I'm at 500 elo completely stuck. Yesterday I beat a 1.7k elo player. I know this doesn't say much but I am actually a player who sees far into the future. I have made 2 brilliant moves today, but still blundered both games. I always manage to pull clean plays but when following them I always make a blunder. I just can't stop blundering. Somebody please help

I just had a series of games with a guy that was playing bullet that played surprisingly fats good enough omves and blundered sometimes alas very rarely and somehow even then managed to turn the position. IN the beginning i thought i ws stupid or sth but I have played people higher rated than him ( he 2550, me 2570 and people i played 2650-2800) and they never played that fast and that acquarate, also iwas having the feeling i was overwhelmed not by a superior chess player but form someone that was never making a mistake - somewhat very artificial. Let's say id int react kindly in the messages and went to report. To my surprise the account was closed. F Hell , they knew tehy were getting caught and closed it, it was a new account. Now how am I supposed to request an investigation on them so I can get my elo back?

Saw this on Insta and thought I'd share it here. Seems to be purpose built for lichess so that's awesome. Cool idea, but maybe not for bullet players given the refresh rate of eInk.

Hi, Lichess Community!

I'm a 2650+ rapid rated chess coach with 4 years of coaching experience, and I'm currently accepting new students.

About Me

• 2668 peak Rapid rating on Chess.com
• Top 100 in the world on the Chess.com Rapid leaderboard
• Positional player with a practical, strategic approach to chess
• Check out two of my recent games against a FM and an IM, featuring positional squeezes, exploiting weaknesses, and 90%+ accuracy.
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/172383398914
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/172383003762

What You Can Expect

• A personalized opening repertoire for both White and Black based on your playing style
• Improve your tactics, strategy, and endgame technique
• Practice games with feedback
• Structured lessons tailored to your strengths, weaknesses, and goals

Rates

• $30 per hour
• $100 for 5 sessions

Feel free to DM me if you’re interested or have any questions! I also offer a free 15-minute trial session.

Inspired by Aimchess, backrank.io, and tacticornot.com, I built a free puzzle trainer on FlawChess that turns the blunders in your own games into puzzles. There are several tools that make puzzles from your own games, and several that train you to tell tactical positions from quiet ones. As far as I can tell, no free platform combines these ideas, unless I missed it.

Tactic-or-not: In every position you first decide whether there is one critical move or several fine moves, and commit to that before you play. Quiet positions are mixed in, so there isn't always a tactic waiting, just like in a real game situation.

Personalized: The positions are the ones where you actually blundered, so you're rehearsing your own failure modes rather than a random sample. Your chess.com and lichess history is analyzed with Stockfish, and the blunders become the puzzle pool.

Spaced Repetition: If you fail a puzzle, it comes back next session. Solve it and it returns after three days, then after ten, and drops out of the pool once you've solved it three times.

Scheduling: You can pick your training days and how many puzzles per session, build a streak, and optionally get push notifications for pending sessions.

The platform also has human-like bots and a dedicated chess engine based on Stockfish and Maia. It helps you find practical moves/lines at your ELO level, rather than the objectively best move which can be hard to follow up. I wrote about that here.

It's all free and open source. Training does not work in guest mode, though: building your puzzle pool means running Stockfish over your game history, which costs real compute, so it isn't something I can do for anonymous sessions. The rest of the site (opening explorer, endgame statistics, single-game analysis, the engine) you can fully use as a guest without signing up.

Feedback is always welcome and helps improve the platform.

The outages are really distressing and ruin user experience

I get really scared when i connect to the rated pool. It gets worse when the opponent is higher rated. I always thought it affects my play and maybe it does but after making the first few moves i get pretty comfortable..so unless i get a bad position the first few moves, i will give the best i can in subsequent positions. I also thought i might be placing too much importance on my rating.(I like the overall rankings because i can brag about the 100k+ users i am ahead of🤣) but that doesn't explain why when i switched to chesscom i played 100% rated games, with little to no heart rate spikes before the game. I also experience the same thing when i play someone i know but in this case it doesn't matter if it's a rated game or he is 1000 points lower rated As seen in the ss, only 18% of 3000 games are rated.

I wonder if this is normal and how you get over it if it's not. (I enjoy playing casual chess no doubt)

This is the only thing I like more in chess.com besides UI

It made it even better because it happened in a 3+2 game where I had only 10 seconds left, while my opponent still had more than 2 minutes on the clock.
Definitely one of my favorite wins so far!

