| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#48 Funny. This little thing comes up so often. Literally just had it occur in a game: https://lichess.org/scqu4t0i/black#111 4 pawns versus a single bishop. I think in a million games this will never fee… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#46 -snipped- Misread @mCoombes314 K+B as N+B somehow. | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#43 @lovlas That's something that 'might' have happened every once in a blue moon. The lichess rule is something that distorts endgames thousands of times per day, each and every day. If that was the genu… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#40 @lovlas In my opinion phrases like "fundamentals of playing online chess" are somewhat weasely. That phrase is poorly defined, and so it is appealing to something without specifying what that somethin… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#34 Absolutely, but do you? I mean surely you can see here that your position is untenable when you are unable to support this rule in and of itself? That is very much the point. Perhaps e.g. at chess.com… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#32 @lovlas Oh should it? So we should have touch move, clock clicking, you lose the game if you try to move a piece to an illegal square, and all the other awesome aspects of OTB chess? | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#30 @lovlas Completely agreed. Except there's only one of those that is unique, and by choice, to Lichess. | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#28 @lovlas this peculiar implementation is literally making people think the site is buggy, and it occurs on a daily basis. If you're going to argue in favor of this rule it's certainly not because it im… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#24 What matters is positions, not the number of games. State space complexity, not game tree complexity. So your count is off by a factor of about 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000… | LM OhNoMyPants |
| General Chess Discussion - Insufficient material to mate.#19 @lovlas There's a difference between the rules of chess and one organization's guidelines for chess. Bishops do not move diagonally because FIDE says bishops move diagonally - they move diagonally bec… | LM OhNoMyPants |
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