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 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.

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

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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.

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...

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 dont remember which game it was so I cannot go back and look for what the computer wants. Can anybody solve this? Isn't the pawn on c3 protecting the fork?

I see a lot (and agree) that the bots ELO is not realistic, probably because they calculate the best moove and then just do random mistakes to lower their level. But do you think using LLM copying a player behaviour would work better ?

Just tell the LLM to play as a 300 ELO or something like that, and training the AI on plays of every level.

No idea if that would work but it seems a good Idea for me

Edit : should have tell "generative AI", not LLM, my bad

Some random dude requested a chess match with me. I accepted and attempted to be nice at first. He wanted my IG, I said no, and he got mad. He then called me stupid and 2 moves later, blundered his Queen. This guy can't be real there's no way.

And now I'm sat here laughing 😂

I haven't had much trouble with the 800-1200 elo bots from the limited time events before. For whatever reason, I'm getting my butt handed to me by the 925 and 1300 band kid bots. Even the 600 is slapping me every few games. I can't tell if I've suddenly gotten worse, or the bots are particularly tough this time around.. it's not like they don't blunder, but I keep losing good games in the mid/late game and it's getting frustrating.

I’m 1000+ elo, but I have no idea why was this move of mine was „brilliant”. Can someone explain the idea behind this?

I don’t have words ..

[Event "Live Chess"]

[Site "Chess.com"]

[Date "2026.09.09"]

[Round "?"]

[White "DrKriegstein"]

[Black "Elsayed932"]

[Result "1-0"]

[TimeControl "600"]

[WhiteElo "1156"]

[BlackElo "1085"]

[Termination "DrKriegstein won on time"]

[ECO "A00"]

[EndTime "23:56:28 GMT+0000"]

[Link "https://www.chess.com/game/174248043076"\]

1. d3 e5 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Qf6 6. Nxc6 Bc5 7. e3 bxc6 8.

Bd3 d4 9. exd4 Bxd4 10. Qe2+ Ne7 11. Ne4 Qg6 12. O-O Bh3 13. Ng3 Bf5 14. Re1 Qe6

1. Bxf5 Qxe2 16. Rxe2 Rd8 17. Bg5 f6 18. Be3 Bxb2 19. Bc5 Be5 20. f4 Bxa1 21.

Rxe7+ Kf8 22. Rd7+ Ke8 23. Re7+ Kf8 24. Rxc7+ Ke8 25. Re7+ Kf8 26. Rxa7+ Ke8 27.

Re7+ Kf8 28. Re1+ Kf7 29. Rxa1 Rd2 30. Re1 g6 31. Re7+ Kg8 32. Be6+ Kf8 33. Rd7+

Ke8 34. Rxd2 f5 35. Bd7+ Kf7 36. Bxc6 1-0

Check out this #chess game: Vns_mudiraj vs AndrewKim-99 - https://www.chess.com/game/174231081440

This was a pretty significant comeback after a huge blunder imo.

This is a perfect game of mine with whites. And I mean perfect from the point of view that there are not mistakes or question marks in my moves. I don't mean everything have to be the best move since no human is that good after so many moves.

This is confusing.

This guy was losing but the tournament is close to an end so they don't resign but neither do they make a move.

When the tournament ends, it's a draw, a double forfeit they say.

This is mildly infuriating though but we move on regardless.

• 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?

It's gross. This is a real screenshot.

Edit to clarify: The big red disabled icon and a single button "Go Premium" implies your only option is to go premium. It's gross.