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Lichess Feedback - How do you put your Lichess games into your study?#4

In analysis mode, there's a menu button which will bring up a study button. This will allow you to select which study you want to export the game.


jonesmh
Game analysis - Is it possible to get 0 Blunders 0 Mistakes 0 Inaccuracies and 0 centi-pawn loss on one's game?#2

Yes. The easiest is to have the opponent lose material or resign early.


jonesmh
General Chess Discussion - Mason vs London opening#3

The Spanish, the Russian, and the Cambridge Springs variation ... I love these old time names. BTW, is that Leningrad or St. Petersburg in that huge country (USSR, CCCP, Russia...)?


jonesmh
Lichess Feedback - You shouldn't be able to request a rematch after a win#4

IMO, if you were badly beaten, you shouldn't ask for a rematch, but then how do you learn? If you make a silly mistake, offering a rematch, just to get even, is a good thing. BTW, you can easily decli…


jonesmh
Lichess Feedback - Add Capablanca-Chess Variant?#3

The Bird variant is much better; Capa is a hack.


jonesmh
General Chess Discussion - Space advantage or Material advantage? Which do you think is better?#10

Let's go with the normal copout: it depends on the position. I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger. -- Reuben Fine


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General Chess Discussion - Can I beat stockfish level 8? Game 2: Day 11#4

I don't care for 16. d5 Nb4 17. Bb3 a5. Our bishop looks useless. Since the knight has moved, Bb3 is desirable, but that hangs the e-pawn. Nd5 is tricky but playable. I'm sure that Stockfish has seen …


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General Chess Discussion - Can I beat stockfish level 8? Game 2: Day 10#7

The bishop is attacked which leaves four reasonable moves. Ne3 The knight has to develop anyway, but since it wants to move again, this just delays the problem Bd3 Controls c4 but clutters the center.…


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General Chess Discussion - Any opening traps or special tricks that actually work at higher level, e.g. above 1700?#5

Winning Quickly with White (https://u1lib.org/book/1050054/6bcebc) and Winning Quickly with Black https://u1lib.org/book/1050070/d7ddb3() give miniature games, so they contain traps, sorted by opening…


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General Chess Discussion - Position Question#4

There are three reasons behind this move. 1 Although this is the good bishop, it has no purpose and soon, after d3 and e4 and hopefully a later f5, will become the bad bishop. 2 It removes a defender …


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