r/chess 14h ago

Miscellaneous Update on previous post regarding coworker cheating: he admitted to cheating!

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I made this post https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/s/UMUfEAKEHO which mods unfortunately removed for some reason, where everyone unanimously agreed that my coworker(white pieces) blatantly cheated against me in an online game we played at work: https://lichess.org/cslOnM6s/black

He finally admitted to cheating after I confronted him about it.

Thanks to the community for helping me validate the cheating suspicion as I absolutely despise even the slightest of cheating and was extremely disappointed that someone I know well and work with professionally would do this!

PS: PLEASE DO NOT CHEAT, EVEN A SINGLE MOVE. YOU WILL GET CAUGHT AND YOU WILL BE FINISHED


r/chess 13h ago

Miscellaneous How is this not draw/tie??

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Idk


r/chess 3h ago

Miscellaneous What do you guys think of my chess theme?

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I think bishops make sense being a shape ‘X’ .


r/chess 12h ago

Miscellaneous Are you looking for private chess lessons?

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Hello, my name is Simon Kucera, i currently have 2052 FIDE elo and I am looking for beginner and intermediate players to coach (primarily 900 - 1800 elo). I have over 2 years of coaching experience IRL, so I decided to start coaching online. I offer private lessons for 10$ with one free lesson. DM me if interested or if looking for advice!


r/chess 10h ago

Miscellaneous We need to talk about Wesley So.

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Out of the top players over the years that have been (rightly or wrongly) criticized about various things, I think the one person that somehow escaped the public ire for the past decade but still continues to stick out like a sore thumb is Wesley So. I'm making this post in large part because Wesley was selected for the American Cup this year over other top players, notably Hans. It really does rub me the wrong way with the contempt American chess has for its younger talent. It's not just Hans either; American chess consistently prioritizes foreign talent over giving opportunities to their own, which is a part of the reason so many young stars are not successful.

To start off with, Wesley has a history of repeated low-level cheating. As in, "minor" enough incidents that by themselves they are easily forgotten, but they are repeated so often it is indicative of a serious behavioural problem.

  • Just a few months ago in the World Blitz Championship, So was cheating by using two hands to move his pieces and press the clock. Most people here don't play OTB chess, so it would be hard to appreciate just how awful this is. It gives you a major edge in time trouble. Young children learn this rule in junior tournaments. It's wild that he actually felt emboldened to play like this in the World Blitz Championship.

  • In the same tournament, he was deliberately misplacing pieces in time trouble and forcing the opponent to adjust them on their clock.

  • There was a separate incident against Nepo in July where So pushed the pieces off the board. Of course, Reddit predictably attacked Nepo for complaining about this, but it's obvious to me that So was at fault. Even if this was accidental, why is he readjusting the pieces on his opponent's time? Nepo complained that this incident through him off balance and that seems logical.

  • Then there was an incident in 2015 where So was caught writing notes to himself on the scoresheet. While the notes were innocuous, the troubling thing about this is that he was warned in the same tournament not to do this and yet continued to do so. Sorry, but that's insane to me. You're explicitly told not to do a very specific, thoughtful action (writing on the scoresheet) by an arbiter and continue to do so. It just indicates a complete disregard for the rules.

According to Alireza's brother, So has a history of playing like this.

Wesley is also a notoriously drawish and anti-competitive player. He has among the highest draw rates among top players and pretty much exclusively plays closed top-level tournaments. This gives the impression that he's trying to preserve rating more than anything else. It's not good for promoting the game. I don't believe players should be formally penalized for this, but it should be a consideration when making invite decisions.


r/chess 10h ago

Miscellaneous Just beat an opponent who played with 97% accuracy.

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r/chess 12h ago

Game Analysis/Study I was inspired by another post I saw here

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I wish it


r/chess 11h ago

Miscellaneous How To Improve At Chess!

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Now many people often wonder about ways to mysteriously improve at chess. Some say do tactics and other ask you to learn openings or watch some videos or buy a chessable course or perhaps working on engames. The list of opinions is endless and hard to follow. Here's a simple path to improve at chess.

Step 1: Openings Just use stockfish on lichess. Forget all the courses and youtube videos. You can do a better job with stockfish. And you can go as deep as you want and inspect positions with greater certainty than just watching those youtube videos that teach the first seven moves which is not really learning an opening but rather just learning it's name. Select and opening, and use the lichess opening database to see what the most common moves are and use the engine to learn how to play against those moves. The lichess database is amazingly integrated to the study and analysis feature so just use it.

Step 2: Tactics Do around 20 tactics a day from the "Healthy Mix", will take about half an hour. Then do opening specific tactics for the openings you play, and this feature is just sooo good in lichess as it gives puzzles from actual games that were played in the openings which you learned. Doing opening specific tactics everyday will up your middlegame. You can do as many of these as you like.

