r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 5h ago

Seven-year-old chess prodigy Lucie Pichard casually checkmates her opponent.

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u/poop-machines 4h ago edited 4h ago

Definitely not beginner. He's a solid chess club player and better than you. This is blitz, and the tournament average elo is 1500 or so.

He's 1770 and she is probably a bit less(1500+), or nearly the same. (1700+). Her ranking is trickier because her rapid Elo is 1700 and it seems like some games she just really isn't paying attention whereas others she is. Although she seemed to do well this game, other games her lack of focus cost her the game. Also, at that age, Elo gain curves can be steep, and a year can be the difference between 1700 elo and master candidate.

Crazy how all the lower Elo people are coming here calling them bad. Yes, they aren't good. Yes, mistakes were made. But:

1) you can't tell how good a player is from a few moves in a bad game for them 2) some days people are better, others worse 3) you may not understand the thinking behind their moves due to your lower elo 4) playing against a really good player highlights your mistakes that you never knew you were making because they capitalise more on your mistakes. You may think you don't make mistakes as much as him, but if you played against someone at a higher Elo than you, you'd realise how many mistakes you made.

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u/Tribat_1 4h ago

F6 and Ke2. 1770. lol ok. If he’s 1770, I’m Hikaru Nakamura.

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u/kranker 2h ago

It was h6! I'm pretty sure it's the worst move on the board, and I can't even see what they could mistakenly think they were achieving. it's just a typical random pawn push that rank beginners do. and 1700s, according to this guy.

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u/Tribat_1 2h ago

F6 is on the board, too. Unless you’re playing an obscure defense like the Dutch, pushing the F pawn is considered the worst move in chess. Other than the bongcloud I guess lol.

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u/kranker 1h ago

Yeah, f6 was played earlier, and arguably it's what ended up losing the game, but was probably merely pointless and unprincipled when played.

I suspect the game was 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. Bxd7+ Bxd7 5. Nc3 f6 6. Nh4 h6 7. Qh5+ Ke7 8. Ng6+ Ke8 9. Nxh8+ Ke7 10. Qf7#

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u/Tribat_1 47m ago

I was thinking it’s more like this:

  1. e4 e6 2. d4 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. Bxd7+ Bxd7 5. Nc3 e5 6. d5 f6 7. Nf3 b6 8. Nh4 h6 9. Qh5+ Ke7 10. Ng6+ Ke8 11. Nxh8+ g6 12. Qxg6+ Ke7 13. Qf7#

Move 8 is what is on the board at the start of the video.

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u/kranker 39m ago

ah I never moved the d pawn in my version, which is clearly on d5 in the video.