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It snot the worst idea

@Geelse_zot said in #4: > I prefer the puzzles on Lichess, especially when it comes to speed solving. > Chesscom has way too many backrank patterns in their speed puzzles. It started to annoy me after…

only to realise that actually he'd defeated chess.com

what did the apple say to the banana? nothing because apples can't talk

mice aren't very good at holding chess pieces. Invest in a cat, they have the paws to ensure that bishop makes it to f6

I once won a game with a rook and a king against my opponent's queen, two bishops and one or two pawns because he allowed me to trap his king on the backrow whilst he was shepherding pawns down the bo…

I get you thought the humans may have made an error but for some reason you thought that Gukesh would have to give up a queen for a bishop and the computer only had that as a 2.8 advantage for Magnus.

at the dawn of time legend has it Adam and Eve got kicked out the Garden of Eden because they lost a rook ending to a yucca plant

Doesn't it depend on whether a theoretical mate can be woven? Say, if you promote to a bishop then you have your king on h8, bishop on h7 and knight on g8 whilst your opponent's king is on f8 and your…