sorry for the tongue twister title...

I just switched to from windows to linux recently and am experiencing lag on lichess. the pieces are very laggy, as well as the sounds that play. I thought it was a fire fox problem but google chrome gives me the same issues. I checked my drivers were updated and yes they are. Has anyone else faced these issues or know any suggestions?

Thank you!

I know. Silly. But where do I find my game (played with stockfish?) after closing game's tab on my chrome? Also, is there any way to continue my game on the phone (after login in offcourse)?

Hello everyone
I've been playing on lichess for a few years and my rating ranges from 1600 to 1700.
I mostly play 3 minutes games.
Some days I log in and within an hour or two I go from 1600 to 1700, and the next day I quickly drop back from 1700 to 1600.

I wonder if lichess has a way to "fix" my games, meaning to match me with opponents that I have a high probability of beating (of course the ratings of all my opponents is always within 50 points more or less than mine)

Am i paranoid?

I play lichess for a long time I play classical and I got 96.1 percent accuracy in classical suddenly the lichess team banned me for cheating I appeal and they denied my appeal even I show evidence of my innocence and I cannot make another account again in lichess

Im creating a UI interface for a chess webapp for fun. How bad is this?

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Claude is my go-to model. When global demand is low, I can use I used to have access to 3.5 Sonnet (new). I also tried ChatGPT, but I ran into the same issues.

I have a scan of a chess book that I want to digitize in an automated fashion. In order to play through the game and variations with comments on the computer, these pdf scans have to be transcribed into pgn format. It is the default chess codec and has very simple syntax, which Claude can read. The whole book has 600 pages, so I broke the pdf into separate files for each game (to only provide relevant context to the model).

To illustrate what I will talk about, here are some pages available for preview on google docs:
https://books.google.de/books?id=cxqUEAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA20-IA19&pg=PA20-IA19#v=onepage&q&f=false

It will do everything perfectly, however it has trouble identifying the piece symbols. Notice that what is printed in the book is not Rd4, but (rook-symbol)d4. There seem to have been sufficiently many chess games in its training data, so it knows that d4, Nd4, Bd4, Rd4, Qd4, Kd4 all make sense, but it is basically guessing these with a success rate that's maybe better than chance, but far from perfect. It's quite funny that "context" seems to lead it to repeated output sometimes, like sometimes it will output a bunch of rook moves in a row (since that seems to be trendy) or maybe that's just me reading patterns into randomness. But unfortunately one incorrect move is enough to make the overall file unreadable.

So that's why I started downloading the to be annotated games first as pgn (recorded chess games are public domain) and ask it to only amend it by the variations and comments given in the pdf. This produces a valid file and all the variations (with random guesses for the pieces) are added as text strings (not moves I am able to play through) in the comments. This already saves me a lot of time because I don't have to transcribe the comments and I can add the moves manually and then delete the comment. Usually you can guess which piece is supposed to go to a specific square, but it still messes with your head :) If I can't automatize more of this work flow, it will ultimately cost me too much time.

When I explicitly ask it to add the variations as moves I am able to play through, the file becomes corrupted again because of invalid piece transcriptions.

I tried teaching it which symbol is which, like 21.Rd1, 24...Ne4 and such, but this didn't change the behavior.

This would have been one iteration of my prompt:
Would you please attach the variations from the pdf as variations and annotations to the pgn? Please add them as playable moves in () and not just as text in {} and add the text snippets at appropriate moments in between. Please also include the introduction as a comment! It is critically important that each piece is transcribed correctly, otherwise it will break the pgn file.

This is a snippet of the output:

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.O-O

{Another try is 8. Bg5 O-O! (8... Nbd7? 9. a4! gives a powerful bind) 9. Nd2 Nxe4! 10. Bxe7 Nxc3 11. Qxd8 Nxd1 12. Be7 Re8 13. Bc4 Rxb2! 14. Rb6 Bxe7 15. Rxa8 Ra4 16. O-O-O (Fischer-Ghitescu, Leipzig 1960) 16... Bd7! with the better game.}

8...O-O 9.Be3 Be6 10.f3

What I would like my prompt to achieve would be something like this:

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.O-O

( 8.Bg5 {is another try} 8...O-O $1

( 8...Nbd7 $2 9.a4 $1 {gives a powerful bind} )

9.Nd2 Nxe4 $1 10.Bxe7 Nxc3 11.Bxd8 Nxd1 12.Be7 Re8 13.Nc4 Nxb2 14.Nb6 Rxe7 15.Nxa8 Na4 16.O-O-O {(Fischer-Ghitescu, Leipzig 1960)} 16...Bd7 $1 {with the better game} )

8...O-O 9.Be3 Be6 10.f3

You can see that starting with 11.Qxd8 (which is really 11.Bxd8) quite a number of pieces have been changed.

