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[Suggestion] - Remove Chess CAPTCHA

I mean, how do they help? Robots who have Stockfish enabled can click the link and find the mate, or they can figure it out right from the get-go. And, what if players don't know the rules and are here for the community. If you do remove the link to find the answer (so bots may have trouble if they don't have Stockfish enabled) inexperienced players may have trouble. All I'm saying is that I think that Chess CAPTCHA is kind of useless and just causes trouble, especially for inexperienced players.

Thank you for reading. Lichess is by far the most awesome chess website there is, but removing Chess CAPTCHA would make the Forum much easier.
Yeah, Chess Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart doesn't justify its name. I guess it's just a small layer of defence so that some people can become too lazy to spam the forum cause they need to incorporate stockfish or hand-written chess knowledge into their bot. But it's actually annoying for players like me who clearly don't benefit from such "training", and I think it's better to defend from spammers on other level.
I guess, is's a defence against spamming bots, who are crawling and spamming all kinds of websites, not only chess websites. These bots do not recognize, that there is a chesstcha to solve.
Indeed, I wonder how players who are new to standard chess are supposed to solve those? I guess they don't post in the forums and don't do anything that requires a chess captcha, since they can't. I sometimes have trouble solving these myself, and I've been playing chess for several years...

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