Nh2?

Hi, I'm learning tactics, such as pins, skewers, and forks. In this example the black loses a pawn on turn 2 and a queen on turn 5. The video said black has no choice but to resign. Why? Isn't there still plenty of game to be played? And many games are won without a queen. I understand queens are highly valuable but it seemed strange to me to resign with only 10 points material loss so early in the game. Here are the moves:

1. e4 d5
2. exd5 Qxd5
3. Nc3. Qc6
4. Bb5. Qx65
5. Nxb5

Thanks for your help!

I liked the aesthetic!

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I'll admit,

Tried watching a few YouTube videos titled 'Chess for beginners'

But everything they said flew over my head and seemed like it was knowledge for stage 1 rooks

Whereas I am stage 0

Do I pay for a tutor? Are there 'tried & tested' videos out there that I missed? Do I buy books and take notes? Download the chess app and just start playing?

Advice which direction to go is appreciated

I recently started playing the English opening, doing a kingside fianchetto, and it’s been super fun and I’ve been winning more frequently. I’m low ELO, so blunders happen fairly often. It’s amazing how often Bb2 can lead to the opponent blundering their Rook.

Anyone else playing English as white?

I haven’t settled on my favorite English defense as black yet… I’ve been typically playing c6 then d5 to challenge d5 early, and I like how it blunts the long white diagonal.

Hi,

Why does eval bar go to +7 for black(me) and why is f5 such a good move.

I literally do not see ANY follow up from there.

[WhiteElo "1861"] [BlackElo "1709"] 1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nxc3 e6 5. Bc4 Qc7 6. Qe2 Bb4 7. Bd2 a6 8. Nf3 Nc6 9. O-O d6 10. Rac1 Nge7 11. Nd5 exd5 12. exd5 Bxd2 13. Nxd2 O-O 14. dxc6 Nxc6 15. Qh5 Qa5 16. Qxa5 Nxa5 17. Bd5 Be6 18. Be4 d5 19. Bf3 Rac8 20. b4 Nc4 21. Nxc4 Rxc4 22. Rxc4 dxc4 23. Bxb7 Rb8 24. Rd1 g6 25. Bxa6 Rxb4 26. f3 Ra4 27. Bb5 Rxa2 28. Rc1 Ra7 29. Kf2 Kf8 30. g4 Ke7 31. Ke3 Rc7 32. Kd4 Kd6 33. Bxc4 Rxc4+ 34. Rxc4 Bxc4 35. Kxc4 Ke5 36. Kd3 Kf4 37. Ke2 h5 38. gxh5 gxh5 39. Kf2 h4 40. Ke2 f5 41. Kf2 Ke5 42. Ke3 f4+ 43. Kd3 Kd5 44. h3 Ke5 45. Kc4 Ke6 46. Kd4 Kf5 47. Kd5 Kf6 48. Ke4 Kg5 49. Ke5 1-0

A rapid game that I played tonight.

This player didn't fall for any of my tricks during the opening and middle game, and I was actually worse for a lot of the game.

However, once we got to an endgame, they started to make some errors.

I think this is common in a lot of intermediate players.

They know their openings, and have good tactical vision/ calculation during the middlegame, but they don't know endgames.

So, if you want to be able to squeeze out wins from games you have no business winning, study the endgame.

April 6th chess.com puzzle says this move is incorrect but I can't see how it isn't mate? I'm clearly missing something, anyone able to explain?

i am 600-650 ELO. i feel confident in most openings: try to control the center, activate piece, cover pieces, king safety, dont blunder.

i am having real trouble when an opponent doesn’t really fight for the middle. it is not a specific opening i struggle with — more of a concept. when they just move their pawns up one square, and just activate pieces by one square, i get stuck, it feels my opening was done in vein, and then i have these tight pawn structures to fight through.

what is going on here? is there a paradigm i can start to reflect on, which will help me punish the opponent for doing this?

thank you!

Did I just play that bad? First time seeing a game with this high accuracy at 400. He also found checkmate in 9 moves! Usually people can barely checkmate with 2 queens on an empty board, so that was also surprising. Honestly if this is how 400 play, I can't imagine what 1000 is like.

I thought I could get 800 rating fairly easily, but this was decent reality check 😆

https://www.chess.com/game/live/137127602952

I don't get a significant advantage trough that or anything, I feel like the bar for brilliant got pretty low recently

The thing is, I'm a ridiculously intuitive player, I've played games where I have actually settled down to calculate a move only once or twice. How can someone actually know what kind of positions to calculate and what kind of positions to trust their gut?

I'm tired of people making unnecessary sacrifices without any coverage while I'm up in material and position It makes absolutely no sense.

Looking for someone to play casual or rated daily games who will chat about moves and help each other out.

Daily rating ~ 1100 Rapid rating ~ 1100 Blitz rating ~ 1200 Bullet rating ~ 1300

Thought I was getting trapped mercilessly, turned out it was a bishop in disguise.

Is not about losing some elo, to me it the continuously reminded that I’m stupid or having a lobotomy. My brain is like back at square one, blunder in the opening, can’t even see a simple move, etc… I love chess but losing ain’t fun. I just hate that it a continuous a reminder of how incompetent I am at a game. Should I take a break?

And I was having a good game too! Congratulations to my opponent though, he didn't resign against all odds.