Who is your favourite chess player? Feel free to share some of their games that you consider representative, interesting, or simply beautiful.
Petrosian. Some say his style of play is boring (sometimes it is), but the way he asphyxiated his opponent is fascinating.
The only player who could defeat invictus Bobby in the 1971 candidates.
Deep Blue had a cold calculated approach unlike any other.
Sota Fujii
Anonymous :
20 days ago :
No.2425
>>2433
>>2425
>are some people just not built for it?
Not at all, but remember that it's just a game after all. If it doesn't appeal to you, that's fine.
I've played the game since I was 12. I love it, it's one of my favourite hobbies. Nowadays I mostly enjoy watching it being played at the highest levels (historical games and contemporary tourneys, such as Tata Steel, Titled tuesdays, Candidates, and now this "Freestyle" thing), that's why I made the post.
However, when I wanted to play it and become the strongest I could I often ended up being burnt-out. It can be brutal sometimes, LOL. In these moments I liked to play variants or other board games, v.g. go and shogi.
If you want to give it a shot, though, I recommend watching the big names" (Eric Rosen, Naroditsky, Chessbrah) and some streams here and there by elite players.
Also, try to play longer time controls (imho they are less luck-based and, as such, less frustrating) and limit yourself to 2-3 games per dah if you tend to get tilted or frustrated uoon defeat. Doing this helped me reach my highest elo online (1927 on chess com), when I was playing a game per day and usually winning 70-80% of my games. If I were to play many games per day, I'm sure I wouldn't have crossed 1500, as I used to tilt and lose like a hundred points without realizing.
Anyway, enjoy it if you decide go get back to the game.
anons how do you into chess? i try to play it every couple of months, but im pretty bad and fail hard. are some people just not built for it?
Anonymous :
20 days ago :
No.2433
>>2434
>>2433
Me personally, I don't play regularly but I'm a big fan of Danya's YouTube content and still like a puzzle here and there. It's nice to be able to enjoy and appreciate the game without having to get into a competitive mindset :)
>>2425
anons how do you into chess? i try to play it every couple of months, but im pretty bad and fail hard. are some people just not built for it?
>are some people just not built for it?
Not at all, but remember that it's just a game after all. If it doesn't appeal to you, that's fine.
I've played the game since I was 12. I love it, it's one of my favourite hobbies. Nowadays I mostly enjoy watching it being played at the highest levels (historical games and contemporary tourneys, such as Tata Steel, Titled tuesdays, Candidates, and now this "Freestyle" thing), that's why I made the post.
However, when I wanted to play it and become the strongest I could I often ended up being burnt-out. It can be brutal sometimes, LOL. In these moments I liked to play variants or other board games, v.g. go and shogi.
If you want to give it a shot, though, I recommend watching the big names" (Eric Rosen, Naroditsky, Chessbrah) and some streams here and there by elite players.
Also, try to play longer time controls (imho they are less luck-based and, as such, less frustrating) and limit yourself to 2-3 games per dah if you tend to get tilted or frustrated uoon defeat. Doing this helped me reach my highest elo online (1927 on chess com), when I was playing a game per day and usually winning 70-80% of my games. If I were to play many games per day, I'm sure I wouldn't have crossed 1500, as I used to tilt and lose like a hundred points without realizing.
Anyway, enjoy it if you decide go get back to the game.
>>2433
>>2425
>are some people just not built for it?
Not at all, but remember that it's just a game after all. If it doesn't appeal to you, that's fine.
I've played the game since I was 12. I love it, it's one of my favourite hobbies. Nowadays I mostly enjoy watching it being played at the highest levels (historical games and contemporary tourneys, such as Tata Steel, Titled tuesdays, Candidates, and now this "Freestyle" thing), that's why I made the post.
However, when I wanted to play it and become the strongest I could I often ended up being burnt-out. It can be brutal sometimes, LOL. In these moments I liked to play variants or other board games, v.g. go and shogi.
If you want to give it a shot, though, I recommend watching the big names" (Eric Rosen, Naroditsky, Chessbrah) and some streams here and there by elite players.
Also, try to play longer time controls (imho they are less luck-based and, as such, less frustrating) and limit yourself to 2-3 games per dah if you tend to get tilted or frustrated uoon defeat. Doing this helped me reach my highest elo online (1927 on chess com), when I was playing a game per day and usually winning 70-80% of my games. If I were to play many games per day, I'm sure I wouldn't have crossed 1500, as I used to tilt and lose like a hundred points without realizing.
Anyway, enjoy it if you decide go get back to the game.
