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  1. Home Page / Navigation
  2. Playing
  3. Learning from your Games
  4. Puzzles / Tutorials
  5. Social
  6. Mobile



Home Page / Navigation

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Playing

  • To challenge a friend* (see “Social” section below for adding friends):
    • Home Page -> “Play with a friend” button on the right
    • NOTE: your” friends” also show up in a box in the bottom right corner.  To challenge one, hover over their username, and click the button that looks like 2 swords
  • To play a stranger:
    • Home Page -> 2nd menu from the top:
      • “Quick pairing”: system will auto-match you with someone of similar strength
      • “Lobby”: list of people offering to play at various time controls, click and the game begins!
  • To play the computer:
    • Home Page -> “Play with the machine” button on the right
    • The computer can be tweaked to play on any level
  • To challenge other Q300 students who are currently online:
    • Players who are online have a green light next to them.  Hover over their username and click the button that looks like 2 swords

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Learning from your Games

  • To catalog your tournament games on LiChess:
    • Create a new Study: “Learn” -> “Study” -> create a new one (‘+’ sign on desktop)
    • Name it something like “John’s Tournament Games 2019”
    • Settings: Visibility=Invite Only, Enable sync = No
    • Add each game as a separate chapter in the study.
    • Share the study with the coaches: use “ADD MEMBERS”.  Saudin’s username is nychesskids.
  • To review one of your games / find blunders:
    • Your username in the upper right -> “Profile”
    • Click the “N Games” menu in the middle (N will be the number of games you actually played)
    • Select the game in question
    • Select “ANALYSIS BOARD” option to the right of the board
    • To have the computer analyze it, click the “REQUEST A COMPUTER ANALYSIS” button below the board.  It will show you the number of blunders and mistakes you made, and you can click “blunders” or “mistakes” to see when it happened.
  • To continue playing from a position in one of your games:
    • Start reviewing a game (see above)
    • Click the lower right menu button, which looks like three horizontal bars
    • Select “Continue from here” (visible if you scroll up a little)
  • To turn your mistakes into puzzles:
    • Start reviewing a game (see above)
    • Scroll down and select “Computer analysis” in the bottom menu
    • Click the “REQUEST A COMPUTER ANALYSIS” button below the board
    • Click the “LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES” button at the bottom right of the board
    • NOTE: you only need to request computer analysis once per game.  Once it’s done, “Learn from your mistakes” will always be available.

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Puzzles / Tutorials

  • Beginners: use the “Practice” feature to take interactive lessons:
    • “LEARN” (top menu) -> “Practice”
    • “LEARN” (top menu) -> “Chess basics” (if you are totally new)
  • Intermediate/Advanced: solve training puzzles:
    • “LEARN” (top menu) -> “Puzzles”
  • All levels: watch video lessons:
    • “WATCH” (top menu) -> “Video Library”
    • Use the left menu to filter by topic

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Social

  • Join our LiChess team pages:
    • Follow the above links and click the “Join team” button
    • NOTE: If you have “Kid Mode” enabled (see below), team pages are not available to you
  • To add someone to your friend list:
    • Find out their LiChess username
    • Find them using the search button near the top right corner
    • “Follow” them, by clicking the “thumbs up” button in the menu on the right
  • To enable “Kid Mode” (all communication features off):
    • Select your username in the upper right corner
    • Select “Preferences”
    • Select “Kid mode” in the left menu and follow the instructions
  • To disable in-game chat:
    1. When you are playing a game, there is a chat room on the left side of the board
    2. You can click the box next to “Chat room” to enable or disable it
    3. Your selection will be saved for future games
    4. Beware – this can be a little buggy sometimes.  For example, when you re-enable it, it sometimes doesn’t start working again until you refresh the website

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Mobile Version

  • The website can be fully used from a mobile browser.  It functions just as well.
  • There is also a mobile app, available for both iOS and Android.  It differs from the desktop version in several notable ways:
    • Different UI, but still very fast and responsive
    • “Practice” is not available
    • “Video library” is not available
    • Team pages are not available

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