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Rob Knoxville Smokies

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What chess app are you guys using? I usually play through lichess.

We're using Chess Time, which I'd never heard of before. I play on chess.com and lichess, most of the time. Limehouse on lichess and Limehouse2 on chess.com.

 

Cubbieblue66 on lichess.

 

I just pulled your profile and holy hell are you better than me. I just started learning last year.

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You can't take serious competitive chess online because they'll all cheat. Every last one of them will cheat. There's not a dude over 2700 who wouldn't be running Stockfish on three phones at once. Nakamura would probably forget to deny it.

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Chess is kind of a miserable social game because small different skills makes the game completely lopsided. I'm going to absolutely mop the floor with 99% of people, get horsewhipped by 0.5%, and have a good fun time with the other .5%.
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Rob Knoxville Smokies

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Chess is kind of a miserable social game because small different skills makes the game completely lopsided. I'm going to absolutely mop the floor with 99% of people, get horsewhipped by 0.5%, and have a good fun time with the other .5%.

 

Try getting drunk with a friend and playing. Winner has to chug. It equalizes skill levels pretty quickly.

JudasIscariotTheBird Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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Chess is kind of a miserable social game because small different skills makes the game completely lopsided. I'm going to absolutely mop the floor with 99% of people, get horsewhipped by 0.5%, and have a good fun time with the other .5%.

There's a decent chance I'm in one of those .5%. We should play. Regular show is at least a good 500 points below me, but it was a good game. I had a big advantage after 3 moves...but I might have been losing at one point toward the end of the middle game.

 

And as far as doing online chess at the top level...just live stream it over a board with spectators at both locations. No easier or harder to cheat like that than it is in person. Die hards will b1tch about not being face to face but they can cry in their stale beers.

JudasIscariotTheBird Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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Chess is kind of a miserable social game because small different skills makes the game completely lopsided. I'm going to absolutely mop the floor with 99% of people, get horsewhipped by 0.5%, and have a good fun time with the other .5%.

 

Try getting drunk with a friend and playing. Winner has to chug. It equalizes skill levels pretty quickly.

One of my coworker's husband is a national master, and we play whenever we hang out together. Peer pressure and wine bottles have definitely tilted the overall results closer to even than they would be otherwise. He tries to get my daughters to distract me, but having them move the pieces for me is actually a pretty good "last check" mechanism.

JudasIscariotTheBird Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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What chess app are you guys using? I usually play through lichess.

We're using Chess Time, which I'd never heard of before. I play on chess.com and lichess, most of the time. Limehouse on lichess and Limehouse2 on chess.com.

 

Cubbieblue66 on lichess.

 

I just pulled your profile and holy hell are you better than me. I just started learning last year.

Lessons are always free. I'm a bit of a speed chess slob and I play bullsh1t openings to drag actually good players into murky waters. If you are wanting to get into it, "My System" by Nimzowitch is the nuts. Get it.

weis21 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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i thought i really missed sports. i've never wanted sports back more than now. to simply derail this thread.

 

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Regular Show ACL Cubs

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i thought i really missed sports. i've never wanted sports back more than now. to simply derail this thread.

 

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Seriously, what are you talking about lol? You do know you don't have to post in threads if you don't care about whatever is being discussed in said thread...

Regular Show ACL Cubs

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We don't need to pile on weis21.

 

He's a good dude. It was a bad joke and a bad post... and then a bad response lol.

 

Some posters do legit "derail threads" here with stupid banter -- they're the ones that deserve our collective scorn and ridicule.

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