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"clean English sentences" You're one to talk, @Idasca

In practice, the ELO rating system just isn't accurate for measuring the winning chances of one player against a much better one.

@Toadofsky how long ago was that? I certainly don't remember swiss systems, and I've been on the site for almost 2 years. I imagine if they work on chess.com they'd work here. If there aren't enough p…

@rtijlo So your tournament position is determined by how well you play, not how fast you play. Chess.com has arenas and swiss systems, one of the few things I think chess.com does better than lichess

searching through a few games and led down a long string that led to this masterpiece: https://lichess.org/3GCVD09q Basically, Kingscrusher_fan artificially deflated his bullet rating, then he got a g…

Yeah, tournaments are one of the things chess.com still beats lichess in

@jposthuma You bring up some good points. I didn't realize that a computer program picked out the tactics. Perhaps there could be a way for lichess to crowdsource the creation and judging of tactics, …

@vedantkarandikar I'm not sure what you mean by "if that particular line is played." Aren't tactics forcing a very particular line? It would be checking to make sure the player followed that particula…

Sketchy! I've seen bad tactics, but never anything as ridiculous as this.

A lot of tactics are underrated because in lieu of knowing the correct answer, people tend to just play moves that look the most forcing. I have a couple of solutions for this. 1. Instead of having th…