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Re: Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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Post by ben0x539 » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 6:25 PM UTC

dxq wrote: post #8

How to troll online chess: 1. Open up Chess.app 2. Turn CPU difficulty all the way up 3. Start lichess game as black 4. Mirror lichess opponent's moves into Chess.app 5. Mirror Chess.app opponent's moves into lichess 6. Talk incredible amounts of smack

You are watching a stranger play chess against a computer. There has to be a more fulfilling method of trolling people.

Re: Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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Post by lazyant » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 6:28 PM UTC

While I was playing I couldn't find the clock

Re: Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 6:30 PM UTC

dxq wrote: post #8

How to troll online chess: 1. Open up Chess.app 2. Turn CPU difficulty all the way up 3. Start lichess game as black 4. Mirror lichess opponent's moves into Chess.app 5. Mirror Chess.app opponent's moves into lichess 6. Talk incredible amounts of smack

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Re: Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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Post by ronnoch » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 6:58 PM UTC

This is one of those ideas I feel like I should have thought of.

Re: Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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Post by cicada » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 7:02 PM UTC

This is nice. I was a little saddened that the replay and analyse option after games did not actually analyse games, but with the export I can download the games into my favourite chess engine and have it analyse the games for me.

[edit: noticed that there is a forum, don't go there. While someone occasionally posts an interesting game like http://lichess.org/analyse/0mbole the level of conversation is roughly what you'd expect from a 4chan /chess/ board.]

Re: Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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Post by mikek » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 7:04 PM UTC

_ouxp wrote: post #3

Please don't tell me Safari 5 is deprecated and ask me to "upgrade" to Firefox.

Especially on the iPhone!

Re: Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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Post by lazyant » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 7:06 PM UTC

lazyant wrote: post #12

While I was playing I couldn't find the clock

OK, I see the clock now but it doesn't work like the traditional one, I played a 5 min "blitz" game and I would have like 5:05, is it using perhaps the Fisher's clock?

Re: Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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Post by iends » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 7:10 PM UTC

jensv wrote: post #6

Here's a replay of me playing someone who outclasses and outplays me in every way but becomes overconfident and makes a careless mistake that costs him/her the game. I find it amusing because I don't imagine it being common for a weak player to beat a stronger opponent. http://lichess.org/analyse/pvpxyq Once again I make no claim on my ability to play the game of chess. (I suck) This was more luck than anything but i…

fyi, Black is also not a very strong player.

Re: Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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Post by arjn » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 7:35 PM UTC

Nice. I like not having to register. Thanks!!

Re: Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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Post by rlpb » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 7:36 PM UTC

lionhearted wrote: post #7

Disappointed. I got paired with a newbie who was screwing around. http://awesomescreenshot.com/0fa3r9l09 The site, though, is beautiful and a joy to play on. My last online chess was at Yahoo Chess, and this feels like walking on air compared to Y! Chess's clunky interface. Beautiful site, very pleasing to use. A nice feature to keep semi-serious players around would be some way to get scored or sorted, so you somewh…

Could this be the reason that registration would be a better idea, and thus explain the success of all the chess servers that require it? I'd much prefer to play against an evenly matched opponent, or with a stronger player who I can learn from by analysing the game with afterwards - and definitely against someone who will finish the game. Both of these things requires reputation, and reputation requires registration. I found fics to be great for this.

I apologise to whoever I annoyed by not even playing the first move. I wanted to see if there were _any_ options to discriminate my opponent (for example by supplying my own rating on an honour system); there were none.