I’m pretty much there too since I can’t remember openings or whatever I just learned yesterday really. The puzzles on chess.com are poor, too many back rank checkmate stuff which about never comes up in reality.
I loved the puzzles in chess tempo but there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the puzzles I get on chess.com
i’m dangerously close to hitting 2600 in puzzles on chesscom
you’re not quite 2x as good as me but kudos I’m too impatient/bored, same in poker I pretty much act fast every time.
The most annoying for me at my level, when you pass on a move because the computer doesn’t have to do a move you think is bad in response, but it actually does b/c most at that level probably snap would. Yeah, half the time I later realize it has to and I was just being an idiot but the rest I’m just like really grumble
Do you do the daily puzzle on chess.com? I find that they are much better than the practice puzzles. The daily puzzle usually includes at least a couple of candidate moves so you have to be careful not to just grab the immediate appealing looking move (a check, a fork, etc.) you actually need to visualize the board a couple of moves ahead to find the best move.
Yeah usually.
For any puzzle on chess.com the computer will play best possible moves. None of the puzzles are “play this and hope the computer blunders in response”
If you didn’t play as a kid you will never be very good. That’s chess, for better or worse. You need to learn to enjoy winning 50% of games or play something else.
Also there comes a point where you need to accept drawing positions. I think one way people get stuck at a rating level is losing a bunch of games you should draw.
I was pretty good for a 12 year old but nothing spectacular. Probably an 800-1000 if I had to guess but I played sparingly from 13-30. I think I’ve definitely improved since six months ago but probably from a 1200.
I was kinda hoping to make it up to a 1500 but I probably need to study concepts way more to achieve that
Great sponsor, should lead to increased interest in women’s chess.
chess.com’s new Game Analysis thing has very liberal “great move” designations.
The piece I took was his queen. Gotta be honest, did not really consider many other moves in this position.
Also this, from earlier in the same game:
Great move even though it thinks not actually the best move.
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I’m trying (not very successfully) to get my kids into chess. They would love the computer telling them what a great move they made all the time no matter how obvious it was.
They would love 1. e4!
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Yeah I think that’s the conclusion chess.com came to. I worked out that one of the times it says “great move” is whenever your move is much better than any alternative (as in the king move above) even if the move is obvious. I think it makes some exceptions like if you are directly recapturing a piece which was just taken. They used to label these clearly best moves as “Critical Move”, but I guess they figured this stuff needs to be appealing to new players and that YAY YOU WELL DONE is better.
I’m still salty they started counting blunders in completely won positions as of guessing like 2-3 years ago. Like if you go from +9 to +6 f off with your blunder.
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Yeah, especially in shorter time controls simplifying from a +6 is a smarter play than keeping the material advantage. Its no help to be +6 when your clock runs out.
The black pawn can be used to help checkmate black. It’s possible to lose and no time → lose.
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Yeah, it’s this. In the current position it would have to be really contrived - you’d need to get your black king in front of your pawn, then march the king to the corner, then pin it in with the pawn. But that’s how it could happen. Imagine your black king on a1, black pawn on a2, white king on c3. In that scenario your black king cannot escape a check.