Chess discussion

[Hans_Oddcraft]

2019:

Woah

(Look at the other guy's rating.)

2022:

[Jayhawk_Greencape]

What happened in ~October??

[Hans_Oddcraft]

It's rating adjustments.

[Jayhawk_Greencape]

That's a big adjustment.

[Hans_Oddcraft]

What leagues are you guys in on chess.com?

[Jayhawk_Greencape]

The Aetherlight one and Hervatchia (I think that's how you spell it...)

[Hans_Oddcraft]

No, not clubs. The leagues.

[Jayhawk_Greencape]

Oh. Sry. Wood I think. I just joined.

[Sierepica_Fuzzywalker]

I've made silver league. I happened to be online when a Blitz Arena was running and I joined it, which helped me level up, I think.

I've also joined a club that runs regular arena tournaments.

[Sierepica_Fuzzywalker]

SFDP, but chess club report so Hans doesn’t come after me again :

First session with the instructor went well, game afterwards did not. I got outplayed-one of those frustrating games where there were no good moves for me that I could find.

Lots of research for me over the next week from both the instructor and the game. Anyway, I think I’ll leave off talking about this now unless something interesting actually happens, which it probably won’t. I get a provisional rating in two weeks, and given how things have been going, I expect it to be rather low.

I am not quitting, however. I see many promising avenues for improvement.

[Jayhawk_Greencape]

I didn't really understand some of that, but good job! (I think?) :0)

[Sierepica_Fuzzywalker]

I don’t understand provisional ratings versus real ratings any more than you do. Is there something else I can help clarify?

If I don’t know what you don’t know, I don’t know what you know and I can’t really tell you what you want to know.

[Hans_Oddcraft]

Provisional ratings can be easily adjusted and allow enough time for a player to find their real rating. It also carries less weight and so protects strong players from potentially low rated players playing with inflated ratings and getting lucky.

[Eerie_Coppernight]

@May_Otterview, do you have me as a friend on chess?

[Hans_Oddcraft]

When you play chess at midnight:

.https://www.chess.com/game/live/38559238073

[Jayhawk_Greencape]

I will assume that that's a good thing? (Also, you might want to sleep at midnight...) :0)

[Hans_Oddcraft]

[Hans_Oddcraft]

This is a game I had with the “Li” boy and I thought it was pretty quality.

[Site "Chess.com iPhone"]
[Date "02/28/2022 01:18PM"]
[FEN rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1]
[White "Li"]
[Black "HansOddcraft"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2000"]
[BlackElo "1657"]
[Termination "HansOddcraft wins by Checkmate"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.c3 b6 6.Qf3 c5 7.Be2 c4 8.Nxc4 dxc4 9.Qxa8 Qc7 10.Bd2 Nc6 11.Nf3 Be7 12.Bg5 Bxg5 13.Nxg5 O-O 14.Bh5 g6 15.Bf3 Bb7 16.Qxf8+ Kxf8 17.h4 h5 18.Kd2 a5 19.b3 b5 20.Be4 Ne7 21.Rh3 Bxe4 22.Nxe4 Nf5 23.Rhh1 Qc6 24.Rae1 cxb3 25.axb3 a4 26.bxa4 bxa4 27.g4 Ng7 28.Nf6 hxg4 29.Rhg1 Nh5 30.Ne4 a3 31.Rxg4 Qa4 32.Rgg1 a2 33.f3 Nf4 34.Ke3 Ng2+ 35.Rxg2 a1=Q 36.Rxa1 Qxa1 37.Rd2 Nb6 38.Kd3 Qa6+ 39.c4 Qxc4+ 40.Ke3 Nd5+ 41.Kf2 Kg7 42.Kg2 f6 43.exf6+ Nxf6 44.Ng5 Nh5 45.Ne4 Qc7 46.Ra2 Qf4 47.Ra7+ Kh6 48.Ra8 Qxh4 49.Kf1 Qh3+ 50.Kf2 Qh2+ 51.Kf1 Ng3+ 52.Nxg3 Qxg3 53.Ra3 Qf4 54.Rc3 Qxd4 55.Rc7 Qf4 56.Rc3 e5 57.Ke2 e4 58.fxe4 Qxe4+ 59.Kd1 g5 60.Rg3 g4 61.Kd2 Qf4+ 62.Re3 g3 63.Kd3 g2 64.Re1 Qf1+ 65.Rxf1 gxf1=Q+ 66.Ke4 Qf2 67.Kd5 Qe3 68.Kc6 Qd4 69.Kb7 Qc5 70.Kb8 Qc6 71.Ka7 Kg6 72.Kb8 Kf5 73.Ka7 Ke5 74.Kb8 Kd5 75.Ka7 Kc5 76.Kb8 Qd7 77.Ka8 Kb6 78.Kb8 Qb7# {0-1}

[Jayhawk_Greencape]

I'm in the bronze league! Currently tied for #1 with 5 others I think...

[Hans_Oddcraft]

Nice work. There’s no way I win my league this week. The top players already have over three hundred points.