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I can't see how it would practically make any difference. It's not going to take long for the rating to converge to the player's true rating. Say it's something like 30. A good sniff test would be wha…

You're a better player than them. So put yourself in a position to beat them at chess. When you're playing opening theory, you're not playing the game that you're good at. Play boring. Get them out of…

400 points is relevant because statistically you should win 90.9% of the time.

@themiddleway said in #4: > In other words for now only No Castling Chess... seems not to be on pychess which I've just read about. Incidentally, I would go back the extra mile and not allow the initi…

On many forums, there is the ability for mods to pin or sticky a great discussion. I can immediately see a couple examples where this could be useful. 1. There are a lot of "how do I get better at che…

@corvusmellori said in #7: > I wouldn't be too worried about accidentally triggering a playban if you are playing in good faith. That said, if you use, say, 55 seconds of 60 seconds on the clock tryin…

after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 Stockfish declares mate in 6 with depth 66 on Bxf7, but it somehow overlooks that black can just take on f7 and instead recommends playing Ke7. After playing 4. Bx…

@Maracer I think you can register a bot on freechess

Look up cyborg chess or "advanced chess".

In crazyhouse if you capture a queened pawn, you only get the pawn in your inventory. This might be unintuitive to newcomers or maybe you've played 20 moves with both and forgotten which is which. I'm…