| General Chess Discussion - Maybe an age old question, why is the queen worth much? 9 seems arbitrary.#11 If you arbitrarily assign 3 to knight and bishop, then a rook worth 5 seems very reasonable. And I think endgame two rooks are slightly better than 1 queen (10 vs 9). So in endgame if it's 1 queen vs … | Rairden |
| Lichess Feedback - "Enter Null Move" and null move support - feature request!#6 YES! Fritz, Chessbase, and SCID software allows null moves which is two hyphens (--). I have many databases I have imported into lichess and it's a pain to modify everything for it to import. Example … | Rairden |
| Lichess Feedback - Feature request: Text formatting in the forums#3 I wish we had markdown. We could use code fences too and all kinds of easy syntax. BBCode is old and the code (<b></b>) is far less readable than markdown. I use Katex with VS Code, and can just uploa… | Rairden |
| General Chess Discussion - Ramblings on studies section; few random tips#1 RANT: I cannot stand how common studies are that don't have an "analysis mode", or "Computer analysis: nobody". Even more annoying is a vast majority that are popular choose "hide moves" meaning I can… | Rairden |
| General Chess Discussion - What to do when you don't know what to do in a puzzle?#12 #2 - I used to always do this on chesstempo "mixed medium" tactics getting to 1650. Looking at their last move. Now that I returned to chess 5 years later I completely ignore their last move and simpl… | Rairden |
| Lichess Feedback - Feature Request: Practice vs Computer - Enable user to play moves for the engine#5 Yea @alenbasic, I agree I see chess.com does it better. Because how I described it above I was trying to make a javascript thing for a hotkey to toggle 0 vs 3 engine lines (which simulates "Play w/ th… | Rairden |
| Lichess Feedback - Feature Request: Practice vs Computer - Enable user to play moves for the engine#2 You can just use the analysis board. Depending on your hardware, I'd wait 2-4 seconds then hit the Spacebar key (which makes the best move for the computer). Put the show engine lines on 0 to hide the… | Rairden |
| General Chess Discussion - Which Openings Should I play to increase my Rapid Rating?#5 I would say it's fine to switch openings. I haven't played since 2017 (rapid peak 1796), but this video convinced me to change my openings. https://youtu.be/mRgJ_rX9bCI?list=PLirnDe-N3P_Ru29P_GaUw6nvI… | Rairden |
| Lichess Feedback - Feature request: larger coordinates#6 @dRr0x0rZZ you install the extension, and it's a permanent change to the entire website. No matter if you refresh the page. Here's what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/ZmJqysm.png The downside is t… | Rairden |
| Lichess Feedback - Feature request: larger coordinates#4 I use a a chomre extension (stylus) and add a custom css. I don't like the red check highlight, so I turn that off too. square.check { background: none; } coords { font-size: 140%; } | Rairden |
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