| General Chess Discussion - Help on Pawn Endgames#9 1. You have the advantage in pawns and there's only one avenue to go to, so get your K in front first to stop his K from blocking. It's more of a tricky one because if you end up with a single pawn on… | sammgus |
| General Chess Discussion - “Alleged violation of the FIDE Charter and EDC Code related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine”#11 @firebreathingpoptart said in #10: > Man Russians have drank the kool aid. Sad. They are not all this brain-washed. Most russians do know they live under a fascist dictatorship, but there is nothing t… | sammgus |
| General Chess Discussion - Over 40 in Puzzle Racer with a blitz rating of 1030?#4 @Zathoichi said in #3: > It's just curiosity from my part. I just want to debate if it's possible for a player to be so "unbalance" or like I presume, there is 2 persons on the account. So, just to be… | sammgus |
| General Chess Discussion - All About Cheating - Part 2: The Psychology and Pathology of Cheaters#32 @Onyx_Chess said in #30: > > Here is the actual reality of things: > The actual reality of things is that you should be looking at the kind of people who are utterly obsessed by cheating and are overc… | sammgus |
| General Chess Discussion - Somebody please explain to me a puzzle that I cannot understand#9 @irridente said in #1: > the puzzle is lichess.org/training/4iZT8 As soon as you realise that fxe5 results in #, the solution should be clear, since we can (relatively) easily calculate that Bxe5 and … | sammgus |
| General Chess Discussion - Fear of Analyzing My Own Games#19 @Lucy2007 said in #1: > when I try to analyze one of my own games, I am always terrified of finding some crazy tactic I missed or a sneaky way to draw a losing endgame because then the game sticks in … | sammgus |
| Lichess Feedback - Glicko 2 and 1500 provisional rating#5 @romemusic said in #1: > I understand that 1500 is the default provisional rating for a new Lichess member, irrespective of experience. I'm finding that at my rating (about 1480) I am more often than … | sammgus |
| General Chess Discussion - I was suspected of cheating OTB#15 @DrHotBunz said in #12: > Ok after reviewing your game. It kind of looks like he might have had a point. You played 100% computer moves. Not exactly exonerating you. You happened to find any but beads… | sammgus |
| General Chess Discussion - E pawn vs D pawn#13 @Realboy9000 said in #1: > Both the e pawl and d pawns are very powerful s they are center pawns but what's different in them and who is powerful Pushing the e pawn opens both the queen and the bishop… | sammgus |
| General Chess Discussion - Do you struggle to sometimes understand stockfish positional ideas?#41 The problem you have is that you believe Stockfish has positional ideas. A typically good human position is a flexible structure which fruitful future ideas may spring. Whereas Stockfish can evaluate … | sammgus |
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