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[Feature Request] Extensive Minor tweaks/Improvments

Here is are some ideas of some minor Tweaks/Improvements that could be nice:

1. Give your friends a nick name
(I don't follow that many people but i cant remember whos strange name belong to what player from our club so id like to give them a nick)

2. Make Lichess able to pull your Fide Elo from Fide with the use of your fide ID.
(As it is now you can just type your Elo but you have to manually update it, i think it could be a nice tweak).

3.Update Keyboard shortcuts (This might deserve its own post because it's really important to me)

Today We have:
E - Book
A - Arrows
F - Flip
J - Next
K - Previous
L - LocalEngine
X - Threat
Space - Play best Engine Move

I'd like there to be added the following:
0 - Begining of game
9 - End of game
1 - 10th move in notation
2 - 20th move in notation
3,4,5,6,7,8 same as 1 and 2 but linearly.
P - Practice mode (surprised this one isn't there already)
N - Moves Back 1 white and 1 black move at the same time (2 half moves instead of normal the 1)
M - Moves Forward 1 white and 1 Black move

The Following changes:
Up arrow - Back to Mainline in Notations
Down arrow - Enter sidelines in Notations

(Today up and down arrows are combined with only Enter sideline not back to main and Last first move which makes accidents happen all the time. First and last move doesn't need to be use that often it would be enough with 0 and 9)

4.Blindfold Icon, its mentioned in a previous post of mine = sv.lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/feature-request-blindfold-indication

5. Semi Blindfold pieces in pice selection, Where all the pieces looks exactly the same. Example: Grey Dots. (Unnecessary but adds to the completeness of the site)

6. MCP - Median centipawn loss
(A few games i play better than my opponent and then blunder my slowly built up advantage away so in the end i have worse ACP loss. By then instead comparing MCP i could see with how much i played out my opponent before blundering it all way) if MCP gives to similar values to be useful a best 80% ACP could do the trick or some other value.

7. Analysis and Study And Engine Blur function.
A button that Blurs Notation And Engine Eval etc. When going through a PGN you might not want to see what the next move played was or in a study you might want to have a look yourself before reading the notations. This is Solvable at the moment with clicking the Menu. But it has other disadvantages. And with a blur you could have added functions like that when hovering with mouse on specific notation it could show them or the text in the study.

Please Give me some feedback on your thoughts and post what feature you agree with me on.

Best Regards
good options,i think everyone will agree to add them here in Lichess.
@TheZyrax
"7. Analysis and Study And Engine Blur function.
A button that Blurs Notation And Engine Eval etc. When going through a PGN you might not want to see what the next move played was or in a study you might want to have a look yourself before reading the notations. This is Solvable at the moment with clicking the Menu. But it has other disadvantages. And with a blur you could have added functions like that when hovering with mouse on specific notation it could show them or the text in the study."

Before you consider adding features/functions that are only available on mouse hover, you must consider that this type of thing is non-discoverable and inaccessible.

In the first case people might not be aware that feature exist/available and in the second case is almost impossible or difficult for people with handicaps or upper body motor functions to use them.

You must take into account the needs of others.

Features available on mouse hover are never the best choice and should never be used.
@delasked
I understand what you mean and i agree. However The point of the function was to hide the notation whilst at the same time be able to use it and the other function presented without spoiling the moves played. So that you can indirectly play "Guess the Move" for example.

Unfortunately I dont have the necessary skill set to do anything myself, I just want to Help make suggestions for Improving this site.
FYI in general online discussion works best with one forum topic per topic.

6. I've been suggesting this for years but until the latest MongoDB driver (with an aggregation pipeline) was developed, this was infeasible. Now it might be feasible but not performant, I'm not sure...
Regarding: (3.Update Keyboard shortcuts)
I've played around in study a lot lately and noticed there are no fast ways to swap chapters maybe a key shortcut for this would also be a great addition.
Best i could think of would be:

C - Next Chapter
D - Previous Chapter

Hope somebody finds it useful to ad some of my suggestions Best Regards

@Toadofsky
The topics are were small and unnoticeable so i though i gather them together for better attention. But discussion whise i believe you are correct.

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