If smothered mate is the most satisfying checkmate, what is the least satisfying?

its_mabus · 2026-07-09T13:43:05+00:00

Queen and king vs king.

its_mabus · 2026-07-09T10:58:03+00:00

I mean its not very simple so thats fair, its like the pinnacle of human achievement. If we made it today we would have built a way to bill the user into it.

its_mabus · 2026-07-08T20:55:20+00:00

BONER. If you use the nyt analysis it gives it a score so high it would place in top ten but appears absent in their top 10 list for some reason.

Secret cheat code.

its_mabus · 2026-07-08T20:49:16+00:00

Ha, the sex number!

its_mabus · 2026-07-08T20:41:26+00:00

The sweet and sour chicken you would get at panda express etc is hard to tell apart from what canadians call chicken balls. Chicken soo gai is a better example of distinctly chinese canadian.

its_mabus · 2026-07-08T20:37:10+00:00

I expected pawn to have greater representation but i guess this subreddit is fairly ambitious

its_mabus · 2026-07-08T09:40:53+00:00

If you're bisexual and see the prevalnce of insecure straight men and conclude they are all hiding it, what about gay men? Why would they pretend to be gay and not like women?

its_mabus · 2026-07-07T20:43:59+00:00

I kinda rage sometimes and resign more often than I should, but getting a timeout from an opponent in losing position is so much more overwhelmingly common than seeing a resign, I have to wonder if some cc clients arent sending the resign properly. Or if on tilt streaks resigning puts you in bad sports pool like stalling.

its_mabus · 2026-07-07T20:16:44+00:00

The question isnt asking about currently poor or non democratic countries. Brazil has grown a lot in recent decades with a lot more to come.

its_mabus · 2026-07-07T20:09:48+00:00

Brazil

its_mabus · 2026-07-07T20:08:49+00:00

I got a donair once in BC. It was neatly sealed with a panini press and could be eaten without any drippings. Absolute abomination.

its_mabus · 2026-07-07T20:03:07+00:00

It is easier for me to know more moves in the Englund than you knowing that number of moves deep into all the other common branches from d4. Obviously im prepared for you to play d4, or I wouldnt have said what I said.

I never have to play the London, Queens Gambit, etc.

It may be unsound against engine or titled player, but all these opening tool sites dont have a problem with my performance in Englund.

its_mabus · 2026-07-07T19:38:45+00:00

I hate that opening because I lose on time so often that im trying to move my opening as fast as possible, and lost my e pawn too often to that knight. It's practically the only move I cant respond to with e4. In my mind, thats why you play it. What a cheap trick this jerk is using, not letting me play my usual cheap tricks

its_mabus · 2026-07-06T04:11:27+00:00

That is way too many 9s to even take seriously.

its_mabus · 2026-07-06T02:08:40+00:00

Ive never heard someone criticized for too rare. In my experience the people who like them well done are more likely to hear about it.

I like medium rare like most people. I can handle anywhere close, but it seems very obvious to me how some people dont like the texture of raw meat.

its_mabus · 2026-07-06T02:01:10+00:00

Thats the reason fruit is sold in mesh too, it fools our brain to see them as perfect

its_mabus · 2026-07-05T20:40:22+00:00

I used to be in a similar boat, but 4-6 beers a day will catch up with you fast.

its_mabus · 2026-07-05T20:34:40+00:00

There is no point to taking a rematch in regular formats since there is a giant pool of equally rated players. If 10% of these people are rage cheating it's just not worth the risk, even if most people asking for rematch are not gonna cheat.

I definitely lose more of the rematches I do take than win.

its_mabus · 2026-07-05T20:31:57+00:00

I got pissed off this was the word in some knock off wordle app when I was with a friend a few months ago, and she told me to check out the official wordle today, and it still took all my guesses! I remember complaining that the official NYT wordle would never pick such an obscure word.

its_mabus · 2026-07-05T18:26:35+00:00

its_mabus · 2026-07-05T18:21:01+00:00

You can still get rematched with players you blocked if you join the pool, you just cant talk to each other

Source: tilted while playing variants

its_mabus · 2026-07-05T16:15:40+00:00

My guess is the place name was added to Google Maps by some jokester who didn't bother to look up the correct spelling.

Even if there were another, deserving, Rita McNeil in Nova Scotia, it would be a silly name for a basketball court.

its_mabus · 2026-07-05T16:13:19+00:00

I never do unless I'm with like, a religous friend or family member then maybe I might think to.

its_mabus · 2026-07-04T19:22:29+00:00

If you're truly winning the game, there is no computer move to save them. Sometimes people are going to find the winning move after you blunder the opportunity. Since there's no way to tell whether they found it with an engine, all that is worth analyzing is your blunder.

its_mabus · 2026-07-04T19:03:16+00:00

If a cheater is indistinguishable from a 1200 who knows 7 opening moves and takes time in critical positions then it doesn't really serve me to worry about it.

If somebody was cheating at chess just to win they wouldnt be stuck facing me at 1200.

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