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He can still checkmate you. You'd have to mess up but it's still possible

Y'all take this way too seriously

As an off shoot this sort of thing could be used to have people enter as something other than 1500? But that's at best a mild inconvenience. I'm just not sure how you would account for learning, I pla…

I mean lichess is currently holding a cash prize tournament, so definitely possible. Cheating is handled like every other competition I assume

It seems like something that would have to be implemented in an existing infrastructure. Lichess could (would not want to because mo money = mo problems) do it because there's already plenty of system…

I looked it up and ICC offers some monetary prizes for chess tournaments, but the problem is that at your skill level (and mine) you aren't going to be winning those tournaments. Your best bet is in O…

It was a childhood nickname, as should be obvious

1626, maybe I was wrong about Lichess rating being an overestimate in the 1500-1700 range. I also underestimate my own improvement I suppose.

I pretty much only resign in correspondence because a basic mate will take days and that's unnecessary for both of us. If it's a blitz or bullet or classical game online there's pretty much no reason …

I think that the mid rankings (1500 to about 1700) are really inaccurate because players start out at 1500, so in that range I would say expect ELO to be like Lichess-200 just because the range is ove…