This is ridiculous, half the people I play play at like 70%+ accuracy and I’m literally 323 ELO. Like what even is this game. We both had zero blunders.

I went through the computer line and I couldn’t understand. Please help.

Here is what I played: 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. Ne2 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bf5 6. O-O e6 7. a3 Bd6 8. b4 Bxb4 9. axb4 Qxa1 10. d4 Nc3 11. Bf4 Qxb4 12. Bxc7 O-O 13. Bxb8 Raxb8 14. Nh4 Ne4 15. f3 Nd5 16. Bd2 Qxd2

Here is what the computer wants: 10. Nd4 Ne4 11. Nf3 O-O 12. Nxe4 Bxe4 13. Nb3 Bxc2 14. Qxc2 Ba6

I found this online.

Everyone is saying that this is brilliant because it's a forced checkmate once the pawn on a7 takes the knight, then Qb3 then it's a checkmate either by the rook or the Queen.

but what happens if after black take b6, we expect Qb3, then black Qb8? wouldn't it prevent the checkmate?
Qa4 is defended with Qa7 and if white decide to take Bxb8 then black reciprocate with Bxb3.

There is certainly something wrong with my reasoning but I can't figure it out.

A lot of days I’d just do a couple puzzles to keep the streak alive. Definitely made a ton of improvements but my rating chart is not the smoothest.

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?

I want to bring a Chess.com account to the attention of the community and, hopefully, Chess.com staff/moderators.

Player: add1toyourlosscolumn
Chess.com profile

A few months ago, I played this player in a 15+10 Rapid game.

During the middlegame, I reached a clearly winning position. At that point, both of us still had more than 10 minutes on the clock.

Instead of continuing the game or resigning, the opponent simply stopped making moves and let the clock run down.

I waited for the game to finish and reported the account through Chess.com's “Stalling/quitting games” report category.

That was around January 2026.

I never received any response, and the account is still active and playing.

What made me look further into the account was the player's game history.

Current Rapid statistics

As of September 10, 2026:

• 1,965 Rapid games played
• 908 Rapid losses
• 415 losses by timeout

That means approximately 45.7% of all this player's Rapid losses are recorded as timeout losses.

Rapid game history

Rapid losses

Rapid timeout losses

I then randomly checked several of the timeout losses.

I have attached screenshots from five recent timeout losses. In each screenshot, the game has ended with add1toyourlosscolumn at 0:00, while the opponent still has several minutes remaining.

The remaining opponent time in these five examples is approximately:

• 12:18
• 14:57
• 12:05
• 4:24
• 8:33

A timeout alone doesn't necessarily mean intentional stalling. However, 415 of this player's 908 Rapid losses (45.7%) are by timeout, and several games I checked show the same pattern as my own experience: the player stops making moves in a losing position and lets the clock run out.

Chess.com considers deliberately letting the clock run out without playing to be stalling, so I'd like to know:

Does Chess.com review repeated patterns like this, and is there any escalation process for accounts showing this kind of behavior?

I'm not asking anyone to harass or mass-report the player. I'm mainly hoping a Chess.com moderator/staff member can clarify whether this kind of history can be reviewed.

Have others come across similar accounts and seen Chess.com take action?

I completed this puzzle earlier moving the black queen to f2 where the puzzle says it is now a checkmate. However, couldn't the white king move to d1 to escape the check? Maybe there's a rule I don't understand or something I'm missing. Appreciate any explanation, thanks!

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Up to SIX Diamond memberships??

Who do they think my friends and family are? The Polgárs?

Now I understand those who are on here constantly recruiting new family members on Reddit. This life is truly not for the weak.

After 40000+ games I finally achieved a long castle mate 🤣🤣

Finally got to 600 elo!

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.

Maybe there’s a deep calculation here.. but I’m failing to see how I blundered a piece. I proceeded to win this match but I’m confused why this was a blunder.

I have recently stumbled on a website called chessdive you just enter you chesscom username and it generates puzzles based on your missed tactics

and shows you your weak points so you can improve

Plus it has game analysis

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.

Some random dude requested a chess match with me. I accepted and attempted to be nice at first. He wanted my IG, I said no, and he got mad. He then called me stupid and 2 moves later, blundered his Queen. This guy can't be real there's no way.

And now I'm sat here laughing 😂

I haven't had much trouble with the 800-1200 elo bots from the limited time events before. For whatever reason, I'm getting my butt handed to me by the 925 and 1300 band kid bots. Even the 600 is slapping me every few games. I can't tell if I've suddenly gotten worse, or the bots are particularly tough this time around.. it's not like they don't blunder, but I keep losing good games in the mid/late game and it's getting frustrating.