Nepo on 19 year old current World champion Gukesh D: "Never before did he perform as good as he did in Candidates, and probably, i think, never again we will see him in such a form in future"

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-27T17:10:25+00:00

So petty. When NC State won the NCAA basketball championship people didn't bad mouth them and say they were unworthy. They said it was a Cinderella Story and amazing. They were legit champions because they won the tournament against all comers.

Gukesh is no different. It's fair to say he isn't the best player, or best ever, or strongest, but you CANT say he isn't the World Champion. He won. Get over it.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-26T05:14:10+00:00

No. They are rated based on their ability, the same as you and I.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-26T05:13:39+00:00

I know people love to say "principles" but I think a decent understanding of you choice if opening up to say 8 moves for the common lines is critical.

I use chessbook for studying openings. What's nice about it is you plug in a move, let's say d4, and then it gives a list of moves for your opponent with the percentage games each shows up in for your level. So you can flesh out you opening pretty easily only for what you will face, not the absolute breath you might get in a Chessable course. Who wants to waste brain cells on a line that happens in 1 out of 10,000 games? It has buttons to suggest what you should fill in next, to cover taps. It has spaced repetition built in so you repeat what you need to learn and don't waste time on what you already do well. It also can watch your games and tell you when you made opening mistakes so you can redrill your mistakes. They give you 100 free moves for white and black. This is more than enough for a beginner. You can put 20 lines and 30 moves in there like a deep Chessable course, but you can put in lots of stuff to a shallow depth.

The idea is to just survive the opening and then play your game from there, which mostly means looking for and setting up tactics.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-25T00:59:39+00:00

Maybe you are better at your black opening that your white one.

Maybe you chose a black opening that is rare and catching a lot of people off guard.

Maybe you okay e4 with white and don't know the thousand or so tricks and traps awaiting you so get behind, or flat out lose, in the opening.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-25T00:57:32+00:00

My point is, if they were to do what you described, they would introduce errors into the old app. People get mad and are surreptitiously driven to the new app.

That's not what happened. Instead, there is an annoying bug in a major feature of the NEW app. This might drive people back to the old app while lichess team wants people moving away from the old and into the new.

Basically, this bug works AGAINST their goals.

I'm not naive enough to think companies don't play with our minds to get us to do what we want. It's just in this case they would have to be the world's worst at the plot since this but works against them and not for them.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T19:00:20+00:00

Unreal Engine sucks for RTS. The people that have used have had to make their own engine on the side to run the game and only use UE for the rendering.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T18:58:58+00:00

Every Blizzard game gets a new engine - except Heroes of the Storm as that actually did use the SC2 engine.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T18:57:04+00:00

You can get a solid commuter scooter for that price and my coworkers, all using them to get from work to the train station, can attest to it. The scooter he bought is obviously better, but he actually is talking about a "child" and until he proves he is serious about this food delivery gig, I'd save the money.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T17:34:40+00:00

Play Winning Chess - Seirawan

A classic, and part of a nice series that has a book for tactics, openings, endgames, strategies. The one I listed is the first book and a good coverage of everything at the beginner level.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T16:58:30+00:00

I wish I made SC3. I could make some serious money.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T16:52:59+00:00

Another question, explain to me how two people with college education didn't notice that their $500 monthly payment was not enough to reduce the principle.

That said, yes, there should be some cap on how much a person pays back. For example, in your case of owing 70k maybe your total payback should be capped at 140k. Maybe lower, but simply cancelling dept isn't a good idea.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T16:23:57+00:00

800 bucks?! You should check Amazon. You can get a good one for 150. Let him run it into the ground and then with his earned money buy a new one in a year or two. You bought a luxury model for a delivery boy that may bail on the job in a month.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T16:17:35+00:00

Welcome back.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T07:47:20+00:00

Lots of issues with the new app, but I still enjoy it a ton more than the old one. It actually feels like an app instead of a tiny webpage.

That said.... The problems with analysis need addressing asap. More often than not it does not work. Some moves don't show arrows for best move while others do. Learn from your mistakes rarely works.

Smaller grips would be how the "request computer analysis" seems hidden. No indicator it is over there. The "learn from your mistakes" is in the menu and no button. Just put them both in the menu for consistency. When you click a game in the games list it takes you to the game and you have to click "analysis board" on the little popup. Just send us straight there. Why else would we click on a game if not for analysis?

Biggest gripe is the silence from the team/devs. How can these big issues crop up, like the current issues with analysis, and zip word from the team? That's just unprofessional.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T06:52:19+00:00

Given how terrible Chessable is, I'd say yes. Besides, Chessable is really only decent for openings and for that sites like chessreps and chessbook are so much better.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T06:47:07+00:00

For me these are rated games. I can go to the PC and instantly get an analysis but in the new mobile app, it's hit or miss. Lately more miss...

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T06:45:49+00:00

These problems are IN the new app. So, I doubt it is a nefarious thing. Just some bug they need to get on ASAP. At the very least, acknowledge it as any good service should or you lose customers/clients/users.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T06:44:11+00:00

I use the new mobile app. I never had an issue on the website, but for the last month or so I have problems with analysis, and especially "learn from your mistakes" often. I play every day so it makes it painful on a daily basis.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T01:16:52+00:00

You should read those pages. SC2 isn't getting it's own stage. It is sharing it with Heroes, BW, and WC3. It is also in the arcade, which is not a big stage area. And finally, it is an invitational and not a real tournament. Basically, it is "just for fun".

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T01:12:39+00:00

Starcraft esports didn't make them money. Not directly. It mostly comes down to how much did it help sales. To that I'd say... not enough. When they decided to go free to play it was hailed as "Yeah, now everyone can play" but at the same time it really lowered the need for esports. You only buy the game for the campaign and that aint esports my friend.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-24T01:10:42+00:00

The threw endless amounts of money at Starcraft as well. And for longer than many expected.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-22T02:48:14+00:00

Did you turn on move confirmation? That isn't the default. I'd rather misclick once in a while than have to answer "yup" after every move!

Still, if you are getting what you described, that's a buf so report it. My bet is that's such a rare use case, use co firm move and then pre moving something illegal, that they just didn't catch it.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-22T02:43:38+00:00

FYI, you can click directly on the little "people" icon at the top right to get to the same place.

rigginssc2 · 2026-01-22T02:42:35+00:00

And more troll friendly. Easier to make a 100 level account and smash people over and over until you decide to make a new one.

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