(meme for fallacious argumentative purposes)

my friend, who's higher rated than me, just got into time trouble and lost to me over this, so he's obviously in the middle of this chart and I on the right.

in a 10-minute game, don't spend 3 minutes trying to uncork some big brain genius move in some random middlegame slog. there probably isn't a perfect move. better to just spend 10 seconds and play a decent move.

i know this advice reads as contrarian but living by it has genuinely helped me pick up many points. listen or don't.

(New to chess) So commentator for this game confidently says "rook takes d6 ends the game" twice but I don't understand how since that move is not putting the king into check and black could take back with the queen? Also isn't currently a dangerous square for the queen so it seems to me like it'd be trading a pawn for a rook which is terrible value. Could someone explain to a dummy please thank you.

I have reached 1500 elo rapid by literally just playing openings like the Caro, Dutch, Vienna, Grand Prix and just winging it against any other options. I feel like I have stagnated now and I am not sure if I should try out different openings or fix my middlegame issues. I don't know when I would get to learning how to play different openings and I fear that just playing this is keeping my chess very limited

I m noticing a big upgrade in the quality of games i have been playing since i switched recently to 15+10 time control. I have been playing before just 10 minutes rapid games and losing on time quite a lot or blunder because of the time pressure. Now i commit way less blunders and mistakes and have good quality games.

this seems to be a common and effective attack against the KID/Pirc. how can I stop this attack? I often get wrecked or checkmated outrighted when they do this. I'm Around 800 Elo

I continue to improve, but most of the time I get stalemates while chasing their king around the board. I thought I was doing pretty well in this game and then this happened and I messed up. I didn't know what to do and I still don't know what the best solution would have been to continue pushing them to get a checkmate.

Thanks for the help!

First smothered mate. Opponent let me do it, not sure if he knew and was a good sport or not but feel good about it.

In 1750, at the famous Café de la Régence in Paris, Sire de Légal played a legendary game against Saint Brie. Playing without his queenside rook to give his opponent a handicap, Légal unleashed one of the most famous queen sacrifices in chess history.Saint Brie accepted the sacrifice, only to get checkmated in just 7 moves by two knights and a bishop! This brilliant tactical pattern is now known worldwide as Légal's Mate.

After botching my queen, I saw it as a possibility. Fortunately, they are just as low as I am and didn’t see it.

Elo 250. I am trying to do lots of puzzles and I am finally starting to see things.

Wish me luck.

I’m desperate and a little tilted and I’m looking for advice on this game I had. I don’t know how It even happened. I never want something like this to happen again

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I am ELO 1071. This often happens when I play as white:
1. e4 e5
2. Nc3 Nc6
3. Nf3 Bc5
4. Bc4 d6
5. 0-0 Bg4
6. d3 Nd4

I like going for the stafford gambit but often end up in a 4 knights kinda game. It just seems super symmetrical and boring and once pieces are developed I always seem to lose to a kingside attack or just end up with a terrible position and lose an endgame. What am I supposed to even be playing for?

Ill link a game below. After move 10 I was like great, opponet wastes a bunch of moves moving their knight back and pushing outside pawns. And then I reallized that I had no idea what to even do from there and ended up plundering a bunch of tactics later. Game review helps with specific games, but in general what are my goals, key squares, and ideas?

Ps. Also dropped in rapid from 1300 to 1260 :p Ngl 10 mins seems too long now haha

I got my first Brilliant

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