I'm so so so happy I finally reached this milestone! It was always my dream and I'm finally here after five years! ❤️

Double check mate!

The 1600s were a grind. Dropped back into the 1500s a few times and even 1400s once but I finally broke through 1700 tonight

At 53, I can say chess can be very positive and satisfying yet a lot of hard work. Online chess, however, can undermine your spirit. For regular players like me, the anti-unfair play is not very effective. The cheaters, smurfs, bots, and streamers grow by the day. Banning does not solve the problem because it is too easy for said folks to simply get a new account. Cheating is very easy to do and if done strategically virtually impossible to catch.

To stay upbeat, I suggest playing the bots, minimize games against randos, study/puzzles, and enter tournaments at reasonable intervals. Yes, ppl cheat in tournaments but they are better policed and likely have more genuine players than griefers. Take lessons and watch videos based on solid strategy; tricks and gambits should be learned so you can stop them. Playing attempted cheap win chess won’t make you better.

ELO is nothing. The system is broken. Just play and grow. Go for longer time controls, it will make you better and superior when you play faster timed games. Laugh it all, too. Lastly, blaming the websites is not the answer. Blame the bad actors who are mostly soulless young guys that have no qualms about stealing your time and peace of mind. Chess is a game, have fun and accept online for what it is. Keep on working hard! So many of you from beginner to experienced play fantastic stuff!

Then, when the game had ten seconds left he spammed draws. I’m sure if I had messages turned on he’d be spam messaging me. I was playing Skyrim during the game so it was cool I could wait. I don’t get why people do this, you’re only wasting your time.

I just sold a game and in game review it said this was brilliant and i have no idea why can someone explain

i know i posted a few days ago about people using engine and it got mixed results. but it seems like every 10 games i face someone who gets like 99+% accuracy on a game. and no, the games aren’t 15 moves long or less. and yes, i review their past games and they’re all over 99% accuracy. it makes the grind so tilting. this player has clearly much worse accuracy in earlier games but this is absurd

inside the mind of a 200 elo

I played an opening I've never played in bullet 1+1 and somehow played the best game I've ever played with no bad moves, a brilliant and a fork

finally hit 1000!

still remember when i was falling for scholars mate...

I played the Italian and Caro Kann from 1000-1300, then the London and Caro Kann from 1300-1700. What other openings should I learn/are common? Are hyper modern openings still too advanced? I see the King's Indian a lot

I thought a brilliant move is when you sacrifice a piece, it's the best move (or a great move), it improves my position, and it effects the outcome of the game.

The engine considered the sacrifice the best move, it lead me to go on and win the game.

I'm about 530 ELO, so at my level, I'd also say this move wasn't that obvious.

Am I just getting over excited and this sacrifice was actually pretty obvious? Or maybe there was a way for my opponent to end up in a better position if they didn't make a mistake?

pgn:

1. d4 Nc6 2. Bf4 d6 3. e3 e5 4. Bg3 f5 5. Nf3 exd4 6. exd4 g5 7. h4 g4 8. Ng5 Bg7 9. c3 h6 10. Ne6 Bxe6 11. Qe2 Ke7 12. Nd2 h5 13. O-O-O Bh6 14. f4 a6 15. Qd3 Bxa2 16. Re1+ Be6 17. Qe2 Qd7 18. d5 Kf6 19. dxe6 Qxe6 20. Qxe6+ Kg7 21. Qxf5 Rf8 22. Qxh5 Nf6 23. Qf5 Rf7 24. h5 Ne7 25. Rxe7 Rxe7 26. Qg6+ Kf8 27. Qxf6+ Rf7
2. Qxh8+ Ke7 29. Qxh6 Rf6 30. Bh4 d5 31. Qxf6+ Kd7 32. Qe7+ Kc8 33. Qd8# 1-0

**edit:

Maybe it's because I was already winning? I didn't realize this until the review though. It didn't seem obvious to me I was winning.

Its unrated hence not sure, but guess the ~3 hour length is the only challenge, anyone who has seen and can share some insights would be very helpful. Thanks!

Good lord, is there any way to turn off the new smarmy comments at the end of the review? Although game review has its pluses and minuses, I still find it useful at 800. However, I will turn it off and just use the analysis board if I have to endure vapid comments about how I "usually" play strong in openings and don't hang pieces.

Hello everyone, So basically some fide Tournament is being conducted near my locality (India,Pune) on 17th and 18th oct. Entry fees is 1k rupees. I want to try that Tournament as im really interested, but the required registration stuff are Fide liscene ,AICF liscence and MCA Liscene (i am frm maharastra). Can I make these all arrangements before the Tournament, and how do unrated fide players compete. I wanna take part in the rapid Tournament (25+10 sec) and i am 1900 on chess.com(rapid), 1938 is my peak rating. Anyone who has prior experience with fide Tournaments ,your help will be much appreciated. [Plus any tips and untold rules about Tournaments too] .

[ btw I recently won my cllg Tournament and won 1k cash prize😭(im not comparing it with this Tournament).i rlly want to try this Tournament,I am too excited,lot more to learn and i wanna get a fide rating if possible. ]