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Well, if you remove the piece heatmaps, you're left with the pawn structures. So you might end up writing something like Sokolov's "Winning Chess Middlegames."

Different clock settings (delay, byoyomi, etc.) might provide better incentives; having a negative increment would just worsen the problem, I think.

Any feature will be weaponized... it would only be a matter of time before someone makes a client which premoves in violation of the new agreement/setting. Lichess already has a Board API which makes …

@KurbanSinto said in #1: > Pre-moves are an absurd "feature" (read: bug) of online chess... why not take the opportunity to finally allow creating games/seeks where premove is disabled for BOTH player…

Re: #1, I wrote Lichess' original code to implement blindfold puzzles, in the same way that blindfold games work (a player has access to the move list). Reading #12 it seems this code has changed, but…

Lichess' Opening Explorer can also help find openings which produce good results in blitz, such as the Alekhine Defense and even the Elephant Gambit.

This proposal seems like a lost cause, as online chess is devolving into endless bullet paired with cheating suspicions... Even in the shogi world, I argue day and night in favor of byoyomi/delay desp…

gottem! https://youtu.be/WdJhWWk_Lp4?t=11

Thanks... yes, psychology is a complex, emergent field; and I see that many community blog authors do err as you describe. I can see that effort went into this and previous articles to avoid explicitl…