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@Toadofsky said in #28: > You can't seriously be suggesting that the clock should change the rules of the game for all time controls, or that different time controls should have different rules. USCF …

@oberschlumpf said in #26: > First of all it is not nice to call someone "silly flagger" when you are too slow. It is not enough to play well, you gotta play fast! > I agree, but was referring specifi…

A win for white, of course. All I’m talking about is K+piece vs K+piece, and even there I’m advocating 5 moves to try and win it. These are well-known theoretical draws every chess player knows about …

Nobody’s saying flagging is bad.

I did not say it should be an automatic draw.

Thanks. My point is not that it should be declared a draw immediately. I understand there are some forced mates and perhaps a fair flagging chance. But a draw is a draw in the end, and if you can’t wi…

Time does matter but a draw is a draw. I could just as well say, if the position does not matter then why play chess at all?

It’s easy to draw a line: just draw a line. Minor piece vs minor piece alone is a draw, or perhaps after 2 or 3 moves, and KR vs KR can be tried for 5 moves. What’s so difficult about this? In my view…

Hello, I’ve been playing online chess since 1995 and am still surprised lichess allows flagging in endgames where both players have only one minor piece left, such as KN vs KB or KB vs KB. I understan…