Accidental 'cheating'. Will my account be restricted?

I had a winning position early on in this game lichess.org/RJvTu9fHOFmP, and my opponent stopped making moves so I figured he was waiting out the clock. It was a 3 hour time setting so I opened another tab to review the game and lichess resigned me because it detected me using the analysis board. I don't care about the rating loss, but I want to know if any penalties will be placed on my account. Does anyone know?

Your account won't be penalised as long as you play nice.

ok cool, thank you

I think next time you could click on the little analysis board icon that's just above the move list to the right in the same window as the game you are currently playing. It takes you to an analysis board where you can go back and forth in the game and draw and analyse lines, but there is no engine available. You shouldn't have any problems that way. :)

@alysiasmiles even doing that the system will detect as cheat, just play the game and after you are done then open analysis.

@ChessPatzerKEN Are you sure, has that happened to you? In that case it should be reported as a bug. Of course that feature wouldn't exist if it was considered cheating.

I didn't even know there was such a feature ...

@spieldeslebens Actually I just noticed it seems to only be available in correspondence games. I have been playing a lot of correspondence games lately, both against Stockfish and other people, so it was fresh on my mind and I thought it was a general feature. But I was just playing a 60+5 game with someone and I couldn't find it.

Sorry for the incorrect information. With that bit corrected it seems indeed there is no way to safely use any kind of analysis board on lichess while playing non-correspondence games. Even if you don't actually turn on the engine on the analysis board, I'd assume it's not safe to use in terms of avoiding being deemed cheating.

I'm not sure exactly why it's not allowed, though. I personally wouldn't see a problem with it since you are still doing all the analysis yourself and an engine isn't involved. In fact I find it a very nice feature in correspondence games by promoting active interest and involvement in the game. The only reason I can personally think of is that they might be trying to make playing matches here as close as possible to playing over the board in real life. Since if you are playing over the board with someone in real life, it wouldn't really be normal to be analysing lines on a separate mini chessboard. I'm not sure it would even be allowed in tournaments. For correspondence games though I'd assume such analysis would even be encouraged because it's kind of a whole different scenario.

I do think it's still a shame though because especially in longer time control games I think it could be very nice to have and it would be completely fair as well because both players would have access to it.

@alysiasmiles I believe it's to simulate what happened back in the old no computer days: in correspondence games you snail mailed your move to your opponent, and when you received back his move you could analyze it on your own board at home, variations, moves, books and all. You had no computer though obviously.

Normal OTB games, OTOH, you can not move pieces to analyze what could go on. That's why the games are to these days somewhat different: correspondence you can actually visualize future variations and move pieces on your board and thus, I guess, they put an analysis board on there, and you can access opening book as well.

@Spaitz Yeah, it's also used to create conditional premoves.