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Reasons for each and every move while analysis

Hello all, I hope it will be really good for stockfish analysis to tell why this move has played, threats tactical ideas etc,. This will really help beginners I hope. How to take this discussion to Lichess code developers or support.

Hello all, I hope it will be really good for stockfish analysis to tell why this move has played, threats tactical ideas etc,. This will really help beginners I hope. How to take this discussion to Lichess code developers or support.

https://decodechess.com/ provides this service! It's really useful for beginners to learn why certain moves are more positionally sound than others. However, one of the best chess skills to develop is positional understanding. Youtube is your friend.

https://decodechess.com/ provides this service! It's really useful for beginners to learn why certain moves are more positionally sound than others. However, one of the best chess skills to develop is positional understanding. Youtube is your friend.

In my opinion, you learn the best if you discover things yourself. After you played a game (rapid or classical) go to the analysis board (engine off!) and try to figure out yourself what went wrong and which moves should have been played (take your time for that, dont click through the game in 30s), afterwards you can check with an engine. The problem with an engine is, that it only shows one or a few lines, but often there are many sound ideads in a position (at least at our level, where +0.2 is seldom important). This way you train yourself in finding good (not always the best, but good) lines.

In my opinion, you learn the best if you discover things yourself. After you played a game (rapid or classical) go to the analysis board (engine off!) and try to figure out yourself what went wrong and which moves should have been played (take your time for that, dont click through the game in 30s), afterwards you can check with an engine. The problem with an engine is, that it only shows one or a few lines, but often there are many sound ideads in a position (at least at our level, where +0.2 is seldom important). This way you train yourself in finding good (not always the best, but good) lines.

It is pretty immpossible to give human explanations of position automatically. Decode chess does try and work suprisingly well. But it mostly list obivous things about the move like protects c6 etc. while that woudl true it can totally irrelevant purpose. Still I think it is closest thing on what you are asking and I really do not see anytime in near future anything better coming along. Probably lot harder than developing yet an another chess engine.

It is pretty immpossible to give human explanations of position automatically. Decode chess does try and work suprisingly well. But it mostly list obivous things about the move like protects c6 etc. while that woudl true it can totally irrelevant purpose. Still I think it is closest thing on what you are asking and I really do not see anytime in near future anything better coming along. Probably lot harder than developing yet an another chess engine.

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