A couple of times now I have come across the Hive chess people's posts, and seems there is a pretty big tournament that they run since way back when we pretended Steem was awesome.
If you like visit HiveChess as for me I was wondering what app it is that they were using. I remember over the years installing and uninstalling a couple so it would be nice to find something I can kinda just keep.
Turns out I have used the app before, 9 years ago. Libre Chess or Lichess.org and they have certainly made it a lot nicer. It works in the browser and on mobile from playstore and ontop of that anyone can host their own version since it is completely open source.
So the last week I have played a game or two each day and pretty much just lost all of them. I thought ok maybe this is old age, so checked my old games I played and it seems I was just born a chess loser. Out of the 88 games I have played I have only won 6.
I guess it can't really get worse?
A 7% win rate is definitely pathetic but pathetic is as great a start as anything. The biggest thing I predict that will irritate me though is having to learn the opening so I can get past all the copy paste bullshit. I think I have a strong inclination to try and not open the same ever and it definitely bugs me that others constantly put the same stupid pawn out first.
Then a big thing I constantly fail at is to consider what they want to do next, I tend to not really care and I will bulldoze regardless of what they are doing. I did that in a couple of games earlier where I would just feed pieces because they pissed me off by constantly backing up their pawns in the middle.
So watching out for my fuckit moments is a good idea.
Overrall though I like the Rapid 10minute mode, it is fast enough to not be a drag but slow enough not to lose track of what is going on.
I played a couple of bullet ones, which was pretty disorientating once I realized what the timer was for.
By the looks of it though you get quite a few points for winning and don't lose so much when you do lose so I guess a mediocre player can easily hit about 1500 - 2000.
So my next goal is to become mediocre player.
