Chess Blunders of the week
A curated collection of absolute disasters. Scroll through the pain, reveal the blunders, and watch the misery unfold.
You missed a brilliant tactic to play the single worst move in the position.
Your opponent literally did nothing. You just stared at the screen and decided to execute your own Pawn.
Rooks are heavy artillery. You just dropped one on your own foot.
The Pirc Defense: Invite them to attack, then kindly assist them by hanging a Bishop.
Reti? More like ready to resign after throwing away that Queen.
This is a brilliant move! Assuming your ultimate goal was to lose as humiliatingly as possible.
If this game was a physical board, your opponent would have flipped it out of sheer disgust.
Vienna Game: Spicing things up by violently blundering a Queen.
This move is proof that humans still have a long way to go.
You fianchettoed your Rook by locking it in the corner until it died.
Stockfish just evaluated your position at '-Mate in You Are An Idiot'.
Brought the Queen out early in the Scandinavian? Bold. Hanging the Rook later? Classic.
A royal blunder for a player who clearly needs basic instructions on how to castle.
At 1750, you should be calculating three moves deep. Not zero. Nice Knight blunder.
That pawn marched bravely forward, completely unsupported by anything resembling logic.
A pawn chain is only as strong as its weakest link. You just snapped the whole chain.
The Pirc Defense: Invite them to attack, then kindly assist them by hanging a Knight.
Your opponent didn't even have to outplay you; you just actively sabotaged yourself.
You watch Hikaru on Twitch, spam 'pog' in the chat, and then log on to hang a Pawn like a legally blind pigeon.
You watch Hikaru on Twitch, spam 'pog' in the chat, and then log on to hang a Pawn like a legally blind pigeon.