General Chess Discussion - What can I do to become a 2000?#16 - For me playing longer time controls helped me improve. - Working with a coach helped me improve on issues I got stuck with. - Work on the thing you enjoy working on most. Let's say if you enjoy endg… | maarten404 |
Off-Topic Discussion - I just had a really bad experience with a racist person#31 Blegh sorry to hear this has happened to you. | maarten404 |
Game analysis - The power of studies.#2 Good work man! I too did a similar thing, made an opening book for myself and try to keep myself to it, compare after each game whether I could stick to my prepared plans. I have yet to find a way to … | maarten404 |
Game analysis - cool mate for Black out of a Dragon / Yougoslav#4 Beautiful game! | maarten404 |
Lichess Feedback - Tournament countdown clock stops at the end of a game#1 After the end of the game, the countdown of the tournament stops (next to the players clocks). I expected the desired behaviour is to have both player's clock stop but the tournament clock continues t… | maarten404 |
General Chess Discussion - What happened to chess etiquette?#7 One other thing that is I was taught as etiquette but seems to not be commonplace amongst some of my (otherwise quite sensible) opponents are about draw offers: most of the draw offers I get are in po… | maarten404 |
General Chess Discussion - Thank you Lichess!#17 Best chess site ever, clearly made with love for the game! Thankful greetings from the Netherlands. Keep up the good work @thibault and team! | maarten404 |