Also The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
This is a quality shower thought.
Martin’s hustling us. He’s holding back for something big.
King can’t take because a bishop is looking in her direction from half a mile away.
I’ve gotten into chess for the past year, and while I used Lichess for a little bit, I wound up going with chess.com primarily instead. The app is great. The learning modules are really helpful, and I love the puzzles.
It also has tens of millions of users on the platform, so your matchmaking is going to be more accurate, whether you need to be matched with opponents who just learned how the pieces move, all the way up to the top professional players.
As for outside resources, I’ve been mostly learning from random masters/GMs that have youtube channels.
You can’t expect her to move the bishop all that way.
We need a fourth, derpy-er dragon.
I’ve always heard that until you’re master/GM level, it’s better just to play it out. Your opponent might blunder too, or accidentally stalemate you. At the very least, it’s good practice playing at a disadvantage. I know I’ve blundered huge leads myself, so who knows what’s going to happen?
There’s a psychological thing where we always assume that our opponents in games will never mess up, which makes it feel easy to give up the moment you make a mistake.
This is great. I have a new daily game to play. Thanks for sharing!
The lesson is forgotten the moment the next match starts.
You’re not wrong
I’ve found that doing a metric ton of puzzles has greatly improved my tactics when I’m playing “recklessly”. It helps your board vision and you’ll generally have a better feel for what you can safely attack.
As far as playing too defensively, maybe finding an opening that leads to a natural attacking plan would be helpful. I’ve been really enjoying Queen’s pawn openings that point all of your pieces toward the opponent’s castled king, so even though I’m playing “safely”, I’m still creating threats.
So… psychedelics?
Great advice, but I can’t find the m8 square. What should I do next?
Lol, there are just so many random variations of every opening that it’s virtually impossible to know them all. It’s sometimes helpful to see what an opening is called so that you can potentially look it up later, but 99% of the time I feel like Michael in the meme.
I’m lost and genuinely can’t tell if you’re joking or mad.
I’ve still not tried it. I should probably turn off chat and give it a go.
Thanks for the input - that’s exactly my dilemma. I’ve been posting on AnarchyChess too, but the AnarchyChess from reddit that inspired the AnarchyChess community on lemmy was more for highly ironic shitposting, so depending on how strict we want to be, this comic and normal memes wouldn’t really work there.
There doesn’t seem to be a separate “Chess Memes” community on Lemmy yet, and I suppose I could just create one, but I also don’t know if the need is there to split the already small communities again. For now, I figure I’ll just feel out what the mods/communities in @chess@lemmy.ml and @AnarchyChess@sopuli.xyz want.
This is extra frustrating in daily games.