New fun online chess variant: duck chess!
Eric Rosen had a really entertaining first match with it:

^ Eric is just jamming and playing non-optimally, but this looks incredibly complicated. It's hard to even calculate a couple moves in advance

And now Hans Niemann filed a lawsuit to Magnus and Chess.com lol!
Gotta get the popcorn

Mind games

Yoooo! I was down 15 points of material, lost my queen, and my opponent had at one point forced checkmate in 3 moves..... and I was still able to checkmate my opponent's king
https://lichess.org/C0M1ulL2/black

Written by F3ynman on 25.10.2022 at 01:24

Mind games

Wait... What?

Written by Karlabos on 07.11.2022 at 01:39

Wait... What?

Well, are you convinced yet that the French opening is the ultimate psychological weapon?

Damn - I just beat a National Master (NM) in bullet:
https://lichess.org/ng14GhTS

Woah, nice!

Written by Karlabos on 05.12.2022 at 02:28

Woah, nice!

Thanks. Immediately afterwards I'm losing a bunch of blitz games lol. C'est la vie

Here's a cool game where I lose my queen on the 3rd move, then win back the opponent's queen on the 18th move, and then create an unbeatable pawn storm! https://lichess.org/kVxeAdUh

Damn - I just beat an international master (IM) twice in bullet. To be fair, I was losing in the first game and won on time. In the second game, I won his queen, then I later lost my queen, leading to an equal position near the end, then I did a dubious move, my opponent didn't take my rook, and I actually ended in a winning position and won on time. You've got to be fast and tricky in bullet. That's how you win.
Here are the games:
1. I play with the black pieces
2. I play with the white pieces

My very first brilliant move !!!
Pardon the at times horrendous gameplay, I'm only at 400 elo
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/69764620505?tab=review

I present to you the following collections:
- My Biggest Bullet Chess Wins (all of my bullet victories vs players rated 2300 and higher)
- My Best Performance In A Blitz Chess Tournament (contains 25 games that I played in one tournament with a playing performance of 2264)
- All Of My Victories vs Titled Players (IM, FM, NM, WIM, WFM...)

I am proud to announce that since my last post 9 days ago, my elo has nearly doubled and shows no sign of stopping doing so, I am very excited and hope to reach the 1000 elo gang very soon

Written by Roman Doez on 19.02.2023 at 19:06

I am proud to announce that since my last post 9 days ago, my elo has nearly doubled and shows no sign of stopping doing so, I am very excited and hope to reach the 1000 elo gang very soon

Congrats, dude! Even if you fall down in the future, never give up!

This is why you should never resign. There's always a chance for a comeback
https://lichess.org/uHY7xUWM/black

GM Alejandro Ramirez accused of sexual miscondict by several women...

I was very impressed. I used to watch his lesson at the Saint Louis chess club and he seemed like the total chill dude.

This guy is completely crazy lol:

FINALLY! I beat Li bot on chess.com. I lost the count of how many times I tried playing against that stupid robot.

However of all the ways I never thought I'd beat her with the... classic stafford gambit. The game ended very early. 10 moves only.
1. e4, e5 (I'm black)
2. Nf3, Nf6
3. Nxe5, Nc6 (this is the stafford gambit, you gambit this pawn here)
4. Nxc6, dxc6
5. Bd3!?

Of all the moves she chose to defend the pawn wth the bishop. Blocking the e pawn like that is especially dangerous for the stafford gambit, since white often uses their black bishop for blocking attacks on the king side.

5. ..., Bc4 (the genious idea of this gambit is playing Ng4 and attacking on f2)
6. O-O, Ng4
7. h3, h5 (apparently a brilliant move. The idea is doing some sort of fishing pole trap, since I never castled)
8. hxg4, xhg4
9. Nc3, Qh4

at this point I was honestly asking myself how she was gonna defend herself. After trying so many games and always trying tactics and losing miserably I couldn't imagine she felt for the mate threats on the h file like that. I'm threatening Qh2 or Qh1 with mate. Moving the rook to open room for the king doesn't work because the f2 pawn is still there, however the pawn cannot be moved because of my black B. That's why she should have left space for her black B in the beginning.

10. h4 (aaand, in the end she didn't know what to do...), Qh2#

Anyaway, althought this was my first win against her, it kinda felt very cheap, lol.

https://lichess.org/FrNQEMj9/black
I lose my queen to a simple fork, hold on for a bit, and then use my chance to start a counterattack and checkmate the opponent!

Magnus Carlsen disqualified of the Chess Masters tournament due to a queen blunder!

Written by Karlabos on 09.04.2023 at 14:10

Magnus Carlsen disqualified of the Chess Masters tournament due to a queen blunder!

I saw the game live. So glad that Hikaru got to beat him in that tense match! It turns out Magnus has a history indeed of blundering online. Here Hikaru reacts to some games of Magnus that he watches in which Magnus mouseslips on several occasions:

I (white) sac everything against a 2200 computer and somehow get a draw in this weird ponziani gambit game.
The fun thing is that I was even +4 at some point. It's kinda funny that weird gambits work even with computers of that level.

I just checkmated a "FIDE Candidate Master" in a bullet game with 90% accuracy.
https://www.chess.com/live/game/74916168459

Cool game against the PC

I made a mistake and let him double my pawns in front of my king, so I try to take advantage and go for some sort of windmill threat, and then I sac my rook in order to immobilize his good bishop as a means to fulfil that purpose.

Kenyan Player Expelled After Pretending To Be A Woman To Win Lucrative Prize

https://www.chess.com/news/view/cheating-kenya-open-women-championship-impostor

Written by Bad English on 18.04.2023 at 18:27

Kenyan Player Expelled After Pretending To Be A Woman To Win Lucrative Prize

https://www.chess.com/news/view/cheating-kenya-open-women-championship-impostor

So by expelling him, are they admitting that he had an advantage over the women?

Written by F3ynman on 18.04.2023 at 19:40

Written by Bad English on 18.04.2023 at 18:27

Kenyan Player Expelled After Pretending To Be A Woman To Win Lucrative Prize

https://www.chess.com/news/view/cheating-kenya-open-women-championship-impostor

So by expelling him, are they admitting that he had an advantage over the women?

Well go to WC dressed like that ... might work once or twice

Written by F3ynman on 18.04.2023 at 19:40

Written by Bad English on 18.04.2023 at 18:27

Kenyan Player Expelled After Pretending To Be A Woman To Win Lucrative Prize

https://www.chess.com/news/view/cheating-kenya-open-women-championship-impostor

So by expelling him, are they admitting that he had an advantage over the women?

The funny thing is: chess is the only sport I don't think women have disadvantage over men at, lol.