The Most Ridiculous Reason You Lost a Game (Be Honest)

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Whether it was your cat jumping on the keyboard, you hallucinated a knight as a bishop, or you thought you were white until move 20—share the silliest, dumbest, or most embarrassing reason you ever lost a chess game. Bonus points for screenshots!

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Took a queen instead of checkmating him ( he backrank checkmated me )
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I slipped lost one pawn and lost a once winning position. 👍
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calculated a variety of possibilities but changed the order of the moves and hung a clean rook

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ill try to find the game its kinda recent

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[Event "Titu2350 vs. deodorogonta"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2025-07-04"] [White "Titu2350"] [Black "deodorogonta"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1713"] [BlackElo "1661"] [TimeControl "1800"] [Termination "Titu2350 venceu por abandono"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 c6 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Bd3 Bg4 7. O-O Nbd7 8. Be2 O-O-O 9. h3 Bh5 10. Ne5 Nxe5 11. Bxh5 Rxd4 12. Qxd4 Qxc3 1-0

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My bishop was "pinned" to the enemy king, so obviously it couldn't be moved at all and I had to let it be taken.