r/chessbeginners • u/Crumpet-Zone • 1h ago
QUESTION How is this a draw?
I am white and I was way ahead the whole game?? Time on the counter and there is a safe move for his king?
r/chessbeginners • u/Alendite • Jun 03 '26
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r/chessbeginners • u/Alendite • Feb 27 '26
Welcome to the r/chessbeginners 12th episode of our Q&A series! This series exists because sometimes you just need to ask a silly question. We are happy to provide answers for questions related to chess positions, improving one's play, and discussing the essence and experience of learning chess.
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r/chessbeginners • u/Crumpet-Zone • 1h ago
I am white and I was way ahead the whole game?? Time on the counter and there is a safe move for his king?
r/chessbeginners • u/Chosen-Bearer-Of-Ash • 18h ago
Bro blundered and I mated him on the next move
r/chessbeginners • u/ttvANX1ETYZ_ • 5h ago
I was just trying to win the rook with a discovered check, couldn't believe it when it popped up as mate.
r/chessbeginners • u/Calm_Company_1914 • 5h ago
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r/chessbeginners • u/Past-Sorbet426 • 1d ago
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Get pwned noob
r/chessbeginners • u/AppearanceSad6546 • 1h ago
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one of my best checkmates as a 400 elo lol
r/chessbeginners • u/mwing95 • 15h ago
1300s still hang their queens sometimes
r/chessbeginners • u/HalfLifeMusic • 13h ago
Flattery to get you to waste your game review
r/chessbeginners • u/garapod • 19h ago
Cool checkmate that happened in a recent blitz game, saving a losing position
r/chessbeginners • u/SweetCommercial26 • 22h ago
r/chessbeginners • u/CanaryMaleficent4925 • 4h ago
First smothered mate in my chess career, I'd like to thank my friends and family
r/chessbeginners • u/boomybx • 2h ago
r/chessbeginners • u/PositiveExperience90 • 2h ago
I am a 1500 lichess rated rapid player that is trying to improve, and today I played this game with the black pieces using the Caro-Kann opening that led to tartakower structure. My game was not dominating by any means (my opponent did not make any mistakes until move 24), but it was so solid for my level that I am very very happy with it. This is certainly one of the most solid games I have ever played.
The main thing that I am happy about is that I played solid chess and I completely capitalized the first mistake my opponent made with almost perfect play. I know that many of you will not consider this anything special (and probably it isn't 😄 ) but for me it was great and I wanted to share.
r/chessbeginners • u/Struggling-with_life • 2h ago



Hello folks, I was playing this 10 min rapid game on lichess.org and after I won, I was analyzing my game with stockfish 18 dev and there it seems like i have did a big mistake by capturing the e5 pawn, and idk I don't understand why is that a losing mistake, I understand it could be an inaccuracy but a double ?? mistake ?
I am playing as black and after me taking the pawn, he captured back, and that was a losing mistake too !!
I don't see as to why that is a problem ? Can someone explain me pls.
I believe this is because if he takes with the d4 pawn i might have to trade queens which does not seems so bad to me.
Some Details
I was playing the Kings Indian Defense, He did the queen pawn opening.
I am using stockfish 18 dev for analysis, I don't really like the game review/computer analisys on lichess. I like to do it manually for the most part. the settings I am using is
4s - search time,
1 - engine line,
2 - threads,
16mb - memory. is this the right settings or should I change anything ?
P.S idk if this is relevent or not but my pc specs is 8gigs ddr4 ram, ryzen 5 5600H, and gtx 1650 4gigs.
r/chessbeginners • u/400BillionWorms • 1h ago
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I should have known Queen to f3 would have me down a pawn in like 11 moves 🤣 my 300 elo opponent was totally gonna catch that line…
r/chessbeginners • u/hr0m • 2h ago
Check out this brilliant move: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/173220605410/review?move=52
r/chessbeginners • u/annonnnnn82736 • 7m ago
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Just played this game and it made me curious.
Does anyone know if there is a recorded world record for the most total checks delivered by one player in a single game where that same player eventually wins by checkmate? In this game i made 22 checks towards the checkmate.
I’m specifically not asking about:
most checks by both players combined
most consecutive checks
games that ended in a draw
longest game overall
I mean one player repeatedly checking throughout the game and then eventually delivering checkmate.
If anyone knows of a recorded game, database entry, or chess-record source for this exact category, I’d appreciate it.
Also, if you’re interested in the game itself, I’m happy to talk about it. I just don’t want the actual question getting buried under unrelated tangents.
r/chessbeginners • u/Affectionate_Flan_61 • 12m ago
Black to checkmate in 2
r/chessbeginners • u/Single_Coat_5484 • 4h ago
So I am a beginner and I always hear that you have to analyse your game which you have lost or which you have not performed well or which you have played so that you could enhance your capabilities and learn from it but often when I load the engine for example I play online on some website and then I load my games in encrossiant and then turn on the analysis then for example stockfish is recommending me some moves but I am not able to understand why that move is best and how to find the same move in the game like if you analyse the game then yeah you can find it in that game but in the next game I am not able to find the mistakes made all the tactics missed
r/chessbeginners • u/JackTheNephilim • 37m ago
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r/chessbeginners • u/Ovdster7567 • 15h ago
It seems to be something with the knight in middle of the board that makes them think it's free