Valuable lessons I've learned from chess:
- how to think strategically long term
- to always plan carefully before you act
- that when you really get down to it a horse and a priest are basically worth the same
In chess, much like in life, if you are going to trade your wife for a horse, you had BETTER BE SURE that you calculated all the contingencies perfectly before you proceed.
The rule I hate most in chess is that you can't move into check, etc. Says who?
If I want to make a stupid ass move and lose immediately, that's my right as an American!!
server updates:
- AI updates, long capture, long move, and "no move penalty" (to prevent gridlock), pawn structure bonuses
- added "berserk" mode where AI moves faster than you (VERY hard on lightning)
- corrected difficulties to not all be the same
- fixed replay games
Magnus Carlsen has now lost back to back games against to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (age 17) Nodirbek Abdusattorov (age 18).
If these two are the future of chess we may enter a golden age of chess "champions whose names white people can't pronounce". Very exciting stuff.
I asked the wise man at the top of the mountain how to improve my chess and this is what he said: "study hard".
And I was like "eh..........I think i'll just play speed chess online."
Hans Niemann should retire from chess to play Kung Fu Chess! No one will accuse him of cheating because Stockfish sucks at this game (it doesn't even know the rules!)
Making love is a lot like a game of chess. You should go by the book for the beginning, be creative and surprising in the middle, and close with the ruthless precision of a machine.