Watching Classical Games On Lichess TV!!

Well, I will also admit...now that you guys bring it up...that this might not be worth the effort for a few reasons. Changing the rating system physically combined with the fact that indeed, everyone would have to reestablish a classical rating, is just too much to justify the project in the end.

The only question is why it was made to be 5+5 and 8+0 as classical games in the first place. Clearly some underestimated just how common legitimately FIDE Rapid and Standard (true classical) games are on the internet these days.

The thing is that the thread was mainly about LichessTV and not the time controls themselves being in question. It would ultimately make, at least me, 100% satisfied if there were only a way to actually select what kind of games I want to watch on TV rather than just be handed a random 5+5 or 8+2, etc. I wouldn't really care what you call classical as long as I could at least select what length of games I want to watch in the first place.

Having a sliding scale to select which time of games to watch on lichessTV seems like a perfectly fine idea which I'm sure is feasible and can be added to the depository.

@ #12 to be clear I never objected to the original proposition in the topic. :)

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"#2 we actually could do it, we don't have to search by 'classical' parameters, can also search by time control."
That first sentence was a response to #2, who reckons it is technically impossible. It is not! I see no harm in such an option and it is not hard at all to add it as an additional category.

Not sure about the technical difficulty of a sliding scale based on parameters though (#13's suggestion), that definitely sounds quite advanced.

Hellball,
When did I say it's 'technically impossible'? LOL!

My apologies. I interpreted it as: "lichess considers classical at 5+5 and so on, therefore the database cannot be scanned properly". Or something like that. Anyway, there is no technical barrier to selecting from longer games.

The Lichess TV channels might make more sense if, in the future, there were some common features shared by spectators watching the same game. As it is, my spectating experience is not impacted by the game being on TV or not, and I can often get a better experience (i.e. no chance of the channel flipping in the middle of the game) by picking a strong player from the online list and following them.

It seems like there are two directions Lichess TV can head (aside from staying the way it is anyway, which is pretty good already by the way!):
1. Make the Lichess TV spectating experience something that actually benefits from many spectators observing the same game. Whether that is team chat, betting on game outcomes, or something wholly original.
2. Make the spectating experience increasingly customized. You set some custom parameters for games you want to see (time control, minimum player rating, variant, people you follow) and the TV "channel" becomes a way to automatically send you to spectate a match tailored to your preferences. You may be the only one watching but so what, the other spectators don't add anything to your experience anyway.

#9 @Clarkey

That argument is flawed because as I mentioned in my second point , just because there are less people playing "Classical" games, it does not justify mislabeling/categorizing those "Classical" games as being part of another category, just so you can appease yourself that lots of people are playing "Classical" games on lichess.

Here's a logical thought experiment.

0.01% of all dragons are white dragons.
10% of all dragons are grey dragons.
Rest of dragons are red dragons.
There are just so few white dragons, that lets just consider all white dragons as grey dragons.
Now we have 10.01% grey dragons and 89.99% red dragons.
Problem solved???

Just because something is rare, does not justify mislabeling it.

So what if 1% of lichess users have a "Classical" rating? It will at least be accurate. Over time, the number of classical games will add up and everything will normalize.