Thread: Chess

Here you go King, UR, Hawg, and anyone else who wants to discuss the beautiful game!

Here's some Paul Morphy history for you, King.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...dness-4307709/

https://worldchesshof.org/chess-hall...me/paul-morphy

Who has seen the queens gambit (If that is the name)?


Wave, how often do you play?

What do you traditionally like to do with your first move?

Originally Posted by underrated29

Who has seen the queens gambit (If that is the name)?


Wave, how often do you play?

What do you traditionally like to do with your first move?

Queen's Gambit is great and your need to watch it yesterday.

I play pretty much every day. I have a friend I play regular correspondence games with (2 days per move) and I usually play a couple of 10 minute games a day.

I usually play pretty standard moves in the opening. If I'm white I usually play e4 which is the most common opening. I'll sometimes play d4 and if I'm feeling spicy I'll start with b3. With black I usually mirror e4 with e5. If they go d4 I go nf6 (king's Indian defense).

Do great players have signature moves?

Originally Posted by King87

Do great players have signature moves?

yes and no. I'd say it's more like 'signature lines' where the player shows the depth of their calculation. Here is the perfect example. It's hard to fully appreciate how much Kasparov 'Bron'ed his peers without going pawns deep.

Who is the best aggressive player around right now and also of all time?

Originally Posted by King87

Who is the best aggressive player around right now and also of all time?

I'd say Morphy has the rep of being the best yolo attacker with great instincts. But that was a while ago and modern players would likely find what today's computer engines see as holes or mistakes in Morphy's ideas.

Magnus is world champ and has been for a long time. He's devastatingly aggressive but even more so he will grind his opponents to fine powder.

The days of earth-shattering brilliancies are not behind us, but we are definitely moving more and more toward an AI/machine-learned game in which a positional nuance has replaced the bold piece sacrifice of old.

I’m so intellectually aroused!

Originally Posted by King87

I’m so intellectually aroused!

Me too!

I'll kick all your asses.

Originally Posted by Shazam!

I'll kick all your asses.

Prove it, buddy. What's your chess.com or lichess account?

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Originally Posted by Shazam!

I'll kick all your asses.

Prove it, buddy. What's your chess.com or lichess account?

I have neither.

Originally Posted by Shazam!

I have neither.

www.chess.com
www.lichess.org

Both free to sign up. Pick one, drop your username here, I'll play you. If you're gonna say you'd crush all of us, let's see it!

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Originally Posted by Shazam!

I have neither.

www.chess.com
www.lichess.org

Both free to sign up. Pick one, drop your username here, I'll play you. If you're gonna say you'd crush all of us, let's see it!

I'm checking this out now. I prefer a board.