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just played Shreyas Royal https://ratings.fide.com/profile/448869 in puzzle battle. The difference between a CM and GM is clear 38 vs 47 in puzzle battle 3 mins.  to our members, how many puzzle do you average in 3 minutes ? try puzzle rush or puzzle battle and let me know. Do you do better than 38 ? or 47 ? https://www.chess.com/puzzles/battle/2wxZ2mVUz

Carlsen is known for his skills in endgame and he prefers positional chess. But he is able to spot tactics quickly. Here's a recent position from Tata Steel India Blitz where he was facing young indian GM Praag Carlsen had White. How did he finish his game against Praggnanandhaa ?

This is a study from 1990 by Zinar.Theme: DOUBLE ZIGZAG

got a chance to play this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Short unfortunately didnt have my coffee and lost. just kidding, thats the difference between a player like me who enjoys chess and a GM former world chess challenger for world title. He's almost 60y old but played well this 3-minute game https://www.chess.com/game/live/123075007025

a short post for fellow members. Sometimes with White we want a fresh game What did @firouzja2003 do ? 1 Nc3!? in Classical Chess, he won against Nepo But in rapid this week, he won against Vishy Anand What is Firouzja idea ? playing 0-0-0 with attack with opposite side castle. Risky but sharp ! Perfect for his style ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Ok but what if Black would play 1..e5 This is what I think Firouzja would play you may say its the italian ? But White hasn't played Nf3 so white can play Ne2 and Ng3 Here's a game for you to look at and here Nakamura's game

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HEllo today I like to share a game against a GM, rated 3 min blitz the grandmaster username is here  https://www.chess.com/member/volodja49 it was a real "street fight" but I ended up winning ! Here's the game link https://www.chess.com/game/live/119024994667?username=volodja49 but I want to send a friendship request to " volodja" but he doesnt accept friends request. ok so I tried to message him ok I am blocked. but as you can tell from game analysis, I made many blunders so clearly I played clean. here's a middle game position  Really much figthing chess, which is what you want when you play a very strong and here GM title opponent. You want chaos on the board and hopefully you can out calculate your opponent. sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt. but you want to create chances for yourself and uncompromising chess is the best practical try. have you played a titled player ? have you come close to a win or did you win ? Share your games and stories

I think its useful to follow top level chess to see what the pros are up to. of course too many games out there, so I tend to select players I enjoy watching Alireza Firouzja comes to mind. Who else is a fan ? I know chesscom covers the main events, but I like to analyze and share games I found instructive.  Here's my take on Alireza Firouzja who has been on fire lately https://www.chess.com/blog/newchesscorner64/alireza-wins-in-st-louis

so let me show a neat trick. lets say you look at an opening like this The Black Lion - an aggressive version of the Philidor Defense Typically Black plays h7-h6 , Nf8 and g7-g5 after the initial moves The Lion gets ready to roar after 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7 6.0–0 c6 – and now Black wants to attack with an early ...g5 ( GM Simon Williams). https://www.chess.com/openings/Lion-Defense lets say you like to play that opening as Black. But here's the trick, you can play it as White with an extra tempo ( move) as you start the game lets see what it would look like as White ( White Lion ) so you use your knowledge from the black opening to win with White as welll and you have an extra move so it should be easier. Try it ! do you want to know who else has tried that ? Alireza Firouzja want to see the game ?

sharing a suggestion for our club members. One way to study openings is to watch youtube videos, use the openings explorer, buy a book ( online or offline), memorize the lines, watch lectures on this website or elsewhere, participate in group or individual lessons with a chess coach. But if you get stuck, here's an alternative way. The idea is to get inspiration from professional players, primarily GMs and IMs and see if you could memorize the idea rather than the moves like 1e4 g6 2 d4 Bg7 or 1d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6 3 Nc3 etc Here's an example do you face opponents who like to play g6,Bg7 which is called "fianchetto" ? do you have a pawn on d4 ( and maybe e4 as well) ? Well, one idea is to throw h2-h4 on the right side of the board, and planning to push the pawn further. especially in blitz or bullet. THERE ARE 2 MAIN WAYS BLACK MAY GO ABOUT THIS ? 1 is to play h7-h5 to block our pawn on h4 2 is to continue developing pieces. HERE's EXAMPLE 1 GM Bortnyk decided to put a knight on g5, because that is the drawback of Black playing h7-h5 key moment of this fast-pace game here Bortnyk uncorked Qxg6!!. from move 3, he had in mind a fast attack ________________________________________________________________________________________ But what if Black lets White push h4-h5 so once again, you get the idea, putting pressure on Black from move 1 pretty much. but lets say you want 1d4 and 2 Nc3 but Black doesn't go for g7-g6 and Bg7 ? well you can be sure that Bortnyk played hundreds of games, so pick one of the games you like as White _____________________________________________________________________________________________ I wouldn't say that you are done with studying plans against g7-g6 ( I WISH OPENINGS WERE THIS SIMPLE) but you have already ideas about how you want to develop your opening repertoire. Would this work using Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, or Alireza Firouzja games ? Of course it would because they play lots of games online and also games over the board. you could use Gukesh or Vaishali games. and it can be several players. So you would study a bit more, practice in games, study again, until you get a feel for the positions and get more knowledge. and you will not try to memorize opening until move 25 with chessable or 10 opening books How does this sound ?

