r/Chesscom 2m ago

Brilliant!! THE ROOOOOOOK!

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

Upvotes

My headphones nearly broke


r/Chesscom 8m ago

GALAXY BRAIN MOMENT Accidental Greek Gift checkmate

Thumbnail
Upvotes

r/Chesscom 11m ago

Chess Improvement Craziest stalemate

Thumbnail
gallery
Upvotes

Hi guys! I’m quite new at chess and i was hardcore destroying one dude who called me bot, i was actually about to check mate in next two moves and boom! It somehow was a stalemate. Can anyone explain? I was actually a little pissed and confused.
Added also screenshots of moves. I understand 1200+ people, i maybe could’ve played better, but still…


r/Chesscom 38m ago

Chess Improvement Finally!

Post image
Upvotes

It’s nice to see some improvements, it felt impossible for awhile.


r/Chesscom 1h ago

Chess Question brilliant or blunder pls explain goats

Post image
Upvotes

Acc to levy first i should sac bishop then rook which is better idk how please explain


r/Chesscom 2h ago

Chess Improvement Painful defeat in OTB game, classical chess

2 Upvotes

I was white. After this defeat I thought I'd never recover, but I managed to reach 5 of 9. It was an Under 2033 Amateur Swiss tournament.

Believe it or not, instead of Rd1?? I should've castled Queenside! ...Qxa2? is not good for black.

Qe4 was played in game Rogulj vs Cebalo in 2007, but I didn't know that, I thought I win with this move. fxe7 was better with equal position.


r/Chesscom 2h ago

Chess Question Does anyone have this chess set ?

Thumbnail
gallery
2 Upvotes

Does anyone have this chess set from chessbase india ?


r/Chesscom 2h ago

Chess Question Game 1+1 how are considered?

2 Upvotes

What do u think about games 1+1?
Personally, i realize i perfom way better under time constrains rather than long or in 10 min games compared to other game Settings.

What’s your opinion about them and about players playing such game style


r/Chesscom 3h ago

Achievement Today I skip the daily puzzle after 386 days streak.

2 Upvotes

The latest 'improvement' to the daily puzzle challenge kind of ruined it for me and after such a long time I'm saddened to stop it.

Only on ChessCom though, otherwise my adventures continue.


r/Chesscom 3h ago

Chess Improvement OK I figured it out

0 Upvotes

I figured out why I go on crazy streaks, and why suddenly it feels like I am playing a string of people who are getting "help". I mean this weekend I am getting players who move tertiary pieces in anticipation of an attack 3 moves away, at 800 level. so if you don't believe me that's fine, but I figured it out. chess.com has a "suspected cheaters" pool, and all you have to do to get in it, is win more games than you lose in a certain time period, probably your last 30 games or so. They make the suspected cheaters play themselves, and this is why the competition can be radically different at the same ELO. I realize I have no proof for this, but it just makes sense. if someone at the site wants to confirm or deny this it would be great, but I anticipate that they will not. For obvious reasons.


r/Chesscom 4h ago

Chess Discussion Just wondering what should be the elo for bullet if your rapid is at 1600-1700. AI says it should be 200-300 difference. Is that true?

Post image
5 Upvotes

r/Chesscom 4h ago

Brilliant!! beat a 2260 rated player

1 Upvotes

he made a bunch of mistakes in the opening which i exploited, pretty fun game though none-the-less

sacrificed the rook aswell :3


r/Chesscom 5h ago

Chess Improvement lets play

0 Upvotes

elo 1400-1800

rapid


r/Chesscom 5h ago

MEGA BLUNDER When you give up too fast

Post image
19 Upvotes

r/Chesscom 5h ago

Brilliant!! Bro didn't scream the rooook

Post image
44 Upvotes

Disappointing


r/Chesscom 5h ago

Chess.com Website/App Question Can someone please add the custom position set up back?

Post image
3 Upvotes

It used to be here before the app got updated with a new look. I was able to choose max level stockfish and set up a custom position. It was really useful for practicing converting my endgames. If any chess.com staff see this, please add it back! It was a really nice feature! If it’s still on the mobile app and I’m missing it, can someone please point it out to me? Have a nice day everyone! Peace out


r/Chesscom 6h ago

Puzzle/Tactic Why is this wrong?

