| Game analysis - Puzzle 90641#2 I much preferred Rxc8. Develop the rook and gain a tempo on the enemy queen by discovery vs put our queen on a worse square. The engine seems to want to keep the queens on - we do have a development a… | FM optilink |
| Game analysis - Look at this game where I get wrecked in 19 moves.#4 Also, your opponent was a cheater. I got suspicious by how well he exploited your mistake and checked out all of his recent games: he consistently played excellent positional chess and never let a mis… | FM optilink |
| Lichess Feedback - Move notation bug#4 Pseudo-legal = otherwise legal but you haven't checked if it puts your own king in check. A typical way to generate legal moves is to generate pseudolegal moves, then for each move check if in the pos… | FM optilink |
| Game analysis - Look at this game where I get wrecked in 19 moves.#2 Assuming you saw up to 12. Nd6+ (it would have been a good pawn grab if it weren't for Nd6+): you can't castle. White is several tempi ahead in development. Your bishop is poorly placed on h4. Your kn… | FM optilink |
| Lichess Feedback - Incorrect counting of games played#2 Your classical rating of 1500? is based on zero games, as the three games you've played were unrated. | FM optilink |
| Game analysis - Why is this move so important? I'm not smart enough to see the logic behind it by myself#2 Black was threatening ...b4, winning at least a pawn or gaining a positional advantage of similar value. 14. g5?? ignores the threat and in some ways makes it even more powerful (g5 will be weak if th… | FM optilink |
| General Chess Discussion - castles queen side#9 White typically castles queenside in C42 Russian Game: Nimzowitsch Attack: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 Nxc3 6. dxc3. Black may castle on either side, although it should be noted … | FM optilink |
| Lichess Feedback - Ratings - How is loss or gain calculated after a game?#2 Ratings have confidence intervals. The lack of a question mark only means his RD was less than 110 - that is, his strength was within (rating-220, rating+220) with over 90% probability. Based on the l… | FM optilink |
| Lichess Feedback - No time take when making moves#5 If you don't want to lose on time, play with an increment. If you want to win on time, learn to play faster. If you want to play decent chess and also sometimes win on time, you need to get better at … | FM optilink |
| Lichess Feedback - False Accused of cheating?#20 @gringowilson https://lichess.org/contact#help-appeal-cheat There's an algorithm that automatically bans obvious cheaters and reports suspicious but not as obvious cases to the moderators. Players can… | FM optilink |
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