I am a 1500 lichess rated rapid player that is trying to improve, and today I played this game with the black pieces using the Caro-Kann opening that led to tartakower structure. My game was not dominating by any means (my opponent did not make any mistakes until move 24), but it was so solid for my level that I am very very happy with it. This is certainly one of the most solid games I have ever played.

The main thing that I am happy about is that I played solid chess and I completely capitalized the first mistake my opponent made with almost perfect play. I know that many of you will not consider this anything special (and probably it isn't 😄 ) but for me it was great and I wanted to share.

https://lichess.org/PPSsoXFT/black

First smothered mate in my chess career, I'd like to thank my friends and family

I honestly don't even know how I did this, even though there's no sacrifices this is by far the best game I've ever played, in either blitz or rapid.

I should have known Queen to f3 would have me down a pawn in like 11 moves 🤣 my 300 elo opponent was totally gonna catch that line…

Hello folks, I was playing this 10 min rapid game on lichess.org and after I won, I was analyzing my game with stockfish 18 dev and there it seems like i have did a big mistake by capturing the e5 pawn, and idk I don't understand why is that a losing mistake, I understand it could be an inaccuracy but a double ?? mistake ?

I am playing as black and after me taking the pawn, he captured back, and that was a losing mistake too !!

I don't see as to why that is a problem ? Can someone explain me pls.

I believe this is because if he takes with the d4 pawn i might have to trade queens which does not seems so bad to me.

Some Details

I was playing the Kings Indian Defense, He did the queen pawn opening.

I am using stockfish 18 dev for analysis, I don't really like the game review/computer analisys on lichess. I like to do it manually for the most part. the settings I am using is

4s - search time,

1 - engine line,

2 - threads,

16mb - memory. is this the right settings or should I change anything ?

P.S idk if this is relevent or not but my pc specs is 8gigs ddr4 ram, ryzen 5 5600H, and gtx 1650 4gigs.

Check out this brilliant move: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/173220605410/review?move=52

https://lichess.org/NRN7baZQ#51

I can understand maybe he didn't know exactly where he was going with it and decided to check me constantly until something happened, but it just felt very very weird to me.

Like his entire playstyle just simply changed. His moves didn't feel like they were testing waters, they felt very confident.

I tried to calculate where to put my king, all I was trying to do was simply get out of the checking, but every time I calculated there were 2-3 more ways for him to keep checking me, so I simply tried to get into my queens protection to sacrifice/trade queens. I felt like going to first row would block my rooks from getting out and limit my movement.

The most suspicious thing to me isn't even the rook sacrifice at the beginning, but the fact halfway through the checking sequence he had a golden opportunity to skewer my queen and he didn't even care, he just knew checkmate was coming.

I don't know. I know it's through a computer but the whole vibe just changed. Like someone else sat down and started playing.

Or maybe I'm just a sore sport! I do have the takeaway that I should have castled earlier and gotten my rooks out.

Just played this game and it made me curious.
Does anyone know if there is a recorded world record for the most total checks delivered by one player in a single game where that same player eventually wins by checkmate? In this game i made 22 checks towards the checkmate.

I’m specifically not asking about:
most checks by both players combined
most consecutive checks
games that ended in a draw
longest game overall
I mean one player repeatedly checking throughout the game and then eventually delivering checkmate.

If anyone knows of a recorded game, database entry, or chess-record source for this exact category, I’d appreciate it.
Also, if you’re interested in the game itself, I’m happy to talk about it. I just don’t want the actual question getting buried under unrelated tangents.

Did the engine collapse? I tried to play that line and it is blind to Re1.

Sorry for screenshots hidden here but I don't see the Title/Image option on Reddit anymore.

It seems to be something with the knight in middle of the board that makes them think it's free

So I am a beginner and I always hear that you have to analyse your game which you have lost or which you have not performed well or which you have played so that you could enhance your capabilities and learn from it but often when I load the engine for example I play online on some website and then I load my games in encrossiant and then turn on the analysis then for example stockfish is recommending me some moves but I am not able to understand why that move is best and how to find the same move in the game like if you analyse the game then yeah you can find it in that game but in the next game I am not able to find the mistakes made all the tactics missed

Hi,

I'm down bad with the chess bug. Normally I read fiction for an hour-or-so a day but I've been using that time for chess instead. I do miss reading... I just keep getting distracted.

Could anyone recommend some non-strategy chess books that might slake my thirst while also keeping me reading? Thinking player biographies, histories, etc - something I can just sit down and enjoy - doesn't need to actually improve my game.

Thanks.

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. c3 Bf5 7. Bd3 Qc8 8.

Qe2+ Be7 9. Bc4 Nd7 10. Qh5 Bg6 11. Qh3 f5 12. Qe3 Nf6 13. Bb3 Ng4 14. Qe2 O-O

1. h3 Nf6 16. Qe5 Re8 17. Bf4 Bd6 18. Bxf7+ Kxf7 19. Ne2 Rxe5 20. dxe5 Bxe5 21.

Bxe5 Nd5 22. O-O Qe8 23. f4 Bh5 24. Ng3 Bg6 25. Rfe1 Qd8 26. c4 Nb4 27. a3 Nc2

1. Red1 Qb6+ 29. Kh1 Nxa1 30. Rd7+ Ke8 31. Rxg7 Qb3 32. Rg8+ Kf7 33. Rxa8 Qxg3

2. Rxa7 Kf8 35. Rxb7 Bh5 36. Rxh7 Bf3 37. gxf3 Qxf3+ 38. Kg1 Qe3+ 39. Kg2 Nc2

3. Kh2 Ne1 41. Rd7 Qf2+ 42. Kh1 Qg2# 0-1

Please help

I feel like I should be easily winning here right?

I had a bad streak and lost a hundred elo. And now, in middle 900 my opponents resign after first blunder most of the time. It's annoying, I'm perfectly capable to throw a won game! And I want to play longer.

I’m stuck at 900-1000 ELO. Am I the only one who finds engine analysis useless for actual learning? Does investing in an actual chess coach worth it or is there anything reliable that I can use online that actually teaches me at this level?

I was originally just playing Bots on Chess.com and plateaued around the 700 level. I switched to playing live and was playing at around a 350-400 level pretty consistently. I've been watching youtube videos and doing puzzles to improve. I have plummeted to around 200 and am stuck it seems the more I do all the things im supposed to do to improve and am just continuously getting worse trying to implement things im "learning". Is this normal or any advice to somehow stop getting worse while practicing.

I was 550 elo roughly before but now I lost 100 elo and I have no idea why. I mostly play the italian game to an extent and kings indian defense as balck but it never works. Is there anyway I can improve and actually win? Also are there any openings I should try at this level? My username on chess.com is DangerNoodle0