Is Lichess Elo system OK?

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iBurgoS
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Re: Is Lichess Elo system OK?

Post by iBurgoS »

Eduard wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2023 7:21 pm @iBurgoS

You don't want to understand what it's about. Make your list however you want. I don't think it's nice of you to ban people from the list who didn't know the list. I didn't know the list until a few days ago. How I can should, for example, follow your rules if I don't know them?? Yet you banned me from this list and treated me like a rule-breaker. That's not nice, that's defamatory. As a new moderator in the Outskirts Forum, you should know that it's not nice for people to be blamed for things they can't do. But you do. Just remove me (my accounts) from your banned list and then it's OK with me. If I stand there unjustly, I will have no respect for you.
Fine, I'll remove you. But please, after I remove you please leave me alone.

But if you artificially increase / boost your rating again, I'll add you, be aware of that.
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Re: Is Lichess Elo system OK?

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You have no right to demand anything from me. I play Lichess for fun and I play the way I enjoy the most. The account LermerBot last played on November 9th. That was long ago. If you don't have fun, you don't play. There are bots that I won't play against, just out of principle. There is a bot that I won against but didn't get any Elo points. That's no fun. Most strong bots play with Stockfish or other derivatives. What's fun in that? I play 99% of all my games on PlayChess against Stockfish. It's no fun anymore!!! Fewer and fewer people are playing on this server because it's no longer fun to draw 99 times out of 100 games, draws as far as the eye can see. :roll: On Lichess I can also play against other engines, which is more fun. And now you come along and want to forbid me from doing that? Who are you, are you God?
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Re: Is Lichess Elo system OK?

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Live Picture on PlayChess, you see only draws:
(and there are only a few players playing. This is the future when only your iBurgoS rules will apply)
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Re: Is Lichess Elo system OK?

Post by Eduard »

The only chance to play against engines other than Stockfish is Lichess. There are really a lot of interesting engines there that are of course much weaker than Stockfish. But I still enjoy playing against these engines more than on PlayChess, where I might only win one game out of 100. A friend of mine had to play 150 games today before he won another game with at least 18000 kns. He plays non-stop in auto mode. I got his latest database with exactly 10723 games. I counted only 164 winning games.

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Only 164 winning games are copied from the database with 10723 games into a new database.

Some of these were gained through disconnect or time. According to iBurgoS, such balances must now be continued on Lichess, otherwise there is a risk of banishment and discrimination.
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Re: Is Lichess Elo system OK?

Post by Magnum »

Eduard wrote: Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:21 pm Is Lichess Elo system OK?
If you think it's OK that I once had 3500 elo and that's why I stopped, then it's OK.
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Re: Is Lichess Elo system OK?

Post by Henk »

Ratings have no meaning at all for me. Last game I played in real life was against a 1500 player that was sneezing and snottering all the time.
I lost while my rating on chess.com is sometimes 1950.

So it is all about the stupid mistakes you make during that game.

So I guess my rating during that game was 1400. (riddle, riddle). Yes I am sick (not now). But my elo can change dramatically within two hours. Depends on what I am doing. Or what the environment is doing.