| Community Blog Discussions - How Do You Stop Caring About Rating?#4 I think the best way is to just remember that it has literally no bearing on your life for >99.99% of people. I think it's a useful tool for tracking progress and improvement, but at the end of the da… | MrLizardWizard |
| General Chess Discussion - What's the importance of chess?#8 Importance? Not much, practically. I think chess is just a well-balanced board game that's been around for a long time. It's had several renaissances over its lifetime that have breathed more life int… | MrLizardWizard |
| Community Blog Discussions - How to Play against Lower Rated Opponents Part 1: Know your Advantage#18 @HumbleHardMan I can see where youre coming from but I agree with @analysisonly, it's just a abstact attention-getter for the actual blog. If @mmsanchezchess posted it as an art piece then I would agr… | MrLizardWizard |
| Community Blog Discussions - How to Play against Lower Rated Opponents Part 1: Know your Advantage#12 @HumbleHardMan Yeah it is. It's not the first time AI images have been used for lichess blogs. Tthe messed up fingers are a dead giveaway lol. But I think it's kinda cool honestly to be able to make i… | MrLizardWizard |
| General Chess Discussion - Battle of the Kings#4 I can imagine this variation would become quite wild once the board starts filling up with Queens I almost feel like you're incentivized to move in tiny steps, and capture as much as possible, as each… | MrLizardWizard |
| General Chess Discussion - Chess mathematics, Chess Esoterics, How come can Chess be a so 'Perfect' and Balanced Game?#8 I think the way this question is asked leans a bit too much into the 'esoteric' aspect aha.. There's nothing 'perfect' or 'mystical' about chess necessarily. It (and its variants) are ancient, sure. B… | MrLizardWizard |
| Community Blog Discussions - #27: Why isn't chess popular in Japan?#30 @dboing said in #29: > it was likely a slower game, where a lot of thinking would be made on multiturn levels. You are partially correct. The pieces are almost entirely step movers, and don't necessar… | MrLizardWizard |
| Community Blog Discussions - #27: Why isn't chess popular in Japan?#28 I know the thread is about chess in Japan, but I'm almost more surprised how NOT popular (or known at all) shogi is here in the west. It's an absurdly sharp and deep game. For those chess players who … | MrLizardWizard |
| Community Blog Discussions - #27: Why isn't chess popular in Japan?#27 @KDMFan said in #25: > I know Hikaru is registered as an American player, but he might have something to say about this, since he is Japanese. I remember in one of his streams, somebody was asking him… | MrLizardWizard |
| Community Blog Discussions - #27: Why isn't chess popular in Japan?#4 Anybody who is interested in giving shogi a try should go to our sister site, lishogi.org! The playerbase is still small at this time, so there aren't many live games, but it's been slowly picking up … | MrLizardWizard |
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