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Crazyhouse World Championship - Use of Stockfish mid-match in the CWC#17

In my opinion what would be really great is if the tournament structure was programed into lichess. For example, FischyVishy would go to set up a tournament. He opens up a menu... number of games = 10…


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Crazyhouse World Championship - Use of Stockfish mid-match in the CWC#16

In general, I think it is folly to try to legislate what you cannot enforce. However, you can use the match structure to nudge behavior towards desirable outcomes. Requiring that the games in a match …


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General Chess Discussion - new idea for consideration to lichess and its users and to the fans of lichess#10

The pro is dubious. I lose winning positions on time constantly and don't feel that I should be rewarded for bad time management. However, the cons reveal the idea to be totally untenable. Imagine two…


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General Chess Discussion - Lichess: is it really that nonprofit?#61

The OP has convinced me to switch from one-time donations to a monthly contribution. As a monthly patron I demand that Thibault drink more piña coladas!


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Lichess Feedback - Petition to add "Chicago" pieces to lichess selection#11

C'mon....that's rather flaccid criticism. Surely you can do better than one word barbs like "trash" and "awful"?


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Lichess Feedback - Petition to add "Chicago" pieces to lichess selection#9

I like it. +1 to add


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General Chess Discussion - Best Chess Players (relative to their peers)#338

I haven't read all 30+ pages of this thread so I apologize if this has been mentioned already but the following video of chess rating over time seems germane to the topic. https://www.youtube.com/watc…


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General Chess Discussion - Problems with Lichess in my opinion#28

"I wanted to donate to this site but when I looked into it I found the financial concept to be very self-destructive... I think this site is THE best platform for chess. It works GREAT! And thibault a…


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Lichess Feedback - Anti-cheat control#31

If this were a debate club, it would be clear who had the stronger side of the argument. However, sometimes it is constructive to try to assemble a charitable version of the opposing argument. If we g…


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