| Game analysis - Why Can't I Take White's Rook Here?#4 The official rules answer this question as well. See the FIDE Laws of Chess Article 3.9: The king is said to be 'in check' if it is attacked by one or more of the opponent's pieces, even if such piece… | zwenna |
| General Chess Discussion - how to create a lichess bot#2 See https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog/how-to-create-a-lichess-bot/FuKyvDuB. | zwenna |
| Game analysis - Endgame: If you have 3 pawns for a knight, should you trade 1 set of rooks?#2 "Exchanging pieces increases the value of pawns" is a rule of thumb, but a rather unreliable one. In the current situation White's pawns are safely blockaded, and the black king is much closer to the … | zwenna |
| General Chess Discussion - 2800 as a 1600 FIDE player. What's next?#8 @mkubecek said in #6: > It would probably count as blitz if there were such tournaments; IIRC there is no lower limit for blitz in FIDE regulations. There is, the time limit must be more than 3 minute… | zwenna |
| Lichess Feedback - My opponent had 0 seconds, but I lost#6 Here is a link to the game which shows White's clock at 0.0 seconds, Black's at 0.8: https://lichess.org/QSquxHEd/white#121. My explanation is that White still had some milliseconds left after 61.Ke3 … | zwenna |
| Lichess Feedback - Wrong task #jV0tX#2 You seem to have overlooked the white rook on d1 which stops Qd8. Hint: start the engine before reporting puzzles as incorrect. | zwenna |