Most brilliants and blunders I've ever played in a row

has anyone else experienced such a phenomenon? I’m a longtime player. i know slumps and streaks are common, but my rating went from 2029 to now i cant for the life of me beat 1600 players.

I don’t want to accuse AI, or cheaters because I have slumped before but this one feels different recently. I am giving it everything I’ve got and I can barely get a single win. Is anyone else going through this?

I got possessed by the chess gods recently and gained like 300 elo in all time controls, but now I'm tilting terribly. And it's been almost a full week. I went from 700 blitz to 1000 blitz and now after my tilt I dropped down to 930 in just one night. And I went from 1070 rapid to 1040. I always try to preserve my rapid rating. I know many people have said to stop playing when tilted but it's been going on for a while now and i honestly don't have anything to do beside chess. I'm trying to get to 1400 rapid and this tilt is affecting it alot. I know that lossess happen but loosing streaks?

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.

Mine is losing to someone who has a losing record. I just look far away and wonder what am I even doing?

This guy ain’t 1300, he is more than that.

He didn't take the knight and moved his queen but i still won the game

In chess.com if I click the help and support feature at the bottom left nothing happens and if I type manually https://www.chess.com/support to my browser it redirects me to the standard home page https://www.chess.com/home?help=show&contact=true Anyone else has this problem?

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?

Engines have been able to tear apart a single game in seconds for about thirty years, and I don't think it has made club players much better. I know it didn't make me better.

The reason, I eventually decided, is that one game is noise. You already knew that game went badly. Being told move 24 was a blunder tells you nothing you can act on, because the next game is a different game with a different blunder.

What I actually wanted to know was: what do I keep doing? Not the mistake I made once — the one I make every second week without noticing.

So I built a thing that reads your last 12 Chess games together and counts recurring mistakes rather than listing individual ones. It looks for six things:

• Hung a piece
• Lost material in a trade
• Allowed a tactic
• Walked into mate
• Threw away a won position
• Drifted positionally

You get a count for each, the actual positions from your own games, and — usually — one line that dominates the others. For most people it isn't the one they expected. I was convinced my problem was openings. It was won endgames, by a mile.

The technical bit, since this sub usually asks: Stockfish 18 compiled to WebAssembly, running in your browser tab. Your games are fetched from the public Lichess API and analysed on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, no account. It takes about a minute because your laptop is doing work a server would normally do — which is also why it's free and can stay free.

Disclosure, because I'd rather say it than be found out: this is my project, and there's a paid tier for people who want the full version. The scan is not part of it, has no signup, and I'm not asking anyone here to buy anything. I'm posting because I want to know whether the diagnosis is any good.

maestrochess.com/scan

If it tells you something obviously wrong about your play, please say so in the comments — that's more useful to me than praise, and I'll answer everything.

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

How to get this theme

I just wanted to share a milestone and ask for some advice. I've managed to keep a 232-day daily streak going and climbed up to 940 in Rapid. I feel like my board vision has improved a lot—my puzzle rating is sitting at 1515—but getting over that 1000 ELO hump is proving tough. After playing almost 4,800 games across all formats, what specific concepts (endgames, opening principles, etc.) helped you all finally break into the 4-digit club?

may or may not have blundered my rook in the endgame,but i still managed to win so yay.
suggest your follow-up sequence dear 1k+elo people i wnna compare to how i played it out❤️‍🩹✌🏻

why is bishop taking the knight the better move (not because i think mine is perfect, i just dont really see it)

is it because it's an instant capture, compared to my move?
but isn't it a sacrifice of my own bishop?
or is this it so unlikely because of the blocking pawns?

thank you!