i started to do brilliant moves lately, and it feels good, though at the moment i had no idea how good that move is as i lately always play 1min bullets
even 3/5 mins feels too long and feels like cheating as you have more time to think and overthink
real challenge is 1min in fact!
Black knight is pinned, can white king take bishop?
Im over 1000 and still dont know how to properly respond to this and it always ends in either me getting crushed in the next 10 moves or completely loosing the center
I completely missed this mate in 1 because I busy trying to trap my opponents queen.
King's pawn and fianchetto is getting really boring
- I have been playing for years it’s not a new account buff
-it’s not tilt I have taken weeks off.
- I do puzzles and tactics
- I’m at low stress
No idc about my elo. It’s plenty high enough for me, I’m not playing tournaments or wanting to go pro. Not that I could. I’m just bloody tired of a 70% lose rate this week. I don’t wannna win every game, I just want to go back to 49/3/48
Obviously a blunder by my opponent, game was equal if ...Rxf7 instead of ...Kg8.
I actually saw the tactic from a a distance, and played Qb3+ a few moves earlier with my knight still on e5.
Super happy!
Found this in a recent 5-minute game. Not the most difficult find ever, but still instructive and feel-good!
At first I thought it was over and was thinking of resigning and then this happened. Can't believe he was 1200 elo.
Never Resign!!
...It was a greek gift.
(They took my bishop, and after Ng5+, they brought their king back to g8 which i respond with Qh5. They just accepted their fate and played f6 instead so I delivered with Qh7#)
I play on lichess app don’t see an engine line that i can follow like chess.com.
Just started playing. Don’t know the rules really. How is this a draw? Seems like I should have won.
Is rook a1 not hanging a pawn? how would you play it?
Edit: yes i took a pawn on c4
I went from a solid 400 to 250 in the space of a week and nearly every player is indian and pretty much brings out their queen in the opening, every logical move to chase the queen off turns out to be the dumbest move I could have played...
It's frustrating because on lichess I was playing some great chess, I though I will head over to chess dot com to see if there is a skill gap between the 2 sites and I ran into this weird behavior
I just started playing on chess dot com and I can easily defeat the bots and coaches on level 600, but against real people I almost always lose to people with less than 400 elo.
Is the chess elo system similar to video game elo where the lowest level is actually much harder than the higher levels, or are the bots just mislabeled? What elo level bot is similar to a 400 elo player?
Played a game earlier today. Can you see the why it was a brilliant?
I'm playing a Daily on chess.com we are both ~1200 Elo. I've been studying a particular unusual opening and stayed on book, but my opponent has found the absolute best answer for +1.0 by move 7 and I'm... Suspicious.
I check his history and analyze past games (haven't touched our live game!) with chessanalysis engine, and lots of them look like this- a mix of inaccuracy and okay moves, but overwhelmingly the biggest classification of his moves is "Brilliant".
Is this a quirk of the analysis I'm using, or is my opp being a sussy baka?