The introductory picture shows one of my memorable losses in horde. It is not directly linked to the topic as I missed 2300 in other games, but the queen sacrifice is nice.
This is cool .
I’m glad you have actually tried to master the variant instead of using your speed and hyperfarming to 2300! Now how about give racing kings a shot, it’s easier than horde tbh :P.
Or even anti, a beautiful variant which took players years to master and completely defies one’s intuition, worth a shot :P
Or even anti, a beautiful variant which took players years to master and completely defies one’s intuition, worth a shot :P
@Gautham_A said in #5:
> I’m glad you have actually tried to master the variant instead of using your speed and hyperfarming to 2300! Now how about give racing kings a shot, it’s easier than horde tbh :P.
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> Or even anti, a beautiful variant which took players years to master and completely defies one’s intuition, worth a shot :P
Thanks! I'm actually too slow for hyperbullet. As for antichess, I want to have a good chess intution, so I'm afraid that it could confuse me a bit. And racing kings are too different from standard chess for my taste. Horde maintains many aspects of standard chess, while being very different in other aspects.
> I’m glad you have actually tried to master the variant instead of using your speed and hyperfarming to 2300! Now how about give racing kings a shot, it’s easier than horde tbh :P.
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> Or even anti, a beautiful variant which took players years to master and completely defies one’s intuition, worth a shot :P
Thanks! I'm actually too slow for hyperbullet. As for antichess, I want to have a good chess intution, so I'm afraid that it could confuse me a bit. And racing kings are too different from standard chess for my taste. Horde maintains many aspects of standard chess, while being very different in other aspects.
I almost never comment on posts and have barely played any Horde, but I have to say this was an excellent read. Enjoyed the ideas you presented and the way you wrote about them, well done.
Very good article. To me horde is an interesting variant although it doesn’t help to improve in standard chess. Occasionally I can recognize some patterns with pawns close to the final rank more easily, but it doesn’t make a big difference. I’m advanced in chess but not close to a title. As you pointed out a major downside is that horde is only played online. Indeed it’s not a very popular variant and even on Lichess it can often be hard to organize any horde events. It’s interesting you mentioned how you became so to say “hooked on horde” . An often overlooked aspect of chess is how it can become addictive. I can relate to you in your struggles with rating ( in the past I had even quit horde for some time after I became exhausted with trying to reach top 10 on the leaderboard) , and I also agree that it shouldn’t be the primary goal.
Looking forward to more articles
Looking forward to more articles
@ACash said in #7:
> I almost never comment on posts and have barely played any Horde, but I have to say this was an excellent read. Enjoyed the ideas you presented and the way you wrote about them, well done.
Thank you very much! In fact, the article was not so much about horde. (Horde experts probably noticed that the introductory diagram wrongly shows 1.d6-d7 as a blunder, as white's other options were equally bad. But 1...Qxd7!! 2.cxd7 Kb7 followed by the decisive zugzwang was forced, brilliant and very strong at the same time.)
I was inspired by James Altucher's fight for a 2300 FIDE rating and especially by his articles in New in Chess. My goal was much simpler, I am also considerably younger than him. That said, there are some similarities between his journey and mine one.
> I almost never comment on posts and have barely played any Horde, but I have to say this was an excellent read. Enjoyed the ideas you presented and the way you wrote about them, well done.
Thank you very much! In fact, the article was not so much about horde. (Horde experts probably noticed that the introductory diagram wrongly shows 1.d6-d7 as a blunder, as white's other options were equally bad. But 1...Qxd7!! 2.cxd7 Kb7 followed by the decisive zugzwang was forced, brilliant and very strong at the same time.)
I was inspired by James Altucher's fight for a 2300 FIDE rating and especially by his articles in New in Chess. My goal was much simpler, I am also considerably younger than him. That said, there are some similarities between his journey and mine one.
@Matvei-e2e4 said in #8:
> Very good article. To me horde is an interesting variant although it doesn’t help to improve in standard chess. Occasionally I can recognize some patterns with pawns close to the final rank more easily, but it doesn’t make a big difference. I’m advanced in chess but not close to a title. As you pointed out a major downside is that horde is only played online. Indeed it’s not a very popular variant and even on Lichess it can often be hard to organize any horde events. It’s interesting you mentioned how you became so to say “hooked on horde” . An often overlooked aspect of chess is how it can become addictive. I can relate to you in your struggles with rating ( in the past I had even quit horde for some time after I became exhausted with trying to reach top 10 on the leaderboard) , and I also agree that it shouldn’t be the primary goal.
> Looking forward to more articles
Thanks! My next article will be less serious. It is almost finished, but I still want to improve some detail.
> Very good article. To me horde is an interesting variant although it doesn’t help to improve in standard chess. Occasionally I can recognize some patterns with pawns close to the final rank more easily, but it doesn’t make a big difference. I’m advanced in chess but not close to a title. As you pointed out a major downside is that horde is only played online. Indeed it’s not a very popular variant and even on Lichess it can often be hard to organize any horde events. It’s interesting you mentioned how you became so to say “hooked on horde” . An often overlooked aspect of chess is how it can become addictive. I can relate to you in your struggles with rating ( in the past I had even quit horde for some time after I became exhausted with trying to reach top 10 on the leaderboard) , and I also agree that it shouldn’t be the primary goal.
> Looking forward to more articles
Thanks! My next article will be less serious. It is almost finished, but I still want to improve some detail.