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Yes, I saw the mate in 1 I was just toying with him

Oof finally I beat Li, the bot with rating 2000, but like somebody else said, it plays more like a 1600, but that's still nice xD I mean, it's only 1 crown, but that's cuz I kept on miss clicking, so I had to take back a lot of moves. For example, what's the point of checking white just to lose my queen to a pawn? Well here it is: Ha finally I play (i hope) a nice endgame, I like to clean up the pieces, it helps me think xD

I used to think they were just a cheap way of turtling up and avoiding an open game but they're just very sneaky, it's hard to realize the amount of pressure it actually creates

Um.. I randomely decided to play the bot called Li with a rating of 2000, I knew I would probably not win (ever heard of a 500 winning vs a 2000? not me!) but I thought it would be a good experience. So here is the game: (Again, it doesn't let me use my pgn if I annotate, idk why, I'm probably making some mistake [like not using brackets or something]) So I'll say the stuff here. And just in case ur wondering, I did use 4 takebacks and 1 hint or something, but I mean, it's Li, and Li is not as easy as Martin. Ok, let's begin. At move 13, idk why I didn't do cxd6, (or even cxb6, but I think the former one is slightly better) 65 ...Qc4+ ?? Right away I knew I had to take the queen. Only later I realized I shouldn't have. Yeah, it did say (in the analysis) that Qxc4+ is the best move, but then I would be stuck with a bishop and knight. I didn't think that it was bad because I knew that bishop+knight mate is possible, but I did not --absolutely not, or else I would not have done queen for queen-- know that bishop+knight is oh so hard. Nope, I'm not kidding, it's so hard that in the end, with move 119, I set up threefold repitition. Bam, draw. I hope the computer knew that "oh gosh this is getting so boring" and it wasn't just a coincidence. Yeah, I was setting up a bishop+knight mate, but in the YT video about it, the guy was using the light squared bishop and was getting the king to h8 while I was trying to get him to h1. It became so confusing. XD Well in the end, I'm proud of myself, cuz who knew that I could draw against Li. P.S. And don't challenge me if you have a rating of 2000. You know that without takebacks+hint I would not have won. Lol.

I see so many people in the "for beginners" or the "chess openings" sub forums always going on about the opening principles, the one I'm speaking of today is "castle your king as soon as possible!". I feel as if that just forces beginner players to think "oh, if I don't castle, I'll lose the game" and castle right into a checkmate or something. You don't always have to castle. Castling ≠ King Safety always. There are a lot of circumstances where playing ke2 or kf2 will do a better job of connecting your rooks and keeping your king safe than castling will (not That many but you should know when to do it). There are a lot of Advance Caro Kann positions like this, a lot of King's Indian positions, a lot of King's Gambit positions where you let them play qh4+ etc etc and you won't actually castle. Here's a game where kf2 was one of the best engine moves, and castling would have been a blunder Also I think I'm finally going to hit 1600 again soon

I beat a 2000+ rated player in rapid... bretty brazy!

Just took the 75 question ELO meter and they say my ELO is 1500+ (Upwards of 1700!) How accurate is it? Has anybody used it? It took me over 30 minutes to do the damn thing, now I have a headache. I have been told I play like a 1500 before, so 1500’s must REALLY suck or something.

I really just did this in a rated game for some reason think im gonna stop for a while

Alekhines defense is seen as bad because it apparently "gives white too much control over the center". However, the chase variation (which is what people usually show me to prove their point), is pretty much toothless and causes black no problems because white's pawns are too far extended. The only real test is the modern variation, but Bent Larson's dxe5 and followed by a quick Nd7 is pretty good: "The idea is to win back the "tempo" on the white knight by forcing it back to f3". So now that we've got the introduction out of the way, lets see. The Alekhine's defense gives you a plethra of experience in all sorts of positions, which basically improves your overall chess ability. Here's the modern line: As you see, we have a caro-slav pawn structure in the resulting position, where black plays for either e5 or c5 pawn breaks, tries to exchange some pieces, then it becomes the art of "who uses their heavy pieces best" competition. Meanwhile, in some other junk lines, we have: Something akin to a french advance structure, a structure which allows for a lot of strategical play/maneuvering Other white players might try for broke with the chase, which is good to exercise some defensive skills -

Hi, I’m having a difficult time to convert my advantage through the middlegame, mostly due to blunders but also due to my inability to synchronize my attacking pieces. Thanks for the inputs

yes I know I had a quicker mate but i didnt feel like calculating it

I am a Beginner.

Little Guinea Pig was nice enough to play a few rapid games with me, which were all very informative and fun! It was nice to see that I held my own a lot better since last time we played, although, of course, in the end they showed me I have a long way to go! Still, it was very fun! In our third game, I played the fried liver attack. Little Guinea played a series of moves that they would inform me was known as the “Traxler Defense”, something I’ve heard of but never knew how to play. After watching them do it and not only successfully defend my fried liver attack, but also checkmate a few moves later, I was impressed and grateful of the lines I had just learned! so, thought I’d share here for all of the fellow beginners. At our level, you play a loooot of fried liver attacks. This is a great line to play against them, as odds are they won’t know what hit them!

Context: This is in the Alekhine's defense themed tournament by @ukrainiandude , which I believe I am winning at the moment. I've had some really good results against some good players, and some not good players but it's fine. I've been growing very disheartened with my rating recently (new -70 tilt nice) and I've just been attacking like a madman in my recent games, rook lifts, pins, sacrifices, the whole cabinet. This Argentinian guy has been giving me a lot of trouble in this tournament, and was somehow able to crunch out two wins from our two games. I hope this can be a lesson to newer players, don't resign unless you're sure you're losing.

Hello everyone I was wondering if anyone with a Rapid rating of 1700 or higher would like to play an unrated game of 45|45. The reason I would like to play in is time control is because I want gain experience in longer time controls for OTB.

1650 dude blunders stuff YES I KNOW I MISSED MATE IN 1 I STILL WON