Lambda has kibitzed 2130 times to chessgames   [more...]

May-28-25 D Gukesh vs Nakamura, 2025    Lambda: <Wow, Naka gave up that a- pawn. Why didn't he just kill time moving his knight around?> White actually has big threats of attacking the black king in that position by Qe2-e5-b8, with the potential for Qf8 and Ne7.      Mar-21-25 T Kantans vs R Jumabayev, 2022    Lambda: I had 26...Rg6+ 27.Ng5+ Kh8 thinking the N on g5 will be lost for nothing and we'll just be two pawns up, but the computer says this is a bad idea for reasons which aren't entirely clear.      Mar-19-25 Zherebukh vs Nakamura, 2017    Lambda: I'm not quite sure how much you should be calculating here. If I had this position in a game, my thoughts would be "I can play Rxh2 thanks to the fork threat on g4. That must be a good move, at worst, white can take a pawn too, but then I play Rh8 and have a mate threat and a big ...      Mar-05-25 W J Donaldson vs V Ravikumar, 1980    Lambda: <However, it's the best lines that need to be taken into account for difficulty, and it that sense the week's been reverted so far.> I don't see what's so special about the best line, in regards to your opponent's choices. The goal is to establish the best move for us, so ...      Mar-05-25 Prague Masters (2025)    Lambda: <Canada (Finland, Russia) for hockey, too. For the latter example, geography and latitude certainly had a deep influence.> That's more the type of hockey that's popular there. Countries like Australia, India, Germany and the Netherlands would say that they are rather good at ...      Mar-04-25 L D'Costa vs M Cervinka, 2001    Lambda: On top of what's already been noted, why does the game information list it as a rook sac when it protects the rook under attack?      Feb-23-25 K Kulaots vs M Roiz, 2012    Lambda: I like the position after 21...Be6 22.Rd8 Bxc4 23.Rf8+ [DIAGRAM]      Feb-21-25 Duda vs Rapport, 2019    Lambda: Almost got it. I saw through to the resignation position, but then thought 42.Kg5 f6+ 43.Qxf6 Qxf6+ 44.Kxf6 Bxc8 45.Kg5 and draw, white can eliminate the g-pawn by advancing the h-pawn and black has the wrong bishop for the a-pawn. But all you need to do is change the move order and ...      Feb-14-25 Freestyle Grand Tour Weissenhaus (2025)    Lambda: It will never catch on generally simply because the normal starting position is (reasonably) easy for people, while the 960 setup rules introduce a large chunk of added complexity, and this has no benefit for the vast majority of chess players, whom if you say "French Winawer" to ...      Feb-02-25 Tata Steel Masters (2025)    Lambda: Just pretend tie break games in round robin tournaments never happened. Unless it's something like Candidates where you need to decide on a single winner, everyone on the highest score after all the normal games is a shared winner.

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