| General Chess Discussion - "Yeah, but lichess is full of commies"#20 lichess being free is just chess getting with the times. It's a different model for a website. Is GNU communist? Is Wikipedia communist? There are a lot of good, not for profit contributions to the wo… | Schwatka |
| General Chess Discussion - new rule for fair play#4 If somebody is doing it too much in the same timeframe (e.g. enough so you see the same person do it to you 5 times in the same day) I think they should automatically get warned/banned from doing this… | Schwatka |
| General Chess Discussion - Is Stockfish AI level 8 rating 2200 or 2500 read description#5 A strength number isn't difficult to use to compare computers and humans, but it requires that the two play a lot of games together. Whether you use elo or glicko both are good enough to eventually fi… | Schwatka |
| Lichess Feedback - Why are 5 + 5 games labelled "classical" time control on lichess?#24 There is no doubt that public tournament design (which are offerred, when, how often, etc.) and promotion such as blogs can promote and popularize different ways of playing chess on lichess. We've see… | Schwatka |
| General Chess Discussion - King of the hill#3 I saw on YouTube somebody playing it, maybe ChessNetwork, and it looked like a lot of fun. I think watching streams of people playing variants is a good way to get into them. | Schwatka |
| Lichess Feedback - Why are 5 + 5 games labelled "classical" time control on lichess?#15 I don't understand what the benefits are to using the term "classical" in such a drastically different way than FIDE. If you say classical it should at least feel something longer than a FIDE rapid ga… | Schwatka |
| General Chess Discussion - Is it Worth Reading Chess Books?#26 I feel like 30 minutes "reading" a couple pages of a chess book is time well spent. You gain a lot of little "side skills" that make chess study and chess thinking more accessible to you than before. … | Schwatka |
| General Chess Discussion - Insults in the chat.#38 I think the "mature" check box is a fine idea. #37 | Schwatka |
| General Chess Discussion - Insults in the chat.#36 Different players want different things here. In a perfect world I'd like people who want no-holds barred trash talk to be able to have it with each other, but we also need to have people who only wan… | Schwatka |
| Lichess Feedback - Why are 5 + 5 games labelled "classical" time control on lichess?#10 The way forward is for lichess to invent its own terminology that makes sense (bullet, hyperbullet, blitz, hyperblitz whatever etc.), adopting FIDE terms when it needs them. If you can call 15 minutes… | Schwatka |
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