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General Chess Discussion - Thoughts on the queen's indian accelerated?#5

@Sarg0n said in #4: > [...] It‘s hardly refutable and should be ok in the majority of cases. I agree that it's playable in the same way that a lot of off-beat openings are. One thing it will not do ho…


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Lichess Feedback - Automatic cheating detection#4

The next time I sacrifice a rook unsoundly to launch a dangerous attack on my opponent's king, I don't want them turning on an engine to find out how to weather the storm and win.


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Lichess Feedback - players cancelling games to avoid playing black pieces?#9

@Frogster64 said in #8: > [...] > Just out of curiosity: if I created 10 games in a row where I pre-selected White, would I be more likely to get Black in the next several random-color games? Yes, I b…


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General Chess Discussion - Thoughts on the queen's indian accelerated?#3

You'd be allowing White to continue 3.Nc3 and force e4 (if 3...Bb7 4.Qc2) with a big centre. The fianchetto of the light-squared bishop to b7, to which you have prematurely committed yourself, is then…


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Lichess Feedback - players cancelling games to avoid playing black pieces?#6

@mkubecek said in #5: > The principal mistake is IMHO your assumption that 1040:1022 is a significantly high imbalance which you used as an argument to support your theory that something is not workin…


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Lichess Feedback - Cannot read notes from server#2

https://lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/game-notes-dont-work-anymore Is that the issue you're talking about? Apparently it's already being handled.


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Lichess Feedback - Pause a game#6

Adjourning games leads to the problem that sometimes resuming the game simply doesn't happen. You have to wait until both players are online simultaneously and not currently in a game with someone els…


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Lichess Feedback - Offer abort#8

The stumbling block I see with the idea is that it is a potential source of bad feeling. A player requests an abort. The opponent will then feel under some moral pressure to accept when they would rat…


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General Chess Discussion - How to identify style?#2

It's a broad term, certainly with more than one dimension. But here are several important questions to ask yourself in order to identify what makes up your style. - Are you a "positional player" or a …


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Lichess Feedback - timestamps#6

The times in the comments in that PGN in #4 are only showing tenths of a second anyway. I don't know if chessdotcom really shows milliseconds, but that PGN score doesn't illustrate it. Displaying mill…


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