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I can't say anything comparable to what Onyx_Chess said, but it will take hundreds or even thousands of games to get where you want. Just remember that along the way, even if it doesn't seem like you …

P.S. One site calls this "Puzzle Rush", and the other "Blitz Attack"...

A couple of other chess sites (that I know of) have the feature where a person gets 5 minutes to solve as many tactics as they can. Well, if they fail three tactics... that ends it before the 5 minute…

A couple of other chess sites (that shall go unnamed) have a feature where players try to solve as many tactics as they can in 5 minutes. The tactics get progressively more difficult... though the mai…

On some other sites, where chess variants are available, they use different colour schemes to differentiate the variants. For example, Antichess might have a red trim around the edge of the board... C…

It's more unfair to the 500 rated player than to the 800 one. Assuming that the 500 is a genuine 500, and not just trying to get the lowest rating possible (which is - in it's own warped way - an even…

I'd love correspondence tournaments too. I also play at Gameknot and Chess.com (different usernames at all sites)... If we had them here would it be possible to have all the games start at once (or at…

This site seems to have vanished... is there anyone here who knows anything about it? Nick :)

I think that the player who would otherwise have lost would have to lose rating points from their timed rating, and the following correspondence game would have to be unrated. Also, I think that it wo…

I'm glad we're getting this variant here. Now I'm hoping that someday we get Benedict 960 here. In Benedict Chess, when a piece moves, any enemy man that is threatened by the man that moved changes co…