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Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

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

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Post by levesque »

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…

It is nice, I agree that there should be some sort of difficulty level to select. I got paired with someone much better than I and lost pretty quickly. I am not a total newbie, but I'm far from being good :)

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

#32

Post by maushu »

dxq wrote: post #9
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

Also, I would like to make a lichess.org bot that plays chess and intelligently talks to opponents.

Don't forget to analyse moves and comment on them. It makes it more realistic.

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

#35

Post by colombian »

I've been thinking about doing this for a while. There's so many times when I want to play a game of chess with a friend online, but don't want to take the time to register an account at any of the big chess sites.

My idea would have been a service where you click "New Game", it generates a unique link which you then give to your friend.

Anyways, incredibly well done.

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

#37

Post by TeMPOraL »

I was positively surprised by the fact that the site presented itself in my native language (polish) and it didn't suck. It's probably the first time ever I saw a site that autodetected a language and it actually felt nice. Not everything is translated though, and I hope you'll fix it one day :).

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

#38

Post by cicada »

colombian wrote: post #35

I've been thinking about doing this for a while. There's so many times when I want to play a game of chess with a friend online, but don't want to take the time to register an account at any of the big chess sites. My idea would have been a service where you click "New Game", it generates a unique link which you then give to your friend. Anyways, incredibly well done.

FTR: Lichess does this, visit http://lichess.org/friend
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