He looks like Bogey Lowenstein from 10 Things I Hate About You. Funny, because Bogey had a friend named Nigel.

horde chess is very interesting

White to play.

19 ↑7 Ivanchuk 2740.9 +9.9

38 ↑7 Wei Yi 2711.2 +8.2

Seems a little unbalanced in white's favor.

Pretty hilarious game from 1872:

maybe. are you aware that it was seemingly unbalanced the other way and they recently added more pawns and made the pawns white to combat that?

btw it seems that if a back rank pawn captures and moves to the second rank, it can then still advance two squares if it chooses. that seems like bs and just cost me a match.

No, I only just started playing on lichess. But I played this on another site where the horde only had 16 pawns and it was super easy for the side with the pieces.

I can see the logic of having pawn moves depend only on their current rank, and not the history of how they got there.

Wei Yi won again today. Now 2714.2 and up to 35th in the world.

I had no idea that second rank pawns could move 2 sqaures in horde chess. it just cost me a game

apprently white can move second and first rank pawns 2 squres on first move

And now 2717.5 and 32nd. Damn.

Meanwhile . . .

Woat queen sac

Black to play and win.

yeah that's it

Now that I've looked at the answer:

A couple of recent dreams, the first I can recall involving chess.



dream #1 (sometime last week)

I was in a tournament of some sort. I look at the board to realize I have a completely lost position; Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi had a crushing attack against my king.

Suddenly I realize the event is half chess and half eating competition. Seizing the opportunity, I quickly go through some ramen noodles and follow that with a bowl of rice. I sense the discomfort of eating too fast, but remind myself I cannot win at the board.

As I finish the rice, I look around to see other competitors laughing. I had won after all!



dream #2 (last night)

I am set to play Magnus on the next round of a tournament. It didn't look like a club or anything, it seemed like we were in someone's backyard.

As I sit down I realize the board is all weird; the light and dark squares have nearly the same color, and the pieces are disproportionately tall and oddly designed. I consider complaining, since the setup was so bad we might as well be playing blindfolded.

But then I realize I have a bigger problem: I didn't have a scoresheet, and I had to give it to the tournament director by the end of the round. However, since I was already sitting, I wasn't allowed to get up to grab one.

So I thought "great, I'm playing Magnus on this wacky chess set and I'm going to have to recall the game by memory and hurry to write it down before the round ends or else I'm disqualified".

As soon as the game starts I look at the position and all of Carlsen's pieces are around my king. They're not even in the squares, but in an actual circle. It looked as if a kid was playing with the pieces "we have your king surrounded!". So I obv lost that one.

lol, funny stuff. I haven't had any notable chess dreams, but sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night, I can visualize a 2D chess set perfectly and construct silly cat-vs.-cat games.

Correct, the move order is interchangeable.

Time for another cumulative point quiz. Black to move. Find the best move and all of the critical ideas.

Now that I've looked at the answer:

I dreamed about chess a week or so ago. I might have done it a couple times by now. It was because I was crushing a correspondence game and I think my brain couldn't wait on the guy taking so long to play his inevitably losing moves so in my dream we were otb finishing it up or something and I was all giddy. Then, ca. 1983 Christie Brinkley and I had sex. So it wasn't an entirely stupid dream.