Starcraft II player: misclicks 8 times in under a second, resigns 0.2 seconds later
Ugh I got told that at my level you should never resign because all of us make such stupid mistakes there’s still a chance of a win.
Hard to actually do though when you’re down 10+ points and huddled miserably in a corner.
Here’s another reason you should never resign: endgames are crazy hard, and not resigning is the only chance you’ll ever get to practice them.
@duncesplayed thanks that’s a really good point!
I just somehow won an endgame after losing both my castles, thought of this convo.
I once won a game back that was +63 from analysis, to M1.
Just so your best to keep a rook on the board, and walk your king over slyly to the king.
Does Lichess check for this? I definitely get an aborted game more often when I am white. I also notice my ELO went up after I actually locked down strategies for black. Yeah it’s only like a 0.5% advantage for the masters, but if you play a lot of games, aborting everytime you are black is a helpful strategy.🤷
Apparently it’s more like a 5% advantage for us normies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess
Yes it does. If you avoid games too much you get a ban I think
aborting everytime you are black
White supremacy
I prefer black. Remember that the saying goes: “White begins, black wins.” (I have no idea if this saying also exists in English but it does rime just as well as in German („Weiß beginnt, Schwarz gewinnt.”))
I don’t agree and don’t think the data agrees. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess
Two thoughts: white can more easily set the speed of the game, as well as not have to adapt to their choices (which black must do)
I know but still prefer black
Almost certainly for elo play and stuff where people learned all the first 10+ moves of all the viable opening strategies.
But as a casual player (ok, I was chess club in Jr high if that counts for anything) I always chose to play as black and have always won at least 90% of all my games played. I’d be confused as hell if I played as white, at this point.
