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here was best game: i beat him 2-1 and we both were on tilt so already know it was going to be good

I'm pretty happy with this game over all; scored 92% which is higher than most of my rapid games :/

Game of the year?

Here we go, the ULTIMATE guide to tournaments in B&M! A lot of you folks wanted more tournaments, so the admin team and I worked on some to itch your chess-playing itch. While you're here, please follow the Tournament Notification Forum. Weekly Practice Tournament Rated: No Time control: 5|0 Arena Length: 90 minutes Day/Time: Saturdays, 4:30 pm PST Upcoming date is April 16th. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monthly Bullet Arena Rated: No Time control: 1|0 Arena Length: 30 minutes Day/Time: First Sunday of the month, 4 pm EST Upcoming date is May 1st. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly 3|0 Blitz Rated: No Time control: 3|0 Arena Length: 60 minutes Day/Time: Every Sunday except for Sundays with the Monthly Bullet tournament at 9:00 am PST. Upcoming dates are April 17th and April 24th.

Hello members of Beginners & Masters! Today I have a special announcement for everyone! This is unlike anything we've done before, where cash prizes are offered to not only the winner of an upcoming tournament Beginners & Masters will be hosting, but also players of ALL skill levels! The date is TBD (to be decided) until we find out a good date and time this week that works for our members. But the prizes will be as follows: Grand Winner - Paid Premium Membership Best Finisher Sub 1000 (Rapid) - Paid Membership Best Finisher Sub 1400 (Rapid) - Paid Membership Best Finisher Sub 2000 (Rapid) - Paid Membership All memberships can be substituted out with a position as Coordinator in the Beginners & Masters club, if you so wish. If you are already Coordinator and win one of the categories above, you will be promoted to Admin! All memberships given will be for a single (1) month. We love doing these tournaments here at Beginners & Masters, and are proud to be the only club on chess.com that offers such a contest that gives back to its members! The only stipulation to win the prize is you must be a current member of Beginners & Masters (if you are reading this for the first time, of course you can join before the tournament starts - the tournament will only be open to B&M members) Now, lets hear some dates and times that work for everybody below vvv

I love chess but I think I just killed his hopes and dreams Ty and have a nice day

31 players have registered for the Second B&M Candidates Tournament. Therefore, with an odd number of players @little_guinea_pig, the #1 seed, will receive a first round bye. The rest of the seeding is below: 1. @little_guinea_pig 2250 2. @TheSwissPhoenix 2139 3. @Trophies100 2080 4. @chessplayer109485 2067 5. @ninjaswat 2066 6. @chesswithnickolay 2066 (ninjaswat wins tiebreak and the #5 seed due to a significantly higher blitz rating). 7. @colorfulcake 2065 8. @tetrafishygm2 1986 9. @kowarenai 1919 10. @the_fish_lair 1878 11. @fayez58 1874 12. @DubstepJunkie 1867 13. @neatgreatfire 1859 14. @chz3369 1770 15. @snow 1748 16. @Nimzo-IndianaJones 1704 17. @Chr0mepl8edst0vepipe 1686 18. @hvenki 1625 19. @LazyDog24 1571 20. @KingMonkey400 1528 21. @chaotikitat 1442 22. @KnightAttack1567 1404 23. @OranegJuice 1356 24. @BellaAndRosie 1337 25. @TheChessman_78 1295 26. @Viznik 1214 27. @Wolf_Plays_Chess 1163 28. @shanlee132 1154 29. @bankai2069 1009 30. @Wowthisisweird 917 31. @chests909 752 Pairings: @little_guinea_pig -FIRST ROUND BYE #2 @TheSwissPhoenix (white) vs. #31 @chests909 #3 @Trophies100 (black) vs. #30 @Wowthisisweird #4 @chessplayer109485 (white) vs. #29 @bankai2069 #5 @ninjaswat (white) vs. #28 @shanlee132 #6 @chesswithnickolay (black) vs. #27 @Wolf_Plays_Chess #7 @colorfulcake (white) vs. #26 @viznik #8 @tetrafishygm2 (black) vs. #25 @TheChessman_78 #9 @kowarenai (black) vs. #24 @BellaAndRosie #10 @the_fish_lair (white) vs. #23 @OranegJuice #11 @fayez58 (black) vs. #22 @KnightAttack1567 #12 @DubstepJunkie (white) vs. #21 @chaotikitat #13 @neatgreatfire (white) vs. #20 @KingMonkey400 #14 @chz3369 (white) vs. #19 @LazyDog24 #15. @snow (black) vs. #18 @hvenki #16. @Nimzo-IndianaJones (black) vs. #17 @Chr0mepl8edst0vepipe This easily took an hour for me to finish, and there's bound to be mistakes. Don't hesitate to let me know if there are any. You have from now March 11 to next Saturday (March 19) to private message, chat, whatever with your opponent and play ONE 15/10, unrated game with them. Colors are specified in the pairings. It is mandatory to play from whatever color is designated to you, otherwise the game is null and void. Moreover, when the game is finished, post the results and a link to the game here. Good luck everyone!!

