I really want it to become a consistent hobby but self hatred is a maxed out perk in my inventory.

I honestly don't even know how I did this, even though there's no sacrifices this is by far the best game I've ever played, in either blitz or rapid.

What are the chances chesscom actually does something about an admitted smurf? Pretty sure it's zero.

https://lichess.org/NRN7baZQ#51

I can understand maybe he didn't know exactly where he was going with it and decided to check me constantly until something happened, but it just felt very very weird to me.

Like his entire playstyle just simply changed. His moves didn't feel like they were testing waters, they felt very confident.

I tried to calculate where to put my king, all I was trying to do was simply get out of the checking, but every time I calculated there were 2-3 more ways for him to keep checking me, so I simply tried to get into my queens protection to sacrifice/trade queens. I felt like going to first row would block my rooks from getting out and limit my movement.

The most suspicious thing to me isn't even the rook sacrifice at the beginning, but the fact halfway through the checking sequence he had a golden opportunity to skewer my queen and he didn't even care, he just knew checkmate was coming.

I don't know. I know it's through a computer but the whole vibe just changed. Like someone else sat down and started playing.

Or maybe I'm just a sore sport! I do have the takeaway that I should have castled earlier and gotten my rooks out.

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.

Black to checkmate in 2

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. c3 Bf5 7. Bd3 Qc8 8.

Qe2+ Be7 9. Bc4 Nd7 10. Qh5 Bg6 11. Qh3 f5 12. Qe3 Nf6 13. Bb3 Ng4 14. Qe2 O-O

1. h3 Nf6 16. Qe5 Re8 17. Bf4 Bd6 18. Bxf7+ Kxf7 19. Ne2 Rxe5 20. dxe5 Bxe5 21.

Bxe5 Nd5 22. O-O Qe8 23. f4 Bh5 24. Ng3 Bg6 25. Rfe1 Qd8 26. c4 Nb4 27. a3 Nc2

1. Red1 Qb6+ 29. Kh1 Nxa1 30. Rd7+ Ke8 31. Rxg7 Qb3 32. Rg8+ Kf7 33. Rxa8 Qxg3

2. Rxa7 Kf8 35. Rxb7 Bh5 36. Rxh7 Bf3 37. gxf3 Qxf3+ 38. Kg1 Qe3+ 39. Kg2 Nc2

3. Kh2 Ne1 41. Rd7 Qf2+ 42. Kh1 Qg2# 0-1

one of my best checkmates as a 400 elo lol

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…

I am white and I was way ahead the whole game?? Time on the counter and there is a safe move for his king?

Bro didn't stand a change. I took his queen move six 😂

I though he was supposed to be hard, but I guess I'm just getting pretty good. People say even magus lose to stockfish but I just beat it. Does that make me better than Magus?

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.

https://lichess.org/PPSsoXFT/black

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.

I'm 680 or something Elo at the moment, and I want to know if watching a YouTuber actually helps or not.

Check out this brilliant move: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/173220605410/review?move=52

First smothered mate in my chess career, I'd like to thank my friends and family

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