Is anyone else playing chess? My friend from back home recently started challenging me to online chess matches and now I’m pretty hooked. My record against him is 2-18, so I’ve been trying to improve my game because I refused to be humiliated like this forever. I’ve been sucked into the blossoming chess scene on YouTube, watching match breakdowns and strategy videos. I bought a chess book. TWO chess books. One is way too hard for me, the other is basically just a chess puzzle book. I like that one. I already saw Queen’s Gambit so I didn’t watch that, but needless to say I have been really into chess. I’ve been obchessed.
If you play on chess.com you should challenge me. (Actually now that I’m looking at it I have no idea how to challenge someone. Hopefully that’s something you can do? I think it is? If you know let me know. If you have to add me as a friend to challenge me that’s cool too!) I like playing the 1 day correspondence games. The shorter timed matches seem super intimidating, I need time to think! I am currently rated 1399 in Daily but I have a hard time imagining that’s very accurate. I’ve only played 6 games and a couple of those have been won by time out.
I used to play with a friend in high school during study hall about a year or two ago. Don’t think I ever won a game haha. I’m just a bit too impatient so I always end up making dumb decisions. Chess definitely seems to have had a revival of some sort on the internet these days
My grandpa taught me chess when I was 4, to have somebody to play with (I guess grandma wasn’t too keen on chess herself). I quickly caught on, and started to follow chess games in the paper, one move at a time. Sadly my interest faded some 15 years ago. Super happy that you are enjoying it, though! One of the world’s ancient but still popular games. Do you think you’ll do a video on chess games in the future, or maybe board games in a broader sense? There is no shortage of board game videogames out there 🙂 Your… Read more »
I doubt I’d do a video on chess, I don’t think I’ll ever know enough to talk about it in any real sense. Just a fun hobby for a little while! As for board game videos, I’d love to do another! I’ve only done the Mall Madness video, but it is really fun getting to film the board and all its pieces. That probably won’t happen again until I’m playing more board games myself, but hopefully soon-ish enough!
Hi! I really enjoy chess as well. Not great at it, but haven’t played super often. I will have to make an account and challenge you sometime. I will see you on the board of the interwebs!
Oh man, I love a good game of chess. I used to play a lot with my friend but it’s been a long while. I’ve been playing some easy matches against the computer lately but I’m super out of practice and not very good. Would love to play a match against you sometime!
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Hello! I’ve sent you a friend request since my rank is apparently too low to challenge you. Feel free to challenge me, though. I was president of my school’s chess club, but I haven’t played in three years or so.
I used to be in the chess club in elementary school, but I honestly was never very good. I was obsessed with playing this chess game on my old PC though, I think it was called Combat Chess? I was too nervous playing against other people but playing against a computer was fun haha.
I think you undersold your chess ability! Good game, I’m looking forward to playing with you more. And man, I can see this becoming my main distraction at work. Something about the back and forth of Chess is addicting. Thanks for playing!
I have been playing a friend of mine once a weekend since last March. When we started playing, we were fairly even. I used to play in my high school chess club, so I had more experience. Now, he pretty much always beats me. I started learning an opening for white and black, and trying to push myself to get better. It is really fun! In addition to chess.com, take a look at lichess.org. It has a bunch of tutorials that walk you through various tactics. I use the lichess.org app on my phone to play puzzles. I think puzzles… Read more »
At least turn on chat for chess! Was fun playing against you and I’d like it more with some back and forth, or at least some reasoning on my sudden loss.
This seems like classic Ian passion-chasing. Which is good! It’s great to get totally into something you’re interested in like this. I’m trying to picture what a BrutalChess video would be like…
I love chess.
If you have not seen this yet I would highly recommend Fredrik Knudsen’s down the rabbit hole on Deep Blue chess computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwF229U2ba8
Hell I would recommend all his videos but this is his latest and is quite the fascinating watch!
I appreciate the recommendation, Kyle! I’ve watched a documentary on Deep Blue before and really loved it, so I’ll have to check this one out.