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General Chess Discussion - All About Cheating - Part 2: The Psychology and Pathology of Cheaters#23

Where do I find part 1? Interesting but there is a Blogs area on this site. I do think the majority of those who cheat simply do not get the impact it has on their opponent who is a real person who ha…


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General Chess Discussion - “Chess isn’t real chess.”#6

You can't go into a real battle and tell your opponents: You can't shoot it isn't your turn. Your tanks can't move that way... You can't move your king and castle that way because you king has previou…


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General Chess Discussion - Aborting before starting not counted as a win. Arguments in favour of this are illogical.#2

I have seen players playing rapid make an open challenge and then spend a short while looking at the opponents' stats. If the opponent has a far higher rapid rating than blitz they abort, with the ass…


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Lichess Feedback - Vacation time#6

Interesting but whenever I have gone on vacation I have always had hotels with wifi connection and a laptop with me, so I have not had a problem getting internet. What might be a useful feature is a s…


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Lichess Feedback - Lichess message about "Attempts to artificially manipulate [...] own or someone else's rating "#3

This is an example game: https://lichess.org/fRbFSvSt#2 Resignation on move 2 is not appropriate. (It wasn't appropriate when Magnus did it against Hans OTB either)


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Lichess Feedback - Ban for waiting for a withdraw#5

he isn't marked so it was probably a "timeout" ban (not being allowed to play for a period of time) which is given for consistently annoying people who don't complete their games properly.


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Lichess Feedback - The application does not work on my cell phone :(#9

from the web browser on your phone you can also see the Lobby which you cannot see from the app. I think they should fix that, actually, as there are more interesting time controls as well as variant …


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Lichess Feedback - Correspondance "Sandbagging"#7

Play unrated correspondence then, no ratings, if you time out, no problem, but in reality, your opponent wants a game of chess, not to win because someone aborts.


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Lichess Feedback - game lost by time in a position where opponent can't win#51

@AndrewMackney said in #43: > < This shows a flaw in the rule I think. This should be a draw because it is impossible for either side to make progress or blunder. You can't tell if a checkmate is poss…


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Lichess Feedback - How can you to make the mate only one knight?#11

Yes, I see Nd4 then Kg2 also traps the black knight. The above was not part of an arena so it was a deliberate choice to play 5+0 time control. I do however think they should have increment in arenas …


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