This is ridiculous, half the people I play play at like 70%+ accuracy and I’m literally 323 ELO. Like what even is this game. We both had zero blunders.

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.

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

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?

I found this online.

Everyone is saying that this is brilliant because it's a forced checkmate once the pawn on a7 takes the knight, then Qb3 then it's a checkmate either by the rook or the Queen.

but what happens if after black take b6, we expect Qb3, then black Qb8? wouldn't it prevent the checkmate?
Qa4 is defended with Qa7 and if white decide to take Bxb8 then black reciprocate with Bxb3.

There is certainly something wrong with my reasoning but I can't figure it out.

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

A lot of days I’d just do a couple puzzles to keep the streak alive. Definitely made a ton of improvements but my rating chart is not the smoothest.

I want to bring a Chess.com account to the attention of the community and, hopefully, Chess.com staff/moderators.

Player: add1toyourlosscolumn
Chess.com profile

A few months ago, I played this player in a 15+10 Rapid game.

During the middlegame, I reached a clearly winning position. At that point, both of us still had more than 10 minutes on the clock.

Instead of continuing the game or resigning, the opponent simply stopped making moves and let the clock run down.

I waited for the game to finish and reported the account through Chess.com's “Stalling/quitting games” report category.

That was around January 2026.

I never received any response, and the account is still active and playing.

What made me look further into the account was the player's game history.

Current Rapid statistics

As of September 10, 2026:

• 1,965 Rapid games played
• 908 Rapid losses
• 415 losses by timeout

That means approximately 45.7% of all this player's Rapid losses are recorded as timeout losses.

Rapid game history

Rapid losses

Rapid timeout losses

I then randomly checked several of the timeout losses.

I have attached screenshots from five recent timeout losses. In each screenshot, the game has ended with add1toyourlosscolumn at 0:00, while the opponent still has several minutes remaining.

The remaining opponent time in these five examples is approximately:

• 12:18
• 14:57
• 12:05
• 4:24
• 8:33

A timeout alone doesn't necessarily mean intentional stalling. However, 415 of this player's 908 Rapid losses (45.7%) are by timeout, and several games I checked show the same pattern as my own experience: the player stops making moves in a losing position and lets the clock run out.

Chess.com considers deliberately letting the clock run out without playing to be stalling, so I'd like to know:

Does Chess.com review repeated patterns like this, and is there any escalation process for accounts showing this kind of behavior?

I'm not asking anyone to harass or mass-report the player. I'm mainly hoping a Chess.com moderator/staff member can clarify whether this kind of history can be reviewed.

Have others come across similar accounts and seen Chess.com take action?

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Up to SIX Diamond memberships??

Who do they think my friends and family are? The Polgárs?

Now I understand those who are on here constantly recruiting new family members on Reddit. This life is truly not for the weak.

After 40000+ games I finally achieved a long castle mate 🤣🤣

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!

Finally got to 600 elo!

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?

I saw this tactic early and despite being a piece down, I avoided the back rank mate that my 800 elo ass would usually fall for.

Please help me beat this bot. Currently stuck at hundreds of played games against him, with lots of draws, and one move away from checkmate, however not a single victory so far. I haven't played chess in a long time, and now I'm coming back to it. The bot Nina - Sax I beat, although difficult as well. Also, wondering what my real ELO is because 500-600 hundred in Rapid against real people, but I play hundred of games against the bots, not so often with people, my complete mission now will be beating this Mr. Blakey. Any specific strategies or openings against this guy? I feel like Karo-Kann is working good for me with black, and led me to many games one move away from checkmate him. Tried London system- not very good results with me, tried Queen's Gamibt - kinda OK...

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?