New rule: after 301 moves the game is declared a draw.

Lichess code is NOT a rule. When some lines of code implements something (i.e. 300 cap on moves), that lines may be considered either as bug or as feature.

Suppose some lines implement non-FIDE behavior. When the lines are officialy considered as feature and not a bug, that consideration is change of rules.

And now a question: was there silent change of rules or not?

A hint: NOT_A_BUG after public discussion and loud information is much better thing, than before public discussion.

> Literally everything is capped to make sure the servers stay healthy. Everything. This has nothing to do with knowledge of chess, philosophy or law. It also has nothing to do with race or sexuality. Nor space travel.

Wow!

OK. Please give me 3 different technical lichess limitations that breaks FIDE rules.

Ideally you should give me 30 different technical lichess limitations that breaks FIDE rules. This is useful to know.

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@Munich

Seriously? The Lichess moderators closed the previous thread and, after thinking long and hard, the solution you came with was... making another thread? You sure like arguing. A real discussion is not possible with you, as we've all seen in the previous thread.

Also, the 300 move rule isn't "new", it's been around for quite a while.

@game_spectator

3 technical limitations that break FIDE rules?

First of all, I think possibly there is only 1, the 300 move rule, and the fact that it breaks FIDE rules is questionable at best.

Second, since when is Lichess compelled to obey FIDE rules? Lichess is a free website not affiliated to any international chess organization. FIDE rules are respected because of choice, but that does not mean that all of them need to be respected or that you have to do that always.

So I'm afraid that your argument that the 300 move rule breaks FIDE rules is really unrelated to the topic.

If someone reopens a mod-closed thread in another forum a double-forfeit (0:0) would even be his smaller problem...

@Sarg0n

What do you mean by double-forfeit?

In that "other" thread there was this Hübner story amongst others where players wanted to make a draw just hopping with the knights and trolling arbiter and public. In such cases a double-forfeit can happen (0:0), in fact it had been done (though in the Hübner it was a mess and only he was forfeited eventually, but not sure).

In my opinion lichess can double-forfeit after 300 moves because of trolling (0:0) and the admins can double-forfeit both threads.