There's a 💩 sign on the side of username while they're pooping.

That's my secret...

I'm always pooping.

Im 40% pooping just know that lol

Also if someone posted on Reddit while on the toilet. Maybe you’re reading this while on the loo?

Damm that's crazy 

The most important aspect of chess strength for beginners is their ability to avoid and notice one-move blunders. The largest contributor to this aspect is how well-developed their board vision is. It's well-known that people who only ever play online chess have difficulty in their first OTB tournaments, largely due to the fact that their pattern recognition doesn't translate well. The 2d representation of pieces just literally look too different from an actual 3d piece for the pattern recognition part of our brain to light up like it's supposed to.

It's like playing scrabble in a foreign language.

In order to compete, you need to practice in the medium.

Since you said you originally started playing on a real board, there's a fair chance you're just better at noticing things OTB than you are online. I'm the same way.

Of course, we also can't discount the fact that people who are playing online might be stronger than your OTB opponents, and there's also the idea that you have more information when you're playing in person, because you can see your opponent, and glean a little bit more about the position by reading their body language. If your opponent online is taking a while to make their move, you don't know if they're calculating or distracted, for example.

How much more otb chess have you played than online? It's probably a very big factor. 

I have played 99% of my chess online and unsurprisingly I perform significantly better online. My pattern recognition is simply more attuned to it. 

I am completely opposite.. I am about 1050 on chess com and I swear around 600 in OTB. Like once a game I simply give away a piece because I am just not used to it

Are you playing time controls that make you rush your moves when you play online?

I found I play endgames better OTB, but spot tactics better online.

I ironically enjoy otb more though, something nice about the tactical part (feeling of the pieces, not like chess tactics)

OTB: serious, focusing on the board fully Online: aha lol I can play 2...g5

For me it's more about blitz openings and long time items. Online I usually play 5min and often play sharp trap filled openings i.e. kings gambit, grob attack.

OTB games for me are usually longer time control games I tend to play solid openings.

It's hard to tell without context, but usually the validity of an opening choice is based on time control, not OTB vs online. It just so happens that most online games are played at faster time controls (blitz/bullet), which is probably implied in the video you watched.

The reason more openings are viable in blitz/bullet is you don't have adequate time to really analyze and punish bad openings in the same way you can at longer time controls. Having the initiative, a clear plan, or a strong attack is often just as important in blitz/bullet as material. As a result, there are a lot of dubious gambits and/or unsound sacrifices that can be successful in faster time controls where an opponent cannot spend a ton of time coming up with the correct defense.

Games, not matches. Chess matches are a series of games played against the same opponent, like the World Championship match.

Time controls are different so ...

Also, in online you are just an anon in a sea of anons, so you can play the same openings constantly, even the unsound ones, without worrying about the opponent doing his homework and refuting it. In OTB play, you will be known as the "Blackmar Diemer Gambit guy" or something...

Different rating systems. There is a bigger difference at lower levels.

Looks OK. Has nothing to do with cheaters, Lichess rating system is about 300 points higher at that level

And 1500 Rapid on chess.com is about 1600 FIDE.

Chess Rating Comparison – ChessGoals.com

I am at the same level like you btw, never played OTB though.

18-1900 is like 15-1600 on chess.com

Id say chess.com would have more, getting a higher chess.com rating has more prestige to it and people are way more familiar with their rating system, that alone will incentivise more people to cheat

While it is likely that there are more cheaters there, 1500 chesscom is about the same as 1800 lichess. Most players that are beating you are not cheating.

I analyzed the image and this is what I see. Open an appropriate link below and explore the position yourself or with the engine:

> White to play: chess.com | lichess.org

My solution:

> Hints: piece: >!Queen!<, move: >!Qxd7!<

> Evaluation: >!Black is winning -8.96!<

> Best continuation: >!1. Qxd7 Qc1+ 2. Kf2 Qxb2 3. Qxe6+ Kh8 4. Kg1 Qd4+ 5. Kg2 f4 6. Rg1 Rae8 7. Qg4 Qxc4 8. Kh1 Qxa4!<

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The clock is a part of the game. Only etiquettes are to not trash talk in chat (unless you know the other person and they're fine with it), not to run your clock down when you blunder instead of resigning/ playing it out, and not spamming draw offers in a clearly lost position

Not at all unsportsmanlike, basically the only etiquette is dont talk trash in chat.

