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Very exciting game, albeit full of silliness :3 The commentator got a little too carried away with the excitement I think, and riddled almost every move with exclamation marks... definitely wayyy too …

o.O So there are a ton of two-move scholar's checkmates then? 1.Qa4 or 1.Qc2 or 1.Qd3 or 1.Qd4 or 1.Qd5 or 1.Qe2 or 1.Qf3 or 1.Qg4 1...Nc6??? or other 'normal' moves 2.Qxe4 kicking the ball to e8, goa…

yep same thoughts as der_Drahtesel. At first I thought there were three ways, 1.d6 1.Kg2 1.Kf3 Sadly 1.Kf3 isnt so good, because after the knight moves there will be ...Qa3+ but ya, black is just para…

The game is okay! Cute thematic punishment with rook and two bishops -- white learned a hard lesson! I think people are madge mostly because it's *just* the one game. They're madge and jealous of the …

hi, can you give an example of "Petrosian-style king march" ?

I'm just glad the one in the suit emerged victorious! Too many people in hoodies and jeans are getting away with sneaky wins :3

@CkickyCheck said in #4: > https://i.imgur.com/IpD2z4p.png

This is good, but why are we not able to Capture a piece causing a check? I dont understand the sudden rule to not allow you to capture the checking piece of we are put into check. Thus the "checkmate…

Nice recap! >>For more on interpreting this graph, check our preview article. I'm confused on this part -- how does the preview article help interpret the strange probability graphs? Specifically ther…

Was just analyzing the opening of this anon blitz game https://lichess.org/8hjjjLPy/white#14 After 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4 Nc6 4.d5 Ne5 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Bf4 Bxf3 7.gxf3 Ng6 , I noticed lines 2 and 3 of Stoc…