Linden's Chess Blunders @LChessBlunders

L. Lyons - gspp9 @chesscom, 23 August 2022 A good move for White here would be 15 exf5! 🙂 I played 15 f4?? Bad move. ☹️ Black wins material with a #discoveredattack: 15 ... exf4! 16 Bd2 (16 Bxf4? Bxc3) Qb6+ 17 Kh1 fxg3 18 hxg3. #chess #chesstactics #chessblunders #chesstwitter

TiborLendvai - L. Lyons @chesscom, February-June 2022 A perfectly good move for Black in this position is 28 ... Qxe4. 🙂 But I played 28 ... Qf5?? Bad move. ☹️ White can respond with a #knightfork, 29 Nd6+!, winning the queen. 😮 #chess #chesstactics #chessblunders #chesstwitter

dum3nc1 - L. Lyons @chesscom, 26 May 2022 As Black in this position, I played 11 ... h6?? Bad move. ☹️ This allows a #knightfork after 12 Qh5+! Kd7 (12 ... Kf8?? 13 Qf7#) 13 Nf7. 😮 A better move for Black might be 11 ... b5. 🙂 #chess #chesstactics #chessblunders

L. Lyons - VortexDan @chesscom, March-May 2022 As White here, I played 47 b5?? Bad move. ☹️ This loses a pawn: 47 ... Ba5 48 Ke2 (48 b6? Bb4 49 Nb1 Bc2) Bb4 49 Nb1 Bxb5+. 😮 It is best to play 47 h4, with an eventual draw being likely. 🙂 #dailychess #chess #chesstactics

ingener777 - L. Lyons @chesscom, February-May 2022 A good defensive move for me as Black here would have been 15 ... Rh6. 🙂 But I played 15 ... h4? ☹️ This loses material: 16 Bxc6! hxg3+ 17 hxg3 Rxh1 18 Qxb7+ Kd8 19 Qb8+ Qc8 20 Qxc8+ Kxc8 21 Rxh1. 😮 #chess #chesstactics

CptTuttle - L. Lyons @chesscom, Jan. 2022 As Black in this position, I played 18 ... Nd5?? Bad move. ☹️ This allows White to win a rook for a bishop with 19 Rg3 g6 20 Nxf6+ Qxf6 21 Bxf8 Rxf8. 😮 A better move would be 18 ... Rfe8. 🙂 #dailychess #chess #chesstactics

samcrowth3r - L. Lyons @chesscom, Jan. 2021 My black queen is in danger. 😮 15 ... Qe7 would have been safe, but I thought 15 ... e5?? was clever. 😀 It is not. ☹️ White can take the pawn, 16 Bxe5, as 16 ... Qxe5?? leads to the pinning 17 Rfe1! 😬 #dailychess #chess

AluaraPMI - L. Lyons @chesscom, 10 Jan. 2021 As Black in this position, I played 32 ... Ke7?? Bad move. ☹️ This enables White to execute a #knightfork, 33 Nc6+, which wins the rook for the knight. A better move may have been 32 ... Rd5+. 🙂 #chess #chesstactics #chessimprovement

Best for White here is 24 Qxf6. But does 24 Bf5?? pin the black queen? 😀 Only temporarily. ☹️ With the light-squared white bishop now off the long diagonal, Black wins much materiel: 24 ... Rh2+ 25 Kg1 Rh1+ 26 Kf2 (26 Kg2?? R8h2#) Qxf5+ 27 K~ Rxf1 etc. 😮 #chess #chessblunders

Vahagn_07 - L. Lyons @chesscom, 30 Dec. 2020 I am winning as Black in this position. 😀 I played 44 ... Rxb4?? That is #stalemate. 😮 I ought to have taken with the pawn: 44 ... axb4+. 😕 #chess #chesstactics #chessblunders #chessimprovement #chesstwitter

L. Lyons - ashman29 @chesscom, 28 Dec. 2020 A good move for White here might be 37 Ra1 or 37 Bxd5+, but my 37 Ke1? is a mistake that loses the exchange after 37 ... Bg3+, e.g. 38 Rf2 Bxf2+ 39 Kxf2 or 38 Kd1 Nb2+ 39 Kc1 Bxf1 40 Kxb2. 😐 #chess #chesstactics #chessimprovement

L. Lyons - Hofnari @chesscom, 23 Dec. 2020 My white king is in check! 😮 The only good move is 25 Kf1. 😀 But I played 25 Kh2?? Bad move. ☹️ This leads to #checkmate: 25 ... Be5+ 26 Bf4 Bxf4+ 27 Kh1 Nf2#. #chess #chesstactics #chessblunders #chessimprovement #chesstwitter

KhalTork - L. Lyons @chesscom, 22 Dec. 2020 My 20 ... f6?? is a blunder that opens up the c4-g8 diagonal and allows 21 Qg8#. 😮 What move should I have played instead? I am not quite sure, but perhaps 20 ... Bb5 offers some chances of counterplay. 😕 #chess #chesstactics

Dayum1337 - L. Lyons @chesscom, 21 Dec. 2020 A safe move for Black in this position might be 13 ... a6, but I took what I thought was a free pawn: 13 ... Nxe4?? Bad move. ☹️ White can deliver a #queenfork, 14 Qd5+, which wins the knight. ☹️ #chess #chesstactics #chessimprovement

This position is based on one from a game on @chesscom that I lost against Dash the reindeer #chess bot. 🦌 My white king is in check. 😮 Ke4 is best, but I thought Kc2, attacking the d1-rook, looked good. 😀 It is not. ☹️ Black plays ... Ne3+, a #knightfork that wins the queen.

L. Lyons - polrevert @chesscom, 19 Dec. 2020 Perhaps best for White here is 20 e4, but I played 20 Bc1?? Bad move. ☹️ Black grabs the a1-rook, and not even a white counterattack on the a3-f8 diagonal is adequate compensation: 20 ... Be5 21 Ba3 Bxa1 22 Bxc5 ~ 23 Bxf8 Kxf8. #chess

L. Lyons - Patryk11111232323 @chesscom, 17 Dec. 2020 A good move for White here would be 53 Bf1 with the idea of 54 Bc4, but I played 53 d5??, permitting the #knightfork 53 ... Nd3+ and throwing away the winning advantage. 😐 #chess #chesstactics #chessblunders #chessimprovement

S. Sayed - L. Lyons @chesscom, 16 Dec. 2020 As Black, I played 31 ... Rh6?? Bad move. ☹️ White wins the rook with a #knightfork: 32 Ng8+. 😮 Much better for Black is 31 ... b6, preparing to develop the c8-bishop and the a8-rook. 🙂 #chess #chesstactics #chessblunders

S. Yazykov - L. Lyons @chesscom, 15 Dec. 2020 In this position, Black might be able to hold on with 30 ... Be7, but my move, 30 ... Bh6??, permits the #rookfork 31 Rxf6+ Ke7 (31 ... Ke5 is tempting) 32 Rxh6 Bxe4 33 Rd2. 😐 #chess #chesstactics #chessblunders #chessimprovement

DimDimDimo - L. Lyons @chesscom, 14 Dec. 2020 After 21 ... Nxe4 22 Qxe7, does 22 ... Nef6, trapping the white queen, enable Black to regain the sacrificed materiel? #chess #chesstactics #queensacrifice