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@Inventor_1 said in #30: > And another example (the above were 100% sufficient arguments, and what follows is not them, but just an example). A little over a year ago I registered on Lichess for the f…

Lichess database is not the only database out there. According to Chessbase Live database for example we have: percentages for White: 1...c5 52% for White 2428 ELO avg. 530387 games. 1...e5 55% 2445 2…

It's not new information for me at all and such statistics are useless. The Caro-Kann is not the most sucessful opening for example above 2200. Weaker players tend to struggle since they don't know an…

I don't care at all about TCEC. You can do much more accurate testing on your own machine if you want. A 100 games match between Obsidian and Stockfish, alternating colours, ends something like this: …

@noskillnoob_v0 said in #2: > Stock fish 17.0 followed by the latest leela model and I think komodos third There is no general answer but this is certainly outdated. There is Obsidian, there is Plenty…

@lizani said in #6: > The Dragon is unhappy without a bishop on g7. That being the case, why play 3...Nf6 instead of 3...g6! 3...g6 is an idea but chess is not that easy. 4.c3 Nf6 5.e5 is again quite …

Usually 4.d3 is played. 4.Nc3 a6 is fine for black of course. You could even try 5.d4 b5 6.Bd5 Nxd5 7.exd5 c4. It's messy but it's not clear at all how to refute it and you should be satisfied with th…

@HollowLeaf said in #15: > I did not know about openings101.org, thanks for sharing that with me. Alas, there is no contact information on the site, would you happen to know more about who created thi…

Now if you could team up with someone like openings101.org to have a few basic repertoires on your site to start with it could be even more exciting. Without content it will be difficult to compete wi…

There is a lot misssing. It's not comparable to Chessbase, Hiarcs Chess Explorer pro or Chess Assistant at all.