| General Chess Discussion - How do you guys play so fast?#1 I play mostly 3+0 blitz and many opponents of similar rating play much faster than I do in complex positions. In fact, their moves are all less than 10 seconds, while I have 3-4 critical positions whe… | lightln2 |
| General Chess Discussion - Accuracy Comparison: Me vs. My Opponents#2 Thanks for the analysis, very interesting! One question though: did you track *when* the games were played? I noticed that the player pool in the same rating range is stronger on weekends and evenings… | lightln2 |
| General Chess Discussion - Kramnik and his Chesting Crusade ... what do you think #Naroditsky#18 How is this "cheating"? Lichess fair play policy prohibits "use of any external assistance" - which "using an engine during a game to analyze already made moves" is obviously not. Is Chesscom policy a… | lightln2 |
| General Chess Discussion - My Submission for the Vihh_Sou Opening #chessDrama#4 I also tried it once, and got blown off the board: https://lichess.org/OOEWnKH0/black#0 What's funny, the gambit was declined, but I lost the exchange later anyway :) What's even more funny, Lichess s… | lightln2 |
| General Chess Discussion - hardest 1400 puzzle#13 I also think, that the puzzle is very hard. @Zinner_Override said in #9: > The concequences of 1...c3 2. Bxc3 bxc3 3. Kxc3 Ka3! is near impossible to calculate I saw 53.. c3 54. Kc2 Ka3 55. Bxc3 bxc3 … | lightln2 |
| General Chess Discussion - Why lichess?#14 I'm not a native speaker but I think "Lich-ess" is a female undead wizard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich) | lightln2 |