The concept of a move being a brilliancy has always been a thing but specifically the chess.com game analysis has stripped it of original meaning and now simply encourages people to make dubious sacrifices. Brilliant moves do not make a good chess player, accuracy makes a good chess player.

Hello! I’m new to chess (loving it!) and recently downloaded the app to practice more between my chess classes.

Anyways, every 10 minute game I play, I get the usual friendly message in chat, but within minutes I’m being asked for my instagram account.

I always decline, as I assume it’s a scam, but cannot figure out why this would be their avenue to try and get me off the app and onto another.

Is this common? Is it because I have an obviously feminine username? I like the idea of exchanging pleasantries while playing but not if it’s just this all the time, ya know? To be clear, no one has ever been outright rude when I decline, only saying they wish to have international friends, but still. It’s weirding me out how often it happens, and it’s ALWAYS instagram.

I notice on chess.com I’ll work my way up to a 700 and then get smashed down to 400 then work my way back up and get smashed all the way down, something with how the matching algo works? Anyone else find this?

I've been playing a thousand games of Blitz and only a hundred in rapid so I'm playing really fast finishing game with 6-7min on the clock with no extra time.

I've also played chess in bars with a clock and it happens to me quite often to beat my opponent on the clock with still 3-4min on the clock

I’ve started chess around may of last year and yet I’m still just a 1400 rapid. I’ve been stuck in the 1400s for the past 2/3 weeks and I was wondering what are some things I could do to improve more

Rules

1: You are not allowed to play what the engine thinks is the best move, which is indicated by the blue arrow. If a move is forced, this rule does not apply to that move.

2: The move must be legal in normal Chess.

3: The most upvoted move that satisfies the above criteria is the one that will be played.

These rules apply to both r/Chesscom (white) and r/AnarchyChess (black).

Also, your opponent has the following message for you:

"pizza"

I am very confused how I didn't win in this game. I just don't understand stalemates. It feels like every time I have a winning move, it turns out to be a stalemate. So can someone explain?

Step 1: Develop your pieces (Pawns, Knights, Bishops) to the center to control it.
Step 2: Watch your opponent blunder an important piece (9 times out of 10 it’ll be their Queen) and take it.
Step 3: There is no step 3! You won by resignation!

**edit (I’m trying to rephrase my caption, I think a better question is “how can I gage my true elo if there’s such a significant difference between chess.com vs Lichess”) On chess.com I’m currently 670 (tbf I play almost a day a game as of late just because i work throughout the week and don’t want to tank my elo playing tired when im peaking) but on Lichess I’m rated 1600. I heard that dot come is harder just because of a higher player pool but is it this significant? I would like to believe that I’m truly a 1600 just because I play on Lichess more lol but I value dot coms elo rating more.

Hi, guys. Leaving/abandon ranked online game (being in unfavourable situation) just not to resign.
Shouldnt that behaviour be punished for time wasting? For example -25 pts?
Thank you for attention to this matter :)

I noticed when I play OTB I don’t quite see the board the same way as online. Part of it is 2D vs 3D but I think also part of it is the board and pieces aren’t perfectly aligned.

I played an OTB the other day and my chair had to be moved off center due to competitor behind me. Other times opponent pieces aren’t centered on their squares, or board slightly tilted.

By accident they other day I was laying down and I was playing chesscom AT AN ANGLE. Like I had the screen slightly tilted at an angle. And I found that this actually gave me a lot of the same perspective challenges as OTB. Might be a good way to practice if you don’t have a board in front of you, before an OTB matches.

I pretty much only play 3 min blitz and have reached about 1780 elo over like 12k games. However I still get so triggered by super defensive players (exaggerating here but partly true haha)

To me chess is only fun if you’re just sending it and trying to do fun tactics and stuff - especially in blitz - but some players are just obsessed with only playing the most solid defensive moves and pushing pawns constantly to block the board. Or worst of all - just instantly trying to trade every piece and get to end game ASAP (that is the absolute worst thing ever for me who are you people lol). It seems as though some players don’t even look for the attacking options they just see the most defensive move and automatically play that

I’ve never really studied or watched chess videos or anything but I do know this is a legit strategy, even some top level pros do this, I guess my question is HOW? Like how is that fun for you? And what’s the best way to counter? Like we are only 1700 we are miles off being a pro, isn’t it just about having fun? I just find it so painful and tedious and slow. I never enjoy super defensive games where the board is all blocked and definitely have the most fun when pieces are flying everywhere.

As an aside, I have found the majority (~70%) of players from India seem to play this super defensive style, much more likely than players from other countries (e.g. Brazilians at the opposite end are like 80% attacking players) - why do you think that is?

**Absolutely no shade or hate intended towards my Indian friends (unless the cricket is on 😂) just wondering if that’s the way it is taught in schools or something? Some other cultural thing?

Hi,

I would assume that all games pleyed are routinely checked for cheating, however if this would be true there would be no need for people to report cheaters.

So are all games checked or just the ones that people report?

Which is better, chess or checkers?

https://www.chess.com/game/live/171935956126?move=31 TExt

Im new so I don't 100% know if you can't, but it seems silly you can't change it because if your too focused on the game and not the clock in something like 5 minute blitz, 20 seconds changes absolutely nothing and it is far too late to change the game.

I've never tried to lose to a bot or anyone online, but this bot is horrible 😭. 143 moves and I was literally just trying to find the worst move in any position. The poor eval bar was getting pounded.

i dont even know what happened, this is a 1600 bot and i’m a returning player.

When playing the grunfeld should I swap to a different opening if my opponent goes knight c3 before pawn c4 and if so what opening

I wanted to reach 1k Elo on Both Blitz and Bullet too... (Goal: 1500 Rapid (Long-term goal is 2k Elo), 1200 on Blitz, and 1100 on Bullet.....

Never seen a website/app so lenient with streaks, a lot of the time I just used to analyse a game and for some reason that counts as the streak lol.

One of the most brutal checkmating ideas ever. What is this. Looks like a pawn trade for black but leads to mate in 16... gotta be watching for these mate in 16 patterns guys.

Showed almost every route the king could try. The most violent is the pawn mate. The most insane is the queen mate because you hang the knight twice but it cant be taken or theres a faster mate, engine thinks im hikaru if im finding Rg5 and Rxe5. Ill play qh5 instead, i still won this game up 1 pawn somehow.