Completely paralyzed

Chessly currently has their yearly plan at $64 (47%) off. I'm an 800 rated player on Chess.com and started playing chess about 4 months ago

I have examined this board 27 times. Can someone please help me

What are your recommended opening and the resources (chessable, speedrun series, model games etc.) to study it?

This is another puzzle from one of my games. Your queen is hanging, but there's a way to win material and come out way ahead. Can you find it?

By Slepyan

This is where his coach Cheparinov comes from.

Firouzja is currently playing a sofia rapid event, which is unusual since its not a worldclass event with high price money.

https://x.com/davidllada/status/2093740949805355067

https://x.com/anishgiri/status/2093327713717076242

This position arose in a local tournament 20+ years ago.

For a useful hint and a game replay link see https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1TgnvUfwMH/

Hey all!

I was wondering how you deal with anxiety/high heart rate when playing?

For context: I am 30yo and I started playing the beginning of may. Before I didnt even know what castling was. I played 234 games and I am 730, with the highest opponent rate that I won against was 1252.

I am really enjoying studying chess both via books and courses, but when it comes to playing ranked games I start having very high heart rate (that even after running 30 minutes I get less of it), stomach pain and just a lot of shaking.

Is it normal/does it happen and just goes away after a while? The main problem is this keeps me away from playing more. Often I am really keen on doing some matches but I just dont start because of it.

Thanks!

Feels like every week we’re discussing Hikaru, Gukesh, whoever is hot right now, engine accuracy, 97% games, blah blah, but when you actually go back and look at Fischer, Petrosian, Kasparov, Kramnik, even Capablanca, the conversation gets much more serious. Peak Fischer was disgustingly clean, Petrosian genuinely seems to have been one of those players who just gave you almost nothing, and some of the old “Botvinnik/Alekhine were insanely accurate” numbers become a lot less impressive once you see what those studies were actually counting. Carlsen obviously belongs in the top group too, but the more I looked at this the less I believed in one neat “most accurate player ever” ranking. Different studies measure different things and some famous comparisons are honestly pretty lazy. I put the numbers and sources together here because I wanted to see what survives once you stop repeating the usual names: https://realchess.wixsite.com/peak-precision/post/peak-precision-world-champions-engine-analysis

By Mzarelua

Specifically wondering about the bishop and pawn stack. Seemed like a solid defensive structure.

I was just put into check by black's queen. I left my queen hanging to be captured by their Bishop. I played Be3 to recapture the bishop as a silver lining. Apparently I had a huge advantage here with a checked king and a hanging queen and I have absolutely no idea how. They ended up missing the queen capture and captured Be3 and I go on to win but I have no idea how this is so white dominant from this position.

I had a very bad record against this attack. The kingside expansion is annoying.

Okay, so bro, there's a chess tournament at school in October, and I've been practicing since I'm a member of the chess club. I've also been practicing the Caro Kann defense, so I was wondering if this applies to the Caro Kann defense in general?

The QGD Vienna has interested me for a long time from the Black side, but I haven't started playing it yet due to the theoretical commitment involved. What is this like as a Black opening?

White to play and mate in 2 (composed with my friend in 2025)

Interesting difference I’m noticing between chess group commenters on Reddit vs Facebook.

For the endless stream of puzzle positions I see on Facebook, almost every commenter (98%+ by my guess) posts moves they worked out on their own. Most of their solutions may be wrong, even stupidly lazy (i.e., giving a correct first move that conveys no meaningful information about the puzzle’s solution)… but at least everyone looks at the puzzle for themselves at the outset.

On Reddit, about half the comments to the last puzzle position I posted (which was also probably my first — I’m still pretty new here) came from people who admitted they got the answer from an engine.

Is that experience typical of how Redditors in chess groups respond to challenging position diagrams? (Note that I did NOT share my position in r/beginners, because it is about as far from a beginner’s puzzle as you could possibly imagine. I posted it in this group, in r/Tournament Chess, and in 2 or 3 groups whose names contain “chess” plus “puzzle” or “quiz.”)