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Community Blog Discussions - Science of Chess (kinda?): Viih_Sou's 2. Ra3?? and a modest research proposal#16

Regarding the "Stockfish" research proposal... Stockfish isn't tuned to play these sorts of positions. You'd need to tune it, for example: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Stockfish%27s_Tuning_Method …


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Community Blog Discussions - Science of Chess (kinda?): Viih_Sou's 2. Ra3?? and a modest research proposal#15

@Craze said in #10: > I tried this system in casual bullet against 2700-2800 rated players as an experiment. Kept getting owned. Thanks for trying this crazy gambit. I wonder if it's possible to maste…


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Lichess Feedback - Stylus no longer working—Google Chrome#4

Try asking the maintainer of the userstyle in question?


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General Chess Discussion - getting to 2000k is pretty easy, actually#24

First, get to 1800. Then, get to 1801, then 1802, etc.


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General Chess Discussion - Tactics book for a 1700#2

I guess GM Alburt's "Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas" may be of interest.


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Community Blog Discussions - Doubled pawns: in 14 flavours#7

As our resident comedian... what about tripled pawns? :-) But seriously, by now enough chess games have been played that it's possible to do some research about positive effects of tripled pawns and h…


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Lichess Feedback - Is KB still banned?#25

@DABO5000 said in #24: > But speaking on mathematics. Because there is a very large sample size on both sites. Numbers should be very close to one another. Lichess also publishes its code, in case the…


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Lichess Feedback - Is KB still banned?#23

@DABO5000 said in #20: > 3. Mathematically my numbers are supported. Chess.com says .3 percent of users are cheating. And lets be honest here. Lichess is great, but they will never with the limited re…


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General Chess Discussion - The eval bars in live games decrease the fun don't they?#7

Yeah... listening to professionals and their thought processes has been interesting, although eventually commentary without engines will be phased out since spectators get what they ask for.


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Lichess Feedback - What is the real value of accuracy metrics?#6

@Motroskin said in #3: > and with the 4 blunders and 1 mistake in gives 62% of accuracy which makes total sense for me. ... because your moves were 62% accurate. 0% would represent "every move is a bl…


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