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Perhaps the primary mistake is trying to think of Sicilian as one opening, it's rather a class of openings which can differ quite a lot. (Calling it "Sicilian defense" may be seen as another mistake. …

I don't think it works like that, I'm pretty sure I was able to post to the forum long before my rating became stable.

If your goal is learning experience, possibly at the expense of short term results, Sicilian, in particular its open variants, can be the right choice (for white, probably something like Scotch or Spa…

Simpler and cleaner interface, more focus on chess and less on bells and whistles, including less "gamification" stuff (see https://lichess.org/@/SayChessClassical/blog/are-online-chess-players-trappe…

And that's pefectly right, IMHO. It would be unfair if some games I played disappeared from my history. Just yesterday or the day before I was linking one of my earlier games as an example and noticed…

Maybe the dates are related to UTC or another timezone different from yours.

@CSKA_Moscou said in #47: > However, suppose op gains 100 points in a year and then 50 points per year. if he is currently 16 years old, he will be 2200 at 21 years old. and even if he does not become…

It could only work if the game were adjourned to a specific date/time (agreed upon by the players). But I doubt there would be sufficient demand to justify the work needed to implement such feature.

@TBest said in #3: > ...so should work after next restart. @vlad10898 said in #4: > no, it still doesn't There was no restart yet, when in doubt, you can check https://lichess.org/source

Well, it's fun, of course, but all the stuff like preparing for the games (sometimes also discussing the prep with the team), people watching their teammates playing and commenting on the games, even …