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General Chess Discussion - Learning to Play the King's Indian Defence#1

For the last year or so, I've been using the King's Indian Defence as my main weapon as black against almost everything in 1. d4 (only real exception is the London System, where I play d5 and c5). I'v…


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Game analysis - Testing "my" "new" gambit idea vs. French defense#7

@achja I'll definitely give your new gambit a go... I'm always on the lookout for interesting new ideas. As for what you said about the wing gambit, I agree that against the Sicilian it's usually not …


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Game analysis - Share your miniature#47

I'm honestly shocked there haven't just been tons of games in the Traxler on here. https://lichess.org/l43LOuPJlOql There's a lot more where this came from...


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Game analysis - Testing "my" "new" gambit idea vs. French defense#4

I'm not an FM, so my opponents don't play the best moves... but I did actually get a game where black refused the gambit. IMHO it's not bad for white... I ended up getting in a winning position (and t…


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Game analysis - Testing "my" "new" gambit idea vs. French defense#2

Looks interesting... I spent quite a while about a year ago looking for gambit lines against the French (mainly because my results in the mainlines were pretty poor). I've never seen this before, thou…


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Game analysis - How to open the h-file in the Dragon?#1

Recently, I've been trying to learn more mainline theory against the Sicilian. Against the Najdorf and the Dragon, I've chosen the English attack (basically playing Be3, f3, Qd2 and 0-0-0). I've strug…


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Lichess Feedback - Play A Lichess Game In Real Time#2

If you go to analyse the game (using the microscope button), there should be a realtime option for the replay setting (next to fast and slow).


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General Chess Discussion - Traxler#36

@Maninabunnysuite genuinely curious... do people at your level manage to find all of the correct moves (i.e. they win because their defence was perfect)? In my experience I can often get objectively w…


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General Chess Discussion - Traxler#26

A few people are saying that Bxf7 is a refutation... As someone who plays the Traxler (as black) very often, I can say that while Bxf7 lines are (probably) safer than Nxf7, don't expect to just play s…


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General Chess Discussion - The better I get the stupider games get#8

I've actually noticed this trend a bit too, when I started playing classical on Lichess. Granted, it might have been because I very quickly went from the provisional 1500 to my current rating rather q…


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