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I'm sorry I missed seeing this event live! Thanks for sharing the video link so I may watch it.

> As always, it's difficult to say which formula would be more correct, but I certainly think that there is room for improvement. I'm interested to hear some suggestions from you about the formula. On…

I'm modestly annoyed that my opening knowledge is so shallow... here Nd2 wins an exchange: https://lichess.org/TJlQN8u2/white#22 ... and here Bxc3 is a serious candidate move, despite severely weakeni…

Learning how the rating systems are supposed to work only exacerbates existing problems with both, at least until either site commits to improving their rating system.

Alternatively, Lichess could implement Glicko-2 or Glicko-Boost to stabilize ratings.

@WhipGaming said in #1: > I know lichess and chess.com have different rating systems Both sites use Glicko-1 or a derivative thereof, despite Lichess claiming to use Glicko-2.

Fun fact: OTB a player may claim "threefold repetition is about to occur" by stopping the clock and writing the threefold move. Online, since stopping the clock isn't possible, instead one can offer a…

Yeah... there isn't a whole lot to learn from this blog post, other than: for decades I've sulked about trying to learn openings since opponents always seem to know twice as much as I do. But maybe be…

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Just because an engine fails to refute a move doesn't make that move good, either in principle or in practice. I'd even suggest that 11... c5 might be where you relaxed from carefully calculating vari…