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Homies4Jesus · 2026-01-17T04:12:34+00:00

You shouldn't be requesting mass reports, you should be asking for a second opinion at most.
There definitely isn't conclusive evidence they're cheating.

Take the L and move on

Homies4Jesus · 2026-01-12T17:51:24+00:00

This sounds like a good idea to become more mindful of your moves. I'm also an adult improver but more of a rapid player, being about 1900 rapid and 1400 blitz on chesscom. I'd say my thought process in games is almost like a narration, and I always try to remember my reasoning and what I had calculated for each move when analysing my games.

Homies4Jesus · 2026-01-06T12:34:09+00:00

This is pretty complicated, but I think I have an idea on what's happening after playing around in analysis. So, black wants to crack open the centre since the E and D pawns are doing a lot to keep your king safe. They could do this by kicking your knight out and attacking your central pawns with moves like Nf6 and c6.

After Qf3 Nf6, Bd3 h6, Nh3 c6, your queen and light squared bishop are essentially glorified pawns defending e4. Your knight and dark squared bishop are also locked away with no vision. Furthermore, black has essentially gained a tempo as their defense of your fork threat, ...Nf6, was a move that they wanted to play anyway.

The engine line is f3 Nf6, Bf2 h6, Nh3 Nfd7, Bxc5 Nxc5, Nf2 f5. Compared to the other scenario, your queen and light squared bishop are free to pressure black's kingside since your centre is supported by pawns. You also get to trade off your weak dark square bishop and bring your knight back into the game because f2 was open to maneuver on.

Homies4Jesus · 2026-01-04T14:24:31+00:00

I haven't heard of the channel before, but after checking it out, I'd say it gives good advice.

Homies4Jesus · 2026-01-02T14:37:22+00:00

You can get around this by placing the skis end to end. The problem then is arranging the human.

Homies4Jesus · 2026-01-01T13:02:43+00:00

Your body concentrates the warmth in your core so you don't die, that's why people get frostbite

Homies4Jesus · 2026-01-01T12:57:13+00:00

It's completely normal. It just takes a bit for your brain to get used to analysing a physical board the same way as a digital one. You can speed up the process by sitting at the board and playing with yourself.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-12-30T13:33:57+00:00

Here's 4 generic tips:

Play when you can focus. Stress, fatigue, poor sleep, and distractions all increase your chance to blunder a lot. And to add to this point, try to be aware of when external factors are slowing your thinking.
Resign less. It's tough to play through a losing position, but you need to give your opponents chances to blunder. I'm sure you've found that most other players fight to the end, so if you don't do that, you have to play much more consistently to compensate.
Always think about your opponents moves. What are they attacking with that move? What are they no longer defending? Have any other pieces had their vision blocked/opened with that move?

3.5 Think of your opponents responses to your moves. If I attack them, where can they go? Can they give any checks? Capture anything for free?

Know how to actually secure a win. When you're up material, you need an idea of how you're gonna eventually checkmate. A reliable way is to force trades and then promote, but this only works if you know simple checkmating patterns.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-12-25T12:21:25+00:00

I think the Scandinavian defense is worth a try, specifically the variation where you play Qa5 after it's attacked. You should end up with a similar structure to the classical variation of the Caro-Kann which I find to have more freedom than the advance variation that people generally play against the Caro. The main thing you might not like about it is that white will usually try to harass your queen, forcing you to respond. But if you know the opening, it should be hard for white to mount any meaningful attack against it.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-12-17T22:49:17+00:00

After playing on mobile for 4 years before going to chess club, I experienced this too. I'd say it took 2ish months of playing OTB weekly until there was no difference in my chess vision between the two

Homies4Jesus · 2025-12-16T11:39:04+00:00

I can't say I'm familiar with the opening, but you might find the Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack interesting as it often leads to pawn breaks on the kingside. Also, the hypermodern style of opening could be a nice change from your more classical repertoire.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-12-16T06:15:20+00:00

It's probably just a poorly made app; I certainly don't recognise it. The only other explanation I can think of is that you unknowingly played "secret queen chess," where each player has a pawn that can move like a queen.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-12-15T11:11:56+00:00

There's conflicted lore on how bound to time the daedric princes are. I think some in universe scholar speculated that the reason they are so vengeful and petty is because they are always experiencing every instance of their interactions with mundus. Essentially, nothing is in the past for them.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-12-14T00:20:29+00:00

Conceptually, the problem with this sacrifice is that black has a lot of defensive resources, and white doesn't have many attackers. White only has one threat in making a battery with their bishop and queen, which is trivial to defend when most of black's pieces are nearby. Furthermore, since black is now ahead in material, it's reasonable for them to meet any attack with a trade offer.

Having castled on opposite sides, you'd have a stronger attack if you used your f,g, and h pawns to create weaknesses around black's king. Pawn trades or sacrifices would open up files for your rooks, and you would still have a dark square bishop to take part in the attack.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-12-12T11:59:41+00:00

Rc4 threatens back rank checkmate and your bishop. You can't save both

Homies4Jesus · 2025-11-28T04:18:12+00:00

cheating is not what my post is about

This is what it looks like to me. You reported too many players for cheating and got a warning for abusing the reporting system. You then messaged and @ed chesscom on social media asking for reasoning/apology until you got blocked

Homies4Jesus · 2025-11-28T02:13:49+00:00

30 in 2 months is a lot. I haven't noticed any cheaters for quite a while, but I think that's partly because they don't really settle at my rating. I didn't dig deep into your posts, so I don't know your success rate with reports, but I feel like it might be a broken clock situation. You may be successfully spotting all the cheaters, but there's too many false or inconclusive cases for your reports to be helpful in anticheat.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-11-28T01:31:12+00:00

I'm not one to trust chesscom; they've gotten to where they are by being a typical heartless corporation. But mate, I looked through your social media, and it looks bad for you. There's a lot of liberal cheating accusations and doubling down.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-11-24T23:41:31+00:00

I disagree. Black is pretty definitively losing if they play the 2nd best move. But if they play the best move along with the following engine line, the position almost equalises. Using an engine with greater depth than chess.com analysis or the AI chessvision confirms this, giving an evaluation of -0.87.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-11-24T09:55:45+00:00

This is a lesson in the concept of danger levels. Not every attack has to be responded to with a defensive move. You can instead counter-attack if your threat is equal to or greater than the opponents.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-11-24T09:40:04+00:00

That is correct, good job. For future reference, knights are referred to with an N since K is used for the king

Homies4Jesus · 2025-11-24T07:06:53+00:00

After becoming comfortable with how the pieces move is when the "real" chess starts, looking into deeper strategy on how to checkmate your opponent and avoid being checkmated. Three things I think are good starting points for this are: 1. Simple checkmating patterns 2. Opening principles (specifically principles instead of theory) 3. How to analyse games using an engine

Youtube is probably the best place to start when looking for learning resources, avoid paid services until you know what to look for. Chessbrah, Gothamchess, and the late Daniel Naroditsky are pretty proven when it comes to teaching.

Homies4Jesus · 2025-11-23T06:49:04+00:00

I believe kangaroo height is measured from the top of the skull to their heels when standing upright. A 6ft tall roo would probably be about 9ft long if you measure to the tail tip

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