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After a suspicious bunch of opening play (Which is to be expected from me), a middlegame has arrived where white's plans are clear and black's is not. Then black takes on a weakness for no reason, but is not terrible. White slowly puts pressure on black, who eventually cracks to a forcing line that wins material.

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I have no idea what to learn. Here are my top 5 choices that I would want to learn for openings. Help me choose one for each color! Sicilian (Black) Scandinavian (Black) London System (White) Queens Gambit (White) Caro-Kann (Black) ??? (e4 opening/white) Also, I don't know what I am doing wrong. During many openings I come across some knight tactics and pawn problems. I.E. (im black): Gambits bruh And (I'm white): Something stupid like this, where there is a pawn attack from when I moved my knight, this happens in a ton of situations from a pawn in the center attacking my knight. Help??? (for both questions)

I'm making this the night before the Grand tournament so it's there If you're playing in it tomorrow, put a game or two that you're proud of/found interesting/was important for the results of the tournament and we'll select some to put in the tournament recap Regards

Had I won this game, I would have gotten to 1400 again. Unfortunately, that was not to be Also, if anybody can comment on the opening (the QGA), I'd appreciate it a lot.

KG = King's Gambit V = Vienna G = Game GA = Gambit The V-KG, also known as the VG: Max Lange, V GA, is a super aggressive opening. It goes on its close cousin- the KG. The KG is of course regarded as dubious and unsound by many people and so of course that also applies to the V-KG. Here is what it is: The V-KG leads to the Hamppe-Muzio and Hamppe-Allgaier Gambits, as well as the Steinitz and Pierce Gambits. In most of the lines white basically gets a KG with Nc3 and Nc6 added in: If you look closer into the lines you see more and more similarity with KG. there is one main difference the two knights on c3 and c6, in this following line black's knight on c6 makes a huge difference: There has been a lot of talk about the Hamppe-Muzio Gambit which is a variation of the main KG: Muzio Gambit. I will be continuing this thread with another one in the near future with analysis but for now bye!

I’m in a constant loop of playing Bishop’s opening then Ng5 to try for the fried liver. It works like half the time, but the other half I get games like this. Poor development and no control over the center. I really feel the bishop’s opening + Ng5 (fried liver attack) is really limiting my development and wins. Yet I don’t really know what else to play! Ive started playing more of the Italian Game since it follows my bishops opening addiciton, which is honestly a very nice and comfortable position for me And I also have been playing more Vienna games (quite a lot) but don’t really know the actual theory for it other than the basic opening development. My question is: How bad really is the fried liver attack for someone like me at my rating? I feel like it’s just a step above the scholars mate, and everybody above 1200 knows exactly how to completely punish it (true or false) And two, should I completely abandon the bishops opening/Italian game/Vienna opening and actually learn some theory? Theory is hard to learn. Maybe I just need to learn some solid theory and practice it in unrated games, I think the fear of losing ELO while trying new theory is holding me back. Thoughts?

No more 1600 jokes : ) Idk how I fell that much, but I think it's pretty cool that even though I tilted 150+ points I still had an overall gain for the last 30 days chart

I had an accuracy of 97.5 while the 1400 had an accuracy of 80! Time control: 45|45, the most underplayed time control

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So about a week ago moon and I had agreed to play some rapid games and analyze them together on a discord vc, which we did publicly. The score ended up being 1-1, with moon winning the second one and me winning the first. Both were pretty wild games, but since I only have a limited amount of time on the internet and I want to go and play some video games now, I have limited myself to only annotating the one I won ( in order to increase ego size ). On the explanation of why white's 5.g4? is a serious opening mistake... Basically, when you're in a lead in development, you wish to open lines. Black, conversely, wishes to keep them closed until he can group his forces sufficiently. g4 looks aggressive on the outside, kicking black's h5 knight and gaining space, but in fact this is all an illusion. White, having wasted an entire move to force black's knight to go somewhere it was going to go anyways, has, simply, overextended. Black strikes back with ...h5, and either forces the position to be completely closed, or forces white to split his pawns and recieve h file pressure after gxh5 Nxh5. Long story short, white forces black to play good moves and cannot consolidate himself in time. Therefore the advantage goes to black.

Hello, I beat MLP8. Very good game from both of us. Props to MLP8. I won the game pretty upperhandedly, mostly from my idea of long-castle to attack with my open file rook. 1 mistake, 1 blunder, 1 missed win P.S. I used my strategy at the end to move everybody at once (pawn, pawn2, king). I learned this from an IM. *Note: Not to brag, but half of my moves were all best moves lol. here is the game: Also, another note. I suck at queen+king endgames due to stalemates, so In reality I took half a minutes time to see if my moves were stalemate or not. Thanks!

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@Kayden_Potter game vs Somebody who got checkmated Check it out: Great job Kayden!

I couldn't participate in the stupid tourney because my computer froze. I trained for it all week. _ Big Sad_ Heres how I felt: (Im black) (▱˘︹˘▱)

So, as you know, queens gambit, may be the most popular gambit (due to the show). I don't really care about the show, but what are the main lines to it? (for white) Here is all I know. Feel free to add the main lines to it.

Hellllllooooo! I have my own goal, to get 3rd place or better. 3/4 to 3.5/4, which may be impossible but its ok. What are your goals for the tourney?

LESS GO! FASTEST CHECKMATE!!! https://www.chess.com/live#g=19008381919 That was the first time i ever played Wayward Queen Attack and someone move the king forward Lolz! I probably had like a 4.5 accuracy lolz!