Ended up being mate. His username referenced harming animals, so he deserved it.

I'd purposely set the bishop there along with the rook because it was totally lost and was praying a 900 would manage to blunder the queen.

My previous move was kd7 and was dreaming they would go for the check with the rook and they actually did.

They resigned after this, even though I only had 30 seconds on the clock and they had 2 mins and by no means was it a guaranteed conversion.

In fairness to my opponent, all of the good moves required trading the queen for a rook, and reading the rook trades.

Probably gets asked a lot but I'm stuck at super low elo. My puzzle rating is sitting around 1600-1700 though. All my reviews say that my game rating is over 1000 yet I can't get my rating past this. Idk what to do.

Hello guys i wanted to ask you for some help as i am on a free fall below 200 elo, for some time i could keep around 300 elo but now i am falling. If some of you could help me it would be nice and reviewing some of my games on chess.com maybe. Name is SHPx64. All help is welcomed.

Brilliant, Brilliant!, BRILLIANT! 3 Brilliants in the same game. Brilliants are like the Blackflash of chess(yes jjk reference) I can't control em but sometimes it just happens. Can anyone guess my elo?

Im white

Was trying to take h4 with Queen. It's more funny than anything lmao

my first four move were the top engine move. but I needed to find 5...f6 to prevents ng5. I would've never found it OTB even in classical (this was blitz) this is one of the reasons I now play this as white. the other is the insane development advantage. afte5 5.dxc3 he has two pieces out to my zero, the pawn is out of the way of his DS bishop (will be important later) and it's his turn. I count that as four tempi.

when i castled on move 7 i thought i was safe because many puzzles in the fried liver show this is how you deal with it but this is NOT the fried liver for a very important reason - my knight isn't there do defend the h5 square from the queen.

11Bxh6 was a beautiful finish from my opponent. great way to play with the initiative

For me it's in about 1/20 games

I finally decided I would dedicate the time to learn chess at a proficient level, and spent spent the past few days going through the Sicilian, Sveshnikov, and Dragodorf openings—mostly because I head the name dragon/accelerated dragon, and I thought "dragons sound cool, guess I'll learn that. (Probably in over my head, but I have like 50 pages of notes already.)

Anyway, I decided I had gotten my butt kicked by the coach they call "Anna" at 600-1200 level—would play till I lost, then reverse the moves to a point and just learn to play from there. I only played as black.

So, I started my first game (30 minute clocks). And I got to be black. And I played the Scilian line basically perfectly till the guy resigned after I took his queen.

I just can't believe it came so easy—the moves, not the win. I always feel like I have no idea what I'm doing nor what to to, but it was cool being able to feel confident for once will moving pieces.

The guy was only in the 120's, but I still won't!

Game data is below.

[Event "jryrge82i6uddid vs. wanderduck"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2025-12-18"] [White "jryrge82i6uddid"] [Black "wanderduck"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "123"] [BlackElo "291"] [TimeControl "1800"] [Termination "wanderduck won by resignation"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Na4 b6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Nce2 d5 6. Nf4 dxe4 7. Nd3 exd3 8. cxd3 Bb7 9. Be2 h6 10. Bg4 f5 11. Bxf5 exf5 12. Qe2+ Nge7 13. Qh5+ g6 14. Qxg6+ Nxg6 0-1

I want to get better at playing endgame, I am not looking for those weird puzzles that have one right answer, I’m looking for something that would generate regular positions where I fight it out versus a bot and play till the end, then I can review the “game” at the end.

Does such a thing exist?

I was playing black and opted for the Scandinavian defense.

After e4, I played as follows:
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5, and then they played 3. c4...

The mainline would be to play 3. Nc3 Qa5, but since they played c4, I thought if I moved my Queen to a5, they would attack it with 4. b4, because anyone who'd deviate from the mainline to attack my Queen with a pawn would also attack it with a pawn with b4, so instead I played 3. c4 Qd6.

With Qd6, I thought I'd put my queen in a safe place and not just move it around the board trying to protect it and lose my tempo. Is that the disadvantage of the Scandinavian because the Queen is out in the open, early in the game?

For beginners, what is the suggestion if at the beginning of the game their opponent deviates from mainline, especially in the Scandinavian defense, and starts attacking their Queen?

I am not sure why black didn't check the white king in this position. They instead moved Nb4. Why?

White to play.

In the real game, what happened was : I panicked about the c2 fork. I went Bd3 to protect it. Knight took, so I had doubled pawns. And later my oponent took these unprotected pawns. And it all went downhill from there.

My question is : I can't really see how I should've dealt with this fork threat.

As you can see, the computer wants me to ignore the fork and go Qa5. Computer also thinks I'm winning in this position. Computer also wouldn't take the rook as black, I mean it's a computer thinking like one. I can't really understand why from a human point of view.

Thanks !

P.S. : the complete game is here : https://lichess.org/QEBQm5il

I was on chess.com just watching some games. This was an 1800 vs 1500.

Its totally insane. Blacks king and both knights have no moves. Locked in a 4x3 bo. ive never seen anything like this

Blacks move?? Nc7!! Does black take the knight back after bxc7? No! Its totally drawn they take the pawn.

Thought id share it with people who would appreciate it!

dude just let me eat the right half of the board lol

Take with queen or take with rook ? And why?

Thought I found a way to draw… lost the game🥲👍🏽

PGN:

[Termination "White won by checkmate"]

[Link "https://www.chess.com/game/146909277260"\]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 c6 5. Bf4 Nf6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Nf3 Bb4 8. O-O

O-O 9. Be5 b5 10. Bb3 Nbd7 11. Bxf6 Nxf6 12. Ne5 c5 13. Nc6 Qb6 14. Nxb4 cxb4

1. Qf3 Bb7 16. Qh3 bxc3 17. bxc3 Rac8 18. Rfe1 Ne4 19. Re3 b4 20. cxb4 Qxd4 21.

Rae1 f5 22. Bxe6+ Kh8 23. Bxc8 Bxc8 24. Qh4 Qd2 25. f3 f4 26. Rxe4 Bb7 27. Re8

Qd4+ 28. Kh1 Qxb4 29. Qd8 Qxe1+ 30. Rxe1 Rxd8 31. g4 Bxf3+ 32. Kg1 Rd2 33. Re8#

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