Hi there, I don't understand the first thing about this. I know lichess has Stockfish and you can play back your games and see the evaluation of different moves. What I need to do next, I ask for some guidance. I want to look at different lines of known theory, the English Opening, for example. My goal is to look at the style of play within the variations to see which of them match with my own style and interests.
Are their free resources online that have current information? Next part of my question, I've tried to look at chess engines before when you're looking at a blank screen with all of the dates and players names to fill in. What particular information do I enter to obtain what I described in the paragraph, above?
Thank you.
Are there any takers on answering my question. 😯
If you want to learn theory then you can just enable the opening book where it will show the moves played with the winning percentage for every position. You can also switch between the lichess online database and its database of 2200+ elo players' games.
I do lichess analysis, learn from my mistakes from opening to ending.
Lichess Stockfish run on depth 24 , not perfect for World championship level , but stronger than 99.99% of human and very convenient to learn.
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@PowerfullKris15 @drmrboss Thank you for suggestions.
Engines are weak in openings and endgames, but they excell in tactics.
A games database is the best resource for openings. A tablebase is the best resource for endgames.
Yep, this. If there's a move that no-one plays because there's an immediate tactical pitfall then the engine can probably tell you why it's wrong, but it's not worth worrying about +/- 0.4 here or there in the opening.
Like people have said, the Lichess "Masters" database is quite good for seeing what's totally sound and normal, what's a bit offbeat but just about playable and what's just totally out of leftfield. The "Lichess" database is also pretty good for seeing what sort of things regular patzers like us actually play, and if something's blatantly unsound, how it normally gets punished. Don't get too hung up on the exact W/D/L percentages, but if a move for black gives white an 85% win rate or something then there's probably fishy about it.
Agree with #9. Do not care too much about the W/D/L percentages: an unfavourable percentage does not necessarily mean a line is bad, it more often indicates that the line is played by the weaker players, which is not the same.
Sometimes a good player picks up a "bad" line and then miraculously transforms it to a "good" line.
The win/draw/loss cannot generally be attributed to the opening.
Rather analyse the games played by strong players with the line.
