Chess thread (6 Viewers)

[InteGrand]

@IG/sean is this the chess thread one of you was talking about?

Yes, this is the one.

 

[leehuan]

Interesting. Should do a thread revival and then we can have a tournament.

 

[seanieg89]

Interesting. Should do a thread revival and then we can have a tournament.

Am all for this. People register interest here and direct other bos users who might be interested to this thread as well.

Can start with a one-off event on something like a Sunday evening, depending on numbers will either do swiss, round robin, or double elimination.
(The last of these works best after we have some idea of seeding though.)


A standard time control like 15+10 (15 mins for whole game, your clock gets positively incremented by 10 secs each move you make) seems best for this sort of setting.

Can also run faster blitz/bullet events though if people like that stuff.

 

[seanieg89]

Ps. If anyone is up for some casual blitz games later tonight, I am probably down.

 

[InteGrand]

By the way, how accurate are the ratings on lichess? Are they like decently accurate at the upper end but not so much towards the lower end?

 

[seanieg89]

By the way, how accurate are the ratings on lichess? Are they like decently accurate at the upper end but not so much towards the lower end?

accurate in what sense? accurate in comparing skill of two lichess players or accurate to over the board ratings?

for the former, they should be pretty good for comparing any two players with a decent game volume. if game count is low though it doesn't mean much either way.

it's not very accurate to otb ratings at all imo.

 

[InteGrand]

accurate in what sense? accurate in comparing skill of two lichess players or accurate to over the board ratings?

for the former, they should be pretty good for comparing any two players with a decent game volume. if game count is low though it doesn't mean much either way.

it's not very accurate to otb ratings at all imo.

Yeah, meant OTB ratings. What are the main reasons for these inaccuracies? Is it because people are less serious in online play? (And probably because some people don't play that much or often online.)

 

[si2136]

Anyone 1 v 1?

 

[nerdasdasd]

Anyone 1 v 1?

count me in

 

[leehuan]

So far I've only used chess.com

I could use lichess

 

[si2136]

So far I've only used chess.com

I could use lichess

http://lichess.org/2QMLiEG9

 

[leehuan]

http://lichess.org/2QMLiEG9

Why can't I move my piece

Nvm something tells me I was probably the spectator

 

[InteGrand]

So far I've only used chess.com

I could use lichess

For chess.com, membership is required. Lichess can be played without an account.

 

[leehuan]

For chess.com, membership is required. Lichess can be played without an account.

I know. I have an account on it. But I cancelled my premium membership recently.

 

[si2136]

Why can't I move my piece

Nvm something tells me I was probably the spectator

Someone afked

 

[InteGrand]

Why can't I move my piece

Nvm something tells me I was probably the spectator

Yeah, only the first person to click the link and join can play. After that, people who click the link become spectators.

 

[seanieg89]

Yeah, meant OTB ratings. What are the main reasons for these inaccuracies? Is it because people are less serious in online play? (And probably because some people don't play that much or often online.)

Well ratings are purely a relative scale, basically a point difference maps to a statistically expected outcome. Eg the percentage of decisive games won by the higher rated player is predicted to be the same for a 2600 vs a 2500 as when a 1200 plays an 1100. The ratings stabilise toward the equilibrium. (I smell a good MX2 marathon question here lols).

Because the pool of online players is different from the pool of over the board players (which itself will vary from country to country when it comes to national ratings), numerical comparisons are meaningless.

I have seen various online ratings differ wildly from otb ratings for known players.

Also some players are much better at online than offline for really minute reasons, like the physical presence of an opponent changing their psychology, etc. The same goes the other way. Its funny how much of a difference even the different ways of "seeing" the board make to some players.

 

[seanieg89]

Anyone for some casual games pretty soon?

 

[nerdasdasd]

Anyone for some casual games pretty soon?

Count me in

 

[seanieg89]

Okay just a few mins, finishing something.