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Here we go again! As we promised we will officially start our knockout bracket today. First match of the section 2 - 2nd seed, 5-time world champion Magnus Carlsen will try to overtake Uzbekistan player Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Who will win? They have played 5 times each other. Magnus won 2 games, and 3 games ended in a draw. Today's match: Vote for Magnus Carlsen Vote for Rustam Kasimdzhanov

Second match of the section 2 – with 2 current top 20 players. Two-time European and one-time World Blitz Champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will fight against 2021 World Cup Champion Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Who will bring home the victory and compete with Magnus Carlsen in the second round? Very, very interesting match. They have been played each other 26 times. MVL won 10 games, Duda took 6 victories, and 10 games ended in a draw. Previous match: Magnus Carlsen 49-3 Rustam Kasimdzhanov Today’s match: Vote for Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Vote for Jan-Krzysztof Duda

Second match of section 1 is played between two supergrandmasters. The azeri Teimour Radjabov takes on China's #2 player Wei Yi. Who will bring home the victory and compete with Garry Kasparov in the second round? Very interesting matchup. They have been played each other 4 times. Wei Yi won 1 game, Radjabov took 1 victory and 2 games ended in a draw. Previous match: Garry Kasparov 43 - 4 Vladas Mikénas Today’s match: Vote for Teimour Radjabov Vote for Wei Yi

So I was playing a match and I was in this position. The opponent just took my bishop, and I was planning on taking back. I am White BTW. I played fxe3 but about 10 seconds later, I realized this was stupid because I could've taken with the queen AND defended that hanging pawn on c5, both of those moves would count as a "miss" because b4 is the best move since it kicks out the queen AND defends the pawn. What I find weird is: fxe3 makes the eval bar go to +0.59 but Qxe3 makes the eval bar go to +0.17. Does anyone know why this "error" turned out to be better than what I thought? Let me know in the comments.

Some people are more comfortable with pawn endgames, and some prefer to still have a piece around 👀 Vote with reactions, and tell us why down below!   - Pawn endgame - Rook endgame

So I played this match against someone 100 points rated higher than me and I got 96% accuracy! That's very good and I'm very proud of that but I'm a bit worried. It seems cheater potential and maybe he'll report me for suspicious activity even though I swear I didn't cheat.Here's the match. Let me know what you think in the comments: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/86589509869?tab=review&move=68

Mittens was a cat bot which was really like the best bot in Chess.com. Mittens Anish too, stronger, but less Mittensish. I think Mittens should come back with Mittens Anish too and make them permanent!

One of the moments that attracted me to chess was the culmination of the 2016 World Chess Championship, in which Magnus Carlsen calmly sacrificed his queen in the last game to finally dash Sergey Karjakin's hopes. Today I felt a deja vu when I too was compelled to offer up my queen to win a back-and-forth game. We all are mesmerized by the brilliance of our favorite sportsmen, but it is easiest to recreate that brilliance in chess. Let's make this thread a goldmine of tactical queen sacrifices!

Decide the best opening for white! 8 openings will compete in a single elimination bracket. Quarterfinals: 1. Italian 15-16 Spanish (Ruy Lopez) (16-16, but I removed my vote) 2. Four Knights 15-43 Vienna 3. English 20-28 Reti 4. Queen's Gambit 37-15 London Semifinals: 1. Spanish (Ruy Lopez) 42-26 Vienna 2. Reti vs Queen's Gambit Today's match: Vote for Reti Vote for Queen's Gambit P.S. No ad, but check out my blog about Game Review ratings - https://www.chess.com/blog/AteivisM/is-game-review-ratings-correct

Someone posted their worst game here yesterday and now I'm curious. What was a game you recently lost in the opening that got you thinking you should be rated 3 ELO max? Mine was this one. A masterclass on what NOT to do against the King's Gambit: Fs in chat

Hey guys! I made a pretty funny chess youtube short: [Removed: Advertisement is not allowed - Staerex] (left click on the link and press open in new tab) Im a 10 year old whose dream is to become a famous chess youtuber like gothamchess so if you want to make my dreams come true please SUBSCRIBE!(if anyone has any tips on making good youtube videos please tell me!

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/pgn/1QB5Rj2pW?tab=review

Decide the best opening for white! 8 openings will compete in a single elimination bracket. Quarterfinals: 1. Italian 15-16 Spanish (Ruy Lopez) (16-16, but I removed my vote) 2. Four Knights 15-43 Vienna 3. English 20-28 Reti 4. Queen's Gambit 37-15 London Semifinals: 1. Spanish (Ruy Lopez) vs. Vienna 2. Reti vs Queen's Gambit Today's match: Vote for Spanish (Ruy Lopez) Vote for Vienna

I played against this 1100-rated player who got an accuracy of 94.2%! Is this person cheating? Should I report them? Chess.com thought they were 1850, and I was 1500. Yes, I made a few mistakes but this guy didn't make a single one! Take a look at this match and let me know what you think [Link removed - public accusations aren't permitted - MG]

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/86486394399?tab=analysis 100 PERCENT ACCURACY AND BRILLIANT

What a game, I've been looking back on the games I played recently to see what tactics I missed so that I can eventually make a blog using them, and I feel like a lot of that effort really helped me find some cool ideas here. (I have the black pieces)

I don't know if I'm allowed to advertise my own blogs, but if I am, here I go!Check out my blog called "Mastering The Giuoco Piano Easily", where as an experienced player of this opening, I teach you pretty much everything you need to master this opening and why you should play it instead of whatever weird opening you play.Once you've read it, you can let me know what you think in the comments. I'd love to hear your opinions and I hope you like it!

Decide the best opening for white! 8 openings will compete in a single elimination bracket. 1. Italian 15-16 Spanish (Ruy Lopez) (16-16, but I removed my vote) 2. Four Knights 15-43 Vienna 3. English 20-28 Reti 4. Queen's Gambit vs London Today's match: Vote for Queen's Gambit Vote for London

Whose Picture Will Get In The Center Of This Medal? You have probably been thinking about the question: "Who is the best chess player of all time?" You probably didn't got a response, because you will never see Morphy playing Carlsen, or a Tal - Nakamura matchup. Now, you have got the chance to take part of a community vote, to decide who is the best chess player of all time! Me and my friend, @AteivisM spent time to select the best 128 players of all time (In our opinion). These players will take part in a single elimination knockout bracket. We will have two matchups every day, one posted by me and one by @AteivisM, where you will have 24 hours to vote on the player you consider better. The first matches will start tomorrow, because we have a conquest for our Community players. We created the bracket on challonge.com, where you have 24 hours to predict who will win our bracket. You can find the bracket here: https://challonge.com/uubyyct. Who do you think will win? Predict the bracket and be the winner of the Prediction Conquest! May the best player win! See you tomorrow at the first Community Vote! Regards, David