| Lichess Feedback - Swiss Classical Tournaments: Please make absent users lose rating or shorten forfeit period#4 I played classical swiss tournaments organized by teams dedicated to them and the no-show ratio was way lower there. However, those tend to suffer from lack of interest. No idea if it's better with ra… | mkubecek  |
| Lichess Feedback - Swiss Classical Tournaments: Please make absent users lose rating or shorten forfeit period#2 Yes, that's a long standing problem in lichess-swiss 30+0 tournaments. Apart from the time control without increment it was the main reason why I stopped playing them. As for your proposals: definitel… | mkubecek |
| General Chess Discussion - What is the general opinion about the future of online chess?#13 @SimonBirch said in #11: > when computers learn to play against computers white will always win because it has the first move I don't think so, IMHO it's way more likely that the initial position is a… | mkubecek |
| General Chess Discussion - Mystery player that doesn’t exist#5 @ilidiomartins said in #2: > Account disappears immediately “user does not exist / profile deleted” When Lichess bans for: > - cheating > - sandbagging > - rating manipulation > - engine use > ...it r… | mkubecek |
| General Chess Discussion - Should one must travel with a pocket chess set?#22 @ILikeBlitz said in #13: > Here is a picture of my pocket chess sets: > https://imgur.com/a/dLlJCfJ I'm pretty sure I still have one of those shown on the left somewhere. | mkubecek |
| General Chess Discussion - If you could redesign the chess clock, what would you change?#2 I'll copy my response also here. > A full-color touchscreen Full color display? No, not really. A chess clock should be as inobtrusive as possible. Even any actively glowing IPS (or OLED or whatever) … | mkubecek |
| Community Blog Discussions - Chess Clocks Are Stuck in the Past. That's why I'm Building a Clock in 2025#3 > A full-color touchscreen Full color display? No, not really. A chess clock should be as inobtrusive as possible. Even any actively glowing IPS (or OLED or whatever) display is something I definitely… | mkubecek |
| General Chess Discussion - Understanding the gap between online and OTB chess#2 "highest online rating in any format" is quite useless information, the values are not comparable between sites or even between time controls within the same site. For the same reason, "highest OTB ra… | mkubecek |
| Community Blog Discussions - The benefits of electronic chess boards (eBoards)#8 Apparently the prices differ a lot between countries. In ours, a wooden DGT e-board with wooden pieces (Walnut + Timeless) can be bought for 564 EUR plus shipping, i.e. way less than 1700 USD. And the… | mkubecek |
| Lichess Feedback - Draw for three repetitions but there is no repetition#27 @spizzi77 said in #26: > so if a GM remembers the 5, 30, and 60th moves, which are the same Sigh... as already pointed out multiple times, the rule is about repeated *positions*, not *moves*. | mkubecek |
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