| General Chess Discussion - How do I get anything going against the exchange slav?#4 With some move orders I play the Winawer Counter Gambit, which can get pretty interesting. In my experience though, if you play Slav or QGD and White really wants a stodgy and safe game, he can pretty… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - How do you play when losing on time but winning on the board?#4 > I figure I have to learn how to win against higher rated players first That is probably not a great way to look at it. What you have to learn first is "how to play that kind of position". And the wa… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - Math in chess?#17 Most games have elements that could be considered combinatorics, but not in a way that any knowledge of the mathematical field called combinatorics would help with playing them at all! In a similar wa… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - Math in chess?#13 There are some similarities between mathematical thinking and chess thinking. For example there's chessboard geometry where sometimes you have to see "If his king is inside this square, it can catch m… | jvs |
| Lichess Feedback - Lichess Opening Explorer. Must have feature.#35 Superb new feature! It's what I most wanted on lichess! Some suggestions for tweaks... 1) Strongly agree with the suggestion above for an option to explore just one's own games. It would be useful to … | jvs |
| Lichess Feedback - Why flagged cheaters are allowed to play in casual mode?#13 I don't understand why when I put out a seek for a casual game with rating limits, players who got a rating through cheating can still join the games. | jvs |
| Lichess Feedback - Something wrong with my page.#9 I also can't visit my profile, or anyone else's. The page that gets shown when I try reads as follows: ---- Something went wrong on this page. If the problem persists, please report it in the forum. O… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - IM Sparklehorse#22 Losing on time is part of chess, and 99% of the time there is no reason for anyone to complain about it. There's maybe a small number of cases where people may be justified in being a little peeved. I… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - Will I always reside below 1400?#16 As you get better, it takes longer and longer to increase your rating in numeric terms. In your first year or so of playing it would be perfectly normal to go from 800 to 1400. But getting from 1400 t… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - Is it okay to specify ranges?#19 Re #7 According to the article by Sonas linked above, stronger players score a bit *less* in practice against weaker ones than they should according to Elo ratings difference. (Which is apparent looki… | jvs |
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