I just realized my chess streak of playing daily is over 4.5 years

Maybe one of these days I'll be half decent

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robocall@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 201d (1 reply)

Playing chess every day is probably good for your brain

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 200d

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

rowinxavier@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 200d (3 replies)

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 pts · 200d (2 replies)

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

rowinxavier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 196d

Freecell is good, same with Fourty Thieves and Spider Solitaire.

morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 200d

Spider's decent

Libb@piefed.social · 9 pts · 201d

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

(and congrats, btw ;)

Cybersec@piefed.social · 5 pts · 200d (2 replies)

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

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 200d (1 reply)

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 pts · 200d

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.

hector@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 200d (3 replies)

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

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 200d (2 replies)

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

vext01@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 200d

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 pts · 200d

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.

JessyKenning@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d

So you must be pretty good by now.

dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 200d

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 pts · 201d

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 pts · 200d (2 replies)

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 pts · 200d (1 reply)

Probably just shows the previous 5.

Cybersec@piefed.social · 1 pts · 200d

Ah cool, interesting