It's insane how good Hikaru is even compared to other top Grandmasters. Shame he didn't make it to the World Championship final - he would've definitely deserved it!

Very dirty game on the stafford gambit

Written by Karlabos on 26.04.2023 at 22:21

Very dirty game on the stafford gambit

Nice

Written by Karlabos on 21.07.2022 at 00:09

Well, as expected, Magnus would not want to demolishplay Nepo again

It would be hella fun if Ding became the champion
What with he only being qualified because Karjakin got banned and then facing the trouble of not having enough norms to join the tournament and having to rush to get those. Imagine if after all of that he became the champion, that would be pretty badass

Ha!

In a very whimsical turn of events, it turns out Ding is actually the world champion now!
I stand to what I said before: pretty badass.

I just competed in a three-check tournament organized by Hikaru. I finished 5th out of 176 participants!
Here's the proof:
Seen from Hikaru's stream:

Seen from my phone:

Woah, congrats!

Finally won against grandpa gambit

Very interesting game where since early I stay with a queen and a couple pawns versus his two pieces and rook, so it all comes to a very long grinding for either me checking his king and trying to fork in order to win a piece or him trying to trap my queen instead.

There are tricks everywhere, my kind of game.

Pretty successful tournament. I finished 26th out of 98 participants, and was tied for first in my team! I usually suck at time controls with increment (because I can't dirty flag the opponent ) but this time I was really good! Maybe my lucky charm was the fact that I was listening to Stained Class on repeat while playing!

Here's the link to the tournament overview:
https://lichess.org/tournament/v2pCBKxd

And here are some of my biggest wins during the tournament.

vs. a 2203 rated player
https://lichess.org/VD03oWBeoLaN

vs. 2121 rated player
https://lichess.org/K35YbHDD3Jks

vs. a 2101 rated player
https://lichess.org/981KMxL99siS

vs. A 2046 rated player
https://lichess.org/LzwMwwBEGu67

Ok. Just watched this game and left out dumbfounded by the coolness.

Schranz starts with evans gambit and faces the weasel (previous fishslayer countergambit) where black gives back a piece for the gambited pawn in order to gain the center themselves. It goes like 1.e4, e5 2.Nf3, Bc6, 3. Bc4, Bc5 4.b4, Bxb4 5.c3 (this is the evans gambit, where white gets a comfy center for a pawn) but in the weasel black responds eith 5... f5!? giving the bishop away. The idea is that if tha pawn takes the bishop then f6 either traps the knight or makes white undevelop, which leads to some crazy positions for both sides.

In this game, though, he didn't take the bishop AND didn't save the knight, choosing to castle instead! and then black let the bishop hanging up to like move 10, except that it wasn't really blunders, there were tactics involved all the way. The weasel always leads to crazy games when played theoretically but this game here is on another level, we end up with a game of hanging pieces and mate threats every move for both sides. Good stuff.

Makes me admire Schranz even more for noticing all the tactics in a just 3 minute game.

Here is a cool bullet game from me. I blundered my queen. My opponent has a checkmate idea, but with 0.3 seconds on the clock, I spot a backrank checkmate, winning the game
https://lichess.org/sQNykCQh

This guy tried to disrespect me, moving his knights back and forth so that all his pieces were on the starting position after move 12
I made him pay with an unstoppable attack
https://lichess.org/nGJkSZKP

Da heck? I did 3 brilliant moves and 3 great moves in a single game and still did less accuracy than my opponent? lel. It turns out I was winning at the end too, too bad I didn't have time to finish.

I arrived late to an online 5+0 tournament, and still played one of the best tournaments I've played. I played 5 games. I won 4, and drew 1. My tournament performance was 2369 even though I'm actually rated about 2050 at the moment! The highlight was checkmating a 2351 rated opponent after navigating a tricky middle and endgame!
Here's the game:
https://lichess.org/evewpuIS/black
and here's the tournament overview (I ranked #32):
https://lichess.org/tournament/v8ON3qAs

I just checkmate an international master in bullet:
https://lichess.org/o53knhGn/black

I tricked him into taking my bishop, opening up the b-file where I had already prepared my queen and rook battery.

