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General Chess Discussion - Poll: What is the most minimalistic opening repertoire?#10

#8 1. d4 c5, the best move is considered d5 followed by either nf6 or e5. Any other move and white gives up their opening advantage. 1.d4 c5 2. Nf3 dxc4 3. Nxc4 d5 and black is better. 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. …


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Lichess Feedback - The reason that Lichess is not a good site if you want to play bullet.#9

That lag page can't be right, I've lost on time when making premoves.


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General Chess Discussion - why resign when only a piece down?#10

The thing is that at strong players simply switch gears when up a piece, just simply consolidate the position and then trade everything down into a simple endgame. Most mistakes in GM games occur in c…


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Game analysis - Please help me analyse this game#5

https://en.lichess.org/study/OHrubdGu


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General Chess Discussion - Post your favorite openings; performance stats.#3

1. e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 is the main line.


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Lichess Feedback - First move should have a time limit.#2

You can abort after some time and not get a penalty, after even some more time the opponent gets the penalty.


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Lichess Feedback - Is 'Horde' a fair variant?#6

The pieces have a good edge. It used to be the pieces moved first but that was too much so it got changed to the pieces moving second and they still hold an edge.


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Game analysis - Me vs. Lichess 5 no time limit#3

A 1900 rated player will beat the 1700 rated stockfish more often than not, the reason why you can sneak a game or two of them and not stockfish is because computers are much less prone to blunders.


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Lichess Feedback - Lost connection to site and I got abandon#1

The site said reconnecting and kept saying reconnecting despite my connection being fine, I reload the page and says site is off, I refresh a couple more time till the site actually loads and it says …


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Game analysis - Textbook Queen's Gambit Accepted - Mate in 7. #2

Should have mated with the bishop for style points.


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