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My only endgame where I remain totally clueless is these king-pawn endgames with pawns on both sides. They are very difficult. I tried looking for chess books and videos but all of them only tells theoretical ones which I have already studied but not the practical ones with pawns on both sides. How can I improve them. This is a game which I almost won but have to take only a draw due to blundering in final king and pawn endgame

Recently I faced a problem I've been facing a huge issue with my play in chess - My weak psychology. What happens is lets suppose out of 30 moves I play 29 good moves (not always objectively good but good considering my current rating level and time, these including inaccuracies, mistake and blunders impossible for my rating level to everything spot or at least avoid), but for rest of the move, my weak psychology makes me make a critical blunder losing the game immediately. And you might consider my thought process, calculation method or thinking system, saying for blunder checks, etc but my overall though process avoids many blunders, also checks for opponent's best responses I can find. The overall reason I can understand is it being combination or nerves and crumbling, under time pressure. In all the games I play, I mostly choose 30 mins because I wanted even more like 60 mins for 60mins you wait for minutes but still no pairing so I play 30 min. Initial moves are fine and good too, many of the games I had completely winning positions but then the clock falls and both players below 12 or 10 mins, I have two choices: keep playing accurate or play fast. You have definitely consider that in all of the games I always remain slightly behind in time, enough though time gap is not Both have led to me losing. My initial approach of playing accurate was followed still 1200 but opponents began to flag me. Then I started the approach of playing fast. But there is a huge problem, when playing fast I have to rely on my intuition, thus I don't even have to time to calculate everything. But this is not the end, in fact what I said was just slight beginning. The main thing begins before even the less time comes, the nervousness having to play 20-30 more moves or even more in low time. Slowly even I try to focus and avoid the nerves but still the past experiences of both trying to play accurate and getting flagged to past blunders due to playing fast both begins to haunt me. I can't just control everything, also I cannot try to calm myself down on the board because I always slight remain behind in time and not much time left so I have to make moves too. These all dramatic emotional roller coaster just creates such mental blur that I can neither rely on intuition nor think consciously properly due to this. This game clearly demonstrates this.

I am current 1500 in rapid on this website.On the road to go to 2000 rapid. Currently studying chess books and doing daily tactics training with woodpecker method.I will keep updating my journey on this forum topic

There is a chess puzzle GMs failed to solve except Tal who solved it when it was presented, and it is understanding as many other players may have gotten superior to him in overall play to better style, positional understanding, and pattern recognition but Tal always had a gift of generating creative tactical ideas out of nowhere in position. You may try to use stockfish to solve, just gonna say good luck. Being very popular you have seen it before and remembered the solution. Its the paskett's puzzle

From the analysis of accuracy, mistakes and finding the correct moves for master level and what I learnt and improved at each level for lower level always made me feel one thing. That same rating gap are not same. There are some common examples which I feel and you can feel free to verify them and give your opinion in the comments. Note that is how I think, I myself is still not completely sure From what I improved and learnt at each level to more further •400 and 800 have lower gap than 800 than 1200•1200 and 1400 have higher gap than 1400 and 1600 (Based on my games against 1600s while as 1400, while being a 1200 against 1400 I struggled to just not lose) From what I saw based on how masters of different level perform as per their own/ another strong player's analysis •2500 and 2650 have little higher gap than 2300 and 2450 2400 and 2500 have slightly higher gap than 2700 and 2800 •2100 and 2400 have higher gap than 1800 and 2100

There is a very nasty opening trap which I initially thought only a handful of my opponent will fall so I thought not a good reason to tell a trap happening so later in the game that I thought was unlikely for but the results are much more than that and large number of people fall for it so I am telling about this

