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General Chess Discussion - The most aggressive reply to d4#11

@Dr_King_Schultz "If you also want to make sure you get an open position, with tactical themes likely occuring early on, you should probably play the Grünfeld or the Tarrasch. If you also care about t…


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General Chess Discussion - The most aggressive reply to d4#7

Benoni is not terribly aggressive in and of itself, and is a difficult opening to use well (without accurate play White will just push his center and crush you). Benko gambit is somewhat more aggressi…


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General Chess Discussion - The most aggressive reply to d4#4

@chessanalyst I agree completely. As a d4 player myself I am much happier to see the Budapest than any of the other openings I mentioned. But if OP just wants to have a fun game or two to try it out a…


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General Chess Discussion - The most aggressive reply to d4#2

The Budapest gambit comes to mind, but IMO any White player who's looked into it before will know how to neutralize its venom (at least, that's my experience at my rating level). Slightly less aggress…


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Lichess Feedback - Pernicious Computer Analysis Bug: Two-Fold Repetition?#5

Hm, it does seem this example proves there's a workaround Stockfish takes so that it doesn't actually act on a mistaken belief of two-fold repetition; my hypothesis is that the computer, when given a …


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Lichess Feedback - Pernicious Computer Analysis Bug: Two-Fold Repetition?#3

Hm, apparently that thread (and its linked sites) do suggest this is a deeper and more complicated problem with Stockfish for several years now, and Lichess only tries to provide unofficial patches fo…


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Lichess Feedback - Pernicious Computer Analysis Bug: Two-Fold Repetition?#1

I've noticed since two updates ago that the computer routinely yields an evaluation of "0" whenever it sees a position has occurred only twice, often triggering huge "Blunder" markers and messing up a…


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General Chess Discussion - french defence against d4 - what do you think?#4

As others have mentioned, most d4 players will not oblige you by following 1. d4 e6 (the Horowitz Defense) with 2. e4, unless they themselves are big fans of the French (in which case, you may have yo…


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Lichess Feedback - Armageddon games (as a variant)#3

I too would eagerly support this functionality.


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Lichess Feedback - Lichess Computer Analysis (Still?) Broken for Endgames#1

https://en.lichess.org/xgQP2maB/ I was reviewing my latest game, and looking at all the endgame blunders the computer helpfully pointed out... except at the very end, where its evaluation was very won…


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