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I'm puzzled about the regulations:
4. (...) At the Knockout stage, players' identities will be made public, if they are not already.

8. Gameplay
Games will be played online, from non-anonymous accounts, on lichess.org and are therefore subject to the usual server rules.

How can one remain anonymous until Stage 3 when players seem to be expected to play from non-anonymous accounts since Stage 1?
Could any of the co-organizers clarify this?

Lichess, what's with the cooperation with authoritarian regimes?

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@D3ADB33F said in #22:
> Lichess, what's with the cooperation with authoritarian regimes?
Didn't you get the memo? Lichess only cares about human rights in the West. In the Middle East, women can be oppressed and apostates and LGBT people imprisoned and murdered, and Lichess is completely okay with it.

This hypocrisy is the reason I stopped donating to Lichess.

Hello! I have a question, it happens that the Sharjah Masters is divided into 2 groups, one that requires more than 2400 FIDE rtng and another with a lower elo, what would happen if a player with 2200 qualified? This would enter the group +2400?
Thanks in advance

Easy.

Yes

it’s so funny

i dont have a chance so im not even gonna try