Only if you have top 10 chess players' countries can post in this thread
t. third best chess playing country in the world and former chess player
Big Brain Club
Hunter Johnson
Other urls found in this thread:
Connor Mitchell
>Azerbijian
lmao is that even a real place? wtf?
Mason Campbell
K.
(Thanks, immigration.)
Ian Richardson
No
I don't exist
We are just figment of your imagination
Gavin Baker
hello
Brandon Powell
>Azeri chess players
>in charge of not dying
lol
Owen Foster
I just looked it up. apparently it's one of them Ex-Soviet Stans. lmao funny name for a place though.
Charles Peterson
>Anand still playing
He’s been playing since before I was even born and I’m 27.
Joseph Thomas
>immigration
*blocks your path*
Eli Allen
What the fuck man
Wyatt Gutierrez
Do second nationalities count?
Oliver Perry
S-Sorry
Edgelord posting aside, is it true that chess is very popular in Azerbaijan even among normies? For example, did Gashimov's death receive much attention?
Bentley Thompson
We had inter-university championship and I became 6th
All I know chess is very popular since rise of Kasparov
Gashimov's death couldn't make that impact to be honest
Benjamin Carter
Huge chess game going on between /mena/ and /norgetråden/ right now
Luke Turner
Ok
Thomas Ramirez
link?
William Walker
wtf are the jews doing?!? not even 1 in top 10
Asher Perez
Please give your professional opinion if you're kinda good at chess.
Evan King
Are you the Norwegian who posts chess threads on /sp/?
Henry Campbell
Caruana is sicilian-american and has italian citizenship, does it count?
Liam Powell
No, there was just a chess game going on in our thread.
Gabriel Russell
Alright, I'm writing my musings as I go through the game.
>Caro-Kann exchange
opening yikes (black basically declaring "I hate chess and I hate fun")
>dark-square bishop exchange initiated by black
positional yikes
>10.Nxe4
I would have preferred a light-square bishop or queen move, as it then forces black to either concede a tempo retreating, or make a huge positional concession with ...f5.
>11.Nxd7
Once again, White is just giving free tempi to black.
>queen exchange initiated by black
Boring move. Not only that, but now the endgame is tremendously simplified and white is probably slightly better due to better king position and slightly better light-square bishop.
>that absolute fuckup with the king-side pawn-push by black, with ...f5, ...f4, and fucking ...f3??, not to mention a wasted tempo on ...a6 which only strategically worsens his position
endgame yikes
Black literally lost himself the game. All in all, a rather boring game with both sides playing in a very scared style. Black had many more "yikes" moments throughout the game and thus probably deserved the loss, but it's disappointing how white just started exchanging pieces in the middlegame.
Noah Russell
So basically both are pretty shit?
Caleb Hernandez
All is extremely relative in chess. Every single game I've played is "shit" compared to a super GM for example, but at the same time I'm fairly good compared to most players at club level.
Black really choked in the endgame, and both players need to rethink some of their positional understanding of chess, but white still did a good job of actually maneuvering and securing himself the win in the end. Generally, I wouldn't call it "shit", I would call it "disappointing" because both players played very nervously and in an uninspired manner.
Carson Hernandez
>opening yikes (black basically declaring "I hate chess and I hate fun")
Oops, meant "white basically declaring..."
Henry King
Ryder Lee
How quickly could you checkmate these guys?
Kevin King
Where is Karyakin ffs, wtf are we doing so low? This is embarrassing. Delet
Wyatt Martin
all of them are jews btw
Jackson Allen
Probably not that quick; "quick checkmates" are only a thing against beginner players (unless you count something like 25 moves as "quick").
Leo Clark
what's your elo
Jacob Phillips
I don't have a FIDE elo or anything like that, but something like 1800.
Angel Foster
Duhhh
Chess is mental mastrubation