Desktop monitor showing an online chess game with a keyboard, mouse

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A modern home-office scene featuring a computer monitor displaying a live online chess game (chess.com) with a green-and-white chessboard and strategic positions. The desk includes a keyboard, mouse, and a person holding a colorful mug, suggesting focus and study or analysis in a calm, productive mood.

Comments (39)

• @DavidP · Mar 12, 2026

  Join if you have time and inclination --- @base451121 @Belinda @Biscuit @CaylaCatz @charlypalermo @Cheinia @chris70 @dirty_biker @elkanthe @elysian @EternaSky @faerierealm @fantasydesignink @gummiefish @Helen_h01 @Hephzibah @Hiths @justrob @King @NielsCarlsen @notyourcleo @panos @Sealine @SkarletFever @southamericanmyth @TheBard @To4kawa @TTRPG_Player @mim86 @Hiths @paulie @To4kawa @Troxley @winter_witch --- let me know if you don't want to be tagged

• @DavidP · Mar 12, 2026

  I think that's the only way! But my strategy is generally to avoid such situations, like leaving for work outside rush hour to avoid dealing with the rude morons on our roads --- I do think there is an element of taste involved, but also wonder if the mechanism has something to do with it. I am not storng enough in the statistics/probabilities nor understand how the matching algorithm works and the influence of when people score. My gut says that basing it on chess ELO may be an interesting idea but perhaps the nature of the challenge is such that a system based on swiss tournaments and long term performance over multiple tournaments doesn't really work well?

• @DavidP · Mar 12, 2026

  And if the OTB ratings were influence by the online then that could also have resulted in some anomalies --- I have thought about the ELO system and how it is applied in the BP Challenge scoring. Just read another DC comment reflecting some frustrations. Personally I have turned my creation energies to the QTs. Sure, I'm not pulling the slotmachine handle in hope of a top 3 and the prize credits, but also have no emotional challenges to cope with based on how my entries place.

• @DavidP · Mar 13, 2026

  Well as they say, when it seems too good to be true, it probably isn't. The image was created in img2img mode and the screen is an actual screen shot from chess.com. An actual game, which I won. Took a few goes for GAI not to mess up the board, but it managed this in the end

• @DavidP · Mar 12, 2026

  Yes. I set up my game request rating range to be weighted hevily to higher rated players. There is some ego involved to avoid losing to far lower rated players who are at a moment of being grossly under-rated. But also want to keep a higher rating to play more challenging opponents in pursuit of learning.

• @Sealine · Mar 12, 2026

  Can't reply anymore to that thread but playing in person tournaments after covid for my son was crapshoot. Everyone had been online for roughly a year so no one's rating were accurate at all. His first tournament back he jumped over a hundred rating points then promptly lost most of it the next tournament.

• @Sealine · Mar 12, 2026

  Yeah. I've mostly developed an f it attitude to how I place so it doesn't affect me as much, but I'm still baffled by some placements. I'm not sure if it's scoring or if my tastes are far off from the majority.

• @faerierealm · Mar 12, 2026

  Be aware, tagging must have glitched last night, because we were on 14h ago and for several hours after that, during which time I responded to all notifications up until the time we went to bed.

• @faerierealm · Mar 13, 2026

  Ah okay, got it. Next time you can also just prompt for a blank screen and then swap in the real photo just in that area. But that takes GIMP skills, of course. 😉

• @faerierealm · Mar 13, 2026

  I don't think you need to re-tag. They did come in (delayed) at some point after we went to sleep. Hopefully the others got them as well.

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