President of the Richmond Chess Club. Coach, highest rated guy named Spenser in the US (Spencers don’t count) 1800 blitz RVA Pieces on Insta
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Alireza’s dad saying he doesn’t even know how to set up a board is crazy to me. Imagine your child being #5 in the world at something and not even bothering to learn the basics? Why be upset about not being able to watch his games when he has no idea what’s going on anyway?
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When Anish Giri pockets a pawn it’s quirky and funny but when I steal $2000 worth of electronics from Walmart it’s a “felony”?
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Replace eval bars with a 1300 rated ten year old that is super overconfident and never shuts up
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Random guys at the bar: “I’m not very good, but I play very unorthodox so it might throw you off” -person that is about to learn what the scholars mate is
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Seeing some confusion on this lately, hopefully this clears things up:
Slav Semi Slav
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500 Elo: Best player in your immediate family
800: best in your friend group/extended family
1100: best player in the grocery store
1400: best player at a minor league baseball game
1700: best player in the airport
2000: best player in North Dakota
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People who describe their own play as “positional”, why do you play like that, as opposed to more aggressive/ambitious chess?
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Missed this in a game last night. Y’all would have never heard the end of it if I found this
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🎤That’s me in the corner
That’s me on h8
That’s me in the
WIND
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Losing all my pieces🎶
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>looking for d4 practice
>d4 player replies
>ask if they’re a queen’s gambit or london player
>they don’t understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaining the difference
>they laugh and say “it’s a cool opening man”
>play them
>it’s a london player
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Can someone please give me a good response to d4? I just need something that’s not too theory intensive, solid while also giving good attacking chances, catches opponents off guard and can be learned in under 5 minutes?
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We don’t have a podcast but I assure y’all the real Chicken Chess Club is here in Virginia
@chicken_chess
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2200: best player at Burning Man
2400: you had no childhood
2600: you had no childhood
2700: can beat anyone in the world
2800: can get really drunk and still beat anyone in the world
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Commentating a Fischer Random tournament and just calling the openings whatever the fuck I want
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Some random schitzo dude has been harassing my club for months claiming we “fake” our games and honestly it’s the funniest shit ever, I salute you dawg
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This whole saga is so funny. you were both so mad you didn’t win that you didn’t even wanna LOOK at your 4th/5th place medals and that’s the competitive energy we all love to see
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How far would you have to travel to find a better chess player than you? I’m 1550 uscf and from my own porch I could throw a rock at my (better than me) neighbor’s house.
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Classical tournament tomorrow, I hate classical chess!!! I’m gonna get last place and have a terrible time!!
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Hey Danny I don’t remember giving y’all permission for this. Give me a hundred million dollars @chesscom
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Not hot enough for lingerie but here’s the sexiest move I’ve ever played to win a classical tournament yesterday
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Morphy is one of the goats, it’s not a weird choice at all. I agree with the sentiment of the tweet though
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If I had a kid that was really good at something I would definitely make/run a twitter account for them and shit talk their colleagues on the regular
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Instead of getting mad at hot chess girls posting hot chess girl stuff, get mad at cute chess boys posting cute chess boy stuff
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“I lost because I’m drunk” might be my least favorite excuse in chess. “I would never miss that normally” yes you would I’ve seen you play sober
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Why is it controversial to say a person’s life shouldn’t be ruined based on something they did as a 16 year old
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Our chess club just got approved for non-profit tax exempt status! This opens up a whole new door for all kinds of cool sounding white collar crimes I can now commit!
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They should just play hand and brain, why would someone like Hikaru listen to a single thing Levy has in mind?
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Conversation at the chess bar last night:
Me to a spectator: Yeah Dan always plays this Blackmar Diemer thing but he does it weird
Dan: Nuh uh you play it weird
Me: I’m playing Stockfish moves you’re playing goldfish moves
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My chess Twitter wrapped:
Gained 4 followers
Called 118 people nerds
Solved 243 puzzles (all queen sacs)
Scrolled through 8.4 miles worth of posts about people whining about their rating
Sent 25 unanswered DMs to egirls in my local area
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.@alexandrabotez should do this
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Just spent 30 minutes reading about chess podcaster drama and I think I’m gonna reevaluate how I spend my time
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One round to go, a win gets me a tie for first 🥳 also got my highest rated win against an 1800 🙂 I still hate classical!!!
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Crazy to me that the players are seemingly fine with this no increment time control. They couldn’t give them 2 seconds even?
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Tournaments with prizes for “biggest upset” should give a little bit to the person who got upset. They need it more
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5 topics you can talk about unprepared for 30 mins
1. Chess
2. Fantasy Football
3. DarK (Netflix)
4. Super Smash Bros Melee
5. Old School RuneScape
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My contribution to women in chess is never under any circumstance flirting with anyone at the club. Not because I’m a good person or anything I just don’t know how
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It is okay to be upset about a certain rule set (in reference to Hikaru running the clock) but it’s not okay to blame/shame a player for utilizing an advantageous strategy within the rules. Take it up with the organizers
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Throwing footballs🏈 at chess players:
Magnus: catches it, throws it back with a nice spiral
Ding: catches, hands it back to you
Hikaru: drops it and says he wasn’t ready
Fabi: hits him in the face and breaks his glasses
Giri: catches it, throws it back only halfway to you
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I’ve never read it but I’m sure “How to beat your dad at chess” is a great book, but can someone please write “How to beat all the random mfs that show up to the bar at chess”? Asking for a friend
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I’d like to make a bid
🌟🌟 Good News!!
India to bid for the 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship match!
- @aicfchess
The AICF secretary, Dev Patel mentioned that the Gukesh D 🇮🇳 vs Ding Liren 🇨🇳 match probable host states could be Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh!
#GukeshDing
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