General Chess Discussion - Puzzle #zzSEZ, are there 2 solutions?#2 It seems that in your solution after 27...Kf8 (White threatened Ne7+) 28.b5 White's dangerous passed pawns are good compensation for the piece. In the puzzle solution the black knight is able to block… | Brian-E |
Lichess Feedback - What is the point?#9 @AyaanshGaur12 Okay, well if what you say is correct (in which case I've learned something, thank you!) then the original issue which @drbeco raised doesn't matter in any case. :-) | Brian-E |
Lichess Feedback - What is the point?#7 @AyaanshGaur12 said in #6: > If he has 4 seconds to connect and only 2 seconds left on the clock, it won't matter if he reconnected after 3 seconds (when he had 1 second to connect), he'd still lose. … | Brian-E |
Lichess Feedback - Game lost when the rules say it's a draw#14 I believe that it's actually impossible for software to be written which *always* detects fortress positions like the one in #12 above. You can write it to detect it in a specific type of position, su… | Brian-E |
Lichess Feedback - What is the point?#5 For the record, I did look carefully at your image @drbeco before I posted my response. A careful reading of my response by you should have shown that I was actually responding directly to the point t… | Brian-E |
Off-Topic Discussion - xxx#14 "Be yourself, no matter what they say." | Brian-E |
General Chess Discussion - i have lost all my enthusiasm#2 As someone who once had some sort of sports burnout (not in chess actually, in another sport) I can identify with your frustration. I set myself targets which I couldn't meet. Considering I was nowher… | Brian-E |
Lichess Feedback - What is the point?#2 The point is to give players who have poor connections a reasonable time to reconnect. I don't see why this grace time should necessarily be less than the time the player has left on the clock. | Brian-E |
Lichess Feedback - players cancelling games to avoid playing black pieces?#15 Also, your suggested "simple solution" to this non-problem introduces new problems. @unchemyst said in #1: > [...] Could we make it so that when a game gets cancelled before the first move, both playe… | Brian-E |
General Chess Discussion - Thoughts on the queen's indian accelerated?#5 @Sarg0n said in #4: > [...] It‘s hardly refutable and should be ok in the majority of cases. I agree that it's playable in the same way that a lot of off-beat openings are. One thing it will not do ho… | Brian-E |
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