Format

This tournament is a double round-robin between 6 teams of six players each, and the two best teams qualify to final phase. Each team is composed by one "icon" on board 1, two male players on boards 2 and 3, two female players on boards 4 and 5, and one junior on board 6.

Scoring

Each game is scored according to:

• Win with black: 4 Game Points (GPs)
• Win with white: 3 GPs
• Draw: 1 GP
• Loss: 0 GPs

The match is scored according to:

• Team that scores most GPs: 3 Match Points (MPs)
• Team that scores the same as rivals: 1 MPs
• Team that scores fewer: 0 MPs

After the double round-robin ends, the two teams with most MPs qualify to the final. The final is a best of two match, with a blitz game as tiebreaker.

Time Controls

Rapid 15+10. Players cannot agree to a draw before 30 moves each.

Teams

Triveni Continental Kings (Avg Elo: 2613)

1. GM Levon Aronian (USA, 2743)
2. GM Yangyi Yu (China, 2734)
3. GM Yi Wei (China, 2716)
4. GM Kateryna Lagno (Russia, 2494)
5. GM Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia, 2543)
6. GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre (Denmark, 2535)

Chingari Gulf Titans (Avg Elo: 2628)

1. GM Jan-Krzystof Duda (Poland, 2794)
2. GM Shahriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2694)
3. GM Daniil Dubov (Russia, 2727)
4. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (FIDE, 2524)
5. IM Polina Shuvalova (Russia, 2357)
6. GM Sarin Nihal (India, 2672)

SG Alpine Warriors (Avg Elo: 2589)

1. GM Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2829)
2. GM Gukesh D (India, 2629)
3. GM Arjun Erigasi (India, 2714)
4. GM Irina Krush (USA, 2400)
5. GM Elisabeth Paehtz (Germany, 2373)
6. GM Praggnanandhaa R (India, 2587)

Balan Alaskan Knights (Avg Elo: 2600)

1. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia, 2760)
2. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan, 2703)
3. GM Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, 2694)
4. GM Zhongyi Tan (China, 2517)
5. GM Nino Batsiashvili (Georgia, 2358)
6. Raunak Sadhwani (India, 2567)

Ganges Grandmasters (Avg Elo: 2639)

1. GM Viswanathan Anand (India, 2713)
2. GM Richard Rapport (Romania, 2761)
3. GM Leinier Domínguez Pérez (USA, 2706)
4. GM Yifan Hou (China, 2540)
5. GM Bela Khotenashvili (Georgia, 2414)
6. Andrey Esipenko (FIDE, 2682)

UpGrad Mumba Masters (Avg Elo: 2611)

1. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, 2767)
2. GM Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 2716)
3. GM Santosh Gujrathi Vidit (India, 2665)
4. GM Humpy Koneru (India, 2469)
5. GM Dronavalli Harika (India, 2450)
6. GM Javokhir Sindarov (Uzbekistan, 2596)

Today's Schedule

Match 3

23rd June 2023, 11:00 UTC

Alpine Warriors vs. Balan Alaskan Knights

Match 4

23rd June 2023, 12:20 UTC

Triveni Continental Kings vs. Chingari Gulf Titans

Match 5

23rd June 2023, 13:45 UTC

Ganges Grandmasters vs. Alpine Warriors

Match 6

23rd June 2023, 15:00 UTC

UpGrad Mumba Masters vs. Balan Alaskan Knights

Standings

Media

• Official site
• YouTube Live Stream
• Lichess
• Chess24
• chess.com
• chess-results.com
• CGL Metaverse???

Format

This tournament is a double round-robin between 6 teams of six players each, and the two best teams qualify to final phase. Each team is composed by one "icon" on board 1, two male players on boards 2 and 3, two female players on boards 4 and 5, and one junior on board 6.

Scoring

Each game is scored according to:

• Win with black: 4 Game Points (GPs)
• Win with white: 3 GPs
• Draw: 1 GP
• Loss: 0 GPs

The match is scored according to:

• Team that scores most GPs: 3 Match Points (MPs)
• Team that scores the same as rivals: 1 MPs
• Team that scores fewer: 0 MPs

After the double round-robin ends, the two teams with most MPs qualify to the final. The final is a best of two match, with a blitz game as tiebreaker.

Time Controls

Rapid 15+10. Players cannot agree to a draw before 30 moves each.

