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In short: because you give the attacker the possibility to make additional damage with his attacked piece while the threat still exists on yours. You give him a free tempo. In the worst case (from his…

When can we put the board upside down in tactics trainer?

@ #8 Gambits DO lose in centaur correspondence. But the refutations are super hard to remember. I personally play a lot of halloweens, and results are fine.

This is really the ugly face of this rule. It is even worse when it happens over the board ...

@ the various people who complain about "respectful resignation" or whatever: players above 1800 (!) MUST learn how to win with Q+K against bare King. Anyone should know this. This is really chess 101…

@CoolBreezeG Kasparov vs Karpov was super epic, there were 17 draws in a row at some point but players fought hard. And no one attempted to game the system by offering a draw in a winning position D:

Go back to unlimited amount of classical games and the first to score 6 wins is the winner.

Is king's safety overrated ? ;-) https://lichess.org/pNd8ED9Jnt2c

Thanks to all of you for the answers, I've talked about this in an OTB tournament yesterday and people confirmed. Jesus, these are the rules, sure, but how can you claim that win and look at yourself …

This is the game I've lost on time after having asked for a draw https://lichess.org/otFIQz8TwvtV Is this ok? How do draw for insufficient material works on Lichess?