Dear Lichess Team,
first of all, thanks for your great work. I do really appreciate having a chess platform which is free to use and especially free to excercise which you have to pay on for on other chess sites like chess.com.
To maybe lose a few words of my person, I'm 31 and have started playing chess pretty recently, when the Magnus Carlsen / Hans Nieman scandal happened and which woke my attention for online chess.
I have started playing on chesscom mainly and grew to ~550 elo atm.
Now I gotta say, that I do in fact mainly play on chesscom, since it's representing my first chess experiences and a lot of friends are playing there aswell and I feel pretty comfortable. What I however don't like about it is the paying concept. Don't get me wrong, I am in fact willing to pay for certain stuff, but the prices there are a sassiness for any casual "just 4 fun" chess player that does not swim in money, meaning I would pay for it if there would be a casual friendly option, which there definitely isn't (I've also submitted my feedback about that, which surely won't change anything ^^).
Luckily there's Lichess, where I can have puzzles and analizations for free. I did even achieve myself some wings to support you and show you my personal appreciation for that :)
What I wanted to ask you is if there is any future-oppurtunity to maybe get a new chess figure set implemented that looks more similar to the chesscom pieces? I know I might cause a sh*tstorm with that, since chesscom does not have the best reputation in the community (for said reasons), but I gotta say that I'm a little bit autistic featured and have big issues swapping between the pieces from chesscom and Lichess.
I have tried all of the possible options Lichess offers, but none comes anywhat close to what I'm used from chesscom. "Maestro" and "Tatiana" are the closest I can find, but I do still have difficulties of adapting between those sets of figures. I know that there's a browser plugin which changes it to the used environment, but I do mainly solve the puzzles on my mobile phone, which said option is not available.
I know that you won't be able to feature the original pieces for copyright reasons but I wanted to kindly ask, if any similar piece set related to chesscom would be possible to set up. I would really appreciate that :)
Thanks for reading & please no hate for my words :)
Kind regards
Schakara
first of all, thanks for your great work. I do really appreciate having a chess platform which is free to use and especially free to excercise which you have to pay on for on other chess sites like chess.com.
To maybe lose a few words of my person, I'm 31 and have started playing chess pretty recently, when the Magnus Carlsen / Hans Nieman scandal happened and which woke my attention for online chess.
I have started playing on chesscom mainly and grew to ~550 elo atm.
Now I gotta say, that I do in fact mainly play on chesscom, since it's representing my first chess experiences and a lot of friends are playing there aswell and I feel pretty comfortable. What I however don't like about it is the paying concept. Don't get me wrong, I am in fact willing to pay for certain stuff, but the prices there are a sassiness for any casual "just 4 fun" chess player that does not swim in money, meaning I would pay for it if there would be a casual friendly option, which there definitely isn't (I've also submitted my feedback about that, which surely won't change anything ^^).
Luckily there's Lichess, where I can have puzzles and analizations for free. I did even achieve myself some wings to support you and show you my personal appreciation for that :)
What I wanted to ask you is if there is any future-oppurtunity to maybe get a new chess figure set implemented that looks more similar to the chesscom pieces? I know I might cause a sh*tstorm with that, since chesscom does not have the best reputation in the community (for said reasons), but I gotta say that I'm a little bit autistic featured and have big issues swapping between the pieces from chesscom and Lichess.
I have tried all of the possible options Lichess offers, but none comes anywhat close to what I'm used from chesscom. "Maestro" and "Tatiana" are the closest I can find, but I do still have difficulties of adapting between those sets of figures. I know that there's a browser plugin which changes it to the used environment, but I do mainly solve the puzzles on my mobile phone, which said option is not available.
I know that you won't be able to feature the original pieces for copyright reasons but I wanted to kindly ask, if any similar piece set related to chesscom would be possible to set up. I would really appreciate that :)
Thanks for reading & please no hate for my words :)
Kind regards
Schakara