Is what is wrong with chess and yes i did take with knight and got checked by the queen forcing me to lose my rook and the game BAN THIS OPENING

This is an improvement over already existing plugins like "Chess.com analyse at lichess":
- you can now also click games in the table that gets shown on home, member and archive pages
- uses https requests for both chesscom and lichess, instead of automating the manual import process

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lichess-importer/

Today I had some issues with the rule touch-move in a tournament (classical). I adjusted my bishop, which was almost on the next square. I said J'adoube while doing so. I went to think for a while and later moved a different piece. My opponent stopped the clock saying that I must move the bishop. Apparently, he didn't hear my saying J'adoube, to be fair the playing hall was a bit loud. We argued making it awkward and annoying, he called me liar lol. We decided to continue the game, with the non-bishop move. At the end, he was still pissed, saying that I had no honor. (He was also mad for losing the game).

So what would you do in this situation? And also what is the point of the touch-move rule anyway?

Source: https://x.com/FIDE_chess/status/1870219730403111066?t=9OBbXbypNl79ESpdmGTJZA&s=19

I am 600 elo and always trying to improve ill get ppl that act like a 5 elo or like 1000 elo,

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This happens more times than not. The bot will default to a draw before I can make the final checkmate. Is it because I don’t have a paid account? I was black.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been playing chess since I was a kid, but let’s just say my “progress” has been… unique. Here’s a timeline of my journey:

Ages 3-21: My entire strategy was trying to Fool’s Mate or Scholar’s Mate my opponents. It actually worked a few times, so I decided white was my favorite color to play with.

Ages 22-27: I’ve leveled up. Now, I play the London System with white and the Caro-Kann with black. My middle and endgame strategy? Somehow lure my opponents into a smothered mate. Spoiler: it doesn’t happen often. For context, my Elo is a humble 800-900.

Now, I’ve heard people say that chess GMs usually start young, but hey, I did start early… I just haven’t reached the GM part yet. Could it be that I’m secretly GM material and just don’t know it? Am I a diamond in the rough—or just rough?

What do you think? Be gentle.

I have noticed that GM's pretty much never go down by more than 1 point of material. Does that mean they don't even worry about things like knight forks, pins, checks by reveal, etc.? Are they so good these things don't concern them

I just played my first rated tournament as my friend told me let's participate i usually play online or over the board friendly match

I've been stuck in a rut, plateauing at 1850 for the longest time. My games have started to feel a bit repeatitive so i wanna shake things up and play d4 (I've been stubbornly an e4 player for a long time). I really wanna dabble a bit in the Jobava London after seeing GM Daniel Naroditsky's stunning game against Ortiz Suarez. What would be some good resources to learn the ideas for the Jobava? I would like to learn the opening lines, some ideas in the middle game and a few sample games that I could learn from.

I don't usually have a problem with the commentary, but is anyone else annoyed with how they massively advertise the taketaketake app and how they take little shots against the classical format (i.e. Howell saying that it's very hard being creative nowadays in chess, alluding to engine prep etc..., not that he's particularly wrong). I get what they're trying to do, however, for me at least, it's very annoying that instead of focusing on the game we have constant advertising of both chessable courses and this new app. Just do it a couple of times when there's peak viewership and then stop. I guess Canty would lose his job if they were to go this route.

Hi All! I’m playing in my first “tournament”, my brother is running one for his birthday and I’m playing in that for fun. I wanted to use it as an opportunity to practice and learn preparing for a tournament. My brother is about 50 points higher rated than me, and he’s my main competitor. Today is the day before the tournament, should I be studying against him specifically? Practicing openings or doing puzzles? Or should I be taking the day off to rest my brain which has been doing puzzles and lived and breathed chess for the last 2 weeks?

Also, should I practice puzzles or anything before the games the day of? Or is it better to come to the board completely fresh?

Thank you all!

Hello reddit chess community. I'm the Head Coach for a High School Esports team. One of the games that is being played is chess. I have two students playing chess on the team.

Both of the players are pretty good and open games strongly. The issue I have is essentially two sides of the coin. We are playing 10|3 games and one player either wins or loses on time every game. Once the clock gets to about 1.5-2 minutes, he panics and just starts moving pieces. The other student makes moves too quickly and tends to blunder because he doesn't take his time.

Any advice you have that I can pass along to them?

https://github.com/NotJoeMartinez/chess.com-brilliant-move-finder

There's not a public API endpoint to get the exact games but I found a way to scrape the exact days of when a brilliant move was played. The script then fetches the games from those days from the public API and exports them to a csv, which significantly reduces the amount of games you need to search through. No authentication is required for this and It works on any profile that has/had a Diamond membership with insights.

I also made a browser automation script that will check the games for you although that does require authentication and I wouldn't use it on an account you're worried about loosing because it technically qualifies as a bot (I had it run fine on a csv with over 300 games but you never know).

I've also found a way to find games by "game shape", although I haven't implemented it yet. I'm not sure why they haven't built this feature into the premium membership yet but I'm not complaining :)

i want to play the game with my family and would like to get an authentic one if possible. i have two regular chess sets at home so i will just use that if there isn’t one available