THINK blog Volume 2 Chapter 20

At the time of writing THINK has 932 members. What is THINK? You will find an answer here.

In Blitz we will soon fight for our right to stay in tier 5, and perhaps even return to tier 4, of Lichess Liga. The link for this event, whether you should wish to join in or inspect after the fact, is here.

There's all sorts of other stuff, great stuff, everything from a diddle-eyed-joe to a d***ed-if-I-know on the team page, which you can find here.

I daresay that if James Brown played chess and were still alive, he would consider THINK his natural home. I told you so...paid the cost to be a boss!

And I do not describe myself as a boss without reason, by the way. I will have you know that at the time of writing, there is at least one player in the Lichess top ten of seven* variants that I have beaten.

Here are the details, with ratings and rankings at time of writing.

@QueenEatingDragon 2476 RK second only to the one and only @RoyalManiac:

@Matvei-e2e4 2680 3rd Horde:

First meeting with @TheUnknownGuyReborn, pre-Covid. anyway he is 2486 and 5th antichess:

@johnsam1 2524 7th KotH:

Ok so those were both zh, but this wasn't--@chrisrapid 2429 3rd Atomic:

By now you'll have realised I am mostly a zh player, so I suppose this should be mentioned in finale. The computer analysis I referred to in the chat seems to have vanished, so feel free to request a new one

Join THINK! Keep lichess fun.

*The exception, for those who want to know, is 960 AKA Fischer Random. I have only played one of the top ten--once--and it's pretty much standard chess anyway.