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Re: Chess tactics explained

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Post by disown »

srtjstjsj wrote: post #85
Newky wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an aside, for very good analysis of current Chess games (as well as older sagas around certain legends of the game), I heartily recommend checking out agadmator's Youtube channel[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/AGADMATOR

Agadmator is a very charismatic speaker but he does very little analysis. He mostly just moves the pieces and says the moves.

> Agadmator is a very charismatic speaker but he does very little analysis.

It's good enough for the vast majority of chess players. Most chess players are casual fans. They aren't interested in deep analysis. And besides, if you want analysis, you wouldn't want a youtube channel but stockfish or other chess engines and work through it yourself.

> He mostly just moves the pieces and says the moves.

Not true. Sure he tells you the moves but he provides analysis for the good parts. He provides highlights which is what people want. Nobody is going to sit through a detailed analysis of an 8 hour game.

Re: Chess tactics explained

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Post by drw »

sudhirj wrote: post #138
drw wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something we work very hard on at chess.com is the rating of the individual tactics puzzles. Some of you might enjoy looking at the distribution of our puzzle ratings. Truly hard problems are precious, and we would always like to have more at the high end. The distribution is multimodal because puzzles of different lengths have different modes. +----------------+---------+ | ratings_band | count | |----------------+-…

Ah, thanks. That explains how you manage to have so many available. I like the progressive / adaptive mechanism as well, it keeps the challenge at the right level. Thanks for a great product. There were some issues (crashes) with the videos on iPad, but I assume you’ve seen that in your logs already.

The iOS team doesn't see any recent crashes that associate to viewing videos.

If you want to follow up, feel free to email me your chess.com username and the approximate date when you had trouble; the team could look up crashes which happened to that username.

Both my personal and chess.com email addresses are in my profile.

Re: Chess tactics explained

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Post by pushrax »

geebee wrote: post #151
Buttons840 wrote: post #109

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> as I'd never be sure my opponent wasn't just putting the moves into a computer and playing whatever it told him to play. As mentioned, cheaters are detected and banned. But from another perspective, cheater or not doesn't matter. You know you are playing against someone you have a statistical chance to beat. Same thing in Starcraft where people use map hacks. Who cares? The ranking system matches you with people yo…

Are cheaters really detected and banned? My guess is that there's a lot of lower grade cheating. Here are a few ways that would be difficult to detect: Run a position analyzer only to alert you to the existence of a strong move that you haven't noticed. Don't use it to find the move, just to alert you to when your position is strong. For instance, you might see that your position score is +10, but not realize why - t…

I think most people who actually want to cheat regularly on online chess also lack the skills to set up a highly effective and stealthy way to do so.

There are a lot of obvious cheaters that you can catch by looking at move times.

Re: Chess tactics explained

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Post by jczhang »

Normille wrote: post #2

I wondered if the popularity of 'The queen's Gambit' would lead to a brief infatuation with chess in the popular imagination. The fact I've seen about 3 chess related submissions on HN recently, where I don't recall ever seeing one before, suggests it does. I used to enjoy a game of chess back in the day, although I was never very good. And I always imagined myself playing chess with a remote opponent by post when I…

unlikely at any low ratings imo, also you can look at post-game analysis. not a reason for not playing!

Re: Chess tactics explained

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Post by secondcoming »

telesilla wrote: post #57
Normille wrote: post #2

I wondered if the popularity of 'The queen's Gambit' would lead to a brief infatuation with chess in the popular imagination. The fact I've seen about 3 chess related submissions on HN recently, where I don't recall ever seeing one before, suggests it does. I used to enjoy a game of chess back in the day, although I was never very good. And I always imagined myself playing chess with a remote opponent by post when I…

This absolutely rekindled my interest. I used to play as a young girl (pre-teen) and enjoyed it but as I got older didn't feel welcome in the chess club. It's nice how they show on TV that girls who wanted it just got in there and be involved but the reality was not as easy.. (hopefully it's easier now, the 80s was not kind to girls with a nerdish bent). I've started reading chess openings and tactics as a way to sen…

There's a pretty good Stockfish app available for free

Re: Chess tactics explained

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Post by itcrowd »

srtjstjsj wrote: post #85
Newky wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an aside, for very good analysis of current Chess games (as well as older sagas around certain legends of the game), I heartily recommend checking out agadmator's Youtube channel[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/AGADMATOR

Agadmator is a very charismatic speaker but he does very little analysis. He mostly just moves the pieces and says the moves.

I thoroughly enjoy Stjepan Tomic's channel "Hanging pawns" (on YouTube) for more detailed analyses than Agadmator. Videos are long but excellent and (i find it an advantage that) he doesn't go with the latest hypes around chess only (i.c. Queen's Gambit tv show)

Re: Chess tactics explained

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Post by aaroninsf »

Normille wrote: post #2

I wondered if the popularity of 'The queen's Gambit' would lead to a brief infatuation with chess in the popular imagination. The fact I've seen about 3 chess related submissions on HN recently, where I don't recall ever seeing one before, suggests it does. I used to enjoy a game of chess back in the day, although I was never very good. And I always imagined myself playing chess with a remote opponent by post when I…

Hottake: regardless of chance of detection, the incentive to bother cheating for most online play, e.g. at chess.com, is close enough to zero to not worry about it.

Probable that there are sociopaths who will do it, but, the 99% case is good faith players interested in a match for compatible reasons.

TQG reminded me I used to play every day, recreationally; I'm finding chess.com quite nice.

Re: Chess tactics explained

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Post by [deleted] »

Normille wrote: post #2

I wondered if the popularity of 'The queen's Gambit' would lead to a brief infatuation with chess in the popular imagination. The fact I've seen about 3 chess related submissions on HN recently, where I don't recall ever seeing one before, suggests it does. I used to enjoy a game of chess back in the day, although I was never very good. And I always imagined myself playing chess with a remote opponent by post when I…

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Re: Chess tactics explained

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Post by tromp »

justarandomq wrote: post #104
tromp wrote: post #19

Train your chess tactics at https://lichess.org/training/ For me, the challenge is solving 15 consecutive problems correctly to turn the bottom bar all green. I also enjoy the 5 daily problems at https://www.chess.com/puzzles/rated

Long-time player here. Strangely enough, the hardest part of these exercises is the uncomfortable brief moment of getting acquainted with (or being teleported to) a random board position.

It's a moment that actually requires paying attention to. Occasionally I find myself unable to find a winning move. To the point where I just try all possible legal moves. And they all fail! That's when I realize the last opponent move was actually a pawn move that can be captured en passant:-(

Re: Chess tactics explained

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Post by sransara »

Michael_Sieb wrote: post #95

Big fan of chess! Who watches Hikaru's YT videos? Full of awesome tactics.

Hikaru's videos are very entertaining. This[0] was pretty fun to see. Not the best example of his instructional videos.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/k34chd/exactly_just_...

GM Daniel Naroditsky's channel[1] is the best instructional I have seen. His speedrun series is very good. He takes the time to stop and explain his thought process while playing the game. And then after few games he does a deeper analysis and answer any questions. The moment that sold me was when he showed how they use chess engine to do preparations at their rating level.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielNaroditskyGM

On a side note, I have been working on a bughouse[2] chess web app in my spare time[3]. It's not ready for HN traffic yet though. Bughouse is not getting a Queen's Gambit anytime soon. But I would love to see more steam behind online bughouse as well. It is my favorite variation. The need for team work and communication makes it very lively.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess [3] https://utopia.buddychess.com/

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