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Game analysis - A small analysis doubt#3

The simple answer is: white was already completely lost; Rf4 went from a losing position to another losing position, so not really a mistake. The longer and more technical, though also more correct an…


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General Chess Discussion - How to make BOT play super fast and program var on heroku.com so that BOT go very fast and accurate#10

I somehow doubt that a chess engine developer would request a solution with "no need to use python or other technologies too much other programming." What are you developing, and how are you developin…


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General Chess Discussion - How to make BOT play super fast and program var on heroku.com so that BOT go very fast and accurate#6

As thibault himself has said: "If you're not writing a homemade chess engine, or a program that plays chess, then you have no reason to make a Lichess bot account." I suggest you stop worrying about g…


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General Chess Discussion - Puzzles#2

There is no such thing as "points which you got in your second answer". After you've failed or completed a puzzle, you can no longer gain or lose rating from it.


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General Chess Discussion - How do I copy Lichess#10

Here's a guide on setting up a lichess development environment: https://github.com/ornicar/lila/wiki/Lichess-Development-Onboarding.


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Game analysis - Wow!#3

I think the game should have relly ended after move 59, at which point it is clear that neither side will achieve anything. That's because both sides can easily make a draw by keeping the h-pawn defen…


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General Chess Discussion - Can you loose the LM title??#17

I can remember precisely one occasion of the LM title being withdrawn because the person who had it had misbehaved (I won't name them because that would be public shaming). Apart from that, I don't th…


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General Chess Discussion - Is moving twice (in each turn) a bigger advantage than having an extra queen?#8

In fact, the advantage of moving twice per turn is so large that some people consider this variant to be more or less fair for both sides: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_chess. That's double mo…


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General Chess Discussion - What is the ending that is hardest to you?#11

King, queen and knight versus king, rook, bishop and knight is supposedly pretty hard: https://lichess.org/analysis/8/3r4/8/6n1/5k2/1b6/3K3N/7Q_w_-_-_0_1. More than 500 moves until the first capture w…


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General Chess Discussion - Visualization Styles#2

My visualisation tends to be in 2D, which is probably because it has been a while since I saw a physical chess board. As for colors/styles, I don't really see actual images of pieces in my head. If I …


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