I played against a good friend of mine (we've played now over a 1000 games against each other) and for first time I needed to know the knight and bishop checkmate technique. Sadly I didn't, and after some wild scrambling on my part, we agreed to a draw
https://lichess.org/5U1ChluW

Written by F3ynman2000 on 10.06.2023 at 18:05

I played against a good friend of mine (we've played now over a 1000 games against each other) and for first time I needed to know the knight and bishop checkmate technique. Sadly I didn't, and after some wild scrambling on my part, we agreed to a draw
https://lichess.org/5U1ChluW

Ha. That happened to me the other day... Except that with two bishops mate. Yep. I don't know that one either :3

The first time I checkmated a titled player in blitz chess: https://lichess.org/Tmg0we0F

It happened yesterday when I was playing in a 5+0 blitz tournament and won 5 games in a row, including vs this 2338 rated Candidate Master! I don't know what possessed me yesterday, but I played a great game!
I had 96% accuracy and my opponent had 91% accuracy. I managed to win his knight, then his rook, and then his other rook! He didn't resign, but I managed to checkmate him.

Craziest game I've seen in a while:

Wow my blitz play is really improving. I just played my best blitz tournament, finishing 7th out of 113 participants. I also have my highest blitz rating ever at the moment!
https://lichess.org/tournament/WFI5LcZE
I didn't think the tournament would go so well after blundering my queen in my second game vs an opponent rated 200 points lower than me. But I stayed focused and had fun

I thought this was an interesting game where I kept attacking and attacking and my opponent kept defending my threats almost flawlessly til he didn't
1. e4, e5
2. Bc4, d6
3. d4, exd4
4. Qxd4, Qf6
My opponent started kinda weird, normally you'd play Nc6 to gain a tempo... I didn't wanna trade queens so early after the bishop's opening, so
5. Qe3, Nc6
6. Nf3 (here I was thinking he'd treaten my bishop with the other knight, almost forcing me to lose the B pair, with this move I add an attacker on e5, so I could push e5 if he removed the knight from there. Also... There is an obvious threat on f7)
..., h6 (defending the threat)
7. O-O, Be7
8. Nc3 (this move prepares Nd5, threatening the queen and a fork on c7)
..., Nb4 (the opponent sees it and does a counterthreat of his own)
9. Bb3, c6 (now he closes my opportunity of playing Nd5 for sure)
10. a3, Nb6
11. Re1, Qg6
12. e5, Nc5
I was surprised by this move, at this point I wanted to clear the e file since I have a R+Q battery, but I was afraid that after the pawn push he'd play d5, which closes my B diagonal and doesn't clear the file, at that point I'd probably have to sac the e pawn and I was ready for it, but then he didn't do any of that
13. exd6, Qxd6
At this point I was really betting on bringing the f3 knight to e5 to do a double on f7, but his knight is threatening my bishop, so I figured Ne4 would threaten his queen and force a trade of my passive knight and his annoying one
14. Ne4, Nxe4
15. Qxe4, Bd7
I stitll didn't give up on attacking f7 with the B+N, so I tried to remove that annoying queen from that square:
16. Bf4, Qf6
at this point I saw that I still couldn't attack f7 with the knight because he could simply play Be6 protecting everything, so I added a piece to the attack setting up for an exchange sac if needed
17. Rad1, O-O-O
and then... he castled long
18. Qe3.
This threatens the a pawn followed by mate, I just wanted to weaken his queenside
..., b6
19. Nf5 (finally!), Bc5
20. Qg3, g5
21. Be3, Bxe3
22. Rxe3 (the opponent keeps distracting me from the f7 pawn, I am always threatening that fork, but I have to deal with his threats first), Ne7
23. Nxf7, Rdf8
24. Nxh8 (I can just take, he doesn't have mate), Rxh8
25. Rde1, Nf5
after all that trouble to win an exchange I go ahead and fall onto a fork of his :3
26. Qe5, Qxe5
27. Rxe5, Nd4
28. h3 (opponent lost on time)

Jesus, this whole video is too funny!

I just beat a grandmaster fair and square in bullet chess (I played as white): https://lichess.org/lRaV5ckq/white