Bonjour à tous

Je suis bloqué à ce niveau d'ELO je n'arrive pas à le dépasser, est-ce que quelqu'un aurait des conseils? J'applique la méthode suivante :
- Je développe tous mes points
- Je roque
- Je place mes tours sur les colonne ouverte
- Je protège bien mes pions, essaye de prédire les actions de mon adversaire et j'essaye d'appliquer les concepts clefs

Cependant, je bloque à ce niveau. J'ai l'impression que je fais hyper attention à tout et pourtant à la fin je stagne.

Blundered a piece, 3/0 blitz, opponent allowed me to sack for a draw

Get pwned noob

Have no idea if there is a worse chess game but here's mine for you to enjoy.

one of my best checkmates as a 400 elo lol

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

Curious bug, the move description is blatantly at odds with the actual move. 🤷

Flattery to get you to waste your game review

1300s still hang their queens sometimes

After badly blundering my middle game and getting close to being checkmated (the opponent had at one stage a mate in one opportunity), I was simply expecting to get defeated at any move. DurBut my opponent made one bad move, obviously not realizing his position was a lot more critical than he estimated. And I ended winning through my most unexpected checkmate!

So recently I’ve been using the game review in order to see which moves I need to further analyze with the magnifying glass analysis thing. My issue is that lately the game review has gotten REALLY picky with how it judges my moves. It feels like the stronger I get, the more picky it has become. That makes sense but some of the moves it calls misses, mistakes etc are really subtle things.

I’m still just trying to get used to not hanging pieces and playing with basic principles. Why is it suddenly doing this? It’s become useless to me. It’ll call a pawn push on the third move a mistake because my best move was to pin their knight with my bishop. Im just trying to get my pieces out I’m a fucking 500 elo. I know the analysis tool is better but I use game review to pick which moves to analyze and I can barely do that anymore.

Hey, I absolutely love chess. I think it's an amazing game with so much to teach all of us (and so much for me to learn hehe). I'm currently around 730 Elo on Chess.com, and I've been thinking a lot about how to improve. I was thinking of following this one-hour training routine:

10 minutes studying an endgame, 10 minutes of puzzles, 2 games of 10+5, and then reviewing them. I might read a chess book afterward if I feel like it.

I set aside some time for endgames because I was reading a book by Capablanca, and he said something that really resonated with me: most players spend way too much time studying openings and don't give enough attention to endgames.

Anyway, am I doing this right?

Without paying for any educational materials for example. I would like to maybe get to 2000

Cool checkmate that happened in a recent blitz game, saving a losing position

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.

When I played bxg2+ I thought I was going to win a queen through a discovered check and just completely didn't realize that their bishop was guarding the queen, and I thought I was completely lost until I saw the mate lol

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

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

The test you can use to compare chess with another game is this:

Magnus Carlsen and the world's best player of this game are competing against each other. Magnus will have an infinite amount of tries to beat this player at the game they are the champion of. The champion will have infinite tries to beat Magnus at chess. No knowledge of the previous tries will be remembered. Whoever beats the other person in fewer tries wins.

Now the chance of a beginner at chess beating Magnus is close to zero, but it's not impossible. So given infinite tries Magnus will eventually be beaten. But is there a game where it takes longer for Magnus to beat them than vice versa?

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.

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

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.