| Community Blog Discussions - The Ono Gambit#29 nice april fools joke, but really? not one single chess song comes to mind? 'one night in bangkok' seems an obvious one, but the whole album (and subsequently musical) it came from is named 'chess'! (… | robscat |
| General Chess Discussion - Lichess Game of the Month December - Contest#228 https://lichess.org/2gVeWFMs/black#33 when you just keep making threats, something has to give. while perhaps lacking the fireworks of some more aggressive games (23 pages of games at the time of typi… | robscat |
| Community Blog Discussions - How Do You Stop Caring About Rating?#50 what @Gutzh and @Hurluberlu2 both say is true, but there is a wonderful irony about not worrying about rating: it lets you concentrate on the chess! consider this, and i speak from personal experience… | robscat |
| General Chess Discussion - Who is the best player of all Time ?#25 as was said earlier in this topic, it depends which metric you use. in terms of pure knowledge, there's little doubt that magnus would have to be the best, but no world champion before kasparov, and i… | robscat |
| Community Blog Discussions - Chess Time Controls: Which is Best Suited to You?#4 i have long been a fan of 'traditional' blitz, but then, i hail from the days before fischer clocks. 5 mins was fast enough to get some games in and short enough to do other things in the day, but i t… | robscat |
| Lichess Feedback - creating multipath tactics problems.#3 indeed, i missed a move order, but it doesn't change the point. although on thinking about it, the title is misworded, in that the idea behind the suggestion could create a new category of problems wh… | robscat |
| Lichess Feedback - creating multipath tactics problems.#1 i make the suggestion that there should be multiple correct paths for some of the tactics problems because i have personally lost tactics rating points to a couple of them, notably #Z3b9I which has mu… | robscat |
| Community Blog Discussions - Ratings Are Broken#49 @dboing said in #48: > ...not propagated from that population constraint down to invidiual rating estimates..' this is actually a point that hasn't been made yet in this discussion. dr. elo never assu… | robscat |
| Community Blog Discussions - Ratings Are Broken#44 why has it taken a statistician this long to show what we all knew when i was a junior 40 years ago? the elo system is deflationary for 2 main reasons: firstly, as was correctly stated in the report, … | robscat |
| General Chess Discussion - Is it possible to enjoy playing chess even without having a great memory?#17 chess is the number one board game for a reason. there is so much to learn that no one can remember everything. purely on the chess side, this is where talent comes in. perhaps talent has been defined… | robscat |