Game analysis - Mating with five pieces and a pawn#3 If you have so many extra pieces and the opponent won’t resign, at least do it in style https://lichess.org/7VtSZNER#162 | rdaysky |
General Chess Discussion - King of the hill why is it named koth is it because k= king o = of = t= the h = hill#2 Antichess will be A and Horde will be H? | rdaysky |
General Chess Discussion - GM Aman’s Best Sacrifice#1 GM Aman Hambleton considers this, to quote the title of his yesterday’s video, to be his most beautiful sacrifice. What would you play in this position as black? https://lichess.org/analysis/r1b2rk1/1… | rdaysky |
Game analysis - greatest forced checkmate of all time#11 So it wasn’t forced until it became forced. Sure, the title is braggy and clickbaity. So what, the checkmate is actually nice. | rdaysky |
Game analysis - greatest forced checkmate of all time#8 Y teh h8? It’s quite pretty, particularly given the time control, and it’s not often that a forced checkmate sequence starts with putting the opponent in zugzwang, forcing them to nail their own coffi… | rdaysky |
General Chess Discussion - Name of this tactic (is it just a sacrifice?)#9 @StingerPuzzles said in #5: > The knight was doing nothing useful on a5. You can't be deflected from nothing. For a deflection tactic to occur a piece has to be doing something useful on its original … | rdaysky |
Game analysis - 4 Knights on the same file!!??#5 I blew this one, the black king is not on the correct square :'-( https://lichess.org/g2ggYjXs#445 | rdaysky |
General Chess Discussion - What does Σ mean in the opening explorer#6 @nevovo11 because it’s prettier obviously | rdaysky |
General Chess Discussion - An interesting puzzle with one interesting idea that wins the game#7 You’d think the puzzle is an entirely artificial position, but from time to time such a blockade happens in a real game: https://lichess.org/tKcqWlAD | rdaysky |
General Chess Discussion - Want to feel better about yourself?#2 My initial thought when seeing the position was that black had a cunning stalemate ploy that you saw through :-) | rdaysky |
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