You weathered my queenside attack well, and I was too focused on offense, not realizing my weak kingside was left just open enough for that strongly placed Knight and queen to score a knockout.
Fun games, and nice writeup. I would love a rubber match some time.
rubbermatch would be great. i want to stream the whole thing next time and do commentary, would make a great highlight!
bored, wanna stream some chess, down to play time controls today if needed
@jsnlv @vikram @rypietrowski
iām getting chess satiated, iāve only felt like playing random or ai games. i can play one probably if itās quick
fun game, meauxdal. yeah to sum it up i think the rooks needed to get to c and b files which were the ones that could have been opened with that pawn setup. iām not sure castling kingside would have been better, i might have just castled queenside and just moved the king over to a file. that and the leaving the space for the knights on the kingside
and yeah the tactical value of not trading pawns is kinda incidental to me just liking games with a good amount of pawns on the board
fyi, i made a discord for this
which is why there hasnāt been as much activity here. iāll edit this permalink into the OP
just played a sick ai game
sorry about resigning our last game @vikram i was too disgusted with absolutely fucking myself for absolutely no reason to continue playing it
engine said it was still a draw but iām 100% sure i would have continued playing like complete shit and losing anyway
you played well to come back but iām just absolutely in contempt of myself right now
sorry again
no need to be sorry. thatās chess. I spent most of the game in contempt of my own self - I hadnāt played basically since the last game we played and it showed. so I was just glad to get back to an even position.
So Iāve hanging out in meauxdalās discord for a couple months now, playing on Lichess, itās been fun. Iāve just been doing my usual thing of looking to play cool games
This was a cool one, I like having long pawn chains and using all the pieces positionally at once. So I was able to do that and have a bunch of piece maneuvering. Also I ended up castling my king into danger so I ended up moving it back 5 moves in a row to further away that it started wtih. And then I lost on time.
This game kinda just sucked. I tried to do a thing to open a file for the rook but I overlooked a very simple move. So I ended up with both knights chilling out with the king. Otherwise it wasnāt that interesting
This is probably the closest one Iāve had to an aesthetically cool game. I avoided playing some simpler moves that would have ended it quickly and the level of play wasnāt too terribly high, so it wasnāt quite a Morphy game or anything. But it had a lot of fun sacrifices and just general things I like to play in it
massive necro:
iām playing a correspondence game. having trouble deciding what the best move is here
I would probably d4. keep developing
F5, be bold. Send them running.
theyāre white though I think!
I know!
Oh wait.
Nevermind.
F4, be bold. Send them running.
Wait! Whatās the risk with F5? Pawns canāt reach you, knights canāt reach you, bishop canāt reach you. Theyād have to make at least two moves to take the piece.
Theyād get the knight but then youād get theirs with a pawn.