In an ideal world, I would like the LLM to reformulate the sentences such that the bits fit in between the moves.
({Another try is 8. Bg5 ...} above to ( 8.Bg5 {is another try} ...))
As you can see moves are in () and comments in {}

How can I try to improve my prompt to achieve what I am looking for?
Or is this task maybe to hard for current LLMs, or rather pgn chess games just too sparse in the training data?

While typing out this post out, it occurred to me that maybe I want to set the temperature to 0 because when the prediction is 91% Queen I really want it to always output a Queen and not by random sampling output something else. Although, judging by the frequency of the incorrect transcriptions, this can't be the whole reason.

Thank you for reading through my whole post if you've made it this far, and thank you for any help!

This website is superior in every way but chesscom got it right by going with USCF. Having an extra pawn in a winning endgame but losing on time to an opponent having a bishop is really silly lol. No “player faster” comments, criticizing this rule is pretty reasonable

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So I was playing 3 min blitz and I basically lost the game, I was left only with a king and my opponent had a rook and also made a queen, he then placed his queen right next to my king gave me 7 min of time. So I "used the time" he gave him to think whether to capture his queen or move my king for 5 mins (I stalled). I also bumped up his clock to 5 mins of time to play the next move but he then went offline and I claimed victory. My friend thinks it's bad but I think it's fair and funny since he was the one who gave me the extra time

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A hint is available here: https://lichess.org/study/34Unj34e/L8DWkdGq

Do you have the same problem?

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I'm not sure when Lichess added that giant pop-up warning for letting the clock run out but it has recently been leaving a very bad taste in my mouth.

Thinking for 23 seconds should not be enough to trigger something like that. Nobody should feel like they are being held hostage over 23 seconds, even in a time scamble when faced with a complex position you can feel like a deer in the headlights. and changing it from a tiny message in chat to a giant pop-up feels confrontational and accusatory.

It's only happened a couple times now and my opinion of Lichess is souring fast

I love the finish game with computer feature. However it seems to be gone from the beta app. Am I missing something, or was it intentionally removed?

I play mostly on lichess on Android, but one thing that chess.cum clearly has over lichess is the number of players.

On chess.cum when I click on a new 15:10 game I pretty much have an opponent in seconds, most of the time it's instant. On lichess sometimes I give up after a minute of waiting for an opponent.

I noticed that sometimes a 10:5 game is much easier to obtain than a 15:10, sometimes 10:0 etc, depending on what people are wanting to play at that moment.

Since there's fewer players on lichess it would be nice to know exactly how many people are waiting in the queue in each game type, to estimate how long I will have to wait.

Another useful feature would be to have an option to join any rapid have type regardless of format. I pretty much only play rapid and sometimes I just want to get a quick game and don't care if it's 15:10 or 10:0. A "any rapid game" would be nice to get something fast and not have to wait forever

I've noticed this before, and maybe it's just my settings that are wrong somehow - but when I set it to show the five top lines, it sometimes shows line 2 and 3 twice. How to avoid this? Like this position (the ongoing Gukesh-Ding game), where 10...b5 and 10...Qb6 are both shown twice:

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Has anyone else experienced lots of lagging this month? I've been playing on the app and Beta app on mobile. And lag spikes around 2 to 2.5 second for every move. It's so disencouraging to play Blitz and Bullet.

I just felt like asking others Lichessers if they experience the same thing since the Beta app's been out.

If I just want to train puzzles at 1500 ELO, for example, is there a way to do it?

Right now I've found a workaround by turning off Rated and picking one of the relative settings to ballpark it. But maybe there's a better way?

I wanted to add Lichess as a bookmark on Bookmarker.me, but I’d love to know if there’s a way to launch a new game via URL, like https://lichess.org/?clocks=5+0. Do you have any ideas on how to start a new game?