Chess
Chess—the royal game—will retain its crown until it gets solved. There is still some margin to get there since only miniature versions (known as minichess or microchess) have been.
Openings
A big part of "serious" chess is the opening theory.
Links
Fabrice's chess games
I'm currently (since 9 February (2015)) playing on the fantastic, free-software platform, lichess (see en.lichess.org/@/laussy). I won my first tournament there on 4, January (2018) in the U1700 Blitz Arena, following a streak of terrible losses allowing me to compete in such low-rated competition. I first broke the 2000-rating barrier on 18 March (2020), with an admittedly very poor game, against an opponent who managed to promote a second queen and who missed a mate in 1, but which was however starting from a 1994 rating, allowing to pass this long-time objective. My current record is 2057, achieved on 30 March (2020).
Tournaments I won
- U1700 Bullet Inc Arena on 25, May (2018).
- U2000 Bullet Arena on 23, June (2019).
- U2000 Superblitz (2nd) on 27 November (2021).
- Chess@UAM on 16 October (2024). I regularly win such tournaments when I am the top player but this one had two stronger players (one being Diego).
Sicilian defense
My first game. I was waiting for someone to send me a parameter for a computer code by email, and started playing crappy blitz chess on the internet. I decided this was a loss of time and decided to play at least 10 minutes games (as compared to lightning that go 1 or 2 minutes in all) and to analyze them. During my first game came the parameter by phone, disrupting me quite a lot, but I won anyway as starting from a neutral rating, I was matched against an easy opponent.
| Game details | |
|---|---|
| Event | ICS rated standard match |
| Site | 207.99.83.228 |
| Date | 2011.12.16 |
| Round | Unkown round |
| White | Laussy |
| Black | Sfumato |
| Result | 1-0 |
| timecontrol | 900 |
| fen | rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1 |
⚃ 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 a6 3 c3 Nc6 4 d4 cxd4 5 cxd4 e6 6 Bc4 b5 7 Bb3 Bb7 8 Be3 g6 9 Nbxd2 Bg7 10 O-O Ngxe7 11 d5 Ne5 12 dxe6 dxe6 13 Ng5 h6 14 f4 N5c6 15 Ngxf3 Bxb2 16 Rb1 Bg7 17 Ne5 Nxe5 18 fxe5 Bxe5 19 Qf3 O-O 20 Bxh6 Bg7 21 Bxg7 Kxg7 22 Qf6+ Kg8 23 e5 ?? Qb6+ ? 24 Kh1 Qc6 25 Nf3 Nf5 26 Rbxc1 Qe4 27 Bc2 Qg4 28 Bxf5 gxf5 29 h3 Qh5 30 Ng5 Qe2 31 Rg1 Raxd8 ?? 32 Qh6 Rfxe8 33 Qh7+ Kf8 34 Qxf7# Sfumato checkmated 1-0
- 23. e5 is a blunder, the released defence of the knight on d2 is not compensated by 23... Qxd2! 24. Qxe7?? since Qg2#.
- 31... Rad8 is the loosing move.
King's gambit
| Game details | |
|---|---|
| Event | ICS rated standard match |
| Site | 207.99.83.228 |
| Date | 2011.12.17 |
| Round | - |
| White | blau46 |
| Black | Laussy |
| Result | 0-1 |
| timecontrol | 900 |
| fen | rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1 |
⚃ 1 e4 e5 2 f4 Nc6 3 Nf3 Bc5 4 Bc4 d6 5 fxe5 Bg4 Nxe5 is better 6 d3 ? Nxe5 7 Bxf7+ Nxf7 8 d4 Bb6 9 O-O Qe7 10 Nc3 O-O-O 11 Nd5 Qxe4 12 Nxb6+ axb6 13 c3 Nf6 14 Qb3 Nh6 15 Ng5 Qc6 16 Bf4 Rhxf8 17 h3 Be2 ?? 18 Qe6+ Kb8 19 Qxe2 Nd5 20 Ne6 Bxh6 is better Rdxe8 21 c4 ?? Nxf4 22 d5 Nxe2+ 23 Kh2 Qxc4 Rxf1 might be better 24 Rxf8 Rxf8 25 Nxf8 Qf4+ 26 Kh1 Qxf8 blau46 resigns 0-1
Links
- Lichess now has real-time analysis.
- rating goals for 2015 & 2016.
- Julia plays Chess (at 2 years old and 8 months).
More links
(For storing, not own-content related)
- Grandmaster Chessbrah plays blind bullet. It is interesting how they anticipate the same moves.