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Here is a compilation of 15 positions from my games (Online and OTB) where my opponents made critical errors in the opening. Some solutions are obvious, and some are not so obvious. These are made in no particular order: #1: In this Sicilian Taimanov, white just went "danger levels", and the black queen looks trapped. However, black has a strong refutation here: #2: In the Petrosian System of the Grunfeld, white just took the "free" pawn on d5. Is black going to just lose a pawn, or is this move a mistake? #3: In this Taimanov Sicilian, white has just played f4 to gain some space. Is this a good move, or does black have a tactic? #4: In this Evans Gambit, black has just castled his king, thinking he's safe. Is he really though? #5: Black has just played d6, blocking the bishop's diagonal and thinking he's safe. Will white just be down two pawns, or does he have a tactic here? #6: Black has just played Nde4, protecting against mate and it looks like white has no more attack. However, white has a strong move to completely shatter black's resistance... #7: In this Scandinavian, black played Qc6, keeping the queen out and expects white to develop. However, white can win the game immediately. How? #8: In this Philidor defense position, black has played Bg4-Bxf3. Will this be another normal game, or can white prove a significant advantage immediately? #9: In this KID, white has just castled, thinking nothing of black's obscure-looking last move: Qe8. However, black has a tactic to immediately get an advantage. How? #10: White has just played Ba4 in response to a6 in the Rossolimo Sicilian. Black can now win a piece; how? #11: In this sharp line of the King's Gambit, black played Qg4 in response to Nf3 by white. It looks like the queen will hang around and cause problems, but is the queen really safe on this square? #12: In the Fried Liver Main Line, black has just played the innocent-looking Bd6, preparing to castle on the next move. However, this allows a tactic by white: #13: In this Sicilian Taimanov (again), white just played g3, intending to punish Qc7 by Bf4. However, this leads to disaster for the white position: #14: In this Traxler Counterattack position, black has just played Qf6 in response to g6, saving the queen and threatening Qf2# once more. However, this is the wrong approach, and white is now winning: #15: This one should be quite obvious, yet I still see this blundered at the 1800+ level, and I don't understand why; black to play and win: I hope you have found these educational. Hopefully this can help you recognize some of the blunders your opponents are making and to take advantage of them. GL in your games!

Yesterday Viznik and Colorfulcake had an epic battle! This was a rollercoaster game despite the rating gap. Enjoy!

The B&M Candidates tournament match between me (@viznik) and @colorfulcake will take place in 10 minutes. So tune in to watch me upset him live and play some brilliant !! Swindles!

Here are two puzzles for y'all to solve. I came across both of these tactics in The Woodpecker Method, a classic tactics training procedure by Swedish (I think?) GM, Axel Smith. They both feature similar motifs and I just wanted to see if y'all were able to solve them. Oh, also here's a random meme I thought of today that I'll post for no reason. (It's chess-related btw). The vast majority of chess players: The underlying goal of all openings and defenses is to control the center. B1ZMARK:

This player was super nice hope we can get more nice players like @Rustam207 Don't bully how bad we play. We were talking like crazy. (and yes this is a 700 rapid game but I don't care)

delayed bongcloud go brr

Hey guys! This is a recap of my game against @neatgreatfire for the B&M Championships. Fully annotated. Enjoy! Thanks, KM400

