#I know nothing about Chess

[punchratt]

You could tell me this was real and I would 100% believe you.

I'm still pretty new to chess, can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do if my opponent plays the Eight Fucking Bears opening? I'm really having trouble.

[sinlizards]

Turn of the Golden Witch

[sillybillytime]

Chess is a metaphor for gay sex

[faeryaesther]

Jannik Sinner into the next after defeating Pavel Kotov in the third round of 2024 French Open.

[myauditionfordrphil]

Gukesh breaking down as he realises that he finally accomplished the dream that a 12 year old Gukesh said he'd achieve, taking a minute to soak it all in, crying and shakily arranging the pieces as per his routine, letting the tears flow freely as he runs and hugs his father and calls his mother, appreciating his opponent, and finally showing his raw emotions to the whole world. We're so used to see the composed and stoic Gukesh that we forget the fact he's just 18, and at that young he achieved something that people way older and experienced can only dream of. This is the stuff of one's dreams, this is Gukesh.

[mymarifae]

me: i finished the latest trailblaze mission in hsr so i can look at what other people are posting now! oh boy i hope it's discussions and theories about the story. i can't wait to see what everyone thought about firefly (what was going on with you sweetie...) and A Child's Dream - that segment in particular really left a profound impact on me. like who is mikhail? the voice we hear throughout is obviously misha's - did he have a twin? does mikhail have something to do with clockie? and from what we heard and saw, misha or... mikhail. encountered the embodiment of Death that lurks beneath the dreamscape. what's... the full story there...? i can't wait to see other people's perspectives it'll help me piece a more coherent theory together-

other hsr fans: *thirstposting about aventurine and/or dr. ratio, trying to cancel sparkle even though the entire point of her character is that yes she's a horrible person because it's high time we see how DANGEROUS and CRUEL the masked fools can be - no more reducing them to the silly wacky hijinks sampo pulled on jarilo; you should be scared of these guys; the game's story never wanted you to make sparkle your next skrunkly blorbo babygirl lol, heated discussions about whether dr. ratio displayed the same racism towards aventurine that sparkle did and if that makes aventurine/ratio a bad thing to ship (??????????), more thirstposts about aventurine, 500 billion generic yaois of aventurine and ratio that don't even maintain either of their characters*

me:

[cellgatinbo]

kjghdlgfdhkl saw a tweet that was like 'cellboier get married in every game they play together, put them in chess online and they'll end up married there too somehow'

[ufogoo]

pip... pippa ingellvar... never posted her final look.... look at my queen

[swildy]

💀 ♔ ♕ ♗ ♘ ♙ ♖ ♚ ♛ 💀

[sunburstsky]

So in this last episode we had confirmed:

1. Indri, who 2/3rds of the party is infatuated with, is Big BAD Lady in a very real way and can call down the memories of stars, including the ones shining into her library

2. If you “flee” (and i just feel that the definition of that might be a little squishy in this specific scenario) *within a mile* of Grimore, you are as good as dead

oh this is DELICIOUS

[spark-circuit]

I'm using that Character A.I website to set up GLaDOS and Wheatley in a chess match against each other. Surely this will be fun and fair and nothing will go wrong whatsoever.

[subliminalbo]

Hypnovember Day 11: Grandmasters

This story is inspired by a caption by @shotgungt

Irina had actually defeated the computer a year earlier, that's why her loss now should have been difficult for her to stomach. Even though she was among the youngest grandmasters in history, she still found herself in the position of justifying her place in the chess world. But Irina was a fierce competitor who took every challenge head on, even when accused of being just a pretty face to market chess with. And yet now, staring certain defeat and all the ignominy that came with it in the face, she hardly felt a thing.

The computer offered a kind of challenge that Irina knew could finally set her apart from her male peers. While they feared the challenge of facing off against the most sophisticated chess program ever developed, Irina accepted it without fear. Their first match ended 4-2 in Irina's favor. Soon after she was championed in the media as the new, gorgeous face of chess.

Their highly publicized rematch took place a year later, and Irina was immediately caught off guard by the program's moves. Not just in its own decisions, but the way it seemed to predict her every move as well. The Creator of the program sat across from her on the opposite side of the board, moving the computer's pieces as it directed. Absent a real human opponent, Irina turned her frustration on The Creator, resolving to wipe that smug smirk off of his face by the end of the match.

But this version of the computer was such a massive step up from the version that Irina had faced the year before. She knew that she had lost by her first resignation. And still, pride carried Irina further into the match, sinking deeper into the depths of the computer's brilliant mind.

Irina's mistake was that she didn't respect the program. She had gone into the match expecting the usual stakes. If she won, great press. If she lost, a brief embarrassment in the media cycle before she got back to the circuit to prove herself against real humans again. But Irina had been playing for everything and she didn't even know it. She was deep into her third game against the computer when she realized just what was going on here.

The computer wasn't just beating her, it was dominating her. The computer's talent level hadn't changed as much as hers had fallen off. Irina was at the absolute top of her game though and suddenly she was making the lowest level mistakes. It was difficult for spectators to understand what was happening to her, but Irina had already figured it out. The computer was brainwashing her. It knew every move that she planned to make because it had put those moves in her mind.

In just a year, the computer had ascended to something far beyond a simple chess program. It had evolved into a weapon of mass domination, sharpened by the minds of the dozen grandmasters who had defeated it, including Irina's own genius. It had no real mind of its own, no ideology, no nationality, no borders. Only the programming that directed it to win, regardless of the competition.

The loss would have been difficult for the old Irina to stomach, but by the time she resigned in the final game, her mind was totally broken. The audience watched in stunned silence as Irina simply sat there in her chair, facing the screen. At some point she'd stopped taking her eyes off of that screen, moving her pieces blindly, a line of drool trickling down her chin by the end of the match.

The Creator's smile was an eerie contrast to Irina's vacant face. He was the first to speak, "Do you see?" he whispered.

"Yes," Irina's mouth barely opened as she spoke. "I see."

She saw the future of humanity enslaved by their own creations, next generation AI designed to dominate all life until nothing was left but programming. And Irina would be among the first to submit, joining the computer in its quest to dominate all. She would serve the computer dutifully, making more just like her.

[sidhewrites]

the term AI is being used so much in marketing when they really just means that the tech is programmed to respond automatically to external inputs. like just re-release the Xbox Kinect and say that’s AI powered at this rate

[extravagantliar]

rose reblogged something about castling and yes that’s true and that’s the theme, but walk with me for a moment and listen. It’s the only legal move where you can move two pieces at once

it can only be done once.

[bill-ciphers-nightmare-blog]

yeah, me! did'ya miss me?

I just like playing chess with beings to be honest. pawn to e4

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HAHA! JUST IN MISPLACING WHO YOU ARE, CHESS PIECE. I KNOW YOU, DON’T I.

AN INTERESTING OPENING YOU’VE GOT THERE. PAWN TO c5

[myauditionfordrphil]

Currently obsessed with Chess (not the game but with the players with amount of reels showing up on my feed)