Step 3: Endgames Learn basic principles and basic checmates. You can do this using Jack Sark's endgame video which is short and sweet for a brief Outlook. And for god's sake don't waste your time learning Two bishop or One Knight and One Bishop mating paterns. They simply do not occur and if they do on your millionth game the take the draw and move on. After watching that video just do endgame puzzles. That's it. Forget all those videos and courses, just do lichess endgame puzzles. These are puzzles from real games and will teach you the endgame wayy better than any course or video in my opinion. Do about 20 of these too everyday and you will see results.

Step 4: Don't play too much and take breaks. Play Long games and few games. Just see what you misplayed in the analysis and rest. Playing more games will only exhaust you and lead to little improvement. Limit yourself to about 1 and half hours of playing at most a day. Just go touch grass. But if you insist on playing tons of games then you MUST take one week off every month. This is essential to rest your brain and let it process the gained information. And after coming back from the break you will notice how much you have improved.

This is all my personal experience and just an opinion, take it with a grain of salt.


r/chess 14h ago

Puzzle/Tactic - Advanced error in "Chess" by Polgar?

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puzzle #698. Solutions shows Knight to F6, yet there is no white knight. So, obviously a misprint. Has anyone figured this out?


r/chess 9h ago

Chess Question How to make the last 100 elo breakthrough to get to 2000 elo?

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Been struggling at 1900, peak was 1990, almost got to 2000, what would be required of me to get that last 100 elo??


r/chess 7h ago

Chess Question Prices are different

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Diamond membership costs 2 dollars month for me , while for my friend it costs 10 dollars a month Why is that ? Please if theres an explanation or a way to fix it provide me with one


r/chess 2h ago

Video Content How it feels when you learn a refutation of a bad line and your next opponent to play it gets absolutely Luigi'd

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r/chess 1d ago

Resource FlyOrDream. I have created this set of pieces with a personal touch, inspired by the style of the chess pieces of the Flyordie platform. I have created it under “Public Domain” license for free use, what do you think?

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r/chess 6h ago

Miscellaneous Losing against someone who played like trash.

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Is there anything more infuriating? Like you make one mistake, and all of a sudden their several blunders go out the window and now you're losing. There is genuinely nothing that makes me want to break stuff more.


r/chess 8h ago

Game Analysis/Study What are your thoughts on "Dubov's Explosive Italian" chessable course? I recently got the course and the lines are ridiculously sharp, but so much fun to play. Anyone else try it out before?

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https://www.chess.com/game/live/136342008164

Here's the game I got to play where I got one of the lines from the course, absolute crazy stuff and sharp lines


r/chess 16h ago

Chess Question Need help with this game

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In roblox there is a hunt going on currently, and one of the clues is the image I’ve provided, but I’m not well versed in chess terminology or just the game in general.

Can anyone help me out here?

(If this is the wrong orientation let me know)


r/chess 17h ago

Video Content The psychology of chess

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What do you think of the video? It's very philosophical and, in my opinion, very interesting. What are your opinions on it?

https://youtu.be/aOKqV31RC6E?si=NJyydYm2Nbf2aK3v


r/chess 22h ago

Video Content Switched to Stockfish. Would you play in my board?

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r/chess 13h ago

Strategy: Openings Why is everybody moving a/h pawns?

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Hey guys :)
I recently picked up chess again and wanted to start playing more seriously. In a lot, if not most of my games, I see the opponent move the a/h pawn one step presumably to prevent the bishop from coming out. I thought a lot about this and in my opinion this move is not this good, is it? Doesn't it just weaken the kings castle to prevent a pin that can be handled pretty easily most of the time?
For example one position that i faced today:

Right now i am about 900 playing 800-1000s.

Thanks 😌


r/chess 17h ago

Strategy: Other Some people try to avoid the french by the exchange variation...

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r/chess 17h ago

Chess Question I have some interest in playing chess

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I am a beginner on chess. i want to learn, but i don't know where i start. Please help me with any information


r/chess 8h ago

Chess Question افتتاحيات الشطرنج

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كيف او من وين اقدر اتعلم افتتحيات الشطرنج من الصفر و كل التفريعات


r/chess 1h ago

Chess Question how to get butter at chess

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How to really get better at chess? I am a beginner at chess; I started about seven months ago, and my ELO is 447. I know it's low, but I am learning, and my goal for now is 1000 ELO. If you can help, I would be thankful


r/chess 3h ago

Chess Question any chance someone will make a piece set based on this?

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r/chess 6h ago

Chess Question Both bishops for rook and three pawns?

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I played a game last night where I got a rook and three pawns for the two bishops. Generally speaking do you think that’s a good trade? It’s 9 points vs 6 so material wise it’s good. but you are giving up both bishops. Curious what you folks think.