Any other anons play chess

Any other anons play chess

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I play. Sad that there aren't any more replies.

Wish I could play chess. Am just too dumb for it

Just won a game :)

This is an interesting question. I used to play chess up until the end of middle school. I went to chess afterschool programs, and went to tournaments. When high school started, I just stopped. I realized I needed to focus on my career.
I really never picked it up again. I remember those days borrowing chess books from the library and playing scenarios on chessboards.
I am now an old fart. It was the right decision to quit, to focus on my career. But chess is a good memory; i liked playing it with my friends during lunch hours.

I was a pretty good player as a teen and actually got around 2000 elo on Chess.com, idk what that is irl but probably 1700-1800.

2000 as a teen is very strong, if you kept playing you might've even made it master level.

Yeah, but it would have required me to memorize a lot more openings and train endgame. I actually got to that elo without memorizing much, it was mainly just through training tactics.

I want to play chess but I feel like it's too late to learn. I'm in uni so anyone in a chess club is going to be way better than I can hope to compete with. It's like starting sports when you're 30 years old and have never worked out before.

There is activity at every skill level. You're right that people in clubs will be tough, but beginners frequent online chess websites like lichess.org and chess.com. I got my dad into chess a few years ago and he's in his 40s, and he's an intermediate player (above average) already. All it takes is the desire to play some games and improve.

I started playing 6 months ago, for some reason I either play perfect games or blunder the queen after a couple of moves with no in between

I could play online, but that just seems kind of lame compared to actual in-person chess. I wish there were like "chess cafes" or something where a bunch of amateur strangers could just go play chess with each other.

Yeah being focused is very difficult at the start, just need to keep grinding out games.

I haven't played chess in years.
As a child I was the best player in my school, and for years afterwards I won almost every game I ever played. But I never went to a chess tournament, I was playing against hipsters in coffee shops. so my winning streak probably says more about the ineptness of my opponents than it does about my skill.
I remember when Deep Blue beat Kasparov, and I decided chess wasn't really worth playing anymore. (Yes I am old)

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>I remember when Deep Blue beat Kasparov, and I decided chess wasn't really worth playing anymore. (Yes I am old)
Little did you know, chess computers would revolutionize chess theory and bring in a kind of renaissance for chess.
Chess still isn't solved, and it's not predicted to be solved anytime in our lifetime. Every once in a while a new chess AI comes along that sweeps old ones off their feet.
The most recent example was AlphaZero by Google, which completely changed chess theory again: people had been mimicking the way traditional computers play and using engines to analyze games, but neural nets like AlphaZero play like humans do, playing positionally and utilizing tactics from old human grandmasters, while outplaying every available chess computer.
The game is still alive and breathing if you ever want to come back, it's not, and will not be, over.

I started playing seriously like 3 months ago and I can beat 2300 engine now I had like 500 hours played before that. I'll be a GM in no time

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I don't see the appeal and I don't mean that as an insult, it just seems boring to me. Sure many video games for example are just maths and logic underneath (well arguably all of them, but it's more noticeable with some than others), but with chess it's too in the open so to speak.

Anyway, one thing I do hate is how much of a meme it has become, with all kinds of brainlet streamers playing in online tournaments when they're not busy binging cooking shows on stream.

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I'll admit that stuff like that is interesting for me, but largely because of the AI part rather than the chess part.

No way. You must just be good at playing against that particular engine. I'm sure a 2300 elo real player would stomp you.

any ADHD chess players here? howd you guys get good or been able to focus on the whole board instead of zoning out and over focusing on a few pieces? Id love to play if I didnt feel like a child ever y time I got in a match,

I play, but I don't take the game seriously at all anymore. I haven't picked up a book or studied the game in many years. I have lost some ability over the last few years, but I don't mind. I pretty much only play anonymously these days and I play the bongcloud opening for jokes. My national rating is 1800 and I'm 2250 blitz and 2100 bullet on lichess.

Sometimes I think about getting back into it, to get a NM title or something. It would be cool to say I'm a national master of chess. But it would take some serious work and money.