| General Chess Discussion - What if chess didn't have draws?#14 @i-bex said in #10: > I don't agree. The game is exciting because of the moves, not the result. There are boring wins and exciting draws. That is also a respectable opinion, almost everything you said… | RadiantDarkBlaze |
| General Chess Discussion - What if chess didn't have draws?#8 @Autofill said in #6: > What about 50 move rule That one... it could be potentially be extended to maybe 75 or 100; but for games between human players, it's plenty understandable if even with no posi… | RadiantDarkBlaze |
| General Chess Discussion - What if chess didn't have draws?#7 @James_86 said in #2: > If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I don't like draws. Neither as spectator or even as a player. Spectating a game that fizzles out into a mere draw is a letdown. When I'm playin… | RadiantDarkBlaze |
| General Chess Discussion - What if chess didn't have draws?#1 Stalemate = checkmate = win. Legal move that causes repeat position = illegal. (At least, certainly if three-fold). Rendered without sufficient checkmating material = loss. So, by capturing the last o… | RadiantDarkBlaze |
| Lichess Feedback - Specific reached position in crazyhouse study 'rejecting' further moves#1 While using a crazyhouse 'study' to play a custom position with the crazyhouse ruleset against a friend, a position reached during the game stopped accepting moves. Earlier points in the same game sti… | RadiantDarkBlaze |
| General Chess Discussion - FIDE Picks Breast Implants as a Sponsor for Women's Chess#111 @Khallyx said in #105: > "Anonymous female player"'s opinions are kind of an odd choice for an article. Either source them or leave them out; unsourced quotes have no place in serious articles in a si… | RadiantDarkBlaze |
| Game analysis - Why would Ra4 be better than Re8 in this crazyhouse position?#1 https://lichess.org/analysis/crazyhouse/kqbn4/qqbn4/bbrr4/nnrr4/4RRNN/4RRBB/4NBQQ/4NBQK/Qq_w_-_- I'm curious as to why Ra4 is evaluated as apparently significantly better than Re8 when using 5 line an… | RadiantDarkBlaze |
| General Chess Discussion - Would such a variant be any good as an alternative to 960?#3 Sounds like a mix of Placement Chess and Screen Chess, I like the sound of it. I used to play Screen Chess over on BrainKing.com, though I kinda stopped a while ago; the obligation to log on at least … | RadiantDarkBlaze |
| Game analysis - Custom starting positions; thoughts + critique?#1 I've created a handful of custom starting positions: https://lichess.org/study/WAoVlMJ8 I'll give a brief description of the 8 custom starting positions that I've created thus far: - Quarter Chess; do… | RadiantDarkBlaze |
| General Chess Discussion - The whole bishop v night thing#39 I'm a far cry from the top, but I'd like to believe I'm fairly good for where I am; so I'll offer my two cents. The way I see it, a bishop can only ever hope to reach half of the squares on the board … | RadiantDarkBlaze |
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