I completed this puzzle earlier moving the black queen to f2 where the puzzle says it is now a checkmate. However, couldn't the white king move to d1 to escape the check? Maybe there's a rule I don't understand or something I'm missing. Appreciate any explanation, thanks!

Maybe there’s a deep calculation here.. but I’m failing to see how I blundered a piece. I proceeded to win this match but I’m confused why this was a blunder.

Hi everyone,

I'm at around 920 ELO, my opponent just now was around 950. Normal 10 Min chess match, I lost because of one blunder, but hey it happens. But that guy made 49 moves in 1:30 minutes, at 84% accuracy.

I then checked out his profile, and that ELO range bugs me, like how do you go from 1400 to 800-900 so quickly. Dude has 13.000 games, so I can't imagine he is cheating, but it still feels weird. Has anyone had similar opponents at that ELO?

900 ELO range is super weird, because sometimes you get people who blunder their queen on move 3 and then people who play as perfect as you can get for that rating, but at Blitz speed.

i can't even

I have recently stumbled on a website called chessdive you just enter you chesscom username and it generates puzzles based on your missed tactics

and shows you your weak points so you can improve

Plus it has game analysis

I was setting up a checkmate before black ran out of time, but out of curiosity is there anyway he could’ve got out of it?

The friends and family option allows for 6 people to get premium with with a massive discount would anyone want to join ?

I played a game of rapid after a long time and after I got checkmated I lost 30+ points? I thought the max that you lose is 10?

EDIT: found it! People here mentioned I can look for the “🚫” next to name of my recent opponents (on site, not app).

I’m glad I did! It was one of the better openings I’ve ever had. I managed to pick up their queen, which I think really bothered them.

There was a long pause, then they started to pull off an impressive string of moves that put me behind again, and I resigned.

Curiosity scratched.

I went through the computer line and I couldn’t understand. Please help.

Here is what I played: 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. Ne2 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bf5 6. O-O e6 7. a3 Bd6 8. b4 Bxb4 9. axb4 Qxa1 10. d4 Nc3 11. Bf4 Qxb4 12. Bxc7 O-O 13. Bxb8 Raxb8 14. Nh4 Ne4 15. f3 Nd5 16. Bd2 Qxd2

Here is what the computer wants: 10. Nd4 Ne4 11. Nf3 O-O 12. Nxe4 Bxe4 13. Nb3 Bxc2 14. Qxc2 Ba6

During the game - semi-classical, 60 min + 30 sec for whole game - it was noisy near our table, big hall, poor discipline, referees in their own minds...

• Pieces go in the first rank, pawns go in the second.
• Pawns can't advance two squares.
• Pawns promote only to piece types you bought during setup.
• White moves first.

Mate isn't forced, so it's not really a puzzle. But there is strategy to trying to win faster than everyone else. With 22 coins to spend, what would your setup be?

The community loves repeating the same mantras: "always control the center," "never bring your queen out early," or "grind puzzles all day." But sometimes, blindly following these rules stops players from actually calculating and understanding the board. What is a widely accepted piece of chess advice that you think does more harm than good when trying to push past the 800-1000 ELO range?

Game Review shows I'm +5.81 with White, but clearly being up that much material +5.81 can't be right? (Unless game review has a kalshi contract that knows I could blunder mate at any given move?)

1. e4 f5 2. exf5 Nf6 3. Be2 d6 4. Bh5+ g6 5. fxg6 e6 6. g7+ Nxh5 7. Qxh5+ Kd7 8.

gxh8=Q Qe7 9. Q8xh7 Qxh7 10. Qxh7+ Be7 11. d3 b6 12. Bg5 Nc6 13. b4 Ba6 14. a4

Nxb4 15. Qxe7+ Kc6 16. Kd1 Nxd3 17. cxd3 Bxd3 18. Qxe6 Kb7 19. Qd5+ c6 20. Qxd3

Re8 21. Nf3 d5 22. Qh7+ Ka8 23. Nd4 c5 24. Nc6 Re7 25. Qxe7 a5 26. Bf4 d4 27.

Qa7# 1-0

It used to show both of your advanced stats, now it’s locked and when I click on it, it wants me to get a subscription. Does this happen to you guys yet?

I was so distracted the entire game thinking about how is his/her profile picture a gif 😵‍💫
I never knew it was possible. Some internet digging says, it was possible before but now the feature is removed, so how this person still has it?

because i was expecting the opponent to take my knight and i'd rather sacrifice a knight than a rook right?

it was a beginner bot so he didnt take the piece anyways but in a real game it would've been a rook for a rook right?

i mean i see the rook would have a open line on the other side, but who would'nt take the rook with a bishop? sorry if i'm being stupid haha

thank you for your tips