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The idea is great, but there can be many problems.

1.For example, if lichess, a site mainly made for playing chess, has a lot of moderating problems, how many moderating problems will have a site mainly made for discussions?
2.Chess isn't a very popular game,like football, computer games etc. There are a few people playing chess, from them a few are professional players, from them a few will know about the site, from who a few will want to share their ideas.If a topic has max. 5 comments,who will use it?

It would be nice if the site is somehow - a extension of lichess -.

The idea is great, but there can be many problems. 1.For example, if lichess, a site mainly made for playing chess, has a lot of moderating problems, how many moderating problems will have a site mainly made for discussions? 2.Chess isn't a very popular game,like football, computer games etc. There are a few people playing chess, from them a few are professional players, from them a few will know about the site, from who a few will want to share their ideas.If a topic has max. 5 comments,who will use it? It would be nice if the site is somehow - a extension of lichess -.

I like the idea and have been thinking about similar stuff myself. One issue this might run into for 'professional' annotations is copyright - it sucks to lose out on the annotations that people spend the most time on, which are invariably found in books or paid content. I personally like to compile annotated games from a variety of sources (for this recent Candidates, the chesscom annotations and the ones from Lichess, plus some stream & interview comments) and spend a lot of time on them, but I doubt I'd really be allowed to publish, even if all of that info is available publicly anyway and I'm not taking credit. I've also transcribed a lot of annotated games from books, though (like 200+ Kasparov-annotated games... yeah it's a problem that I do this only for myself and for fun), and those are definitely off-limits, which kinda sucks because genuinely good digitized versions of book annotations are hard (impossible) to come by and I pride myself on professional formatting.

One thing I'm working on now: creating studies for non-annotated full tournaments, mostly recent, with all the tags and data etc. filled out perfectly, plus linked photos, livestreams, interviews, etc. I'm planning to publish a few along with a blog post at some point, and hopefully some historical ones (I have found clock times for 1960, '72, and '90 WCCs, which is thrilling for me, but they take literally hours and hours to add properly), which I hope will be a nice source of 'blank canvasses' or basically the ideal starting point for annotations / self-analysis / just finding games in all their glory. I know it's not really the same thing, but there's stuff we can do here in Lichess right now to make chess more open and accessible!

Nice to see this theory-crafting, it's a cool idea.

I like the idea and have been thinking about similar stuff myself. One issue this might run into for 'professional' annotations is copyright - it sucks to lose out on the annotations that people spend the most time on, which are invariably found in books or paid content. I personally like to compile annotated games from a variety of sources (for this recent Candidates, the chesscom annotations and the ones from Lichess, plus some stream & interview comments) and spend a lot of time on them, but I doubt I'd really be allowed to publish, even if all of that info is available publicly anyway and I'm not taking credit. I've also transcribed a lot of annotated games from books, though (like 200+ Kasparov-annotated games... yeah it's a problem that I do this only for myself and for fun), and those are definitely off-limits, which kinda sucks because genuinely good digitized versions of book annotations are hard (impossible) to come by and I pride myself on professional formatting. One thing I'm working on now: creating studies for non-annotated full tournaments, mostly recent, with all the tags and data etc. filled out perfectly, plus linked photos, livestreams, interviews, etc. I'm planning to publish a few along with a blog post at some point, and hopefully some historical ones (I have found clock times for 1960, '72, and '90 WCCs, which is thrilling for me, but they take literally hours and hours to add properly), which I hope will be a nice source of 'blank canvasses' or basically the ideal starting point for annotations / self-analysis / just finding games in all their glory. I know it's not really the same thing, but there's stuff we can do here in Lichess right now to make chess more open and accessible! Nice to see this theory-crafting, it's a cool idea.

I agree, its good,, but it has multiple consequences. Just losing all the hard work somebody might've spent on annotations is horrible. Less use what we have on lichess for now, but later in the future, all of us could work together to make it a reality.

I agree, its good,, but it has multiple consequences. Just losing all the hard work somebody might've spent on annotations is horrible. Less use what we have on lichess for now, but later in the future, all of us could work together to make it a reality.