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I think 1100s are harder than 1300s
(lemmy.world)
# | Player | Country | Elo |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Magnus Carlsen | 🇳🇴 | 2839 |
2 | Fabiano Caruana | 🇺🇸 | 2786 |
3 | Hikaru Nakamura | 🇺🇸 | 2780 |
4 | Ding Liren 🏆 | 🇨🇳 | 2780 |
5 | Alireza Firouzja | 🇫🇷 | 2777 |
6 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 🇷🇺 | 2771 |
7 | Anish Giri | 🇳🇱 | 2760 |
8 | Gukesh D | 🇮🇳 | 2758 |
9 | Viswanathan Anand | 🇮🇳 | 2754 |
10 | Wesley So | 🇺🇸 | 2753 |
September 4 - September 22
As someone who only recently returned to chess.com and chess in general, I’m narrowly leading in an endgame in my ongoing correspondence game against a 1000 (which might be creeping towards a draw) and somehow once beat the 1500 doggo bot, but whenever I reach the 800s in Rapid I slip back into the 700s because I only know like 3 opening lines, and it especially doesn’t help that 680-740s love experimenting with the non-e4 opening moves as white, most of which I don’t know the proper defense/punishment for as black except perhaps the e and d pawn push for Nc3 and getting in with your queen through the fortress’ unguarded diagonal for the Catalan if they play g3 first (I do know the englund, caro-kann and french as well as the 4 knights game but most of those assume the opponent is predictable enough to play e4). As white I know a bit more theory (king’s pawn, vienna, catalan and while not very effective on triple-digit players, the ballistic missile gambit).
And I haven’t yet memorized a lot of book moves so my Blitz elo is in the toilet because I keep losing on time to complete noobs