12-14-2020, 11:52 AM
I don't like board games as a general rule, but have indulged in chess now and then.
I do go to chess.com every day, but not to play chess. Rather, I play the one free game of Puzzle Rush. You have 5 minutes to solve as many chess puzzles as possible, and the puzzles get increasingly more difficult.
There's an active leader board that shows the current highest score, and it gets reset each hour. There have been times when I've been at the top, but only briefly, as I happened to finish my session just after the top of the hour. By the end of the hour, I'm nowhere in sight.
My best score is 17, but I average more like 12. The hourly winner is always in the mid-40s to mid-50s. I'm pretty certain these are grandmasters (or maybe I just want to believe this).
As for the game of chess, proficiency is just too dependent on memorizing chess openings, so I've lost interest in that.
Queen's Gambit has been tempting me, by the way. But so far I've resisted.
I do go to chess.com every day, but not to play chess. Rather, I play the one free game of Puzzle Rush. You have 5 minutes to solve as many chess puzzles as possible, and the puzzles get increasingly more difficult.
There's an active leader board that shows the current highest score, and it gets reset each hour. There have been times when I've been at the top, but only briefly, as I happened to finish my session just after the top of the hour. By the end of the hour, I'm nowhere in sight.
My best score is 17, but I average more like 12. The hourly winner is always in the mid-40s to mid-50s. I'm pretty certain these are grandmasters (or maybe I just want to believe this).
As for the game of chess, proficiency is just too dependent on memorizing chess openings, so I've lost interest in that.
Queen's Gambit has been tempting me, by the way. But so far I've resisted.
I'm nobody's pony.