It's embarrassing how long it took me to solve this. White to play and Mate in One, black played the move pawn to b5

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I stopped playing chess around in July, my highest elo then was 1150. I used to play 1/2 match here and there rarely and lost around 130 elo, I even started to lose against players who were 1020 ish elos. yesterday I started playing again in two days this was the result. I can't believe myself lol. Did this happened to y'all lately ? Is elo inflation real🫣

I am playing BLACK , Things got too fast at last due to low time.

This guy played very agressive, taken all baits and ends up here, he acts too fast and believed that he wins already, laughing at me just before my last move

The 61st National Championship (Gurugram, August 17–27, 2024) was important from the perspective of both the FIDE Circuit 2024 and the FIDE World Cup 2025 Qualification (with 7 qualification spots!).

As this reddit post attests, the knowledge that there would be 7 qualifying spots for the World Cup was known several months in advance of the championship. There's no point in blaming FIDE for this, since this is clearly an oversight from the Indian Chess scene.

Also, being a 50+ player tournament, the national championship would also count as one of the mandatory 50+ player tournaments for a player contending for a FIDE Circuit spot in the Candidates.

Here are the relevant sections of the FIDE Circuit regulations:

4.2 To be eligible for FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 qualification, a player's final score shall consist of at least five tournaments (including at least four standard tournaments). Among these tournaments there shall be:

4.2.1 At least two standard tournaments with the participation of more than 50 players*, if his/her final score consists of six or seven tournaments.
4.2.2 At least one standard tournament with the participation of more than 50 players*, if his/her final score consists of five tournaments

Here are the circuit points the top 3 finishers earned:

1. Karthik Venkataraman (1st) — 5.76
2. Ganguly, Surya Shekhar (2nd) — 5.13
3. Neelash Saha (3rd) — 4.82

There are several others who earned circuit points from this tournament.

Now, the top 8 TAR (tournament average rating) of this tournament was 2562.875. If several of our top players had taken part, it would have raised the TAR significantly, and consequently the final circuit points earned. This could have given the top finishers a huge boost in their circuit points for this year.

To give an idea of how many circuit points one could earn if most of the top players took part, Fabiano Caruana earned 25 points for first place this year (TAR 2727.25) from the US Championships. This has made a huge difference to his circuit chance this year. And he also earned 22.68 last year (TAR 2726.75) from the US Championships.

It's very concerning that such things were not taken note of much earlier this year and communicated clearly to the players. It's imperative that the chess authorities in India take note of this and work on rectifying this for next year and beyond.

If there are hurdles in raising the prestige/level of the National Championship, then those hurdles must be overcome. To me, this appears as too good of an opportunity for the Indian Chess players to pass up.

How did you guys learn it? Any tips? Can't seem to understand the pattern no matter what.

Hello, just got interested in this inteleggzeual game and abb mujhe sikhna hai.. Can you guys help me for the resources for begginers.

Does chess(dot)com even take these reports seriously? This has happened to me multiple times. People just verbally abuse me without any reason or warning. How do they get so offended by a game of chess? And the worst thing is, it's always my fellow Indians who verbally abuse me. Never has any foreign player done anything like this. But for the Hindi speaking Indians like myself, I don't know what I trigger that they feel the need to use such vulgar profanities and insult me and my family. I'm aware of how many terrible people are in this world and we can't do anything to stop them, so I just report them and pay no heed to them. And trust me, it happens every 2-3 days. But today this guy messaged me privately, abused me again and asked how come his account faced no consequences even after my reporting him. Tbh, I'm amazed myself that chess(dot)com doesn't do anything with these accounts. Almost as if they don't care at all. To my knowledge, there isn't a profanity filter for private messages on this app, and though however annoying profanity filters can be, if there was one on this app, I'd happily activate it.