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IMPORTANT INFO FOR CHEATERS AND NEW INCOMERS

Those who got or might get labeled on Lichess as cheaters may certainly create another account with the same name, delete the labeled account and rejoin the SL Chess Comm. Before you do it, please, post in the forum your vision/explanation to other members of what happened to you from your perspective. It would be appreciated. // If this was in my power I would suspend all labeled cheaters from all SL tournaments for minimum half a year. This is how it is being done in sports. Sportsmen get disqualified from all competitions for years regardless where the doping was positive. Sometimes until the end of their careers. But we are not as serious as them, and I am not in a position of a "prosecutor". Those who got caught are welcome back with a new account, just put a number at the end "1", "2", "0" or an underline "_", or they may create an alt in SL for it with an entirely new name, to go on training and enjoying life, if they can. Cheers!

WHY ARE SL USERNAMES SO IMPORTANT?

1) It is for your own good: occupy your SL username on Lichess before somebody else did this for you attempting to fake you. 2) Can you imagine that the official FIDE profile of Magnus Carlsen would be depicted as "The troll from Norway"? (ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=1503014) No. So here it is also NO. 3) This Community stands for the best achievable standard of transparency. There may be many other standards between the best and the worst. Any of those would be not the concept of this Community. 4) In case you might get labeled as "cheater" it is your username that must care all the burden of shame and responsibility. It's not your SL given name that can be too easily changed, nor it's your beautiful RL passport name that nobody gives the heck about, as nobody is interested to see your passport. Your achievements on Lichess will represent primarily your avatar. Deal with it.

So here are the GUIDELINES for Lichess account names that are due for the SL Chess Comm. (FOR NEW INCOMERS IMPORTANT TO READ!!!):

1) Your Lichess account name must converge to your SL username as close as possible. 2) No new meaning must be added to your Lichess account name. 3) In case your SL username already exists on Lichess you may add a number or an underline symbol or create an alt in SL exclusively for Lichess! This is also totally okay. However if your main avatar is unknown your alt may not be younger than 6 months. 4) Because SL username can be sometimes quite extravagant and long, minor parts of it may be omitted in Lichess account name if only such omission does not distort more than 49% of your SL username. So if you are "Thetrollfrom Norway" then "Norway" may be omitted as it's a smaller part. But if you are "Mark28 Biedermann" you may not omit "Biedermann" as it's a bigger part. 5) Contact me in case of a doubt. 6) If your names deviate from one another I will write a notice above your Lichess profile with your true SL username. Those notices can be only seen by those whom I follow and who follow me on Lichess.

My following policy: a) I follow only members of this Community; b) I always follow those who regularly play rated games; c) I may have other reasons to follow someone, which are not important to mention here.

Cheers!
We have the first SL Community member who came from Lichess to Second Life and not the other way around, created an avatar in order to be eligible member here too. Welcome!
Thanks for the welcome Mark and I'm glad to have joined this group for the interesting game SecondLife. You make a great representative for chess and for SecondLife. I would have replied to this sooner by the way, but there are some anti-spam restrictions here where new accounts have to wait some days and play a game before they can post to forums.

Thank you, James. ... Your answer did not show up properly on the front forum page for some reason. Neither did mine when I tried to post in the other thread. No idea why, really... So SecondLife: there are groups for you which you might want to join: the most active "Chess beach" (I got ejected from there, but you are new everywhere, so you're welcome ;p), "Rose's chess place", "Chess Second Life"... , more specific - "Chess masters", because you are above 1800 Elo. There are announcements posted in them regularly. The next tournament has been announced - it will be super-blitz 5+0, 8 rounds, the 19th of December. There is also avatar age restriction but your Lichess account is old enough so it's worth a try. Prises will be paid in SL currency. You can contact slavetoserve Andel - she is the director. Sl is not as convenient as Lichess to play, but it is more convenient to chat, to discuss lines using demo-boards and to give/participate in lectures where all participants have equal access to demonstrate unlike on streams such as Twitch. You might find it interesting to try a variety of competition boards available there. Including the 3D boards. Have fun!
That sounds very useful. Even though I've made a SecondLife account I've not actually downloaded and logged into SecondLife yet, though I'm very curious to try it out though. I first heard about it a long time ago, I guess it's like the virtual world in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash?

Well with chess I've kind of got my hands full as it is, since not only am I trying to do at least an hour of tactics/calculation training per day, but also doing daily board awareness exercises and setting the goal for myself to read My System, Pawn Power in Chess by Hans Kmoch, and the entire Endgame Manual by Dvoretsky within the next year. I've already read over half of My System but I want to get where I know all the games in it by heart. I was actually kind of thinking to get rid of the internet soon, but probably won't. Probably I will download and log into SecondLife sometime.

Are you going to try and get a master title, I really think you must be on the verge of getting one since you can play blindfold so well.
Yes, SL was thought as an "operation system" around the avatar that you control (like Windows, but for other purposes, except that SL doesn't manage your computer). It's a virtual world and a glorified means of communication basically. // With such a strong dedication to the game you'll definitely achieve results relatively soon. I have no doubts about this as I watch others making progress simply playing regularly every day. I wish I could claim the FM title, but I'd need 3 norms confirmed, and those tournaments are not hold in the city where I live. So one would need to drive there and possibly book a hotel or just isolate oneself from other duties for a week or two. And that 3 times at least if lucky. This should be done at best when you're young and have not much to do.

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