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Community Blog Discussions - Challenge 2500 | 11. Vlissingen#5

I feel like you shouldn’t take so many draws against lower rated players. Think about it, Magnus would have won most of those ‘drawn’ positions, you can too


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Off-Topic Discussion - Christian Encouragements#65

900 rated religious preachers - what has the Lichess forum come to?


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General Chess Discussion - Ways to beat strong players#5

Maybe you could talk about the psychological aspects of playing a very strong player such as trying to play an off-beat sideline to try and beat them tactically as opposed to playing positionally or i…


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General Chess Discussion - Importance of mindset in chess#6

@MrPushwood - Your condescending comments are really not funny if you hadn't realised already


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Game analysis - Wait is chess a guaranteed win for white?#27

If you look at the top engine games when the 'objectively best' openings like the Ruy Lopez and Queen's gambit are played, they are pretty much all draws. It's only when one of the engines is made to …


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General Chess Discussion - Hikaru Nakamura beat Eric Hansen with ONLY 4 SECONDS#2

Hikaru is such a legend, the GOAT of online chess and has been the best bullet player for over a decade.


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General Chess Discussion - Who is GM qwerym?#15

Naka would probably be 3200 blitz and 3400 bullet if he played here lol


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Game analysis - Perfect Sicilian.#7

Just because you didn't have any inaccuracies, that doesn't make it a perfect game - there were plenty of moves where you didn't play the objectively best move but it didn't make any difference


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Off-Topic Discussion - why is bullet so addicting?#13

Bullet chess is great - I think Blitz and bullet are the future of competitive chess as most viewers don't want to watch long games


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General Chess Discussion - Anyone can be a GM#71

@pointlesswindows - Naka literally admitted on his stream that chess is all about practice and those apparently 'superhuman' skills develop with practice. His dad was a fide master and he was homescho…


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