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09-30-2015 , 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by loafes
wait, john lurks here?

during his last stream he mentioned that he knows a few chess players who've done well in poker, I wonder if he was referring to anuone on 2p2
Probably since he's famiar with 2p2 and a huge number of good analytic poker players were/are on here. I didn't ask though. He obviously knows curtainz but I have no idea if they are friends of any closer sort or just know each other bc there's no way to avoid not knowing each other.
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09-30-2015 , 10:37 PM
****74, it's not timed. So I take my time l, but then again I'm not racking my brain like in a corr game.

Just played it and was up +3 with a queen vs rook and knight and this son of a bitch computer found a perpetual tie out of nowhere. Just lol.
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10-01-2015 , 12:01 AM
Yeah, comps are good at finding perpetuals too

I've suddenly found another IM who dabbled into poker (at least in 2013) - Bindi Cheng, who said in his blitz video vs Olegas that he had had a successful NL10 session. I don't know how his poker career went then as I didn't watch his entire video archive (he told nothing about poker in his last video).
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10-01-2015 , 11:55 AM
ARC is it possible to post a few of your games vs the phone app?
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10-01-2015 , 01:12 PM
[Event "Computer"]
[Site " Chess.com"]
[Date "Oct 1, 2015"]
[White "ChessKing9577"]
[Black "Comp"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "--"]
[BlackElo "--"]
[TimeControl "--"]
[Termination "ChessKing9577 wins by Checkmate"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bg5 d5 5. e3 Bb4 6. a3 h6 7. Bh4 Bxc3+ 8. bxc3 b6 9. cxd5 Ne7 10. dxe6 O-O 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. exf7+ Rxf7 13. Bc4 Nd5 14. e4 Nf4 15. Bxf7+ Kxf7 16. Qf3 Ne6 17. Ne2 Kf8 18. O-O Ng5 19. Qh5 Be6 20. Qxh6+ Kg8 21. f4 Nf7 22. Qg6+ Kh8 23. f5 Bc4 24. Rf4 Nh6 25. Qxh6+ Kg8 26. Rg4+ Kf7 27. Rg7+ Ke8 28. Qh8+ Bg8 29. Qxg8# 1-0

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OK I just beat it pretty handily without even playing that well. Strange. This has to be the worst it has played.

Last edited by A-Rod's Cousin; 10-01-2015 at 01:24 PM.
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10-01-2015 , 01:45 PM
Black's play starting with 9... Ne7 was pretty terrible (and not the kind of mistakes an actual chess player would make), but it looks to me like you took what was offered and spotted the available tactics at least up until the point where you had a significant edge, after which I stopped looking. You didn't have to do anything special since the computer decided to make silly moves and hand you the game. But that's the issue with playing most computers. They'll find all the tactics and you'll have no chance, or they'll throw in a few ridiculous blunders and you win without having to do much of anything.
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10-01-2015 , 02:34 PM
Playing bullet/blitz against SF with a low depth search and (for some important reason, otherwise it plays terrible) something called an "engine book" is the most realistic comp I've found. It still cleans house with things like hanging pieces and basic combos, so it's fun practice at the <5-minute level. Some random games.

3-minute game as White: http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game....php?id=103717

5-minute game as Black: http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game....php?id=103718 (this game is hilarious)

5-minute game as White: http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game....php?id=103719

5-minute game as White: http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game....php?id=103720

3-minute game as Black: http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game....php?id=103721
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10-01-2015 , 02:38 PM
Meanwhile thanks for bringing up the chess.com computers. I've gotten strangely addicted to playing the Medium-1200 computer on the Java browser app (not to be confused with the phone app, or the timed and rated games against the computers you can play online). The games aren't good, but I enjoy the way it sometimes marches out its king for no reason and I get to feel like Paul Morphy dragging it into mating nets in 20 moves or less. For example (yes, these games are all very silly):

