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Just imagine we had modern social media and troll farms back in 2001. We might have had even more deaths just from the magnified panic.

The presence of a White pawn makes it a win. White could underpromote to a knight, put iton g8, their own king on h8 and allow you to checkmate with Kg6 and Bg7. Yes it is silly but so is Bullet.

I don't think it is practical to ban books of any kind for correspondence games. These games can take several months if both players take their time. Are they then supposed to not work on their repert…

Websites are easier to develop than Apps. Some features (new ones in particular, like Puzzle Streak/Storm/Racer) just don't exist in the App at this point. It is possible to split hairs about whether …

Please take this to https://lichess.org/page/appeal and not the forum. Preferably with fewer caps and exclamation marks.

Many players have chat disabled. Many are playing on mobile, where typing out replies is more of a hassle. Many are used to Arena mode where you are pretty much forced to run from one game to another …

^ that. A rated game should always be played by both parties with the earnest intention to get the best result, anything else is just needless distortion to the meaning of ratings. Play Casual and thi…

I assume the exact workings of the anti cheating measures will remain secret for the same reason that police and night guards don't publish the route they are going to patrol beforehand. Any cheating …

There is a Chrome extension for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lichessorg-chatwhisper-wi/gljgfgfejfcopcjhaienfhbmcpopbhhp Not an official feature of Lichess but still works very well …