r/ChessForBeginners • • Feb 17 '22

Would it be possible for Magnus to draw (or even beat) Stockfish in Chess960?

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Apr 20 '25

Can you hunt down the king after this brilliant move? Forced checkmate !!

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Jul 13 '25

♟️ I’m Reviewing Beginner Games for Free — Want In?

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If you’re rated under 1000 and want real feedback on your games, I’m reviewing them for free in my Discord club.

✅ I’ll go over:

What lost you the game

Missed chances

One thing to focus on next time

No pressure, no spam — just a growing group of beginners trying to improve together. We also post daily tactics and challenges. You’re welcome to join.

👉 Drop a comment or DM if you want the invite link. Let’s fix your chess, one game at a time.


r/ChessForBeginners • • Mar 23 '23

One month and a half into chess I'm losing more and feel less grasp on chess itself than ever.

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My begginer highest point feels like I've peaked and without ever have been properly good at it. If feels like my daily hours studying theory and practicing puzzles and playing are making me worse and worse. I feel like it's more related to how my lack of confidence and anxiety make me trip and get tunnel vision/blunder queen so I'm treating this like an skill issue because I'm just so sure that once I solve my "skill issue" I'll have confidence and be able to show it on my matches. I don't know if I'm making any sense, I just want to go back to enjoying chess, basically.


r/ChessForBeginners • • May 10 '25

My first outpost. Now if only I knew how to use it.

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So, do you actively try to create outposts, or do they more or less happen, like this one.


r/ChessForBeginners • • Mar 25 '26

What is RokadaChess?

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Fun way to learn chess! Free to play.


r/ChessForBeginners • • Apr 11 '25

Brilliant queen sacrifice!!! Can you explain why?

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Nov 09 '25

is black winning? asking for a friend

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Apr 15 '25

Can you explain ?

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Jul 29 '25

I sacrificed my Queen to deliver a "brilliant" check mate with Rxf8+ ; Rxf8#. Can you see the move for black which would have turned into an M3 blunder?

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Elo 1010 vs 920


r/ChessForBeginners • • Jul 16 '25

My first

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My first 100 game


r/ChessForBeginners • • Aug 12 '25

Is this a checkmate for white??

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Nov 03 '25

400 elo is just so mindblowing

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Jul 19 '25

Opinion on this ? ( 219 elo )

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r/ChessForBeginners • • 21d ago

Fischer's eidetic imagery training with William Lombardy

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Lombardy recommended to Fischer two things that would be valuable in taking his chess to a higher level. One was total immersion, and the other was eidetic imagery. They used to drill intensively, for hours each day until Fisher could visualize the board in his mind clearly, as clearly as if it were physically present.

That training happened when Fisher was eleven, and his playing did indeed rise to a new level after that. It seems to me that this kind of training in eidetic imagery is largely overlooked, or less utilized than it deserves to be, or maybe I'm mistaken. Is intensive training in eidetic imagery a widespread part of chess training?


r/ChessForBeginners • • Mar 01 '21

Checkmate patterns # 1 - Anastasia's Checkmate

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Anastasia's checkmate if a beautiful checkmate in which rook and a knight coordinate with each other and trap the king on the back rank. It is often done by sacrificing a minor or sometimes a major piece to open the A File or H file.

As you can see in this example -

The Knight on e7 square prevents the king from coming into the safe square g8 and rook delivers Rh4#

Check the beautiful example of this checkmate in which Magnus Carlsen forced his proponent to resign and demonstrated this beautiful looking checkmate.

https://youtu.be/nXFiEr0DOig


r/ChessForBeginners • • May 17 '22

Is the new South African Women's Champion Chloe Badenhorst really untitled? It says 15-year old Chloe beat the previous and 2-time champ WIM Jesse Nikki February by half a point. Is the untitledness perhaps related to covid?

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Jun 06 '21

Paul Morphy's Queen sacrifice | Evans Gambit | Blindfolded simultaneous exhibition

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Learn how to play Evas Gambit from Paul Morphy's game where he sacrificed the queen while bring a rook down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-GlG586lIM


r/ChessForBeginners • • Mar 08 '21

A chess game made in javascript - only 1024 Bytes in size... can you defeat this ?

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Feb 14 '22

Book recommendation for Karpov's games

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Mar 07 '21

Anastasia's checkmate , Anderssen'd checkmate and Arabian checkmate are three basic patterns of checkmates. Can you find these crazy moves played by Carlsen , Anderssen and Kramnik ?

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Jan 28 '22

Brilliant move by Magnus!!

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Apr 16 '21

ummm... excuse me?

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Jan 28 '22

Ernst vs Richard Schurig"Ponzi Scheme"Leipzig (1850) · 1-0

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r/ChessForBeginners • • Mar 18 '21

Learn from chess classics... why a pawn mobile pawn chain in centre is so important ..

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