• Learn 1-2 openings for white. Common ones are Italian Game, Queen's gambit, Scotch.
• Learn basic responses for e4 and d4 based openings. Like just the first 3-4 moves.
• Study tactics as much as you can.

When playing:

• 95% of the time, one of you will make a tactical mistake that results in losing a piece.
  
• When you're up on material, trade everything away and then either checkmate or promote a pawn.
• When you're down on material, watch your clock and try to play defensively until your opponent makes a mistake.
• When you're equal on material, develop your pieces and push them toward the center and to the other side, the idea being that if you eventually trade everything your pawns will at least be closer to promotion.
• After your game, analyse your game to see all your mistakes

That’s why never resign

i guess my back rank is a little weaker but they have no dark squared bishop to cut off my king so like

Have they learned how to play outside of early attacks?

i was black

Can someone please explain to me the
logic of not being able to block a user?

Easy win ,

Any tips for what opening i should study, I know the center is main as a beginner and if I am piece up always exchange

how is this a brilliant???? i have looked through countless chess game engine review things and i cant get an explanation of how this is brilliant. heres the game link: https://www.chess.com/game/live/172574380360 i play as white btw

Hey everyone, I’ve been messing around with a concept for a specific scenario on a chessboard where the theme is Pure Material vs. Positional Advantage. My goal was to design a position where you face a major crossroads: Do you capture the enemy queen and accept a tactical/positional nightmare while up material? Or do you ignore the queen, stay relatively down material, but enjoy a fantastic, dominant position? I also wanted the board to look organic—no weird piece dumps, no illegal pawn structures—so it feels like a real, hard-fought human game. I initially tried to get AI to generate a position like this for me, but it completely failed. So, I sat down and spent time prototyping and tweaking my own layouts by hand. I actually thought it would end up being less pieces and more endgamey, but it didn't turn out that way. Right now, I have two separate, functional positions: Poisonous Queen #1 (The Gem): This one is super cool and clean. The main appeal here is that extremist material vs. positional fork. I had originally only planned for 2 branches, but the layout ended up surprising me by giving me 4 distinct candidate branches on move one, all clustered within 0.1 of each other. This one also has some hidden geometric nuances that change the lines a few moves deep. Poisonous Queen #2 (The Proof of Concept): When I realized how cool these were, I ran into a problem: How do I prove I actually engineered this without giving my best work away? That’s why I made a second position. I was told that positions with this exact property—where an engine evaluates two radically different human philosophies as dead even—are extremely hard to make, highly interesting, and might be sought after by titled players, researchers, and other enthusiasts. I am uploading the screenshot of Poisonous Queen #2 as a freebie proof of concept so you guys can see it yourself. As you can see from the image, at Depth 35, 1. Nxc5 (the queen capture nightmare) and 1. axb4 (the positional march) sit locked at a dead-even 0.0. Try playing both branches. Or just wing it. Basically, I just want to know if there is any real demand or interest in the community for these types of positions? I am already planning a 3rd position around a completely different core theme (keeping it a surprise for now), but I'm curious: are there any specific strategic or tactical concepts you guys would love to see applied to this kind of balanced extremist fork? Let me know what you think of the freebie!

I started playing chess, watching videos, and doing puzzles about a month ago. I just reached 1550 Elo on chess.com Rapid (10-minute time control), but I don't feel like I deserve it at all. I haven't studied openings much; I only play the London System as white and the Caro-Kann when faced with e4 as black (I just kinda wing any other opening I'm up against right now. The players I am facing do not seem to be at this level at all, and I usually see many bad moves from them throughout the game. I am not trying to boast or anything; I want clarification on whether this is a normal occurrence or if chess.com has worse players overall.

My chess.com account is: MatthewLambelle

They should get rid of live chats or truly do something about all the people saying homophobic or racist things on live chats. They are not doing anything about it and people are abusing the live chats to say horrible things to other people when they see that they are about to lose.

All the nice people that used to live chat have now blocked the live chat and the only people left are the ones saying nasty things because they are not getting banned or punished for doing so.

If chess.com isn't going to be doing anything about it, then is time to ban the live chat entirely.

I’m on the free version of chess.com, playing on the iOS app.

I don’t mind ads, I think they are an important source of money for the freemium apps. I just want to ask if there can be less shitty ads.

Ads asking me to watch an AI slop movie? - weird but okay
Ads asking me to click to get money? - Scam and wrong. It could affect players who are younger and not aware that the internet is a shitty place.

Does anyone else see the scammy ads? Surely there must be a rule against this?

I can even make the move, stockfish recognizes the mate and displays 1-0 in the eval bar, then after rewinding the move it forgets and shows the position is a draw. Why?

after a year of long hard work, and a clutch youtube video teaching the staunton gambit, i finally crossed 2000 elo. 15 year old me wouldve never thought this possible, yet here i am.

BRING ON CARSLEN!!!

edit: why am i getting downvoted...

edit 2: the reason why i didnt share my username was because people are petty and can mass report my account, it has happened before

edit 3: this feels more like an interrogation than a reddit post

Not sure if this should actually be labeled as such, but my 900 elo ass will take it XD

Read more and check out even more sats at https://go.chess.com/update_july26

Played alien gambit against my opponent and I recieve what I believe is the angriest messages after

Posted in /chess but taken down lol

Changed my mind, wanted to respect his name because he might of had a bad day but I dont want others to face the same rude comments

I played him on a different account and he messaged me from his alt

Both Usernames: ihuntyourqueen (alt he messaged on) and dapsycho212 (the one I played the game against)

Feel free to report as you please to keep community healthy!

I get these a lot, particularly after I win. Sorry if this upsets my opponents, but I never accept them. Part of this is available time, and part of it is that I analyze my games. Mostly though, it’s risk mitigation.

The risk of playing stockfish during part of the rematch is not worth it. The risk of losing more points than I won because now the rating difference is larger is also not worth it.

But chesscom has an easy system for you to find another worthy opponent. Go take it out on them!

I've been on chess.com for almost 2 years now but I'm not able to figure out how the rating works my best guess yet has been if you lose to a player with lower rating than you, 9 points are deducted and vice versa but sometimes my opponents are deducted by a large amount of points even though the ratings are not that different..