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I'm finding server analysis of games much slower than previously. Is there anything that can be done about this? Or any tools I could use to do this locally on my PC?

@IKV2025 said in #32: > I would appreciate short notice from Lichess - like "reviewed, not sufficient evidence of cheating to ban player you reported". Believe this can be easily automated. Otherwise …

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned correspondance. It's improved my game enormously because you effectively have as much time as you want when the position gets complicated. I tend to play about 30 ga…

Vacation time while playing correspondance is also available on Red Hot Pawn / Daily Chess, or Gameknot. On here I compensate by playing 3 days/move (rather than the 1 day/move I played on the other s…

@Rubyris Bullet chess is totally absorbing because time is so short it grabs all of your attention. This stops you thinking about the rest of your life and stops you having to experience the emotions …

I spent a few months playing correspondance chess on dailychess.com/redhotpawn.com recently and games timing out because my opponent hadn't moved were a rarity. Since coming back to lichess - mainly t…

Sorry I wasn't trying to create a mystery! I've been playing on Chess Tempo which, whilst different to lichess, is also a great site :)

I've played 3 minute chess for many years, more recently on another site. On coming back here, most of my opponents are playing much faster than on the other site, and quicker than I remember. So my o…

@SD_2709 Good advice. It's why I mainly play correspondance so I have as much time as I want to think about things so I can avoid just playing the same mistakes over and over... which is what I tend t…

So I sometimes play a bit of blitz. My opponent today premoved the first 12 moves in the game! At one point he went down 5.5 points as he blundered but I was so taken aback by the speed that I rushed …