Does anyone else hate the captcha?

@SethRayCarlsen said in #1:
> When trying to post you have to checkmate in 1 and I feel that it’s annoying, who else feels this way?

I wish they had an AI that determined the difficulty of the captcha you get presented. :-D

@Sacmaniac No I don’t, what is it?

This is the second time I have had to confirm my "reality" with help. Can't Lichess like detect who's new here and who's not????

@SethRayCarlsen
You might be interested in this study I wrote with practice on a bunch of the named mates. Many of these are one move mates.

@jomega its not that I have trouble with it, it’s that I find it annoying

I don't think that I hate captchablanca.

@SethRayCarlsen The mate in 1 CAPTCHA is very useful at your level.

There are several mating motifs(patterns) that if you know the name of them you will see them all the time, like the Box Mate, The Kill Box, The Blind Swine, The Dovetail, The Arabian, Anastasia, Anderson, Boden Mate etc. Look into it because there are about 20 of these patterns that happen over and over again.

The best advice I would give to a young player is to practice with Puzzle Storm and especially Puzzle Streak. This was only introduced this year and it is the best feature on Lichess imo.

After 50 years of playing chess I don't know a faster way to improve than by doing puzzles (tactics) and a lot of them.

There is 5 basic families of tactics.

1 The Double Attack
2 The Discovered Attack
3 The Pin
4 The Skewer
5 Removing the Guard

Every puzzle you solve will be one of these 5 elements or a combination of them.

If it is all you did for the next 3 months is Puzzle Streak for 1 hour a day you will notice the most incredible improvement. Then practice basic endgames for 15 minutes.

And I would also suggest to only play Chess 960 because then you will not need to worry about opening knowledge and can focus on just developing your pieces to the best squares.

And watch Jerry on his YouTube Channel called Chessnetwork for everything you need to know in his series, Beginner To Chess Master.

You're welcome.

Thanks but I just haven’t played enough to show my true level, but I think even advanced players could use a look at that study!

The Chess captcha's neat. It's obviously right for the site.

its just this part that bothers me the most:

prove you are human.