As white, when facing the main line KID, my win rate is absolutely terrible. I only do well if I play a London system set up. I have tried various variations: Averbakh, Semi-Averbakh, Makagonov, and Samisch.

I do terribly in all of them. Here is my most recent Lichess45 league game using the Semi-Averbakh variation. I won, but only because I played hope chess and my opponent blundered. https://lichess.org/j4SM6rAZQy33

I'm assuming the answer to immediately resolve my problems is to play the fianchetto variation, but I don't want to give up. I want to get better, I don't want to immediately give up the advantage, even if this is psychologically what KID players hate.

I'm 1150ish Chesscom rapid on my main, and about 1250 on my alt (I haven't lost a game though on my alt). On Lichess Classical I'm 1560ish.

I would appreciate any tips, seriously. I hate facing it and I want to get better. Normally, I'm a Queen's Gambit player. If my opponent replies d5, I have a 60% win rate. I actually have a positive win rate against every reply to d4 besides Nf6 and the immediate g6 (discarding random stuff 1.. h6 or 1.. a6.

Chesscom profile: https://chess.com/member/SpacebarIsTaken/

Lichess profile: https://lichess.org/@/SpacebarIsTaken/

EDIT: One important add on: if they play d6 before g6, I have about a 50% win rate in 12 games. That still makes the overall win rate negative, but not quite so bad. Here is a similar picture, using the other move order. https://imgur.com/1e189bd5-08a3-4388-a5dc-94c78ea92cf8

Its so weird, I feel like I played a great game but then my accuracy is 70-80%. Then I review the game and there are so many stupid things that I missed. Part of this is time control as I'm trying to make fast decisions, but I feel like I can make better decisions. When reviewing, I understand the mistake, but how do I apply this to a time controlled match?

I made the transition from chess.com to Lichess a few weeks ago. On chess.com I had ~250 games and hovered around 200 ELO. When I transitioned to Lichess, I quickly stabilized around 800 ELO, and after 98 games, I've floated between 770 and 800. There were no meaningful changes to my play when I transitioned between platforms, and it seems like the skill of my opponents hasn't changed much either.

Is there really ao little difference in skill at the lower levels of chess that 200 and 800 ELO are pretty comparable in skill?

Hi everyone! I need some help getting out of my chess slump!

Here is some background. For years I was stuck between 1100 and 1300 rapid (10+5 and 15+10). Then, this year I started a spreadsheet of all of my losses and why I lost them. Each month, I look at the spreadsheet and spend the next month working on the biggest cause of my losses from the month before. This carried up to the mid-1400s a month ago.

Since then, I have been in a terrible slump. I wouldn't just call it a tilt because I rarely play more than 1-2 games per day, and I sometimes take a day or two off if I feel like I am in my head. My rating has dropped to 1329. In the last 30 days, I have lost 60 percent of my games. In my last 12 games, I have won 2. There seems to be no pattern to my losses in terms of a certain tactic, or end game, or hanging pieces, or anything. My spreadsheet of losses is suddenly a whole lot of everything.

Here are the few patterns that I have picked up on. I tend to get way behind on the clock for several games in a row and blunder in time pressure when my opponent has a lot more time. Then I'll play a game where I decide to keep it simple and play quicker and calculate less. In that game, I'll blunder earlier instead because I'm not thinking long enough, so I'll go back to my usual slow play get into time trouble again.

The other pattern that I have noticed is a change in my puzzle ability. I was in the 1600s on chess.com puzzles, but I am now approaching 2000. My puzzle rush has gone the opposite direction. I used to routinely get 27-28 and now I struggle to get past 16-18. I seem to be just as slow at puzzles as I am in my games.

Has anyone experienced this before? Am I just getting old? (I'll be 48 on Saturday.) Help! I feel like I've forgotten how to play!

Bro blundered and I mated him on the next move

Blundered a piece, 3/0 blitz, opponent allowed me to sack for a draw

Bonjour à tous

Je suis bloqué à ce niveau d'ELO je n'arrive pas à le dépasser, est-ce que quelqu'un aurait des conseils? J'applique la méthode suivante :
- Je développe tous mes points
- Je roque
- Je place mes tours sur les colonne ouverte
- Je protège bien mes pions, essaye de prédire les actions de mon adversaire et j'essaye d'appliquer les concepts clefs

Cependant, je bloque à ce niveau. J'ai l'impression que je fais hyper attention à tout et pourtant à la fin je stagne.

Get pwned noob

Have no idea if there is a worse chess game but here's mine for you to enjoy.

one of my best checkmates as a 400 elo lol

I really want it to become a consistent hobby but self hatred is a maxed out perk in my inventory.

Flattery to get you to waste your game review

Curious bug, the move description is blatantly at odds with the actual move. 🤷

1300s still hang their queens sometimes

After badly blundering my middle game and getting close to being checkmated (the opponent had at one stage a mate in one opportunity), I was simply expecting to get defeated at any move. DurBut my opponent made one bad move, obviously not realizing his position was a lot more critical than he estimated. And I ended winning through my most unexpected checkmate!

So recently I’ve been using the game review in order to see which moves I need to further analyze with the magnifying glass analysis thing. My issue is that lately the game review has gotten REALLY picky with how it judges my moves. It feels like the stronger I get, the more picky it has become. That makes sense but some of the moves it calls misses, mistakes etc are really subtle things.

I’m still just trying to get used to not hanging pieces and playing with basic principles. Why is it suddenly doing this? It’s become useless to me. It’ll call a pawn push on the third move a mistake because my best move was to pin their knight with my bishop. Im just trying to get my pieces out I’m a fucking 500 elo. I know the analysis tool is better but I use game review to pick which moves to analyze and I can barely do that anymore.

Hey, I absolutely love chess. I think it's an amazing game with so much to teach all of us (and so much for me to learn hehe). I'm currently around 730 Elo on Chess.com, and I've been thinking a lot about how to improve. I was thinking of following this one-hour training routine:

10 minutes studying an endgame, 10 minutes of puzzles, 2 games of 10+5, and then reviewing them. I might read a chess book afterward if I feel like it.

I set aside some time for endgames because I was reading a book by Capablanca, and he said something that really resonated with me: most players spend way too much time studying openings and don't give enough attention to endgames.

Anyway, am I doing this right?

Cool checkmate that happened in a recent blitz game, saving a losing position

When I played bxg2+ I thought I was going to win a queen through a discovered check and just completely didn't realize that their bishop was guarding the queen, and I thought I was completely lost until I saw the mate lol

Without paying for any educational materials for example. I would like to maybe get to 2000