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This is something I hope to see, but I don't really have my hopes up. Especially not for rated games. Figuring out the rating change for a handicap game requires a ton of data, someone who knows how t…

Well, it seems the feature is useless in its current state. It's not like I'm going to enter random people's profiles hoping there might be studies there. There should be a public library, with votes …

@azuaga: The thing is, for rated simuls to be fair, there needs to be some form of compensation for the host, which depends on the number of opponents. That requires a whole new sort of model, which t…

@Toadofsky - I don't think this necessarily indicates a flaw, rather an approximation for a required reparameterization. The model could be improved to be more accurate, of course (e.g., a nonlinear t…

At some point I had a thought, "wouldn't it be great if lichess featured simultaneous exhibitions?". It didn't take me long to figure out lichess actually already has simuls, the only problem being th…

@Toutatis: Thanks. Actually I haven't read Schwartz's book myself, and as I was writing my answer I was surprised that this is the best link I could find. But regardless of the specifics of what he's …

@Toutatis - Read again what I said. I didn't say rating-capped tournaments are a bad idea or that they aren't enjoyable. I was commenting on a specific point made by the OP (point 3). He said that thi…

I don't understand your point #3. A player already knows where he stands relative to other players of similar rating... He is as strong as them, by the definition of rating! The rating is calculated o…

Well, maybe "undoubtedly" was a bit strong. There seems to be a general issue with castling, e.g. http://en.lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/local-analysis.

Your title should probably mention that this is a Chess960 game, which undoubtedly is part of the problem.