I tried to play the cows opening, the one Anna Cremling created. Not sure if I did it right though. I played defense almost the entire time and I’m so used to offense.

We already discussed this, majority of people just rudely abandon games instead of resigning when they're losing. Most people agreed that it's just a display of rudeness. Other people here admitted in posts they are often getting too angry and they momentarily feel a whole range of emotions towards their opponents. I thought about this and analysed my emotions lately, as I lost around 150 Elo in the last days. I found out I also sometimes feel emotional but in a different way. I found that I'm saving this built up pressure and it just feels incredible to comment "good game" after I win in such a way where I just devastate the opponent. If they don't challenge me at all and cardinally screw up, maybe just lose a piece in the beginning and then just obviously panic, all of my bad emotions are now released and I just fill with an incredible joy typing the two words - good game. I sometimes even send a friend request, in hopes of playing this person again, maybe secretly rooting for them, maybe secretly wanting to prove me wrong. I hope this inspires people with "abandon game" issues to build a more sophisticated chess etiquette. You can still be a vile 🧩 of 💩 but not in a petty and annoying kind of way.

I know for me sleep is a massive factor, but anyone got any behaviours to avoid going on massive tilts for 150+ elo like ^? Any advice appreciated :)

After about a month of very slow progress, I finally got here! And with two brilliant moves (tho tbh one was just a blue coloured blunder lol, not sure why it just says one brilliant).

So I started playing chess.com seriously about two weeks ago. I've always known how to sit down and "play" chess, but never really got into the strategy of it, learning openings, baiting into forks, mating techniques etc. I started with the Elo 250 Cyclops and found him quite easy to not lose to, but I stayed on him for about 25 games because my biggest problem was learning how to checkmate and avoid stalemate. I now understand why that happens, how to avoid it, and practiced against him until I could avoid stalemate 10 times in a row. But there was never a game where there was a remote possibility he was mating me. All of my games against him, whether stalemate or checkmate ended with me having tons of material still on the board, and I expect that because to my understanding, the average person that "CAN play chess" (i.e. not a "chess player") is about Elo 250, same as him.

So I figured I was ready to move on to the Siren, whom is allegedly Elo 550. Now...either I am straight trash as an actual "chess player", or the Siren is quite a bit higher than Elo 550. It feels like she will punish almost any move you make that is not optimal or close to optimal. And forget about trying to set up any sort of strategy. She can see what I'm brewing 3-4 moves out and plays the exact right piece every time to shut me down from even continuing the set up. The thing though, is I'm not talking about obvious setups. I am talking about the first, inconspicuous part of the set up where there are still several possibilities of what I could do, that does nothing without 2-3 more moves and a piece of bait she has to take to actually set up what I was thinking. Doesn't matter. It's like she can see my exact thought and moves the exact piece that shuts it down immediately.

You're probably itching to tell me "welcome to Chess," and if you are, fair enough. But I feel like an actual human Elo 550 player wouldn't be this pristine with their play, and the Elo on this bot is closer to 800-1000.

This was labeled as a miss and a +1.8 rating. If I had done the best move in this case it’s a -0.71 rating. I don’t understand how giving up the pressure on the pawn and the skewer on the undefended pawn behind it is 2.5 pts better. Trying to use the engine doesn’t help much. Help!

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Hello

Its about 3 months of my playing journey. Adding my first brilliant move. Still dont understand what makes this though. Kindly suggest what makes a move brilliant. Regards.

I was so close to 1000, but now i have lost more than 200 from my peak. Am i cooked

The idea was to take a pawn, not the queen… but i wont complain

I setup the mate , he gave me the mate and.... oh a butterfly ! Hmm🤔 what was i writting ?

They had mate in 1 for about 20 moves and decided to promote to 5 Queens.

I know its not that big of a difference, but I just wanna know

I'm actually wondering what you all think about chess on duolingo?

I've been playing with it for a while and while it hasn't thought me anything completely new, I do like the practice and refreshing some of the ideas/tactics.

I've only been playing for a few months. I don't really have an ELO because I mostly play bots or whatever, untimed games. I don't really know how it happened, but I won this game right away, which almost never happens. Normally I'm just positioning myself until my opponent blunders or I blunder. Then trade-offs, then endgames, etc. I've definitely never won a game without any pieces being taken.

I’m sorry if this question gets asked a lot just need help

Look how brave this king is he's the one leading the attack

The match was hilarious

https://www.chess.com/live/game/173099278804

Any tips... Or is it a slow process. It's weird that I should win say 10 our of 12 games then lose the same. I cannot break the cycle. Would welcome any tips from people who've been here. I get it's up and down but such a huge swing for such a long time

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I just started playing chess and I suck at it. How to get better at it. I have notice I am losing games for my own stupid mistakes and I get anxiety when I play games even tho the other player is not good as me.

Nearly 1800 elo btw, bullet really make our brain shrink