Blunder of the year edition

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>Calendar:
- FIDE Women’s World Cup | July 5th - 29th
- Biel International Chess Festival | July 12th – 25th
- Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour: Las Vegas | July 16th - 20th
- Oskemen Open | July 20th - 30th
- Esports World Cup Chess Tournament | July 29th - August 1st
- Lichess Summer Marathon | August 2nd
- Sparkassen Chess Trophy - 52nd Dortmund Chess Days | August 2nd - 10th
- Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters | August 6th - 15th
- Grand Chess Tour: Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz | August 9th - 17th
- Sinquefield Cup | August 16th - 29th
- Maia Chess Open | August 22nd – 30th
- Fujairah Global Chess Championship | August 24th - September 3rd
- FIDE Grand Swiss | September 3rd - 16th
- FIDE World Cup | October 31st - November 27th
- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st

>Previous thread:
>>95981808

>>96076156 (OP)
That blunder happened in Fabiano Caruana vs Wesley So at the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/gct-2025-superunited-rapid--blitz-croatia/blitz-18/5EuE6SCO/V4NNZ4bt#95

Qxa1, a8=Q, Nf2+, Qxf2, Qxa8 then mate?

>>96076428
That's one way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wweyZt4s1rk&t=15943s
White can also eat the knight, push pawns and even offer the queen on g2... nothing works.

>>96076428
>>96077255
Man what an idiot lol. 6 seconds on the clock with increment and he pulls out THAT lol!
>barely understands after being shown the answer

I am losing very bad to the 200 elo bot on chess.com

>>96077764
Your only hope is to beat the Random-Mover on PyChess.

>>96077844
that ai is probably too difficult. I am working on the puzzle scenarios rn.

>>96078153
>puzzle
Solve this before watching the video:
black to move and win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX0rriaT76o&t=18386s

>>96076156 (OP)
>Biel International Chess Festival | July 12th – 25th
live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9wlSHb6wYs

Magnus is already in Las Vegas playing in some retarded collateral event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNvoFQGmzgQ

why does the loud jew bastard get so many views

>>96084551
They own the Internet, we can't do anything about it.

>>96084551
He's got a normie personality and knows how to bring chess to layman audiences. That's his whole shtick, he isn't the best player, he doesn't have Hikaru's skill, but he's good at communicating and his game analyses are easy to follow and always have some dramatic story behind them. I remember when he wasn't very popular yet, he was doing collabs with Hikaru and commentating his games during tournaments, that helped a lot with exposure.

1. c4

>>96090984
It's like trolling on /int/ with an Australian flag.

>>96084551
There are plenty of alternatives. I can't think of any other sport with so many good commentators and content creators.

>>96076156 (OP)
Why is a7 a blunder? So it goes:
48. a7 Qxa1
49. a8Q Qxa8
50. Qxa8 ...
Black has a knight and a bishop + 4 pawns, White has a queen and a bishop + 4 pawns.

>>96093810
>Qxa8
The bishop is pinned, so you can check with the knight forcing the first white queen to capture it, and only then you capture the other queen on a8.

>>96093810
That's undoubtedly what Caruana was thinking. However Black won't play 49... Qxa8, he will play 49... Nxf2+ intermezzo. The natural-looking Bxf2 is impossible due to the Qa1 pin, and Qxf2 also won't work because then the queen can go Qxa8+, which not only wins the new queen but is about to mate, and the last move Caruana has is to give up his other queen but it's still mate anyway - frankly cruel.

>>96078511
Kf6
For king moves, White either takes Kh6 or bishop dies, which is met with Rh8 and loses
That means White has to pick a B move, because h8=Q also dies to Rh8. I pick Bh6 because it gives me a line to e3 and otherwise I can get kicked off of h4 or e3. Even c1 doesn't seem safe. Either way, Black just has to play carefully with the Knight to worm its way back to the King. I need to see this played out.
>computer picks my line and then dies to repetition
Figures

>>96094024
>>96078511
Kf5, obviously f6 is illegal

>>96076156 (OP)
>Biel International Chess Festival
classical round 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjU1mtf3zhc

Literally everyone is cheating tonight.

>>96101412
Sorry anon, try again tomorrow.

>>96076156 (OP)
>FIDE Women’s World Cup
Round 4, game 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL22mqX3dbs

We are live from Las Vegas!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPcDE-mzSlU

>>96105340
>oh hey a nice tournament to watch
>tania is commentating

what's with the headphones
are they sponsored by apple

>>96106096
There are lot of people in that venue.
>sponsored
It could be.

thoughts on this move by my opponent?

>>96106188
That's not a blunder, that's "losing on purpose".

kicking my feet over this

>only one girl in a strong round robin tourney
>get rekt
typical

>tfw you get a windmill that clears 3 pawns and a knight

Computer gives black a slight plus - but computer doesn't understand pajeets like I do.

I cheat against people who play the Englund. The second I see e5 played after d4, I whip out the engine. It needs to disappear and I feel I'm doing nothing wrong here. Learn how to win games without jewish tricks.
Also the hilarious part is that the engine thinks the Englund is so bad, that you can essentially use the engine to cheat and you won't get detected for cheating because basically any move is winning for white after the gambit is played.

