Lichess: Benevolent Dictatorship Never Felt So Good

 I spent a terrifying 24 hours posting comments on the Lichess forum and ended up being personally shaken down by Thibault Duplessis and his admins as well as loyal users who thought I needed a public beating too. What were the offending posts that I was posting that shook up the world's most popular chess website and the second biggest chess server on Earth?


Posted 7 messages in My Chess Coach is a 1400 elo player

Does a coach need to have a decent rating or can they be a patzer whith a 1400 elo rating? Just asking for a friend.
@Pulsifier I've seen plenty of coaches with really low ratings "training" people higher rated than them lol
@ryan121 it's online rating lol
@Sarg0n That's the thing he's low rating and high price. I was hoping for the other way round lol
@Steven-ODonoghue I posted a few topics having not posted for a long time. I also responded to topics of others I thoug…
@jamesB009 Yes he’s on here but I don’t want to get him any unwanted attention. He uses the money 💰 I pay him to look a…
@Deadban I’m 1600+ Elo and he’s 1400 Elo 🥺

Posted 1 message in Spaced Repetition Coordinate Trainer?

@GeoffPlitt Lucas Chess a free chess training app has this coordinate training with spaced repetition. https://source…

Posted 1 message in What was your Best Lichess Tournament Performance? When you were Magn…

Every dog 🐶has their day. Tell us how your greatest ever tournament performance happened and give us a link to your bes…

Posted 4 messages in Do Lichess Admin and Moderators Have a Setting to Demote Certain Posts?

I think I've seen this a few times when a controversial post doesn't seem to get to the top of the forum for each new re…
@QEDemonstrandum nope yet again you got the wrong end of the stick. The post had several very recent replies and w…
@QEDemonstrandum okay so we’re on the same page literally now. I was looking at the same category of the forum and saw s…
@Sarg0n trolling equals hyperactivity Interesting 🤔

Posted 1 message in My Chess Community has 250,000 chess members but you probably never he…

I'm co-founder of Chess Club Live a chess community of 250,000 chess fans but you probably never heard of my community. …

Posted 2 messages in I’m a Lichess Patron treat me with no respect

I’ve noticed since making the easy decision to be paying Lichess for the rest of my life, people have got more respectfu…
@Sarg0n yes that’s it be disrespectful, more please 😄

Posted 3 messages in Forking Lichess till You Die Trying

When I first heard about the open source Lichess I actually thought that it would be handy to fork Lichess and host on m…
@Mahith1708 you mean saying I’m a professional coder and that I created the original chess puzzle game that got called…
@Mahith1708 I’m a man before his time, a chess futurist 😂

Posted 5 messages in I'm a Black Man and Feel that my contribution to the Chess World is Ig…

@clousems I suggest you re-read what I wrote since you are barking up the wrong tree. I'm not suggesting that there bei…
@ryan121 at last someone read what I actually wrote not what they thought I wrote or wanted me to write. You are exac…
@clousems ah okay. I have to speak in generalities but most of the chess community don't care my color because it is not…
@DearProfessor thank you for such an informed and thoughtful reply.
@AuraAssistant why are you so nasty to me, I mean why can't I say how I feel without all the snarky comments and thumbs …

Posted 1 message in Fabiano Caruana

Tell us everything you know about the US Super Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana.

Posted 5 messages in The Best Free Training Software for Chess in the World - Lucas Chess

A friend of mine who loves chess and chess people wrote a chess training software so complete, thorough and useful that …
@Prince_of_6ixty4our Because this is a complete chess taining system, not masquerading a sone.
@Mahith1708 you got firewall preventing chess downloads? Sorry to hear that bro.
Get the portable one bro (portable is the best download version IMHO) https://sourceforge.net/projects/lucaschessr/fil…
@Mahith1708 you downloaded the free portable version and ran the LucasChessR.exe in the Bin folder?

Posted 1 message in it's impossible for me to go above 31 in puzzle rush

@A_0123456 Hi I'm the inventor of what you know as Puzzle Rush, I created the prototype chess puzzle game about 10 years…

Posted 1 message in How to save survival mode puzzzle in chess.com?

As the guy who wrote the original code for the Chess Puzzle game that got called Puzzle Rush, I'd say Daniel Rensch and …

Posted 5 messages in Anish Giri has a Chess Training app on his phone 📱 I built for him

Yes believe it or not I created a chess training app that Anish installed on his phone. We chatted about customising…
I cannot put the screen grabs on lichess can I? If you come to a decent forum with full functionality or on signal or…
@ITN123 I don’t want to host it on imgur.com but nice try lol 👍
@TheOnlyChessCheetah you think I’m lying because of what? Even if I show you a screen grab you would say it was a photos…
@Mr-bulletplayer chess.com aren’t letting me on their site to post because of me inventing the app they copied remember …

Posted 1 message in I really want to improve

@GashworthHarvey If you really really want to improve download and install a free chess training app called Lucas Chess …

Posted 1 message in Is a Donation by a Patron or Fee for Patron Logo?

