some trap they saw in a tiktok made by a 150 rated teenager with good ai editing skills
Here is my input from ~2200 level as an avid hyperbullet player:
Yeah, in hyper/ultrabullet people like to randomly sac knights on f7 in many different positions, it's cheap dirt, it works, there's worse things to worry about. Everyone falls for dirt in bullet, even GMs, it just varies at each level.
The "refutations" in the article are impractical to the point of unplayable for hyper because they dont come naturally, usually just d5 Bxd5 Be6 comes more intuitively to play (at least to me) and it's very easy to continue from there, hence the good winrate. Now as for h6, its fine to play, baiting the sacrifice is good if you know what you're doing. Even better is to just play h6 before the opponent premoves Ng5 and just taking the free knight before they can even sac for the f pawn, after you see them try it once or twice. Then they'll have to reevaluate their strategy.
Most good bullet players already know all this if they've met this cheap thing enough times, if they havent, they'll figure it out. I'm not sure if this trick is getting popular at lower ratings too, but just training your bullet intuition will shield you from almost everything, you dont need to learn lines to defend in bullet, unless you play 1+0, where it's okay to take a couple of seconds to think. And if you get bummed by this opening at any time control slower than that, joke's on you I guess :D
Cheers~
@ImperatorArnav said in #18:
> > > I think it was popularised by YouTuber SadisticTushi
> >
> > Ugh, I just looked at his channel and now I wish I hadn't. Everything wrong with the unfortunate rise of "TikTok chess"
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> Yeah, because of TikTok chess, everyone wastes a tempo against the Italian by playing h6, like what even, h6!? The fried liver is very unsound if you know how to counter it.
I'm referring more to the gratuitous toxicity.
@Dragon_Emperor_9774 yeah this is why I don't play bullet, lol. I regularly meet people who "only play bullet" - I don't get it!
Btw, the white win rate is actually 67% if we filter down to just rapid and blitz rated 1400+. Like... what are we even doing. Bullet / hyper isn't even a factor.
Anyway, I hope this blog post brings that % down, it's ridiculous.
@noahlz said in #23:
> > > > I think it was popularised by YouTuber SadisticTushi
> > >
> > > Ugh, I just looked at his channel and now I wish I hadn't. Everything wrong with the unfortunate rise of "TikTok chess"
> >
> > Yeah, because of TikTok chess, everyone wastes a tempo against the Italian by playing h6, like what even, h6!? The fried liver is very unsound if you know how to counter it.
>
> I'm referring more to the gratuitous toxicity.
That's an issue too but I find that less annoying than wasting a move imo.
@ImperatorArnav said in #18:
> > > I think it was popularised by YouTuber SadisticTushi
> >
> > Ugh, I just looked at his channel and now I wish I hadn't. Everything wrong with the unfortunate rise of "TikTok chess"
>
> Yeah, because of TikTok chess, everyone wastes a tempo against the Italian by playing h6, like what even, h6!? The fried liver is very unsound if you know how to counter it.
No it’s not. It’s played at the higher levels too.
Yeah. there's unsound (equal evaluation but unpleasant position) and then there's just losing (-2.7 after Nxf7?!). I don't think they're in the same category.
60-70% win for white in rapid and blitz from -2.7 is just...wut. People are losing to this trash and then not analyzing afterwards I guess!
@noahlz said in #24:
> @Dragon_Emperor_9774 yeah this is why I don't play bullet, lol. I regularly meet people who "only play bullet" - I don't get it!
I plead guilty - gotta put my brain power in comp sci instead of chess, only bullet keeps my brain fresh enough, what to do.
When I started I had lots of time to enjoy my rapid games. Don't worry about bullet, you might come to enjoy it if you hit a ceiling on actual chess. And on that note, yes, the allure is different, because at some point bullet slowly turns into a game of predicting your opponents moves based off their patterns, timing etc... at a high enough level (2000+). It can be pretty fun, like a mind game.
Cheers!
Absolutely hilarious, on my way from 1800 to 2000 bullet i used this opening after seeing it in an Igor Smirnov video, it worked great until i got to 2000. Nice to see it getting some love, the best solution is to not play h6.
@noahlz said in #27:
> Yeah. there's unsound (equal evaluation but unpleasant position) and then there's just losing (-2.7 after Nxf7?!). I don't think they're in the same category.
You mean the Scotch gambit or Fried Liver?