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I relatively often experience an issue where I'm staring at the board, and yet don't see that my opponent has made a move. I have the last move display turned on (and piece animation), but the subtle …

I just noticed the same thing for me.

Can anyone explain white's BD4? It must be very important that the black queen end be on D4, not F2, but I don't understand why?

Personally I'd keep it exactly as it is. That way, every square is exactly the same size and shape.

>Notification about "online friends" is probably the most irritating thing on the website for me. Agreed. I don't have any "friends" on lichess, and I don't intend to. Simple fix: if user doesn't have…

>Were that possible, new players would be unable to play games... Well, only if *everyone* used that option...

It can be tedious playing "1500?" rated players. You have no idea their actual rating, and often they're pretty bad, quit halfway through a game etc. An option to filter them out?

Well, I'd see it as a scoring system, not a simple "you did X, now you're banned". Give people an incentive to good behaviour. No need to have specific rules about what you can and can't do - just all…

I keep running into players who do things like: - letting the clock run down in totally lost positions (ie, 3 minutes on the clock, mate in 1) - offering draws in lost positions - asking for takebacks…

Ok, thanks. Do the devs here work on Stockfish at all?