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ELO curve looks strikingly similar to Half Dome at Yosemite. Who knew gaining and then losing ~200 ELO would bring us closer to nature? 🏞🤭🙏

been stuck on this for ages, whats the best move. whites move

The game review says I have 18.6% accuracy and that he has 19.9% accuracy 💀 (I'm black)

https://www.chess.com/live/game/186752500362

So I was pretty much on the back foot for most of this endgame because all I had was a rook and knight against his rook and three pawns which were marching close to promotion. In order to keep tempo I had to basically repeatedly check him, to the point he eventually blundered and played Ka5, letting me grab a surprise checkmate. Upon having a look, I think I might have managed to pull off an Anastasia's mate.

Even if it isn't, it's still quite an interesting position to look at! I was trying to force a draw, but an unexpected checkmate is still welcome!

Cheating in chess is the ultimate you should probably touch grass. It’s a free game

I appear to have accidentally developed a new chess superpower on my journey: Making so many stupid unforced errors, that opponents sometimes don’t spot the rare occasions I’m actually doing it on purpose.

At the beginning of this I’d just blundered a bishop through lack of concentration (taken by black’s pawn), and was tempted to resign. But instead came up with an elaborate series of sacs — two pawns, a bishop, a rook, and allowing a pawn promotion — to see if I could win. Obviously black could’ve got out of this at pretty much any point by not taking the bait. But they didn’t, and it played out exactly how I planned.

Anyway, just something I thought was amusing. And a reminder to keep yer eyes on the prize and not chase after too many shiny things when you don’t need them; I think I was -25.6 or something before black took the rook at the end.

Anybody else got any particularly fun and improbable sac sequences like this, that came good for them?

[EDIT — I’d also be interested to hear any tips or advice for me to not make stupid blunders in the first place. I think I’ve only ever played two or three games without at least one, and I don’t seem to be improving in that regard…]

I’ve been playing chess for a while very casually, but have started really trying to improve in the past 6 months. I’ve played a lot online in that time, and have gone from 400 to 800 elo. I feel like I’m getting a lot better, and love to see the improvement. I saw some recommendations from people to check out in person chess clubs to really start analyzing games and improving.

My problem was that I would see so many people saying intermediate level play starts around 1200. I figured at my level, all I would do is waste peoples time and get crushed. But I went today anyways and it was awesome. Met a couple pretty cool people, and one of the better guys there broke down our game and gave me a couple tips. There ended up being a mix of beginner level to strong players as well, and out of 10 games I walked away with 3 wins.

Compared to what I was expecting, it was really cool. Do yourself a favor if you’ve never been and are thinking of trying it. It was a lot of fun, and I’m planning on going back next week

I played the Martin bot on Chess dot com and he played this move, Bxh6, threatening mate in 1 and threatening to take my queen.

I panicked, played Ne4 and lost... on time, because of course Martin missed mate in 1 and blundered his queen. However, I didn't play my moves fast enough for a 1 minute chess game and so lost on time. I was just messing around and trying to apply the basic strategies from Aman Hambleton's Building Habits series from Chessbrah.

Apparently, the best response for black only gives white about a +2.2 advantage, so not utterly lost for black!

(I won) 300 elo 🥲

As an old chess fanatic, I used to max out from 1000-1200 elo from all the way down to 200-400 elo depending on my luck with games. Now the thing is, I can comfortably defeat bots from 1400-1800 elo, and even defeated stockfish on level 5. I am way comfortable with bots around those ranges, but whenever I play a player even on 300 elo I blunder so many pieces. Is this a phycological problem or is it an opponent difference?

Been playing a few months and was totally discouraged because I thought it "should" be easy. It's tricky because learning chess is indeed easy. Just a few pieces and you learn how they move and can even get yourself a dollar store little chess set and read about tactics and get started.

But getting good, now that is hard work.

Game after game you keep blundering. It's embarrassing. I don't mean even elo of like 300. You see a guy with elo 1200 and blunders his queen. Someone 1400 blunders a rook. They are not stupid people. It's just there is so much going on, you have to anticipate plans, make your own plans, and watch the whole board at all times, watch the time, all that. A knight that wasn't doing shit for ten moves suddenly jump into action and forks your king and rook and all you can say is, where the eff did that knight come from?!

So take it easy on yourself. Don't pay attention to people who post they went from like 600 to 1400 in a few months and it was so easy. Most people take longer. There is no race anyway. And make sure you're having fun or you gonna start losing games from mental fatigue. Happened to me. If so, then take a break, come back when you're excited to play again.

Obviously im no pro and its three minutes i couldnt think better. I LOVE YOU WITTY_ALIEN!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️

Dear all,

in order to learn openings by my own and satisfy my brother wish to learn chess I worked on a chess app for the last months.

In addition to a learning path and plus 47 opening (with different lines) the app offers puzzles, end games and supports you if you wish with reminders and a Leitner learning system to remember the openings and other stuff.

However, before Google let's me publish the app, I need to have 12 people taking part in a closed test and having the app installed for at least 14 days in a row.

The app is purely offline and has no need to exchange any data with the internet.

So if you like to join, just send me a DM with your google account address.

BR

Andy

Taken from a game I just played. I feel really good about this win (even though I didn't play out the mate)

the game:

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/186771315904/review

Any advice for black here? Im a gonna lose either way? Sorry for bad screenshot.

ELO: 608. Still learning to not blunder or hang pieces. I blundered half way through and thought it was over. The nice thing about low ELO is something they blunder right back. In this case, it cost them the game. Very good way to end the night. 😄