| Off-Topic Discussion - A little tale A committee of aliens have had their eyes on Earth for some time. They fear anything developing here cause it may threaten them in the future. They lack technology to completely destroy the system or … |  |
| Community Blog Discussions - What “Talent” Actually Means in Chess (It’s Not What You Think) Some say freestyle favors talent. I think it's nonsense. Skill is positively correlated with talent. And we kind of proved that by drawing Magnus in freestyle and losing to Levy in chess as the world … | |
| General Chess Discussion - Candidates predictions and wishlist @lizani said [^] > I'll ask a counter question, how often does the crowd favourite win? > In the last ten candidates, it's happened three times - Anand in 2007 (technically not a candidates but the wo… | |
| General Chess Discussion - Candidates predictions and wishlist @tpr said [^] > "Chess owes him a world title" > * Caruana got his match against Carlsen, and he missed a forced checkmate. I don't think it was forced checkmate, and it was hard for humans after all. | |
| General Chess Discussion - Candidates predictions and wishlist I don't see it possible that Sindarov wins. I highly doubt it that there's anybody that had never entered the top ten winning the Candidates in history, under the modern rating system and WC cycle. | |
| General Chess Discussion - Candidates predictions and wishlist For me: Open: Predictions: Fabiano>>Hikaru>Giri>Praggnananda For Wei it's unlikely that someone who never became top 6 becomes the challenger For Sindarov, let alone top 10. For Esipenko and Bluebaum,… | |
| Game analysis - Stockfish doesn't fear any stalemate https://lichess.org/CbW4yUcW/white#86 From move 43 | |
| Community Blog Discussions - Fixing the FIDE Women's Grand Prix roster Love it. So great that you paid especial notice on Afruza and Song. And in the example, brilliant to have Batsiashvilli. If you watch her games you'll find she's one of the most exciting castle-siege … | |
| Game analysis - Why does this entire thing appear in Three-check database multiple times? https://lichess.org/6JQvcLNI/black#10 | |
| General Chess Discussion - How does White survive Horde? In my recent games Horde favors Black drastically, more obviously than Crazyhouse favors White. This month I played White 9 times and won 3, Black 12 times and won 9, and have reached a personal high … | |
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