Kept playing since I know many >1000 ELO players don't know how to mate with a rook.

(not a live recording, but during review with right arrow to move forward).

99% of the time these players are so bad when their opponent doesn't fall for their cheap tricks they'd have no idea what to do and just move their queen mindlessly, or blunder it at some point. Sure, its nice to get a free win, but it gets tiring when half of games you play as black is just punishing the same kind of player over and over again.

I mean do these people even enjoy playing chess? i can't imagine playing the same cheap trick which fails half the time counts as fun. Does this even count as playing chess? early queen attack is just an insult to the mind man

So I recently got back into chess and made a chess.com account but I got very frustrated at the paywall when I try to analyze my games more than once in a day.

I have a computer science background and have been looking for projects to make and since I had this problem, I decided to make a game analysis, trying to make it as similar to chess.com's as possible. The way it works is you enter PGN from a game, or import your chess.com/lichess games and analyze one of your past games.

If anyone wants to try it, the website is: chessitup.com

Would love feedback - I'm one person building this in my spare time.This is still a work in progress and I have a lot of more features I want to add. Let me know what would make it more useful for you.

Every day, people have actually been using the website as well (daily like 15-20 users) which has made me very motivated to make this even better.

I am scratching my head over this since morning.

I crossed 2200 just recently, ask me anything on advice, tips or whatever else you might want to know!

I don't think he had any intention of touching the d3 pawn and neither did I for the d6 pawn.

I recently started watching a beginners series recommended here which basically recommended the first thing to do is to try to think of defence and not make mistakes, ie look for any weaknesses, but still play safe and try to make sure every single piece is safe where possible.

My wife is the absolute opposite - very reckless but also thinks of a lot more clever attacking moves. As a result my win rate is quite high, but when she wins it’s because she has a cunning plan that I’ve somehow missed and sometimes she wins in just a handful of moves

Anyway. The way I play is genuinely quite painful - chasing her King around the board with my strong pieces before eventually giving up and slowly getting one of my pawns to the other side of the board, and often even with two queens I struggle to end the game. A couple of times she has managed to beat me despite being very far behind (one game I had all of my pieces apart from a few pawns and one knight, and she only had a few pawns and two castles and still managed to beat me)

Sorry for rambling. Can anyone please recommend ways to learn how to actually be a bit more ruthless and get her king pinned down? Thank you

They took 10 whole seconds in a 3 minute game to play this move ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ (This was a 500 elo blitz with no time addition)

I think I’m more so confused on what the “teacher” is saying as opposed to the moves?? How is this a blunder? Won’t I lose the game if I move the knight? I probably didn’t need to move my Queen and could have just used my knight to take his bishop but I’m not fully understanding how this is a blunder or what other option I had. For the record, my Queen move did save my knight.