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What's "chess"? Oh, do you mean chaturanga?

@lakfish said in #8: > If lichess decides to use it, it could maintain it also, no? Perhaps *you* should maintain it. Then if you show a consistent history of maintaining it, perhaps other organizatio…

@Marcin2 said in #7: > Maybe it could be some tool to check whether the position is legal? I think in general this is probably not easy for a computer to decide. For example, here are some positions t…

@lakfish said in #5: > It shouldn't for the same reason that it doesn't allow to start other impossible positions I think there's a big difference between this position and one with no kings. In this …

I feel like that's on the person who set up the position. If lichess is explicitly told to start a game from that position, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't. Are you saying "if I ask lichess to…

I don't understand, what is the bug? What is the incorrect behavior, and what behavior would you expect to see instead?

Lichess allows conditional premoves in correspondence chess. Click the microscope icon to go to the analysis board. From there, you can premove as many lines as you want.

@sheckley666 said in #3: > @Darth_Stapler said in #1: > I don't know why anyone would ever do that At least in the context of lichess, suppose I am in a KBNvK endgame. I cannot mate with a Bishop and …

According to FIDE rule 5.1.2, if a player resigns in a position where there is no sequence of moves that puts their king in checkmate, then the game is a draw. Keep in mind that lichess does not curre…

According to http://lichess.org/costs , it costs lichess approximately a penny to run 36 games. If you are getting value out of lichess, but you worry about its costs and sustainability, perhaps you c…