| General Chess Discussion - Really interesting read - IM Greg Shahade: "Slow Chess should die a fast death"! #37 IMHO given the rise of internet chess and looking at what privates are doing (PCL, GCT and their universal rating) it's inevitable that the future of professional chess players will be a well balanced… | piotor |
| Lichess Feedback - Bizarre false-positive "cheat detected" in blunder-filled correspondence game between friends#6 @PEEFsmash Well, in that case, your friend *was* cheating :) If the bot found out that he had that very same position open in the analysis tool while playing a game that is supposed to evaluate who is… | piotor |
| Lichess Feedback - feature request: berserk option for non-tournament rated games#12 @tangibletremor I think berserk has more to do with players wanting to win tournaments, rather than just proving your skills :) | piotor |
| General Chess Discussion - Carlsen's rating drop#3 Good points! Also, I might add, I don't think it's a coincidence that he became WC not long before that. Once you're WC, I would suppose, keeping the title becomes your main focus. Hence the rating an… | piotor |
| General Chess Discussion - Is it more difficult to get a 1800 classical rating now than one half year ago?#11 I don't understand this obsession with absolute rating numbers. Chess ratings, like all other ratings, measure performance relative to the group of players. All it matters is your rating compared to t… | piotor |
| General Chess Discussion - Analysis Board question#2 1) It's stockfish. It's good. 2) Time controls. The reason people on the internet play blitz/bullet is that you just don't have enough time to do that trick. | piotor |
| Lichess Feedback - Blitz/Bullet Training#1 Hi there. I'm an avid training puzzle player in my pastime/commutes etc. Initially I would be very impatient and solve my puzzles fast, resulting in bad mistakes and my training score being stuck in t… | piotor |