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New chess theory

submitted by Dindu to Chess 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 10:37:00 ago (+4/-1)     (Chess)

Tldr conclusion: the difference between 1500 and 1550 is absolute

If you sink down below fourteen hundred, maybe you played a bunch of games half asleep or distracted, you encounter players that effortlessly win games. I look at their accounts and often they use a 400 point opponent spread, so they play 1700s as often as 900s. Maybe that makes a great bad chess player

You can get stuck down there on account of some wild visionaries in the 1300s.

But! If you rise back above 1450 you encounter complete retards who make you say outloud "that's the 4th retard in a row!"

If I get to 1450 I very quickly pass through to 1550 where you then encounter actually great chess players. I cannot pass 1550 because I am not smart and dont learn. But that window of idiots around 1500 is pretty amazing.


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[ - ] BushChuck 1 point 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 11:54:51 ago (+1/-0)

@graydragon

[ - ] Dindu [op] 0 points 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 11:58:10 ago (+0/-0)

gray dragons gonna tell me i'm retarded huh

[ - ] BushChuck 1 point 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 11:59:51 ago (+1/-0)

Probably not.

But he's an 1800.

[ - ] Dindu [op] 1 point 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 12:02:22 ago (+1/-0)*

To get past sixteen hundred you have to understand traps not by memory but by recognition. That's the trick I think. After that you have to understand all that positional stuff.

Most traps you develop early in the game. And if it doesn't happen it doesn't happen. But if you can identify the structure later in the game that's killing it

[ - ] FreeinTX 1 point 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 10:40:48 ago (+1/-0)

Lichess or wut?

[ - ] Dindu [op] 0 points 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 10:42:03 ago (+0/-0)

Chess.com. lichess your score will be 250 higher. I don't feel at home in that app for some reason.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 11:41:20 ago (+1/-0)

The app certainly needs a lot of work.

[ - ] Dindu [op] 1 point 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 11:45:57 ago (+1/-0)

They are a lot of good qualities. It is great in ways. I think the board is too small maybe. Presentation overall is like you're on a Russian spaceship in 1985

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 11:42:26 ago (+0/-0)

I guess it depends on how well you can use your AI assistant. Relying solely on the AI will keep you stuck in the lower levels.

[ - ] Monica 0 points 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 10:58:54 ago (+0/-0)

Try playing without a memorized set of moves.

[ - ] Dindu [op] 0 points 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 11:03:53 ago (+0/-0)

Memory can only get you to a basic setup and that's not where the game is won. You can diffuse a king's gambit pretty easily and I don't even search for the answers to those problems. I just keep trying solutions. Now if I do find a solution, yes that becomes a memorized move, but it should still be pretty early on.

[ - ] JustALover 0 points 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 14:17:26 ago (+0/-0)

Did you say Fischer Random Chess?

Poor Bobby had to invent that shit since normal chess was just too easy to memorize.

[ - ] Whatthefuck 0 points 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 10:43:09 ago (+0/-0)

It's because new accounts start with a 1500 rating before dropping like a stone.

[ - ] Dindu [op] 0 points 4 weeksApr 6, 2024 10:44:52 ago (+0/-0)

I thought that but I always take a peek to avoid cheaters. Very rare to play a raw account. I think it is some kind of arrogance that hits the new 1500s. They're nigger rich.