Lichess Reviews and details

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• How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit

  Https://lichess.org/ The best I’ve found. It’s also crowd funded and they talk about their interest tech as well. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• So bad at chess that it’s genuinely upsetting at this point, I need some hope

  If you want to improve make it your goal to play the best chess you can, not increase an arbitrary number. Watch YouTube series like John Bartholomew's "Climb the Rating Ladder" for some general insight into what you might be doing wrong. Read Irving Chernev's "Logical Chess: Move By Move" to see the thinking process of high level players. Do lots of puzzles (I like lichess.org for puzzles). And always analyze... Source: 5 months ago

• Humans vs. Stockfish’s eval function

  The easiest way to play against Stockfish is perhaps on https://lichess.org/, but it's not the only chess engine that evaluates positions with a neural network. Source: 5 months ago

• The DGPT season opener will be sponsored by chess.com!

  If you actually like chess, try lichess.org, the free and open-source, no ads ever, premium alternative. Source: 5 months ago

• I got a Chessnut Evo to review, here are my thoughts

  The Chessnut Evo works almost flawlessly (I did not experience this issue but people have reported having ChessnutVision stop working on occasion which requires turning on/off to fix) with popular chess sites (officially supported are chess.com, lichess.org, Chess Kid and Chessable). I experienced no major lag when playing games on Lichess through the board There is the unavoidable delay of physically moving... Source: 5 months ago

• Chance an international Asian male wanting to apply for CS at T20s and Oxbridge

  Finished 8th place in a chess tournament organised by Bishan Chess Club (subsidiary body of the Singapore National Chess Federation). There were around 40 participants, but this included AGMs, AIMs, and there was an actual female IM playing as well, so I'm still pretty proud. Rated 1600 blitz and 1700 rapid on lichess.org. Source: 5 months ago

• elo difference between white and black

  Openingtree.com. Put in the players name on chess.com or lichess.org and then look for their performance rating with that color. TADA! The tech is there to do what you want :). Have fun! Source: 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Released games built on FOSS engines?

  Not necessarily the type of game you had in mind; but must be high up on the concurrent online players https://lichess.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct can play chess around 1800 Elo

  It is important to note that the one game provided as evidence of 1800ish rating is an opening blunder by stockfish that has occurred in at least 8000 human games. I would expect GPT-3 to be trained on several explanation on how to punish this specific mistake. In general, I would expect GPT's openings to be higher quality than the rest of its games. The fact that it didn't play any illegal moves and was able to... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: What are some well-designed websites?

  I think https://lichess.org is wonderful and always bring it up as an example of a great UI. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Last Chance to Register for Online Classical Quads

  The registration deadline for the HCC September Classical Quad tournament is tomorrow, Sunday September 3rd at 19h EDT (23h UTC). One classical game a week, played on lichess.org in round-robin sections of four to seven players, grouped by rating. Serious play in a good social atmosphere. Join us and win the right to play IM Dave Ross in a simultaneous exhibition. Play begins September 7th. All the details here:... Source: 8 months ago

• Best Electronic Chess board for school students?

  Not sure if this is what you are looking for but there is a great electronic chess board that I have called the square off pro. There is a mode where two people can play on a physical board and then afterwords they can analyze the game on an app. The board actively records the players moves as they are playing. In addition you can link this board to chess.com or lichess.org and play people on either those websites... Source: 10 months ago

• Lichess and chess.com consider AnonAddy a disposable email address

  Both these websites - lichess.org and chess.com - are considering AnonAddy a disposable email address. Source: 10 months ago

• Please stop using this subreddit as chess.com support page. They pay people to help you specifically.

  Have in mind that these people play on chess.com instead of lichess.org . Have a heart. The least you can do is allow them to ask questions here. Source: 10 months ago

• What would the best possible move be?

  The best move is Qc3+. But please, don't came back here asking for another one when you lose to level 20 in the password game. You can use lichess.org to edit and analyze a position next time. Source: 10 months ago

• OTB 2000+ players share your journey!

  Develop a strong opening repertoire. It got me from 1600 OTB to 2000 OTB in the span of 3-4 years when I was still a teenager before chess.com or lichess.org even existed. There are sorts of online resources that could help you with that (especially chess.com). Experiment with different openings and see which ones work the best for you. Source: 10 months ago

• Analyzing Chess.com games to lichess

  How do you transfer a chess.com game to lichess.org for analyzing/ game review. The analyze I mean is the thing that shows blunders,innacuracies and all kinds of stuff. Not the thing that gives numbers to represent who is winning (3.0+, 1.1-). I used this tool https://lichess.org/analysis but it didn't work. Source: 10 months ago

• It is just me or chess.com players are in general more toxic than lichess ones? Or is it just me?

  According to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSkHLJKJkb0ZuI4/preview there are 5.2 million games per day played on lichess.org ;. Source: 10 months ago

• Specific request

  Can someone with a tablet + keyboard/mouse setup try drawing arrows on lichess.org? Source: 10 months ago

• Endgame: If Player doesn’t resign I eat all the Pawns and promote every Pawn to Queen. Toxic or right?

  I've been doing this for over 2 years without consequence so I believe both chess.com and lichess.org agrees with me. Source: 10 months ago

• Is the maia bot on lichess accurate to how someone at that rating would play?

  Oh interesting, but would it still be 1500 elo on say chess.com? Since the lichess.org elo system is supposedly a few hundred elo points higher? I ask this, as I am basing my rating off of my chess.com elo, which is 500. Source: 10 months ago