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Please fix the pairing/color system

This is mostly a problem in the higher rated games where the player pool is much smaller. When I finish a series with one player I generally put out a seek and there's a relatively high chance I'll continue playing against the same player.

Please do one of two things:

1) If you play the same time control against the same player in a short period of time. Treat the game as if it was a rematch from the most recent game. In other words colors are swapped. People are abusing this quirk of Lichess to get multiple whites in a row.

2) If you put out a seek after playing a game with somebody put a one game no-play list on the person you just played against.

To put the above in an example:

I play 6 games against Bob through rematches and then put out a seek instead of continuing our series. Either the color swapping should continue on this 7th game (if Bob accepts) or Bob should not be allowed to immediately accept this seek.
@OhNoMyPants, didn't you create a similar topic a little more than a week ago? ( http://en.lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/why-did-my-opponent-just-get-3-whites-in-a-row ) Couldn't you have just added this more specific variant to the issue ... there?

As an aside, let me say that at least, we don't suffer from the quirks like those from a certain site with an online 8 ball game where their matchmaking algorithm is such that the only condition for the random match to happen is that two people have to have pressed Play around the same time. Given this broad not-really-restricted-or-moderated setup, you can get an unfair matchup between a level 1 and a level 150.

Ah, right. The people there also complain how it's possible to have consecutive games where you don't get a turn at break (like how we don't get to play white in a random color chess game.) The record (complaint) iIrc is 20+ games where a person didn't get to do the break.
If this issue doesn't effect you why bother commenting on it? There are different needs and issues at different levels. For instance the automated pairing system of ICC is amazing and something I'd *love* to see moved over here. It's the most fair and simple.

This is a simple fix would that literally affect absolutely nobody except those trying to game the system. I imagine the problem is the devs are simply unaware it's even a 'thing'.
Your specific top-tier players situation doesn't affect me, sure, but the problem of color pairings affects *everyone*. That's why I pointed out that you could have appended this to your previous thread which had a broader scope. If the dev/s ever fix this, then it will get fixed for everyone, not just top-tier players. Your scenario does not require a different solution. It's still the same problem: "fair" color assignments.

As to why I bother commenting, well, I'm interested because I'm a (somewhat lazy) hobby coder and I'm curious as to how they will be fixing it.

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