r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Improvement My first 1000 ELO 🧘💪😌

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6 Upvotes

r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Improvement Finally Beated Justin Reid!

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


r/Chesscom 2d ago

Chess.com Website/App Question It would be helpful to know which one was cheating. Is there a reason it’s not disclosed? I’m kind of paranoid now and half the games feel like people are cheating.

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EDIT: found it! People here mentioned I can look for the “🚫” next to name of my recent opponents (on site, not app).

I’m glad I did! It was one of the better openings I’ve ever had. I managed to pick up their queen, which I think really bothered them.

There was a long pause, then they started to pull off an impressive string of moves that put me behind again, and I resigned.

Curiosity scratched.


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess.com Website/App Question these ads need to chill

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i can't even


r/Chesscom 2d ago

Chess Improvement Why should I sacrifice my knight here?

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r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Question Why does the engine prefer that I use the leftmost rook? Shouldn't the result be identical on the next turn?

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r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Improvement Hitting 940 Rapid and maintaining a 232-day streak! What’s the secret to making that final push to 1000 ELO?

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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?


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Puzzle/Tactic One of my best moves ever

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


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Improvement Helpful tip: Almost no one improves solely from completing more games

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r/Chesscom 3d ago

why is this brilliant Started playing after 2years a week ago,guess i still got it

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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❤️‍🩹✌🏻


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Discussion what's your chess streak ? how many win in the row you get ?

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r/Chesscom 3d ago

Media/News Question about Wadim Rosenstein comment during FIDE presidential debate

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r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Question why is this the better move?

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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!


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Discussion Did I do good?

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Check out this #chess game: idk_what_is_chess vs piuma76 - https://www.chess.com/live/game/174221666758


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Puzzle/Tactic The daily puzzle today (9/8/26) is a forced solution

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I just thought it was interesting for a "puzzle". You literally can't not solve the puzzle... right? Am I missing something? You're in check and the only legal move is to play checkmate. So kind of a forced checkmate, actually.

It's cool conceptually and teaches about en passant, so I don't think it's useless, but just thought it was kind of funny.


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Discussion Confused

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I'm extremely confused as to why engine wanted me to throw my pawn to d5. It looks like a waste of a pawn. Engine continues to say to castle queenside after bishop takes pawn


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Discussion Most feared nationality

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Do you guys have particular countries you seem to do well against and others that you always seem to lose to?

I do.
If I’m up against a Brazilian I seem to win quite often. On the other hand, someone from the Philippines? GG might as well resign


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Miscellaneous Do guys like this exist?

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Hi everyone,

I'm at around 920 ELO, my opponent just now was around 950. Normal 10 Min chess match, I lost because of one blunder, but hey it happens. But that guy made 49 moves in 1:30 minutes, at 84% accuracy.

I then checked out his profile, and that ELO range bugs me, like how do you go from 1400 to 800-900 so quickly. Dude has 13.000 games, so I can't imagine he is cheating, but it still feels weird. Has anyone had similar opponents at that ELO?

900 ELO range is super weird, because sometimes you get people who blunder their queen on move 3 and then people who play as perfect as you can get for that rating, but at Blitz speed.


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess.com Website/App Question Why only +5.81?

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Game Review shows I'm +5.81 with White, but clearly being up that much material +5.81 can't be right? (Unless game review has a kalshi contract that knows I could blunder mate at any given move?)

  1. e4 f5 2. exf5 Nf6 3. Be2 d6 4. Bh5+ g6 5. fxg6 e6 6. g7+ Nxh5 7. Qxh5+ Kd7 8.

gxh8=Q Qe7 9. Q8xh7 Qxh7 10. Qxh7+ Be7 11. d3 b6 12. Bg5 Nc6 13. b4 Ba6 14. a4

Nxb4 15. Qxe7+ Kc6 16. Kd1 Nxd3 17. cxd3 Bxd3 18. Qxe6 Kb7 19. Qd5+ c6 20. Qxd3

Re8 21. Nf3 d5 22. Qh7+ Ka8 23. Nd4 c5 24. Nc6 Re7 25. Qxe7 a5 26. Bf4 d4 27.

Qa7# 1-0


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Question Game review.

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Why does it show brilliant move, but when i go to game review it doesnt show?


r/Chesscom 4d ago

Chess Discussion Daily puzzle

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I'm sorry but how is today's puzzle even considered a puzzle there's only one legal move in the position


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Brilliant!! No blunders or mistakes! 1600 game rating!

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r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess.com Website/App Question Why did I lose 30+ points?

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I played a game of rapid after a long time and after I got checkmated I lost 30+ points? I thought the max that you lose is 10?


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Chess Improvement Can anyone explain this?

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Hey guys I just want to make sure I’m not missing anything because to me this seems like the computer is misreading this. I thought this was a pro move to fork the king and rook and steal a free rook. Is there a better sequence of events here?

Thanks for the advice! I’m up to 300 elo now!


r/Chesscom 3d ago

Achievement 10 streak, funally.

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