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I used to play the Budapest Gambit as my main weapon against d4, especially OTB. I no longer think it's sound, sadly.

Years ago, at a tournament, a teenage player got on the TD's computer, searched for the TD's name, and found an IMDB profile with his name, showing work on a movie with a risque title. (This was someb…

Anteaters.

Not sure if correspondence games are allowed or not. This one started in July but ended yesterday. https://lichess.org/BLvPX5Nv

I came here from FICS, which I had played on since hearing about it in my university chess club around 2006. I first learned about lichess in 2016 and never looked back.

I found the earlier editions of Silman's How To Reassess Your Chess to be revolutionary in how I approach positions as a younger player. What's even more interesting is that Silman (RIP) more or less …

Is it actually that common for people to break physical objects when losing? The idea of that is completely foreign to me. I'd think anybody who's doing that probably needs to consider giving up chess…

I think you played the opening pretty well! One thing I would have done differently is that I would have played Qc5+ instead of Qd8 on move 13. You ended up making three queens moves in short order an…

@zwenna said in #5: > On Lichess you can actually resign and lose the game even if your opponent has only a king left, although this should rather be counted as a draw according to current FIDE rules.…

It's far better to be too specific than not enough. Just a year or so ago, there was no option for "username". Somebody called to my attention a flagrantly racist username that had been reported witho…