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Michal Kubeček

After a pause of 35 years, I'm slowly learning chess again and trying to make it fun. I'm still slow and rusty so I prefer longer time controls.

FIDE rating: 1686
Luštěnice Czechia

Member since 30 Sept 2023

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Time spent playing: 12 days, 14 hours

TeamsC3 – Classical Chess ClubLichess4545 LeagueSUSEThe 30+30 Club
Activity222 games

Posted 1 message in Mystery player that doesn’t exist
@ilidiomartins said in #2: > Account disappears immediately “user does not exist / profile deleted” When Lichess bans fo…
Posted 1 message in What is the general opinion about the future of online chess?
@SimonBirch said in #11: > when computers learn to play against computers white will always win because it has the first…
Posted 1 message in Chess Clocks Are Stuck in the Past. That's why I'm Building a Clock in…
> A full-color touchscreen Full color display? No, not really. A chess clock should be as inobtrusive as possible. Even …
Posted 1 message in If you could redesign the chess clock, what would you change?
I'll copy my response also here. > A full-color touchscreen Full color display? No, not really. A chess clock should be …
Posted 1 message in Should one must travel with a pocket chess set?
@ILikeBlitz said in #13: > Here is a picture of my pocket chess sets: > https://imgur.com/a/dLlJCfJ I'm pretty sure I st…

Posted 1 message in A little Date bug on the rating chat
The axis below the graph is only used to select the interval to show. What you see is rating graph over the interval sel…
Posted 1 message in Classic teams tournament with fixed number of boards (as seen on real …
Not directly. But see e.g. https://www.lichess4545.com/team4545/
Posted 2 messages in Draw for three repetitions but there is no repetition
> 9.2 The game is drawn, upon a correct claim by a player having the move, when the same position for at least the third…
@spizzi77 said in #18: > Wow, so, regardless of move number, if a position occurs three times in a row throughout the ga…
Posted 3 messages in premove
If it bothers you, you can always switch to time controls with increment where you don't really have to worry about prem…
@petri999 said in #4: > I do it on long thinking times on simple re-take positions in case opponent chooses to take my p…
@CG314 said in #7: > Racing your opponent to the clock would surely be seen as very annoying in classical time controls,…
Posted 2 messages in Checkmate not recognised by system
@itsanand said in #7: > Ohh my bad..now I got it, now struggling to delete this thread Please don't do that. People spen…
@itsanand said in #9: > Should I repost the problem I faced? You might do that (here, not as a new topic) but I rather m…

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Played 1 Classical game176317
Posted 1 message in Training your chess intuition and board awareness
I suspect that big part of what people call *intuition* is in fact rather *experience*.
Posted 1 message in When was the last time an IM was in Women's OFFICIAL top ten?
Not really top 10 but as close as one can get: Divya Desmukh was ranked 11th in October 2024 when she had neither GM nor…
Posted 1 message in Draw for three repetitions but there is no repetition
I'm not surprised that many players are not familiar with all details of chess rules. What I don't understand is why so …
Posted 1 message in Draw squares on the chess board?
Being able to draw on board while playing a game is IMHO a very questionable feature that I would personally like being …
Posted 1 message in Long castle bug
A counterexample: https://lichess.org/ynRbcvL2/black#24 where white castles long with b1 attacked by black bishop.
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