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Maybe one of these days I'll be half decent

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[-] JessyKenning@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

So you must be pretty good by now.

[-] rowinxavier@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

My current streak for spider solitaire is 2416. I like spider solitaire and assume you probably like chess. Better than doom scrolling I think.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I never learned any form of solitaire other than the one that came with Win 3.1

[-] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 18 hours ago

Spider's decent

[-] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago

What is your rating? On chess.com I got up to 1649, then fell back down, hardly play lately.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

Fluxuates between 1100 and 1300. I mostly play 10min, plus a lot of 3min.

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I love chess, but I have a terrible ELO because I get anxious when playing online and can't think straight.

I only play puzzles on lichess really, due to this.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 22 hours ago

I quit playing for like a year after I hit the high score there, I wasted way too much time on it. For all I played I should've been higher really, for a couple of years anyway.

I did mostly 30 minute games, 10 minute ones aren't enough time for me, but I played a lot of those too. They both qualify as "rapid" now if I recall, at first they were different scoring for ratings. The chess tournaments they have like hours for the traditional games.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Playing chess every day is probably good for your brain

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

True. Hopefully cancels out a lot of the negative stuff in my life, with net zero as a result.

[-] Libb@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

I'm sorry to object to your post, but how would playing chess qualify as being dull?

(and congrats, btw ;)

[-] Cybersec@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Wow never missing a day, I couldn't do anything that regularly whit without fail, I think.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I was surprised it was that high, since a significant amount of those have been spent in aircraft and on ships on the other side of the world. But that's the magic of modern satcom, I guess.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

But that’s the magic of modern satcom, I guess.

It is a bit surreal to have been born in a time before the, non-research, Internet and now to live in a time where almost everyone has access to The Network from anywhere inside the Earth's first 2 Lagrangian points. I don't think the Mars Relay Network is directly connected to the public Internet so no Internet on Mars, yet (coming soon, pre-order now.)

Absent a major catastrophe this will likely be the default state of humanity going forward. Not having data will eventually seem as odd as living without electricity or plumbing.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I always miss days and it's not very forgiving. I'm at 1000 days of using the app, but my daily streak is currently... 5 days lol

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I guess that means you like chess. :)

I’m pretty sure my dad played FreeCell for, like, eight years consecutively at one point.

[-] Cybersec@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Why does the image show FSSMT for the days, you’re playing just those days a week and not 7 or they just use a weird graphic?

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Probably just shows the previous 5.

[-] Cybersec@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago

Ah cool, interesting

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