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I noticed that games don't abort at the 40-45 second in the first round anymore. Is this a new change?

depends on the time control. i think 1+15D aborts at 0:15 or 0:30 now.

Updated. See the 1st post of this thread.

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Great work, Thank ou

Can someone explain what happened to Blitz in the new update ?

See the first post. Blitz and rapid got merged to the same rating.

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Good changes...

But I see that new FFA, at least for games above 1850, is very close to Solo in fact. Not bad, but in this case why not revert to the previous solution (under 1850 it was Solo automatically), with a unique rating system (rather than separate ratings FFA and Solo)?

great new variant!

thanks! thanks to @JustinD7 for pushing for this variant, and to hest for inspiring that resigned pieces not go dead, but remain valuable and takeoverable

>is very close to Solo in fact

the question is indeed if we still need Solo, or at least if we still need separate ratings and everything for Solo. but first, let's see how this develops..

Thanks to @GDII for brushing up the layout and styles! looking very smooth

Myself, I wonder: do you notice a difference in connection quality overall? This was a huge change under the hood, and I'm very happy the house is still standing and from what I can see feels pretty smooth thus far.

Some suggestions are here: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/a-new-proposal-ffa-solo-ratings-points-system

My prediction is that people will continue to play as a team, it is still good business, but nevertheless in the end of 3, they are probably not as cooperative as before, probably the games last longer, they will surely last 10 minutes longer than before, since the end of 3 will be lengthened.

This is very similar to SOLO. and now it will cost more to climb points, since the second place is not rewarded so much, before the games could last 5 minutes and with second place you win +8-10 points, now only +2, the prize to the second place was reduced more 70%.

I am not very motivated to play it safe, to the second place, but nevertheless I will continue doing it, we will see how the other person takes it and if the meta-game changes like the old school.

Fiat: I quite agree. It makes the new FFA much closer to Solo in fact. Hence some suggestions that I formulated in the other thread (link above).

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Only thing I don't like is that the piece that just moved gets highlighted differently from before. Would it be possible to change that back to old somehow?

Thing is, the highlight colors are now 'calculated' from the color of the pieces and will change when changing piece colors in the setting.

Are the highlights too light or too dark?