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Multiple accounts

I know that Lichess doesn't want multiple accounts, and I understand why. However, there are some purposes for which multiple accounts would be useful:

- I like to play blindfold chess, but my rating is at least 7 or 800 points lower in that mode. It will look like I'm sandbagging if I play blindfold with my normal account.

- I don't like my identity to be public, so I have a handle which doesn't reveal my name. However, if I'm organising a private tournament for my local club on Lichess, it would be good to have an account which identifies me clearly, which I'd only use to play people I know.

Perhaps Lichess could consider condoning these uses of multiple accounts?
Also world champion created multiple accounts. A friend of mine created 1 human account and 1 bot account. If you mean 2 human account i do not understand: are u afraid to be called sandbagger while u play blindfold? I do not think it happens.Only thing u could lose some elo rating.But does it really matter?
I actually made a second account and it got closed in a matter of hours because of how easily I beat my opponents :/
It was definetely not ok for me to go troll lower-rated players and that's what Lichess is afraid of. People making new accounts just so they can mess with new or inexperienced players just for the shake of it. Sure that world champion might have gotten the chance to create a second account but he isn't some random dude they don't know, it's literally the easiest thing for a website to monitor a chess master.
As far as I’ve been able to see making multiple accounts is frowned upon, but if you don’t cause any trouble, like what @Bill_Likes_Chess was saying about messing with inexperienced players, or using your accounts to get on a leaderboard multiple time, they will mostly let you get away with it. It’s unlikely you will get your second account closed if you haven’t done anything that’s unfair to other players.
@Trageku: I'm not afraid to be called a sandbagger. I'm afraid to be one.

If I play at around 2200 blitz, and close to 1400 blindfold, then if I use my regular account I'll lose every single game. After that, when I go back to playing with sight of the board, I'll get a long run of games for which I'm underrated. I think that is more disruptive to the community than having a second account which consistently use for blindfold, and where I'm rated appropriately.

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