First chapter: The gateway of restaring chess Last year 2021 So when school ended I have no Idea what to play or do to my bad computer and some of my games got blocked so I think of "What will keep me happy in a good way". I tried Minecraft on the PS4 but it got boring after you have the most broken bow by FISHING (yeah I didn't Free the end) I tried pac-man but it by far one of the most raging for me due to the fast ghost at lvl 6 (Never hit lvl 7 and my dad got there before me ) Even my 3DSXL... oh right that was lost for two year and I found it IN THE BAG. I was carring it for years of true pain. So I brainstorm and when I brainstorm the past comes back and yes I know thinks up to 1 year old me which is crazy. So I think and think and found a chess yt video. It was so cool and then it hit me like someone shot a gun. I played chess for 3 years when I was younger (5th grade to 7th grade) and then it was gone. But I have 3 months to learn chess now so. Chapter 2: My first alt. My first alt had an ok amount of stuff until the day came and lost everything so next... oh hold up. Ok I have to do the whole story which is fine with me. I did some things that most chess youtubers will do like how to do the 4 move mate and what game is best for people replaying chess but My first game was my last due to the O-O this move BROKE my mind and it was so hard to recover from it. I had no idea how to do it until one nice guy told me how to do it in 4 - chess (4 player chess) inorder to do a O-O or a O-O-O you have to make sure your king doesn't move and the rook is there with no other peices blocking it then the king move 2 space and the rook move behine the king proteccing tha king. But all lived short due to a hacker hacked my alt and man it was sad but hey it killed most of the summer so what's next? Writer what is next to the story. Chapter 3: The Born of Chests909 Ahhh much better, I have a very bad start with Chests909 I went down like a mouse trying to get away from a cat. Playing with it's food then killing it when it gets a bit of hope. But that's fine how long will it be til my first win? It took 4 games til my first win in blitz but after that I been losing left and right. The points when from 100+ to 8+ in 20 games. I lost my hope then and their and made friends in Live chess. Chapter 4: Inprovement is hard My goal was to make it to 1k before the school year ends but I was getting hit by a huge Q how am I going to hit to 1k with olny +6 to +8 points? So I just started watching some streams and Youtube videos til I looked and found the "Learn" button and the "Puzzle" button. I use them so much that even a OG players will have kindness over my Learning. I was a quick learner so the first thing after 50 games of losing and rarely winning I went to Bot and try to take down the easy bot but It clapped me before it got the chance. But it didn't stop me and after 20 trys I beat the easy bot with my first checkmate which was the queen. After that game I tryed a Real game. LOST every MATCH. Chapter 5: 100 to 200 elo So how many games did it take me to get to 200 elo (and if you want to go back in time I bump into a hacker with 100 elo so low players aren't safe.) 20 games to hit it the first time and to have it at a calm without me going down to 100 elo is 210 games with 5 no-no players but I don't earn points due to me being at 100 or less. Chapter 6: Clubs and Friendships My first Bff that stay and help me inproved in the game was @eseehCnaF he is sadly not here anymore ( o7 ) And my first club wasn't this club sadly but I can't say it do to me breaking the rules and I don't want to break any of them. Chapter 7: A little bet change my life forever. So I was bored and my bro found me playing chess. But he look at my Pfp and he want me to change it. So I change it to a snake but he wants something better so I made it a drangon but he want it to be what pretty much every boy has as their Pfp (I don't need to say a word more lol) I sayed no way because I am saving people some drama and creepers (old men). So he made a bet a little bet you see it was so small that it can be so powerful. He said If I hit 600 Elo before the end of the year or/and under 1k games you win a card. But what I lose then he picks my Pfp for a whole month. You might be thinking "That a scammer bet" or "You will most lose to this" but you were right. Chapter 7: Sadness took over my playstyle 500 games in and I'm at mid 350 but still suffing the sad blues. Making the games a lot harder for me. And before I tryed to calm down It just will not work. It was too powerful so I just tryed to let go of it. But out of nowhere I made a new friend. He was super nice and talked about life major of the time. And you might say ohh no he might have left you as well but no He is still here in Live chess watching GM battle each other. We still talk but it makes me happy and watch GM fight each other helps me a whole lot. Chapter 8: How I Jumped into the tip of my peak. In Oct I went from 300 to 500 in the start of dec 3 but then I started to fall in a stuck path. 400 is super hard for me to do to everyone using their queen to kill every pawn and rook they see. And it hard to counter. But I must stay high so I can make it to the end. Then It hit me Sadness came once more. Hitting harder then belt and steam together. I was sad. Chapter 9: Countering my fears. My mind want to end it all after getting in trouble for every little thing I found a slip and lived thougth the pain and made it with no self death attems. But my mind really wants it tho. I got happy and my mom got water and my own Room. What are the odds of having my bad computer being ok and a tv I bet by brother doesn't have anything better then that. He has a TV that he can work for ALL Gaming things he can play on the computer, watch tv, play on his switch and if he want to flex on the PS4 without LAG. Plus his computer is Lag free. (Fair fair even thought he has His phone every night and I DON't) Ok getting off track so. I was in my room thinking how in the world am I going to hit 600 in 100 -200 games. Then I seen it WATER. Last chapter: The Holy water of hope Every match I drink water and now I broke my winstreak my losses and wins look even and my heart is bigger but That doesn't means there is a happy ending yet I must win and get 600 before trm I just told him about it and oh yeah wait why am I worrying I got it. My mind is crazy sometimes lol. But anyways I will show you The game that got me to 600 and a my face. For some reason it didn't show what I got with my winnings which is The HOLY and tasty SPAKLING ICE KIWI STRAWBERRY And here's the game that got me to my W. and Lol my bro want me to go too 700 next XD. And sick mate ok I going to sleep Zzz...

Let's say you're playing a blitz game and you start dominating your opponent (one can dream, right?) - you get up so much in material and time, surely any decent person would just resign so we both can move on to playing another game. But instead, this opponent, down majorly on time and material, decides to try to ... flag you? With two knights ... or just waste your time. So, with that in mind, what are the correct moves in the puzzle below?

Now I can say srry for killing him but it was his mistake You can just tell that drinking water is super powerful for me

What am I doing this low rating. https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/41007505699 oh yeah can anyone check this game please.