I am around 450 elo on chess.com
Someone tell me why was this a blunder

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2: The move must be legal in normal Chess.

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I then proceeded to win with a full queen down. My own discount opera game.

Same as title

How often does a big advantage out of the opening actually get converted? To find out, I took ~460k chess games across rating levels and time controls, keeping the 112,583 where one player started the middlegame at +2.0 or better. The numbers below use the 82,023 of those where the two players were within 100 rating points of each other.

Main findings:

• The leader wins 71%, draws 4%, and loses 25%. At 2400 it's still a 22% loss rate.
• "At least +2.0" matters: the median lead in this set is +3.6. At exactly +2 to +3, the leader loses 32% of the time. At +5 or more, only 15%.
• The share of "sustained-lead wins" (the lead never dips below +2 again) looks flat across ratings (~40% everywhere), which would suggest masters are no better at holding a lead. That's Simpson's paradox: weaker players are handed much bigger leads, and bigger leads are easier to hold. Fix the lead size and the skill effect reappears (16% at 800 vs 23% at 2400 for a +2 to +3 lead).
• Losing on the board is a rating problem (all time controls overlap, improving with rating). Losing on the clock is a time-control problem: blitz leaders flag away 6-9% of these "won" games at every rating, rapid ~3%, classical ~1%. In 41% of blitz flags the leader was still two pawns up on the final position.

Full write-up with charts and methods: https://stories.flawchess.com/two-pawns-up/.

Caveat: these are games players sent to Lichess server analysis themselves, so it's not a uniform sample. Therefore, I verified the results with a second dataset.

Disclosure: I'm the author, and the blog lives on the domain of a free chess site I run. The full technical report is linked from the article.

Made my first fork ever today, i’m really proud 🥹

I did it in 19 days btw

The moves before Black resigned:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. d4 Nxe4 5. Qe2 Nf6 6. dxe5 Nh5 7. Bg5 f6 8. exf6+ Kf7 9. fxg7 Qe8 10. gxh8=N+ Kg7 11. Qxe8

I played terribly this game. I think he forgot that he could block my check with any of his pieces and they still would’ve been defended…

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Took me 3 years but I've finally done it!

I finally found the openings I loved because the middle games match my playstyle which led me to a surge in elo.

Not sure what to do now honestly.

Edit: To everybody who decided to look for my account, my account name is NO LONGER bingis dingus and no I did NOT lose to a 500 elo (ok I did lose but he cheated), no I did NOT EVER touch my rapid elo after I reached 2004. If you think you found me, then check to see if I have a hedgehog as my profile picture and the description "goodbye declaration🦔" and the fact I only have 8 chess.com friends if you really want to look for it

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