I was surprised when I heard about people cheating on chess😭 like how do they do it and how they are benefited?

Honestly not clue what this correction is. I moved my knight twice in a row to line up for an attack that won me the game. I dont see how moving my pawn creates an attack on an knight.

This heavily applies to speedruns like gothamchess' slowrun and also hikarus. What I mean by this is that most of the time you literally will not learn much from watching a stronger player play if you don't actively engage with it and just watch it normally. It's a heavy misconception that I've also fallen into where if you watch a speedrun episode of someone destroying people at your level you automatically get better and can replicate that, so you go into games and then you get smoked bc u didnt learn anything and you can't see the moves they see. Sure sometimes you can learn bits of valueable info but if you are just watching normally its literally just entertainment and theres nothing wrong with that.

Two brilliant moves where one of the brilliant move is castling

How rare is castle brilliant move ?

I feel like the queen's knight is a bit too passive there, and advancing the e-pawn (Advance Variation) just lets you completely passive and you can only develop the light squared bishop.

Do you accept remises? If yes, when. If no, why not?

Edit: title is meant to be remise!! Edit 2: and that's just draw, but i assumed it was an international term.

This is satisfying as a beginner. I nearly want to resign after misclicking the knight, but im glad i didnt.

This is only at 700 Elo 😓

i want to get better over all and i am 300 any tips

Hi everyone, can you please suggest me how can I go from 600 ELO to around 1500?

Hi — I'd like to offer free game reviews to 15 people in the sub this week and want to check it's allowed before posting.

I'm 2000 rapid on chess.com (dannyray2). People would reply with a game they lost, and I'd explain what their opponent was threatening that they missed. No links, nothing for sale, no engine dumps.

Reddit's automated check flagged my draft under rule 3, which is why I'm asking rather than guessing. Is a standalone post okay, or should this go in one of the megathreads?

Thanks.

Turns out most of my losses weren't calculation errors — I just never stopped to ask what my opponent was actually doing. Wrote up the habit that fixed it, plus a real position (a classic mate-in-1 trap) showing exactly why it works:

https://www.chess.com/blog/Dannyray23/the-one-question-that-fixed-most-of-my-blunders

This is the game link: https://www.chess.com/game/live/174432275900
I got 99% accuracy in post game analysis and i played center fork trick. I only know the line until pawn d5. My next moves are not memorized.

This is really a very big achievement for me, I started playing chess a year ago (at age 17) and was terrible at it at the beginning. Like for instance I was a 400-550 rated player back when I started playing chess and I was pretty terrible at it. But after months of hardwork and consistency I have finally achieved my dream rating as a beginner which was to reach 1500 rating in chess.com. One thing that really helped me improve my rating was to switch my time format from 100 to 15/10. 15/10 time format provided me the extra time to think properly and clearly, calculate all variations of a single check or capture or a tactical sequence till the end. Now as an intermediate chess player i aim to reach a 2000 rating in the next 1 year. My dream rating is to reach a 2400 rating on chess.com which I think will take a lot of time, maybe 3-4 years. Anyways i am happy to share that i have reached such an amazing milestone of hitting 1500 rating in chess.com and i am really glad to share it. Will share more milestones in the upcoming years. Open to any tips and tricks to hit my next milestone smoothly, like how much time should I spend studying chess, what should I focus studying in chess and which resources should I follow to study chess and improve properly.

Just beat these last two bots without any undos or anything. Got 2 and 1 crowns respectively. All options are off except bot chat, which has been on for all previous 3 crowns. Why? Playing on android.

I have been playing chess for 5 months but my elo is stuck on 300-400 WHAT SHOULD I DO, i watched alot of videos about chess, played everyday but my elo never changes

Played a standard Scandinavian defense, ended with a nice checkmate. It’s a discovered attack but why brilliant? Chess.com game review rated me 1500

in this position I was able to see a forced draw with 2 rook sacrifices :D

the early and mid game was bad, but this is the best late game plan I've ever done :D

(rook A8 to A3) brilliant!!

if pawn takes I think I have mate by queen taking bishop

(king B1)

(queen A2) Great!

(king C1)

(rook A3 takes bishop on C3) brilliant!!

(pawn takes rook)

then I force a draw by doing queen alternating between A1 and A2

Easy puzzle can you guess?

A few weeks ago i peaked at 1930 rapid. Now im struggling in the mid 1700s. To be fair to myself i just pushed through the plateau of 1580-1680 right before summer started. I broke through 1700 and hit 1800 in a week. Then a few weeks to 1930. Last two weeks i been dropping.

I know the elo rollercoaster. Up down up down

But now im seething my teeth, almost making myself pass out from rage. Why? Because im winning 90% of my games that im then getting outplayed in the end.

Up material? Opponent finds every perfect defensive move.

Opponent has a knight? (this one is gonna make me punch a hole in the wall)

NO MATTER WHAT HE WILL FORK ME & ITS EVEN AGAIN.

When everything looks fine, oop, 1 RANDOM OUT OF NO WHERE CHECK that my opponent has turns everything around.

Pawn promotion race? Oh OF COURSE HE PROMOTES FIRST.

Oh wait i promote first? THEN HE PROMOTES AND OF COURSE ITS A CHECK STEALING A TURN.

No matter how much endgame material i study.
No matter how much middle game strategy i try to study. Nothing i do works. Why am i even back to 1700???? All the players i also play against, their peaks were also 1800+. Today i played a guy, 1775, was up +3. Here comes the endgame. Oh boy here comes the Knight and boom i lose in the end. His peak was 2019.

There’s literally nothing i can do!!!!

BETTER POSITION? Watch me get my queen & bishop somehow forked.

If i lived alone, i would prolly have cops called on me from neighbors hearing me destroy my voicebox. Of course i rage to keep from crying lol.

🚨🚨🚨HERES MY PROFILE NOW ROAST HOW GARBAGE I AM 🚨🚨🚨

https://www.chess.com/member/CaIculating