may what are you doing
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Posting chessposts from a year ago
From Holly Hollowtones
we should reawaken your chess thread
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i have thought about on several occasions just playing a chess move in your thread but ive never felt the time has been right
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People on here donât understand image chess and itâs sad
I tried to imagine playing chess and it was like infinitely dull to me. I think I donât have chess brain at all
I think the thing that makes mahjong so compelling to me is that because of the nature of randomness, suboptimal moves will often have better outcomes than optimal ones even against a perfect opponent.
Say you have a 12- run that needs a 3 to complete, and a -56- run that needs a 4 or 7 to complete, and you gotta discard down one. You generally wanna toss the 12-, because thereâs fewer tiles that complete it.
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You want to drop the 12, because fewer tiles complete it than the 56. But maybe immediatelt afterward you draw a 3. It was optimal at the time to toss the 12, but because of RNG, you wouldâve been better off in this single instance if you had perfect information going with the 12.
Chess only has this if your opponent fucks up. Against a predictable opponent, the same set of moves are Always optimal. Itâs so deterministic. Thereâs no gamble. I need to be completely insane in my games
pokemon showdown midladder is an awesome place because youâll have a scizor out against their garchomp (whoâs at like 25% or so, enough for you to be able to kill them) so you figure you can get away with using swords dance because garchomp canât do enough to you for it to matter.
and then the garchomp uses fire blast and ohkos you
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And like Iâm not denying that you CAN take risks and get rewards and have interesting decisions in chess but the only source of that is the other player. Thereâs a beauty in mahjong of being against the Uncaring Randomness of the wall. I love the wall. It hates me
I need to curse dice
this is probably not a good example because scizor isnât really that ou viable anymore but. pokemon just carrying the wildest moves that you would never expect them to carry that completely ruin all of your plans. youâd love it
and also the classic lando vs heatran matchup where heatran clicks stealth rocks (lando outspeeds heatran and can kill them so so easily. but of course the lando player knows this so why would they stay in and click stealth rocks theyâre obviously gonna switch out they should switch themselves to predict the switch. so of course the heatran player clicks stealth rocks. gotta get them hazards up)
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now made even sillier because heatran can tera to not die to earthquake. so of course lando teras themselves to get flying stab and also destroy heatranâs new tera type
My brother got a phone recently and itâs so funny seeing him leave is phone in all the very silly places I frequently leave my phone. Nobody else in the house is gonna leave their Mobile Device on the Pantry Shelf (set down momentarily to grab chocolate chips from the back)
genuinely pokemon thinking is like that normal distribution meme. low level play no oneâs thinking so the lando clicks eq and the heatran clicks stealth rocks. medium level play you go through that wifomy thought process of well obviously the other playerâs gonna switch so do i predict that or do i switch myself or whatever. and then high level play theyâre ascended enough to realize itâs impossible to actually meaningfully and consistently predict anything and the lando clicks eq and the heatran clicks stealth rocks.
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super low level play and no one has a lando or a heatran because itâs ashâs team vs the eeveelutions
these days thereâs the kingambit mindgame of sucker punch vs kowtow cleave. people think upper hand will bring an end to this but it will not, it will just give the opponent something more meaningful to do if they predict a sucker punch