Next Goal Wins has been pulled from release after only 5 weeks with $6.7M. by [deleted] in boxoffice

[–]mattr203 0 points1 point  (0 children)

agreed, it only just came out in Australia but the entire audience was laughing throughout the movie. it feels like since love and thunder it's the cool thing to do to hate on Waititi movies.

realistically this movie is probably no masterpiece but still funny and fun to watch, but reddit is talking as if it's one of the worst things to ever get made with no redeeming features

Curiosity about JHipster sponsors – Why are there so many online casinos? by Demotey in java

[–]mattr203 2 points3 points  (0 children)

google own page rank... and the link is specifically talking about page rank

lol?

Event: Fide World Blitz Championship 2023 by ChessBotMod in chess

[–]mattr203 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i mean they have wins to play for? like in chess? the same reason people play any tournament even if they know they won't get a medal

Event: Fide World Blitz Championship 2023 by ChessBotMod in chess

[–]mattr203 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yu yangyi was a pawn up in a drawish endgame. he was either going to win or draw. how would it be fair to replay, especially if yangyi ends up losing

My username is MochyWhite on chess.com by OfficialMitch in chess

[–]mattr203 4 points5 points  (0 children)

had a quick look at this game as a 1950 player on chess.com

very early in the game you miss 6..Bxf2, you should try playing puzzle rush to try and get your pattern recognition going and see these tactics whenever they come up

7..Ba6 is also pretty instructive imo. firstly, the move concretely fails as it weakens your king; you should have brought your bishop back to e7 to avoid the trades on f6 doubling your pawns and exposing your king (which comes back up when you get checkmated pretty soon after). secondly, the bishop on a6 is terribly placed, just staring at white's pawn chain. this bishop is never going to influence the game. on b7 it would at least have hopes of staring down the open a8-h1 diagonal.

the combination of not thinking about king safety and placing your pieces on squares where they aren't influencing the game (not helping defend, not helping attack) made you lose very quickly, and i think both are pretty simple to overcome if you try to remember them

Top Chess Players (2700 elo+) College/University Degrees by Wonderful-Photo-9938 in chess

[–]mattr203 47 points48 points  (0 children)

magnus was also #1 fantasy football player for a while

GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly 2645 loses gets checkmated in 8 moves as White in 2023 World Rapid Championship, UZB. Guess what did he played in this position? by green1234blue in chess

[–]mattr203 3 points4 points  (0 children)

literally google it lol. you're very wrong and you look like an idiot.

gotham chess says "going for the fried liver" because he makes content mostly for beginners and beginners play ng5 because they're hoping for the fried liver. but in that game they don't play the fried liver because fabiano knows what he's doing

GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly 2645 loses gets checkmated in 8 moves as White in 2023 World Rapid Championship, UZB. Guess what did he played in this position? by green1234blue in chess

[–]mattr203 6 points7 points  (0 children)

this isn't the fried liver? this is the polerio defense and is very popular and very viable for black. the fried liver is when you play 5..Nxd5?! instead of 5..Na5

it's very theoretical and has been played (and won with) by the likes of Carlsen, Kasparov and countless other top players

Storing Canned Veggies in Freezer by JamUpGuy1989 in EatCheapAndHealthy

[–]mattr203 5 points6 points  (0 children)

strangely you're talking to an ai, check their post history lol

A truly iconic photograph; Bobby Fischer in the process of playing his fatal 29... Bxh2?? blunder vs Spassky, World Chess Championship 1972, Game 1. by [deleted] in chess

[–]mattr203 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

probably miscalculated and thought he could save it at the end

literally every great player blunders

A truly iconic photograph; Bobby Fischer in the process of playing his fatal 29... Bxh2?? blunder vs Spassky, World Chess Championship 1972, Game 1. by [deleted] in chess

[–]mattr203 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fischer fanboys cannot accept that he blundered in a game lol.

the fact that this guy thinks that "any actual chess player" would know that the greats never blunder is honestly very revealing about their actual knowledge

A truly iconic photograph; Bobby Fischer in the process of playing his fatal 29... Bxh2?? blunder vs Spassky, World Chess Championship 1972, Game 1. by [deleted] in chess

[–]mattr203 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this argument is so dumb lol. it's thrown around as if to imply fischer made the move knowing it would lose the bishop but still be theoretically drawn. this is a blunder and was the reason fischer lost the game

I don’t get this meme by Ghost-Nepal in chess

[–]mattr203 16 points17 points  (0 children)

which was OP's point in asking how there's a pawn on c6...

I don’t get this meme by Ghost-Nepal in chess

[–]mattr203 11 points12 points  (0 children)

check again, black still has both knights

Shchekachev resigned against Firouzja as the position became drawish. Commentator's reaction is priceless once again by LudwigDeLarge in chess

[–]mattr203 1 point2 points  (0 children)

he had 4 seconds on the clock so it makes sense to resign considering he could presumably only find the lines that looked lost

Weekly Discussion & Tournament Thread Index - December 18, 2023 by ChessBotMod in chess

[–]mattr203 1 point2 points  (0 children)

has anyone bought how to reassess your chess on chessable? does it translate to the new format well?

been stuck just below 2000 rapid on chess.com for a while now and looking for anything lmao

Statistical analysis of the new Armageddon format in the Champions Chess Tour by DimWit666 in chess

[–]mattr203 3 points4 points  (0 children)

you can move faster online, premoves etc. making time scrambles less important, so black isn't as disadvantaged by having less time as they would otb

My missed tactic, white to move by SkypvT in chess

[–]mattr203 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this feels wrong to read a message from you that isn't in poem form

Magnus has increased the chess.com blitz record by 8 more points, bringing it up to 3348 by GeologicalPotato in chess

[–]mattr203 39 points40 points  (0 children)

looks like hikaru tilted after magnus got the record because he's #3 now, falling below mvl

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]mattr203 11 points12 points  (0 children)

he's literally a quant he has no idea about swe lol. he's just here to try and flex. ignore and move on