| General Chess Discussion - Draws in the Elo rating system#4 Actually, Lichess uses the Glicko-2 rating system, not Elo (and definitely not ELO). See here: http://en.lichess.org/qa/6/how-does-the-rating-system-work-on-here. | noedne |
| Lichess Feedback - Is there a way to donate to the site?#2 http://en.lichess.org/donate | noedne |
| General Chess Discussion - What is this "calculating" and how do you do it?#15 #14 Here is another example of winning opening preparation by a top player. Consider this well-known game in which Botvinnik beats Spielmann in the opening by trapping his opponent's queen: http://www… | noedne |
| General Chess Discussion - Optimal Rating Difference for Berserking#3 Well, I believe that the optimal rating difference for a berserk would be the highest possible, say, 2500. A larger difference always makes it easier to win. On a side note, I just noticed that the ch… | noedne |
| Lichess Feedback - Strategic varient#2 So, if white makes no move but flags with a first-move advantage of, let's say, 0.3 pawns, and black is compensated 60 s * 0.1 centipawns/s = 0.06 pawns, does white win? If you are annoyed by flagging… | noedne |
| General Chess Discussion - King Maze Puzzle#21 Actually the king can escape even earlier in my line: http://en.lichess.org/qjBUvxVd. | noedne |
| General Chess Discussion - King Maze Puzzle#20 #19 This one's tricky. My best attempt resulted in this failure: http://en.lichess.org/IS7EP2dZ. I don't see how to avoid stalemating the black king in its corner without allowing it out for counterpl… | noedne |
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| General Chess Discussion - Premove tricks in bullet#11 Suggestion to OP: don't play bullet. Seriously, I agree that such behavior is against the spirit of the game, but IMHO, frankly, so is bullet. | noedne |
| Lichess Feedback - Chess opening 36 - this move gives the advantage#2 Openings aren't my strong suit, but to me it seems that b3 doesn't help development. The DSB wants to go to d2. | noedne |