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Lichess Feedback - Creating new game - how to avoid opponents with provisional rating?#10

#9 My numbers come from looking at my games list, and seeing the rating changes. If the code is intended to produce different results, then it is probably wrong. Might be worth it to look at a more re…


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Lichess Feedback - Creating new game - how to avoid opponents with provisional rating?#4

@Toadofsky RD is not implemented in the way you think it is. You lose the same amount of points against a 1500? player as you would against a 1600 player. That is far from a minimal change. I do think…


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General Chess Discussion - had the advantage,threw it away#9

Everybody is weaker at some piece of the game then in others. You win games based on your strength in openings and lose games based on your weaker middle-game. Or the other way around. I think you onl…


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Lichess Feedback - Can you get Stockfish to display forced draws differently from equal positions.#1

When a position is equal, Stockfish displays this as 0.0. When a player is losing, but has a line where he can force a threefold repetition is also displayed as 0.0. Those positions are conceptually v…


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General Chess Discussion - 7-piece Syzygy tablebases are complete#35

You talk a lot about the endgames that would be longest without the 50 move rule. But what is the longest endgame when you apply the 50 move rule? One where the winning side just barely captures a pie…


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Lichess Feedback - How about adding an auto-promote to queen when below 30 seconds option?#5

The usage of Ctrl to underpromote is also a bit problematic. Because it is almost never needed -- and the Ctrl key is not used in any other context-- it is easy to forget how to do it. I remembered th…


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Lichess Feedback - Leela Zero as a computer opponent#12

Training on human games is one interesting mode for a future fork of LZ/LCZ. One interesting point is that most Go players think that AGZ plays more humanlike then the previous Alphago, even though th…


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Lichess Feedback - Leela Zero as a computer opponent#10

Playing against LCZ doesn't make her stronger. The playable version is frozen. And even if it wasn't it would slow down learning as explained in the AGZ paper. Now, on most Go servers there are sancti…


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Lichess Feedback - Another wrong Server Analysis#1

I just had the second occurrence of the server analysis giving an evaluation that is clearly wrong, with the local analysis finding the correct evaluation after a few seconds. Here the server analysis…


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Lichess Feedback - How to popularise Lichess?#20

I think endorsing streamers goes farther then direct ads. Having the top chess streamer on twitch play on lichess is a great way to get noticed. Finchetta's commentary on the candidates tournament goe…


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