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Lichess Feedback - Thematic tournaments are great, but they are taking over.#1

Previously, there would always be at least one active arena tournament of normal chess in either 1m, 3m, or 5m. Now, often there are three active thematic tournaments simultaneously being played in ea…


paulwal
Lichess Feedback - Claim a draw by pressing a key, or auto-claim draws#7

That's a solid tip. Thank you. I will remember that.


paulwal
Lichess Feedback - Claim a draw by pressing a key, or auto-claim draws#5

That's funny, because it turns out I have this setting already turned on in my preferences, but I lost by trying to press the Draw button when a repetition hadn't occurred yet.


paulwal
Lichess Feedback - Claim a draw by pressing a key, or auto-claim draws#4

mCoombes314 - Wow, I didn't know this. Awesome, thanks!


paulwal
Lichess Feedback - Claim a draw by pressing a key, or auto-claim draws#3

I should add that, in regards to the linked game, I (as white) can easily make many moves in 1.5 seconds to hold the drawn position. However, there is not enough time to move AND press the Draw button…


paulwal
Lichess Feedback - Claim a draw by pressing a key, or auto-claim draws#1

Take a look at this bullet game: http://en.lichess.org/qT9YM8KwRwUC It's clearly a draw, but with less than 1.5 seconds left it takes too much time to press the claim draw button after a repetition, s…


paulwal
Lichess Feedback - Clicking the king, then clicking a rook causes castling???#19

It's very useful in 960. In non-960 games though it seems unnatural.


paulwal
Lichess Feedback - You have 30 seconds to make your first move IS A LIE#7

For the record, I preferred the grace period at 30 seconds.


paulwal
Lichess Feedback - You have 30 seconds to make your first move IS A LIE#6

Thanks flugsio. Yeah I figured the actual config settings might not be in the repository. I agree 7*24*60*60 is more readable. You could always put 604800 in the comment so it's searchable. And nice f…


paulwal
Lichess Feedback - Who the heck are those guys you name user-created tournaments after? Can it be named after great past & present players instead?#36

Awesome, this will be a really nice touch to the site. Thanks to Lemuel_Gulliver & Hellball!


paulwal