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Eh, I don't believe that anyone who times out in these games actually cares about the rating points. They seem to have the value as a real-world currency which suffers from hyperinflation. You wouldn'…

That would explain why I could maintain a 2000 rating for a short while on my old account: The correspondence rating is heavily inflated here. You might as well reset it.

We had a moderately successful spelling reform two decades ago and since then both ways of spelling are acceptable, i.e. ß and ss have become mostly interchangeable. But German is the only language wh…

Bulgaria is one of the most beautiful countries in Europe. If I were rich, I can easily imagine myself migrating to there. Marina, we can become friends and play Shogi together, the more friends the m…

In real life doing such a move will lead to an automatic defeat. That's gotta be the most painful way to lose a game, ha ha (happened to me once at 81dojo).

Fischerandom. Normal Chess feels played out to me.

Thanks @wr4th0fsh4dow, but I don't plan to engage myself with puzzles in the foreseeable future, at least not when I'm logged in. Also, it's sad to see that Capricornis has deleted her account, but I …

On my old account I did something like 200 puzzles and it began to feel more and more like a betting game: What exactly does the computer define as the 'best move'? One which leads to a certain checkm…

@LizardWizard The pseudo-mistakes I'm referring to have nothing to do with the daily puzzle Capricornis presented as an example. I'm only speaking from my past experience, where the final blow could'v…

What makes no sense is that you get punished for 'mistakes' which, in reality, lead to the same result as the method prescriped by the computer, which is a flawless victory. At least puzzles should ha…