| General Chess Discussion - Avoid Catalan black keeps pawn#3 As a Catalan player I am always happy with the compensation for the pawn against an opponent who tries to hang onto it provided that I don't mess up and let Black's pawns on the queenside start rollin… | Brian-E  |
| Lichess Feedback - Why does the engine only look for mistakes and not for good moves?#24 @petri999 said in #23: > actually we do know [...] That's interesting. They've acknowledged, then, that their earlier efforts were nonsense and laughable. (When I was a member there, "brilliant moves"… | Brian-E |
| Lichess Feedback - Missed points#4 You can play Swiss tournaments here (instead of Arena) if you want all your game results to count in the tournament. Swiss tournaments are on a round-by-round basis and everyone must wait until all ga… | Brian-E |
| General Chess Discussion - I had the "Rated" button turned on when solving a puzzle. I failed but did not lose any rating. Why?#2 That will be a result of you typing in the specific puzzle code in the URL, I think. I'm not sure precisely how it works, but I know that if you call up a specific puzzle like that and then click on "… | Brian-E |
| General Chess Discussion - Puzzle #zzSEZ, are there 2 solutions?#2 It seems that in your solution after 27...Kf8 (White threatened Ne7+) 28.b5 White's dangerous passed pawns are good compensation for the piece. In the puzzle solution the black knight is able to block… | Brian-E |
| Lichess Feedback - What is the point?#9 @AyaanshGaur12 Okay, well if what you say is correct (in which case I've learned something, thank you!) then the original issue which @drbeco raised doesn't matter in any case. :-) | Brian-E |
| Lichess Feedback - What is the point?#7 @AyaanshGaur12 said in #6: > If he has 4 seconds to connect and only 2 seconds left on the clock, it won't matter if he reconnected after 3 seconds (when he had 1 second to connect), he'd still lose. … | Brian-E |
| Lichess Feedback - Game lost when the rules say it's a draw#14 I believe that it's actually impossible for software to be written which *always* detects fortress positions like the one in #12 above. You can write it to detect it in a specific type of position, su… | Brian-E |
| Lichess Feedback - What is the point?#5 For the record, I did look carefully at your image @drbeco before I posted my response. A careful reading of my response by you should have shown that I was actually responding directly to the point t… | Brian-E |
| Off-Topic Discussion - xxx#14 "Be yourself, no matter what they say." | Brian-E |
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