Since arriving in Australia on June 19th 2025, I've not played a game on Lichess. My last game was on June 15th so it's now over four weeks. I need to get back into the swing of things. My current rating is 1537 in Rapid (10 + 5) after playing 80 games. Already I feel that I am quite out of practice.
Since writing the above, I received the following email:
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I'm confused Maia seems to have been around for some years now. Agadmator makes mention of it four years ago. Anyway, I took advantage of the offer and signed up using my Lichess account. So far I've played three games in a 15 + 10 format and won all of them. My rating is currently 1909. Figure 2 shows a profile screenshot.
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So far I've only played the Regular, starting with 1500 and rising meteorically to 1909. This rating is certainly inflated but I'll perservere with it for a while as it's quite relaxing and explore some of the other modules.
UPDATE: I simply found the user interface incomprehensible and could make little sense of it. I'm abandoning it and returning to Lichess that at least makes sense. Just a waste of time really but at least it got me back into playing active chess on a more regular basis ... hopefully.