>>96105340
day 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfFSgnbDDKE

>38 posts in almost five days
LMAO no wonder you are seething
Real chess general is on vg

>>96113843
RUDE

>>96106087
They also stream on the Chess24 channel with Peter Leko:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayGOzE_wb10

>>96116614
>messed up format
>increment
>9 hours streams
they'll never learn

>>96090984

1...c5

wtf bros they caught dina belenkaya??!?!! cuurrhezhey

Why even bother keeping castling as a mechanic in freestyle chess, it's just fucked up

>>96121136
In theory, it's to disorient your opponent: he should feel to have wasted moves in the wrong direction early in the game. In practice, you are right.

>>96116614
another marathon today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESqcj-Vz030

>>96120183
Apparently some kind of serial killer in her spare time. You never really know someone do you.

>>96106188
Looks like something I'd do. Don't do it.

Give me the most fun gambits that work on low elo.

>>96125759
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Gambit
https://www.chess.com/blog/ThummimS/stafford-gambit-traps-a-complete-guide

Do you know about the Halloween Gambit?

>>96127076
It sucks.

>>96084551
He made himself relatable and aspirational by being an IM who's struggling to become a GM. He's a fan but still better than his casual viewers. Also has he ever done anything Jewish?

>>96128359
He's making money in the mass media.

It's time to switch from Agne to Migle!

With all those Chinese and Indians in the Women’s World Cup I'm giving up watching it. Hopefully the Grand Swiss will be different.

>>96130921
>Bibisara Assaubayeva declined to play in the Women's Chess World Cup to play instead in freestyle and lose every game except 2 draws
wut

>>96131053
based

any sexy hot or cute chess woman players?

its quite satisfying to see magnus crash and burn

>>96132183

>>96132596
lmo

what happened to rapporte?

>>96132579
go to r/GirlsfromChess and stay there forever

>>96133032
He plays sometimes: https://ratings.fide.com/profile/738590/calculations

>>96133076
I see, look like being number 1 in chess doesn't seem to be is thing

I don’t understand
Why can’t the black king just take the pawn?

>>96134061
Like the blurb says, moving the black pawn there traps it since it can't move forward any more, and putting the king in check forces black to move the king instead of moving the queen. So the game ends up a draw (no legal moves - stalemate) instead of an eventual white win.

>>96134061
>>96134078
*eventual black win.
corrected on account of dumb

>>96134078
Thanks
I just realised and went to delete but someone else may learn from it

I'm surprised by how often I win on Lichess with some variation of scholar's mate, it's literally the oldest trick in the book. When I attempt it, it works at least 50% of the time.
https://lichess.org/xLCP3dOO/white
This game was 10+0 so he had plenty of time to see it coming.

It almost never works on me.

>>96134087
It's indeed a cute puzzle.

>win
>get rematch request
>accept and win again
>another rematch request
>deny it

>>96135786
It was literally the only possible move, at least the last one.

>>96136294
Give me a million of this type of puzzles.

>>96136135
if it's an internet rando and I win, I always decline their rematch request instantly.
Too much risk they're so butthurt over losing that they turn on stockfish and cheat "to get revenge" on the person who beat the shit out of them

>>96136710
If someone plays engine-perfect wouldn't the sites detect it and give you the points back anyway?

>>96139673
That works 1 time every 200 cheaters.

>>96105340
Live again, with the FINALS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmF6-lBmrk

And I shall call it... The Retard's Gambit.

>>>/vg/531636980
Real chess general is on vg and it's 10 times more active, also 90% of the posts you see in this thread is one giga autist samefagging

Nice to see Aronian win at this point in his career. He's spoken before about his passion for the 960 format but it was never really a thing in the past - now he's world champion and a nice $200k prize money.

>>96141725
Very similar to the Botez Gambit: https://www.chess.com/terms/botez-gambit-chess

>>96132579
3rd place isn't that bad

They are making a rating list for Freestyle: https://www.freestyle-chess.com/freestyle-elo-table/
FIDE is now forced to add an "official" rating list for Chess960 (pro tip: it'll never happen).

>>96139673
Absolutely not. And they can throw in 1 or 2 bad moves then just use engine. Cheaters only get banned if they do it to many people so a dozen people report them. If they cheat once and then take a 30 day break, chesscom never bans them and never gives you a single point of rating back.

>>96143842
>barely any woman
lol rekt again

I've found a solution for the women chess problem: big opens with random pairings and random color assignment: with a bit of luck, a woman can win it!

>>96148642
the entire reason women have a separate league is not to keep women down, it's because women are bad at chess, so they are given free wins in an easy-mode tournament with superior men removed from it.
Women already are allowed to play in the open section. There's no such thing as a male section. They just don't because they objectively play weaker and lose and don't get a prize if they can't cheat by playing other women.

>>96151317
I'd like big tourneys to split the prize fund more evenly, to give something to players in the top 70 or so.

>>96151317
I'd like big tourneys to split the prize fund more evenly, to give something to players in the top 70 or so.

>>96151795
your desires are utterly irrelevant to the world. Everyone would like free money and gumdrops and unicorns. You can give away money to the top 70 when you make millions of dollars to host your own tournament, until then what you want doesn't matter even the tiniest fuck.

>>96132183
https://www.twitch.tv/phoebewitte

This game honestly makes me want to kill myself more than anything I've ever played in my life
How the fuck did I not see that my rook was hanging? I feel like the most worthless fucking retard in the world when I fumble 100% guaranteed wins with just one absolutely idiotic fucking move (and it happens in pretty much every single game)
I've been playing non-stop for the past 2 months and I've seen 0 improvement, at this point I'm pretty sure I have brain damage

>>96158103
Do more puzzles.

>>96120183
>state of neveda

NEW

>>96166479
>>96166479
>>96166479

NEW