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.

How to Train Your Dragon is my favorite movie ever and she made this as a gift for my birthday! She hand sculpted each piece, painted all of them, and the board itself. She also painted us two as Hiccup and Astrid aka the king and queen :D

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.

I've been playing on lichess for a couple of years, and just opened a chess com account. I'm 1250 on lichess and 900 on chess com rapid rating. In my years of playing on lichess I never got notice I was cheated on, but its happened on chess com in 20 games. I know there's different rating systems and banning systems on each site, but why does chess com feel so fishy? I have a much more enjoyable time on lichess.

edit: apparently I was cheated on hundreds of times on lichess according to chess cheaters

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😁

Hey anyone wanna play now?

Sorry, had to re-upload because my previous image somehow ended up with a wonky line running over it.

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!

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

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?

Has anyone had this issue before or know how to fix it? So far trouble shooting ideas from google, and AI have not worked. My app is fully up to date as well and both WiFi and cellular are working fine.

Looking for replacement pink queen and knight for this chess set I bought in South Korea in 1988. Any help greatly appreciated.

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.

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

Also I sacrificed THE ROOOOKKKKK!!!!!