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Highest depth ever achieved
I saw a guy that went into depth 70 with no search moves at 41, 192, 897, 168, and 184 nodes from the starting position on Stockfish a few years ago.
I would like to know if this is still a record or ...
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Chessboard Domination from Opening
From the opening position for black (with no white pieces on the board), what is the fewest number of moves in which we can dominate the entire board, that is, reach a position so that each square is ...
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A fun game (for problem composers, mostly...)
A game leading to a given position is called a proof game. Of course any proof game can be prepended with 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.Ng1 Ng8, so we defined a shortest proof game as, duh, the shortest possible proof ...
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Stockfish position evaluation component terms in Python?
I saw the excellent Javascript-based guide to how Stockfish evaluates (non-NNUE). Is there a python version out there, perhaps using python-chess?
What I am trying to do (in case you have other ...
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Real reason tournament director of Teplice Open in Czechia tried to ban Ukrainian players?
I have just seen that FIDE has stepped in and told the organisers of the Teplice Open that they may not ban Ukrainian players from the tournament. Searching for more information as to why a tournament ...
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Russian chess school maxim: draw after loss (?)
I seem to remember a maxim attributed to the Russian chess school, "after two losses, draw the next game (however good the position may seem)". Does somebody know the exact saying and to ...
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Position with largest number of completely determined captures
In most naturally occurring chess positions with some material missing, we can usually not tell exactly how the missing pieces got captured without additional information. But it is also not terribly ...
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What program/website shows the last captured piece in displaying the last move played in a position?
The following image appeared in the question Can anyone explain this sacrifice?
You can see a pawn is captured. Sometimes a position will show the last move played or whose move it is but doesn't ...
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Practical play in KRPvKQ central pseudo-fortresses?
A rook and a pawn sometimes draw against a queen, if a proper fortress can be set up. These are possible to learn to defend, and it's also possible to learn how to attack these with a queen when the ...
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Strategy in Navara gambit
I am playing few years strictly 1.Nf3 with the intention to play Reti Opening. In my last OTB game I experience Navara Gambit (from a Czech GM David Navara) in Reti Advanced variation:
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What exactly happened between Georg Meier and Elisabeth Paehtz / the German chess federation?
Today in chess news is German GM Georg Meier transferring to the Uruguayan chess federation. Meier alleges a dispute with fellow German player Elisabeth Paehtz, and a lack of support from the German ...
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What's the etymology behind the Great Snake Variation?
This is called the Modern Defense:
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1.e4 g6
This is called the Modern Defense:
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1.d4 g6
This is called the "English Opening: Great Snake Variation":
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Is it possible to connect to the Lichess database remotely from ChessBase?
Lichess has a database of over five billion blitz, rapid and classical games played on the website, that can be accessed via the opening explorer. That is extremely useful for those interested in ...
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Resources to master winning won positions
My intuition and positional understanding seem to be far superior to my abilities to calculate precisely. In most games I play, I get a decisive advantage (and a huge time advantage) very quickly, but ...
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Is there a "database of cheat games"?
I want to train an AI to distinguish cheaters from normal players, as part of an AI-related course program. Is there any dataset of caught (engine) cheaters' cheat games?
An engine-cheat game is ...
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