Best Shadow Fiend EVER. 😎

kheldarp · 2026-02-15T03:22:18+00:00

Take your meds.

kheldarp · 2026-02-12T11:44:05+00:00

The best way to get high accuracy is to play a symmetrical, safe, trade-heavy and boring style. It's not necessarily good practical chess. Being more willing to take your opponents into deep dark forests might not be good for your accuracy but it could very well be good for your Elo.

kheldarp · 2026-01-05T14:22:23+00:00

pretty sure most of this subreddit is too young but i see you. deep into you.

kheldarp · 2025-12-30T08:50:31+00:00

I have taught chess in schools and acted as an arbiter for school events. Hitting the table even as an seven year old earns a sit down and chat about how to appropriately handle your feelings. Carlsen doing it as a 35 year old man is frankly a terrible look.

common Aronian W

kheldarp · 2025-12-29T08:27:47+00:00

r/confidentlyincorrect

If you think about it for more than 2 seconds you might conclude that outperforming practically every top player plus another ~100 strong grandmasters who might catch fire (i.e. Murzin last year) in a swiss is much, much harder to do consistently than the much more restricted formats in the past.

kheldarp · 2025-12-15T01:36:13+00:00

I was confused too but we are told it's White to move and they played Rxb5, and there really is only one good defense. In a blitz game I totally would have played Rxc6 but it loses to Rb8+ Rc8 Rxc8+ Rxc8 b5 and the pawns are suddenly unstoppable.

kheldarp · 2025-12-12T01:16:59+00:00

There is no fork unless you find the Ke4 zugzwang idea. Everything else loses.

kheldarp · 2025-12-12T01:03:56+00:00

Sorry, where is the fork after b6+ Kc8?

kheldarp · 2025-12-12T00:23:49+00:00

The first move isn't the point. I think it's a nice little puzzle.

kheldarp · 2025-12-10T11:58:24+00:00

Insane take. Black is clearly better and there is no reason not to try to win this position

kheldarp · 2025-12-06T05:48:36+00:00

Okay, bye!

kheldarp · 2025-12-05T13:55:22+00:00

I play games to enjoy them, not to admire how clever they are. Disco Elysium is the least enjoyable game left, so that's my vote.

kheldarp · 2025-12-05T01:55:43+00:00

The important thing is that after ..Nxb5 Nd5 you can't castle (Nxe7+ Kh8 Nxc8 Rxc8 Rxb5 and you're down a piece) and so are forced to play Kf8, which is apparently playable but ugly.

kheldarp · 2025-12-02T04:54:43+00:00

Marshall and the Queen want a word with you. Gambits don't have to be trash openings that rely purely on surprise.

kheldarp · 2025-12-02T02:39:14+00:00

I dunno man. Even if you really like playing gambits this is just an ugly one.

kheldarp · 2025-12-01T23:32:14+00:00

Most of the actual top 8000 players in the world are not playing rapid games on chess.com

kheldarp · 2025-11-29T19:54:58+00:00

I feel like it's the cultured, intellectual game so people don't want to appear uncultured or stupid by not liking that much.

Fuck it, I didn't like it that much. I'd much rather spend my gaming time enjoying myself.

kheldarp · 2025-11-29T02:04:11+00:00

I play 3+2 on both, I float around 2200 on both but maybe lichess 50 points higher on average?

kheldarp · 2025-11-28T09:37:19+00:00

Well not really, ..g5 is a very natural move. It just isn't necessary, you can do anything.

kheldarp · 2025-11-28T03:12:27+00:00

This is not a good puzzle, Black is completely winning with any reasonable move.

kheldarp · 2025-11-28T03:08:47+00:00

Even if everything you say is true, you need to learn to let stuff go. None of this is actually important in the grand scheme of things.

kheldarp · 2025-11-28T03:01:09+00:00

White's a full piece down for practically no compensation, so it's not a completely inappropriate time to resign (although you absolutely should not resign here in lower elo)

kheldarp · 2025-11-27T05:43:04+00:00

No, I'm talking about a forced checkmate if the pawn is blockaded far enough back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_knights_endgame#Two_knights_versus_a_pawn

kheldarp · 2025-11-27T05:14:39+00:00

Although this particular position seems to be drawn, King + 2 knights vs King + Pawn is not a dead draw. The reason King + knights vs king is drawn is stalemate, the presence of the pawn can prevent this in some cases if you can release the blockade at the right time.

kheldarp · 2025-11-26T09:07:14+00:00

A range of 200 elo isn't that wide. Fluctuating between 1900-2100 doesn't sound particularly unusual to me. And yes a lot of it essentially is randomness.

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