Long distance dreams

Spoiler solution:

Rxe8 Rxe8

Qg7+ Kxg7

Nf5+ Kg8

Nh6#

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18315517

I wanted to share a personal experience that might resonate with some of you. I've been diagnosed with ADD and major depressive syndrome, and for a long time, I struggled to enjoy over-the-board chess.

The fast pace and constant need for focus left me feeling drained and frustrated – blaming myself for not being able to concentrate.

Then, I discovered correspondence chess! This format allows for a much slower pace, giving me the time I need to analyze positions and make thoughtful moves. It's been a game-changer. No more pressure, just the joy of strategic thinking without the stress.

Do you ever feel like traditional chess isn't quite the right fit?

If you struggle with focus or find the fast pace overwhelming, correspondence chess could be for you! Here are a couple of options to get you started:

• ICCF.com (International Correspondence Chess Federation): This is the official platform for serious correspondence chess with tournaments and rankings.

• Daily Chess on chess.com: This is a more casual option where you can play correspondence games at your own pace.

Let me know in the comments if you've tried correspondence chess, or if you're interested in giving it a go!

I stumbled upon Opening Master the other day and am quite tempted to buy the Golem subscription and use it with Scid.

Have you ever used their databases? If yes, can you share your thoughts please?

In particular:

• How is the quality of the compilation?
• Are there any annotated games in the database (like ChessBase)?
• Is it as large as they claim it to be?
• Does it receive proper regular updates?

Description: "Featured is a playthrough of a blitz chess game between Rodrigo Vasquez and Vladimir Kramnik from an Early Titled Tuesday event which was held on October 17th, 2023. Kramnik recently admitted, via a YouTube comment on this topic of fair play surrounding him, that he played several tournaments under someone else’s chess.com account. This act violates chess.com’s Fair Play Policy. Kramnik played under Denis Khismatullin’s account, “Krakozia”. I share reasons why this is a violation of fair play policy, how a player can be negatively impacted because of it, and provide Kramnik’s YouTube comments where he attempts to explain it all."

What do you all think?

Showed up in my feed on another site.

I'm assuming it's expecting Qxb5, Nxc7+ with a royal fork. But what's stopping c6 or Nc6 instead, keeping the black Queen in a position to protect c7?

For those of you that haven't come across him, GM Sadler is active on mastodon (@gmmds@mastodonapp.uk), and posts some really exciting and interesting content on his YouTube channel (https://m.youtube.com/@SiliconRoadChess/videos).

I'd summarise his videos as using a variety of engines to produce unique, engine approved yet human comprehensible attacking ideas, often in opening/middle games, but he's also analysed some famous human endgames with these engines. While they're not necessarily good videos for beginners, I think anyone over ~1200 OTB will get a lot out of his videos.

If you want a good example video to see if it's for you, his/Dragon's Qd2 idea in the Pirc is a great example (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DuFfJwBgMD8), though I'd encourage you to flick through and find a video on an opening that you play.

Has anyone found a good online shop or had any luck at thrift stores, maybe?

I'd like to get a nice chess board without spending tons of money for something highly-stylized - I don't care for those sets that are so stylized that you have a hard time identifying the pieces at a glance. I think my ideal board would be simple, but nicer than one you'd find at a Walmart or something.

Maybe I need to hit up some Goodwills or antique shops. If any of y'all have found one that you really like, I'd be very interested in hearing where you looked.

Just thought I'd take this opportunity to double-check, but how do you feel about chess memes/comics/etc in this community @jalda@sopuli.xyz?

I've been casually enjoying chess off and on for the past year, and while I can tell that I'm improving, I think I need to get faster at calculating. I play mostly Daily games (1300-something currently) and am a puzzle fiend, but I find myself getting into time-trouble constantly when I play games with actual time controls.

I want to get comfortable with blitz, but I feel like I'm not learning as much because I'm just scrambling to get (often terrible) moves out in time. I tried puzzle battle for the first time recently too, and even though my regular puzzle rating is 2500, I'm frequently losing on time once the puzzles get to 1000+ (my avg time per puzzle is usually 0:06-0:08 at the end).

I suspect the answer is just going to be to play more with time controls, but I'm curious if anyone here has found any practice tips that have helped them personally.

I'm a little over 1300 elo, and I feel it's time to start really getting down and dirty and learning openings. I know a little bit about Scandinavian, very little about French and I've recently got interested in Ruy Lopez but I wanted to get the opinion of you guys to see where the next step in my chess journey should be?

I am trying to start analyzing my games, but I am a bit unsure how to even go about doing that. I originally would have the computer analyze my game, and comment on what I think are the main points of the match I should keep in mind.

I have the following tips so far:

• serious games, create a study to analyze
• try to comment what went through your mind as you played the game
• view what others did in a similar position using a database
• have final comments/lessons learned
• classify mistakes. leads to pattern recognition
• computers don't fully understand openings *use computer analysis after my own analysis and see where my analysis went wrong

More entertaining than educational. Not so much about education and more about diving into the people and culture and fun stories. Maybe I'm looking for fun inspiration.

Hey, I just made an account to share something I am currently working on. At the moment I am learning a new repertoire and while I like some of the possible solutions to better memorize the repertoire (Chessable, Chesstempo, Lichess, etc.) I wanted to create my own thing to better suit my specific needs and to make it visually more appealing (at least to me, I guess design decisions are quite subjective). I am an iOS developer and therefore I used my knowledge in that area to build a repertoire trainer for macOS and iOS. Currently the application has the following features:

• Import repertoire from PGN
• View full repertoire with comments, annotations, arrows, circles etc.
• Offline engine evaluation of current position and variants with Stockfish
• Various settings related to the board design, what to display etc.
• Spaced repetition mode to quiz you against your own repertoire

The application works completely offline and stores its information in an accessible sqlite database. This is something which was very crucial to me as I do not want to rely on some third-party website to store my repertoire/progress which I can only access with an internet connection.

In the near future I want to expand on the spaced repetition part of the application. I quite like what Chesstempo has done here (meaning more control over what positions you are quizzed at, limiting depth, quizzing full lines first or "breadth over depth" mode, etc.)

I am also planning to make this Open Source. I took great inspiration from the open source code from lichess, completely porting their chessground and dartchess libraries to Swift (UI with SwiftUI).

Here are some current screenshots:

What do you think? Any suggestions for me to pursue in the upcoming development? Is this something you would use? I'd like to get some feedback on this.

The ETCC 2023 started today in Budva, Montenegro. It's a 9 round Swiss team event with some 36 federations taking part. Top seeds are Azerbaijan for the Open section and Georgia for the Women's section. Results and pairings can be found here (Open) and here (Women).

Seeing how this community isn't super active, maybe we can use this as a megathread for the event. Who are your favourite teams and players? Who do you predict will win?