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Re:LiChess: Learn from your mistakes by yeellow on Friday December 23, 2016 @03:38AM (#13243704)
> Actually, the King's Gambit has been (essentially) solved: https://en.chessbase.com/post/rajlich-busting-the-king-s-gam....

> There is only one move that doesn't lose by force after 2. ... exf4, and that is the strange-looking 3. Be2. Does that mean this opening is a "mistake"? Well, maybe not, obviously a human wouldn't know the perfect lines, but personally I wouldn't play it :)

It was an April Fools Prank. Apparently a good one.

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Re:LiChess: Learn from your mistakes by Tempest1981 on Friday December 23, 2016 @01:01PM (#13246172)
What gives it away as a prank? I surely couldn't tell. Anything more than the reference to March 31?
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