I'm not a chess player and I lose 9/10 games I play on lichess, yet I still occasionally go there when I don't feel like playing mahjong, partly because the website is so pleasant to use.
LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
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Re: LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
#62Most of the times I get this message when I open lichess.
Your connection is not private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from en.lichess.org (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
This resolves after 2-3 days and then within a week it again reappears.
Re: LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
#63> I tested the new feature on my favorite opening: 1.e4 e5 2.f4!, a.k.a. the mighty King Gambit. Stockfish hates it, and asked me to review it like it was a mistake! Yet it's considered playable. Actually Carlsen played it against Arionian in 2015. Not acceptable, Mr Stockfish! Actually, the King's Gambit has been (essentially) solved: https://en.chessbase.com/post/rajlich-busting-the-king-s-gam... There is only one…
> If at least two masters have played a move in tournament situation, then the move must be playable! So that's how it works now.
Considering how much Stockfish is stronger than those masters, those moves could be really wrong despite being playable in human vs human games.
http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/compare_engines...
Hoowever we don't know the estimated ELO of Stockfish as used by Lichess.
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#64LiChess is one of the most amazing hosted platforms out there, it's very fast, it has a minimalistic design, it has no ads and does the thing that it does very well.
Furthermore they sympathetically state: "Lichess mobile is developed and translated to 80 languages by volunteers. Just like the website, it's 100% free forever, and there will never be advertisements. This is humanist software, made open source for the love of chess and user freedom."
But there are two things on my wishlist 1) make the website work off-line 2) new variant to change the chess rules to accommodate a smaller board 5x6, 4x5 or 6x6 for even shorter games.
Re: LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
#65I just poked around on this site. I think this is what I need to take my chess game to another level.
Re: LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
#66LiChess is one of the most amazing hosted platforms out there, it's very fast, it has a minimalistic design, it has no ads and does the thing that it does very well. Furthermore they sympathetically state: "Lichess mobile is developed and translated to 80 languages by volunteers. Just like the website, it's 100% free forever, and there will never be advertisements. This is humanist software, made open source for the…
I saw someone else above mention an iOS app, and it looks like there also is an Android app.
Re: LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
#67LiChess is one of the most amazing hosted platforms out there, it's very fast, it has a minimalistic design, it has no ads and does the thing that it does very well. Furthermore they sympathetically state: "Lichess mobile is developed and translated to 80 languages by volunteers. Just like the website, it's 100% free forever, and there will never be advertisements. This is humanist software, made open source for the…
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#68It's interesting that even the best chess engines are still worse at analyzing openings than humans.
Is that actually the case, or perhaps humans try a lot of sub-optimal opening lines?
I have a GM friend who regularly practices against a computer with the opening repertoire turned off.
One of his comments : "The bloody thing is absolutely clueless in the opening, and I still can't win. It's just so good at defending a worse position, and in the end, I will make a mistake."
Re: LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
#69Ha how ironic that this was just mentioned in another thread! +1 to you sir! Now with that said, this looks quite good and really broaches chess in a modern way in terms of learning. I sure have stacks of books that I wish were just software, mostly on studying chess tactics
I haven't tried it yet, but there's an app for "running" chess books, i.e. you can play the positions described in the book right in the app. No need to have a chess board. According to the site, there's a big list of books that have been converted to work for that app.
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#70I wrote something similar a while ago. http://blunderchess.sf.net . Actually, the portion which broke down PGN games into FEN positions is what took a while.