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I think it should be a draw if you lose that position on time. However if you made the worst blunders in history they could checkmate you, but only after they give you a free promotion opportunity and…

It is very annoying. Sometimes you get paired so fast after going back to the tournament home page that even after you click pause it still makes you play another game. Being able to pause/withdraw im…

I wonder how they would enact that, like if you give your true identity they give your account some special symbol and only people who have that symbol can play in certain custom private tournaments p…

Personally I use endgame books and the endgame club on icc, which is also a paid site unfortunately and books cost money. Best bet is playing endgame positions against stockfish and maybe getting thos…

there is already a blitz world champion and a rapid world champion. Classical world champion should be decided by classical games.

I had just joined a lichess blitz tournament and was paired against a 1500 as black. I premoved c6 and waited for my opponent to move for awhile. After waiting for quite a while the screen shifted and…

Tactics puzzles, endgame puzzles, and a couple of master games every day. Find mistakes in each game you played and figure out how you could've played better (natural way to learn openings). Have the …

Here's another great example http://en.lichess.org/0YgBJLCGBvc7 . I think Ill just stop playing tournaments here for awhile until Im not so frustrated.

There does seem to be heavier lag on the first than other moves. Not sure why this is.

To put in perspective, after looking through each of my lost games since 6/21, I see that I'm down 91 blitz rating due to not being sent to my tournament game automatically, lag, and the 15 second fir…