jesus racing kings is nuts

A couple of chess Youtubers (ChessWhiz TV and Jerry aka ChessNetwork) have already made videos about it!





Spoiler about ChessNetwork's game:

I guess this game is appropriate for a BBV thread. A pretty funny swindle I pulled off. I figured that if his choice of which piece to take is random (which is a reasonable assumption at my playing strength ), then I have a 66% chance of winning the game.

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game....php?id=105171

That's a nice example of probabilistic thinking in a deterministic game

I know, right?

I know of a ~2100 player who often referred to a game he played when he was a junior where he won by putting a third piece enprise when 2 were under attack in the hope the opponent took the wrong one, pretty much like that game

Brag: won my club's open tournament, getting my name on a sweet trophy that features many of the country's best players.

Variance: in the crucial last round game I played a remarkable opening, with sixteen consecutive half-moves by our respective desperado knights. I didn't find the right moment to break the symmetry and ended up in a lost, and still symmetrical position after move 15. My young FM opponent let the win slip, however, and I escaped with a draw and won the title in a blitz playoff.

http://en.lichess.org/AQKvu7wp

That's a heck of a sequence of captures

I enjoyed this game.

Increased my FIDE rating by 186 points from 1 tournament, it's still not where it should be but it's headed in the right direction.

Also I'm playing in the Melbourne chess club championship, even though it's a 2 hour trip each week and cuts into my sleep due to my work schedule. Never the less I played someone 337 points higher rated thn me in the first round and won

About to start the chess.com titled Tuesday, coming in ranked 70/76. GL me lol

brag: won the EPT chess and poker mixed tournament ahead of a bunch of titled chess players and poker pros. First poker tournament I've played in 5 years, but I've still got it.

lol pawnaments

Awesome, man!

How did it work? Extra chips for those who did better in chess rounds?

Yeah exactly. 5 round 10+2 Swiss, then a NLH tournament. 10k starting stack + 2k per point scored in the chess.

I was expecting I might be one of the top seeds and most players would be novices at either chess or poker. I couldn't have been more wrong. The ratings weren't shown and I only recognised IM Lawrence Trent and WGM Jen Shahade, but there were several more IMs and FMs among the 30 players, most of whom have converted to poker. I scored 3.5 in the chess part, starting with a win over IM Vallo Laidla and a loss to FM Thomas Lendhart. Any random $200 freezeout would have been better value, but where's the bragging rights in that?

Jen organised it and is fantastic in person. The only failing is it didn't attract many local chess players - I think they could have advertised it better to the chess community.

Doing well in the Melbourne chess club championship I've been playing in. Now I'll be getting to play an IM for the first time in a classical game next week.
Also in a few weeks I'll lay Nigel short in a simul

Nigel hasn't been doing well with the ladies recently, so good for you.

Even as a Brit I hope you at least draw. GL

Typo of the year imo

LOL

Wouldn't the more appropriate term be orgy?

I don't see any typo...

So you really laid him?

In a few weeks at the orgy