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General Chess Discussion - Are you guys aware of lishogi.org? A site to play shogi (Japanese chess) by the creators of Lichess.#4

While I'm not a mod here, I'm fully able to quote the about page on lishogi to reiterate what I already said ... https://lishogi.org/about lishogi.org is a fork from lichess.org rewritten for shogi. T…


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General Chess Discussion - Are you guys aware of lishogi.org? A site to play shogi (Japanese chess) by the creators of Lichess.#2

lichess is open source, so they would have just taken the code and modified it. lidraughts.org is another one, and there are plenty of other sites that do the similar. None of these sites are directly…


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General Chess Discussion - How long does it take to ban a cheater ?#10

@LexDev said in #9: > When I came back to the same page and clicked the guy's profile, I found this thing : "This account violated the Lichess TOS". A quick response by the lichess staff although I di…


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Off-Topic Discussion - Is declining takebacks rude?#18

@Chessmates4ever said in #1: > So I was playing chess just now and my opponent was the first to offer a takeback. I accepted and the game continued. When I offered a takeback because I blundered, they…


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Off-Topic Discussion - Is there one historical person you associate with good morals?#18

Leonidas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_I


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General Chess Discussion - How long does it take to ban a cheater ?#4

What's to say it's not a good player who just opened their account and are winning against players who would be rated lower than them and after the dust settles their rating and accuracy will settle t…


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General Chess Discussion - What if chess didn't have draws?#16

@Ian_Rastall said in #15: > It might be possible to rank two players based on who played more actively/aggressively, and thus when a tie happens, that player could be awarded the game. This would also…


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General Chess Discussion - What if chess didn't have draws?#9

@i-bex said in #5: > That's false. You are referencing etymology of the word not the rule itself. Read further and the rule's history goes as far as chaturanga. Even if we only talk about chess we hav…


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General Chess Discussion - What if chess didn't have draws?#3

In the scheme of things stalemate is relatively new, Wikipedia lists is first use only about 250 years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalemate


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General Chess Discussion - Chess popularity discussion 2#3

I think you've answered your own conundrum halfway through your post, simply put it's not all about you, popularity of everything fluctuates and if chess is raising in popularity now so be it. One of …


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