| General Chess Discussion - Is running out of time always a loss?#23 @Sarg0n Once again this gets very much back to the original point. Supporting this rule solely because it is a FIDE guidelines is just illogical unless you support all FIDE guidelines. This would mean… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Is running out of time always a loss?#18 @lovlas Can you clarify your comment? I'm certain you're not saying positions similar to the one posted in this thread where one side had a pawn, the other side had a bishop, ever end up with the side… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Is running out of time always a loss?#15 @Sarg0n it all comes down to what's enjoyable and logical. And I think few people would call it fun or logical to declare e.g. a single bishop sufficient mating material because of some helpmate that … | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Is running out of time always a loss?#10 The FIDE guideline is that you lose if any possible mate sequence is on the board, including help mates. The Lichess rule is a sloppy attempt to implement this guideline since it in general only adds … | LM OhNoMyPants |
| Game analysis - Marshall gambit and Stockfish 10 evaluations#11 @tpr I expect it's the same reason the Najdorf is dying. I don't think it's so much about any specific variation as about the fact that the entire opening is extremely susceptible to computer prep whe… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#62 @Toadofsky it's not particularly productive to completely ignore the contradiction in your logic and just repeat yourself. There are forced mates, with no capture or exchange, that go beyond 500 moves… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#59 @Toadofsky consider the 50 move rule. There are an immense number of endings that are technical wins that have neither a capture or pawn move for well beyond 50 moves. But the 50 move rule still works… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#56 @Toadofsky quite trolly there, eh? Heh. Of the millions (billions?) of games played on Lichess, let's consider all that have ended in a win for a player with exactly one minor piece. How often was thi… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#53 @Toadofsky That's an optional rule for USCF, similar to FIDE's rapidplay finishes. Their adjudication guidelines are what basically every site aside from Lichess uses: "Defining a win. A game is won b… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Brick wall ceiling, no point playing. #18 @rickrenegade This is Magnus Carlsen's FIDE lifetime graph ( https://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?event=1503014 ). Check out October 2004 to October 2005. Right as Magnus was about to smash the 2600 barr… | LM OhNoMyPants |
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