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If you head to lichess.org/appeal it may shed some light on what the issue is.

For the sake of an example, what would be one of the positions that would be particularly difficult for Black?

@PurpleInferno In the 1974 Candidates tournament, Korchnoi asked the arbiter if castling was legal when the rook was attacked.

I think there are good reasons the site doesn't want to go down the road of pairing based on location. Anecdotally, there have been plenty of instances on the other site (which more prominently featur…

The Fred, 1.e4 f5, is pretty bad. Anecdotally, there are people in the bullet pool who specialize in 1.f3 and 2.Kf2, and it can be psychologically difficult to face this, knowing you *should* be much …

Looking at the game that likely precipitated this post, this does seem like a "false positive warning", where the OP faced a mating threat and probably lost track of time. But triggering it once, or e…

@RogalDorn0627 said in #9: > In Hungary you cannot have your phone on the table in any shape or form. It has to be turned off and stored in a place that you will not touch until the end of the game. I…

My first tournament game ever, I was almost shaking with nervousness. This nervousness carried over as I offered a draw in a dead winning position.

@JayMitros I would start with the website for your national federation, which will probably have information on local tournaments as well as clubs.

Per the database, I've faced this as Black 33 times on Lichess, and played Nf6 28 times with a 46/21/32 W/D/L rate. I think 2...c5 has significant merit as well, having said that.