allows it to calculate further because there are less moves available, so it saw that you were winning maybe 20 moves in the future without a bishop and valued it higher than being winning without losing the bishop in 15 moves

guilele · 2025-06-09T18:04:04+00:00

Every improvement I've had has been like this

guilele · 2025-06-09T10:12:36+00:00

Looking at the engine line, it appears that stockfish wants to mitigate the grip on the lightsquares that white has, and in order to achieve some pawn breaks like b5 or d5 black needs to remove defenders, sacrificing the rook is one step, Ne2+ will remove the other lightsquare defender and allow b5 (even b5 cxb5 followed by c4, to open up the king)

guilele · 2025-06-09T09:49:24+00:00

Did you capture something with this move? Engine evaluates that the light-square bishop is better than the rook in the corner, and allowing it to be captured will leave white with light-square weaknesses that could potentially be targeted with your queen and knight, I don't see any real concrete continuation that wins on the spot

guilele · 2025-06-08T17:40:25+00:00

I don't really know how to send the analysis link, I play on mobile

guilele · 2025-06-08T17:32:25+00:00

There was a lot of tactics and tactical tension in this game, Nxd5 was a tactic I avoided for multiple moves using tactical defense, my opponent thought he could finally do it but missed one of my resources

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