Teams

Triveni Continental Kings (Avg Elo: 2613)

1. GM Levon Aronian (USA, 2743)
2. GM Yangyi Yu (China, 2734)
3. GM Yi Wei (China, 2716)
4. GM Kateryna Lagno (Russia, 2494)
5. GM Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia, 2543)
6. GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre (Denmark, 2535)

Chingari Gulf Titans (Avg Elo: 2628)

1. GM Jan-Krzystof Duda (Poland, 2794)
2. GM Shahriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2694)
3. GM Daniil Dubov (Russia, 2727)
4. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (FIDE, 2524)
5. IM Polina Shuvalova (Russia, 2357)
6. GM Sarin Nihal (India, 2672)

SG Alpine Warriors (Avg Elo: 2589)

1. GM Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2829)
2. GM Gukesh D (India, 2629)
3. GM Arjun Erigasi (India, 2714)
4. GM Irina Krush (USA, 2400)
5. GM Elisabeth Paehtz (Germany, 2373)
6. GM Praggnanandhaa R (India, 2587)

Balan Alaskan Knights (Avg Elo: 2600)

1. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia, 2760)
2. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan, 2703)
3. GM Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, 2694)
4. GM Zhongyi Tan (China, 2517)
5. GM Nino Batsiashvili (Georgia, 2358)
6. Raunak Sadhwani (India, 2567)

Ganges Grandmasters (Avg Elo: 2639)

1. GM Viswanathan Anand (India, 2713)
2. GM Richard Rapport (Romania, 2761)
3. GM Leinier Domínguez Pérez (USA, 2706)
4. GM Yifan Hou (China, 2540)
5. GM Bela Khotenashvili (Georgia, 2414)
6. Andrey Esipenko (FIDE, 2682)

UpGrad Mumba Masters (Avg Elo: 2611)

1. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, 2767)
2. GM Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 2716)
3. GM Santosh Gujrathi Vidit (India, 2665)
4. GM Humpy Koneru (India, 2469)
5. GM Dronavalli Harika (India, 2450)
6. GM Javokhir Sindarov (Uzbekistan, 2596)

Today's Schedule

Match 3

23rd June 2023, 11:00 UTC

Alpine Warriors vs. Balan Alaskan Knights

Match 4

23rd June 2023, 12:20 UTC

Triveni Continental Kings vs. Chingari Gulf Titans

Match 5

23rd June 2023, 13:45 UTC

Ganges Grandmasters vs. Alpine Warriors

Match 6

23rd June 2023, 15:00 UTC

UpGrad Mumba Masters vs. Balan Alaskan Knights

Standings

Media

• YouTube Live Stream
• Lichess
• Chess24
• chess.com
• chess-results.com
• CGL Metaverse???

I found this cool mate in 5 in a blitz game, one of the coolest mates I had so far. Tell me what you think!

Lichess analysis link: https://lichess.org/analysis/standard/r3k1nr/ppp2ppq/3p4/P1b1p3/1n2P3/3P2Pb/2PNNPB1/R1BQR1K1_b_kq_-_6_15

Format

This tournament is a double round-robin between 6 teams of six players each, and the two best teams qualify to final phase. Each team is composed by one "icon" on board 1, two male players on boards 2 and 3, two female players on boards 4 and 5, and one junior on board 6.

Scoring

Each game is scored according to:

• Win with black: 4 Game Points (GPs)
• Win with white: 3 GPs
• Draw: 1 GP
• Loss: 0 GPs

The match is scored according to:

• Team that scores most GPs: 3 Match Points (MPs)
• Team that scores the same as rivals: 1 MPs
• Team that scores fewer: 0 MPs

After the double round-robin ends, the two teams with most MPs qualify to the final. The final is a best of two match, with a blitz game as tiebreaker.

Time Controls

Rapid 15+10. Players cannot agree to a draw before 30 moves each.

Teams

Triveni Continental Kings (Avg Elo: 2613)

1. GM Levon Aronian (USA, 2743)
2. GM Yangyi Yu (China, 2734)
3. GM Yi Wei (China, 2716)
4. GM Kateryna Lagno (Russia, 2494)
5. GM Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia, 2543)
6. GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre (Denmark, 2535)

Chingari Gulf Titans (Avg Elo: 2628)

1. GM Jan-Krzystof Duda (Poland, 2794)
2. GM Shahriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2694)
3. GM Daniil Dubov (Russia, 2727)
4. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (FIDE, 2524)
5. IM Polina Shuvalova (Russia, 2357)
6. GM Sarin Nihal (India, 2672)

SG Alpine Warriors (Avg Elo: 2589)

1. GM Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2829)
2. GM Gukesh D (India, 2629)
3. GM Arjun Erigasi (India, 2714)
4. GM Irina Krush (USA, 2400)
5. GM Elisabeth Paehtz (Germany, 2373)
6. GM Praggnanandhaa R (India, 2587)

Balan Alaskan Knights (Avg Elo: 2600)

1. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia, 2760)
2. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan, 2703)
3. GM Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, 2694)
4. GM Zhongyi Tan (China, 2517)
5. GM Nino Batsiashvili (Georgia, 2358)
6. Raunak Sadhwani (India, 2567)

