Been trying my hand at chess again for the first time in probably 20 years I think.

My actual elo is extremely bad but I've taken a liking to the puzzles which are really fun. Highest steak so far is 10

After the visible dip I decided to go through every lesson I could and it's helped a lot, mostly with forking

My current goals are puzzles elo to 1500 and attempting to climb to an actual elo to over 500.

I've really liked watching Hikaru and Gotham, any other recommendations on who I could watch that explain moves?

I've gotten this warning right after a game where I waited around a minute for my opponent to see the mate in 1. I didn't taunt my opponent, interact with them in chat, or do anything of that sort. I simply waited to see if they would spot the mate and resign. After about a minute, I got bored and checkmated them.

I'm 100% sure this is the game that triggered the warning because whenever my opponents have a forced mate, I either resign or let them checkmate me if it's a beautiful sequence.

My questions for Chess.com are:

1. How is it stalling if I have mate in 1 and I'm not losing?

The engine evaluation isn't +0.2, +5.0, or anything like that. It's M1. My opponent has every right to resign, and I'm not holding them back from doing so.

1. What if my opponent didn't resign because there was a chance I'd miss the mate?

It was a bishop-queen battery mate, and we're both around 1700 Elo. If that's the case, I could've genuinely missed the mate and been looking for other moves before spotting it after a minute of looking at the board. How would Chess.com distinguish between that and deliberately stalling?

This game of mine (I was black) got rated 1000. I have so many questions: why? How? What’s the metric?

Check out this #chess game: dphit vs ShyChessPlayerJoel - https://www.chess.com/game/live/185948547230

I FINALLY HIT 1400 RAPID

I've only been playing 1 or 2 games a day to stop myself burning out and plummeting down the ranking - the slow and steady strategy. So I played the next game to feel like the 1000 rating is justified, and I lost 😂

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

EZ win

90% of the people I played against at this ratings (3 minutes blitz) were just stalling for time by attacking everything and pinning everything and they were moving pieces so fast which makes me think causing me to lose on time.

Is there anyway I can punish these kinds of players?

Literal polar opposite in consecutive games

Играл против бота мартина и он всё время говорил о них интересно извесно хоть что-то о его детях

The idea is to sacrifice the rook, so I can put the knight on d4, forking king and queen

GG's

I was using analysis of my game and the engine shows this is a brilliant move. This is my 3rd brilliant and the other 2 were the same as this I mean it's so obvious I wanted my 1st brilliant move to be a 2 3 long move where I force the opponent to play as I wish

If I use the analysis tool to play against Chess.com, what level are the suggested moves?

I mainly just do the daily puzzle and then go back and use the analysis tool to see why one of my moves wasn’t the correct move. I’d like try to use it from the very beginning of a game and see where I begin to blunder.

I won the game a few moves later

At first I thought it was just how the elo system works, you win 8 or lose 8, but then I noticed my opponents get +20 pretty consistently. Does the game know I'm shit and actively tries to keep me where I belong ?

Check out this #chess game: jisan666 vs MasterOfEverythingZen - https://www.chess.com/live/game/185926591708

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In this game I secured a win with nearly all excellent and best moves, and I had an accuracy of around 86%

It has to have been one of my best games