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General Chess Discussion - Top 10 best players.#13

I'm not nearly good enough at chess to look at peoples' games and tell the difference between the levels of 2700 rated players and 2800 rated players, let alone take into account the influence of prep…


GrandDesaster
General Chess Discussion - Top 10 best players.#5

Just to be sure I understand you: You make up your list with great chess players and guess what ratings they would have if today was their prime time. Basically translating their performance into toda…


GrandDesaster
General Chess Discussion - Coolest lichess username#116

@MyRatingIs1900 and @Loganrithm are quite good. But I'd also throw my hat into the ring with @GrandDesaster


GrandDesaster
General Chess Discussion - i dont recive rating after games#4

@Figurenok Congratulations of winning all of your games you seem to be a great chess player, but it seems like you forgot to turn on your Computer in this game: https://lichess.org/5KTtzkJY/black#169


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Lichess Feedback - BLITZ and BULLET symbols (e.g. shields)#6

@bunyip You are right, that lightning doesn't travel at the (vacuum) speed of light, but it's around the same order of magnitude so @TrapAdvisor 's argument still holds. I always thought the naming sc…


GrandDesaster
General Chess Discussion - Stalemate on purpose#2

Why do you think it's not fair? It is part of the rules and can usually be easily avoided if the winning side pays attention. So you punish the lack of attention. On the other side I think that seeing…


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Lichess Feedback - select puzzle difficulty#14

The discussion here is going a little off topic here. It doesn't really matter if solving easier puzzles is a great strategy to improve your chess skills, but obviously there are people who would enjo…


GrandDesaster
Lichess Feedback - select puzzle difficulty#4

I completely agree. Sometimes I want to get easy puzzles and the quickest way to do this is using a private window where I'm not logged into lichess. While this workaround works it surely isn't optima…


GrandDesaster
Lichess Feedback - ban for dodging low rating players#9

@SckMyToe Sometimes I am surprised how people with very decent chess ratings struggle with basic logic. Of course you'll have to wait longer if you only want to play with a minority (close to your rat…


GrandDesaster
General Chess Discussion - Vachier-Lagrave Blitzes His Way To the Top#3

Thank you for the nice and well written blog post. The format of Norway chess is very interesting: In case of a draw in a classical game a Armageddon game will be played with 10 minutes for white and …


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