Online and OTB. I am just curious. My husband plays chess and he was explaining how difficult it is to become intermediate in chess, and now I’m intrigued when someone is no longer classified as a beginner.

Im 1100 rn and I want to face a human at 2000 elo instead of robots id much appreciate if anyone does as it would be a good learning opportunity for me👍

I started playing chess back in April and managed to hit a peak rating of 1206. Lately, I've been playing unrated games against players around this level to practice without stressing over rating points, but honestly, I feel like I'm playing terrible chess right now.

I feel stuck at a plateau and want to make a real push toward 1500. For those who've made that jump, what practical tips or routines actually helped you get there? Should I focus more on concrete tactics, endgame principles, or reviewing my own games?

Any advice or study recommendations would be awesome. Thanks!

Whenever I see that flag, I know it’s going to be a difficult game.

Best thing is I didn't even see what I did until the mate was clear.

My goal for chess is to be able to understand and play some fun games. Looks like I'm on track to do that.

I am now into the land of 700.

I played black.

Hey anyone wanna play now?

I came across a video of levy explaining the differences between a setup and theory based opening. I like the concept of set up based openings since you can always play that opening no matter what the opponent plays in response. I was wondering if the Italian game opening is a set up based opening and also if the french defence is a setup based?

technically 2 years 3 months 😅 but I went from complete adult beginner to 2000 rapid elo (hopefully soon higher) in that amount of time. I’m learning chess completely different to most people. I don’t drill tactics, I don’t analyse my games and I haven’t really learnt opening theory yet. I focus on positional chess. Chess username: Princerichi
feel free to ask any questions! or if u wanna know more tiktok: Chessrichi
I’d love giving any tips to u guys if ur plateauing or want to know how to improve quickly.

genuine question, i’m not gonna hate on you or criticize you. What do you get out of it? What compels you to do it? Is it because you care about your ELO being high? Or because you just don’t want to loose? Is it satisfying? To me, cheating would not be satisfying, so i really want to understand what the appeal is.

After this, the game went

1. Qf7(!) g6

2. Qf6+ Kg8

3. Bc4+(!!) d5

4. Bxd5+(!!) Be6

5. Bxe6# 1-0

I've been building a tool that runs your Chess.com or Lichess games through Stockfish and sorts your style into one of eight fantasy-style classes, compared with players at your own rating: aggression, initiative, complexity, dynamism and risk.

I ran the last 100 Chess.com blitz games of 10 well-known players. Each name links to their card:

Strategist (takes the initiative without ever exposing himself): Magnus Carlsen

Assassin (straight at the king, and asks the questions): Gukesh

Predator (goes for the king with pieces on): GothamChess

Grinder (keeps the pieces on, never takes risks): Hikaru

Guardian (defends, never overextends): Wesley So, Anish Giri

Firestarter (risky and dynamic): Witty Alien, Anna Cramling

Technician (simplifies, rock solid): Nihal Sarin

Counterpuncher (lets you come, then strikes): Alexandra Botez

Which ones feel right to you, and which surprised you?

I figured out the puzzle!! But I don't know where to go from here. Some puzzles keep going until I actually figure out checkmate and some stop short like this because I assume it's 'obvious' that checkmate is imminent. But this happens often

Je voudrais savoir s’il vous plaît pourquoi on ne peut pas simplement avancer le roi au lieu du sacrifice de fou
Merci bien de la réponse

So i was doing some of my first games and i did this brilliant by accident, it was unwillingly and i wanna know why its brilliant

I’m 400 elo. Is this usually normal for this level?

i actually was low on time, so i started moving the queen around and didnt put it in her position, but im proud of myself as a 100elo player😁

I’ve had my account for a few years and just recently got back into playing on it, with the majority of my games being against friends.

Yesterday my friend showed me stockfish and told me it was fine to test it against him for a game and so I did exactly that. I then played a second game using it against him but gave up halfway because the gimmick started getting boring. And despite blundering my queen, the advantage at the start did help, so I won both games.

Fast forward to today and I’ve now learned that using an engine for 1 game is in fact not fine and I got a fairplay ban. They’ve given me the option to appeal it and ask if I admit to cheating and still want to appeal or if it’s a false ban. I’d like to just be honest with the appeal and get my account back since I’ve obviously learned my lesson but I’m wondering if that’ll just get me auto rejected. I feel bad lying but I’d also like my account back. Or is it better to just create a new account and accept my fate?