Thanks to the popularity of the series Queen's Gambit (which I recently found out to be strangely popular in my part of the world where there's no real culture of int'l chess and the native language isn't English (obviously), even though I personally haven't watched it except by proxy thanks to a content creator analysing notable games played throughout the series) as well as other reasons, online chess has seen a boom over the past few months, aided by the gamer crowd that jumped on because of the PogChamps 1 & 2 tournaments (with a 3 rumoured to be around the corner).
Thus, I finally decided to grow a pair and made an account on chess.com to see just how much I suck at it. So I thought why not, here's a thread all things chess. Questions to answer in no particular order, plus anecdotes/comments as preferred:
1) Rating (whether classical/rapid/blitz)
2) Favourite opening/least favourite opening (whether playing into as black/white or with black/white)
3) Favourite player (active or otherwise)
4) Favourite content creator (pro-player or otherwise)
1) Haven't the faintest, my account is too recent to have a stable rating
2) I'll just say Sicilian-accelerated dragon, Queens Gambit Declined (I play it as white, hate facing it as black, weirdly), Giuoco Piano and Berlin Defence, I'm not big on opening theory at all
3) Vassily Ivanchuk
4) agadmator
Thus, I finally decided to grow a pair and made an account on chess.com to see just how much I suck at it. So I thought why not, here's a thread all things chess. Questions to answer in no particular order, plus anecdotes/comments as preferred:
1) Rating (whether classical/rapid/blitz)
2) Favourite opening/least favourite opening (whether playing into as black/white or with black/white)
3) Favourite player (active or otherwise)
4) Favourite content creator (pro-player or otherwise)
1) Haven't the faintest, my account is too recent to have a stable rating
2) I'll just say Sicilian-accelerated dragon, Queens Gambit Declined (I play it as white, hate facing it as black, weirdly), Giuoco Piano and Berlin Defence, I'm not big on opening theory at all
3) Vassily Ivanchuk
4) agadmator