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Lichess Official Blog
How to learn from your games at lichess
A chess article about a typical lichess game
Today, we are delighted to introduce a new lichess blogger, MoralIntentions. You probably already know him for his helpful forum posts, his thousands of lichess games, and of course the amazing chess alphabet!
You can learn more from certain games than from others. That's why I've looked for a typical lichess game that many players can learn from. I will discuss the game between Geol020 and german11, that can be found at http://lichess.org/BYlUzns8.
July updates
New variant, new tournaments, new ratings!
The lichess team has been working hard this month, and awesome stuff is coming off the presses!
Meet the Team!
Learn about the volunteers who make lichess possible
Today we'd like to present you the awesome team that makes lichess real, day after day. This handful of volunteers is continuously debating, designing, coding then maintaining the website. We also moderate the communications, and lead a never-ending war against cheaters. With great success!
Why is lichess free?
The founder and developer explains the philosophy behind lichess
Many of you have been asking why lichess is free. "No such thing as a free lunch", right? There must be a trap.
Pools and Wave Pairings
The maths and science of pairing players
Nobody likes waiting times, and nobody likes bad pairings; and with a finite amount of players it can very difficult to find a balance between the two.
I'll start with an example. Imagine you're trying to find an opponent; it's 6pm and you just want a decent game before it gets too late. At what point do you settle on an opponent and start playing?
Mini Update: Late June
Notable updates for late June: Pools and AI
Pools here!
After many requests, we have introduced player pools. Read on to find out more!
After many requests, pools are finally here!
Accessibility for blind players
Lichess becomes the first chess site accessible to visually impaired people.
I was hanging out on the ##chess IRC channel on freenode, as usual, when someone connected and said this:
Hello, my name is Vojta and I used to play chess some time ago. I would like to start again. I am blind. Do you know of any possibility so that blind people could play chess with other people or against computer?
How training puzzles are generated
A tale of data re-use: How we make puzzles from your games.
Lichess has just reached 30 million games played, and nearly 700 000 of them have been computer analysed; so what should be done with all this information?
This is a question that I asked myself about 5 months ago. It seemed like a waste to have so many games analysed, looked at once or twice and then forgotten about. So I started asking myself how all of this information could be assimilated so everyone in the lichess community could learn from the mistakes of their peers.