(February 10, 2023 at 9:35 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(February 7, 2023 at 8:35 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Anyone tried chess.com?
I've been bored doing solo night shifts recently so I got back into chess.
I get scored at around 1500 on this site, unless I make major blunders which I often do when I'm tired.
There's so much AI to go against and it's easy to play against other people.
I started playing maybe a month or two ago. I got interested after the Magnus vs Hans scandal; plus some episodes I heard on the Lex Fridman podcast. I'm definitely taking part in this new Chess resurgence: Chess.com has been at capacity and crashing all month it seems like.
I'm at 800 on rapid so far.
I just got past 900 on rapid after several ups and downs.
I still find that most my wins are from blunders, but they're blunders that I encourage by things like constantly attacking their queen.
I'm a really sore loser though and get emotional on losing streaks, it makes me nervous to play if the last day I played and I was on a winning streak. My rating going up means harder opponents.
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