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Is this my sign to quit chess?

Your objective: tell me what black plans to do in this position, then tell me what you would play as white to secure an advantage. It took me ~10 mins, but most likely it will take more than 10mins. I want to see lines. once a few people respond I will tell my thoughts on this position.

So recently I had a silly game, it had oh so many blunders lol Since I'm having trouble annotating, I'll just talk here: So for the first few moves we're setting up a Pirc Defence. 4. Bb5+ is easily blocked by ...c6. Now here comes the first silly thing. White does 5. bxc6 ?? Oh my goodness, I hope that was a miss-click, that was hilarious XD At 17. Qe2, white doesn't seem to see that I can do ...bxa1. Haha! Now here comes the silliest part. 20. Nb3, I forget that my bishop is under attack. But something funny happens. I blunder my rook with ...Rf4 ?? What? See how the bishop on c1 can attack my rook? Yikes! I forgot about that bishop! Well the thing that saves my life happens now: 21. Qe3 ?? Aha! White forgets that they can take my rook! XD I'm so happy that they forgot to do it that I forget that white is capable of 23. Nxa1. Oops! At least I'm still up by a rook for white's pawn. But the blunders don't end there! White goes 30. Qb6 ?? And I reply with ...Qxb6. Yay! After move 34, white has resigned. But that still doesn't stop me from remembering this was the silliest game I ever played. No offense white, I made really bad moves too XD **Edit** seriously, I made it so that it said that white won. That's not true, I actually won by resignation.

I deleted the evidence. Mwahahahhahahhahahhahhahahahhahahahh

I usually play 10|0 but wanted to try 30|0 because I want to play OTB in the future (If Maryland had anything? where are all the tournaments?). I felt as if I was still moving too fast, by move 20 I think I had only spent like 5 minutes

need i say more

Hello! Lots of times it happens that I miss a good move, and instead do a much worse one. I'm usually a fast player, (No, not like 2 second moves but 30 at the most) and it 's hard not to rush. That is probably my problem tho. However even when I'm playing with 60 min of time, I rush and do bad moves. Does anybody have any tips for how to make sure I'm not missing something? I know I should just slow down a bit, but even when I do I make mistakes XD I'm also a bit ashamed to say that usually when I win it's because my opponent ran out of time lol Thank you! Any tips would be appreciated **Edit** thank you all for your tips! Chess.com community is wonderful

I felt confident enough to try to play another rapid game today

Maybe I’m wrong on this, but it seems the rating in just 50 ELO is extremely noticeable. For example, I just played someone rated 911, about 50 ELO below me in blitz. It’s not that they were a bad player, but their ability was substantial less than the game of played before of a blitz player rated 970 the game before. I’ve noticed this as a recurring thing, too. Anybody else?

I know this sounds ignorant but I swear every time I get to a point where one or two wins will get me to 1600 they put me against these players like 75 points higher than me and the games end up insane and i get frustrated so easily as a result and then I get into time trouble because I'm thinking too much and yeah Like look at these games You can see how hard i'm trying to get a win in this one I can't tell if this one was just blunders but I saw the perpetual check but I didn't want to have to settle for a draw Apparently in this one I was so close to getting a win but I got flustered under time trouble and lost my advantage, didn't want another draw either sorry just had to vent a little.

I played fantastically against a 946 rated opponent in blitz. I didn’t blunder a single piece, the only “mistake” I made according to the engine was one of my final moves which led me to an amazing checkmate that I haven’t seen in 3500+ games on here, yet somehow my opponent does. I keep losing games like this. Tough, tough closed positions and I stay patient, don’t blunder, get fantastic advantages and get up big on pieces over my opponent, only to lose to some unforeseen checkmate. It’s like I’m playing some 1600, they just don’t make a single mistake and the whole game it feels like an inevitable checkmate is coming from miles away that I can’t see. Take a look at my game play. What more can I do? I honestly don’t really see anywhere I played poorly enough to lose to a freak 900!

Played a blitz game at 2am against a random in Italy. Things escalated a minute in when I blundered my knight thinking I was forking his queen, what I didn’t see was the square was protected by his bishop. After, the Italian messaged in-game: “Fra Due Minuti.” I had no idea what this meant at the time, but I took it as an insult so I replied: “*spit*”, then “I spit on you, peasant.” Then, a few moves later, I actually forked his queen with my other knight. I quickly replied “Fra Due MINUTI” over and over, although I had no idea what it meant. I would later use google translate to find out it meant something along the lines of “In two minutes”, which didn’t clarify much but it did make it seem he was using some Italian phrases to talk that smack. The game went on, and I ended up besting him as his time quickly ran out. The last move of the game, I forked his rook and he flagged. Afterwards, I spammed “Fra Due Minuti” and “I spit on you.” I figured his English wasn’t good (if he spoke it at all) so I wanted to use very basic phrases and words, so I started to just write “Dirt” and “Bug” to really drive the message home. After he flagged, he started to send me eggplant emojis, which I don’t know exactly where things took a turn like that but I figured nows a better time than ever to bring up his mother, so I used googled translate to tell him his mother was employed by a brothel, in Italian. This not only let him know that I 1.) knew him mother, but 2.) knew her occupation, as well. That was the last message shared between the two of us. I think I spooked him telling him about his mother’s profession. What we can learn from this infamous Italian Spitting Match is that it pays to have a creative opening, as if you analyze my play against him it was my unusual opening sequence that threw him off and allowed me to fork his queen. So, when playing Italians, perhaps unconventional openings is the way to go. Unfortunately, the very next game I was obliterated by a Russian. I didn’t take what the Italian said personally, as I really do like pizza and olive oil. Maybe in another life we could have shared a sunset together while sipping on merlot wine from the Italian vineyards and trading bites of pepperoni pizza after taking a dip in an olive oil and lavender bath (that we would share, together) while watching The Godfather trilogy. maybe, just maybe that one day will come. Until then, I spit on you, you Italian peasant. SPIT SPIT SPIT SPIT SPIT

Whenever I see 1. e4 d5, I can't help but play the exciting, refreshing, Blackmar-Diemer gambit. Chances are they won't even know one of the lines, and if you can use a line that's so unorthodox they can't comprehend the oddity, you've won already. Hence the move qh5 Like just look how overpowered this thing would be in blitz

Got tired of losing all my blitz rating in Calculus today so I decided to play some unrated blitz and play bad on purpose to get the tilt out. Reverse Grob gambit (I think it's a reverse grob) win was the result.

I know I've made similar forums to this, but I'm still a bit confused. I normally play, Caro Kann against e4 and benoi or England Gambit for d4 but both ways don't work out we'll!!! What do you guys reccomend? (I know Sicilian is a popular one, but I don't really understand it)

All his pieces were really nicely developed, but was unable to defend the queen bishop battery + deflection.

On Saturday I played a 25|5 tournament. This game was from round two (if you guys want more I can give the other games). My opponent had been beaten by me in the past, in 25|5, by the alekhine. He played the exchange variation, but was unable to use a space advantage to his benefit and his weaknesses became all too apparent as my queen and knight invaded his position. (A similar case happened in the exchange alekhine in round five of this tournament - this time my queen and rook invaded to take second place!). So being a sensible person he decided to play the modern line, but of course, he enjoys his space, and is uncomfortable in a grind (otb I've seen him play opposite side castling French, and the nimzowitch Scandinavian so I know he's an opposite side castling attacker who's probably uncomfortable with a grind)... Here's our previous alekhine game if anyone cared:

B1ZMARK is muted so i'm posting this on behalf of him, it's his game, with his annotations.