Gukesh always wins where it matters, be it Chess grand masters, candidates, olympiad, he not just survives but gives exemplary performance, this is an indication of strong mental strength, a deciding factor for world chess championship, something even vishy lacked in his early matches.

Even without revealing preparation in olympiad he gave the 2nd highest rating performance of all time, he was scary in the olympiad, it seems like he would have destroyed anyone, now this is the biggest match of his life, the biggest stage, I screamed when he defeated Wei Yi like that, I can't wait to see what Avatar he is going to bring now.

My prediction: He will be scary good at the end of the championship.

So about 5 min into the match, my opponent sends me this message and resigns. Feel free to share your stories.

So I've had two weird occurrences today. My internet is fine.

I played a 10/0 game earlier. Had mate in 1. Played the move and the board just froze. After doing a refresh on my browser the move played but to my opponent it looked like I was stalling.

2nd game also 10/0. I was just thinking for about 5 seconds in the opening and the game ended and I got a warning about abandoning the game

Anyone else seeing this or is it just me?

Is there any way that Ding deserves to beat Gukesh for the World title? Where does Dings' advantage come from? I can only think highly technical endgames, that's if he can get to them. Gukesh looks a solid favourite, especially considering the manner in which he won the Candidates. Utterly fearless, extremely calm under pressure. Youth and confidence. Surely Gukesh will be the 18th World Champ. After all, he is 18 years old.

I try not to think much about that stuff but it got into my head more after someone was banned mid-game against me.

Now I’m played this other person and I feel like I matter what I did they had the perfect response. I didn’t even see this move coming.

Is there anyone who’s smarter at chess who can explain how or if they found this move on their own. Every move they played just stumped me or blindsided me. It was frustratinggg.

I’m not making an accusation, but seeing a 1500 bullet player draw titled players made me feel icky when I’m 1700 bullet and my titled friends crush me every time no contest.

Just found this chess.com account who only plays against bots, only friend is Kramnik, is a russian account and only notable badge being they read over 100 articles. Wondering if it could've been an alt he used during the time he was banned?

Some interesting revelation by Vishy.

I like playing games where i force my opponent to have worse pieces than i do. I like having unremovable horses or making the opponents bishop useless with the structure. I like having positional goals. Suggest me openings for white/black im 1400 chesscom. Currently i play QGD/London and slav/caro kann. Thanks in advance.

My state has taken the Initiative to organise a big sports event with many sports like chess, swimming, cycling, football, etc. chess alone had around 360,000 registrations all over the state, yep, not all over India, but one state! Of course I registered for the chess event, it's a knockout format, and today was the zonal level with players from one constituency playing. Over 250 players showed up just from one part of the city. Top 5 will play the next level. Even though most of the players weren't good, it's amazing to still see them participate and see their love for the game. Playing and learning online, I always felt isolated because I felt the community was just too niche in my city, but apparently not! Crazy part is that put together there are definitely more than 10k players and registrations from my city.

Oh, and I finished 1st, of course this was nothing for me considering I was paired against 1600s and 1500s(fide), I'll face some good players at the next level.

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I got it right, but it sure wasn’t satisfying. The puzzle lasts 5 moves, and on the first three it felt like “ok, well I’m not seeing any better options so here goes 🤞 …”

Me personally i like the caro-kann

They’ve got awesome chess sets for sale and I’d like to know if the site is legit. Thanks!

As the title suggest, what are the general ideas behind Pawn to D6 and 5 and when to play which? I feel like every analysis I’m either wrong because I played D6 to prepare E5 or I’m wrong for pushing D6 because I needed to push the E pawn forward.

What is the idea behind these moves and what positions warrants each push? I’m guessing it depends on how white plays but I still haven’t figured out what those moves are