Epicurus0319
As someone who only recently returned to chess.com and chess in general, I’m narrowly leading in an endgame in my ongoing correspondence game against a 1000 (which might be creeping towards a draw) and somehow once beat the 1500 doggo bot, but whenever I reach the 800s in Rapid I slip back into the 700s because I only know like 3 opening lines, and it especially doesn’t help that 680-740s love experimenting with the non-e4 opening moves as white, most of which I don’t know the proper defense/punishment for as black except perhaps the e and d pawn push for Nc3 and getting in with your queen through the fortress’ unguarded diagonal for the Catalan if they play g3 first (I do know the englund, caro-kann and french as well as the 4 knights game but most of those assume the opponent is predictable enough to play e4). As white I know a bit more theory (king’s pawn, vienna, catalan and while not very effective on triple-digit players, the ballistic missile gambit).
And I haven’t yet memorized a lot of book moves so my Blitz elo is in the toilet because I keep losing on time to complete noobs
Heatwave on the bottom-left corner of the board that melts some of the larger pieces and causes a forest fire on a2
Growing pains for the chess world
Idk but I mostly block all communities involving the former (but the latter doesn’t bother me at all). I don’t use lemmy to argue politics or first world problems, especially with people who are often incredibly hostile to dissent. I use it to post pictures of my beautiful home state and talk about gaming
I just hacked into your email and saw who you’ve been messaging
Who is ‘Lil’ Sis’ and why do you ‘love’ her?”
Thank you Spez, for freeing me from my reddit addiction and advertising less-unhealthy alternatives like the federated reddit clones!
The best the ruzzian trolls who once duped us into making trump our president can come up with nowadays is “amyyrykynz bad bycaz zamzyng zamzyng gay/pronouns”
