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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: 1680
Luštěnice Czechia

Member since Sep 30, 2023

Active

Time spent playing: 7 days, 1 hour

TeamsC3 – Classical Chess ClubLichess4545 LeagueSUSEThe 30+30 Club
Activity150 games

Supported lichess.org for 7 months as a Patron

Gained 2 new followers
czeking, LD_Sayulnethdula
Created 1 new study
Prague Open 2025 B

Posted 1 message in Feature request : an easy way to add games to a study
That might be in fact the point. If you are not willing to spend enough time on the analysis and be interested in it eno…
Posted 1 message in How to avoid Slav Defence and play Catalan opening?
1. e4 seems to be quite reliable way to avoid Slav. Or London, if you are really desperate. :-) But seriously, you can't…
Posted 2 messages in About Rating Increase and Decrease
@rambo1811 said in #1: > ... much higher rated than me ... Like in a recent match, a person higher rated than me by 30 r…
Rating deviation (RD) is a value reflecting how reliable your rating is (lower RD means more reliable/stable, higher RD …
Posted 1 message in Advice for blitz 1600 plateau
@questingbeast said in #2: > instead of studying opening XY, meaning that you study all of the commonly known endgames .…
Posted 1 message in Select the color of the pieces.
You don't have to worry, the system aims to balance white and black on its own. And the option to choose a colour was di…
Posted 2 messages in Cheating methods
@SvenLarsson said in #6: > If everyone in the 1000-1300 cheated, I would end up at 900 in one day. I didn't say everyone…
There is nice quote that up to certain level, players don't beat each other, they rather beat themselves. It means that …
Posted 3 messages in Proctor
@Druismat said in #30: > We cannot fight cheating without a sacrifice, that I would be willing to sacrifice my privacy t…
@petri999 said in #16: > Only way I would install that would be a virtual machine having only that one thing running the…
One way to look at it is that IT security is a bit like chess. When evaluating a move, you cannot consider only the repl…

Posted 4 messages in Proctor
(copying my reaction from another forum) I wouldn't hold my breath. Most people were already taught not to care about se…
@AsDaGo said in #2: > There's really no easy solution. As with many other complex and difficult problems, there are many…
@Druismat said in #9: > And I feel that some sort of spyware will go hand in hand with the online chess of the future...…
@Druismat said in #12: > when I say some sort of spyware, I do not mean giving full control This is part of the problem:…
Posted 1 message in Feature request : an easy way to add games to a study
Why not... but compared to the time and effort I usually spend analyzing a game, I don't really see the time and effort …
Posted 1 message in I have a request
No. Games against "Stockfish AI" are unrated.
Posted 2 messages in Lichess classical tournaments
- lichess-swiss (https://lichess.org/team/lichess-swiss) runs one 25+3 and one 30+0 swiss tournaments every 6 hours - Cl…
@SchliemannDefense said in #5: > I was ineligible to play in a Classical Chess Club's tournament today, because I still …
Posted 1 message in Where is the link to see stats about my games?
Or https://lichess.org/analysis#explorer/ComboDotZone In settings, you can select if you are interested in games played …
Posted 1 message in Do you think you'll able to reach grandmaster level?
> Do you think you'll able to reach grandmaster level? Definitely not. > You need 2500 international elo. Now I would be…
Posted 1 message in Bug
@QUEEN_KORRA said in #1: > For several days, my opponents have written in their profiles that (this account has violated…
Gained 1 new follower
toverdraak

Posted 1 message in User not banned after reporting
Hard to guess but most likely (a) the report has not been fully handled yet or (b) moderators decided that the username …
Posted 3 messages in Engine use
@Rg2024 said in #1: > many players, particularly in the 1200 range seem to be playing a far higher game than their ratin…
Out of 194 rapid games you played in the last month, only 15 have engine analysis. Perhaps if you tried to look at the a…
Seriously, take some of the games where you suspect your 1200-1300 rated opponent was cheating, run the engine analysis …
Posted 1 message in how to set up chess960 position in the board editor?
I'm pretty sure there are some generators which give you FEN of an initial position from its Chess960 number.
Posted 1 message in Illegal check for opponent and bug stopped me from making a move
Reloading the page didn't help?
Posted 2 messages in i think i beated a new record of most moves , 279
@Michael-Phelps said in #8: > now they have to sign 200 scoresheets! This is an interesting point. Never realized that w…
> It should be less. You cannot move 16 pawns each 6 times without any captures. Either the pawn needs to capture to pas…
Posted 1 message in dramatic game Ivanchuk vs Naroditsky
@greysensei said in #8: > Not everyone has the mental fortitude of a Carlsen. Magnus Carlsen is 34, Vasyl Ivanchuk is 55…
Posted 1 message in very odd ( impossible? ) rating point result
...including the latest (https://lichess.org/ykCnrcIb/) which seems to perfectly match the description.
Posted 1 message in Getting Fide titles
@ChristmasHums said in #1: > Why can’t we get titles like GM and WGM by playing blitz and rapid? Why must be classical t…

Posted 2 messages in Why is it a draw if the opponent's flag has fallen?
@DruganDrakon said in #5: > thanks, but it isnt good reason for it It's a perfectly good reason as it is exactly what th…
An interesting observation is that both types of the complaint - i.e. why it was a draw and why it was not a draw - keep…
Posted 1 message in The correct name isn't"Chess960"
@Luckaskl1993 said in #4: > The guy who created (Fischer) has the right to choose whatever name he wants to give it. "Ch…
Posted 3 messages in Cut chess
@nadjarostowa said in #11: > I don't think removing the outer lines could ever put you in check. The only exception woul…
AFAIK the position of liches developers is that no more variants are going to be added; the reasons can be found in earl…
An interesting class of problems would be how would such rule affect the outcome of known endgames. I can imagine that s…
Posted 1 message in i think i beated a new record of most moves , 279
@petri999 said in #6: > maximum-m game length under FIDE rules of chess is some where around 5900 moves Each side has 8 …
Posted 2 messages in Preparing for Classical otb
Then trying some game with a longer time control would definitely be useful so that you have some idea how it feels. You…
Of course, playing actual slow OTB games is best, if possible. What I suggested in comment #3 was rather meant as an alt…
Posted 1 message in Provisional Rating
@Viohl said in #2: > every you do not play, the rating deviation decreases The rating deviation increases when you don't…
Posted 1 message in Good at Rapid, Mediocre at Blitz, Suck at Bullet
@ELO5287 said in #8: > Sometimes I wonder if people think that you cheat if your rapid is much higher as it's hard to ch…
Posted 1 message in I played a chess tournament and made these mistakes
It's not just the time factor. When playing a familiar opening, you are more likely to be familiar with the positions an…