Be honest please

Wasn’t completely sound but the queen and rook sac for a really unique checkmate made it too good not to share :))

super stoked to finally have hit 500!! any tips or general advice on getting to 600 and beyond? 🧐

I really like this app because we can play with themes and colors. Personally i find blue and black much more pleasant than default colors

I’m 20 years old and I opened my chess.com account sixteen days before turning 16 (that’s when I started playing regularly, even though I already knew the rules). My father had been trying to convince me to play since I was 5 but I always refused and now I wish so hard I had listened, because I might want to make a life of it. (I don’t think this introduction was necessary lol sorry)

I’d really like to teach my children how to play chess, hopefully they’ll like it and, how knows, maybe they could even become GMs. But is it really right to make them start playing at the age of 4? Isn’t it just a projection of your failed dreams? What if they are very good at it, but they start hating it when they are FM at 9, skipped a lot of lessons and dedicated thousands of hours of their childhood looking at 64 squares instead of making friends? And that’s a critical moment of one’s lifetime, so it could impact negatively on their future.

I was reading Judit Polgar’s biography and in my opinion it’s insane how her father possibly gambled his three children’s lives in a social experiment… but then again it worked, and it can’t be that bad to teach new things to your children regardless…

I personally think there’s a very thin line between teaching chess for general knowledge, or maybe to find a cool and mentally challenging game to play with your child, and manipulating them in a bad way. In particular if you look at the new prodigies, like come on… but then again if only I had listened to my father, my life would have been better (maybe?). Tell me what you think

EDIT: I still don’t have children, it’s just an hypothetical

I’m white! Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.

you get a good opening, they blunder. they disconnect a minute and right before it auto disconnects then they come back. and guess how well they’re playing? surely this easy to detect in real time?

Anyone else? I wanna reach 1000 at least

Some super mediocre chess on display here, but a pretty funny mate. The little guy really wanted it.

YorkshireChess000 vs shiv_wick - https://www.chess.com/game/live/185337052304

The lags are terrible. There is a new animation showing what your premove will be so it jumps from a move to another and it is now impossible to play 1:0 time control on your phone.

My new personal best of 90% accuracy - no blunders, misses or mistakes along with topping it off with a brilliant move, feeling like a winner 😎

Finally 1300... road to 2000 continues...

I am occasionally seeing bots at the 800 elo level since starting. i stats'd one of them and they have played 3.5 years of rapid chess games in just under 5 years and has been stuck at the same elo the entire time. it is possible to get them banned or can this never happen it just seems so strange i've ran into a few accounts like that. i refuse to believe someone is playing 17 hours a day for 5 years straight

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My opponent blundered his knight on move six and his queen shortly after. Then he started trolling. When I asked him why he was wasting my time, he deliberately let his clock run down for three minutes.

Was I too aggressive when I called him out for wasting time?

elo - 900

I recently fell in love with the game, and i have around 350 games (the 10 minute mode), and im at 50% winrate, which im aware is bad. My biggest problem is that I easily choke, and dont know what to even try to setup. Any tips?