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RE: Chess
February 9, 2023 at 1:26 pm
(February 9, 2023 at 7:17 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: I learned to play chess when I was in 7th or 8th grade. I've loved board games all my life, but chess was the most nerve-wracking game I've ever played. I pretty much gave it up by the late 1980's.

I once played 3 rounds of full-length over-the-board games in the same day, and it was the most mentally tiring thing I've done in my life.

I don't know if I'll ever do full-length games again.  I like rapid games, but suck at blitz.
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RE: Chess
February 10, 2023 at 9:35 pm (This post was last modified: February 10, 2023 at 9:36 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(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.
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RE: Chess
April 22, 2023 at 6:41 pm
(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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RE: Chess
April 22, 2023 at 7:33 pm
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