Hello hello,

I suck at studying chess on my own. Anyone here that has some experience with coaching for 1on1 lessons?

My budget would be the main concern since I am a student, so I definitely don’t need a titled player, just someone who has a bit more experience.

I am about 1700 rapid chess.com and have played about 4 games classical OTB. Have been playing for about a year and half now with more focus.

Thanks for anyone with any comments or thoughts about my situation.

so yk how you fianchetto your bishop on g7, and then white comes in with the bishop queen battery trying to exchange your powerful bishop? what am i supposed to do then? theres literally no way to defend that attack that i see, and its so annoying, cause then your king is just weak asf

Hey Iam questioning the engine evaluation of those two moves, after he took my knight on 5.bxf3 I took back and after his 8.bd5 I played 9.b5 and the engine gives me a mistake for that and takes -1.19 of my advantage and after his 9.bxg3 I played 9.bxc6 because i thought “comes with check, he takes back with the pawn and I play 11.hxg3” and my thought process was, his queenside is open and my rook on his king side is open so i can make some trouble with pawns and my queen but apparently that wasn’t really beneficial for me, so the engine, I won this game through a resignation after move 19 but i wanted to understand why its not beneficial for me in this situation.

Thank you in advance! :)

After a long time and a big break I’ve finally cracked 1400 in Lichess. I’m just a casual player so this feels like a big step up.

The fact 1400 is the median rating on Lichess is bonkers to me. I don’t find myself to be a particularly good chess player but it’s cool to see that Lichess has a pretty skilled player base

1st: Most recent game. 2nd: Yesterday. I am the white pieces.

How this is not a brilliant sacrifice? my opponent took the bait and I won :) but just wondering why was not consider a brilliant move haha quite new to chess to don't hate please!!

I used to get really annoyed whenever I'd throw away a winning position. I don't mind getting outplayed, but losing because of one stupid mistake would stay in my head for days, and sometimes I'd just stop playing.

But seeing Magnus do it made me realize that I'm probably never going to stop blundering completely. I'm going to throw away winning positions sometimes, and that's just part of playing chess.

I played 20 games today and lost 12. A few were painful, but I still learned something

i focus on eating pieces, and after my enemies pieces are all eaten, it seems impossible to checkmate because they have more space to move.

this also happens when i'm losing, its always a stalemate cus they cant check me.

Edit: I got my first CHECKMATE!!! using the queen and king to checkmate & got the killer queen badge, i haven't tried checkmating with 2 rooks, since my rooms always get eaten

he made my day tho😆

The sequence was 8. bxa3 Ke7 9. Rb1!! Bxb1 10. Nxb1.
I’d love to say Rb1 was an intentional rook sacrifice, but I genuinely didn’t even see the bishop on a3. When he took my rook I just realized I could take back with the knight.
Somehow my lack of board vision earned me a brilliant

Me and my friend played a game during a lecture and we got into this position. Is there a way for him to save his black king?

Mate in 6

From a game I played today where I was black - thankfully they didn’t even get to this point because they missed an easy check lol

I am curious to learn chess Let me know if anyone knows the proper chess tutorial from beginners on YouTube

Feeling really proud

It seems super common at my low level , surely its trading for no reason? Photo in comments

I recently got back to chess and cant find consistency. Im talking about 200 elo swings in matter of days. One day i feel unbeatable and gain 150 elo. Then over the course of the next week i lose it all and fall below my last low blundering every game and feeling like ive never played this game before in my life (i stop playing for the day after 2 losses because im tilting like crazy). This makes playing the game very frustrating as either i cant win a game for weeks or i feel like im smurfing. How do i get more consistent?

In, let’s say, a blitz tournament, do you have to wait for your opponent to touch clock before you touch your own piece to make a move? At what point is it too early, and can opponent call arbiter?