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The rules say that White "commences the game" but nobody "has the move", because the game hasn't started before that and thus there isn't a move to be had yet.

It is kind of fascinating to see that less than one percent of lichess player who were in that position played the mate in one. Maybe it's mostly bullet games and white didn't expect to actually be gi…

It works with a bishop or a rook too, the queen is the only piece that can't block in the king without defending it at the same time. Sure, it does seem a little ridiculous, especially since if you LO…

It's not technically drawn. You can't mate with a King and Knight against a bare King, but you can mate if the King is blocked in by a minor piece of his own - to which the pawn can be promoted.

The "elite tournaments" that require a rating of 2200 or more to enter are a nice idea, but there's a problem with how they are currently scheduled. For example right now there's an Elite Bullet Arena…

"Magnus Carlsen became a GM aged 13 (again by rating and norms) and the youngest ever World Champion at 22." Kasparov is still the youngest ever world champion. They were both 22, but Carlsen was a fe…

Go to your chess insights and put in "Game Termination" by "Game Result". That should do it.

I don't really see the problem. Sections with a rating cap weren't introduced to keep the low rated players away from the high rated players, on the contrary. Their purpose is to give them the opportu…

lol, if that game was played in '77 Kasparov wasn't even rated yet. Dolmatov is a few years older, so Garri probably just hadn't caught up yet. #7 2620 must be Domatov's peak rating, he certainly wasn…

I'm pretty sure it happened to me before that I've moved a queen one square short, hanging it instead of mating, that must be worse, no? :D