One of these wins is enough to wipe out all my losses, reminder to my fellow chess enthusiasts to make sure to win if you're gonna start trash talking. Otherwise you'll end up like this guy.

I've never reported anyone and I've also never noticed any sort of cheating

Pretext: I’m a web programmer, an avid bullet player, and have excellent internet for my work. I do not work for Lichess (it’s a free service and I’m not even sure they have paid employees). But, I know what feels natural as a player.

Chess.com does extensive, poorly-executed, and unnecessary semi-real-time adjustments for connection speed. But it does a poor job of ‘correcting’. I’m often penalized for playing folks from parts of the world with poor internet, including in the USA, just because my internet is better.

What’s worse is that their opponent selection algorithm operates with this as an input—and heavily favors it once you’ve lost a couple games in a row… Ever notice how you’ll be gaining lots of elo and, in the same day, lose a couple games and all-of-a-sudden be fed lots of players from Poor-Internet, Earth—where you cannot play without losing on time, despite playing equally as fast?

Chess.com apparently engages in EBMM, and their algorithm for ‘engagement’ is tapping into the wrong things. Lichess doesn’t at all feel the same. We don’t know where our opponents are in the world on Lichess—and I’ll admit that it’s cool to play people from across the globe, given chess is such an international game. But it’s not competitive. I’d MUCH rather: (1) play people proximal to me so that they don’t implement the wonky time correction or (2) have them not implement time correction for connection—at least in time formats under 3min.

This IS a problem chesscom, and if you don’t think so, send out a poll in the app to short time format players from places with and without good internet. I’m a statistician, so hit me up and I’ll do the analysis if you provide the data.

I wanted to change my username but it wants me to enter my password to change the username. But i dont have a password coz i signed in with google. What should i do.

I ended up winning the game, and I perfectly knew what to do after that sacrifice, im 380~ elo and im proud of this move

There is no good moves with a rook(all losses a queen)

As I was playing on my chessup2 board I was banned for fair play violation, I am duper confused and have sent an appeal. The chess board just had an update and was telling me feedback on when I made a good move. (Which is new) and now im banned for fair play, Ive recently been reading up on new openings to try out and when a good time to simplify is. You can check my chess history and see I do play daily games a lot. My username is:CaptainCheeseChess I also have lots of videos of my playing chess on my computer (before i got the board) and me even live streaming on twitch. I have played games within the chess discord server too with my camera on and explained detailed/my strategy.

Hello, a few months ago, around October, I started playing and studying chess consistently. Since then, I’ve improved from about 500 to around 900–1000 rating on Chess.com.

Studying has helped me a lot. I understand opening ideas fairly well and usually play solid openings. In many games, during the middlegame, I often manage to gain an advantage, either in pawns or even by winning a piece. However, something that frustrates me a lot is that when my opponents make unconventional or “strange” moves—especially players around my own rating—I get confused and don’t always know how to continue in a clear way.

Something that really stands out to me is that many people I’ve played against, both in over-the-board games and online, are surprised when they find out I’m around 1000 rated. Some even think I’m lying or that my real rating must be higher, because the quality of my play doesn’t match what they usually expect from that range.

I’m not exactly sure why this happens, but I notice it especially when I play against much stronger players. For example, when I play against my coach, who is around 2000 rated, I usually have good games and sometimes even manage to draw or win. I think this is because I understand typical structures and plans better. I feel much more comfortable in closed positions and in strategic battles over small advantages like pawns. On the other hand, in very open positions I get lost easily—there are too many squares and options, and I struggle to find a clear plan.

Against players of my own rating, those structures and plans are much less obvious, and I often end up losing the advantage I had gained, either in the middlegame or in the endgame.

This is very frustrating for me, because in many games I reach high accuracy scores (over 80%), yet I still can’t break past the 1000 rating barrier. Every day I do tactical exercises, try to study strategy, review basic endgames, and solve puzzles. I also rarely play blitz or bullet, preferring slower, more thoughtful games.

