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What do higher rated players, i.e. 1800+ players think before they make a move? @ninjaswat (coach), said that he looks for the following: checks captures threats hanging pieces weak squares bad pieces good pieces king safety What do you higher rated players think? What tactics and defensive strategies do you look for to help us minor players out? (100-1400ish)

Also 1227 pog, the race against @garbagem8 to 1300 is back in contention! Eeeeeeeeee Edit: also forgot to mention this is my first ever queens gambit game although my opponent played something totally different, I just went with it anyway LOL

Hi everyone! These past few days I have taken interest into the Dutch opening for black. But I can't find many places that tell me the downsides of the opening, so I was wondering if anyone could explain please!

Name your time as PST, MST, CST, or EST. I was going to ask too what opening we should try, but chess.com never fixed the bug (sadge)

I'm learning the currently learning London System, doing it the same way I always do: 1. Watch a GothamChess 10-minute openings video about the corresponding opening if there is one available 2. Play the moves in the analysis board along with the video 3. Write down key points 4. Watch Hanging Pawns videos about the opening and (try) to memorize the variations 5. Play it against a bot! 6. Play in a real game! Any tips? Here's what I've learned so far: After 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 e6 4.Nf3 Bd6, instead of trading the bishop right away, "slide", as gothamchess calls it, the bishop back to g3, so that upon black taking the bishop and hxg3, white's h-rook faces a nice open file. If black plays Qe7 to help advance the e-pawn, play Ne5 to stop black from a)playing e5 and b)creating an equal position. Try to attack the kingside after castling, bringing queen to attack, launching forward the f-pawn, and possibly bringing forward the knight. Any tips? Please share anything you know about the London that is helpful! (that is not, for example, "the london is terrible" "london players are lazy" or something)

Beauty

So as you may know, I am an attacker with the London. I know tricks, create my own. This is one that a lot of people miss, but this may be my best game with 97.3% accuracy. 0 mistakes, 0 blunders, 1 missed wins, 10 best moves, 1 excellent move, 2 good moves, 2 book moves Annotations included: This could've been stopped easily but I had multiple plans in effect in-case this did happen. It was a nice attacking game overall. boosted me up a lot of rapid rating points too.

^^^ I'm just curious to see what's common and I might be considering changing my response to 1.d4. Just say what opening you play

Stuff like crazyhouse/bughouse, atomic, fog of war, that kinda thing. I'm partial to bughouse. It adds a very strange layer of strategy where you might throw everything you've got at a knight so your teammate can checkmate. Very different game, but very fun.

I think it would be nice to have this. I will make some questions but @Viznik or commenters can suggest more. I hope you consider this option 1: What is your chess.com username? 2. What position do you want? A: Coord. B: Admin 3. What is your current position? A: Member B: Coordinator 4. How will you help the club? 5. Do you have any experience running or helping other clubs? A: No. B: Yes 6. If you picked yes, explain your experience 7. Is there any time coming up that you will be unable to be active here? 8. Name any additional info

I meant to play nb4. After nb4, I had anticipated qa4+ and then nc6 (And Black is much better), but somehow I found myself playing nc6 first.... And this 1800+ blunders mate in one

Can't play chess rip so sick

Ok let’s solve this once and for all, no shim sham. Are there actually any real benefits of speed chess? Bullet/blitz. Other than it being more addictive than crack. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS??? LET ME TELL YOU THERE ARE NONE THERE ARE NOOOOOOONNEEEE ITS A SHAME A SHAME A SHAME ITS A BIG SCAM!!!!! DONT PLAY SPEED CHESS SAVE YOURSELF. SAVE YOURSELF. The only benefit is if you want to play a quick, lax game against a friend or something and it’s not serious. KEYWORD: NOT. SERIOUS. when I get a sweater who moves at the speed of light and flags me listen I want to blow up my own house with a nuke it pisses me off so much

This is a two-way poll! This is a fun little idea! If this happens the time control will be 10I0. First, say 1. Y (Yes) or N (No) This is if you want to do a particular opening tournament where white+black has to play a certain opening.. 2. (if Yes) (insert 1 Opening) I will add the Opening List Here from where you can pick from (add slashes to each vote), I will bold the answer with the lead: Sicilian Scandinavian Queen's Gambit / King's Gambit Four Knights Grunfeld London System // Accelerated London Tayler Opening Wayward Queen Dutch Defense // Englund Gambit Grob Opening Ruy Lopez Nimzo-Indian King's Indian Queen's Indian Insert Indian Opening Here (Idea) Barnes Opening / Pogcloud // Caro-Kann Defense / Vienna Gambit / Lemming Defense / Traxler / Marienbad System / Insert Opening Here Insert Opening Here Don't do a prank opening, if you have any ideas, include them in your comment. Yes: /////////// No:// / 1 Vote No Pranks Free Ideas Y/N

Ggs to all who played in the tournament! Congrats to @DaBabysBurner for winning with 39.0! Impressive! In second place, @tetrafishygm2 at 38.0, just one point behind. Third place, none other than @ricorat! And in fourth, @rook_handler! We will be having blitz tournaments every Monday and Friday at 7EST!

I remember what B1Z said and wanted to psych my opponent it. It must’ve worked because he took I took he took I took he took I took and then I ended up winning the game you know I used to be something beautiful in blitz. 1198.. before tilting. Just got back to 1100, flat. You know what, it’s time to take the throne back. I’m tired of being in the bottom 3 in our blitz tournaments. Time to grind so I can be bottom 5!! LETS GO

This is my NEW "Chess Schedule and Health Chess to limit games". - 10 or less rated rapid games to prevent tilt - 5 or less rated (unrated - warm-ups) blitz games - 10-20 unrated bullet (unrated - improves fundamental and fast vision) -UNLIMITED PUZZLES ON LICHESS - tactics 100 Chess Schedule (in order, top-bottom), through day/day-half: Puzzle Warm-up 2-3 Unrated Blitz Warm-ups Puzzle Warm-up 1-3 rated rapid games 3-5 unrated bullet 1 -2 rated rapid Puzzles (warm-ups or continuous) More PUZZLES!! 10 unrated bullet matches 1 unrated blitz 3-4 rated rapid puzzles bed So you don't care at all but I just want to keep it here for myself. Hehe

Lately I've seen some more instructional posts on the the above openings. Thanks for that, but I was wondering if someone would play a 60 min game (unrated of course) with me, using one of those openings? I feel that if I had real time questions, insight gievn to me during the game I could really benefit from it. Or possibly me playing one and having someone much stronger than me go over it with some detailed analysis would really help me. Thanks in advance for considering. P.S. The game would be set to fit both of our schedules of course, thought I should throw that out there.

Today i played my 2000th rapid game against a higher rated player in a tournament, and i wanted to share it to see what everyone thinks about it, while adding comments with my thought process.

In my games played of London system (about 5 or 6), I witnessed in about half or so of these games this very stupid move that I want to counter and not be passive and put my bishop in a hole. Here: Or I don't play e3 at all and do this: