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Your biggest rage on Lichess

When you try to play Bb5 but instead play Ba6 as white in the ruy lopez.
My previous mouse was disfunctioning. Resulting in losing 10% of my games by dropping pieces to early. It almost made me give up on lychess blaming the site.
Definitely yesterday!

I was closing in on 2250 blitz and absolutely dominated a 2450+ player, I got what I needed in the opening, middlegame and ending, was about to queen, but he fought back trying to promote his own pawn too, and I saw that I can’t stop his queening, while he can stop mine. I lost. Then Stockfish showed me that I could have played an unbelievably beautiful interference with my rook, giving it away for free, but then I can queen and then I have a skewer and win his rook and stop his queening....

The beauty of that rook interference was something else, I was sitting there wondering how in the world was I supposed to spot that. You just give away your rook for free... What pattern recognition would tip you off to play a move like that??? How can one learn to do that? LOL it’s sad...

I had strong internal rage!



Here it is: dominated a 2460+ opponent, made ZERO mistakes the entire game, except for one... missed a nice interference tactic that would win me the game.

ARRRRRRRRGGG!!!!!!!!
When you are playing the barnes defense (1. e4 f6) against a much weaker opponent and after 2. d4 (or any other move other than one that blocks the queen's d1-h5 diagonal) you play 2... g5?? in overconfidence and get checkmated on the third move. This is an extreme example, but overconfidence can cause quite some frustration.

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