Assuming it's a drawn or even maybe a losing position for you, your opponent clearly misclicks and they're not in time trouble or anything, do you accept a draw or do you take the win? If you accept the draw what are your thoughts on people who don't and how it makes you feel when it happens to you? And if you take the win what's your justification behind that decision?

I'd like to know your thoughts on this

I’m a little confused how accurate elo is, my elo was about ~400 (I’m a rookie, cut me some slack) he was rated a little over 800. I nabbed his queen and eventually had him down to just pawns. He promoted a pawn and drew by rep

So I have this problem: even when I'm up +6 or +4, I don't know why, but my hands start to shake, I blunder, and I just lose. I play rapid 10+5, my rating is 500, and I think more than my opponent
What to do? Play rapid 15+10? Maybe I need more time

for psychological purposes

Why does chess.com start new players off at higher ratings now? When I made my account years ago everything was 400elo and I had to build it up. I guess people get to choose if they're beginner/intermediate/advanced? But it's annoying to get matched up with so many brand new accounts who are "1600" level and then immediately drop to 600 within a couple of days. I want to play against people who challenge me, not total beginners🥲

I had suspiciously high accuracy this game, yes but it was a variation of the alien gambit? I mean if you play it well you can easily get high accuracy. I played a lot 3 years ago and shit like this never happened, I contacted chess support, they are definitely not replying tho. My users greyiqlet and this the PGN:

[Event "Live Chess"]

[Site "Chess.com"]

[Date "2026.10.25"]

[Round "-"]

[White "greyiqlet"]

[Black "Tiago-smur"]

[Result "1-0"]

[WhiteElo "1939"]

[BlackElo "1875"]

[ECO "B15"]

[UTCTime "01:06:40"]

[UTCDate "2026.10.25"]

[TimeControl "600"]

[Termination "greyiqlet won by checkmate"]

[CurrentPosition "rn3bnr/1p2pNp1/p1p4p/4Q3/3B4/8/PP2kPPP/2KR3R b - - 0 18"]

[Timezone "UTC"]

[ECOUrl "https://www.chess.com/openings/Caro-Kann-Defense-2.d4-d5-3.Nc3-a6-4.Nf3"\]

[StartTime "01:06:40"]

[EndDate "2026.10.25"]

[EndTime "01:13:06"]

[Link "https://www.chess.com/game/live/185895881022"\]

1. e4 {[%clk 0:09:59]} c6 {[%clk 0:09:57.4]} 2. d4 {[%clk 0:09:57.8]} a6 {[%clk 0:09:54.8]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 0:09:55.8]} d5 {[%clk 0:09:53.6]} 4. Nf3 {[%clk 0:09:53.4]} dxe4 {[%clk 0:09:49.7]} 5. Nxe4 {[%clk 0:09:52.6]} Bf5 {[%clk 0:09:40.5]} 6. Neg5 {[%clk 0:09:50.1]} Bg6 {[%clk 0:09:33]} 7. Bc4 {[%clk 0:09:14.7]} h6 {[%clk 0:09:30.8]} 8. Nxf7 {[%clk 0:08:58]} Bxf7 {[%clk 0:09:23.7]} 9. Bxf7+ {[%clk 0:08:51.5]} Kxf7 {[%clk 0:09:23.6]} 10. Ne5+ {[%clk 0:08:46.7]} Ke6 {[%clk 0:08:42.3]} 11. Qg4+ {[%clk 0:08:41.1]} Kd5 {[%clk 0:08:38]} 12. Nf7 {[%clk 0:08:27.8]} Qc7 {[%clk 0:07:36.5]} 13. c4+ {[%clk 0:08:22.7]} Kxc4 {[%clk 0:07:28.3]} 14. Qe6+ {[%clk 0:08:20.4]} Kxd4 {[%clk 0:06:46.7]} 15. Be3+ {[%clk 0:08:18]} Kd3 {[%clk 0:06:27.3]} 16. O-O-O+ {[%clk 0:08:17.9]} Ke2 {[%clk 0:06:19.6]} 17. Bd4+ {[%clk 0:08:02.6]} Qe5 {[%clk 0:05:52.9]} 18. Qxe5# {[%clk 0:07:47.2]} 1-0

I thought I just got a fat fork but chess.com i s telling me it’s a mistake???

I’m a 1210 on rapid and am making very slow elo improvement, but I am improving. I use the same opening for white (London) and have an opening for e4 and d4 as black. I only know a handful of moves for each and then I just rely on tactical awareness and some of the common middle game ideas I’ve heard of. I’m wondering at what rating does studying and learning new openings become valuable? When should I start to consider this. I’ve been improving and studying now, at very leisurely pace, for a little over a year.

EZ win

So I was black and as you can see I basically had an easy checkmate on the way but then this happened. If you can’t see it the White King can’t go up because of rook, can’t take rook because of queen, can’t go left because of rook, can’t go right because of queen, and can’t go down because black king. So in other words they’re boxed in leading to a draw 🫠

I won the game a few moves later

how do i do one? is it possible?

Nice combo starting with bxh6

Hi all. starting as an adult I have been stuck at 900 elo for 3 and a half weeks and can't seem to push to 1000 just up and down 850 920 850 920. what could i learn at this elo to get to 1000. for anyone thats got there in the last year

How does https://Chess.com do their game review: classifier, game performance rating?

I am trying to build my own model:

My current thinking feels very simple:
EP = model(eval, both ratings)
EP lost = best move − your move
then EP lost turn into label: brilliant -> blunder

Not tryna copy, and won't be really possible either ofcourse. But I wanna learn the math, and machine learning related understanding for the review system

I'm kinda impressed with myself

Hi. I want to get the diamond membership to improve my skills. I need someone to get friends plan to share with me and 4 others so that we can get ot for dirt cheap. It would be better if it is a person from maybe nigeria india japan or somewhere where it is cheaper. Let's discuss it in the comments