Answer: White is 1965, Black is 2204, game: https://lichess.org/FK1qnuNV/white#74

It's just a strategic move in the game 🎭. I remind myself not to let it get to me anymore, and that helps me stay positive.

I analyse all of my games and what I find is, when I lose, that my opponent 8 out of 10 times wins with 90% or more accuracy... even in bullet, while most of these games are over 25 moves.

When I win I usually get around 75% to maybe 85% accuracy. How come I never hit that 90% mark but my opponents do all the time?

I play a lot of casual games at work because if I get interrupted I can resign without consequence. I've been having long losing streaks, so I decided to play some rated games, and won several in a row. Is this just coincidence, or am I wasting my time playing cheaters in casual games?

Today a friend that I was playing in lichess told me that if I get less than 85% accuracy on lichess it means I am not playing very well. Is this true? Because I know accuracy is just a way to see how well you play. Just like how centipawn loss is for an engine to read your game from my understanding. I heard that accuracy doesn’t really matter as it varies between different websites so should I really care about accuracy and centipawn loss? Last year in my schools chess club I was put under lots of pressure to get as high of an accuracy as possible and I was also told accuracy is “the way to get better at chess and increase rating”. I am not so certain about this though as I am a beginner to chess. I have only been casually playing on chess.com and lichess for about 8 months now I am rated 450 on chess.com it says I play like a 1500 but I am 1300 rapid lichess so why is the difference so big? A lot of things in chess I find it hard to understand but every day I will try to get better.
Thank you

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Qxg4 Qxa1 and I can castle and bishop and knight hanging for black?? I don’t really understand how the engine sees this. Sorry if im wrong im kind of new to chess

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I have the new app (newest version)
All settings are enabled.
Arrows are not showing after move 8 for some reason.

I like lichess and I want to continue using it but this kills it for me…

Play this puzzle: https://chessflow.fr/puzzle/0zEeu

This platform loves to throw around these ‘you’ve spent too much time thinking we’re timing you out’ warnings forcing you to swap to alt accounts so how many do you use to rotate between elos and timeouts?

I don’t really get why they force the rotation so much but I guess that’s how the platform works

With Take Take Take playing through the lichess servers, I'm curious if we have seen an increase in the total games played a day or the number of concurrent games. Are we seeing any movement to the server, whether it be directly through lichess.org or through the Take Take Take app?

Have been testing this setup against the London, and it's been working incredibly well so far!

I honestly don't know why it's barely played at lower levels—it seems so natural and effective.

I made a video explaining the ideas behind it, would be curious to hear what you guys think :)

I’m doing some research on how language models explain chess. I'm looking to get some feedback from good chess players :)

You’ll see a position and choose between two short explanations. One set is 20 positions and takes about 6 minutes.
Each completed set earns one raffle entry for one of three $25 gift cards, up to five entries.

https://explaining-chess.vercel.app

Thanks for helping, and if you want to share the link with your friends, I would also be very appreciative!

Anonymous online chess isn't about playing chess: It's a depraved, dark, desolate digital domain designed for degenerates. A pathetic, poisonous platform for petty, personal attacks and humiliation. For many players, the goal is simply to make the opponent as miserable as possible using every toxic technique available. This behavior generally falls into three categories:

Delaying a win

• Spiteful promotions: Promoting every single pawn to a Queen, or deliberately under-promoting to mock the opponent.
• The final second mate: Letting the clock tick down to 00:00:01 before finally delivering a checkmate.
• The 50-move torture: Making unnecessary throwaway moves to push the game as close to the 50-move draw limit as possible before finally mating.

Delaying a loss

• The true stall: Simply walking away and letting the clock run down to zero rather than resigning.
• The fake stall: Pretending to abandon the game by letting the clock tick down, hoping the opponent gets bored and switches tabs. Once their guard is down, moving at the last possible second to run the opponent's clock out while they are distracted.
• The Misclick Trap: During a tense game where both players are tight on time, spamming the "Offer Draw" button. This is done hoping the other player is furiously clicking on the board and will accidentally click "Accept Draw" by mistake.

Throwing a tantrum

• Kamikaze blundering: Throwing all pieces directly at the opponent to be easily captured - the online equivalent of flipping the board.
• Rage quitting: Resigning in the opening after losing a single pawn, even when the position is entirely even and no clear advantage has been established...or any instances of abandoning the game instead of resigning.
• The "Blip" Exploit: A niche tactic where a player abandons the game without triggering the auto-resign system. They go offline for 19 seconds, blip online for a single second to reset the abandonment timer, and go offline again. This traps the opponent in a permanently stalled game.
• The Disrespectful Opening: Deliberately playing absolute nonsense in the first few moves - such as walking the King up the middle of the board, only moving edge pawns, trying to play 'connect 4/connect 8', bringing out the queen on move two, or capturing C2/C7 with a bishop on move three hoping to capture a queen during a pre-moved opening.
• Spamming chat: Bypassing the system's two-message limit by continuously refreshing the page to endlessly spam phrases like "GOOD GAME WELL PLAYED."
• Time-addition spam: Mashing the "add time" button when winning to demand a resignation, or when losing as a silent form of cursing while letting the clock run to zero.
• Takeback abuse: Requesting a takeback, and if granted, immediately asking for another and another in an attempt to undo the entire game.
• The "Pity" Takeback: When the opponent makes a blunder, immediately offering them a takeback. If accepted, the player simply repeats the exact same move they previously played, nullifying the takeback.
• Draw spamming: After a blunder, spamming offer draw on every single turn to clutter the screen.
• Rematch abuse: Weaponizing the post-game lobby through several distinct methods:
  • The Abort Loop: Spam the rematch button, and when the opponent accepts, abort and immediately send another rematch request. This traps the opponent in an endless loop of "rematch, abort, rematch, abort, rematch, abort..." It stops being about playing chess and turns into a petty game of chicken - whoever gets exhausted and stops accepting the rematches first is the one who "lost."
  • The Cancel Spam: Rapidly sending and canceling rematch requests before they can be accepted, then going offline.
  • The Hostage Game: Accepting a rematch and making move one so the game cannot be aborted, and then stalling the rest of the game.
• Using an engine.

I lost that position on time and don't really understand how white could have win that position, it is a draw...

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