Me personally, I don't play regularly but I'm a big fan of Danya's YouTube content and still like a puzzle here and there. It's nice to be able to enjoy and appreciate the game without having to get into a competitive mindset :)
I like the Madman Erigaisi. Almost had a stroke watching this game on stream. It is fairly recent, and Alekhine's gun (kind of) makes an appearance. Poor Guki.
[Event "Masters"]
[Site ""]
[Date "2025.02.02"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Gukesh D"]
[Black "Arjun Erigaisi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl ""]
[Link "https://www.chess.com/games/view/17682929"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nc4 Nxe4 5. Qe2 Qe7 6. Ne3 Nf6 7. Nc3 Be6 8.
g3 Nc6 9. Bg2 Qd7 10. O-O O-O-O 11. b4 d5 12. b5 Na5 13. d4 Bh3 14. Bxh3 Qxh3
15. Qf3 h5 16. Nexd5 h4 17. Nxf6 gxf6 18. Rd1 hxg3 19. hxg3 Nc4 20. Bf4 Bh6 21.
Bxh6 Rxh6 22. Qg2 Qh5 23. Rab1 Rdh8 24. Rb4 Na3 25. b6 cxb6 26. Ra4 Nb5 27. Rd3
Nxc3 28. Rxc3+ Kd8 29. f3 Qb5 30. Rxa7 Rh1+ 31. Kf2 R8h2 0-1
Anonymous :
18 days ago :
No.2720
>>3344
>>2720
I've been using en croissant, lol, thanks for the rec. I find Arena's UI to be displeasing to the eye, tbh.
By the way, as we are talking about chess, i cannot avoid shilling for en croissant. You can download engines and databases, and import your games (which you can then analyze with an engine of your liking). For this game, for example, Berserk 13 at depth 30 gives Erigaisi a 97% accuracy. Not bad.
>>2720
By the way, as we are talking about chess, i cannot avoid shilling for en croissant. You can download engines and databases, and import your games (which you can then analyze with an engine of your liking). For this game, for example, Berserk 13 at depth 30 gives Erigaisi a 97% accuracy. Not bad.
I've been using en croissant, lol, thanks for the rec. I find Arena's UI to be displeasing to the eye, tbh.
Anonymous :
14 days ago :
No.3361
>>3441
>>3361
I've only watched some classes by Yusupov on chess com, and I find him to be an excellent teacher.
I'm not really an expert to be giving advice, but what helped me the most to improve (800 to 2,000 elo) was doing puzzles. I prefer lichess for this.
Playing cc was great, too. I got to put to practice a couple of openings, and besides that the deeper level of calculation it requires -- and encourages-- have improved this aspect of my chess, as a player that used to play rapid as blitz.
Naroditsky did videos explaining his thought process using puzzles from a book I don't remember the title now, but he spoke of it highly.
I hit ~1900 Lichess rapid three years ago but pretty much completely quit playing after that. Started playing on that account again and slid to 1730 after 20 games, will probably settle around 1700 unless it just comes back to me. I want to actually study which I’ve never done before beyond very schematic opening training and puzzles. I have the Amateur’s Mind but I’m finding it tedious. Heard good things about Yusupov but is that too advanced for me? Also have the Woodpecker Method book but I won’t be able to commit much time for the foreseeable future so not sure it’s worth it
>>3361
I hit ~1900 Lichess rapid three years ago but pretty much completely quit playing after that. Started playing on that account again and slid to 1730 after 20 games, will probably settle around 1700 unless it just comes back to me. I want to actually study which I’ve never done before beyond very schematic opening training and puzzles. I have the Amateur’s Mind but I’m finding it tedious. Heard good things about Yusupov but is that too advanced for me? Also have the Woodpecker Method book but I won’t be able to commit much time for the foreseeable future so not sure it’s worth it
I've only watched some classes by Yusupov on chess com, and I find him to be an excellent teacher.
I'm not really an expert to be giving advice, but what helped me the most to improve (800 to 2,000 elo) was doing puzzles. I prefer lichess for this.
Playing cc was great, too. I got to put to practice a couple of openings, and besides that the deeper level of calculation it requires -- and encourages-- have improved this aspect of my chess, as a player that used to play rapid as blitz.
Naroditsky did videos explaining his thought process using puzzles from a book I don't remember the title now, but he spoke of it highly.
Does anyone have advice for analyzing games using an engine? I often find best move engine lines after an inaccuracy very hard to follow and end up still wondering what the mistake was.
1. MORPHY
2. LASKER
3. WEI YI
Can anyone recommend a book of annotated games that would be instructive for an intermediate player?