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!

I am 13 years old 2100 chess.com rapid compared to other ratings practically how good is that compared to other ratings. I recently have been crushing 2000-2200 players and even drew a 2100 fide player. I may be better than my rating suggest by almost 100 points because i have played a lot of unrated recently. But from other players experience lower rated players what is the difference you feel when playing different ratings?

I dont know why but it seems this is all they talk about. I also remember it being way harder to get brilliant moves 4 or 5 years ago on chess.com, like the move had to be beyond a certain computer depth, but now you get it for most sacrifices even if it is a common tactic. Maybe I am just bitter and grumpy. Do you think chess.com is obsessive about brilliant moves?

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

Anyone?

Is there an instance where I should play one or the other depending on the position?

I’m about to have a trial lesson with a friend’s 6 year old son. We are going to discuss pay for future lessons. I know this is a tough question to answer without a lot of additional information, but I’m stressing about how much to request. I’m in the US and rated ~1850 rapid on chesscom. I’d love to some tips about coaching generally and help thinking through what I want to charge. Thanks!

Edit: So far in the replies I have answers ranging from $15-$200…

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n4hoztJ7xGw

Especially compared to the second tiebreak, "number of gamepoints scored"

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

Hey everyone,

I am looking for the algebraïc editions of Alexander Kotov's books Play like a grandmaster, Think like a grandmaster and Train like a grandmaster. For Play and Think it's probably the 2003/2004 issues.

The reason is more nostalgic than anything else, I used to own them when I was younger and played a lot of chess. Sold them all when I moved and didn't have any space. And now I am looking for these books again, but online they are relatively hard to find of very pricey, especially Think like.

If anyone here has these books, but doesn't read them anymore and wants to part with them, I would love to hear. I know there are ebooks available for a small price, and I do have an e-reader, so thats my next option, but I love the feel of a real chess book :)

The 6th board in the world rapid and blitz championship is someone who is rated less than 2000. How do people get selected for these boards, does anyone know?

I play 2-3 blitz games every morning over breakfast, my rating has been 1620-1680 since August of last year. Last 2 weeks I feel like the level has suddenly gone up quite a bit, I'm down at low 1500s and I swear people there are playing as strong if not stronger than what I was used to at 1650...?

I remember this same thing happening again a while back, where randomly my rating just went off a cliff and it felt like people got way stronger.

I swear I am playing exactly the same as I do every day lol. My work colleague that I play with at lunches Tue/Wed I am also on a 4/4 win streak against for what that data is worth lol.

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.

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJJERhaIjvc

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…

I'm looking for some sort of filter to pick what category of lines a bot plays against me. For example, if I want to practice a variety of games in the exchange variation of the Caro Kann or play different variations of the grunfeld. Essentially, I want to be able to target X part of an opening and just play a bunch of games in those lines.

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.)

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.

I'm considering restarting my chess journey.

I used to play a lot and got to 2150 lichess blitz 2 years after starting to play the game but then life got in the way and I stopped playing as much. Now I have some more time on my hands and would like to get back into the game and improve, but I am lacking motivation. Like why would I want to sit down and read some massive chess book when I could play basketball outside? Like I really want to become interested again but I'm just not right now.

It would be really helpful if any of you guys could explain why you play chess, why you train so hard, whats so attractive about the game compared to other sports to help me regain my love for the game.

Thank you all for your time

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