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Community Blog Discussions - A chess set for your every mood (and mood swings)#1

Comments on https://lichess.org/@/kosu/blog/a-chess-set-for-your-every-mood-and-mood-swings/AQqLdq6g


kosu
Lichess Feedback - Why can't Chess960 Correpondence be rated while Standard Chess can be?#6

All these explanations assume chess960 is simply a variant, and thus it shall be treated as such. This is where I differ. It is not yet another variant. It is serious chess. It deserves to be treated …


kosu
Lichess Feedback - Why can't Chess960 Correpondence be rated while Standard Chess can be?#3

Yes, correspondence rating cannot be just for standard. Is it work-in-progress or the idea was rejected because of this?


kosu
Lichess Chess960 - Can we please get more tournaments with longer time period?#7

More time is required. Look what happened to these chess960 tourneys happening at the same time: Lichess official hourly chess960 arena 3+0 time control 0 players (2 players paused) https://lichess.or…


kosu
Lichess Feedback - Why can't Chess960 Correpondence be rated while Standard Chess can be?#1

What is the purpose of preventing rated games through correspondence for Chess960? Looks like, no rated option for variants in correspondence. I don't play other variants so not having rated option fo…


kosu
Lichess Feedback - Need Daily and Hourly Classical Arena Tournaments#13

These are classical time controls. Even 5+30 is classical as per lichess. I agree with that since we get to think deeper with these time controls. As pointed out earlier, weekly classical draws thousa…


kosu
Lichess Feedback - Need Daily and Hourly Classical Arena Tournaments#10

If 5+30 is weird, there is 15+15, 20+5, or 25+0 etc. Typically, there is no time trouble in either of these time controls in my experience (I'm a very slow player generally). Did Lichess try daily cla…


kosu
Lichess Feedback - Need Daily and Hourly Classical Arena Tournaments#7

Take this recent Weekly Classical Arena tournament as example: https://lichess.org/tournament/zivOebDP It has really long duration 20+10. It had 1336 players and within 5 hours they played 2605 games!…


kosu
Lichess Feedback - Need Daily and Hourly Classical Arena Tournaments#5

Thanks for sharing this info. Classical swiss tourneys are nice to have. However, there are limitations in swiss system (e.g. having to wait for a round to complete though players are available, inabi…


kosu
Lichess Feedback - Need Daily and Hourly Classical Arena Tournaments#3

I used Hourly for the lack of better word. In the details, I mentioned that Lichess allows for minimum 100 minutes for 5+30 tournament. So Lichess thinks it is feasible to have 1 hr 40 min tournament.…


kosu