@Francis920 if you want; take a look at my profile/website. I can help you improve at chess and/or draughts if you want. Since you are living in the US, it would have to be via video zoom/video calls…

I'm looking at https://toernooibase.kndb.nl, draws seems to be under 25%, but I'm not sure what time controls are used. If something like classical FIDE time control was used (90+30 minutes with 30s i…

Move by repetition is actually key in evaluation some positions though. If you are winning except your opponent found one move to get repetition then your position is not winning. Think king queen end…

It is unfortunate to lose ratingpoints this way when it happens by accident @DmitryOnishchenko . But if you don't change the ratings, players could use it to skip a game for free (e.g. when paired aga…

There are several purposes for doing tactical puzzles: a) to increase a scope of tactical patterns and tactical ideas; b) to enrich own games with learned patterns and ideas; c) to deepen and to im…

Playing until you have no pieces left is something only beginners and children do. It is a waste of your and your opponent's time to continue playing a game which you will clearly lose. The difficulty…

A lot of players use a game engine like Aurora and they don't think it's noticeable!

dear all, I have seen that some players use colours in their studies. Can anybody let me know how to use colours in the circle and arrow annotations on the board ? Thank you in advance, SRDNKWKW

Team tournaments are available now. Swiss is on the list of things to do. If you know how to code hit up github they can always use the help

Ok, RoepStoep, I understood that before integrating the code into the website, you have to use the back button ⏮ to bring the position to the start. So, we get # 0 at the end of the code.