A brilliant move? Fantastic opening prep? Unbelievable comeback? Come one, come all, and showcase them here!We all have games that are something special and different, and there's no better way to enjoy them than showing some other people!

Hello all ! Lets try to share tips and advice among us. What is the best chess advice you have received ? and the worst, i.e one which didn't work out ? Calling on all members and sharing here so that we can all climb new highs !!

White just played Rxa7!! and Black resigned Black is no slouch ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alireza_Firouzja so this goes to show that even an accomplished player like Alireza can lose in 9 moves. and this was a rapid game 10 minutes played this week, not a bullet or hyper bullet. and this was for the online tournament, so this game had value. ultimately Alireza won the match against Fabiano Caruana. This is a reminder chess is complicated even for top GMs like Firouzja who have been at it for at least 8 years. This is an older top 20 live chart but it tells the story.

Warming up with tactics is important. Also learning new patterns may come handy. Here's a recent 3 minutes run Btw I had to restart with new username after discussing back and forth with chesscom support. i can't elaborate but this has to be with titled players accoutns and rules which I didnt know about. Trying to get back to decent rating in blitz, call it "chesscorner speedrun " now a real game Black to play, what did I play Answer is here https://www.chess.com/game/live/113503786509 Unfortunately I also lost a game due to tactics. yes, I play fair so sometimes I get swindled can you figure out what Black played ? Kudos to my opponent for a brilliant combination !   Full game here  https://www.chess.com/game/live/113494866565

Thanks to all who participated in our arena today. all players Here's for top 3 NEXT EVENT CLASSROOM LECTURE where I will discuss OPENINGS, TACTICS and how to GAIN RATING POINTS. ; also member games analysis ? thinking 6:00pm EST to accomodate all geographical zones. not sure which day but on a weekend THANKS ALL

I will put down 6 opening traps. wondering if club members in average knew at least 50% of those. if so answer yes.  if you dont, maybe you can use those to score easy wins. TRAP #1 London TRAP 2 Scandinavian Tennison TRAP 3 Caro Kann TRAP 4 Vienna Game TRAP 5 Jobava London d4 with Nc3 ( no c2-c3) TRAP 6 Pirc Defense Trap _____________________________________________________

have you played a brilliant move ? game review puts !! next to it. showcase your briliance here !

common mistake. play , play , play. of course practice is important but repeating the same mistakes is counterproductive. I will show a real life example, my own game. and a loss at that. You won't see a lot of folks doing that but reality is that losing games is part of chess, at any level. even @magnuscarlsen lost on time against @Hikaru and he shouldn't have. VERY IMPORTANT, first look at your game without any engine, try to figure out the mistakes and what would have been the way to go. you should determine which moments are important. it is not useful to spend 10 minutes on each move, unless you have all day to do that I am playing white here. My opponent is rated 2487. more or less around my rating. my plan is simple Bh6 to exchange the bishop on g7 and launch my attack. lets continue Black just played d6-d5! so here already something went wrong for me. I am nowhere near h4-h5-h6 even though I exchange the dark squares bishop. My opponent reacts in the center and my king is on e1. game is not ever but I need to be ca eventually we got here white to play Iwent wrong and l lost, ________________________________________________________ --------------------------- evenutally I switch the engine one and see what I should have done in the opening the arrows point to the right plan. no time to launch a fierce attack. white needed to tkae on e5, then Be2 and 0-0 I got punshed for my simpliistic attacking plan. andlater one on last position I need to find Ng6+ which the computer points out as last chance to survive. hopefully this all makes snes HERE"S THE FULL GAME https://www.chess.com/game/live/91720215291