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So here's the situation.

She mentioned chess on our first date. Said she was around 1200 elo and "always looking for someone to play with." I nodded like an idiot and said "yeah totally same."

I knew what a checkmate was. That was the extent of it. Could not have told you how a bishop moves. Three weeks later we're on date 4 and she's casually suggested we play a game next time. I have until Saturday to either become a chess player or admit I lied to flirt.

The plan: 20 mins of airlearn lessons every morning, beginner videos at lunch, bots at night. Full bootcamp mode for a girl I've known 3 weeks. My friends think I've genuinely lost it.

Also please send help.

Hello everybody!

I love chess and I work in emergency services, so there is a lot of down time and then suddenly I have to work.

So, I’m wondering if I should even bother to play against real people if I will have to resign randomly once in a while. I’m wondering if it could be seen as rating manipulation or artificially changing the outcome of a game.

Also, wondering if the same thing applies to unrated games.

Thanks in advance!

İ thought theres no need for bots in this game but there are

So last friday i was playing with a friend of mine and we were friendly trash talking in chat, after that the next day i cant rematch players anymore and a notif showed up that i was restricted due to bad behavior, then all the players i match with are bots all of the player names now always in this format “Name-Name-123” lol

3 slots available. For now, I'll be going to take 1 year plan, no future plans as of now. DM if interested. Only people on Indian server please.

So I rematched around 7 times with this guy. And each time I lost except the 7th time where he played normal and similar level to mine. I was genuinely trying my best to figure out how I could be losing in a row. It was making me stressed and frustrated the entire time.

His account got banned permanently during the 8th play and got to find out he was cheating the entire time. I never even once thought about how he could be using some software to cheat. I thought it was just some dumb luck.

He was even chatting saying “G7 bro, you blundered.” The audacity of this cheater lol.

Anyways, I got my points back.

Well, hope he got his limited amount of time of some delusional superiority.

I just got an email my account was banned, but not really sure why. I’m brand new to chess and it has become a fun time killer so I’ve only had an account for a few months now. I’m still pretty bad and lose a lot. Was like a 200 rating at one point and went up to a 800ish recently.

I filed an appeal but I didn’t get a confirmation email or anything. So was wondering from everyone’s experience if the appeal would even get answered or if they just push you to do that 2nd chance account option?

New to this app and chess in general so just not sure if it’s best to wait for the approved appeal or not. Thanks!