Now that I’m playing for my club @hammer_chess I have decided to step up my training regimen. This is a big responsibility and I want to do well. From today I commit 2 hours per day to chess - 1 hour from 6:30am to 7:30am and one hour from 9:00pm to 10:00pm. This is all I can.

Even when you think everything is under control, there is always that moment!

Can someone explain this to me. On Lichess I lose to players rated 1200 in bullet with a rating of 1500-1600 in puzzles (sometimes over several hundred puzzles) whereas I peaked at over 2400 in puzzles. How can they see tactics I don’t see despite being on paper much weaker.

Why is it that I feel I get better at chess and nonetheless lose to increasingly lower rated opponent 🤷🏻‍♂️ . I guess this is part of the journey….

Absolutely agree. I have made much more progress by adopting a growth mindset than by obsessing over rating.

Today I played the best game of my life. It helped that my opponent helped me a little but I did not make any mistakes, and relied on my beloved Samisch against the Kings Indian. Perhaps hard work is paying off after all!

An illustration of the Dunning-Kruger effect

When I’m learning a new chess opening, I’ve found it’s much more effective to start by playing—even if I don’t know the theory yet. This connects to the Dunning-Kruger effect, a concept from a 1999 study where researchers found that people who performed the worst on tests often.

After a lot of trial and error I have managed to win this position against Stockfish set at level 6 on Lichess (of a total of 8 levels, 8 being the strongest). This has taught me a lot on how to play these positions. I’ll probably write a separate post with some thoughts on the

This is one sequence that SF is providing, inducing …c5 at some moment and attacking the h pawn from behind. The sequence starts at move 35 as per the game move count. 35. g3 Rg6 36. Kg2 Kf8 37. Kh3 Rd6 38. Kg4 Ng7 39. Nf4 Ne8 40. Nd3 Nf6+ 41. Kf3 Ng8 42. Ra1 Nf6 43. Ne5 Nd7

In my league game with White last week I ended up playing the minority attack. I correctly created a backward c6 pawn, defended my opponent king side attack well and ended with the following position, with White to move. It seems to me that White is better because of the two

Results of the poll - one thing is clear chess players are not social creatures!.

To all non-professional chess enthusiasts - why do you play chess?.

Question for my #chesspunks friends and coaches. I’m thinking of playing long time controls training games against Stockfish at full engine strength. Of course I’ll lose all the games but by thinking deeply through each move during the game and doing a thorough post mortem.

Some pre-weekend endgame warm up! White to play and win. The first few moves are easy but how does White ensures one of the pawn promotes? Try to calculate till the end. The path the king must take is instructive.

Philosophical question : if two things are almost identical, are they completely different?. Thinking of chess positions!.

You’ve got to love these guys, two wonderful human beings and amongst the best players in the world. Notice how @LevAronian causally beats @Vachier_Lagrave twice in a row whilst having fun! . Awesome 🤩.

Beautiful indeed. After the re-capture there is still the question of whether to take the pawn with the Bishop or with the Queen. What would you do?.

À ne pas manquer!.

Had this game earlier last night in a match representing @hammer_chess . My opponent, who was a fifth of my age, went for a Benoni. I played the line with f4 as I was in a more enterprising spirit. Having lost a previous game a few weeks back with the Benoni I had done my

Very helpful.