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Community Blog Discussions - 2024 World Chess Championship Preview: GM Ding Liren vs. GM Gukesh D

I love articles masked as personality discussions that then unleash their statistics fetish on unsuspecting readers ;D


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Community Blog Discussions - Day 2 of Learning Chess Traps: How to Catch Your Opponent Off Guard

Good motif, but it doesn't work with the Knight on c6 for a reason :) Your moves 1. e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 d6 4.Nc3 Bg4 5.h3 Bh5 6.Nxe5? Bxd1?? here black can simply 6...Nxe5 and after 7.Qxh5 your bish…


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Community Blog Discussions - Article 1: Magnus Carlsen: The Iron Man of Chess—What You Can Learn from Him

And this is how Bicycles saw a 10% sales increase in Budapest


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Lichess Feedback - Please specify Time Controls to imported games

hm that is odd.... I remember it used to put a new analysis window. Maybe lichess bug cause I'm seeing the same as you @mcgoves


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Community Blog Discussions - Lichess ratings are not Glicko-2

OP's opinions are completely harsh and super biased I love how "peak sitting" is abuse, and "cheater" often in the same or neighboring sentences. This quickly went from a discussion of rating differen…


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Lichess Feedback - Please specify Time Controls to imported games

"Master" games often don't feel like master games at all once you realize it was bullet. Pointless to mass-import so many games, label them as masterful, and then lump them in with e.g. Yusupow from 1…


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Community Blog Discussions - Wei Yi and the Quest for Initiative

Cool, and gratz to Wei Yi for playing in a fun manner. The game against Max is lacking analysis... article doesnt mention that the completely crazy position was actually equal for a long time. Black s…


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Community Blog Discussions - How to destroy the Maroczy Bind

Pretty cool! Feel like White's 15th , Rab1 is a little weird. Why not 15.Rac1 , following natural rook placement on c1 and d1? example 15...e6 16.Rfd1 Be5 17.Bf1 which indirectly stops the g3 sac by a…


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Community Blog Discussions - Play against @AllieTheChessBot, yet another human-like chess bot

@CHESS-PLAYER-12 said in #21: > ITS because your rating is provisional What does that have to do with anything...? I meant 3rd move sry but you got the idea. 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 line. Pretty much …


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Community Blog Discussions - Play against @AllieTheChessBot, yet another human-like chess bot

played one game, rtJp8EtZ , then went to Analysis to see where I messed up, then went back and everything the bot said was gone(?) so idk the survey link. So guess I can discuss it here. Allie did 1.e…


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