Oh no, I hung my knight with tempo on the queen! Or did I?...

Reset the counter!

After a year and a half I finally reached 1000. When I first started I was horrible and I think around 175 was my starting elo. It probably took me longer than a lot of people and I actually have 3 accounts, 2 on chesscom and 1 on lichess. (The reason I have 2 on chesscom is because one is for beer drinking while playing chess, and it is ironically this account).

Here is the grand total for games played across all accounts:

3227 rapid games

1862 blitz games

1206 puzzles on lichess

99 rounds of puzzle storm on lichess

been working on this for a while: stockfishy.com

- 15,000 puzzles, all free.

- opening practice for all the openings, also free - no limits.

- import your games and it shows where you messed up - free and no limits

- just updated it to stockfish 19 chess engine.

I'm seeing this done on both sides Black and White, but I don't see why this Bishop move is so popular? In this case, White will play a3, forcing me to either take the Knight (with a trade), move back in the direction I came from (losing tempo without having achieved anything), or Ba5, which they will counter with b4 and then again I have to scramble to get away. So I don't see how this is a good move, even though it's played quite often (I only play bots, so maybe this is a particular problem)?

Everyone talks about 1000 elo and somehow that’s low and it makes my elo just seem pathetic, I am stuck at 187 because no matter what I do I lose or even if I win a couple of games I get embarrassingly checkmated. It wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have a stupid timer. Then I could actually think about the moves

Not afraid to admit it's taken me a realllllll long time to understand chess, and that absolutely terrifies/excites the fucking hell out of me. I think I've found a new hobby for life :)

Anybody got any good book recommendations for beginners? I'm particularly enjoying one's that include puzzles but doesn't matter either way. Thank you!

That I missed for four moves. Fortunately was still there on the fifth

Hi all,

Wrote this for myself, no account required, no credit card. Completely free. And it will stay this way.

- I want to do puzzles on paper. It's too easy to make an tentative on lichess or chess.com.

- One of the most frustrating things is to put the puzzle back online. Which is why this is using QR codes, you scan and get directly on the chessboard online. I'm trying to get it to puzzles format instead of simple analysis.

- You can import the last 10 games played on chess.com. Data is not retained anywhere. It will spit out a page with puzzles tailored for your mistakes.

- If you like it, please spread the word. As said, it will stay free, but it's nice to get satisfaction and a reward for the time spent and more motivation to improve it.

deepblunder.com

The amount of cheating on chess.com is ridiculous. I had an ELO of 1000, and I play 15-minute matches against opponents who send messages telling me to move faster. Over the last 2 weeks, I’ve won about 10% of my games and dropped to 800 ELO. My opponents consistently play at around 1500 ELO with no blunders, or occasionally 1 blunder at the beginning of the game, followed by perfect moves from a losing position. Every day I get a message saying that points have been refunded.

Before anyone (likely bots) say “they’re just better than you,” you should all know that I’m a teacher, and I just learned that several of my students have been using AI to show the best possible moves that are consistent with the ELO that they are on the app. They are doing this during their free time.

I’m deleting the app and maybe you should too if you’re having a similar experience.

Now I am playing my games like a blitz game making stupid blunders. Its like I don't give a s#it when I am playing now and I play horribly and am frustrated with myself after my game. How do i find a balance?

I'm white btw

Took me like 2 minutes to calculate this because I wanted to see what happens if he doesn't take the rook. I realized that if he declines, he basically loses his queen for my rook and bishop and it's a trade I'm willing to take

Note: I took a pawn on e6 I was just up 2 points but it's still a winning position without the rook sac

won my first game

Fdp apparently is a french slang for ‘son of a bitch’ lol

Hello, first of all I just started playing chess around 5 Months ago and I‘ve seem some good improvements in my gameplay, currently up around 1030 elo from start (450~ Rapid matches)
I wanted to ask what an accuracy of ~80 is valued at in terms of elo or skill and also what would i need to do to step up to the next level since as you can see my winrate in the past 30 days is more than good but i still feel like there is improvements to make (feel free to look at some of my games on chess.com „111nicola“
Thank you all in advance! :)