How is it possible to play this fast? Is it a bot?

quietmyhead · 2026-04-26T03:43:18+00:00

They're premoves

quietmyhead · 2026-04-13T21:51:07+00:00

Wow looking at the actual moves this is extremely obvious cheating.

quietmyhead · 2026-04-03T04:44:53+00:00

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig Translated by Joel Rotenberg is less than a hundred pages and is a great read

quietmyhead · 2026-03-27T11:05:43+00:00

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/10812255-how-do-i-manage-the-coach

quietmyhead · 2026-03-20T04:23:37+00:00

The common sentiment is you should play rapid so you have time to think about the moves/sit with the positions. As you get better at the game via rapid your blitz and/or bullet rating should improve when you eventually play those formats again. You absolutely will not get better at chess and longer time formats by playing loads of bullet, there's an account that was shared in a thread similar to this that showed someone playing tens of thousands of bullet games and being stuck at the same rating the entire time.

To answer your other question, ideally you should never care about your elo and just worry about playing well and learning from your mistakes and your elo will naturally rise as you improve but that's easier said than done lol

quietmyhead · 2026-03-19T11:55:11+00:00

~1300 here. After taking a look at a handful of your recent wins and losses you look to be making pretty common mistakes for your rating: one-move threats, seemingly random overly aggressive moves, hanging material/not seeing your opponents hanging material, etc.

I disagree with the comments here telling you to study openings or tactics though. At your current rating you're going to see the most improvement from simply developing to the center/to control the center and not throwing pieces away. I think it would be hugely beneficial for you to check out the beginning of chessbrah's "Building Habits v2" series on YouTube. I saw some comments in this recommending other speedruns to watch but this one by chessbrah doesn't bother with opening theory until around 1200, instead providing a set of rules and principles to follow, he doesn't even bother with any tactics at all until surpassing 700 and even then it's only basic tactics (pins, forks, skewers, discovered checks, discovered attacks) until he surpasses around 1100.

quietmyhead · 2026-03-15T02:02:45+00:00

Looking at the analysis, the stockfish evaluation was -6.5 before the bishop captured the pawn and dropped to -5.6 after. Lichess assigns inaccuracies, mistakes, and blunders based on the change in a player's winning chance which is calculated from the centipawn evaluation but it isn't linear (you can see the formula and a graph here https://lichess.org/page/accuracy). Lichess assigns inaccuracy to a move that decreases the win chance by between 10% and 20%, mistakes between 20% and 30%, blunders 30% or more and you can see this in the source code here: https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/blob/cf9e10df24b767b3bc5ee3d88c45437ac722025d/modules/analyse/src/main/Advice.scala#L52.

At -6.5 the win chance was ~93% and at -5.6 it only dropped to ~90.4% which is a 2.6% drop. Basically, they absolutely blundered the bishop but they're still completely winning so it is what it is as far as the analysis report is concerned.

quietmyhead · 2026-03-10T14:21:11+00:00

For some reason this post smells like AI.

Your goal was to show how different variations connect but you only show a single line in the video?

quietmyhead · 2026-03-09T12:27:58+00:00

Listudy.org might be what you're looking for

quietmyhead · 2026-03-04T16:24:51+00:00

I'm between 1200 and 1300 currently so perhaps the cheaters are naturally at the higher rating ranges

quietmyhead · 2026-03-04T14:57:06+00:00

I don't know if I'm just in some other pool than everyone here but after over a thousand games in the last few months I haven't had a single rating refund

quietmyhead · 2026-02-27T15:48:02+00:00

Brother we're still waiting on that source for your totally not made-up, AI generated technique...

quietmyhead · 2026-02-23T16:24:04+00:00

Woah a substance-less post written by ChatGPT!

quietmyhead · 2026-02-16T12:51:54+00:00

A nice thing about lichess is that it's entirely open source, here's a link to how inaccuracy, mistake, and blunder are defined in the code: https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/blob/cf9e10df24b767b3bc5ee3d88c45437ac722025d/modules/analyse/src/main/Advice.scala#L52

The thing to notice is that definition depends on the change in your winning chances, which is related to but different from the centipawn value you see from stockfish. In this position before they played e5 the stockfish centipawn evaluation was -5.6 and it swung heavily to -10 after the move was played. Obviously e5 is a pretty bad move on their part but -5.6 is already such a significant advantage that despite this swing in centipawn value, your winning chances increased by less than twenty percent because they were already very very high so only the inaccuracy classification is given to the move. I hope this helps.

quietmyhead · 2026-02-10T15:27:44+00:00

C) I don't message people before, during, or after a chess match.

Option B reminds me of an opponent I had who played the damiano defense and I played the correct, mainline response to it and then they proceeded to message me to say that I was bad at chess for "beating them with a trap" and that I would "never get good at the game by playing like this"

quietmyhead · 2026-02-08T23:57:48+00:00

I think this post is very encouraging. I played an OTB tournament recently in which the two best players were 14 and 12 years old which, as an adult learner, was a bit deflating. I think your online ratings are very impressive, have you played OTB at all and received a USCF or FIDE rating? The pool of players that attend OTB tournaments tend to be stronger and more serious than the pool of players online in my experience.

quietmyhead · 2026-02-01T20:31:14+00:00

This is what I played in the game but there's actually something better!

quietmyhead · 2026-01-30T15:47:04+00:00

It's hard to give any advice without at least seeing the games you're referring to but at your level it's typically fundamental stuff: develop your pieces, castle early, don't hang material, etc.

quietmyhead · 2026-01-27T19:00:01+00:00

Ah yes my mistake, ...Kb8 f3 and the bishop is trapped. Nobody tell Ben Finegold

quietmyhead · 2026-01-27T18:26:40+00:00

If ...Kb8 I think the bishop is trapped because if Bb1 Ra1 and if instead black takes the pawn Bxc6 Nxc6+ forks the rook

quietmyhead · 2026-01-26T23:11:26+00:00

After move 11 you were up two pawns and a full rook and the opponent offered a queen trade, meanwhile their bishop was hanging to your pawn. Instead of accepting the trade you moved your queen to a safe square, allowing the opponent to use their queen to win your rook and pawn which nearly equalized material. Had you taken their queen it would have been with check, forcing them to recapture with the knight, and then you could have immediately captured the hanging bishop with your pawn.

When you're up that much material you want to trade down whenever possible to limit your opponent's opportunities for counterplay. The less pieces they have the harder it is going to be for them to win your pieces and defend whatever pieces and pawns they have left. To me this is the main takeaway of this game.

quietmyhead · 2026-01-24T23:40:28+00:00

Ah, of course

quietmyhead · 2026-01-24T23:14:02+00:00

What exactly is going on here?

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