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Open Forum => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Rawrlolsauce! on August 30, 2014, 01:04:55 PM
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I know a while back everyone on here was into chess. I really got into it a few months ago too. My peak rating on chess.com was 1485, but usually I'm between 1300-1400. If anyone wants to play lmk.
My favorite chess player is Nakamura, with Caruana coming in second. My favorite e4 line is Ruy Lopez Berlin defense, and my favorite d4 line is the semi slav.
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I love chess, but don't really follow players. I just casually play, and have played online before.
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I love chess, but don't really follow players. I just casually play, and have played online before.
Ditto. I'm on chess.com, but I'm not all that good.
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I play against my computer but I got good enough where I would put it on higher levels and it would take 2 minutes to make one move so I got bored of it...
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I play against my computer but I got good enough where I would put it on higher levels and it would take 2 minutes to make one move so I got bored of it...
Find a better program. Computers beat grandmasters with only taking a handful of seconds per move. Or, better yet, play against people
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I play against my computer but I got good enough where I would put it on higher levels and it would take 2 minutes to make one move so I got bored of it...
Find a better program. Computers beat grandmasters with only taking a handful of seconds per move. Or, better yet, play against people
Supercomputers built specifically to play chess can beat grandmasters, not necessarily just your normal PC programs.
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I play against my computer but I got good enough where I would put it on higher levels and it would take 2 minutes to make one move so I got bored of it...
Find a better program. Computers beat grandmasters with only taking a handful of seconds per move. Or, better yet, play against people
Supercomputers built specifically to play chess can beat grandmasters, not necessarily just your normal PC programs.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand (who is going to be playing Carlsen for the world title in November!) has said he cannot beat his cellphone. It hasn't taken a super computer for a very long time.
Recently, Nakamura (ma boi! and #5 in the world) played a showmatch against Stockfish (running on a mac book pro) and got wrecked, even when he was allowed to consult a computer for two games and was given pawn odds for two games. You can see the matches here if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD1T4D5Ifw0&list=UUCDOQrpqLqKVcTCKzqarxLg&index=4
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I play against my computer but I got good enough where I would put it on higher levels and it would take 2 minutes to make one move so I got bored of it...
Find a better program. Computers beat grandmasters with only taking a handful of seconds per move. Or, better yet, play against people
Supercomputers built specifically to play chess can beat grandmasters, not necessarily just your normal PC programs.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand (who is going to be playing Carlsen for the world title in November!) has said he cannot beat his cellphone. It hasn't taken a super computer for a very long time.
Recently, Nakamura (ma boi! and #5 in the world) played a showmatch against Stockfish (running on a mac book pro) and got wrecked, even when he was allowed to consult a computer for two games and was given pawn odds for two games. You can see the matches here if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD1T4D5Ifw0&list=UUCDOQrpqLqKVcTCKzqarxLg&index=4
Fair enough, my information was out of date, I don't really follow chess at all, so it's not really that surprising.
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Computers > Humans at chess.
Humans > Computers at Arimaa. (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/)
Arimaa > chess
:)
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Computers > Humans at chess.
Humans > Computers at Arimaa. (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/)
Arimaa > chess
:)
*clicks link*
*watches tutorials*
*makes account*
*plays bot games*
*enters chatroom*
*plays live game*
....what have you done?
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I enjoy chess, though I don't typically follow grandmasters or study the various methods. I would probably lose to most people who do study the game, but could probably beat most people who don't. Essentially, I generally excel in the mid-game moreso than in openings, so if someone knows a good opening, then I will likely be at a disadvantage.
Arimaa also seems intriguing, (un)fortunately, I don't have time to look into it further today.
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Four students just played chess in my Strategic Games elective, although most of the others were playing Redemption. I had also brought Stratego and Othello, both of which were eagerly played as well.
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Four students just played chess in my Strategic Games elective, although most of the others were playing Redemption. I had also brought Stratego and Othello, both of which were eagerly played as well.
Wait wait, they got CREDIT for playing games?
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Essentially, I generally excel in the mid-game moreso than in openings, so if someone knows a good opening, then I will likely be at a disadvantage.
Believe it or not, this is actually not true. Openings are almost completely useless until you play at a competitive level. Looking over my own games, the only times I'm more than half a pawn up coming out of the opening is when my opponent was tactically bad - and I'm at the level where no one studies opening theory. Even more "believe it or not", strategy is fairly useless until you reach a higher level than where I am right now. Which is fortunate, because my strategy is awful.
Until you're at least 1500 (total guess, but I know it's definitely higher than I am), the most important things are being able to do the basic checkmates (that is, everything except K+B+B and K+B+N... I still can't do K+B+N) and being able to spot tactics. It's a little hard to define tactics, so here's an example:
(https://www.cactusforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fp8D1gzx.png&hash=aa352c386113252dfd83d938101fb3cbddc6877f)
White to move, what is the best move? Queen takes h6!
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Wait wait, they got CREDIT for playing games?
Yes. Other electives include Model Rocketry, K'Nex, and Lego Mindstorm. We also have the more traditional electives like Student Council, Home Ec, and Student Aides.
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Wait wait, they got CREDIT for playing games?
Yes. Other electives include Model Rocketry, K'Nex, and Lego Mindstorm. We also have the more traditional electives like Student Council, Home Ec, and Student Aides.
I wish I'd gone to your high school. :P
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Wait wait, they got CREDIT for playing games?
Yes. Other electives include Model Rocketry, K'Nex, and Lego Mindstorm. We also have the more traditional electives like Student Council, Home Ec, and Student Aides.
I wish I'd gone to your high school. :P
Mine is present tense!
(I wish I could go to his high school)
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Just to clarify, these are .25 credit courses, so they need to take these electives for all four years just to earn one credit. These are separate from the full credit electives like foreign languages, physical education, computers, art and music.
Nonetheless, I still have to figure out how to issue a grade for my elective. :o
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Just to clarify, these are .25 credit courses, so they need to take these electives for all four years just to earn one credit.
If I were a student I would take 8 of them for 2 credits.
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Just to clarify, these are .25 credit courses, so they need to take these electives for all four years just to earn one credit.
If I were a student I would take 8 of them for 2 credits.
+1
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Just to clarify, these are .25 credit courses, so they need to take these electives for all four years just to earn one credit.
If I were a student I would take 8 of them for 2 credits.
They are only offered during the last period of the day. :P