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I'm making this thread here, because the other boards are practically dead. If a mod chooses to move it to /hobby/, that's cool, I just wanted some exposure on /leftypol/.
As you might now, chess played a large role in the Soviet Union. They outright dominated the game for decades and it was commonly played ever since the inception of the union.
I think chess does possess the potential to develop and train the strategic thinking skills of players, if they abstract from the game and attempt to apply it to the real world.
But it's also a fun game. Because of that I made a /leftypol/ club on chess.com, which is a great website with a nice UI and plenty of resources to learn and improve at chess. I've been using it for months now and got far better at chess and I even do the puzzles on it for fun every day. The way the website is designed makes learning chess and improving really, really easy. Making an account is free and would be quick. I know this sounded like an ad, lol.
So, I'm inviting you comrades to start learning chess or improve whatever skill level you are at and join the /leftypol/ chess club. We could play against each other. Perhaps even organize tournaments. I think it would be really cool if we could get something like this going and make it the community wide hobby. If only 3 people join that would be good enough honestly.
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https://www.chess.com/club/leftypol No.16066
>>16053>kids book of chess>by harvey kidderWhat kind of hack came up with this shit? COME ON, GET BETTER WRITERS
No.16250
>>16066Not everything is the matrix dude.
No.16414
>>8302That's a retarded puzzle
Nf7+ Kh7 Ng5#Try this one. Mate in three, white to move.
No.16415
Also, does anyone on here play shogi?
No.16416
>>16415only shogi-un 2 total war
No.17454
>>5960>lichessChess.com is only better for having multiple pre-moves. But still a feature I wonder why Lichess refuses to add.
No.17457
>>17455Watching a porn actress clickbaiting chess. Yikes. Gimme a timestamp or something. 5 year olds playing chess at a higher level than some slut.
No.17459
>>17457>Watching a porn actress clickbaiting chess. Yikes.I don't think she's a porn actress, anon. She obviously likes to dress nicely, and bring a bit of glamour to the match. If you want to see porn actresses on the internet there are loads, you don't have to watch a chess match to see them.
>Gimme a timestamp or something.Oh I see, so you "are" interested.
>5 year olds playing chess at a higher level than some slut.Which match was this? Must a prodigy, or sometimes adults let children win to encourage them.
No.17602
>>17459No timestamp. Don't care what you have to say.
No.17628
>>17457>porn actress????
do rightoids really
No.17632
>>17628God, I wish I was CoomNEET gang enough to be able to see a woman and immediately think "porn actress".
No.17656
im not the one watching a slutty yt whore that sucks at chess
youre getting awfully simpy mate
No.17661
>>17660You don't even know her rating and think that 5 year olds outperforming her is something adults do to encourage them.
No.17920
>no argument
This is the Kart thread all over again. People that know nothing of chess and of good video games acting like bigshots just because the algorithm pushes porn on them rather than the actual concepts tangibly related towards said porn
No.17989
>17987
Okay. Now are you suddenly going to make a car thread and act like an expert because it is tangibly related to porn? Nothing I said is false. 5 year olds are better chess players than her, you only watch her because you're a coomer.
No.17990
>>17989Well anon those old gas guzzlers do have robust engines, even tho they're thirsty lol
It's not porn! Not to me, anyway.
I need to see nipples as well as face however pretty to coom No.17995
You're not funny. Nobody cares what you 'need'. This isn't your blog.
No.18005
>>17995>Nobody cares what you 'need'. fair enough, but then don't click on the spoilered text
No.18013
>>18012I dunno how anyone with any self respect could watch YTers etc who do this kind of shit
No.18014
>>18013You know they all hate doing it, right? Click bait is unreasonably effective.
No.18017
>>18014Maybe they 'hate doing it' but they still do, there's other ways to get tons of views than to go all :O and lowest common denominator.
No.18018
>>18017There is nothing wrong with click bait when the market demands it imo. I don't judge a book by its cover know what I mean?
No.18019
>>18018>>18017Don't hate the player hate the game.
No.18020
>>18018If they are willing to piss all over the viewer like that and treat them like retards, then I'm not interested. But then I basically hate any YTer that consistently puts themselves in front of the camera anyways, the content should speak for itself.
No.18022
>>18020I agree with you, but I understand that the algorithm favors this type of thumbnail, and if the content is good, I want the creator to get the most bang for their buck to keep creating more content.
It's a necessary evil of the market.
No.18023
>>18013>I dunno how anyone with any self respect could watch YTers etc who do this kind of shitYT is generally a trashy medium. It's not good to spend too much time on it. If you do, then your self-respect level will take a hit, true.
>>18020But then I basically hate any YTer that consistently puts themselves in front of the camera anyways, the content should speak for itself.
Depends on the genre. Sometimes presentation in front of the camera is part of it. For example, a lot of Contrapoints' work is about personal aesthetics .
Ofc, in the case of chess, it's notoriously not about personal aesthetics. I think why non-Chess players ITT haven't taken the objections entirely seriously is because for a long time chess players were seen as badly dressed nerds, frankly.
So using sex to sell chess would have seemed unlikely.
Are glamorous or clickbaity chess players on YT damaging the game? Anons might say they can be beaten by 5 year olds, but in the videos the emphasis is on the chess moves themselves.
In particular calling one a porn actress
>>17457 would seem to be overwrought. She's got an instagram but that's it, no OnlyFans, no cashapp, no venmo, no way to pay her anything. Whereas porn is just done for money.
Sexy presentation ≠hypocrisy, not always.
No.18024
>>18023Honestly, I think sexy presentation is at least something, better than fucking gurning and overacting in front of the camera like the video is for actual babies.
No.18044
>18012
She's not one of the best. I don't understand why you have to lie like that. Rankings are available online for free for anyone to look at.
>18013
There's plenty of high-quality in-depth chess channels out there. It's not hard to do some directed searches, but this implies shutting off the algorithm and only look for things you want to see, rather than watch things before you know you even want them. It's hard for the coomerbrains blogposting about shitty chess players here. But don't blame the tool, make fun of the people incapable of breaking free from it.
No.18045
>18022
They do not need more bang for their buck. The content has always been there and always been created. The content does not suddenly increase just because a millionaire makes 200% that.
No.18046
>>18044Alexandra Botez is, in fact, one of the best.
No.18051
>>18044>shitty chess playersWhy don't you take your own advice?
Look up the FIDE ratings of the chess players mentioned ITT. They have perfectly respectable ratings for club players. Which is the context of the videos - they're playing in chess clubs.
No.18053
Terrible bait. Won't even respond.
No.22602
>>17451 If I recall this is a clip from that overhyped videogame Balan Wonderworld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz2fPX-c1jE&ab_channel=NotAlpharad No.25785
Was chess the Monopoly of feudalism?
No.27409
>>3302Lichess has an interactive tutorial
https://lichess.org/learn#/ Unique IPs: 32