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Welcome Lichess Boards – A new way to play on Lichess

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I just read a write-up of some chess drama (https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/f9uv4d/chess_sp... ) and one of the plot points was that lichess doesn't accept electronic boards in their ranking system - you had to use their online client.

Now that's untrue. The timing is surprising/odd to me - I feel like there's some connection or twist waiting to be revealed here.

Their blog post (linked in the post you linked) states that you've been able to use electronic boards for a while.

https://lichess.org/blog/XlE48hEAACIAQv2F/regium-extraordina...

I'm curious on where that "plot point" comes up? As far as I can tell, Lichess is the only one that did support electronic boards. In fact, in the blog post linked in that one, it says that Lichess has supported electronic boards being used for ranked play since 2018:

https://lichess.org/blog/WvDNticAAMu_mHKP/welcome-lichess-bo...

Use electronic boards, yes, but not for ranked play.

Where does it say that?

2018:

> Lichess Bots cannot:

> Participate in tournament or simuls

> Use lobby seeks or pools

> Appear in leaderboards

It says bots can play, but have a modified rating points system, so you couldn't use a bot/board for your human account.

Lichess Bots can:

    Play casual and rated games with other players

Thibault commented on the post: "Before anyone asks, no, this has nothing to do with the Regium scam." Thibault is the guy behind lichess and the one who wrote the post exposing Regium as a scam.

https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/blog-XlRW...

To save others some time: USB chess boards tend to cost a few hundred bucks https://www.chesshouse.com/collections/electronic-chess?sort...

Is there a version for Go?

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