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Advanced search is crap

As per title, you put in certain search criteria and it comes back with irrelevant games..
why?
The 'Date' field is currently broken.

For any other search, it would be very helpful if you described what query didn't work.
Ah it was mostly the 'date' field I think, the 'ratings' field is all over the place too however.
'Rating' is the average rating of the two players. It worked fine for me when I just tried it out, do you have an example where it did not work?
@th3darknight , if you need any specialized search, let me know, because my page probably can solve your problem:

fbserv.herokuapp.com/games.html

It uses Javascript both as a selection criterion, and as an aggregation function ( for example it can calculate averages over selected games, etc. ) . In a sense it is allmighty, because it can search anything that can be searched based on lichess game JSON representation. Drawback is that there are no user friendly shortcuts as in lichess search. So you have to be familiar with both Javascript and lichess game object to be able to use it.
Works for me... the games featuring 2000+ players still have a lower-rated opponent that makes the average fall between 1800 and 2000, so expected to appear in the results.
On that basis, I've always wondered how hard it would be to implement a search for the opponent's rating only, so that you could find all you've played games against say 2000+. I'm guessing (I know nothing) that if that was easy it would have been done by now.

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