You donate ☺️ and your money gets you a patron logo. Some see this is payment for a reserved premium feature. I…

Posted 3 messages in Is there a Limit to how many posts or topics I am allowed to create?

I have not posted on the forum for much lately and had something to say in terms of topics and a lot to contribute as po…
@MathWizKid So according to you there is like a troll nature to me and my posts. This make me sad, I told Thibault Dupl…
@MathWizKid Neither can you it seems your sarcasm limit is only one ply deep. If you want to do chess satire edito…

Posted 3 messages in Grandmaster Blunder vs Amateur Blunder

If a Grandmaster blunders is it higher rated and stronger than a blunder by an amateur? I ask because I create ficti…
@TonyKoIarek okay now we are getting to the good stuff, what is the difference between a blunder and an inaccuracy or m…
@Megadoggah Agadmator chose the most unrealistic game I had many they were created by AI and I told him their were bette…

Posted 1 message in Daily Chess Newspaper 📰

I created a daily chess newspaper 🗞 It’s 100% about news and is free with no ads. Please subscribe if you like i…

Posted 8 messages in FIDE Online Arena Titles
When will FIDE online arena titles be recognized on Lichess?
@FRUSTATIONAL_CHESS They are lower rated titles offered by FIDE for online chess. https://old-arena.myfide.net/rati…
@QEDemonstrandum well we already recognise FIDE titles from FIDE rated events, they are not Lichess events nor on the Li…
@QEDemonstrandum firstly FIDE online arena titles are also OTB titiles, this is not me saying it but FIDE, the FIDE onli…
@QEDemonstrandum yes 👍 good point that you can’t show OTB strength on Lichess but following your logic why you showing…
@pendru if my opponent makes fun of my title and I want it displayed sounds like it’s a win win scenario lol
@gothica31 yes FIDE Online Arena titles like ACM are for low rated players from 1100 saying that doesn’t I make it valu…
@QEDemonstrandum I think you are missing the point here. FIDE have created these official online titles for their online…
Posted 3 messages in Chess Elo Trading
Ok before you read this I want you to know this sounds weird to me as well. Lichess is a place where chess players ex…
@Sarg0n I assume you either didn’t read what I wrote or you don’t understand it. Trading is an analogy here. Elo have a …
@Meriten I think you launched into a discussion about a virtual token that nobody but you is having. The post is about t…
Posted 2 messages in Hyper Accelerated Chess Deep Learning vs Chess Cheats
I have often wondered how we tell the difference between people who are using accelerated learning systems for Chess and…
@EwoudUtrecht that’s only partly true, your opponents and their friends can report you if they think they can prove yo…
Posted 1 message in Reached 1500 in 3 days!
Get my friend's free chess training system Lucas Chess https://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/
Posted 2 messages in Hikaru Nakamura
Please tell us everything you know about , Hikaru Nakamura , the greatest online bullet player of all time.
@Pulsifier There’s no way to express how epic your post was. Thank you 😊
Posted 1 message in Lichess Chess News
Just wondered if chess news for Lichess users was worth posting on the forum. I mean news about chess events and als…



Posted 3 messages in Warning for Letting Your Clock Run Out
How do you know if a player is thinking about a move , wracking their brains to find that move that solves all their pro…
@AlAnLiAnG Yeah okay some players do that and it's bad like I said how do we tell the difference so that I can think for…
@EmmettK yeah i get your point but 5 seconds is like a year in ub lol
Posted 1 message in Why am i struggling to convert in winning positions and how to overcom…
The secret is to know the difference between these concepts, the 3 T's. Teaching - Reading books will give you the …
Posted 2 messages in The Botez Gambit: Is it really a thing?
I am a regular chess player and used to think the Botez Gambit was a joke encouraged by Alexandra Botez and her fans. Ba…
@LichyChess yes I was very lucky
Posted 1 message in Chess inferiority.
The professionl Go and Shogi players say the complexity and depth is so much that they don't really know what's going on…


Posted 2 messages in Petition to mute Michuk in Forum
@StonkFishUser I am personally sorry if offended anyone by asking questions about chess and replying to other people's q…
@qwertise We, English people, spell "apologize" in England like "apologise" sorry if you feel offended by that 🙏
Posted 3 messages in I’m a Lichess Patron treat me with no respect
@kaissa44 yep you are right on the money brother. Thanks
@Sparklehorse2004 I think that was the point I was making but somehow I got demonized for saying it. I have people chat …
@AnonymousChessKing yes that's the point. Just because I choose to support this website s
houldn't illicit respect, I sho…



That was a sample of the topics I created and posts I replied to, but for some reason it shook 
up the Lichess Admin team






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