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[jaki01]

Are you missing the regular chess events on the blockchain?

Am I? ;-)

A win by checkmate gives an extra point to the Lichess final ranking

Is that really logical?
Imagine I am leading by 3 points in the last round and play against my hardest concurrent. If he wins by checkmate he will get 3 points (and had the stronger opponents). He playes very well and soon my position is lost.
Question: what will I do? Play until the end an let him checkmate or prefer to resign so that he only gets 2 points instead of 3? :-)

(To make this rule effective, probably you would have to subtract points from players who resign instead to play until checkmate - but even then they could prefer to run out of time instead to allow a checkmate ...)

Well, I understand that all that is not meant as 'science' but just for fun, so it is alright of course. :)

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[stayoutoftherz]

In that situation you can resign of course anytime, by this "stealing" the third point from your opponent. The intention behind this rule is rather to honor surprise mates which the opponent didn´t see coming, or to penalize for not seeing a mate in 1 :)
Example: https://lichess.org/jwzYIBjULO40

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