It's compressed, not deflated. Everyone starts in the middle (maximum compression) and the rating range slowly expands with new players and more games played. There hasn't been enough time for the range to expand to what one is used to as a normal range of ratings yet since it's so new. It will normalize over time as more players join and more games are played.

Note: not a nit-pick, deflation and compression are totally different things. A (theoretically) FIDE 2600 might be "under-rated" in the pool at like 2050 or something, but a (theoretically) FIDE 600 (I know, doesn't exist) would be over-rated at like 1200 in a compressed pool (while also being under-rated in a deflated pool). Also, compression usually corrects itself.

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Good to know, thanks Gorgonian.

Just beat GM Eric Hansen (chessbrahs on lichess) in a bullet game - caught him on a premove.

I only managed because he was berserking (0:30 per game to gain an additional point in the tournament).

Also, I blundered back most of the advantage 10 moves later when I hung my queen, but he missed it too.


EDIT: wait, scratch all that, he was playing blindfold! LOL dude's a beast.

IT'S OUT.

Why didn't I play f5?????

I just had a winning position in a game, made a bad move, and now am likely losing.

Well, at least it didn't cost you money Poker spews have more dreadful consequences.

Another question is why you didn't play 31. Nf1 (after his g5-g4) to finish the long plan of trapping his rook

I missed the ...Re5 idea when I allowed ...Nd3.

You made the second appearance on CE's channel yesterday, congrats! (I'm yet to watch the video, though, shall skim it now.)

Haven't watched chessexplained, does he ever comment on his losses?

Yes, he always does. Actually, his loss videos are much funnier than his wins because he tilts a lot, especially during the engine post-mortem. I'm even dreaming about making a compilation of CE's most hilarious tilt episodes. My favourites so far are this and this.

Edit: the third one whose URL I remember is this:





As for the second CE vs TimM game, I wonder why Tim went for a rather evident loss of two tempi with Bc8-g4-f5-d7 That seems the decisive mistake.

I never know what I'm doing in this variation. Also playing while working, sometimes having to ring up customers between moves.

BEAT: Lost for the first time in an OTB game since 2013
BEAT: It was the deciding game in the club championship
BEAT: I have never won the championship and my 9.5/11 would have been enough to win the last 5 years which were won with 7.5/11
BEAT: I shouldn't have resigned the final position since I was only a pawn down and had the bishop pair, but I thought I was going to have to give up the bishop and ruin my structure.
BEAT: I declined a draw offer and had several promising options during the game but decided to blunder instead

that sucks

Brag:

2101 2/2
2491 GM 2/2
2459 GM 0/2
2473 IM 1/2
2488 GM 1/2
2320 FM 1.5/2

+60 rating points

The funny thing is, the GM that I got 0/2 is a notorious Croatian player that was 2600 back in 1997, so immensely strong, but these days is more or less happy to give anyone a draw. Before the match he said: 'Would you like 2 draws today?' but I decided to go the route of trying to learn something from such a strong player, and got duly crushed.

Why play chess if you offer anyone a draw during any round? I don't get it, .

Great results, regardless!

Sup,

Anyone have any memories of playing bad computer programs back in the day? I used to play some random C64 program. Its horizon effect was absolutely horrific and you could basically beat it every time by attacking the king. It would always be convinced it was smashing your face until about 6 moves before checkmate when it would be like:



I always had the evaluation switched on and would live for the moment when it suddenly nosedived, as the horizon breached the critical moment. Oh Noez.

Oh for the times that computers had less brainpower than humans.

This was my first non-human opponent:



I used to lose hundreds of games at the lowest level when I was around 14, until I started winning. It was so horrible at the endgame that I once won a piece down, B+Ps vs Ps. And I used to consider a kingside attack a cheap way to win against it. I moved up the levels and eventually would play games that lasted for days on its 25 minute per move level, but I could always win easily at this point. Around this time I started going to a chess club, and my first established rating was low 1300s.

I also had some chess programs for my TRS-80:

Microchess


Z-Chess


Sargon II


(I forgot how bad the graphics were)

Also had some C64 programs:

Lol @ those microchess graphics.

The TRS-80 graphics were very limited. There were 16 rows and 64 columns, in which you could either have a text character, or a graphics character consisting of six little rectangles, making the resolution 128 x 48, 1 bpp.



When you got tired of chess, there was always Sea Dragon:

How could I forget:



And it even had a 3d board!

Did anyone who actually played chess like using the 3d boards? Seemed to me like something tacked on by the marketing department, looked cool on the back of the box but just a hindrance if you're trying to play a game. Chess is inherently two dimensional! In before 3d hyperchess or whatever Spock's favorite game was called.

For those of you on OSX, Apple's chess application looks like it hasn't been updated this millennium. And it features a craptastic 3d board with no option for 2d. Kind of funny to me that it's still there, I'm sure almost nobody uses it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(OS_X)



I mean I guess it's technically playable, but why?

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