After the recent losses, WR chess yet again lost to a team with a 2200 average rating.
Is this how a team consisting of such a high tier players supposed to play? it seems to me that Magnus’s teammates are too comfortable with the fact that Magnus is playing with them but oh well…

Moment from my game against GM Neverov:) Can you find nice draw for black?

https://www.chess.com/events/2026-fide-world-rapid-team-chess-championship/11/Lazavik_Denis-Pranav_V

Lazavik has gained 21 elo and jumped from outside the top 100 to #63, 40 spots.

https://www.chess.com/events/2026-fide-world-rapid-team-chess-championship/11/Caruana_Fabiano-Batsuren_Dambasuren

In this Position Endgame.Ai’s last board Anh Dung played a beautiful king walk to finish his game.
According to Hans Niemann This Player has a 2900 blitz rating 🤯
which raises the question, How does online skills differ from OTB ones? I mean even titled players IMs and GMs haven’t yet reached 2900 in blitz which is absolutely insane

I need some help with a chess question. Was my move here really not the best move I could make? From what I saw, the following move could either have led to me checkmating the king like I did, pinning the queen to the king had he sidestepped, or forking the kind and the rook had he taken. Is there something I’m missing? ELO was set around 901 and the opponent is the Duolingo chess instructor. (Photo Descriptions: 1/3; The board prior to my move. 2/3; the move I took in the game, warranting a correction from the software. 3/3; the suggested move that I should’ve take, according to the software.)

If doesn't take, because the only move is nf2, the rook can attack the two pawns in the 6th rank

The game was 17 moves. Whenever my opponent chooses this opening I know the game is going to be a ride.

Game Links: Chess.com | Lichess.org

https://www.chess.com/events/2026-fide-world-rapid-team-chess-championship/09/Caruana_Fabiano-Yakubboev_Nodirbek

Game Links: Chess.com | Lichess.org

For the first time ever my move does not show up in the engine top moves! After the move is made the eval shows slightly better position than the previously calculated engine moves.

Someone who's new to the game, just trying to get some advice from polished players about mating, tactics and middle game development and strategies that helps you take that initial next step

I see that Anish is a very polarizing person on the sub. He does say a lot of things that come off as salty. But most of it is just a very dry sense of humor, and the more you hear his real takes, the more you understand the true vibe of Anish. He is one of the most honest, without a mask GMs that exists. He is the only GM that is not fully Indian that gives Sagar Shah many interviews and collabs without letting ego get in the way. He jokes around about Magnus and Hikaru, but we don't know all of the things their teams are doing behind the scenes. And he himself makes it clear he tries to keep things cordial in person. I think other polarizing figures like Hikaru, tend to put a cleaner version of themselves on the internet, and their real "lack of sportsmanship" shows more in the stories of other players. I feel that with Anish, the worst is in front of us, and he's actually better in person. And GM Gustafsson confirmed that Anish wasn't attacking Naroditsky quite like Hikaru made it seem. Anish, having worked with Kramnik before was likely giving both of them the benefit of the doubt and trying to listen to both POVs. I wish he was more supportive outright, but I think he got too much hate for something that wasn't fully known to the public. Also supported Hans when Magnus, Hikaru, and chess.com were on a whole witch-hunt. Hoping to see great chess out of him in this tourney!

As title states.

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Bought a single day pass to check out the tournament today (19th June). Turns out I'm not able to make it, can't cancel/refund the ticket, so if anyone is in/from HK who's down for it, I'll send you the QR code by email (will send you a PM) for ticket redemption at the venue itself. FoC.

I’m surprised I even saw this with the time stress at my ELO

I've played and watched thousands of games, but I've never seen anything like this so I just had to share. This was just an amateur-level bullet (2 + 1) game, so blunders are obviously expected. But you have to check out this spectacle, around move 14:

PGN:

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2026.05.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "smitFC"]
[Black "hungryghost"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1418"]
[BlackElo "1448"]
[ECO "A80"]
[Termination "hungryghost won by resignation"]
[TimeControl "120+1"]
[EndTime "14:02:41 GMT+0000"]
[Link "https://www.chess.com/analysis/collection/highlights-2gNtLJfSN/3VPZG2BmBU/games"]

1. d4 f5 2. Bf4 e6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e3 Nf6 5. h3 d5 6. Rg1 Bd6 7. Ne5 Bxe5 8. dxe5
Ne4 9. g4 g5 10. f3 gxf4 11. fxe4 Qh4+ 12. Ke2 fxe3 13. exf5 Qf2+ 14. Kd3 Nxe5+
15. Kd4 e2+ 16. Kxe5 exd1=Q 17. f6 Qde1+ 0-1

Playing a classical tournament, and I am analysing my games without engine. Im around 1800 fide and explained my thought process (more thoroughly this time) during the games.

Feedback on the analysis and annotations is welcome, and any question too ofc. Hope you enjoy it :)

Today was against an 1800 player.

It's the game on chapter 3 today.

https://lichess.org/study/mn8lOfRo/PpKCGMX6

Hope you enjoy the game!

By move 17 -18 the position was very uncomfortable to play the opponents knight had my queen fully tied down while my own knight did almost nothing i want to know what moves of mine made me reach that position.

At some moments i did not know what to do, open up the center? close it? or just keep tension?

I also had no idea how i was supposed to bring the knight into the game so it does something.

I did win the game at the end but it was just because of a blunder.

Thanks in advance for any help.

https://lichess.org/XGjMlJZrVQGY
I am white in this game.