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what happens if someone checkmates before he has checked three times ?

takeback is not part of chess rules and one must assume one's mistakes, whether they are big or small. That's why I removed it of my games. But that's just personal

it's nice to have brought the new variant "King of the Hill", that I've discovered. I suggest for the future, if possible, the "Marseillais chess" variant, in which each player makes 2 moves in a row.…

in the following game http://fr.lichess.org/fywKwGyH#0 the analysis writes "advantage 0" after my moves 33 and 34. But those two moves are just "lost forced checkmate sequence", they don't remove my a…

Cynosure, you said: "the ranking occurs out of any player over 1500" , but... how many players are over 1500 ?

I like the new preferences proposed to the players. But in "game display", I would like to have the choice of the way of showing the best move in computer analysis. Now there's just a thin pink line s…

look at the move of the white king in this game: http://fr.lichess.org/aNPmFTTp/black from move 27 to 35, he describes a curve around his rook and pawn, from a3 back to a3. But at the end, black pawn …

yes, Zynko, your position is a good example ! I made a program to place all the pieces randomly but I never use it. Yet I'm glad to play chess 960 with people, you know that, 666dorado !

another funny thing is to place all the pieces randomly on the board (it's a generalization of chess 960), the only conditions being that our pawns are on row 2 to 7 and the king is not in check). Onl…

the same for me. http://fr.lichess.org/o8PgGUiS On my 8th move (the white), the analysis tells Rc1c4 is better but it writes only c1c4 and when I click on it to see the proposed sequence, it is ignore…