Chess slang?

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Ri_Clurichaun

What is the 'cube'? I've heard Gotham Chess advising to not give Eric Rosen the cube as the last time someone gave him the cube it did not turn out well....

In other news...I also don't understand what streamers mean when they are thanking viewers for gifting them 'bits' or 'subs'.....and yes, I haven't been doing this online for very long.

Thanks for any replies! (well helpful ones anyway happy.png)

sndeww

Those aren't chess slang... I think they're twitch. I wouldn't know what those are, since I don't watch twitch. 

Ri_Clurichaun

Thanks!

JRadenkovic

You mean pawn cube, pawn cube are 4 pawns (2pack of dobled pawns side by side) and Eric Rosen realy likes it. Subs are subscribers and bits are some kind of online money

Ri_Clurichaun

Aha! Thanks!

Pulpofeira

That's not chess slang. Chess slang are things like zugzwang, zwischenzug, or you are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life.

sndeww
Pulpofeira wrote:

That's not chess slang. Chess slang are things like zugzwang, zwischenzug, or you are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life.

correct. Chess players spell it "looser". 

Ri_Clurichaun

Thanks for that reply Pulp...along with bad grammar and poor spelling you can add blocked and reported to your resume.

autobunny
Ri_Clurichaun wrote:

Thanks for that reply Pulp...along with bad grammar and poor spelling you can add blocked and reported to your resume.

He wasn't insulting you - just stating how many members behave here. 

NilsIngemar

Chess slang,

 

Beginner

 

Someone who is not within a two hundred points of me.

FizzyBand

Not sure on “cube” but I’d assume that it refers to the “pawn cube” where one side has pawns on e4,d4,e5, and d5

Aodhan
Ri_Clurichaun wrote:

Thanks for that reply Pulp...along with bad grammar and poor spelling you can add blocked and reported to your resume.

He was quoting Tigran Petrosian after being caught cheating. its a joke, lighten up for once in your life please grandpa. Another internet thing is that you dont have to tell people when you block or report them, it just makes you look like even more of a clown than you already did. 

Aodhan
autobunny wrote:
Ri_Clurichaun wrote:

Thanks for that reply Pulp...along with bad grammar and poor spelling you can add blocked and reported to your resume.

He wasn't insulting you - just stating how many members behave here. 

not even, its just a quote from the tigran petrosian copypasta

autobunny
AodhanPNW wrote:
autobunny wrote:
Ri_Clurichaun wrote:

Thanks for that reply Pulp...along with bad grammar and poor spelling you can add blocked and reported to your resume.

He wasn't insulting you - just stating how many members behave here. 

not even, its just a quote from the tigran petrosian copypasta

The bunny is painfully aware, just trying to be discrete and failing... 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-players/chess-maneuvers-off-the-board?page=5#comment-55888316

Aodhan
autobunny wrote:
AodhanPNW wrote:
autobunny wrote:
Ri_Clurichaun wrote:

Thanks for that reply Pulp...along with bad grammar and poor spelling you can add blocked and reported to your resume.

He wasn't insulting you - just stating how many members behave here. 

not even, its just a quote from the tigran petrosian copypasta

The bunny is painfully aware, just trying to be discrete and failing... 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-players/chess-maneuvers-off-the-board?page=5#comment-55888316

oops sorry

Strangemover

As Nakamura has randomly started calling pawns 'juicers' on his streams you can probably add that to the list. 

Aodhan
Strangemover wrote:

As Nakamura has randomly started calling pawns 'juicers' on his streams you can probably add that to the list. 

its actually something xQc started, and it applies to anything. Hikaru has just basically taken that, and now many people dont know the origins. 

AunTheKnight
Pulpofeira wrote:

That's not chess slang. Chess slang are things like zugzwang, zwischenzug, or you are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life.

That is not slang, those are just terms. An example of chess slang is the term “patzer.”

Strangemover
AodhanPNW wrote:
Strangemover wrote:

As Nakamura has randomly started calling pawns 'juicers' on his streams you can probably add that to the list. 

its actually something xQc started, and it applies to anything. Hikaru has just basically taken that, and now many people dont know the origins. 

I see. Many people including myself! 

Steven-ODonoghue
FizzyBand wrote:

Not sure on “cube” but I’d assume that it refers to the “pawn cube” where one side has pawns on e4,d4,e5, and d5

When Eric and Levy talk about the cube they are referring to the one that can emerge from the Stafford gambit, with black having pawns on b6, b7, c6 and c7. But I guess any formation like that is also a "pawn cube"