| Game analysis - My attack, which should be winning, did not go through. I had 13 mistakes. What went wrong?#2 Definitely some subtleties in the attack, but the most glaring mistakes I noticed involved your rooks. 1) 20. Rhg1 taking your rook off of a potentially good square to defend the g-pawn, when you shou… | NM amazingoid |
| Game analysis - Need help understanding a strange computer move in the King's Indian#4 Yeah, it just turns out tactically you didn't have the time to activate your rook because you had too many pieces in the way. Rfc8 is preferable because it gives you the resource Ra8! For example, aft… | NM amazingoid |
| Game analysis - Need help understanding a strange computer move in the King's Indian#2 You need to be able to generate counterplay, so ...Rf6, blocking your Queen's access to h4, can't be right. Qh4+ gives the rook a safe square to go to so that you can get your counterplay going. Vario… | NM amazingoid |
| Game analysis - I don't understand why 10...Qxc6 is an inaccuracy.#3 Three reasons: 1) If you play Qxc6, after Bf3 you have to play Qc7. Bf3 was a useful move, so you actually lost a move in the process. 2) You probably want to play ...d5 in the very near future, so ha… | NM amazingoid |
| General Chess Discussion - Name for this checkmating pattern#3 Thanks! | NM amazingoid |
| General Chess Discussion - Name for this checkmating pattern#1 Hi, does anyone remember the name of this checkmate? I remember reading an article about it a while ago, but I can't locate the article or remember the name it was given. Thanks! https://lichess.org/e… | NM amazingoid |
| Lichess Feedback - Formatting problems in Chrome, trying to list meself as streamer#3 I also have the same issue. Also, even when I fill out all of the fields, it says "This field was left blank" and erases all of the fields. | NM amazingoid |
| Lichess Feedback - Point System is so bad!#3 Your opponent in the second game was provisional. Notice that you only lost 11 points in the second game. | NM amazingoid |
| General Chess Discussion - Getting Better At Chess#5 1) Play chess! Sounds simple, but your own games are a useful tool for improvement. Go over them afterwards to figure out what you did well and what you did not so well. A computer can help confirm yo… | NM amazingoid |
| Game analysis - Why is giving the queen more sensible here then falling back with it?#2 The moves are relatively similar. A queen move loses a full bishop (3 points of material). After ...Bxe2 Nxd7 Bxf1 Ne5 Bxc4 Nxc4 white has won a queen (9 points) for a rook and a pawn (6 points), or a… | NM amazingoid |
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