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Playing both sides on a free board?

Is it possible currently? Or if it is not , is it feasible in the future?

What I'm exactly trying to describe is a free board just like in the "board editor" but one where we can play the both sides under regular playing rules. I need such a board specifically for practicing openings and particular lines but it could be beneficial for number of other things as well like replaying games without having any kind of written notations, creating notations of games we play over a physical board or just for playing against ourselves etc...

I know that we can do all these things within many chess softwares but I find most of them unwieldy, slow and unnecessarily complicated. Whereas Lichess is awesomely minimalistic, lightweight and very fast.

Anyway, thanks in advance for any responses and many thanks to everyone who works/worked for this wonderful website.
If you analyse any previous game then you can make whatever move variation you like that is legal, and only legal, except the first one.
Thanks for the reply, flugsio.

Yes, I know what you are talking about. But unfortunately, not being able to change the first move is pretty restricting for practicing the openings. Besides, with everything bound with the analyzed game, the notations and the move list becomes all messy and not convenient at all. It could work for you occasionally when you don't have any other tool at your hand but to be honest it doesn't look much appealing to use as a regular tool for the purposes I mentioned in my first post.
"You can also do it with 2 tabs, but is not so good."

Thanks for the response, KingDeathGR. But can you explain how to do that please? I'm not sure what you mean exactly.
#5 I think he means that you can create a game to "play against a friend"‚ and then open the given link into a second tab.
It would be also nice to be able to share such board easily by sending someone a link (like when you send a game request to a friend). Good, for example, for chess lessons over Skype or online lectures. 1 person can move the pieces and the rest can watch.
To follow up on this, I think the issue that there currently isn't a convenient way to, without a PGN file, to simply play make moves from either a FEN or starting position for both sides. Yes, you can manage it by tabing between two windows and two lichess accounts, but that's obviously awkward, especially when streaming in real time and attempting to quickly demonstrate chess ideas.

In essence, what would be nice is something akin to "examine mode" on ICC/FICS. Also nice would be a way to draw arrows or circle pieces. Very helpful for streams.

Cheers,

- John

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