Me vs my dad on Chess Ultra.
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Jacobshinn
Jul 21, 2020
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I think you are still a beginner yourself, there were a lot of blunders and you could stand to learn some basic principles, but you have advanced to the point where I don't think you'll improve much playing your dad at this point. Outgrowing playing your dad is a right of passage for many improving chess players. I did it myself something like 37 years ago. So the question for you is: where do you want to go from here? Just want to play for fun? Seriously willing to work for improvement? Or somewhere in between?
Jul 22, 2020
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ArtNJ wrote:
I think you are still a beginner yourself, there were a lot of blunders and you could stand to learn some basic principles, but you have advanced to the point where I don't think you'll improve much playing your dad at this point. Outgrowing playing your dad is a right of passage for many improving chess players. I did it myself something like 37 years ago. So the question for you is: where do you want to go from here? Just want to play for fun? Seriously willing to work for improvement? Or somewhere in between?
Yeah, I'm still learning how to improve my chess, including on how to attack like Mikhail Tal, so some of my moves were pretty inaccurate.
As for your question, I would say a little somewhere in between. I wanted to improve my chess, since I've heard that it makes you smarter, and also for fun, since chess is a classic strategy game, and for someone who wants to improve their IQ, I'd say chess is probably my favorite so far.
Though I would say that Shogi is my second favorite, even though I haven't played it yet. lol!
Thats cool, a balanced approach can keep it fun. Maybe check out some videos/streamers targeted to beginners. Tactics problems are great too, fun and helpful.
Jul 22, 2020
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ArtNJ hat geschrieben:
Outgrowing playing your dad is a right of passage for many improving chess players. I did it myself something like 37 years ago.
The strange thing is, this poster is only 36 years old! He was beating the old man while still in the womb.
Jul 22, 2020
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Jacobshinn wrote:
So, what do you guys think of the game?
lol
too many
"But Ok"s in the annotation, but I like it.
Jul 22, 2020
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DuKi_oOf wrote:
Jacobshinn wrote:
So, what do you guys think of the game?
lol
too many
"But Ok"s in the annotation, but I like it.
The ''But ok'' part was me doing a Agadmator like annotation, so...
pinkblueecho wrote:
ArtNJ hat geschrieben:
Outgrowing playing your dad is a right of passage for many improving chess players. I did it myself something like 37 years ago.
The strange thing is, this poster is only 36 years old! He was beating the old man while still in the womb.
50, but whose counting. The old man taught me to play, but once I started playing with a friend there was no looking back. I did take great pleasure in beating him at 12 or 13, since he thought the best way to help was saying "eh, eh, eh, you sure you want to move *that* son?" after every move.
Jul 22, 2020
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TumpaiTubo wrote:
My father taught me to play when I was 5 years old. By 10 years of age, he refused to play me, as in his words, it was humiliating to never win against a 10 year old. My older brother was visiting this past weekend, and he said the last game he ever played was against me, again because he said it was humiliating. Around 1982 I quit playing because there was no competition in S.W. Washington. Mt. St. Helens blew in 1980 and financially it devastated our entire area.
I started playing again in June, and I do not want to repeat the mistakes of my past. I do not want to humiliate people (most) to the point they quit.
I’ve taught martial arts since 1992, and I’m very good at retaining new students. In martial arts, it is both possible to train new students up to blackbelt, while never utilizing the art to its fullest potential. The only way to go 100%, is to physically break and/or kill your opponent.
Chess is different; Every person plays to their fullest potential.
How do better players, keep less skilled individuals, from quitting? ... or is that the wrong question?
Thank you again to all of the people on Chess.com who are helping us “beginners” along our path.
I started playing again in June, and I do not want to repeat the mistakes of my past. I do not want to humiliate people (most) to the point they quit.
I’ve taught martial arts since 1992, and I’m very good at retaining new students. In martial arts, it is both possible to train new students up to blackbelt, while never utilizing the art to its fullest potential. The only way to go 100%, is to physically break and/or kill your opponent.
Chess is different; Every person plays to their fullest potential.
How do better players, keep less skilled individuals, from quitting? ... or is that the wrong question?
Thank you again to all of the people on Chess.com who are helping us “beginners” along our path.
Thank you for the story. ... Now, what do you think of this game?
Cool!
Congrats on the win!
I'll try not to rip on you too hard, but you missed a lot of pretty basic tactics throughout the game. Most decent players can instantly see that move 5 hangs a pawn and move 12 misses a mate in 1, just to give two examples. They're very common tactics and show up a lot, so you'll want to recognise those patterns in the future.
I suggest you work on your tactics and try to calculate one move ahead. Try to work on not hanging pawns and not missing mate in 1's.
Once you master that, then you can start to work on more advanced tactics, and one you master that, then you can start to learn some positional chess.
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Jul 24, 2020
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Deranged wrote:
Congrats on the win!
I'll try not to rip on you too hard, but you missed a lot of pretty basic tactics throughout the game. Most decent players can instantly see that move 5 hangs a pawn and move 12 misses a mate in 1, just to give two examples. They're very common tactics and show up a lot, so you'll want to recognise those patterns in the future.
I suggest you work on your tactics and try to calculate one move ahead. Try to work on not hanging pawns and not missing mate in 1's.
Once you master that, then you can start to work on more advanced tactics, and one you master that, then you can start to learn some positional chess.
... Huh... Ok.
Aug 7, 2020
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#16
Deranged wrote:
Congrats on the win!
I'll try not to rip on you too hard, but you missed a lot of pretty basic tactics throughout the game. Most decent players can instantly see that move 5 hangs a pawn and move 12 misses a mate in 1, just to give two examples. They're very common tactics and show up a lot, so you'll want to recognise those patterns in the future.
I suggest you work on your tactics and try to calculate one move ahead. Try to work on not hanging pawns and not missing mate in 1's.
Once you master that, then you can start to work on more advanced tactics, and one you master that, then you can start to learn some positional chess.
By ''a lot'' what do you mean by that?
Aug 9, 2020
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Deranged wrote:
Congrats on the win!
I'll try not to rip on you too hard, but you missed a lot of pretty basic tactics throughout the game. Most decent players can instantly see that move 5 hangs a pawn and move 12 misses a mate in 1, just to give two examples. They're very common tactics and show up a lot, so you'll want to recognise those patterns in the future.
I suggest you work on your tactics and try to calculate one move ahead. Try to work on not hanging pawns and not missing mate in 1's.
Once you master that, then you can start to work on more advanced tactics, and one you master that, then you can start to learn some positional chess.
Also, I've seen chess grandmasters hang pawns all the time, and usually it's to set a trap and to trick opponents into taking it, either because they wanted to, or because it's a forced move, so, I didn't see the problem with my pawn on move 5 hanging.