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In a swiss tournament you would have to wait until all the games of one round are finished before you can start the next round. I guess the waiting would kill all the fun. Even in a bullet tournament …

even if you win all games, you are not guaranteed to win the tournament, because the other players might simply get to more games with their strategy

Is it possible to win this endgame? https://lichess.org/editor/6k1/5ppp/1B6/8/8/b7/P4PPP/6K1_w_-_-

Game makes more sense with 9. ... Qd6: https://en.lichess.org/T6Mvoi0K as someone suggested here: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1456941

So I played this game today: https://en.lichess.org/U6uDt8Kw/black Yay, 0/0/0, 7 avg. centipawn loss. But it still felt like a bad game to me. I played without ideas, just traded pieces, and the game …

A typical downvote from me: https://en.lichess.org/training/22411 I saw that Re1+ leads to mate soon: Re1+ Kd6, b4, with the threat of Qc5#. Black can throw in b6 and Rxg2, but that's it. A simple sol…

Yeah sure, I do that also. But I don't know what the puzzle would have accepted or not. And that's why it is hard to up- or downvote it. I don't want to upvote a puzzle, just because it accepted "my" …

The problem with the voting is that after solving/failing you only vote based on your own experience. "My alternative solution wasn't accepted" -> downvote. "I found the checkmate in 3" -> upvote. But…

If someone is new or hasn't played in a while, the rating change per game is higher, so that the rating approaches their strength faster.