Make sense of chess engine output with Move Highlighter

Comments on lichess.org/@/danbock/blog/make-sense-of-chess-engine-output-with-move-highlighter/74r51fO6

Explain the meanings of the colors of highlighted moves, e.g. yellow, pink, green and so on!

I find that the colors confuse rather than help. I have already asked about the meaning of the colors. It also doesn't make sense to me that the colors are either in solid color or outlined. Very confusing.

There is still a lot of room for improvement and, above all, better explanations.

@odoaker2015 The colors don't have specific meanings; they are just meant to make it easy to see all the places each highlighted move appears in the engine lines.

I don't think a "pecking order" is useful.

The current side's moves are highlighted and the other side's moves are outlined. That's a design choice.

Now the highlighter is a good start, but there are still no words explaining anything. Also I think you should reduce the amount of colors and find out which moves are the critical ones. It's a good idea, but it needs to improved. Personally I don't really need it tbh, but I like when people are creative and try things out.

I thought it was for our own moves.. and variations. to differentiate branching points etc.. but that is small playing use case.

engine is already well served I think by lichess. better than human variations.. They even have collapsible features. We are second class lichess citizens.. kidding. or am I? I guess engine are more predictable, and there is only one. It does not expand in the space allotted like a whole human population of lichess users might.. so it won't break its toys.. It can have collapsible long variations that keep the whole move list under intelligibility at a glance.

so I skipped attention over the engine word reading the title. sorry.