I tried the free trial, and it was amazing. I tried out some of the skills courses, and while they didn't introduce anything new, they still helped reinforce things and show connections, while also giving a lot of practice. I tried his london system course to see how it was, but I couldn't explore a whole lot in the 7 days I had. He also adds courses very frequently (He added like 5 in the past week alone) so Im thinking of getting it with the launch sale just for the openings, but I'd like all of your opinions.

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing on Chess.com? I mean it's blatant cheating, over 90% accuracy on new accounts, playing like gods at 1000 elo, and it's only been this week. I thought maybe I was having a bad day, but it's been every day. I hate to say it, but I've been getting absolutely destroyed. I play a lot of chess, and it feels really off. I only have four wins this whole week. I don't know if Chess.com just isn't banning anyone this week or what, but honestly it's been making me want to just stop playing.

I actually ended up playing Bd4 in this position because the person in front of me leaned their seat causing me to missclick lmao

I recently bought a wooden chess set with the board having dimensions of 57cm * 57cm. I feel like it's bulky to transport it around. But hey at least it has a tournament feel right?

I’m relatively new to chess, and quite literally every tournament I’ve seen Magnus in, he’s won. It’s absurd to me. I understand he’s been playing for a rather long time, so he’s had to have had multiple poor performances sprinkled in now and then, no? Most likely mainly occurring at the beginning of his career, but I’m still curious.

I saw some comment of him losing to Wesley So in a Fischer random tournament with a score like 2.5 - 13.5. That happened in 2019.

Almost like he was traumatized and was dissociating. Creeped me out

What is the game rating telling? Let’s say I’m 600 Eli but get a 1200 game rating, am I playing “as a 1200” elo player or did I just get 1200 points?

as described in title

https://preview.redd.it/2icsj3cdea8e1.png?width=1618&format=png&auto=webp&s=81139a28cfb9883168adf379929178be625338fb

Main context/question: I recently played a rapid game, and in a position like this (I’m black) I objectively know that I’m probably winning based on the material, but I guess I’m not great at playing with two rooks so I was wondering if there was general advice/tips for doing so.

Bonus question: I didn’t see very many candidate moves to be completely honest - what would you play in this position?

Just additional info: I won the game in the end, but honestly I was pretty lucky - I brought the rook back from e1 to e7, and a few moves later my opponent moved the g4 pawn and missed that I was able to sac my bishop with check to open a discovery on the queen.

Rated around 1300 on chess.com and want to learn a bit about strategy and positional play instead of relying on blunders or tactics to win. im already working on tactics and openings, so im not to worried about those. can someone recommend a good first couple of books or chessable courses on strategy? I've heard about the Winning strategy being good but had winning openings and didn't like it, so if they're similar, then I'm looking for an alternative to that style of surveying everything with no detail or exercises. Also have heard about my system and secrets of moderd chess strategy, as well as mastering chess strategy, but have heard they're all targeted at 2000+ players. Thanks in advance

Magnus has himself acknowledged that a peak Fabiano is very close to him in Classical. Fabi was 2832 just three points behind Magnus 2835 during their historic 12 draws in WCC.

So, just like how Magnus is the best classical player of his generation, Is Fabiano clearly the undisputed 2nd best?

the calendar is stacked in the usual summertime months it happens, Norway Chess, GCT Croatia and the upcoming Esports World Cup are all occuring through May 25-3 August, Sinquefield from 16-29 August. When will it actually happen? later in winter months next to the grand swiss? June? What do you think or have fide said anything about it?

I think that I understand why this is a mistake, after e4 e5, any potential capture on d6 or f6 comes with tempo on the queen on e7.

If I had instead played Qe6, black's queen would have been safe from the e pawn, giving more options.

Anyway, what I would like to do is study some similar concepts /ideas /puzzles, so I'm more alert to this in future.

However, I'm not quite sure how to define this in order to search for relevant training material.

Thanks for any help.

lichess.

Hi Folks, please help me understand how I lost this game with 8+ points, thanks!

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/121617924468?tab=analysis&move=62

Whenever I hear this question the answer usually is formulated around openings or specific moves, but what I want to know is the meta “style” of the game. In the high level and compared to the past is chess being played in a risky and aggressive fashion? Or is it more defensive and controlled? Is the meta game tactical or cerebral? How are players behaving? Are they preparing 30 different lines and memorizing or are they trying to step out of the theory as fast as possible?

I don’t know enough about chess to figure these things out and I’d love someone with more knowledge than me to explain how the meta game has evolved throughout the year apart from the typical comments of “no one plays this opening” or “with computers we know this is a suboptimal move, so no one plays these type of stuff”.

EDIT: very interesting answers so far, learning a lot, thank you.

For many days my blitz rating was around 480. But suddenly I started losing uncontrollably. I first stopped around 420, where the rating stayed around that mark for a few days. And today I fell below 390, and I just can’t get higher. Currently about 360. I'm literally in tears. What should I do?

Curious to hear your personal favorite opening for white and/or black! Let us know wether it’s beginner friendly or not!

Shoot!!

I am playing chess for about a year and got very passional about it, I hit 1200/1300 Elo in few months but then I am stagnating for a lot of time. Problem is I keep studying strategy, reading book, doing tactics and I still losing a lot of game and not managing to get out of my current Elo.

Problem is my accuracy got better and very rarely I go under 80/85% accuracy but my opponent very often play 90%+ accuracy and I am getting demotivated. I don't know if there's a lot of cheating around or I am just too stupid to play chess.

They told me that is normal for opponent to have a high accuracy if I play bad, but honestly I can't get my head around on what are the bad moves that makes me lose, and also computers didn't seem to find a lot of mistake if not late in the game when position get complex and my opponent is just playing perfect for at least 20 moves.

Here it is one of my recent games, what exactly I am doing wrong? And this is the normal level of play you expect by a 1100 Elo player?

Here's the game:

[Event "ReisSmurf vs. Talk-Tuahhh"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2024-12-21"] [White "ReisSmurf"] [Black "Talk-Tuahhh"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1179"] [BlackElo "1263"] [TimeControl "600"] [Termination "Talk-Tuahhh ha vinto per abbandono"] [AnalyzedBy "Stockfish 15, time:0.0s per move, Chessis App"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxf7 {Opening: C57: Italian Game, Two Knights Defense, Fried Liver Attack} Kxf7 7. Qf3+ Ke6 8. Nc3 Ncb4 9. O-O c6 10. d4 Qf6 11. Qe2 Ke7 12. Re1 Nxc3 13. bxc3 Nd5 14. dxe5 Qe6 15. Bg5+ Ke8 16. Rad1 Bc5 17. Qe4 {-2.01 ➤ -3.26 ?MISTAKE, Best Move Was:}(Bxd5 cxd5 c4 Qg4) Qf5 18. Qxf5 Bxf5 19. Bxd5 cxd5 20. Rxd5 Be7 21. Bxe7 Kxe7 22. Rc5 Rhc8