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I played this game earlier this evening. I had the black pieces, and my opponent resigned after 11 moves. Granted, my opponent is much lower-rated than me. But considering that this is bullet (which I suck at), I'm still pretty proud of this game; this is my first 100 percent game ever.

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Hey, so I am going to be participating in my first US chess tournament this August. As is customary, I have to bring my own board and clock. Usually wouldn't be an issue. However, I am stuck on the clock side of things. The time control for the tournament is something like 40 moves in 80 minutes, then the rest in 30 minutes, with a US delay of 30 seconds throughout. Does anyone have any suggestions on clocks that I could purchase that support this time control?

The way these puzzles work is there will always be one, and only one, completely losing move. Once you make the first move for white (white is always the side you're playing) the computer takes over for you, so you need to play as terribly as possible. Some moves may be bad, but this move either allows a forced checkmate or loses a ton of material. The puzzles start easy but get harder and harder as time goes on. If there's any error in these, please tell me! Edit: The goal is to lose as fast as possible. Also fixed #2. Only four for now, but maybe more coming soon?

How do you get into studying theory? I know I should probably study it more but I never really have the motivation to do anything other than staring at an opening or endgame position for a few minutes, and I forget pretty much anything I do learn. Does anyone know any ways to learn theory and remember it?

Hi, I have 4 notifications that keep reappearing. One of these 4 is a vote chess notification that I have already submitted my vote into and the other 3 are forums that have been made in a few different clubs. I keep pressing the X button and clicking on them but it isn't working. They always go away for a few seconds then coming back. Does anyone know what is wrong with it?

Hello I usually love to figure out middle games their tactics when to trade how to advance the position and the openings to if their interesting. But when it comes to endgames I just am so bored, and don't have motivation to study them. How do I fix this?

EDITED (Also losing in this case doesn't necessarily mean a loss, it can mean drawing an easily winnable position)

I am looking for a good chess book to help me improve.

My USCF rating is currently 678. It has been like that for about 2 months. I have done lots of USCF rated games the past few months. Does anyone know when my rating will change?

So I've been seriously studying chess books for a little while now, and most of the lessons break it down into points at the end of the chapter (weak squares, active pieces, etc). My question is: am I allowed to write these points down on a piece of paper or something and then refer to them over the course of a game?

So I've been working on improving at chess and a lot of the chess books that I've been reading have a summary of the lesson broken down into points (active pieces, weak squares, etc.). My question is, are you allowed to write down those points down and then refer to them in an actual game? Or do you have to memorize them. OTB probably wouldn't allow it, but what about online?

Why is this puzzle rated 2531? All there is a hanging queen. Or is the puzzle about seeing that there is no puzzle? Very zen.

I was playing in a classical USCF game today at a tournament, and my opponent called me out for writing down a move, crossing it out (I realized the move was a blunder), writing another move down, and then making it. The TD gave my opponent 2 extra minutes as a penalty and after I won the game I checked and there is indeed a rule on what I did with my notation. (In case it’s not clear, look at the paragraph above this ^)Has anybody ever witnessed a game where somebody wrote down entire lines for a position? It must’ve happened at least once if this rule exists…