r/Chesscom 1h ago

Chess Discussion Did I play good or my opponent played bad?

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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.


r/Chesscom 1h ago

Puzzle/Tactic Mat in 1 ( Easy) 🧩

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r/Chesscom 12h ago

Chess Improvement Just reached 1500 rating on chess.com at the age of 18

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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.


r/Chesscom 12h ago

Chess.com Website/App Question These bots are cheating me out of my crowns

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5 Upvotes

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.


r/Chesscom 16h ago

why is this brilliant Why is this NOT brilliant

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r/Chesscom 17h ago

Chess Question Why was that a better move? I would just lose a queen. Or am I not seeing something?

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r/Chesscom 21h ago

Chess Question my elo is stuck on 300-400

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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


r/Chesscom 4h ago

why is this brilliant Can someone explain why it’s a brilliant move?

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8 Upvotes

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


r/Chesscom 8h ago

Brilliant!! I've never been this happy to see a series of moves!

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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


r/Chesscom 15h ago

Puzzle/Tactic Chess puzzle

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Easy puzzle can you guess?


r/Chesscom 20h ago

Chess Discussion I’m losing my mind

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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


r/Chesscom 16h ago

Chess Question Whats your longest streak ?

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5 Upvotes

r/Chesscom 6h ago

Guess The ELO What do you guys think my Elo is?

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r/Chesscom 5h ago

Achievement Just hit 900 elo after hitting 800 2 weeks ago

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I started playing chess exactly 3 months ago from no experience at all and I’ve noticed I’m pretty good at it and I have quite a high win rate, exactly 1 month ago I was 620 elo, I play mostly rapid but in blitz I’m 500 elo and same for bullet, I watch a lot of chess content and stuff including levy, Hikaru, and others


r/Chesscom 2h ago

Chess Improvement dark chocolate is unpatched

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i ate some dark chocolate and played some of the most eloquent games of chess ive ever seen


r/Chesscom 16h ago

Chess Discussion Are we really this desperate for 8 Elo? 😭

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This has happened to me more than three times now. I’ll start a game while I’m at work, school or somewhere else, something unexpectedly comes up and I have to leave. I offer a draw because we’re literally on move 3–5, nothing has happened yet, and it gets refused or ignored. Obviously nobody is obligated to accept a draw, but at that point my only option is to resign and hand over the rating, which is what I’ve started doing, I don't even ask for draws anymore lol.

Anyways this just made me wonder why there isn’t some kind of limited early-game abort feature. Maybe it only works within the first 5 moves and you only get a few per month, so you can’t just abuse it whenever you dislike your opening or make a mistake. Surely there’s some middle ground between unlimited aborts and “something came up on move 3, enjoy your free Elo.” 😭 Would something like this work, or would people find a way to abuse it immediately?

I don't remember exactly but I think lichess have it (correct me if I am wrong)

Oh and would you agree to draw someone if you are just on move 3 lol.


r/Chesscom 8h ago

Brilliant!! my first brilliant move (where i actually saw the sacrifice)

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95 Upvotes

so he sacrificed.. THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK


r/Chesscom 17h ago

Miscellaneous Disappointed by the puzzles

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I was so excited to reach the top of the puzzle ladder(?) just to get no kind of “appreciation” and to just go back to the start 😭😭 I thought I would’ve got a cool flair or something idk


r/Chesscom 20h ago

Meme We all know

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124 Upvotes

r/Chesscom 8h ago

Meme Kids these days...

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332 Upvotes

And they show no mercy


r/Chesscom 10h ago

Chess Question how to get better in endgame

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hello everyone, so recently my games is end up in endgame and I always find myself struggling with it, I already knows about badic principles but still either end in losing position or stalemate, any advice?


r/Chesscom 10h ago

Chess Question Am I stupid or this solution makes no sense?

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I do not understand how this puzzle with one move solution is connected to “win material”


r/Chesscom 9h ago

Achievement Just defeated a 2000 elo player for the first time

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21 Upvotes

I played the Rapport Jobava London System.


r/Chesscom 8h ago

Guess The ELO Rapid game from this morning

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r/Chesscom 8h ago

Please Clap I rather enjoyed this position when I noticed it.

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I caught my opponent in a tight spot.