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Lichess Feedback - Feature suggestion: Load opening study into correspondence game as conditional moves#1

I have my opening repertoire organised in Lichess studies. Of course I want to use this repertoire in correspondence games (where one is also allowed to use the opening book), so it would be very hand…


FM Wittke
General Chess Discussion - Can Karpov be considered as the greatest positional player of all time?#10

@Sybotes said in #8: > Who, Karpov or Petrosian? I think the superb tactician is supposed to be Karpov, grammatically you seem to talk about Tigran, though. Karpov indeed is a very strong tactician, b…


FM Wittke
General Chess Discussion - Can Karpov be considered as the greatest positional player of all time?#7

Yes, he can. Not saying he's the default No. 1, though - Capablanca and Rubinstein for example were also excellent positional players. Petrosian might also be in the mix, but I'd rather consider him a…


FM Wittke
General Chess Discussion - Chess Repertoire#7

Don't wanna toot my own horn, but I wrote a whole blog post about how to do this. https://lichess.org/@/Wittke/blog/build-your-repertoire-with-lichess/FGoMoF8a Maybe that helps ;)


FM Wittke
General Chess Discussion - Stuck at top 25% in RK HELP!!!#15

@rmilin said in #1: > As the proverb says the emptiest cave produces the biggest wind Is that why you post so much?


FM Wittke
General Chess Discussion - Preventing e4 in the queen's indian is sometimes impossible!#9

Concerning the English, you might want to try 1...b6!?, which is completely fine because 1.c4 is in itself a committal move which restricts White's options. You won't be able to prevent e4 if White re…


FM Wittke
Lichess Feedback - Letting us change username?#6

The user names are used in the Lichess code as an 'identification' of each account. Therefore it is technically not possible to change your user name, only the capitalization.


FM Wittke
General Chess Discussion - Does anyone know this opening?#5

I can't believe this opening set-up has a name, it's just not good. The games you found were probably in the Lichess game database, right? It has probably been played by novices, who tried to go for a…


FM Wittke
Off-Topic Discussion - What your fear#43

I fear grammatical errors. Seeing the topic title, I'm positively frightened.


FM Wittke
General Chess Discussion - What's centipawn loss ?#4

A centipawn is a hundredth of a pawn. Usually this is used when determing the average centipawn loss (ACL), which measures how much the evaluation of your moves, on average, differs from the best move…


FM Wittke