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I’ll be chasing this high for a while 😅

So I'm trying to make a chess bot. It's around 1950 elo the bot is called Lynx and I'm making a program that's called lynx test, the same idea as Fish test, but for my ai bot, this is a pretty big project. I'm working on it's around 10 days of developing this new AI but my goal is 3500 elo with lynx test this is planned to be a 2-year-long project starting from now also in a few days it might go open source on GitHub. I will notify you if it goes open source but if you would help me to train this AI it would be a pleasure.

WARNING:
Also this is not for cheating unfair play and unfair advantages please don't cheat.

Hint: Magnus has never beat me

I started playing these many days ago, even my yt algorithmn has changed and I keep seeing more matches on my recommendations.

I don’t Ike the hearts. I made the wrong move and the piece I’m supposed to move highlighted, which defeats the purpose of the puzzle.

Looking for a 2000 rated chess blitz player for a short training session. Got a tournament coming up and feel like I still have a few blindspots

We play one blitz game and then briefly go through the game/mistakes afterward. Around 20–30 minutes total.

Paying $30. DM me your chess profile if interested.

…on how to stop worrying about elo??
I want to change that mindset because it makes me a little anxious whenever I start a game.

I’m a beginner so this might sound ridiculous.

Please share some thoughts.

For a while I played chess from the app since the website always crashes and doesnt let me start a game, but after coming back to chess after a few months I realized that I can no longer play chess on chess.com on the app which sucks, is there a way I can play on chess.com or am I forced to play using a different alternative?

I paid premium for this type of review? Really?💡💡💡💡

I’m fully aware that a titled player will have an advantage within 10 moves and crush me in 20, and that’s okay. I’m not quitting my job to join the grand chess tour. However, as a 1500, I’m in the 96th percentile, and in almost any other game, that would elite. However, considering the gap between me and a grandmaster is the same as me and a noob, I understand why it’s hard to label 1500 as advanced.

I wouldn’t say I have a chip on my shoulder. This isn’t specifically about me, but rather players in this range. It takes a ton of work to become a 1500.

He's played since 2021, but was more like he played a good bit (mainly rapid) in first year. Then played chess very sporadically up until like late Summer 2025, with said sporadic chess being mainly blitz. From there he beat guys few hundred elo above him and started doing blitz, eventually beating a 2400 in an online tournament, and drawing an FM and CM in seperate tournaments. Those resulrs came around Dec 2025 or Jan 2026. Few months after that he beat a CM in blitz, and then from there had (without glaze) too many wins against 2000+ to remember them all, but I do recall at one point he beat a 2500 blitz, and won a 7 game series against an NM, and in peak days was beating 2300+ players back to back in blitz while having a peak blitz elo of 1800. Around summertime this year he started to pivot more to rapid, and beat a 2200 and 2300 while being around 2000 rapid himself. He also has not been banned for cheating to my knowledge, so hes almost certainly legit. Im just confused how he does it as his advice he gives out is usually fairly simplistic, revolving around principles, composure, end games, and analysis usually being looking at only key momenrs of games (in his definition, where eval drops by 1 or more or the move feels like something easy or interesting to fix) and liking to trade down to and end game if position demands it.

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I've noticed that it feels like I "lock-in" when playing players from certain countries and not so much for other countries.

I was wondering if there was a way to see my competitive record on Chess.com by country played.

Like 20-2-21 USA 4-1-3 JAP etc.

Correct me if im wrong cuz i am only like 800 elo but i thought this was a pretty good move…

I'm currently 1900 rapid chess.com, I haven't got a lot of OTB classical experience, I've only played in 2 tournaments with a rating of 1500. Right now, I'm just reading the Woodpecker Method 1, and 100 endgames you must know, and trying to go for 100% accuracy 30 puzzles a day in Chess.com but it takes a lot of time so I usually do around 15 and get around 85% accuracy. I'm just going to keep this as a long term goal but I think these books will help me quite a lot (I know im not ready for them know but I hope to be so soon): the Mark Dvoretsky's complete endgame manual, Grandmaster preparation series, The art of attack, and Pump up your rating. What other actions would you guys recommend for improvement?

I'm currently around 1300 Elo. The weird thing is that my performance is really inconsistent. sometimes I can beat a 1700-rated player, and other times I play like an 800-rated player.

I know I have a lot to improve, but I'm not sure what I should actually focus on.

For those who have improved significantly from around 1300, what helped you the most? Should I focus more on tactics, analyzing my games, openings, endgames, or something else?

I’ve noticed that recently my gameplay has improved alot. But still finding it very difficult to reach 1400 elo. I don’t know what more can i do to improve.

Can someone please explain why I’m suddenly shooting up, despite having changed what I feel is nothing in my game, after being stuck at 1450 for two years?

Помогите пожалуйста разобратся что я делаю не так? хочу научится играть в шахмты против сильного противника но он всегда играет Дебют ван Круйса после чего выводит Ферзя и белопольного слона и я не понимаю что против этой пары делать так как она слишком сильна помогите вот пару игр https://www.chess.com/game/173846666944?move=6
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/173845953996/analysis?flip=true&move=0

Please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong. I want to learn to play chess against a strong opponent, but he always plays the Van't Kruijs Opening, then develops his queen and light-squared bishop, and I don't understand what to do against that pair since it's too strong. Here are a couple of games to help with: https://www.chess.com/game/173846666944?move=6
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/173845953996/analysis?flip=true&move=0

Or is it done with rooks as well?

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