How to be an enlightened chess player
How to be an enlightened chess player
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Starcraft II player: misclicks 8 times in under a second, resigns 0.2 seconds later
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Ugh I got told that at my level you should never resign because all of us make such stupid mistakes there's still a chance of a win.
Hard to actually do though when you're down 10+ points and huddled miserably in a corner.
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Here's another reason you should never resign: endgames are crazy hard, and not resigning is the only chance you'll ever get to practice them.
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@duncesplayed thanks that's a really good point!
I just somehow won an endgame after losing both my castles, thought of this convo.
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Endgames down 10 points of material don't teach you anything.
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I once won a game back that was +63 from analysis, to M1.
Just so your best to keep a rook on the board, and walk your king over slyly to the king.
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I mean if you're an adult and you get ladder mated you deserve to feel bad
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@Jackcooper well yeah as soon as you see an inevitable forced mating pattern you'd resign, I don't think they mean that.
That said, I'm a super old adult and I'm never going to feel bad for being terrible at chess.
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Does Lichess check for this? I definitely get an aborted game more often when I am white. I also notice my ELO went up after I actually locked down strategies for black. Yeah it's only like a 0.5% advantage for the masters, but if you play a lot of games, aborting everytime you are black is a helpful strategy.🤷
Apparently it's more like a 5% advantage for us normies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess
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Yes it does. If you avoid games too much you get a ban I think
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aborting everytime you are black
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I prefer black. Remember that the saying goes: "White begins, black wins." (I have no idea if this saying also exists in English but it does rime just as well as in German („Weiß beginnt, Schwarz gewinnt.”))
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I don't agree and don't think the data agrees. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess
Two thoughts: white can more easily set the speed of the game, as well as not have to adapt to their choices (which black must do)
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I know but still prefer black
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Almost certainly for elo play and stuff where people learned all the first 10+ moves of all the viable opening strategies.
But as a casual player (ok, I was chess club in Jr high if that counts for anything) I always chose to play as black and have always won at least 90% of all my games played. I'd be confused as hell if I played as white, at this point.
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I’ve always heard it as “It’s whites game to lose”.
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White supremacy
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🤔
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Never resigning because maybe the 1200 that you're playing against might make a mistake and give you a dub
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happens more often than you think
if you're playing against me, that is. I'm about 1200 rapid, and the amount of times I've absolutely thrown games after a good setup is simply sad
that's probably the reason why I can't seem to get any higher
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