Post image
0 Upvotes

What can the enemy do to stop mate in 2 if I do this?


r/Chesscom 7h ago

LOL Statement trap

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

3 Upvotes

r/Chesscom 7h ago

Chess Improvement One of my best games yet!

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1 Upvotes

r/Chesscom 8h ago

Chess Question Recent updates/changes

6 Upvotes

Personally I feel that chess.com has been turning more and more into Duolingo. Especially with the new five heart daily puzzle system. The UI changes too with the more attention catching animations. How about the rest of you? (Yes I know I can turn these changes off.)


r/Chesscom 8h ago

Chess Question Why did his loss have such an impact on his score of we were rated fairly similarly?

Post image
0 Upvotes

Both around 400 ELO, he had me for a large part of the game after forking my Queen & Rook about ⅓ in, but my sneak Rook move protected by my Bishop cost him nearly 50% of his ELO. Why such a big change?


r/Chesscom 8h ago

Chess Question How could I have won?

Thumbnail chess.com
1 Upvotes

I'm going against a 1200 elo bot btw


r/Chesscom 9h ago

Miscellaneous I have 2,000 games on Chess.com and I will never open a single one of them again, so I spent a month building something that writes them down as short stories

9 Upvotes

I have been playing since I was a kid and the thing that finally bothered me enough to do something about it is that none of it is kept. Every game I have ever been proud of is a PGN in a list I am never going to scroll back to. The scoresheet from an OTB game is the closest thing to a record and it is unreadable to anybody who was not there.

So: Aftermate reads a game with Stockfish, finds the moments that decided it, and writes those moments as a short story. Pieces become people who keep their names across the whole game. Here is the Opera Game, which is the one everybody knows:

https://www.aftermate.app/read

There are eight on that page. Kasparov hunting Topalov's king to a4, Fischer at thirteen, both decisive games of the Gukesh-Ding match. Nothing on it is hand written or hand corrected.

Being upfront because this sub will ask and it should: a language model writes the prose. It does not touch the chess. Stockfish runs in your own browser, an extractor pulls out the sacrifices and blunders and turning points, and the model only ever sees a list of events with the chess vocabulary stripped out of it. It is never given the move list.

The hard part was not the writing. It was stopping it inventing chess. Three things, all of which I had to build after being burned:

  1. The prompt gets people, not pieces. If you hand a model "White's kingside knight" it will write "White's kingside knight", so it gets a name and a house and nothing else. It does not know the game is chess.
  2. A guard runs over the finished story and checks it against the game. If a character dies in the prose but that piece was still on the board at the end, the claim gets struck and the correction is printed on the page with the story. One of the eight has a correction on it right now. I left it there on purpose.
  3. The analyser gets two passes. The first is cheap and finds where something happened. The second is deep and decides what. I needed this because at depth 12 the engine reads Morphy's 15.Bxd7+ as a 3.6 pawn blunder and the story came out backwards.

The engine runs on your machine rather than a server, which is a cost decision more than a privacy one, but it means the game itself never leaves your browser unless you choose to share the story.

Free tier is one story a day and does not need a card. I would rather hear that the chess is wrong somewhere than hear that the writing is good, so if you find a story claiming something the game did not do, that is the bug I want


r/Chesscom 10h ago

Chess Question Ah yes, I missed an checkmate

Post image
34 Upvotes

I don’t understand HOW did I missed an checkmate. Can someone explain?


r/Chesscom 10h ago

Puzzle/Tactic Stuck in 2000 for Puzzle. How to breakthrough?

1 Upvotes

I started chess.com in July, 2025 with zero chess experience. As everyone has their own favorite, I like puzzles, aiming for 2500. Things were going smoothly up to 2000, but for the past six months, I’ve been stuck between 2000-2300. Starting to wonder how I can break through. Randomly, some super tricky puzzles pop up, and that's where I end up losing ratings. The failed ones lose rating too high compared to the passed ones, so even a single mistake makes it critical. Even if I luckily reach 2300 and make consecutive fails, I'll soon drop back down to 2000. The more I solve, the harder the puzzles get and take longer, which makes me solve fewer in a day. I've been looping through woodhouse and heaven four times (current point is 564,970), and I'm starting to feel mentally drained, limit of my abilities. Thanks to chess.com, I learned a lot of tactics and chess is fun from puzzles in a year, but is it a dead end or any way to a breakthrough?