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Shit's trash (cake.kobel.fyi)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz
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What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? Chess. Fuckin’ a, no new characters for like a thousand years now. One map. Small children can beat me. Shit’s trash.
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

At 1600 you might have moved above those who play that way. I've played a bit in the past and I reached 1200 and it seemed like opponents really relied on their openings. If I recognised their opening and played a completely random move they did not know what to do.

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    Openings are very hyped because "crush xyz in 12 moves" is a really good sell. "Do the hard work and you'll actually improve after like months or years if you do it consistently" is not such a good sell.

    And so every new player studies a lot of openings, gets a theoretical grandmaster position (yay, you're equal as Black) and then blunder a piece and lose anyway.

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