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General Chess Discussion - Can't improve after 1550#2

I took a look at your last few losses. You seem to have the basics of opening theory down. Your last few losses seem to be due to tactics. I'd recommend doing lots of puzzles .


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Game analysis - Just played my 20,000th game...#11

On 29. Nxe5 I believe you could play dxe5, because the bishop guards the rook. The full sequence Nxe5 dxe5 Qxd8 Bxd8 Rxd8+ Kh7 Bxe5 leaves you with a queen and a knight for a rook, a bishop, and two p…


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General Chess Discussion - Lichess glitich#3

Also, if you click on your Rapid rating from your profile page, you will see your rankings. In particular, there is a small label called "Rating Deviation". You can hover your mouse over the number th…


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General Chess Discussion - Lichess glitich#2

The rating system used by lichess takes into account how many games you have played recently. You have only 49 games in your profile at the moment, and so the rating system knows that its estimate of …


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General Chess Discussion - Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Getting Sued#6

It must be extremely frustrating to go to so much work to develop one of the strongest engines in the world, release it and its source code for free, encourage people to modify and improve it, and hav…


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General Chess Discussion - I want to make a strong BOT like @Maia9#9

Check out this wiki ( https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page ) for learning chess programming techniques. There's quite a bit of clever mathematics and algorithm optimization which goes into makin…


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Game analysis - 1800 brutally punished for neglecting development#2

Perhaps you shouldn't use such extreme language, it is rather insulting to your opponent. In any case, you played the more principled game and deserved the win.


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General Chess Discussion - Is KB allowed?#12

@PaWnBaRiaN Lichess is not a democracy. The owners and moderators of Lichess make decisions, not necessarily by voting. I have no opinion on KB, nor does it matter to Lichess if I did.


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Lichess Feedback - Opponent running out of time - system scores the game as a remis#2

If you did not have sufficient material to mate your opponent, the game ends in a draw rather than a loss if they run out of time.


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Game analysis - Video: my best endgame (BB-KPP)#4

I would never guess that this is a winning endgame in the tablebase.


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