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I wouldn't be so sure that lack of Swiss tournament increases amount of arena players. People who don't like arena can play on other sites or don't play tournaments at all. Or maybe Lichess developers…

Provisional ratings: 2800 - it seems likely. There are some very strange informations when you click on stats, for example classical: https://lichess.org/@/MagnusCarlsen/perf/classical 17 games, highe…

@Spartako - as for "very few people relatively" - for example some variants weekly stats: King of the Hill - 756 players Three-check - 835 players Racing Kings - 452 players In comparison to above - w…

@EvilChess , are you in touch with lichess developers ? If so, are they convinced to do this change ?

@EvilChess , I don't play bullet and I'm not interested in ultra/hyper/whatever bullet rating, but... I guess it's no problem to play 20 bullet games during 1 hour and 100-200 games per a day (or week…

I think splitting classic into rapid and standard is enough and also necessary. Leaving it in present shape mixes rapid and classic games in one rating zone. Creating too many ranges would cause probl…

I agree. This site is great, but it's strange to treat 8 min game as classic. It's not even a rapid chess, IMO, just longer blitz.

@BobC , thanks for link - I'll read it soon. @CafeMorphy , I didn't write that bigger is always better. However thanks for your remarks. I guess Silman's Complete Endgame Course is also worth reading ?