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So I was playing a chess tourney with my friend for fun no cash or prizes (we would have tied for first). In the last round, my friend had to go to the restroom and took his pen with him(a fancy pilot g2 0.38). When he got back he finished the game with a mate in 3. The Karen then accused him of cheating in the bathroom to find that mate and called the TD. My friend said he took his pen and since the game was so deep (move 40 smthing) he couldn't have used an engine to analyse because the position was scattered and he didn't take the pgn of the game. The karen started saying he downloaded stockfish in his pen and took a picture and some unrealistic nonsense (I'll spare you the details). The TD legit believed the karen and kicked my friend out of the tourney falsely for cheating and me out for defending him. That was a bummer but that was crazy lol. We would have tied for first with 4.5/5 because we drew in round 4.

Pog I won a game getting me to 2100

I have never played OTB before and my ultimate goal is to join an OTB club later this year and actually be decent and hopefully play in some tournaments. I want to play a long time control and play the moves out on my chess board so I can get used to real pieces and the time control. What do you think is the most common otb time control?

I just played the Slav Defense for the first time ever, and I have to say; I really like it. Apparently, the Slav Defense is the most trusted response to d4, and has stood the test of time for over a hundred years. In this game, you’ll see my opponent open with d4, to which I play c6, the Slav Defense - also similar to the Caro-Kann if white opened with e4. However, the Slav defense has different goals in mind then the Caro Kann. With c6, we are anticipating white to play c4, initiating the Queen’s Gambit. Interestingly enough, after playing c6 in response to d4, my opponent was clearly stunned and used over a minute of his time to decide whether or not to continue with the queens gambit. Ultimately, a time disadvantage would prove to be his downfall in the end game. After 30 moves, my opponent would resign down 4 points. My accuracy was 90 with 0 blunders, 0 mistakes, and 0 missed wins - which I’m very very happy about considering this is my very first time ever playing the Slav defense. The more chess I play, the more it is apparent to me “good” chess can be achieved by having a strong opening repertoire and surviving the mid game without blundering. Doing these things will get you to the end game with some sort of advantage. In the game, you will see c6 then d5 opens the door to white weakening their queenside position, and ultimately nullifying any ideas they had with the Queen’s gambit. Furthermore, by opening our bishop lines, we achieve nice attacking ideas throughout the games. You can see that my bishops served as annoying pests, both defensively and offensively. While only my first game with the Slav Defense, it has proven (to me at least) that it’s a worthy response to the unusual d4 white may play. Further research shows us the Slav Defense has actually been used since the 1400’s, but only truly examined and explored in the early 1900’s. Since then, it has grown to be one of the most trusted and safe responses to d4, given its ability to successfully defend against the Queen’s Gambit, as well as generally being a strong response to d4. I’m excited to play more Slav defense in the near future. Also, an update in the race to 1300 against @garbagem8 - this was my 11th straight win (9 wins yesterday, 2 today) and I am now 1274 after tilting below 1200 two days ago. @garbagem8 sits at 1281, so the race has narrowed as we both inch towards the finish line. It’s only getting more nerve-wracking as I get closer. A trophy from @ninjaswat is on the line!

https://www.chess.com/live#g=20571609719 poggers

https://www.chess.com/game/live/20488811193 The only cool thing about this game was the 3 brilliant moves... But how did I blow this lul.

How to not blunder completely winning positions

Along with d4, the Réti opening which starts the game with the unusual Nf3 is quickly becoming one of my favorite openings to play as white for its potential to achieve a nice positional advantage earlier in the opening. As you can see, I play the Réti Gambit, my favorite version of the Réti to play because it’s not really a gambit, rather very easy to quickly win back the pawn. Actually, I hope my opponent accepts the gambit because after d4, e4, I control the center, my opponents queen central pawn is about to be lost after the file for my bishop opens, then I take with the bishop to take full control of the center. It’s very nice to play. However, as you see my opponent did not accept the gambit which led to a series of book moves (always pog) and already a missed win for me as my opponent didn’t know enough Réti theory (as you can see, a winning opportunity already offered if your opponent doesn’t know the theory - yet I didn’t know about this idea until this game) Then, as you can see, I blundered my queen LUL which is easy to do in such a closed position because it’s easy not to see all the attackers. I suppose this is why they say don’t bring your queen out too earlier, because it opens it up to a lot of different attackers. then, I was able to trap his queen and win it back. it’s important to note I had almost +3 according to the engine before my queen blunder. So the Réti gambit proved to be a very engine friendly opening, and one I really like the positions I get out of it. also most people don’t know how to respond to nf3. This was my 9th straight win today in rapid, and I should probably play more because @garbagem8 is almost at 1300 and I want the trophy from @ninjaswat lol but it’s time for dinner then family time, so I’m gonna call it a day playing wise. But feel free to discuss applicable uses of the Réti, it seems to be a very simple and beginner friendly opening that gets white a great position, and most of the theory is relatively natural, or at least easy to learn

hey guys right now i play the italien with white and slav and caro with black i get enough dynamics with black but with white i need an opening with e4 which is really dynamic and attacking kinda like fried liver

1. This kid started bragging about is 1450 rating (8 year old) and called me a noob not knowing I was 2200. 2. I got smacked in the face at a plaza tourney after mating a guy. I have many more lol https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/the-full-karen-story-lol

I made my first account on chess.com on November 14th 2020. I quickly learned that I wasn't as good as I thought I was, and becoming an intermediate player wouldn't be achievable instantly. (I'm not putting my old profile on here because I'm very embarrassed about how ignorant some of my forum posts were but we move) Here is my first game played on Chess.com, played on November 14th: Awful, right? I think most of the beginners in this club play better than this. My bottomed out rating after losing tons of games: I believe my lowest ever rating on Chess.com was about 740. I was able to hit 1200ish after around 3 months and thousands of games Fast forward about 8 months: And the game that got me there:

Questions are written in the annotations. I'll post the answers if people are struggling.

After a lot of setbacks I finally reached 1400 25 days after I reached 1300 A lot of blunders = yes Sorry for not annotating I'm not that intelligent to annotate a game + sorry if this didn't deserve it's own forum just that in the club info it was written we can share milestones

I invented this, I think, never seen this. Think its good, from h4 starts putting pressure and threats

Find the best move for black, or at least moves that don't lose the game (I couldn't)

I am speechless

I am cord now Interesting position discuss how black should continue Black to move

I felt really uncomfortable revealing so I blurred out some info so I don't get tracked. Thank you!

I just learned the hyper accelerated dragon and I came across something that led to this question. It happened when I fianchettoed by king's bishop and then my opponent fianchettoed his queen's bishop. It was a little bit harder for him to do so because he had to protect the b2 square with his rook so he could fianchetto his bishop since I had already put mine along the diagonal. Will his bishop offset my bishop and possibly lead to an exchange of a defender of my kingside for on eof his less important pieces? If so, is it not common and objectively correct to do this because of he has to waste a tempo with rook b1? Are there any other cons? How should I react? Here is the game: