Hallo SLers,
let me give the new lichessers some useful tipps. This is what you can do:
1) enlarge and adjust the board by pressing “ctrl plus”. CTRL +. The board is too small by default.
2) Change the background color (theming) to black, and the board color to white/blue-grey.
3) Remove the greenglow move highlights in the preferences – they can be quite irritating. To compensate that increase the smooth move in the preferences and set it to the slowest maximum – this way you will see where the piece has moved.
This group is useful and simple means to see who is online. In addition to that through this group you have easy access to the ratings of all members, which we don’t have in SL. The ratings on the TTchess.tk cannot be taken seriously. Finally we can all get rated here and the rating system is just fine. Those of you who have places in SL, chess clubs of just clubs whatever they are, may think of lichess as way to promote your chess clubs in SL. How many ppl do visit those? 5 to 10 ppl per day maybe…. Here are thousands of ppl online every day. Watch this:
lichess.org/world-map. A typical way for a chess coach to promote his own services would be to get a decent score, like 2400 and offer chess lessons on that basis ;) I have seen many such profiles on lichess already.
My function here is modest. The group is totally open for everyone and not censured. I am not what it says a “team leader”. I watch that the ToS of
lichess.org are obeyed in the forum, which means “be nice to each other” and that members names can be validated in SL. That’s all. Time goes and flows. Perhaps tomorrow we will forget about this group. But at this point it’s fun to be member here, and on lichess in general, and it makes a lot of sense. At last we have a forum where all can say what they have to say and those postings will not disappear after two weeks.
Enjoy lichess and the group.
Mark28