I played Jerry once in his simul (25+10) games, he missed little tactical sequence in the middlegame which gave me an extra pawn, but I coudn't break his defense, give the pawn back and liquidated to Q+R endgame, when suddenly I feel creative and want to mate him with my Queen and King, and suddenly blundered mate in 1 lol
Last edited by SicilianTaimanov; 10-31-2015 at 03:46 PM.
I lost to Jerry once playing bullet, and I also played him in a 30|30 simul (where he timed out after 17 moves because he was playing too many people).
First time one of my online ratings is above 2000.
It's only a bullet rating, and it's on lichess, where ratings are a quite a bit higher than elsewhere (I'm ~1700 in bullet on chess.com), but still feels kinda cool.
I lost to Jerry once playing bullet, and I also played him in a 30|30 simul (where he timed out after 17 moves because he was playing too many people).
Video is up, loafes. Your game starts at 21:27
Yeah, definitely my worst game, jerry was actually the only one to play 1.Nf3, which threw me slightly, pretty much everyone else had played the mainline with Qh5
Pieces becoming trapped is definitely an engine blindspot, I've seen similar stuff before. It's a way of triggering the horizon effect. They think there is a way out, but the punishment is happening like 35 moves down the track.
I assume we are referencing kingscrusher here. I get irritated at him not just for the mumbling, but he's almost definitely got a narcissism disorder. He admits to cherry-picking the games he posts, which is bad enough, but his behavior is absolutely classic narcissist. He drives me crazy.
Well, get into John B and then at some point Chessexplained may be better. One issue with chessexplained I have is it ends up feeling a bit boring. But, he has thousands of videos and knows openings really well so you can often search through his videos for lines you play and check them out. Doesn't work as well with John (at least for me).
Also chessexplained has many instructional videos that seem useful.
I mean, if you just want something relatively entertaining, go with Greg Shahade (curtainz on 2p2), you may even be familiar with him back in the day from poker. His are less instructional but generally entertaining, at least imo.