It's one of the things that make this game fun. Use this strategy as much as you want.

Meh, the only serious breaches of etiquette IMO are

a) Running down your clock when you are lost, instead of resigning

b) Trash-talking/sending angry messages

Nothing unsportsmanlike about that. It's a 5+0 game, the clock is a huge factor and people need to play accordingly

try both chess.com and lichess.org

lichess

Chess.com Lichess.org Those are the 2 main ones

Sometimes I wish FICS was still cool

I personally use chess.com and love it. Been using it for years (never paid for anything). I play both friends and strangers, and enjoy the daily puzzles. I've always found matches quickly.

I don't know of any good ones, simply because it's so hard to automate (and probably demand is far less)

Chessok has some good stuff on strategy puzzles though (it's similar to ctart)

I think this is where chess coaching steps in and helps tremendously. You can simulate it yourself by getting well-annotated games and follow a precise positional and strategic plan to evaluate the position, much like what Silman echoes in his books, The International Chess School (ICS), Karpov in his book, Andrew Soltis in several books, etc. You have to practice it obviously and having the well-annotated games (with words, not informant-style annotations only) that you practice on is very helpful. But having a chess coach to bounce your ideas off is a great way to do it.

This is probably still in the realm of good books ( you may consider some website that offer "guess the move" training, like Chesstempo, but it's very basic compared to what you are describing, and without proper explaination of plans)

In terms of books, one of my favorite of the kind is Test your positional play by Ponzetto & Bellin, which is part a strategy course and part a test suite in a very similar format of what you are looking for.... The Ultimate Chess Strategy Book - volume 1 is also described as using a very similar style, but I haven't read this one myself

Clearly is not a never-ending pool of test position like a puzzle website would be, but the material is handpicked and curated which is more important IMO... it is meant to be taken slowly, with proper amount of time to solve each position, like you would do in the critical moment of an actual game

¿Soy el único que se ha asombrado con el punto 21???? :) en cualquier caso, es una excelente lista de consejos, aunque yo tengo la costumbre de ofrecer revanchas y aceptarlas. En particular, si me las piden cuando he ganado tengo la costumbre de aceptar, como cortesía

Buenos consejos, el unico con el que no estoy de acuerdo es el 23 (rendirte cuando la partida parece perdida) en mi nivel en chess.com y por debajo de el (1000 elo) son múchas las partidas en las que apesar de estar muy abajo en material el rival termina equivocandose y uno puede igualar, o incluso tratar de dar mate ya que muchas veces el rival no lo ve y podés dar mate en una jugada, o incluso me pasó que el rival de ahogado teniendo una ventaja ridicula como 2 damas contra rey solo. Aparte de la posibilidad de que el rival se equivoque (que es alta), siento que me sirve practicar el defender una posición perdedora, para aprender a encontrar recursos defensivos.

Todo esto solo si uno puede hacerlo sin pasarla mal, si ya estas frustrado y poniendote de mal humor no tiene sentido seguir, como bien dijiste, es un juego que jugamos por placer.

P.D gracias a vos ahora se cual es la musa a venerar para obtener mejores resultados jaja.

Muy buena lista, y tan necesaria como complicada de seguir, tanto si vas ganando varias como si las vas perdiendo.

Algunos comentarios por mi parte:

11 - Nada en contra de las revanchas si las partidas fueron reñidas, aunque lo dejaría en tres partidas máximo, y no aceptaría si realmente no me apetece.

18 - Yo lo hago al revés, solo juego desde el móvil, el portátil es solo para trabajar. Así no mezclo las dos cosas.

Estoy de acuerdo también en que se pueden levantar posiciones en las que vas por debajo en material, forzándote a jugar activo. Pero hay que saber cuando bajarse del barco.

Añadiría que si ves que se te está acortando la mecha tras perder una o dos partidas, es tu señal para una pausa.

¿Cuál es el motivo de la sugerencia 22?

Si la partida parece completamente perdida no tires la toalla jamás y no se debería rendir uno jamás a no ser ke veas ke vas a recibir mate a la siguiente y no lo puedas parar bajo ninguna circunstancia entonces si quieres te puedes rendir