| General Chess Discussion - Is the Legal's trap still playable for black?#3 6. Nxe5 is very sound. Black has no compensation for the pawn. As for why there exist people with FIDE ratings that didn't play 6. Nxe5, I don't know. Whatever the reason is, it isn't that 6. Nxe5 isn… | nopunchman |
| General Chess Discussion - Rematches against higher rated players#7 Well aren't you lucky to find higher rated players that only want one win. I know from the embarrassing number of times that I've lost to lower-rated players that getting one back isn't enough. I alwa… | nopunchman |
| General Chess Discussion - Do you analyse all of your OTB games?#2 As you imply, it would be shortsighted of him to think that the only cause of his defeat was hanging the knight on g3. His position would have been horrible even if he didn't do that. But in any case,… | nopunchman |
| Lichess Feedback - Suggestion: Deathmatch Creator#4 @iBishop you mean like if someone wins game 1 and then leaves, they'll bleed rating points from forfeit losses for the rest of the match? | nopunchman |
| General Chess Discussion - huh?#3 To actually answer the OP's question, it's because you played one move that drops the computer's evaluation from +15 to +8. Normally a 7-pawn blunder is catastrophic, but not when you're so winning yo… | nopunchman |
| Game analysis - Amazing Game!#3 Yes, 20. Bxe6+ Kxe6 21. Qb3+ Kf5 22. Qf7+ Nf6 23. g4+ etc. would have been much cleaner than 20. Qh5+?! g6, but cleaner still is 19. Nxe6. Cleanest of all is to not play bullet. | nopunchman |
| Game analysis - is it possible to checkmate in this position?( me owns two knights, oppenenent owns on extra pawn)#3 2 knights versus no pawns is a draw (checkmate is technically possible, but extremely easy to avoid), so the only way to win is to keep the knight on h8 blockading the pawn, use the king and other kni… | nopunchman |
| Game analysis - is there a maximum number of moves you can make in a game?#3 You hit the 50-move rule. If no captures or pawn moves are made in the space of 50 moves, the game is declared a draw. Gotta know how to win with K+R! | nopunchman |
| Game analysis - when you feel the neccesity of knowing how to checkmate with a knight and a bishop#4 The setup with bishop on b5 and knight on d5 is one that Bruce Pandolfini simply calls "the lock" because the bishop and knight alone confine White's king to the corner. You can see for yourself that … | nopunchman |
| General Chess Discussion - Why not Qb3?#2 Because after 4. Qb3 c5 the idea of ...Ne4 is actually kind of annoying for White | nopunchman |
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