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It seems that in your solution after 27...Kf8 (White threatened Ne7+) 28.b5 White's dangerous passed pawns are good compensation for the piece. In the puzzle solution the black knight is able to block…

@AyaanshGaur12 Okay, well if what you say is correct (in which case I've learned something, thank you!) then the original issue which @drbeco raised doesn't matter in any case. :-)

@AyaanshGaur12 said in #6: > If he has 4 seconds to connect and only 2 seconds left on the clock, it won't matter if he reconnected after 3 seconds (when he had 1 second to connect), he'd still lose. …

I believe that it's actually impossible for software to be written which *always* detects fortress positions like the one in #12 above. You can write it to detect it in a specific type of position, su…

For the record, I did look carefully at your image @drbeco before I posted my response. A careful reading of my response by you should have shown that I was actually responding directly to the point t…

"Be yourself, no matter what they say."

As someone who once had some sort of sports burnout (not in chess actually, in another sport) I can identify with your frustration. I set myself targets which I couldn't meet. Considering I was nowher…

The point is to give players who have poor connections a reasonable time to reconnect. I don't see why this grace time should necessarily be less than the time the player has left on the clock.

Also, your suggested "simple solution" to this non-problem introduces new problems. @unchemyst said in #1: > [...] Could we make it so that when a game gets cancelled before the first move, both playe…

@Sarg0n said in #4: > [...] It‘s hardly refutable and should be ok in the majority of cases. I agree that it's playable in the same way that a lot of off-beat openings are. One thing it will not do ho…