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General Chess Discussion - +2000 Convert A piece for 2 or 3 pawns in a endgame with other pieces on the board#17

@MrPushwood Quite. It is indeed difficult to even imagine a position where stronger pieces are not in the presence of "opponent weaker pieces." The statement itself says little more than "when down, d…


iBishop
Lichess Feedback - Minor Punctuation Adjustment.#2

This actually makes grammatical sense. "Storm" and "Racer" are both proper nouns, but "dashboard" is a common noun. No correction needed.


iBishop
Game analysis - 8. Ke2!?#7

I personally like to use my pawns to take control of the center if my opponent does not, so I would have played 3. f4, but your move is of course perfectly legitimate. In the game, you ended up with y…


iBishop
Game analysis - How to defend??#2

As a general rule defending in a position with opposite-side castling is a good way to lose.


iBishop
General Chess Discussion - Quickest stalemate#2

@Official_LLL Did you invent this stalemate? It seems to have been around for many years, maybe up to a century. My guess is that there is no faster one - otherwise someone would have found it. I'll b…


iBishop
Lichess Feedback - Selecting games I played with certain openings#2

You can do that through "Insights". For instance, here is my ACPL by date - but only counting Berlin Ruy Lopez games. https://lichess.org/insights/iBishop/acpl/date/opening:C65 You can do the same thr…


iBishop
Lichess Feedback - Time on tv?#3

How do you know you have never been on T.V. before? It's very possible one of your KOTH games was on T.V. for a short time, as few people play that variant.


iBishop
Game analysis - 2 Knights for Black#7

@Dangerouskid Qd4 is by far the best move, winning a piece. This variation of the Polerio Defence is unusual in that Black has simple forcing moves to win material, rather than just more activity and …


iBishop
General Chess Discussion - Weird games between So and Mamedyarov#4

@EdinburghCollective While it is not inconceivable that either player remembers all 31 games they have played on Chess.com, it seems rather unlikely that GM Wesley So remembers each of his 1550 games …


iBishop
General Chess Discussion - Weird games between So and Mamedyarov#2

It's hard to speculate. Only the first game is on chessgames.com, but it looks like the second was from the Speed Chess Championship on the site that may not be named. Mamedyarov didn't do very well, …


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