In case someone is interested, 3 weeks ago I got engaged to the girl I met on chess.com in January 2025. She is from another country and lives 1000km away, but we are both determined to spend our lifes together.

One of my friends on chess.com, this is genuinely crazy.

Is this impressive at my level? 😃

I went from 1004 to 914 in the span of 5 days and won only 2 games. One because of abandonment, and the other due to them blundering their queen. I have been missing obvious forks, skewers, and pins that even a 400 elo player would notice. I'm tilting horribly and don't know what to do.

I can understand in blitz or rapid that pc and mobile players would get matched. But I cannot understand how you could pair the two in bullet. Not being able to make multiple premoves is an insane disadvantage

After a year long break (with only a couple games in between) I started playing again frequently. However, I'm doing pretty badly with white... At the 1000 elo range, what are the best ways to improve? Especially as white?

My all time win rate with white is similar to that of black, but the win rates in these pictures are just of the last 3 weeks when I started again, and I can't seem to be consistent with white

Winning beginner but not intermediate. Should I play begginer or intermediate

I'm curious how people here actually handle opening preparation and memorization.

For those who have their own opening repertoire:

• How do you review your openings?
• Is there something in particular you find annoying about your current method?

I'm doing some research into this and would be really interested to hear what people think. Thanks everyone :)

Edit: If anyone would be willing to help out I’d appreciate it if you answered this 1-3 minutes google form for my research. Have a good one :)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7mH6W4YOkk6FphBvB-caqINxCwtDuEXUa_0BgdUrx-a8xvA/viewform?usp=publish-editor

It took around 2 years of on and off learning the game. Took a couple of multi month breaks. Does this seem like a normal time frame? Also what study tips helped you reach a new high around this elo when you were here? Trying to keep improving!

Listen, I know, I hear you, I just need to get good BUT HEAR ME OUT.

I don’t think you should get paired with someone whose ELO ceiling is far higher than yours. I JUST worked up to 988 and was playing against a 975. However, the 975 USED to be 1200. The game felt a little lopsided because he played with 85%~ accuracy and I played at my usual 65%~.

I know this is probably just complaining over a loss, but watching both Levy and Hikaru say “wow, the ELO ladder is a lot more difficult than it used to be,” while I’m just trying to get to 1000, makes it feel like somethin needs to get revamped. Thoughts?

…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.

Mine has to be the smothered mate there’s something ridiculously satisfying about a king being completely trappad by it’s own piesces ,I’m curious about your favorite type and what makes it so satisfying for you

Hey everyone, this is my first post in this sub! And I need to rant!

I've recently had a pretty big fight with one of my friends (...well ex-friend) and so I wanted to remove him from my chess.com friend list. But every time I click "delete friend" and i reload the page he's just right back again staring at me, no matter how many times I try it! It infuriates me a lot, actually, because I really hate this guy now.

I googled if anyone else was having this problem and I found a thread on chess.com itself from 3 (!) years (!!!) ago stating this exact problem and it still hasn't been fixed!

It's bad enough the site is becoming more locked behind paywalls every day, but they demand so much money and can't even fix this stupid little bug??

Anyways, now I've found his sub and I've wanted an outlet for my anger and hopefully find other people who feel my pain.

Cheers

Title pretty much.

Long story short, I got paired with this guy who has yet to lose a single game. I aborted the game because I found the account incredibly suspicious but came back to check his history a couple of days later, out of curiosity. Well, he's still rolling with his undefeated streak.

This ain't any speedrun account and smurfing is not allowed, and those are the only 2 explanations I can find for such a streak tbh. There's no way that a normal 2k~ player could have such a performance tbh, expecially considering the positions reached in many games.

The sad part is that I've had to abort multiple games vs suspicious accounts and APPARENTLY (just a feeling) I've started to get matched vs more and more of them by doing so. For istance, a big chunk of my recent matchups have been vs newborn accounts (literally 0-2 days old), many of which play perfect chess or are blatantly cheating (suspicious time usage and engine-type of moves). Be aware that I'm not saying that any new account is suspicious, but some of them are literally painted green and with super sus games.

Is there a secondary *punishment* pool for aborting games? Or is it just my personal feeling and a bias overall?

Am I somehow forced to play vs accounts that legitimately look fishy just to avoid being matched with more and more of them?

If so, it's kinda annoying considering that the cheating/sandbagging detection of chesscom seems to have huge holes, hence forcing me (or anyone else) to just take the L by playing against engines and hoping that they'll be punished (and the elo refunded).

Fellow chesscom players, am I alone on this boat?

It keeps on happening in my games and idk how to defend it.

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

This bot is so fun to play against and it throws a lot of quotes at you.

Many people might say it's not such an achievement but it means a lot to me , I achieved this in 171 days. I played daily even though I didn't know anything about chess when I started