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The Dark Truth Behind Lichess Studies (You are in the Matrix)

The GD Cologne of the Lichess community (incredibly narrow ball knowledge)

The GD Cologne of the Lichess community (incredibly narrow ball knowledge)

Now we need the formula to blogs :)

Now we need the formula to blogs :)

Aren't team leaders cheating since they can send messages to everyone in the team about their study? @RuyLopez1000 themself is a team leader of TWO teams

Aren't team leaders cheating since they can send messages to everyone in the team about their study? @RuyLopez1000 themself is a team leader of TWO teams

@ChessNutAryan said in #4:

The GD Cologne of the Lichess community (incredibly narrow ball knowledge)

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gd player spotted in the wild lol

@ChessNutAryan said in #4: > The GD Cologne of the Lichess community (incredibly narrow ball knowledge) ![i-love-gd-cologne-v0-f0irzczlw2fa1.webp](https://image.lichess1.org/display?op=noop&path=LxvJtAH9Gb9s.webp&sig=9d5ddc57454d2a8d3402108c1ac9c68c7990a867) gd player spotted in the wild lol

Wow! A conspiracy title for a post that starts with a Bible verse. I am so in! Da Vinci me, @RuyLopez1000 !

The thing I got from your blog is that the problem is not the algorithm, but:

  1. copying the work of others
  2. using marketing/advertising to increase visibility

Unfortunately, the second point is how the Internet and the whole world works. Attention economy and all that. Also, if the algorithm would try to detect qualitative elements in the study, like number of chapters/moves/annotations/comments/diagrams, then it would make it more brittle and even more gameable.

So in the end, we get to the same issue as before. How do we make sure new studies are not rehashes of old ones? And this is an old discussion that can't even be solved 100% by technical means...

But I do have a solution. It would mean some effort from Lichess, though. What I propose is a position index - just like the Explorer database - but containing additional data. Stuff like how many studies reference the position, maybe even the studies themselves.

How would that work? Simple. If you see a "hot study" and you go through the moves and you see they are references in 1000 previous studies, then you know it's nothing revolutionary. Additional benefit is finding relevant studies by position, which would be hugely useful.

Obviously, this requires database resources spent by Lichess, but I feel it would serve multiple useful purposes and it might be worth it.

Wow! A conspiracy title for a post that starts with a Bible verse. I am so in! Da Vinci me, @RuyLopez1000 ! The thing I got from your blog is that the problem is not the algorithm, but: 1. copying the work of others 2. using marketing/advertising to increase visibility Unfortunately, the second point is how the Internet and the whole world works. Attention economy and all that. Also, if the algorithm would try to detect qualitative elements in the study, like number of chapters/moves/annotations/comments/diagrams, then it would make it more brittle and even more gameable. So in the end, we get to the same issue as before. How do we make sure new studies are not rehashes of old ones? And this is an old discussion that can't even be solved 100% by technical means... But I do have a solution. It would mean some effort from Lichess, though. What I propose is a position index - just like the Explorer database - but containing additional data. Stuff like how many studies reference the position, maybe even the studies themselves. How would that work? Simple. If you see a "hot study" and you go through the moves and you see they are references in 1000 previous studies, then you know it's nothing revolutionary. Additional benefit is finding relevant studies by position, which would be hugely useful. Obviously, this requires database resources spent by Lichess, but I feel it would serve multiple useful purposes and it might be worth it.

@RuyLopez1000 Are you saying that lichess studies are like social media but in chess world?

@RuyLopez1000 Are you saying that lichess studies are like social media but in chess world?

Hmm... now you got me thinking on how to show studies in doom scroll mode. You scroll, you get a study, then you continue to scroll, some of the moves for each chapter are shown, then the next study and so on. It would be soul crushing... >:-D

Hmm... now you got me thinking on how to show studies in doom scroll mode. You scroll, you get a study, then you continue to scroll, some of the moves for each chapter are shown, then the next study and so on. It would be soul crushing... >:-D