My first ever forced stalemate

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Got to 700🎉

I have played about a year.

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Wanted to share my first brilliant move

It was not really hard to find, but imo sacrifices are the most enjoyable moves to play

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Blundered his queen so fast

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Been struggling for months to hit 1300 white resigned

No real value in post but needed somewhere to feel robbed.

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I kinda liked this mating sequence so there you go, mate in 4. (Of course I missed it in game)

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Did my opponent give up too soon or am I missing something?

I’m black, it had been a very long and close game to this point. I felt like they were slightly in control for a lot of the game and were probably a more experienced player than me. My opponent resigned at this point and I was a bit surprised. It looks like their king can escape and they can promote their pawn. Am I missing something? Are they looking further ahead and thinking I’ll get to promote my pawn too and then they wouldn’t be able to recover? Or am I missing something more obvious like an inevitable checkmate?

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I got a lot of opponent's good pieces but now my pieces can't move because of the huge pawn batallion

How do I work from here?

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What do you think of this position?

It felt like a kind of funky position. What do you think? Is it a bad one? If so, any tips on things to avoid to get to this kind of position? Fyi I ended up blundering my queen later in the game and lost… (wasn’t paying attention)

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Who is winning here?

I lost this game, as black

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Proud of this one. 2 brilliants and 80%.

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