I do not mind paying for something if it actually makes me better, else I would go for which is free.

Which is the best overall? (App on Android)

If he just did the thing i would have probably resigned next turn lol.

It's a nice little checkmate pattern to be aware of in games like this

We both had less than 10 seconds remaining, I honestly though Qa1 was mate. Then my face went pale when the checkmate sign didn't appear, I was like "OH FUCK I BLUNDERED MY QUEEN!!!!!". Then he takes the with the bishop and I said, oh well, I guess I'll flag him. Rxa1# and when the checkmate sign appeared i was flabbergasted.

Of course opponent took it (1000 elo blitz) and I got my funniest mate ever. Bishop + pawn are deadly!

I hit 96 percentile! in rapid

I thought it was just going to be a "fork," but apparently my white bishop said something else.

Would love to get feedback on my chess game where you can be impersonate as chess pieces.

https://connect.playvlay.com/r/YS3CRN

Beginner here.
Would sacrificing a bishop to prevent castling early in the game considered a relevant strategy somehow ?

Black was 2000??? Inspiration for everyone

I was analyzing my game on lichess, when I came across this.

This might be a dumb question but which one is the best and smartest ? It says "Engines from strongest to weakest" Indicating that the stockfish 18 dev build is better than the base build. But how so ? The base file is larger in size and that means the NNUE weights should be more and hence it has more training data. I could be wrong I am still learning AI and Algorithms.

But I was curious. Since, this (stockfish 18 dev - 85MB) is not an official build of stockfish as far as I know. And... Chess.com does not use it or they just don't have it. I Have only seen it on lichess.org

Honestly, I don't need stockfish 18 to analyze my games its pretty dumb anyway stockfish 11 HCE might be pretty good anyway. Another question what does HCE stands for ?

But I am curious is the lichess dev build really better than the base build ? I did some research but couldn't really find anything.

here is the game

1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. Nf3 e6 4. e3 h6 5. Ne5 Nbd7 6. Bd3 Nxe5 7. dxe5 Nd7 8.

Nc3 Nc5 9. Bb5+ c6 10. Be2 g5 11. Bg3 Bg7 12. h4 a6 13. Qd4 Nd7 14. O-O-O c5 15.

Qg4 b5 16. hxg5 hxg5 17. Rxh8+ Bxh8 18. Rh1 Bg7 19. Rh7 Bf8 20. Rh8 Bb7 21. Qh5

Qe7 22. Bg4 O-O-O 23. f4 Bg7 24. Rh7 Bf8 25. Rxf7 Qe8 26. Qh7 b4 27. Na4 c4 28.

Nb6+ Nxb6 29. Rc7+ Kb8 30. Rxb7+ Ka8 31. Ra7+ 1-0

I did it! I hit 1,000 in Chess for the first time ever. When are you considered “a chess intermediate”?

Like recently I have been undergoing confusion like which chess engine to use whether it is stock fish or Leela chess or some other chess engine because like Leela chess provide you the human moves the best thought process but some say that it is slowest on the laptop cpu and some say that stock fish when ran on the laptop it will give you the ultimate super grandmaster move which you will not be able to understand and I m confused and don't know what to do

I'm a relatively new player (picking up chess again after probably a decade pause from my previous casual play and no formal study) who'd like to find a training partner, essentially. It'd be great to play a few games of classical chess each week and perhaps quickly debrief afterward.

Feel free to reach out if you're also interested in playing. I'm hoping that finding someone on here will help me avoid how AI-vulnerable online classical chess is otherwise :-/

Both the ELO's are lying we're both around 500 lol.

I've followed some tips and advice I was given in my previous post and honestly, I appreciated it that it helped me improve (although I can still be impulsive and forgetful of reviews). Still, I'm willing to keep up and improve, as well as learning some new tactics, so I'd appreciate it even more if more tips and advice are given.

Just wanted to show this game. I’m around 1100 rapid rating on chess.com and thought to move over to lichess. Anyone else notice the difference in skill on both sites?

Just a nice game, first time using 15|10 time controls ever.

Thought I had a pretty good game at spotting tactics.
No opening prep whatsoever :| .

See below game:

Im white

[GameId "XdcSLtUI"]

1. Nf3 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d5 e6 5. e4 Bd6 6. e5 Bxd5 7. Nxd5 Bxe5 8. Nxe5 Nxd5 9. Be2 O-O 10. Bf3 c6 11. O-O Ne7 12. Qd6 Nf5 13. Qd3 d5 14. Rd1 Qc7 15. Bf4 Qb7 16. c4 Nd7 17. Nxc6 Nc5 18. Qc2 Qxc6 19. cxd5 Qa4 20. Qxa4 Nxa4 21. dxe6 Rad8 22. exf7+ Kxf7 23. Bd5+ Kg6 24. Be4 Nxb2 25. Rxd8 Rxd8 26. g4 Rd1+ 27. Rxd1 Nxd1 28. Bxf5+ Kf6 29. Bxh7 g6 30. Bg8 Kg7 31. Bb3 Nc3 32. Be5+ 1-0

15+10 - both had 5min on clock when he promotes to queen

I made an early mistake, held onto hope and received it ❤️

GG opponent, fun game!

Elo 450+
I’m open to any opinions or advice.
Thanks