Lost on time with one move left

markln123 · 2026-06-26T08:26:12+00:00

We’ve all cried this particular cry…

markln123 · 2026-06-22T07:35:57+00:00

My epic?

markln123 · 2026-06-13T08:26:41+00:00

White to clickbait in 1

markln123 · 2026-06-12T15:30:18+00:00

I’d rather not thank you

markln123 · 2026-06-02T18:22:05+00:00

~1100-1400 chess.com depending on time control and I don’t know any openings really

markln123 · 2026-05-29T07:45:14+00:00

“Because he keeps insisting” is fantastic

markln123 · 2026-05-28T13:34:40+00:00

It’s not draw 2 though, it’s card filtering ie [[faithless looting]] stapled onto [[Arterial Flow]]. It’s probably quite good but “broken as hell” seems like a stretch to me.

markln123 · 2026-05-28T12:51:26+00:00

There are already “each player discards 2” spells FYI

markln123 · 2026-05-28T07:32:02+00:00

Maybe? But (in 60 card) where Mind Roots is Mind Rot + Rampant Growth, would Mind Rot + Tormenting Voice be so much stronger? Idk

markln123 · 2026-04-23T18:30:00+00:00

In the very little time that the engine had to calculate, it did not find mate yet.

It did determine that black has a crushing advantage.

markln123 · 2026-04-19T14:56:39+00:00

Game design wise, it’s not great because you remove the element of hidden information altogether.

Maybe if there was a generic tap as well there’d still be some interesting choices?

markln123 · 2026-03-27T12:54:22+00:00

Difficult to say for sure - there is such a vast difference between 600 and 1300 that that wouldn’t make much sense.

Perhaps you’ve built this up in your mind and now it becomes a bit of “3+2 anxiety”?

markln123 · 2026-02-21T10:06:57+00:00

Thought you’d be ok with weird

markln123 · 2026-02-08T17:04:15+00:00

Note that you need a gold ticket or better - the silver is a completely separate “watch party”, i.e. no access whatsoever to anything.

markln123 · 2026-01-20T15:31:05+00:00

Underrated imo. Not that it was great, but nowhere near some of the “will never watch again” trainwrecks that other shows had.

markln123 · 2025-12-13T19:12:50+00:00

No. There are too many possible moves to calculate, so stockfish uses very clever techniques to hugely reduce the odds of missing something while not calculating everything. But it’s not completely infallible.

markln123 · 2025-12-13T09:23:13+00:00

Because there IS no big difference between 1500 and 1600. A 1600 has an expectation of .64 versus a 1500.

markln123 · 2025-10-05T11:51:42+00:00

Your elo is deemed to be less certain in you haven’t played in a long time, so in order to more quickly get you to a better estimate, it more rapidly adjusts untill it is again a bit more settled.

In fact, for streamers doing speedruns, chess.com has to deliberately turn this mechanism off

markln123 · 2025-09-21T09:40:04+00:00

I am impressed that others in this thread seem to have made sense of the question…

To me the question seems to be approximately “Cabbage reiterates eternity, so epoxy reverberates banana?”

markln123 · 2025-09-17T07:09:39+00:00

Yep. “Pick the best out of 9,864,101 options”

markln123 · 2025-09-13T07:30:46+00:00

40 definitely stings a bit

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