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Are we really playing humans on here?

Chess games are the works of desire.
Chess games come and go, but some times new ideas are inspired from pasted games.
Even the ones created by bot users.

We are playing humans on here.
A cheater needs to question the relative value of their actions.
Like chess pieces have a relative value and not a fixed one.
Take care of your chess pieces, like they were alive, and you will feel their relative value change, as the game progresses.
Take care of your opponent, like they were your friends, and you will feel pleasure even if you lose against them.

The lost games, might feel like they have no more value, but they still do, if you actually played them.
They don't for the bot players, but do for the human players, that used his or her brain.

If we play alive, without assistance during a game, then it has value for both players.
The games actually increased in value, by avoiding the use of assistance.

Did you know when you lose a chess piece, it's value is still on the chessboard.
The total value of all the pieces remain and are spread among the rest of your active material in play.

This is why when a piece is captured, the opponent that lost a piece must now take care of the remaining pieces even more. They have gained value and so that opponent is now trying harder, desperately holding on to the life of his pieces.
Don't exchange, when your down in count. With fewer pieces, a player must focus more on the activity of the pieces.

Chess is alive, only if you don't use assistance.
Enjoy winning and losing. Feel the chess game with your opponent.
Life is full of love. Look around, it's right here on Lichess. Full of humans playing chess.

The site is alive, and we can thank the Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis and his team for their passion, for taking care of us all on this site, in this time of need.

Thank also the passionate users of the site. We are not alone. Without all of you the site would be lifeless.
Passion for the game will come when you see the light, of not using assistance to play.
Feel your game of chess, .... there is a human on the other side of the Lichessboard.
  In fact, miraculous saves are a hallmark of the human element in chess, as are instances of “dropping the ball” in a winning position. If your opponent were an engine, its playing would be consistent throughout the whole game, whereas human play is by nature inconsistent. So the mere fact that he was losing till he wasn’t, in and of itself actually proves his humanity; therefore your inference is backwards. 🙃
  Personally, I consider my best games to be those where I barely won. (It’s much more engaging than an easy win.) For example, in this one, I had to keep my opponent’s own mating threat in mind throughout my attack:


(The graph actually shows me with an advantage for most of that game, but it didn’t feel that way at the time!)
  In this one, he simply got greedy (he REALLY wanted my rook):


  And in this one (played on my old account), he was clearly winning, yet either missed my little threat, or failed to find an adequate reply to it:


  I often find I play better under pressure. When my opponent doesn’t challenge me sufficiently, from carelessness or impatience I may make silly mistakes; whereas when I fear being mated, myself, it’s then I launch my most daring attacks. As I have nothing else to lose, I “pull out all the stops”; and thanks to such desperate playing, I have reversed the graph in many a game. I hope I continue to be so fortunate.
  I will also just say that there are some Masters, e.g. Tal and Nezhmetdinov, who basically built their careers around risky tactics, and frequently got away with them. Hence you will often see such shifts in the graphs of their games. In other words: the phenomenon of which you speak is actually a thing in chess. 😉 And I’m pretty sure it always will be; so if you don’t like this about our chosen sport, you may wish to find a different passtime. (And there is no shame in that; chess isn’t for everyone.)

Cheers
@matar770 when I see pros on stream surprised by opponents move, it usually means the move was bad. They don't usually say it's bad on stream because that would be too bluntly insulting and also it might somehow hold up under computer analysis. But it's almost always bad.
@tigerprowl , as you can see four yourself the A.I. it's so advanced that it replies to this topic in such a human manner that you may even think to reconsider your opinion. Don't let yourself fooled by such a wicked stratagem. There are no humans playing here. It's just you. Trust me.
The game in #26 is just plain bad.
White didn't make one good move. I can only assume why he didn't resign earlier. Maybe he thought with the knight he could fork the oppent's queen somehow. Who knows.
Toscani dont have truth. he is svindler, and cheater. there is no humans on this chat, only robots are chatting here.

CVCJanH

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