Also The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: August 28th, 2023
  • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPtoChess@lemmy.ml•Have some honor!
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPtoChess@lemmy.ml•Have some honor!
    18·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websitetoChess@lemmy.ml•I only play too defensively or too recklessly, please help.
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPtoChess@lemmy.ml•It's very important to protect your ruler.
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    10 months ago

    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.