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Lichess Feedback - players cancelling games to avoid playing black pieces?#6

@mkubecek said in #5: > The principal mistake is IMHO your assumption that 1040:1022 is a significantly high imbalance which you used as an argument to support your theory that something is not workin…


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Lichess Feedback - Cannot read notes from server#2

https://lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/game-notes-dont-work-anymore Is that the issue you're talking about? Apparently it's already being handled.


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Lichess Feedback - Pause a game#6

Adjourning games leads to the problem that sometimes resuming the game simply doesn't happen. You have to wait until both players are online simultaneously and not currently in a game with someone els…


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Lichess Feedback - Offer abort#8

The stumbling block I see with the idea is that it is a potential source of bad feeling. A player requests an abort. The opponent will then feel under some moral pressure to accept when they would rat…


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General Chess Discussion - How to identify style?#2

It's a broad term, certainly with more than one dimension. But here are several important questions to ask yourself in order to identify what makes up your style. - Are you a "positional player" or a …


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Lichess Feedback - timestamps#6

The times in the comments in that PGN in #4 are only showing tenths of a second anyway. I don't know if chessdotcom really shows milliseconds, but that PGN score doesn't illustrate it. Displaying mill…


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Lichess Feedback - Abandoning games#3

As to players aborting games without playing a move, the view on this site is that it is strongly discouraged (automatic warning), cannot be done persistently (inability to play games for progressivel…


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Game analysis - I resigned before move 20. I was doing just fine :(#4

Oh yes, I actually overlooked the vulnerabilty of b2 after 17.Bh6 Nc4 (must be far better than 17...Nxf3). I guess 17.Ng1 is indeed best then.


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Game analysis - How would you go about winning this game as white?#2

I'd maybe post the light squared bishop on a4 to stifle any hint of Black's counterplay there (that bishop has little else to do anyway) and then invade with the rooks and queen on the kingside. Black…


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Game analysis - I resigned before move 20. I was doing just fine :(#2

I can certainly relate to resigning when I should not. One horror I played here just a couple of weeks back involved resigning because I couldn't stop the opponent promoting a pawn but failing to noti…


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