What kind of opponent do you least like to face in chess?

[sacred delta]

[neon verge]

Hello

So I love positional positions

[copper jungle]

I swear, positional grinders are the worst

[neon verge]

Very flexible

[tender granite]

well, magnus carlsen probably

[covert ember]

Y

[radiant prism]

a 3 moves checkmate opponent

[tawdry sable]

i dont like other people

[covert ember]

Real

[neon verge]

L

[frosty kelp]

When you cant find a way through someone’s defense the game just feels gut wrenching

[radiant prism]

they lwk think it's gonna work at 1300 elo😭

[copper jungle]

Make one wrong move in their favorite opening and you have three moves before you lose your night and your bishop

[neon verge]

Tho at times I would say I'm defending like a rock

[sacred tulip]

Agree

[neon verge]

No

[quaint flint]

5th option: london system users

[covert ember]

Fair p

[neon verge]

[covert ember]

Reaal 😭😭😭

I stoped playing online thooo only irl

[wind linden]

Exactly!
Openings experts are so annoying!
For the first 20 moves, you're not playing against a human, you're playing against stockfish.

[neon verge]

Positional play will fall I'd fumbled really bad

[shadow axle]

Hikaru in my opinion is one of the best defenders, if not the best

[neon verge]

This is my games 😭

I literally play the openings I play so much that I do them instinctively

[copper jungle]

My favorite types of games are defensive games, cause they feel the fairest

[cold girder]

Idk

[neon verge]

I mean defensive play is nice too

[cold girder]

Tactical monster

[neon verge]

The holy has arrived

[last viper]

tactical monsters are the scariest

[hoary quail]

ISTG TACTICAL MONSTER IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAT

[cold girder]

I am stockfish, the superiorest bot in the entire chess

[copper jungle]

True

[cold girder]

Real

Tactical monster vs stockfish ngl

[neon verge]

All hail the fish

[neon verge]

Stockfish is all of the above

[hoary quail]

k

[neon verge]

l

[random robin]

Totally agree

[frosty kelp]

openings experts are the worst tbh

[wheat zinc]

Worst as in easiest?

[frosty kelp]

no i play e5 and they talk sum bout the fried armpit opening and how im gon lose in 6 moves, lo and behold i do

[wheat zinc]

Just don’t play e5 🔥

[sacred delta]

maybe that's why i see @kindred mesa pushing so hard on his opening training everyday

[sacred delta]

lol yep it's been rarer by the day

[kindred mesa]

Ay

But 20 moves is exagerated

👀

[sacred delta]

discord is the best for polls honestly just love how ppl share and discuss

[thorn pond]

It depends, a GrandMaster who is the best at tatics will absolutetly destroy any of the other options

But assuming all the options are GM...
Then the positional grinder would win

[ashen arch]

Reddits better for that

Also id say for sure a tactical monster

one small mistake and you're coookeeed

f'ed

[sacred delta]

oh didn't know we had em there, will check it out with anitta

[ashen arch]

wym had em

there are no chess.com polls there

[sacred delta]

i don't use reddit much but just cause a more personal preference regarding how quotes/requotes work there

[ashen arch]

lol

it's just a good app where people discuss

[sacred delta]

ah ok i thought u said there were polls there 🙂

[ashen arch]

alg

[sacred delta]

yeah it's fantastic the community there

[thorn pond]

Positional Grinder would beat a tactical monster, because by the book:

"For there to be a winning tatic there needs to be a positional mistake" - Yasser Seirawan

[sacred delta]

defo need to build smth highlighting comments from here tons of gems ngl

anyway back to eotm tasks, have fun y'all

[rugged glen]

those who know you have M1 so they stall you for the next 20 minutes until they have 10 seconds left on their timer hoping you would've left or disconnected by then

[valid solar]

Those guys who keep throwing pawns at you aggressively, especially when its not the best move and I expect a more positional game. I never know how to respond

[valid solar]

This is why I dont play 30 min rapid anymore sadly

[oblique garnet]

I dont like facing any opponents in chess

chess makes me angry

chess ruined my day

[granite mulch]

.

[granite mulch]

😔

[hasty sky]

Solid rock defenders are the worst bruh

I cant do anything on them

[dense plaza]

me when i witness my opponent rebuilding the wall of china equipped with 500 turrets, a full fledged military armed to the teeth with what seems to be in indestructible castle as the king literally watches as hes being guarded by horses and his wife

..as i see my army struggle to develop cuz some idiot bishop wants to block the way of 3 other pieces developing

[hasty sky]

i melt opening grinders with h4 h5 💪

[loud siren]

what the hell do we call people who attack and pressure u like hell

since the start of the game

[astral scroll]

I hate the people that likes to trash talk but is trash at ches

[green citrus]

people who flag

[unique bay]

Scholars mate people

[fickle folio]

Draw spamming guy

[vital gulch]

people who do early queen attacks and play really aggressively when they have nothing

[upbeat sage]

i dont know what half of those mean

but i like when my opponent follows principles

[cyan thorn]

There are kinds on chess player?

[cyan thorn]

Same

[warm willow]

bruh solid roc defenders just want rating points, its very annoying

[covert kraken]

to be fair, its interesting to watch them pick out the right moves

[warm willow]

yeah true but it is still hard to win

[covert kraken]

idk man i hate opening experts a lot because you can really tell their entire chess ability is based off of studying like 5 openings

[covert kraken]

depends on your elo

[warm willow]

whats ur

[covert kraken]

i find that true solid rock defenders really only exist from like 1700 up

[covert kraken]

rn im 1500

the thing about opening experts is that most people below like 1600 dont really know more than one or two openings

and not really well

so opening experts just abuse tf out of traps and stuff normal people dont know about

id be impressed if i found tactical monsters, its actually cool to step back from the game and just watch them find a killer attack out of nowhere

often positional grinders are just like the solid rock defender in that they rarely need to offensively overwhelm their opponents to win, they just need to pick the right moves out of tough situations

so they're cool too

but opening experts are just annoying because if you survive the opening you just pick them apart

like bro you're not slick for trying the fried liver or haxo gambit you saw in some youtube video

[pearl shell]

if your a really good defender im finna lose

[lyric frigate]

5th option: All of the above

[sand pivot]

Fr

But in low elo usually they don't have all of the above

[kindred kraken]

Fr

[sand pivot]

5th option: stockfish

[dense plaza]

6th option: don't play chess

[frosty kelp]

5th option. Opp lefting the game all of a sudden in a Winning position

[quasi stirrup]

A tactical monster is pretty much michael tal, Im picking tactical monster

[light sparrow]

I would love to play tal

I hate positional player

with tactical player it's a instant death

Positional lose feels suffocation

[gritty ivy]

Don't know why people are voting for tactical monster. When I lose to a good tactic i applaud my opponent before hitting the resign button

[dreamy bear]

U can learn from em tho

[lyric frigate]

I meant not all of them at once, but any of these types of players I hate

[sand pivot]

Well what's the one u hate the most

[marble knoll]

the solid rock defender is soooooo annoying if youre that guy for the love of god change your playstyle

[compact zealot]

Caro-Kann players the worst

[marble knoll]

i accept i just want a normal italian

[sand pivot]

Don't u want a Ruy lopez

[marble knoll]

yes but these days italian makes me better at chess eventho my fav opening is the ruy lopez

[sand pivot]

Italian is good