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Lichess Feedback - How to see multiple engine lines?#1

At one point I chose to see the top two engine lines. Now I see only one and can't find how to set it the way I want?


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Community Blog Discussions - #22: What I Talk About When I Talk About Bullet#6

"...the low quality, of bullet games was highlighted for me..." Telling it like it is. Initially bullet and blitz ratings were simply transferred from classical time control ratings. We all know two 2…


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Lichess Feedback - default lichess tv channel to be changeable#1

I believe bullet ratings are very much inflated. It seems that as a starting point existing ratings from classical time control were used. When computers play blitz it is very close to their classical…


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Lichess Feedback - Separate ratings for chess960 bullet and other chess960#11

Whatever the variant, bullet is just a different game. Just like the best blitz player doesn't mean the best classical player


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Lichess Feedback - Separate ratings for chess960 bullet and other chess960#9

@Cedur216 said in #3: > why is 960 more important over other variants? Why not do that for all variants then? Ah, right, that gets cumbersome. > > My better take is to finally ban rated hyper for vari…


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Lichess Feedback - Separate ratings for chess960 bullet and other chess960#1

This has been brought up by others before but as that is now inactive (archived) it is time to readress this issue. With chess960 fast becoming the chess of choice unless one gets paid otherwise, it i…


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Lichess Feedback - No Castling Chess to be offered on Lichess and eventually Shogi and Chinese Chess, also Capablanca C#15

@lazy_peasant said in #7: > I love this. Along with stalemate being a win. "Incidentally, I would go back the extra mile and not allow the initial two square pawn move" in No Castling Chess. With the …


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Lichess Feedback - No Castling Chess to be offered on Lichess and eventually Shogi and Chinese Chess, also Capablanca C#8

@achja said in #6: > Castling in Capa960 should work. Put king on rook. No I mean they have many variants but apparently not No Castling Chess


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Lichess Feedback - No Castling Chess to be offered on Lichess and eventually Shogi and Chinese Chess, also Capablanca C#5

@achja said in #3: > Did you check out the excellent www.pychess.org/variants site ? > There is Capablanca960 thanks plenty! (although it seems strangely not No Castling)


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Lichess Feedback - No Castling Chess to be offered on Lichess and eventually Shogi and Chinese Chess, also Capablanca C#4

@glbert said in #2: > lichess is very unlikely to implement any new variants anytime soon. even less likely variants that require anything but a 8x8 board. In other words for now only No Castling Ches…


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