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  I had a horrific day on Lichess, you could self inflicted, I'd posted some forum posts and got bullied by some Lichess users who thought my thoughts were inconsequential and so I stopped using the forum temporarily while the bullies choose another victim and started watching tournament leaders in 5 min blitz Arena. I saw the most audacious move I've ever seen. The move was 15...Bd3+ It's ridiculously audacious decadent overambitious whimsical and pompously brilliant. Chess has the power to make me happy 😊 even after being bullied on Lichess Forum, like wow. Of course the move is a high class blunder because white should play 16.Nf6+ and come out with the edge but white didn't in the actual game. The beguiling 15...Bd3+ mesmerising mercilessly and leading white to follow the line 16.Bxd3 Nb4, even now 17.Kxb2 is not forced and not as bad but in for the penny in for the pound. It's a beautifully stunning blunder. Check out the full game on Lichess. 

 I spent a terrifying 24 hours posting comments on the Lichess forum and ended up being personally shaken down by Thibault Duplessis and his admins as well as loyal users who thought I needed a public beating too. What were the offending posts that I was posting that shook up the world's most popular chess website and the second biggest chess server on Earth? Posted 7 messages in  My Chess Coach is a 1400 elo player Does a coach need to have a decent rating or can they be a patzer whith a 1400 elo rating? Just asking for a friend. @Pulsifier I've seen plenty of coaches with really low ratings "training" people higher rated than them lol @ryan121 it's online rating lol @Sarg0n That's the thing he's low rating and high price. I was hoping for the other way round lol @Steven-ODonoghue I posted a few topics having not posted for a long time. I also responded to topics of others I thoug… @jamesB009 Yes he’s on here but I don’t want to get him any unwanted atten...

 I have to admit I don't know my Knight and Bishop endgame very well. There are a lot of us out there. So I remember someone telling me that Lichess has a really good training system for this. Lichess Practice: Checkmating with Bishop and Knight The training system is so good that it takes you through a course the is interactive and gives you the history around the endgame and some examples of epic fails. Soon I'll be able to show up in civilized chess society as a player who can mate with Bishop + Knight lol. Just an aside, the game Ushenina vs Girya is an interesting game where the then Women's Chess World Champion, Grandmaster Anna Ushenina played a super-strong game to reach the ending against the very strong Grandmaster Olga Girya, to do this she had to eliminate all Girya's pawns and avoid stalemate tricks which she did and almost mated her on the spot but for one important fact, Olga's King was trapped in the wrong corner!!! Anna knew this of course and set a...