Ganges Grandmasters (Avg Elo: 2639)

1. GM Viswanathan Anand (India, 2713)
2. GM Richard Rapport (Romania, 2761)
3. GM Leinier Domínguez Pérez (USA, 2706)
4. GM Yifan Hou (China, 2540)
5. GM Bela Khotenashvili (Georgia, 2414)
6. Andrey Esipenko (FIDE, 2682)

Upgrad Mumba Masters (Avg Elo: 2611)

1. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, 2767)
2. GM Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 2716)
3. GM Santosh Gujrathi Vidit (India, 2665)
4. GM Humpy Koneru (India, 2469)
5. GM Dronavalli Harika (India, 2450)
6. GM Javokhir Sindarov (Uzbekistan, 2596)

Today's Schedule

Round 1

22nd June 2023, 13:30 UTC

Triveni Continental Kings vs Upgrad Mumba Masters

Round 2

22nd June 2023, 14:50 UTC

Chingari Gulf Titans vs Ganges Grandmasters

Media

• YouTube Live Stream
• Lichess
• Chess24
• chess.com
• chess-results.com
• CGL Metaverse???

I'm a new chess player and do not understand why the solution to this puzzle is Qc2+ instead of something like Rb8, Qf5, g4 I don't really understand what black could do here to save the Queen?

Blitz 5|1: Raunak-Gukesh: 4.5-4.5 Blitz 3|1: Raunak-Gukesh: 6.5-2.5 Bullet 1|1: Raunak-Gukesh: 6.5-3.5

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/285936

I personally don't know any gambit, I just try to play the opining following the basic principles. I saved this list from a comment in Reddit time ago:

Unavoidable 2nd move gambits:

• King's Gambit against 1.e4 e5.
• Smith-Morra against the Sicilian.
• Staunton Gambit against the Dutch.
• Blackmar-Diemer Gambit against 1.d4 d5.
• Tennison Gambit against the Scandinavian.
• Grob Gambit against 1.g4 d5.

Avoidable depending on the opponents follow-up but easy to get:

• Evans Gambit in the Italian.
• Traxler against the Knight Attack (Italian).
• Albin Countergambit against the Queen's Gambit.
• Stafford in the Petrov.

Very close to 600!

Then I started losing

Let's do a small Fediverse chess tournament! Everyone is welcome to join!

We will play 10-minute games (10+0) on lichess, a free and open-source chess website. You will be assigned an opponent and will have 2 days to schedule and play your match.

I will decide on the structure of the tournament (brackets, groups etc.) based on the number of sign-ups here :)

Sign up by commenting here with your lichess account name.

Signup deadline is Wednesday, 2pm UTC. Shortly after, I'll announce the first pairings :)

Looking forward to some nice matches ❤️

Update:

Active round: 2

eulheim - vincenius 0 - 1

BabaDuda - /

Coolbootyjames - Fabiozeh

library_patron - CrazyMerlyn

mycowan - Caboose12000

Table

edit: I don't see most of the comments in this thread anymore - I hope this will be fixed until end of next round, so I can add the results

Hi, I created a chess beginners community on discuss.tchncs.de as a replacement on lemmy for r/chessbeginners

Since discoverability of communities across lemmy is not very good at the moment, maybe it makes sense to cross-reference between chess communities so that they are more easily found (reminds me a bit of the old days of the internet).

So I added a link from chessbeginners' description to !chess@lemmy.ml and would hope to see a backlink :-)

Which one do people prefer? I've personally found the chess.com UI to be a lot warmer and more inviting than lichess, but I'm interested to hear people's opinions

Hey everyone :) I'd like to organize a small tournament for lemmy users. Would anyone be interested in joining? And would you be interested in a specific time format or format? Like would you prefer a one time event or a league format etc

Cheers

https://youtu.be/jgjnuHeTVsM Scotch gambit explained by thechesswebsite https://youtu.be/Y-c3WDEIQvw the scotch opening explained by Jonathan St Louis club.

https://youtu.be/fnQejEK8pT8 the best variation against the scotch, check it out. Make sure to read Starting out: The scotch game by Emm

Hope this helps

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/133518

1st place wintermute

2nd; liwott

3rd; straight peach

4th; sexy peach

5th; michael

6th; me

(Sorry about delay, been busy)

Until proven otherwise, wintermute is the strongest chess player on the fediverse :p

I learnt a lot of stuff about running an e-tournament. Biggest factor is needing a lot of substitutes for when people drop out. Which would make the results weird, because say wintermute drops out and I sub in for him, then i'd lose the finals.

combah text, by david revoy the pepper and carrot author

background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsen%E2%80%93Niemann_cheating_controversy