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What do you guys do about cheating? Honestly because there have been games where players go from not knowing at all what to do to fining the exact refutations in speedy succession. Something’s gotta give here man.

I know online chest cheating is really out of hand, but if you’re gonna have a platform where people can play online, you should have the right technology in place to eliminate it.

Over the weekend, I played my first OTB tournament — 90+30 time control in the Under 1800 section and it was a real eye-opener. I thought I was strong because of my online ratings and a couple of wins against titled players online, but OTB really exposed my weaknesses, especially my calculation.

I was struggling against players rated around 1600. My main issue was playing too fast. Bullet and blitz have completely corrupted my thinking. I instantly realized that my artificial moves and cheap tricks wouldn’t work OTB. I started 0/3 before I finally adjusted and finished on 50%.

At first, I went into every game with the usual all-out attacking style that works online because opponents don’t have time to think. But OTB, my opponents would just sit there for 20 minutes and calmly refute everything.

My first rating is now 1550, but honestly, now I know exactly what I need to work on: CALCULATION. I have calculation book by Sam Shankland sitting on my shelf that I never even opened. That’s what I’ll focus on now.

My advice: if you’ve never played OTB, do it. It’ll show you exactly what you actually need to improve.

If yes, then what's your FIDE rating classical? Be honest, does your blitz rating correlates heavily with your OTB or not.

Hi i want a chess coach who can teach for free i am a 1159 elo on lichess rn my peak at lichess was like 1459. Pls comment if you can trach bye see ya!

Simplify no?

I don't get why this is a blunder? I thought that there might be a way to force a rook pin with the bishop but nothing was clear so in my calculations so I just thought of simplifying since I have a better position and I am up a pawn. Can someone explain the idea ?

https://lichess.org/Fdg4y98C

My bullet performance when I get back from school (3-6 PM) is probably low 2000s and my bullet performance at night (9 PM-1 AM) is probably mid 1900s. That's more than a 50 point difference. I feel like that's pretty big and I would have expected something like 20ish points. How much do your performances vary throughout the day?

Hey guys - I'm sure there are several websites that have great puzzles to practice with but I really like Lichess because of the different themes/ and the puzzle dashboard etc. etc.

I'm curious though, seeing as Lichess doesn't seem to have a way to repeat the puzzles you miss more than once - do you guys have a strategy for how to save the puzzles that you missed?

Thanks!

Moved over to Lichess a few months back, because chess dot com was basically matching me with brand new accounts with 30 to 300 games constantly that were clearly well above my level.

for awhile it was good on Lichess, legit accounts playing at my level.

Now it’s almost gotten to chessdotcom levels were I’ve just gone back to chessdotcom.

I guess this was more of a vent post but I suppose I should ask if anyone has found a solution to this? the only one I’ve found is to go to an actual chess club.

- Cue the oddly defensive redditors saying this never happens

Hi, I’m currently rated around 2300 in Bullet on Lichess. My game relies almost entirely on fast pattern recognition, intuition and piece awareness.

If you ask me to find f6 or c4 instantly, I have to stop and think about it. It’s a massive blind spot, especially when I try to read PGN of any famous games.

Has anyone else with a purely visual memory dealt with this? How did you finally get coordinates to click?