| General Chess Discussion - HIARCS is recommendable (chess programm for Mac users)#15 SCID on the Go is good to have, but a long way short of SCID on a PC in terms of usefulness. For example, you can find a list of games that match a position, but you can't do a tree analysis of them t… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - Do you earn more points against lower or higher rated opponents?#3 A theory I have - which is pretty hard to prove! - is that ratings systems tend to underestimate the chances of a weaker player winning against a stronger one. There is some evidence for such a thing,… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - HIARCS is recommendable (chess programm for Mac users)#13 > But it's pretty old software and all the developers tend to focus on functionality. This is something that tends to be true about any kind of free software. The people who work on it do it for a hob… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - HIARCS is recommendable (chess programm for Mac users)#5 Where did you buy it from? On the HIARCS site, it's €49 for the single-core version, €89 for multi-core. http://www.hiarcs.com/mac-chess-explorer.htm I have the iPad version of HIARCS, and have consid… | jvs |
| Lichess Feedback - Favorite Opponents page incorrect?#4 If it doesn't include all my games, I suppose that would explain it. But in that case I don't find the list very helpful, esp as half of it is made of up people I've only played 2 or 3 times. | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - Does anyone know what the Fide rules are for when you are allowed to move OTB#9 Well if you deliberately moved while his clock was running, you'd have used his time instead of yours. If he then lost on time by a few seconds, how would that not be cheating? Obviously there's norma… | jvs |
| Lichess Feedback - Favorite Opponents page incorrect?#1 According to my Favorite Opponents page, I have not played anyone more than 5 times. (http://en.lichess.org/@/jvs/opponents) However looking at the crosstable from my last game (http://en.lichess.org/… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - Does anyone know what the Fide rules are for when you are allowed to move OTB#5 Probably the sporting thing to do (and least confusing for all involved as well!) would be to point out to him as he got up to leave that he forgot to hit his clock after moving. However technically s… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - Does anyone know what the Fide rules are for when you are allowed to move OTB#3 Interesting question. According to the laws, you are not allowed to move until your own clock has been started. While the opponent's clock is going, it's his time to do with as he pleases. "A player m… | jvs |
| General Chess Discussion - People need to stop bashing lichess about cheaters#6 Agree totally with all the above comments. Lichess is an excellent server. I believe it has an important contribution to make to the popularity of chess because it's so very easy to get started here, … | jvs |
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