Of course when I'm one game away I get this guy playing at a 2000 level with 90% accuracy. This was a 34 move game as well, I didn't just fall for an opening trap. Blundered a pawn, and that was that.

Hard to admit, but sometimes after making blunder after blunder while playing online against, say, a 1000-rated player, and getting frustrated at losing and making the same mistakes over and over, I notice that I am mindlessly drawn to one of the many YouTube videos of slow runs or speed runs. You know the ones I am talking about? Like where a grandmaster calmly talks through the position, engages people in the chat, instructs the viewers, and plays a five-minute game in real time while crushing some 2000-rated opponent with the calm confidence of a grizzly bear knocking a fish out of the water.

How the hell can you talk AND calculate? How do you not hang a piece every fourth move?

But they win, almost inevitably. It's like a scripted reality show. You know sort of how it will end but still gratifying to watch.

It's as if the GM had seen every single possibility, every line, every move the opponent could make. There's no moment of panic, no surprised “Oh, I hadn't considered that move” or “Oh shit, I didn't calculate that line.”

So beautiful to watch that confidence, that ease. And here I am, instead, spending 2 minutes per move in the middle game and still messing up.

I remember one video where the GM suddenly stopped talking and started thinking for a while, and I thought, Oh, finally, a GM caught unprepared. But then he said something like, “There are lots of options, but I'm trying to find the prettiest mate.”

Something about that is so addictive. To eventually reach that level.

Did I make awful moves without realizing it or something?

so i don't know much abt chess but while playing on chess.com i encountered this
(same thing happens with h6 too) so the move i played is not valid or something but how that's possible?

So I was solving some puzzles and when I reached this level it says that I check mated but isn't the king safe in b8?

What's the point of trading EVERY piece? you end up in an endgame-like situation in so few moves and gets boring as hell.

I'm not even at 600 Elo on Chesscom; I've never reached 600. I created a new account on Lichess and started at 1500; right now my Elo is 1300, and I can actually beat people with an Elo of 1300.

How is that possible?

It probably is elo and platform-dependant, but why does almost nobody replies to my "gg"?

I can understand that you don't feel like it, if you just got demolished and are pissed af, but after a normal game? what's so hard about it? Its hard to not feel disrespected by it lol

You don't have to initiate it but actively refusing to answer to a "gg"...don't know what's going on in their minds

For reference, my elo is 1220 on lichess classical. Will it get better as I climb the ladder?

I was playing white, 10+5.

I ended up winning but did not feel like I deserved it.

My main idea once I created doubled pawns in the center was to keep pressuring those while reacting on the queen side.
But once the whole pawn chain was locked I ran out of ideas and time (I had 1:30 min at move 34).

What strategy should I follow in similar situations?

10+5

Is the idea to attack the king? But there is a lot of pressure on the queen side. I am intermediate so I am trying to understand these big ideas. Thanks in advance!

If some one understands my problem plss guide me where am i lacking or wrong any help/advice would be appreciated 👍

Hi I am learning how to play chess and I learn how pieces move and what is the end goal of the game so it means I have to figure out how can I checkmate opponent's king which means its a lot of mental grind work but after some time I came to know that there's also some openings,mid game,end game type shit.

Man what is this now, after I see these and explore a little i thinks it's not a game of mind but of memorized moves, man what is that should I have to learn this shit and what is the purpose of it at all.

After 2 years I've finally reached 1600!! I'm getting so emotional right now.

Is there any actual titled game where one player checkmates the other with just a knight when opponent have a pawn?

I don’t think there’s any saving me honestly. Which whatever. I just didn’t think I could get this bad while genuinely trying

Why does the engine wants me to sacrifice my bishop instead of just cleanly capturing a hanging queen????

I chose knight, was unable to move it for a while and freed a pawn to promote to queen and they surrender with no time left on them.

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Je joue assez régulièrement en ligne depuis 6 ans. À part les règles de base, j’ai tout appris tout seul et je n’ai jamais été en club. Je suis actuellement à 1302 en rapide sur Chess.com et à 1412 FIDE après mes premiers tournois en présentiel.

L’expérience des tournois homologués m’a fait prendre conscience de l’écart monumental de niveau entre les joueurs. Je joue depuis longtemps, mais je varie peu mes ouvertures et je joue des choses assez inhabituelles : ouverture Bird avec les Blancs, Black Lion System contre 1. e4 et défense hollandaise contre 1. d4.

J’ai le sentiment que j’aurais eu au moins 30 % de réussite en moins avec d’autres ouvertures. J’aime bien mon style de jeu, mais j’ai l’impression de stagner.

Je sais qu’il faut travailler les finale et les milieux de jeu mais en pratique c’est difficile à faire seul et il est claire que l'analyse par ordinateur à ses limites à mon niveau (aucun intérêt si je ne comprend pas les coups).

Je ne travaille certainement pas de la manière optimale, mais je me demande si je dois simplement changer de méthode ou repartir complètement de zéro.

Quels conseils me donneriez-vous pour progresser efficacement à mon niveau ?

What's the best way to make the ponziani player fight for his life? Atm I play 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d3 f5?! and make up stuff from there, but I'm asking if there are better sharp ways to make it wild. Or if I should committ to f5 I guess.

Hey guys! I know puzzles are a good way to improve at chess so im looking for some good chess puzzle books, like mate in 1, mate in 2 or other more interesting puzzles.I know most sites have puzzles but i also like physical books, so any recommendations would be really appreciated.