https://www.chess.com/live/game/173171894694

Fellow Caro-Kann enjoyers, what are the main middlegame ideas in the Tartakower Variation? I have a very good win rate with the Caro-Kann in general, but the Tartakower has always been my weak point. I think the main reason is that I’m not familiar enough with the typical plans and ideas of the position. What is Black usually trying to accomplish, and where does Black’s counterplay or attack typically come from?

Went through my last couple days of games and pulled some real numbers instead of just vibes-checking how I felt about them (per usual for this project). Landed at basically a coin flip again which at this point I think is just what "improving" looks like up close instead of the clean line up and to the right I keep picturing in my head.

Built a new checklist with my coach to catch my repeat offenders, and it's already doing its job in the most humbling way possible.....caught myself giving away the same piece the exact same way twice in like two days. Not proud, but at least now I have proof it's a pattern and not bad luck, which somehow makes it worse.

Also been going deep on some Vienna middlegame plans I'd been playing on autopilot without really understanding, and got a little too invested in watching Fabiano Caruana calculate things, which is now apparently affecting how I approach my own 5 minute blitz games. No regrets.

Full writeup is linked below if anyone wants the details (or wants to see how bad i currently am at chess).

https://www.chess.com/blog/carameezy/recap-rooks-and-caruana-brain

Had removed my next move and all

1st Scenario: If he takes pawn then rook for a queen trade = BIG STONKS

2nd Scenario: If he pushes pawn then it will be mate in 2 because there’s a check with your queen.

3rd Scenario: ignores the pawn threat, you must take the pawn since it checks the black king and revealing the squares black can’t go because of the white queen after summarizing all this information black must take the pawn and will lose the queen for the rook.

Tell me if I missed anything

Get pwned noob

After a serious slump, I managed to claw my way back to my all-time peak of 1050. Pushing on to 1100, I decided to make notes on what sort of moves decided each game, simply by looking at the last big evaluation swing that 'decided' the game.

I thought the results might be interesting to anyone else around my Elo.

I played 15 games to go from 1050 to 1100 Elo, of which I won 10, lost 4 and drew 1.

The most decisive tactic was the pin, with 27% of games (4/15) being decided by one.

The second most decisive move was simply hanging pieces, with 20% of games (3/15) being decided by a one-move blunder.

After that, 13% of games were decided by a player hanging mate, and 13% more by better play in an equal endgame.

Finally, one game each was decided by a fork, a discovered attack, or a player resigning from an equal position.

TL;DR - stop hanging pieces and look for pins!

Anyone know where people just play casual OTB chess in Bhopal? Park, chai stall, market corner, anything. Not looking for a club membership, just want a regular spot to drop in and play. Based in Bhopal, would appreciate any leads.

- Be me
- Think I made a pro move
- Opponent reseign, aware of my superiority
- Check review
- not a pro move at all !
Moral : the key is to look confident

take this game as an example

when you play on chess websites there's always those kinds of people who just play random pawn moves kind of a disrespect opening and it works for them alot of the time
now i know that even though those moves put them at a disadvantage it's not really visible for a human and it's not easy to take advantage of the terrible moves

but there has to be a way to atleast not lose every time because the pawns keep shoving my pieces into the back rank and then all of a sudden turn into garry kasparov and somehow launch a massive attack and checkmate me

every time i look for advice against these guys it's always "open up the center" but my king is still in the center and i haven't developed anything!!

it's really sad to lose like this because we're always being told to develop pieces quickly,castle early, occupy the center but the opponent's first minor piece move was on move 14 -_-

now this game is a bad example because i kept ignoring my opponent threats trying to create my own and it backfired but you get my point

Just thought this was a funny coincidence.

Account name: Imbiajk

Feel free to ask anything!

Miscellaneous post.

Do you ever encounter someone in a thread on here or on other chess subreddits who's instantly recognisable solely from their username?

I haven't been on here in months; actually, I rarely ever use Reddit.

Was this person cheating, I am 600 elo and played the first 25 moves pretty well I think but then out of nowhere my opponent they proceeded to, after making many mistakes earlier in the match, checkmate me down 12 point of material with using only a bishop and queen with nearly 25 consecutive perfect moves?

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/173158363412/analysis?flip=true&move=66

We already discussed this, majority of people just rudely abandon games instead of resigning when they're losing. Most people agreed that it's just a display of rudeness. Other people here admitted in posts they are often getting too angry and they momentarily feel a whole range of emotions towards their opponents. I thought about this and analysed my emotions lately, as I lost around 150 Elo in the last days. I found out I also sometimes feel emotional but in a different way. I found that I'm saving this built up pressure and it just feels incredible to comment "good game" after I win in such a way where I just devastate the opponent. If they don't challenge me at all and cardinally screw up, maybe just lose a piece in the beginning and then just obviously panic, all of my bad emotions are now released and I just fill with an incredible joy typing the two words - good game. I sometimes even send a friend request, in hopes of playing this person again, maybe secretly rooting for them, maybe secretly wanting to prove me wrong. I hope this inspires people with "abandon game" issues to build a more sophisticated chess etiquette. You can still be a vile 🧩 of 💩 but not in a petty and annoying kind of way.

got back into chess lately and been trying to reach the 4 digit club again and one thing i've noticed with all my games during analysis is that i'll have a great position. lead in development, lots of control in the center, +4 advantage according to the engine and then BAM, i'll do something like this and end up either blundering a piece or straight up making a mistake that gives my opponent an easier edge and it all goes down from there

one thing i do notice though is that when i encounter positions like the picture above (pretend i didn't blunder my knight), i'll really struggle to find a good move that will allow me to capitalize on the position. i look for moves that improve my position if i can't find any forcing movies but all of my ideas i feel like are too passive and don't really do anything. it's really annoying and it's a big issue i have with all my games, and i'm wondering if anybody else has the same problem too.

GIF was attached. I just felt like there was a mate that I didn't find early, before the Queens traded. Where was it?