chessbeginners

This is from the chess master app. That’s the solution of the puzzle (to win)....

Subjetively, it makes a HUGE difference whether I play a “normal” game against the computer and select stockfish lvl 1 (yes, I’m a very bad newbie), compared to when I select “offline game” and also select stockfish lvl 1. The latter is far more difficult and hardly makes any mistakes (as far as I can tell anyways). I...

I clicked on “Analyze Game” and Stockfish wouldn’t find any blunder or mistake. I had lost two matches against the opponent previously (on other days) so this game was just … perfect....

My father is annoyingly using this construct that I find very hard to break into, he played white here. So I would like to find a strategy against it :-)

so my rating on lichess is higher for rapid (close to 900) than to blitz (close to 700), and I kind of wonder whether this is due to differences in the pool of people playing rapid vs blitz, or whether I am just a not as good at thinking fast....

A bit annoying that people won’t find the ‘resign’ button if they are unwilling to finish the match.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/69ca5228-8034-4b3f-8bdc-487f534c0a57.png

So I am on lichess in the 700es range and I continue to have these players as opponents who early on attack really aggressively.They must have some success with this (element of surprise I guess), but if I look at the stockfish analysis there moves arent so smart. (difficult enough for me to fend off though). I sometimes feel a...

I'm failing to understand the lichess.org practice exercise 'Exploit the Pin...

This set is not the cheapest plastic set you can get but I got it because I wanted plastic (moisture robustness) and wanted a set that still feels valuable. A numbers chess board that is foldable was a plus....

What do you think, is it fun for you to watch the absolute Top of Chessplayers play, while having an ELO around 800? Are you watching the big matches and big tournaments?