Today I played a 30 min rated rapid game in which I won and my ratings added from 1411 to 1423. My opponent, was around 1550+ rated (I don't remember his/her actual rating and username). But then when I reopened this website the game was not in the game history as well as my rating rating was again 1411. I remember the moves played in the game Not just that I also used up my free game review on this game. Kindly let me know if you see my rapid rating as 1423 or 1411. I won't be playing more rated games to avoid further confusion or more technical issues. If you know the solution to this problem, please tell me in the comments. EDIT: I opened my profile from another account and it showed me that I am playing a game (giving the option to watch and red square on my pfp) but when I click on it nothing happens at all. So my guess is that the game thinks that I am still in a chess game but rating points are added after game is finished and so the addition of game in the game history. EDIT 2: Another strange thing I noticed. It shows I am 1423 in only rapid rating page This page was opened after the page in the first image was opened. But still the rating here is 1411 and the last game played was blitz yesterday This makes the issue even more strange EDIT 3: From another account it no longer shows I am playing but still the same exactly same issue persists and everything else is as it was. FINAL EDIT + ISSUE SOLVED : I played a rated game. Here it considered 1423 as my rating. So when I completed the game it gave me new rating calculated according to my 1423 rating and it got applied to everywhere in my profile, from overview to rapid stats game, everywhere. I don't care now if the game is not in game history

I have been very curious about an unexpected idea in Guicco piano game. I seen it in many games. In guicco piano games, you probably expect kingside castle for both sides and slow game but black has a very sharp and dangerous attack which can catch the unprepared off-guard. It is not exact sequence of moves but an idea. As black, instead of castling, the players can play h6 and then g5, to begin an attack on the castled white king, while keeping its own king in the centre. Ideas and maneuvers •Qe7 Qf8 Qh6 •g4 kicking the knight (If Nh4 then Nxe4) h5 h4 g3 pawn break •After g3 pawn break, fxg3, hxg3, h3 - We play the bishop sacrifice, Bxh3 •Ne7 Ng6 Nf4 Even succesfully played by GMs What I've written above is either mentioned in contents of titled player specially on this attack or based on the games of this idea I've studied What do you think about it? If know more about this you can write it down in comments

I have a very beautiful chess puzzle. When solving it also write down the thought process in the comments and lines/trees you considered and calculated as well as your evaluations Its a forced win

I have seen many players playing the ponziani opening make very fatal mistake that loses the game immediately. The purpose of this post is prevent as many players to repeating the same mistake. 

I have two games to show that are are just beautiful. One on them is played very recently. The beauty of both of these games is that in position where we expected games to have a really long fight an unexpected idea with unstoppable attack comes out of nowhere and the position of the opponent just collapses within moves. First one is a game between Praggnananda Rameshbabu and Richard Rapport, played few days ago, also called as "Game of the year". Second game is between Levon Aronian and Vishwanathan Anand These are just the two examples of brilliant games. There are many more brilliancies in chess. So if know any, feel free to post them in its comments.

1600 rapid!!

According to stockfish this position at depth 21 is -1.2. But the position below is -1.5 What's strange is that they both have same top engine line 1. Bxd4 Rxe2 2. Rxe2 Qxe2 3. Rxe2 that leads to exact same position below So there is something wrong with the engine?

I have a opening trap that is so counter-intuitive and unexpected that even intermediates fall for it. It was recommended to me by the game review earlier when I used to gambit a pawn for huge activity in the opening

White to play and win. If you are going to write the solution also write down your thought process when solving the puzzle

I have an opening which I have played and when I was between the rating points of 1200 and 1300 with it I had a huge success with this opening. However, it is rarely preffered by players. It is the French defense Here since I have personally played and had a score with it so I can say others can too. My personal experience I had started with rating when I was around 1230+ (Not the first time), and initially I began to have completely dull and depressing (and obviously worse) middlegames but as I analyzed my games and played more and more then I began to know what I'm doing and it turned out my opponents didn't. The whole point why good French defense practioners do good against 1200s is because players at this level don't know how the handle the centre where they've extended their pawns a bit more. The whole point of french defense is that white enjoyes a strong centre and space advantage with pawns but black c5 and f6 pawn break and strong pressure tries to counterattack the centre. And there white players fail to find the right moves against them. I most of the time just ended up winning the d4 pawn and having white e5 pawn weakened. Some basic introduction to the opening Exchange variation For me it is the variation that always killed my hopes and dreams. Just study this much a little bit. Remember you may not perform well but will eventually began to crush with it Beyond 1300 When you go from 1300-1400 and further players no longer begin to have worse position out of openings and they began to play exchange variation but this opening is still worth continuing to be played as I still do

Here is a piece sacrifice that objectively may not be sound but practically specially in low time controls may not be easy to defend. What do you think and how would you do against players at your level in different time controls? In my personal experience they are crushing in blitz and bullet, not always by attack but sometimes by time also.