r/Chesscom

i can’t understand why it wanted me to move the horse there, seems like a good way to lose a horse.

I know I can do the same checkmate without sacrificing my queen. I just didn't saw that before.

I am like many people too lazy to analyze after every game.

But because I am a developer, I built a tool to analyze a thousand of my games in bulk. I found out I've been repeating a few mistakes over and over in my openings.

I thought the outcome was genuinely useful, so I decided to turn it into a free website that anybody can use.

No LLMs bs just Stockfish.

Enter your Chess.com username and tell me how it goes :)

You can try it out here blunder-less I hope you enjoy it

Edit: This is the first version, Lichess and many more cool things are coming

That’s too much to handle, I feel like I’m playing like a 500-900 player. I can’t see anything. I’ve lost all my tactical vision and understanding of the game. I just don’t get why I’m falling so bad. These are played in a course of a week, I play a bit everyday and I’ve played for 10 years now.

I’m a relatively good OTB player, defeated ~2000 Elo players with ease at local tournaments consistently. I always had a good understanding and deep knowledge about chess, I have a pretty decent memory and just never really bothered getting too serious online to climb my rating so I always stayed in the 1400-1500 range because it suited well my needs of playing without sweating too hard.

Recently, I went to a tournament, and lost to 1000-1300 chesscom players OTB, and it stunned me. I was winning in every position, and just blundered away my victory. I put that loss on my fatigue because I didn’t get any good sleep, but later on I connect to my account and lose very badly. And over the course of a whole week, I kept losing, over and over, and it’s not like there is anything to analyse, I just do a HUGE blunder that gives a piece away, like an amateur would. I also feel like I can’t play my game anymore, that I understand less the structures of my pawns, that I can’t really put my king to safety, and my calculations are so slow, I sometimes need entire minutes to figure out what will happen after a simple trade of pieces…

I don’t know what to do, I love the game of chess, but it’s my first time in years facing that many losses against people who I could beat pretty easily a couple of weeks before..?

Anybody had a similar situation? Any advice? I don’t want to stop playing but my frustration is at an all time high

Am I intermediate yet

Howdy, Id like to preface by saying Im not trying to be a showoff or a dick but am genuinely wondering as to where to go from here. Ive seen the "percentile" marker so I do understand if you don't believe me, in which case feel free to call me a dick.

Anyway, Im new to chess in the sense Ive played enough of it to know what im doing, but haven't studied nor really played much online. Signed up a week ago and have hit 1400 in bullet, which I pretty much just attribute to speed - I can tell I am falling apart otherwise after at best 8 moves. Its pretty clear to me Im not likely to hold that mark and I think ill probably balance out around 1300, but Id be keen to improve and get back to this point without feeling like a headless chicken whilst playing -

So, has anyone got any advice on where to go for... well, advice, or lessons, or just general studying? Im not a big fan of traditional means, and im pretty much just keen on learning to be better at bullet - I don't expect to ever actually outperform a regular player.

How the hell taking the knight is attack on the king? Followed by Rf1# maybe, but why couldn't he just say "I blundered and hang a knight". Like this is such an easy puzzle but I was confused