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General Chess Discussion - What are the differences?#4

lichess probably goes mostly on centipawn loss between your move and the computer's best move. An inaccuracy involves a smaller centipawn loss than a mistake or blunder. Some inaccuracies are bigger d…


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Lichess Feedback - "Thank You" notes to lichess#5

More significantly, thank you lichess for writing such impressive and efficient open source code that makes this website run so quickly and smoothly.


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Lichess Feedback - Refund system#3

That was a surprising opening to me. Black is down a pawn (after 15. exd5) and white seems to control the center, but black somehow gets decent compensation with two good bishops and a queen pointing …


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General Chess Discussion - How can I cross 1500 and never go back? #13

Svidler said something related to this in one of his banter blitzes. He says it's actually quite normal for your level to vary a lot if you play the game casually, and he claims that this is reduced t…


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Lichess Feedback - New Game Mode Request: Tactics Trainer Competition#2

I hadn't heard that idea, but it sounds a lot like a Mathcounts countdown round. Mathcounts is a middle school math competition in the United States, and an exciting part of it is the countdown round,…


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General Chess Discussion - TCEC final game 100#1

I posted a study annotating the last game of the final match between Houdini and Stockfish. It was a fairly exciting game in the English attack variation of the Najdorf Sicilian. Feel free to take a l…


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General Chess Discussion - Error in Training#11

I agree that the error rate on this website is fairly low. Besides, training points don't matter anyways.


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General Chess Discussion - Error in Training#8

Agreed on that one as well.


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General Chess Discussion - Error in Training#4

Yeah, that's a pretty bad mistake. It seems there's an error with the engine analysis there (it probably stopped analyzing once it found one mating sequence instead of continuing to search for the qui…


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General Chess Discussion - Chess tactics#5

Chess tactics and calculation are a huge part of the game, but it can take a good while for an improvement in tactical puzzles to translate into an improvement in your general play. Below are a couple…


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