| General Chess Discussion - Score on Lichess.org#12 Clarkey, take a look at the bottom of page 36 of Glickman's paper "A Comprehensive Guide to Chess Ratings." I'm not going to get into a whole argument with you, but chess ratings are not simply cold s… | chess240 |
| General Chess Discussion - Score on Lichess.org#11 I'm glad you think it's perfect as even Professor Glickman himself doesn't: "As the assumptions underlying the rating system are continually questioned and tested, changes in the rating algorithm can … | chess240 |
| Lichess Feedback - Chaning my Username #14 Always preferred camel case. Lower case looks a bit childish, uppercase makes the letters harder to distinguish. Twitch lets you change the capitalization of your username. Stack Overflow lets you cha… | chess240 |
| General Chess Discussion - 30 sec games#17 While most thirty second games may end in a loss on time, anyone who plays bullet knows how many players will let their clocks run to zero even when they're one move away from being mated. Chess is ch… | chess240 |
| General Chess Discussion - Score on Lichess.org#6 The rating system clearly has its flaws. There's a ChessJuice stream where GM Naroditsky calls it Sisyphean. He would get +0 for a win and -40 for a loss. Not to mention it was developed by a B.U. pro… | chess240 |
| General Chess Discussion - My first try at Lichess theme (stylish)#7 http://freestyler.ws/user/282473/chess_instructor | chess240 |
| General Chess Discussion - Marked as cheater without reason#34 You're right that it's not as challenging to play a perfect game in fewer moves, but on the other hand using an engine will lead to a shorter game, no? | chess240 |
| General Chess Discussion - What's the phase of the game you like the most?#6 Very technical endgames are my favorite. | chess240 |
| General Chess Discussion - Marked as cheater without reason#27 All you'd need to have is a program that plays only a little faster and a little more accurately than whatever the opponent played the previous move. And to cover for the cases where the opponent is u… | chess240 |
| General Chess Discussion - Justice is served#23 If you really don't think it's possible for a 1300 to play a single perfect game against another 1300 then go do a search for the term "sample size." | chess240 |
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