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I have played online for many years and experience close to zero problems from opponents. I guess in large part this is because there is no indication of gender in my profile. In casual but rated online chess there is no need to talk to your opponent before, during or after the game. I haven't conc...

Unfortunately this is a serious problem, and obviously not just on Lichess. I spoke to a woman at the 4NCL a while back who used her picture on her Chesscom profile. As a result she receives a huge number of messages & friend requests every day - some relatively innocent, others less so. With the e...

I am sorry to hear that you have received so much abuse online. This kind of toxic, adversarial discourse is unfortunately growing across all platforms and forums. The anonymity offered by the internet seems to dramatically intensify the abuse. And a lot of (big) boys clearly can't handle the thoug...

In response to the Lichess article about the revelations at the St Louis Chess Club and in the USCF, https://lichess.org/blog/ZNTniBEAACEAJZTn/breaking-the-silence I wrote a blog on Lichess about my experiences of online harassment as a female chess player. To date, this blog has almost 20k views an...

It is indeed an encouraging development.