It has been a fact that since early 2022 Lichess has removed the keyboard feature which gave an "unfair" advantage to ultrabullet players against more casual players using the regular mouse. Since then though there has not been an official statement saying that the feature was removed I get often messaged or threatened that I am using keyboard resulting in getting blocked by other players. I want to inform lichess that so that there is an upcoming announcement regarding that so there are not false accusements !
"Keyboard extensions are now banned
In short: if you arrived to this page from a game, you need to uninstall keyboard extensions from your browser to keep playing.
New fair play rule
We have introduced a new rule to Lichess fair play:
We prohibit the use of any program or browser extension that assists with playing moves. The only legal ways to play moves on Lichess are with the official Lichess APIs for Boards and Bots, or by interacting directly with the official Lichess graphical user interface (GUI). Programmatic usage of the GUI for playing moves is forbidden. However, custom styles and graphical tweaks of the play interface are allowed, using CSS.
This prevents use of the keyboard and multi-premove extensions.
Consequences of the ban
These extensions were tolerated until now, so players who have been using them in the past will not be sanctioned in any way. However, their use being now prohibited, players will receive a warning when the extension is loaded, and won't be able to play games until the extension is removed from their browser.
Players who attempt to go around this ban in any way, or to modify the extensions to bypass detection, will have their account marked for fair play violations by the moderators.
Reasons for the ban
Extensions that assist with playing moves have denatured fast chess to the point that many players won't play it anymore. We believe that banning keyboard extensions will result in UltraBullet and HyperBullet becoming more popular."
lichess.org/page/play-extensions
Looks pretty official to me.
In short: if you arrived to this page from a game, you need to uninstall keyboard extensions from your browser to keep playing.
New fair play rule
We have introduced a new rule to Lichess fair play:
We prohibit the use of any program or browser extension that assists with playing moves. The only legal ways to play moves on Lichess are with the official Lichess APIs for Boards and Bots, or by interacting directly with the official Lichess graphical user interface (GUI). Programmatic usage of the GUI for playing moves is forbidden. However, custom styles and graphical tweaks of the play interface are allowed, using CSS.
This prevents use of the keyboard and multi-premove extensions.
Consequences of the ban
These extensions were tolerated until now, so players who have been using them in the past will not be sanctioned in any way. However, their use being now prohibited, players will receive a warning when the extension is loaded, and won't be able to play games until the extension is removed from their browser.
Players who attempt to go around this ban in any way, or to modify the extensions to bypass detection, will have their account marked for fair play violations by the moderators.
Reasons for the ban
Extensions that assist with playing moves have denatured fast chess to the point that many players won't play it anymore. We believe that banning keyboard extensions will result in UltraBullet and HyperBullet becoming more popular."
lichess.org/page/play-extensions
Looks pretty official to me.
Most people seem to not be aware of this though
if you're accused of being a keyboarder, just report for shaming?
Then report them for accusation.
I dont want to do with reporting others when I believe a portion of the fault is not on them because they havent been informed of the "recent" change....
Hunt and peck, took me 5 minutes to write this post. Lag switch, extensions, and even a good connection can make all the difference. That is why the mouse jockeys playing bullet are just wannabes.
@TacticalMonkey said in #6:
> I dont want to do with reporting others when I believe a portion of the fault is not on them because they havent been informed of the "recent" change....
First of all I am pretty sure we asked devs to implement a pop up message that would appear notifying them that we updated the terms of service as soon as they logged in.
Secondly, they don't need to know it's banned now since what they're doing is accusing you of something and that's not allowed regardless of the reasons.
> I dont want to do with reporting others when I believe a portion of the fault is not on them because they havent been informed of the "recent" change....
First of all I am pretty sure we asked devs to implement a pop up message that would appear notifying them that we updated the terms of service as soon as they logged in.
Secondly, they don't need to know it's banned now since what they're doing is accusing you of something and that's not allowed regardless of the reasons.
A Lichess Moderator said in #8:
> First of all I am pretty sure we asked devs to implement a pop up message that would appear notifying them that we updated the terms of service as soon as they logged in.
> Secondly, they don't need to know it's banned now since what they're doing is accusing you of something and that's not allowed regardless of the reasons.
@TacticalMonkey said in #6:
> I dont want to do with reporting others when I believe a portion of the fault is not on them because they havent been informed of the "recent" change....
Lag is bigger problem
> First of all I am pretty sure we asked devs to implement a pop up message that would appear notifying them that we updated the terms of service as soon as they logged in.
> Secondly, they don't need to know it's banned now since what they're doing is accusing you of something and that's not allowed regardless of the reasons.
@TacticalMonkey said in #6:
> I dont want to do with reporting others when I believe a portion of the fault is not on them because they havent been informed of the "recent" change....
Lag is bigger problem
A Lichess Moderator said in #8:
> First of all I am pretty sure we asked devs to implement a pop up message that would appear notifying them that we updated the terms of service as soon as they logged in.
> Secondly, they don't need to know it's banned now since what they're doing is accusing you of something and that's not allowed regardless of the reasons.
And i know some keyboard player and some sandbaggers(dont say shaming i have some games to proof i reported and lichess did nothing sadly (dont say this for make worse lichess only i want to lichess became better fot Tos)
> First of all I am pretty sure we asked devs to implement a pop up message that would appear notifying them that we updated the terms of service as soon as they logged in.
> Secondly, they don't need to know it's banned now since what they're doing is accusing you of something and that's not allowed regardless of the reasons.
And i know some keyboard player and some sandbaggers(dont say shaming i have some games to proof i reported and lichess did nothing sadly (dont say this for make worse lichess only i want to lichess became better fot Tos)
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