Chess thread - discuss and play lichess here

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Oh, agadmator has the best chess channel on YouTube. Eric Rosen is good, too. And yes, I'm down to give pointers.

Something I'm not seeing enough of is casting. Learn to castle and preserve the ability to do so as best you can. Also, learn what en passant is; can be very handy. Don't mobilize the queen too early, don't move the bishops out before the knights, fight for the center of the board..
 
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I went through a short chess phase about 2 years ago to see if I could beat all the AI difficulties on this chess app that I downloaded for times where I would go without internet while travelling at at the time. I got my ass beat many many times, but despite my suckiness, I somehow managed to unlock the highest difficulty setting. The game's fun if you know what your doing. It can also make you want to punch your head through a wall when you make simple and easily avoidable mistakes that screw you over (will happen at least once per game at my end).

What I'm trying to say is that I'd love to play a game sometime, but I'm dead ass tired right now and I have shit to do tomorrow. I'm glad that people still get together and play this nerd game, though.
 
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Vlinny Chan said:
I'm glad that people still get together and play this nerd game, though
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I've never had a really hard time finding people willing to play chess; used to play it in bars and at barbecues in a small town a few years back. Now I'm in the big city and I hang with mainly blue-collar people and it's much the same. Not too many really strong opponents in my social circle, but we have fun.
 
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Exigent Circumcisions said:
I've never had a really hard time finding people willing to play chess; used to play it in bars and at barbecues in a small town a few years back. Now I'm in the big city and I hang with mainly blue-collar people and it's much the same. Not too many really strong opponents in my social circle, but we have fun.
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I have seen people get into a game in public, but that's once in a blue moon. I guess it's because it's a game that nobody really thinks about or the majority of people just don't know how to play. There's also this idea that it's a boring game or the only people really interested in it are rich prudes or autistic dweebs, which would turn a lot of people off from getting into chess. The only thing that got me into the game was spur-of-the-moment curiosity and fucking around with an NPC until I caught on to how the pieces move. Most people now-a-days couldn't give less of a shit about some grandpa game when you have the entire internet at the palm of your hand and a hours upon hours of video games to play through. This is all from my millennial/zoomer perspective, though.
 
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