| General Chess Discussion - Avoid Catalan black keeps pawn#8 @Blind_p said in #7: > Also, do you think the Caro Kann is good for me? I feel it suits me [...] Yes, that's an excellent choice for a player who prefers to try to neutralise the opponent's threats an… | Brian-E  |
| General Chess Discussion - Avoid Catalan black keeps pawn#5 I understand from what you've said so far that you like positional games without too many complex tactical lines, ideally leading to endgames, and also that you're unhappy with sacrificing a pawn in t… | Brian-E |
| Lichess Feedback - i couldnt move my queen#3 Yes, you haven't provided enough information for anyone to be able to help you. Best post the game, indicating the point in the game when you were unable to move the queen. Also it would help if you m… | Brian-E |
| General Chess Discussion - Avoid Catalan black keeps pawn#3 As a Catalan player I am always happy with the compensation for the pawn against an opponent who tries to hang onto it provided that I don't mess up and let Black's pawns on the queenside start rollin… | Brian-E |
| Lichess Feedback - Why does the engine only look for mistakes and not for good moves?#24 @petri999 said in #23: > actually we do know [...] That's interesting. They've acknowledged, then, that their earlier efforts were nonsense and laughable. (When I was a member there, "brilliant moves"… | Brian-E |
| Lichess Feedback - Missed points#4 You can play Swiss tournaments here (instead of Arena) if you want all your game results to count in the tournament. Swiss tournaments are on a round-by-round basis and everyone must wait until all ga… | Brian-E |
| General Chess Discussion - I had the "Rated" button turned on when solving a puzzle. I failed but did not lose any rating. Why?#2 That will be a result of you typing in the specific puzzle code in the URL, I think. I'm not sure precisely how it works, but I know that if you call up a specific puzzle like that and then click on "… | Brian-E |
| General Chess Discussion - Puzzle #zzSEZ, are there 2 solutions?#2 It seems that in your solution after 27...Kf8 (White threatened Ne7+) 28.b5 White's dangerous passed pawns are good compensation for the piece. In the puzzle solution the black knight is able to block… | Brian-E |
| Lichess Feedback - What is the point?#9 @AyaanshGaur12 Okay, well if what you say is correct (in which case I've learned something, thank you!) then the original issue which @drbeco raised doesn't matter in any case. :-) | Brian-E |
| Lichess Feedback - What is the point?#7 @AyaanshGaur12 said in #6: > If he has 4 seconds to connect and only 2 seconds left on the clock, it won't matter if he reconnected after 3 seconds (when he had 1 second to connect), he'd still lose. … | Brian-E |
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