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General Chess Discussion - Why we saying good luck?#9

As I human I think it is hypocritical to wish my opponent Good Luck when I play in a match for my chess club. I am of course hoping to win, and in that sense I do not wish him luck at all. Instead, as…


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General Chess Discussion - Only legal move forces a draw and lichess says it is not draw#26

White timed out. Black has winning material. End of story. For black to have drawn he should have made his move in time. Sure we could make the rules more complicated, but that shouldn't be a goal. We…


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General Chess Discussion - Is that a legal move? move 13. O-O-O ?#21

@laatikko This is better than just the FEN I posted earlier ... https://lichess.org/XuYEsxcj From https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochade_in_der_Schachkomposition#Mehr_als_zwei_verschiedene_Rochaden 1. …


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General Chess Discussion - Is that a legal move? move 13. O-O-O ?#12

Even FIDE can get it wrong, as this puzzle from 1972 shows. 8/8/4P3/3p4/2p3p1/1pP1kPPp/1P5P/R3K2R w - - 2 1 White to move and Mate in 3. My copies of Rybka and Spike can only see mate in 5 as they don…


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General Chess Discussion - Chess coordinate training software#6

I repeat: 'You should at least say what the idea is before expecting anyone to join in!'


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General Chess Discussion - Chess coordinate training software#2

I don't believe there will be much interest. Coordinates are a simple concept. Also, isn't it a little cheeky to have an idea and just expect someone else to do the work. If you genuinely have a good …


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General Chess Discussion - People who cant solve mate in 4 moves?#8

I had a Nokia phone with some checkmate puzzles and some mate-in-2 puzzles could be very difficult to solve. With a king near the center of the board and 8 possible flight square, some of which maybe …


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General Chess Discussion - Can Lichess detect computer assistance for individual moves?#4

@Sneakmasterflex wrote "AFAIK lichess doesn't detect anything automatically..." Actually it does. I have seen games between humans halted part way through and a win suddenly awarded to one person by L…


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General Chess Discussion - What do you understand "en passant" refers to?#6

Pawns move one square at a time. After chess was invented they found it takes too long for games to get going, and so people agreed that they would let a pawn move two squares for its first move, in o…


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General Chess Discussion - an opening variation that computers can't understand#82

@butterfli I will look - if you hammered it with Stockfish a couple of years ago then maybe your analysis is better than mine, as my analysis was older still. It was based on a Traxler engine tourname…


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