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Alas, deleting Safari history only worked for a day and the problem returned.

After updating to Safari 18.0, I cannot load any lichess.org web page. After repeated tries, Safari gives the following message: A problem repeatedly occurred with "https://lichess.org" hitting the "R…

I am also having the mouse become unclickable while using Safari. Most recently it was after I finished a game, went to the analysis board, clicked to turn the game into a study--and then clicking sto…

Noël, thanks for your helpful suggestions. I am also trying to approach my games with curiosity—what will I learn from this game?—as a way of feeling less anxiety about losing.

A sentence in your insightful blog post that jumped out at me was: "Have positive encounters with humans and many more." One of my favorite things about chess clubs is enjoyable socializing; indeed, t…

@gilbert Certainly considerations of programming (which I don't understand) are important. Delay is widely used in some OTB chess cultures (it is in the US), but you have probably explained why this f…

@heallan yes, that's a good way to describe the delay function.

Many of my OTB tournaments use a delay of 5 seconds, which I think helps tournament organizers know when all the games in a round are likely to end. The way the delay works is that when my opponent hi…

@SayChessClassical: One way to vote with our eyeballs is to play classical time control, over the board chess. Online chess websites allowed me to return to chess at the height of the pandemic after a…