[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2015.10.01"]
[White "Player"]
[Black "Computer - Medium"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bc4 Bg4 5. f3 Bf5 6. Nc3 Kd7 7. g4 Bxc2 8. Qxc2 g5 9. Qf5+ Kd6 10. Ne4+ Nxe4 11. fxe4 Kc5 12. b3 Bg7 13. Ba3+ Kb6 14. Qf2+ Ka5 15. Qc5+ b5 16. Qxb5#
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10-01-2015 , 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by A-Rod's Cousin
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nc6
The Bg5, e3 development route isn't too bad, but the comp's Nc6 nonsense could have been punished immediately. The comp gave you enough time for 4. e4 d5 5. e5 Ne4 6. Nf3, which is like the Advance French but with no chance for Black to play the important c5 break without moving the c6 knight away to an awkward square.

In general, what's the purpose of the usual 3. Nc3 move? It's exactly to enable e2-e4, so there's no wonder why Bb4 (Nimzo) and d5 (QGD) are Black's principal responses - other moves don't address White's threat of getting a big centre, whereas if Black wanted to deal with it in a hypermodern way, it would be better off playing g6 instead of e6.
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Originally Posted by A-Rod's Cousin
4. Bg5 d5 5. e3 Bb4 6. a3 h6 7. Bh4
Instructively enough, Stockfish points out that 7. axb4 hxg5 8. b5 is much stronger (I mean, when both you and the opponent are challenging each other's pieces by pawns, try to calculate what will happen if you both take, instead of you moving your piece out) because 1) Black has to move the knight to a worse square, leaving the e5 outpost available for your knight, 2) the g5 pawn is an easy target, whereas the b5 one is quite safe (e.g. 8... Ne7 9. Nf3 g4 10. Ne5; 8... Nb4 9. Qa4 a5 10. bxa6).

Otherwise, wp by you, and the comp is of course a total patzer
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6. Nc3 Kd7
Rofl, I stopped reading here because it's 1-0 after move 6.

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10-02-2015 , 06:09 PM
Lol level 4 comp.

[Event "Computer"]
[Site " Chess.com"]
[Date "Oct 2, 2015"]
[White "ChessKing9577"]
[Black "Comp"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "--"]
[BlackElo "--"]
[TimeControl "--"]
[Termination "ChessKing9577 wins by Checkmate"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Nf3 e6 5. Bg5 Bb4 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 O-O 8. e3 b6 9. e4 Bb7 10. e5 d5 11. Bxf6 Qc8 12. Qd2 b5 13. Qh6 a6 14. Qg7# 1-0

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10-02-2015 , 07:23 PM
You need to look for even more aggro moves when the comp gives you so much freedom (playing a Nc6 Indian again, lol). 4. Nf3 is good, but 4. d5 gains more initiative and forces the knight to a bad square (4... Nb8 or 4... Ne5 5. e4 d6 6. f4 Ned7) because g6 is occupied by a pawn.

Then you pinned the other knight but forgot about it 3 moves later and played 8. e3 instead of 8. e4. It's great that you noticed the pin and played e4 on the next move. As played, Black could have saved the knight with 8... Kg7.
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10-02-2015 , 08:53 PM
I played that game in about 2 minutes while taking a dump. I know that runs contrary to what I said earlier but it seems like it's been re-calibrated or something. 8.e3 was obviously a mistake as I played my typical opening moves quite quickly.
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10-07-2015 , 10:33 AM
Watched the end of the MN Blizzard match again last night. No John B but Wesley was there and beat up on Naroditzky. I would have to say he saw some moves I did not see or even consider, lol.

Our team ended up getting hammered again, though. Board 4 was losing the entire time I was watching, down a pawn and never really found a way to get any counterplay. Board 3 both guys were down to like 10 minutes after 10 moves or something ridiculous. I'm not sure why but our guy hunkered down the whole time (maybe it's his playing style?) and did end up getting into an endgame that looked somewhat even, but the opponent had the 2 bishops and an active rook and while they were both playing on increment, the opponent did not blunder and, honestly, our guy did not make things too complex for him (imo of course). I mean, he was playing an FM and he's just an NM with the black pieces, so not a surprising result. But it felt like there may have been more stuff he could have tried.

