Unanswered Questions
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Database without rapid and blitz games
Last years Mega Database is full of rapid and blitz games taken from live broadcast boards.
Is it possible to filter them out?
Are there other bases that have games only from long time controls?
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What is the CQL syntax for combinations where king is checked along a file, and the square near it is attacked by bishop or queen?
I am looking to search for combinations similar to the one in Karpov - Taimanov, 1977 - a knight check, is followed by opening of an 'h' file, and the rook comes with decisive effect because attacker'...
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What happened with the Fide online arena
About a year ago I stumbled on arena.myfide.net which looked promising , and unique in the ability to get an actual Fide rating. But in that year no progress has been made with the site, and mobile ...
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Alpha Zero vs Stockfish, French Defence, is this move for Black better?
I'm referring to the French Defense (C11 ECO code) game where Alpha Zero played 30. Bxg6 ! , sacrificing a bishop for a better position. After Alpha Zero's move 30. , I couldn't find any good moves ...
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Pawn Structure database
I wonder if there is any existing or a way to create a chess database organised only according to pawn structures, where the notion of a pawn structures is crudely defined by GM Andrew Soltis in his ...
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Human and computer vs computer alone
How much stronger are human/computer teams vs. computers alone? My understanding is that that advantage is enough to be decisive, especially in correspondence play, but just how large is it?
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Does the chick promotion rule in dobutsu shogi really matter?
In dobutsu shogi, the chick (Japanese pawn) promotes to a chicken (Gold general). In my experience this promotion occurs only rarely and I suspect after much blundering.
Does the chick promotion rule ...
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Is it really possible to beat a stockfish level 8 computer in any time that is between 3+0 and 15+0?
I've watched a couple of games where people play against stockfish level 8 on lichess, and they pretty much lose all the time. Is it possible for someone to beat a level 8 computer in any time between ...
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Looking for a specific chess book
my father taught me chess at a young age. I am still not very good, though. Now, we have started again playing against one another and analyze positions. He remembered a book, which he possessed but ...
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how to use ending evaluation in UCI interaction with Stockfish
Playing with the Stockfish 8 UCI from the terminal, I've managed to make it compute move, set the position and load SYZYGY tables.
But how can know if an endgame, that corresponds to a kind of ...
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Are there any dicylic graphing programs for chess?
Although chess is frequently thought of as a tree structure, it is not because positions can be arrived at through different move orders and moves can be repeated. Are their graphing programs/...
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Collecting principal variations during search and using them in ordering?
In an Alpha Beta search (Negamax framework), how does one collect principal variations to use in move ordering and how does one use them, without using a transposition table? And would it be different ...
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In early FIDE ratings files what does a flag value of “n” indicate?
Here are examples from the January 2002 FIDE ratings file -
4603745 Kabisch, Thilo GER 2256 12 06.01.63 i
13701940 Kabov, Sergey ...
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scid vs pc interface
I am having an issue setting up scid vs pc. I see tons of tutorials and they all show a nice interface with the board, analysis, and other windows all visible on one view. However all I get get is the ...
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Fritz Online will not finish game?
Fritz Online will play all the way to the point where there's mate in one move. In other words, if you are white and Fritz is black it will stop playing (moving) at the point any black move will be ...
