Any cubers who play chess/shogi?

[qwr]

Yes there are lot of online talents who are relatively unknown in GM level FIDE tournaments. but they are super good online and even beat superGMs in faster time controls.

Some countries like Indonesia and Nigeria have good online chess players who are super talented. Sadly, they do not have support from their local federation, so they cannot play enough strong FIDE tournaments. Also, lot of kids like Arjun and Nihal, who are 15 year old GMs, play superb online, as they do not have any psychological pressure when they face someone older and more experienced online, as we generally do not see the person's face or actions.

I am more passionate about cubing as well. Chess improvement is much harder than cubing, thats why I prefer cubing.

I am addicted to doing the lichess puzzles instead of playing. Like competition math problems, they're pretty much all spotting the tricks and no long term planning. I recently surpassed 1800 on puzzle rating which took quite a few failed puzzles to do but they're fun and I'm addicted at the moment to puzzle storm too.

 

[qwr]

https://lichess.org/training/IHOw4 I looked at this game and thought it looked high level and it's an Anish Giri game
to spot that tactic in a 1 minute game is insane

Edit: I just found out you can right click in this game. wow...

 

[abunickabhi]

Completed 1k games on the lishogi server. I am quite satisfied.

Also there is the new tsume storm feature that I will be trying it out today.

 

[abunickabhi]

Yes I lost but it was a fighting game, I enjoyed the fight a lot.

On a side note, I had this crazy position in the correspondence game today,

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This is how the position looks now. The correspondence game is still going on lol.

 

[ProStar]

I recently picked up chess (I've known how to play for forever, but haven't actually tried learning anything). I'm still an amateur at the moment (around 1200-1300), but I quite like it and it's overtaking my enjoyment of cubing right now

 

[qwr]

I recently picked up chess (I've known how to play for forever, but haven't actually tried learning anything). I'm still an amateur at the moment (around 1200-1300), but I quite like it and it's overtaking my enjoyment of cubing right now

Chess has been super big the last year, probably the biggest it's been since Bobby Fischer. I'm like 1000 rated noob on chess.com but I still enjoy learning and doing puzzles.

 

[abunickabhi]

I am surprised to see that the popular stream GM Hikaru knows about speedcubing.

He mentions he knows a few speedcubers. I wonder who they are?

 

[Megaminx lover]

Before this forum I played chess in my free time.

 

[hellocubers]

I play chess.

 

[abunickabhi]

I play chess.

What is your rating and lichess ID?

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

I'm really bad at chess and wanted to get better but can't find motivation to practice.
I do chess puzzles on lichess from time to time but can't get any better than this
I have a friend that is very good at chess, he played professionally but I tried to learn from him but he is bad at teaching lol

 

[ProStar]

I'm really bad at chess and wanted to get better but can't find motivation to practice.
I do chess puzzles on lichess from time to time but can't get any better than this
I have a friend that is very good at chess, he played professionally but I tried to learn from him but he is bad at teaching lol

GothamChess is your friend. Basically the J Perm equivalent of chess except with much larger ego

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

GothamChess is your friend. Basically the J Perm equivalent of chess except with much larger ego

hmm I've seem some videos of him
gonna watch more later
thanks for the tips!

 

[hellocubers]

What is your rating and lichess ID?

Around like, 1100?

 

[abunickabhi]

I'm really bad at chess and wanted to get better but can't find motivation to practice.
I do chess puzzles on lichess from time to time but can't get any better than this
I have a friend that is very good at chess, he played professionally but I tried to learn from him but he is bad at teaching lol

What is the online Elo rating of your friend?

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

What is the online Elo rating of your friend?

are you assuming he has one?

 

[lucazdoescubingstuff]

I have been playing a lot of chess since 2012, and seriously since the lockdown this year. I have played about 22k games mostly crazyhouse and ultrabullet on lichess and its super fun to explore and experience the super fast scala server (https://lichess.org/@/abunickabhi).

There has been a new site to play shogi too, are there any cubers interested in shogi (https://lishogi.org/@/abunickabhi)

Happy Cubing and chessing!

i play chess, except im bad at the strategies n stuff so ive just one a few games on chess.com and against my family

 

[abunickabhi]

i play chess, except im bad at the strategies n stuff so ive just one a few games on chess.com and against my family

Do you play on lichess.org?

Do you play chess variants?

 

[lucazdoescubingstuff]

Do you play on lichess.org?

Do you play chess variants?

nope, just chess and chess.com

 

[Filipe Teixeira]