After the match Wesley was chatting a bit with a group of team managers/spectators (maybe everyone else was directly involved with the team but me though lol). He had to catch a 4:30am flight to Vegas for the Millionaire tournament. Geez. Makes me wonder if he really should be playing these team matches but I have a feeling he just wants to play chess 24/7.

It's also his birthday in a couple/few days. I asked if he was going to party all night (jokingly) and he said "I have a game that day and must work." Then he realized I was joking I think. Not at all surprising that he is super focused on that. Someone else made some sort of joke about how the club could let him borrow any book he wanted and he was like "well, I have no time to look at it as I must fly out and prepare for the tournament." He was probably considering borrowing a bunch of books randomly.

Anyway, he will be back in time to play next week and John B should be playing too. We really need to win that match to stay in the playoff picture, a loss would really make things very tough. Having Wesley on board 1 should definitely help, .
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10-07-2015 , 12:05 PM
I am currently engaged in the Isle of Man chess masters tourney and getting it stuffed in my face (with 0.5/3 so far after facing IM/IM/FM). I'm just under FIDE 2100 so this is not a big surprise.

On the flip side, I played the chess/poker event and got to play a blitz game (5+2sec) vs Michael Adams, which is a pretty cool experience, after which I played at the poker table with Adams/Harikrishna/Howell/Fressinet. Sadly busted out just before final table.
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10-07-2015 , 01:12 PM
That is a much cooler TR!

How were they at poker? Any anecdotes to share?
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10-08-2015 , 04:18 AM
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That is a much cooler TR!

How were they at poker? Any anecdotes to share?
Will post a full TR when tourney is over on Sunday, but I'll spoil it by saying they were all pretty much total beginners at poker (like "what is a big blind" type beginner level).
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10-08-2015 , 09:58 AM
Wowow, I'd assume the Brits would know what was going on, gambling is big there. But maybe they just do sports betting. Sounds like a super juicy game, .
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10-08-2015 , 04:56 PM
It's amazing that sportsmen don't bother to dedicate enough time to studying any new sport they're going to do. I for one would try to learn basic golf swings if I were to start playing it in public, regardless of whether the prize pool is significant.
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10-08-2015 , 05:14 PM
If I was a professional baseball player and was invited to go to the driving range for ****s & giggles while in some city to do my job I'd probably be fine sucking...
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10-11-2015 , 11:34 PM
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10-12-2015 , 11:26 PM
I know most likely everyone has seen the results, but since we didn't make a thread for either tournament:

1) Carlsen defends World Rapid title a full point ahead of the field, pretty impressive. Three players tied for second, but with tiebreaks Nepomniachtchi got second and Radjabov third.

2) Naka wins Millionaire Chess, worth a cool $100k. Hikaru is having a massive year.


"Quite frankly, I'd rather have a hundred thousand dollars than a rapid or blitz title" (made up quote)
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10-13-2015 , 09:37 AM
His biggest obstacle was getting Ashley to not just ban him from the tie-break playoff for drawing in 9 moves or whatever in the last round. Seemed irate and wasn't far off from just tossing him and McShane, but letting the result stand, from the playoff.

Then So would have had excellent chances. He already did if it weren't for that damn 4th game where he was up decisively early and then made some mistakes.

Naka was a beast, though. I know Caruana is supposed to be Carlsen's main competition b/c he's allegedly not afraid. But, man, Naka is destroying fools and I can't imagine at this point Caruana is more prepared to take on Carlsen.
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10-13-2015 , 11:58 AM
Destroying fools (which I agree Naka seems quite good at) isn't the same as taking on Carlsen. Naka has no chance against Carlsen imo, Caruana at least has some chance.
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10-13-2015 , 10:35 PM
Wasn't it a misstep by Ashley & Lee to schedule Millionaire Chess at the same time as the rapid & blitz championships? They must have lost a few potential high rated participants.

Edit: what's more boring, though, is that the rapid & blitz championships are commented by GM Jan Gustafsson and some IM whose name I can't spell... bring GM Dimitri Komarov back!

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10-14-2015 , 12:04 AM
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