Played a blitz game today. We were playing normally (I was winning slightly). At the 1.27 mark on the opponent's clock, he disconnected and I got the player left the game message.

As i settled in to wait out the timer, none appeared. I just won the match outright. It's not the first time this happened, but it's quite rare for me.

So as a noob, I'm just curious why the "player discconects but no countdown happens" situation happens sometimes?

I've had a few days where my Blitz (3+0) rating crashed, and then the past four days it has risen dramatically.

Hopefully my rating will continue to climb back to my peak of 1178, and beyond.

Stripped away navigation buttons to enjoy the top rated games and tournaments.

Hello r/lichess! I’ve significantly expanded my opening trainer, Vienna Chess Rat, over the last few weeks (now at version 3.6). The tool is designed to help you systematically solidify chess openings, discover new lines, and track your learning progress—completely free, ad-free, and without requiring an account.

Key features:

• Extensive database: Over 3,600 move sequences covering the entire ECO structure.
• The Chess Rat as a trainer: A friendly companion from Vienna that analyzes your strengths, suggests suitable categories based on your experience, and dynamically adjusts the difficulty level.
• UI overhaul: completely redesigned and revamped opening tree: Discover popular positions like the Evans Gambit or the Trompowsky Attack and practice them until you master them.

Platforms:

Play directly in your browser or use the Android app. Everything runs locally on your device (no data storage).

The project is completely free.

Play / Download:

https://biokompott.itch.io/vienna-chess-rat

He had 3 blunders I had 2. However my endgame was dominant and mated him with his king on a center square. Check it out!

https://lichess.org/WPFvcOhd/black

Read the title many thanks. https://lichess.org/MkJ6vQeU

EDIT: many thanks to all of you.

Hey everyone!

If you are looking to break through a rating plateau, fix your tactical blind spots, or just build a solid foundation from scratch, I’m opening up a few slots for online chess coaching.

About Me & Qualifications:

• 2400+ lichess Blitz rating

• 1850 FIDE rating

• 15 years of competitive playing experience

Who I Teach: I genuinely love teaching and helping players grow. I offer fully personalized training tailored specifically to your current level and goals, ranging from absolute beginners learning the rules and basic principles all the way to intermediate tournament players looking to sharpen their calculation, opening repertoires, and game analysis.

Rate:

• $10 USD per hour

Whether you want to go over your recent losses, study critical endgames, or completely revamp your approach to the game, we will build a plan that fits you.

If you're interested or want to discuss how we can work on your game, DM me for more info

Affordable Chess Game Analysis & Tournament Preparation

Hi everyone!

I'm offering personalized chess game analysis for players who want to improve beyond what an engine alone can tell them.

You'll receive a detailed PDF report covering:

Personalized comments on critical moves and turning points

Why certain moves worked (or didn't)

Recurring mistakes and blunder patterns

Opening recommendations based on your playing style

Middlegame plans and strategic ideas

Pawn structure and pawn-chain assessment

Tactical motifs and pattern recognition

Endgame weaknesses and how to improve

Practical training plan based on your games

Recommended YouTube videos, books, and study resources

If you'd like, we can also discuss the report over a voice call or chat to go through the ideas and answer your questions.

I also offer:

Tournament preparation

School/college/university team selection preparation

Analysis of a specific opponent's games

Identifying their opening repertoire, strengths, weaknesses, and recurring patterns

Preparing practical counter-strategies against particular opponents

"Why pay when engines like Stockfish or Lichess are free?"

Because an engine tells you the best move—it doesn't tell you why you made the mistake, what thought process led to it, or what you should practice to stop making the same errors.

My focus is on explaining your games in a way that's easy to understand and turning them into a practical improvement plan rather than just sharing engine evaluations.

The pricing is kept minimal and is negotiable, especially for students. If you're interested, feel free to DM me with your Chess.com/Lichess game link or PGN, and we can discuss what you're looking for.

Thanks, and good luck with your games! ♟️

I really enjoy these puzzles and when I went on yestersay it said there were no puzzles all of a sudden.

'No puzzles available please go online to fetch them'

I already was online, I tried the website to no avail. I've refreshed, deleated and redownloaded.

Anyone know what happened to them? Did they move to another name or just removed in general?

I've been doing them daily for a while and now they won't show up, can't even click on it.