http://en.lichess.org/@/amir51People like the above seem to never rematch and only seek as white and rarely take the colour black, this gives them a first-move advantage 80% of the time that they choose to do this, maybe a system should be set to make people who abuse this only able to play as random colours?
As a note, I'm not saying this is amir's fault, so no blaming, he's just taking advantage of something that could be avoided if a system was implemented to stop it. Also great job thibault loving the changes recently! :)
Well. I get your point but I can't imagine a solution that would be efficient, fair, and relatively easy to implement.
To put it differently, the problem is not big enough to justify the means required to fix it.
So, well, yes, he can decide to always play the same color. There is no honor in that, and I feel a little bit bad for him. But I suggest we just let go.
Our proposition about #1:
1)Option-single game,
2)Option-game with rematch
What do You want "Thecheesykid"?
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C'est sympa de pouvoir choisir sa couleur, si j'ai envi de m'entrainer que avec les noirs par exemple je vois pas ou il est le problème ...
Thecheesykid a l'air d'avoir un elo assez bon pour jouer contre amir avec les noirs mais bon pas sur :p
No, I do not believe the machine should be so self-aware. That's the second law of robotics.
When you click the 'white' button, you expect it to put you in as white.
Doing otherwise results in a bad UX and bad for the website's transparency.
What instead to be done is see more people do the honorable thing and select the question mark, which puts you in as either.
There are some ways to make people more likely to click the venerable question mark of chivalry. For instance, the question mark's button could be made bigger than the other two and placed between them. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to make a mockup but I am positive that you catch my drift.
There should also be visible (not alt) text underneath them, by the way, as the question mark is not universal (and yes, this is me rabbiting on about my usability books again),
I'm the opposite, I only play as black.
I always seek with random, and I can understand only playing with black but I think someone playing only with white should be warned for fairplay no? It's not fair on his opponents to only have black vs him.
Amir is just an example here, in this case it's not really that bad, but in future some people could try to exploit this further and my question is whether there is any warning for fairplay or restrictions to be set on an account that abuses it?
Hm, is it really that much harder to play with black? I've almost never played as white so I wouldn't know..have I actually been making chess harder on myself this whole time?
Well, white has a higher win rate than black, why not make that win rate influence directly the ELO? AKA white gets less points if he wins, loses more if black wins and in a draw white loses some points.
