| General Chess Discussion - Is it ok to abort 50-70% of corr. games at the start?#20 If you want to set criteria for who you play, you need a site that does that (to the degree that you want - you can already choose a minimum/ maximum rating for who can see your challenge) Asking for … | nogenius |
| General Chess Discussion - Is it ok to abort 50-70% of corr. games at the start?#10 Usually in a correspondence game, if they're cheating, they get caught before the game ends. I've only played 243 correspondence games, and I've probably had a 0/0/0 game, but I've also never cheated … | nogenius |
| Game analysis - Can anyone help me?#6 #4 No, I think that's probably normal variation. After it settles down, it stays within about 100 rating points. | nogenius |
| General Chess Discussion - Why is stalemate a draw instead of a win?#27 #25 If there's no legal move, it's not zugwang. | nogenius |
| General Chess Discussion - Why is stalemate a draw instead of a win?#9 If white has no legal moves, then black can never put white in checkmate. It doesn't matter if black "should" win, there is no sequence of moves where there's a win, because there ARE no sequences of … | nogenius |
| Lichess Feedback - resign button/draw button#5 #3 This was basically the argument I used which I think is why there even *is* a confirm resignation option. It was particularly bad because I think the resign button is in the same poisiton as some o… | nogenius |
| Game analysis - My 60 memorable draws, games 1 and 2#5 Blundered a pawn in the opening/ middlegame, managed to get active pieces and a very good knight, ended in a repetition. (Correspondence game) http://en.lichess.org/K5CKkxB3cpX7 | nogenius |
| Lichess Feedback - Lichess computer system error#59 #58 That seems over-elaborate. I think the least lichess can do is give the win if there's forced mate in less than X moves (10 maybe?), but the FIDE rules would probably be best, because at least the… | nogenius |
| General Chess Discussion - How to play aginst weak players like me#4 Also useful to learn some basic endgame technique. Triangulation, mutual zugzwangs, that kind of thing. Can't really win a game very easily if you don't know how to convert an endgame advantage. | nogenius |
| Off-Topic Discussion - How can some one win when it means that some one else loses?#3 If both players get to have a nice game of chess, has anyone really lost? | nogenius |
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