Beat my first 2500+ rated chess player...
 

Momentus feeling for me! When we started playing he was exactly rated 2500, with a highest rating on Chesscube of 2623. If you don't play chess - that's a lot. The highest rated player I've seen on there is 2900.

The ratings per server aren't like real life, but it's an indication. In real world ratings the best super-grandmaster's (leko, anand, carlsen, topalov, gelfand, nakamura, kamsky, aronian, etc) are in the 2700's. Three players in the world right now are over 2800. Magnus Carlsen is the highest - 21 years old from Norway. He's a beast.

Anyways I won 4 games, and lost 19 against this guy. The first game I won was on time, but I was winning the position too and had both my rooks on his seventh rank, and was a rook up.

They were 960 chess games, 10 seconds + 1 second per move. 960 chess is a variant created by Bobby Fischer (sometimes it's just called Fischer Chess too) where all the pieces behind the pawns are randomized, but both sides start with the same setup. So if white's rook is on a5 to start, black will also have a rook on h5, etc.

960 chess is considered to be more dependent on raw skill, because you can't use your memory as far as openings and common positions go. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960

10 seconds + 1 per move?

never understood the time clock rules.

congrats though.

Yeah the games are ridiculously fast. It's amazing how well fast some of these guys can react and anticipate, and DEFEND.. It's really hard to see everything, yet somehow the better players have a near lock on what's going on at all times.

You just start with 10 seconds and for each move your clock adds 1 second.

Even in long tournament championship style games they often have time controls like 1 hour for the first 40 moves, then 1 hour for the next 40 moves, strange things like that.

I used to play some, was years ago now though.

Used to play chess a lot. Never have played these variants youre talking about. ALl i do know is I won the last two games ive played. Maybe more, but its been so long i only remember the last two.

Congrats...? Yea... momentus... Ill go with congrats :pimp

Congrats man!!!! The best player I ever beat was at 2100, and that was one time. LOL Gotta check out the Fischer Chess, now THAT is wild and cool. :)

Checkers is a lot more fun.

Dude you beat a grandmaster?

Do you remember the former US champ Fedorowicz?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fedorowicz

He's rated like 2500 and I used to watch him beat five, six chess hustlers at a time, all together - he never lost. Beating someone with a rating that high is epic!

I've played some chess960, it's pretty fun. ilnj the online ratings don't correspond exactly with what the guy would have playing live UCF events against masters and grandmasters, but they're close enough to indicate relative strength. A guy with a 2600 online rating is fucking strong beyond belief, in real life or online. I hover around 1600 myself and I just clown your average player.

Do you guys play on chess.com? It's an excellent chess site.