| General Chess Discussion - Board editor: Is it a draw? Yes, it's a draw. Stockfish gives advantage due to material difference but doesn't realize that there's actually no way to force checkmate. It's possible to checkmate if Black cooperates. Here are two… | |
| General Chess Discussion - Best and most solid opening in chess Play the openings you know and analyze your games and check out the master games in those lines to learn common mistakes or middle game plans in them. Along the way you'll be forced to learn new openi… | |
| General Chess Discussion - Chess Movies - favourite? There's an excellent one called Computer Chess from 2013 but it's not for everyone. | |
| General Chess Discussion - Is there a best opening @DrZwischenzug : "Firstly, chess is not a problem, what do you mean exactly by "until chess is solved", please explain..." It's a definition within game theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_ga… | |
| General Chess Discussion - Can't believe I missed such an obvious tactic This is called Greek Gift Sacrifice and you can look up videos and examples on it. It's something that usually requires no calculation to understand whether it works or not, you just have to check for… | |
| General Chess Discussion - Swiss tournament and teams. I agree the rule is a bit odd and maybe it should have been optional to organize "team only" tournaments. But can't you just leave the teams after the tournaments end? It shouldn't be a huge problem. … | |
| General Chess Discussion - Is it allowed to have multiple account for legible reasons? @icositetrachoron If you don't use your accounts for malicious purposes nothing will happen don't worry. A lot of people have multiple accounts including Magnus Carlsen who has like 5 accounts. Staff … | |
| General Chess Discussion - Why is my puzzle rating going down? Puzzles you get at 1800 rating are pretty nice actually, they are more relevant to the difficulty of the tactics that occur in real games compared to ones you get at higher ratings. It's useful to kee… | |
| General Chess Discussion - Why is everybody playing (c4)!!! If you like facing Sicilian as White and know some theory, against 1.c4 you can play e5 and the game becomes Reversed Sicilian. | |
| General Chess Discussion - i have finally reached 1800 + rating in rapid @nishant747 exchange french and exchange caro-kann aren't necessarily bad but game becomes very symmetrical and equal. As White you prefer to have a little bit of advantage out of the opening so you p… | |
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