Be honest please

Today I got an alert some guy i played was banned for fair play, thinking it was cheating i looked and realized it was rating manipulation, i was the one person he beat in 20 games 🤦‍♂️ maybe i should quit.

Brilliant?

I’ve been chasing this for a long, long time… (over far too many games).

I always find chess.com is kind of hilariously dissing me by placing a mensa IQ ad after a loss

super stoked to finally have hit 500!! any tips or general advice on getting to 600 and beyond? 🧐

love getting an accidental brilliant lol

I'm on 1000+ ELO. What is the best opening for white?

genuinely not in a million years would i have realized this was stalemate LOL. i was just trying to stop his passed pawn 😭😭

Premoves are fun

Many of us were taught how to play by our fathers, but maybe it was a mother, sister, brother, friend. In any case, you probably remember the day when you finally won your first game. What was that day for you and how did you feel about it?

I’ll start. My dad taught me how to play when I was five. I asked for chess magazines and begged to play him every day. One day when I was nine we played a game just like always except…I was winning more pieces. And then actually won. He looked really surprised. When I think back on it I realize he was proud as a father but then also embarrassed. It felt strange, but ultimately I was pretty pleased with myself. It launched a few years of study and tournament play for me.

and in this position he sacrificed the rookkkkkk

I know I won against a bot. But this was perhaps the first time in my life I played without a Blunder, a Miss or a Mistake😭

I'm 156 elo in Blitz

Lemme enjoy the small pleasures of my life🙂‍↔️

what and why is your favorite chesspiece?

My blitz rating is around 2300, and I play the most popular formats for that rating level (3+0 or 3+2). However, since about mid-September, finding a game has been taking 5–6 minutes on average—whereas before, it only took a few seconds—and I’ve tried playing at various times of the day. Meanwhile, on another site that’s also quite popular, everything is just as it used to be. Did I miss some kind of announcement, or is this a bug specific to me?

i stared at this puzzle for like 20 minutes trying to figure out how the white king wasnt in check. Then i did analysis and realized my error.. I admit things like this happen to me alot in chess, and in life. Like i worked a cook job for 10 years and knew the menu by heart but one thing needed to be turned a certain way on the plate and i would have brain shutdowns on it all the time. Like what is wrong with me.. lol

I’ll have to say, ladder mates are super satisfying with the multiple pre-moves on IOS. I feel like Hikaru

I don't know what it is but I have a terrible record against players from Mexico. I seriously lose 9 out of 10 games to them I don't know how that statistic is possible.