Ive searched up chess on here and found lots of metephors and analogies involving chess but i cant seem to find a thread literally about the game.
Anyone here on liichess or chess.com?
I couldnt find posting websites being against the rules on here appologies in advance if it is.
I mainly use chess.com, im 1382 elo on rapid and my elo on blitz and bullet isnt even worth talking about tbh, blitz is 800 right now.
Always had an interest in the game – an older sibling taught it to me when I was a youngster. But never put the effort to get good at it. A lot of potential pasttimes went by the wayside because “priorities” but if I ever manage to actually retire, chess is something I might circle back to.
Hi! I’ve never learned to play chess online what is that like?
Probably not much different than a chess game on your computer except that you could play others, not just the computer.
I used to have a chess game on my PC that would animate the pieces, they would walk around to do their moves, and when one piece would take another, there were cute animations, like the bishop clobbering the king with his staff.
That was such a good program, my dad got me into chess with that program when i was young, about 30 years ago, i think its called battlechess.
The castle used to turn into a moving humanoid mass of bricks and crush people and the queen stabbed the king in the back in checkmate if i remember right.
Yes I believe that’s right.
Hey, great to see a fellow chess enthusiast here! I’m on both Chess.com and Lichess, though I mostly use Chess.com too. Your 1382 rapid rating is solid—don’t worry about blitz, it’s a different beast entirely 
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Bullet and blitz can be brutal if you’re more of a positional player or just not used to the speed.
I eventually got as high as 1400 but dipped back down to 1368 again, tbh i just wanted the 1400 award badly.
Every 100 mark seems like a big step and the next 100 seems unattainable. I remember slowly getting above 1000 and thinking 1100 would be amazing but impossible to get to.
My previous high was 1325 and i dipped below that for over half a year thinking id never reach that again.
Im on a pretty low point in my enthusiasm at the moment, but i force myself to win at least 1 game a day.
Whats your elo if you dont mind me asking?
Half hour rapid games are perfect for me i think, any quicker and i just cant think that fast, i tried longer than 30 minutes and the daily games but i just find it painful waiting that long for a move.
I’ve loved chess my whoe life but I’m not great at it. I have 1400 classical rating on lichess, i think that would map to a 3 digit number on chess(dot)com 
I’ve had higher ratings, but the instant i stop playing 1 hour a day i go right back to where I am now rating wise.
I used to be on chess.com but got bored with it. Too many users cheating with second windows open to an online computer chess game. They flip the board and mirror your moves. The delay is a dead give away in the opening moves.
Apparently LLMs are crap at chess. Both ChatGPT and Copilot have been beaten badly by a chess game written for the Atari 2600 45 years ago.
In truth LLMs are crap at a lot of things, contrary to all the hype.
Typical example: Wired magazine a week or so back published an article with a title to the effect of, “LLMs better than humans at detecting security vulnerabilities in software.”
Great clickbait title. If you stuck it out to the final paragraph, the article admits that the LLMs only found 2 percent of the vulnerabilities, and were easily confused by complex attacks. The final sentence: “Don’t fire your human testers just yet”.
In reality what LLMs are good at is finding a few vulnerabilities cheaply, some of which were missed by humans, while letting 98% of them sail right on by.
Most of the LLM horseshit is like this, it is breathlessly optimistic, filled with assumptions that the huge problems with them will very shortly yield to just a bit more compute power and clever tricks, when the basic reality is that these things DO NOT and CANNOT reason and they aren’t going to start actually understanding your questions suddenly because they cross some Magic Threshold of compute resources.
I have a friend who has been experimenting with this. He’s had big problems with them cheating. By that I mean with them making maybe 15-20 legal moves, then just making a cartoonlisly illegal move for no apparent reason.
Making it hard for him to even get game results.
I’m not surprised. It’s quite common for LLMs to just make stuff up out of thin air at times. I would never trust them for anything important or critical.
Counterintuitively they are much better at certain pattern-recognition tasks (some of those they are best at is reading medical X-rays) while being absolute crap at objective algorithmic work like solving math word problems or following the black and white rules of chess.
In fact Apple did a paper on that issue and found that they would get different answers for the same word problem where they just changed one word and replaced it with a perfect synonym. They took this as proof that the LLM is not reasoning and then they went on to show that nothing in the current technology will fix that … it is not simply an issue of compute time or resources.