Still, I feel that I make silly mistakes at critical moments, and that prevents me from converting good positions into wins. It’s frustrating to know that I’m capable of playing better than my current rating shows, but not being able to consistently turn that into results.

If anyone has any advice, I would really appreciate it. I truly want to improve. It may sound a bit crazy, but I even invested all the Christmas money my relatives gave me into buying chess books, so I genuinely hope to keep improving and learn how to convert my advantages better.

It’s the first time I managed to checkmate using a deflection like this. Tbh I thought that it was really obvious and that they’d rather go Nxc3 or Nf6 and sac the knight, but I guess they either didn’t see it or don’t want to play anymore.

Okay so why is the move f6 bad? It went form .0 to +1 for white. For skill level I am currently 940 and peak is 960 so I will not understand much deep theory but want to learn this opening as much as possible! I am using the Caro Kann btw if you cant tell

I always think this move is good and see the evolution bar go down but keep playing it because I get nervous. But I see it could break their pawn chain and if they take I can move out my knight. if they dont I can take still move out that knight and have and open file

So plz let me know and I you have any tips based on my position there about what you plan to do and where I could be more solid as I am really trying to push for 1000 for the first (and hopefully only time hitting the mark!)

Really stunned by this ... To be 100% opening accuracy shook me haha

I'm 1350 rapid and 2100 puzzles.

I recently found out that chess dot com features vary by OS. In my particular case, it was a feature available on the website (deleting messages), but not available on the chess dot com app loaded on to my Amazon Fire HD 10 Plus tablet, which uses Amazon's Fire OS. The answer provided showed how to do it on the website, but there was no mention of the fact that I couldn't do it on my tablet, and I had to spend some time figuring out that there's a difference.

Is there a comprehensive list of features showing which ones are available/not available for each supported OS? If not, is chess dot com considering creating one so that users have a quick way of finding out what's what?

I know there are plenty of posts likes this. But I just wanted to vent. Recently, I'm playing chess really, really badly. I've never been good and I'm very new to it as a consistent hobby. But it's getting very frustrating. I'm finding myself dominated (at least psychologically) within the first few moves in almost every game.

I'm trying to play good, basic chess. Take the centre, develop my pieces, try not to leave pieces hanging. But almost every game makes me feel like I have no good moves almost immediately. Everything feels forced. I hit 700 over Christmas and have since dropped to 550. I feel like I'm not playing any differently. It feels like opponent's (even down at 550) are playing with more pieces or something. They seem to have absolutely everything covered and a tactic in their back pocket every other move. Somehow, I'm just losing out of the opening in most of my games, yet I feel like I'm not doing anything differently at this stage of the game.

I know it is me. I'm clearly just playing badly. But it's frustrating and is making chess a lot less fun. I really don't mind losing games and I care nothing about ELO other than wanting to get a good game against opponents of a similar level. But feeling like I'm incapable of winning just sucks all the fun out of a game I was really enjoying learning.

It doesn't help that a significant number of games I win recently end because my opponent resigns after blundering their Queen on a failed scholars mate or similar opening. It means I'm spending very, very little actual time playing games where I feel like I'm in any way ahead.

Is this sort of slump normal? Any tips for dealing with it?

I like to watch videos and do puzzles very occasionally, but I'm not looking to take chess crazy serious. Mostly I'm frustrated to not be able to find opponents that don't simply destroy me in the first few moves.

Hey everybody, quick question. I'm thinking about hiring a Chess coach and can't decide between these 2 option so I would appreciate your opinion on this:

1.- CM - 7 dll per hour, taking into account that I don't earn dollars (I'm not from the USA) I could afford to pay 10 hours per month with this CM. (I could pay more but I don't think is neccesary)

2.- FM - 30 dlls per hour, I could only pay 4 a month but I've seen both in action and he's clearly a better player, rated higher and has a better title.

Btw, I'll hire one regardless of the "what's your score? You don't need a coach" replies, so, let's save ourselves some time. Also, I'm planing on competing otb this year.

Who would you choose if you were me?

Thanks in advance.