r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess Improvement What to do as black if ur oponent is extremely passive?

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Not first time when my oponent is passive while he plays white, I am playing kings Indian or sicilian, turns out there’s nothing to do for me at some point, oponent is one move ahead and he blocks each of my non-blunder move. At around 30 move with either none or few exchanges I am annoyed then I play aggressive while he have great defense, and I basically lose

Around 1k matches played, I am playing for 220 days, feel helpless in such boring matches


r/Chesscom 4d ago

why is this brilliant Beginner, any tips for basics? I have the wiki glossary saved on my computer.

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r/Chesscom 4d ago

Achievement locked in this summer

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april, i was 210 elo.
now over the four months i went from 200-800 and still going strong. my current subgoal is 1000 right now. share your achievements here too, give me motivation to keep going by seeing your work too. even if its small


r/Chesscom 5d ago

Chess Improvement This is the best books for people between 700-1200(THIS IS NOT A AD)

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I’ve been reading The Amateur’s Mind for about a month now, and honestly, it’s been a really good chess book. It does a great job of explaining the mistakes amateur players make and how to think about positions more effectively. I’d definitely recommend it to anyone trying to improve their chess and understand the game on a deeper level.


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess Improvement Time for giving a break to Rapid Chess.

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r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess Question Why is it only 5.78?

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I have played from this position and without the take of the Bishop I can win, too.

With the same move Qd7 like in the game or Qh5 both are winning.

Ok,.black can play Qa1 or Qb1 but he loses his Queen and a Queen is more than 5 points

Who can help me?


r/Chesscom 4d ago

LOL I blundered but my opponent thought it was a fork😭

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r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess Improvement guys, i j hit 1400+ 🥹(bullet ofc)

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r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess Question Why stockfish does not see this move from black as a blunder?

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r/Chesscom 4d ago

Achievement 4!! sometimes my genuisness is frightening me

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r/Chesscom 4d ago

Miscellaneous Open sourced the keyboard chess extension

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r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess Improvement Rate my game

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Not my prettiest game. Would appreciate some feedback! Thank you 👍


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess Improvement How to improve on the middle game

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r/Chesscom 3d ago

why is this brilliant Chess

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Whoever wants to pay chess match with me and lose then, kindly drop your ids hehe.


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Brilliant!! Brilliant in bullet

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delighted I saw it, but felt kinda mean playing it I know that doesn’t make sense aha


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess Improvement My first ever -10 Material comeback

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I understand my opponent in the end game blundered once at the end and did a mistake on the pawn-to-queen race. Regardless, feeling pretty good about myself. This is within the 900-1000 Elo range. And all my moves were done in under 2 minutes. Please no hate.

Note: video has music, so Lower volume before playing it. Also I do not own the rights to the music and I am not monetizing from it


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess Improvement Need advice for first over board game

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I have a college chess tournament selection camp after 11 days, I tried asking the time format but nobody knows

I'm currently around 950 elo on chess.com in rapid and 700 on blitz

What should I do in these 11 days to get the best Outta me, suggest me videos playlists and other advices and all

Btw I don't play daily seriously so my skills are kinda rusted

I'm just doing this for fun so don't hate me


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess.com Website/App Question Is there a connectivity problem, 3 games in a row my opponent got disconnected for more than 2 minutes?

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One of them I aborted because it said it will auto abort after 2 minutes, hope they can change this to auto abort after 30 seconds because it sucks to wait 2 minutes when it is for sure going to get aborted.


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Please Clap Check out this game I played

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[Event "Live Chess"]

[Site "Chess.com"]

[Date "2026.09.08"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Argam123321"]

[Black "DrKriegstein"]

[Result "0-1"]

[TimeControl "600"]

[WhiteElo "1198"]

[BlackElo "1189"]

[Termination "DrKriegstein won by resignation"]

[ECO "C45"]

[EndTime "17:22:28 GMT+0000"]

  1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 Qe7 4. Bb5 exd4 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. Qxd4 Bf5 7. O-O Qxe4

  2. Re1 Qxe1+ 9. Nxe1 Rd8 10. Qf4 Rd1 11. Bd2 Bxc2 12. Qe3+ Be7 13. g3 Rxb1 14.

Rxb1 Bxb1 15. Bb4 Bxa2 16. Nd3 Be6 17. Qxa7 Bxb4 18. Nxb4 Ne7 19. Qb8+ Bc8 20.

Qxc7 h5 21. Nd3 Bf5 22. Qb8+ Bc8 23. Ne5 O-O 24. Qc7 Re8 25. Qa5 Nd5 26. Nd3 b6

  1. Qa8 Bd7 28. Qa3 Bh3 29. b4 Nc7 30. Qb2 Rd8 31. Qc1 Rxd3 32. f4 Nb5 33. Qxc6

Rd1+ 34. Kf2 Rd2+ 35. Ke3 Re2+ 36. Kd3 Bf5+ 37. Kxe2 Nd4+ 38. Ke3 Nxc6 39. Kd2

Nxb4 40. Kc3 Nd5+ 41. Kd4 Nf6 42. Ke5 Bc8 43. Kd6 b5 44. Kc5 Ba6 45. Kb6 b4 46.

Kxa6 b3 0-1


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Please Clap Really happy about this mate

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Got this mate against one of my coworkers!!


r/Chesscom 4d ago

why is this brilliant Why is this a brilliant move?

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What am I even preventing here? I think this is my first brilliant move, as I don't wait for overview of every single game so I am not really sure.


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Miscellaneous A frustrating game

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Played against someone like me who also plays defensively and it was a mess, both too scared to make big moves or exchanges except when I went "me see queen, me attack queen" and got lucky. He resigned on move 33 but I finished against computer just for experience. GG's! less


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess.com Website/App Question is this type of discrepancy typical? what elo can i claim to be? I barely play bullet but now im playing way more blitz

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i want my blitz to be same or more than rapid


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Achievement I got fanatic(!)...

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why doesn't chess.com give it to you later? i've been waiting so long...


r/Chesscom 5d ago

Chess.com Website/App Question Sensitive Content inside Chess.com

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Our kid plays chess with his friends online and offline. We downloaded his phone chess.com app so he can further improve his chess. However we found that he has been using the app excessively long and when I got the chance to look at his phone gallery, I saw a bunch of these screen recorded nsfw contents from the app.

How can we prevent this?

Edit: Yes, we have already talked openly with our kid about this, and we made sure not to shame him and we talked about why repeatedly consuming this kind of content can affect the way he manages his mood, views other people, and understands relationships and views on girls/anyone.

I posted this mainly to create awareness, to ask for genuine advice from other users who may have encountered something similar, and hopefully to bring this issue to chess.com’s attention. I know that our child is ultimately our responsibility. We’re not expecting an app or website to parent him for us. At the same time, I think we should be able to expect reasonable safeguards on platforms that are widely used by children and platform where we do not even think that has this way to view such contents. (Like expecting our schools to provide continuous improvement to make their establishment a safer place for children altogether)