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I looked at the Traxler in detail in the past and there is a certain amount of truth on both sides of the argument. Lello33leone is right that it is very sharp and computer evaluations will swing wild…

@tpr Why not, if I am bored two pieces ahead and my opponent is thinking long, why would not I be allowed to read in a non chess related book? The reason is that it is impossible to determine what is …

I can't think of a better use for ox bile (taurine) than putting it in Idasca's drinks.

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Toshiba Celeron 2.16GHz with single core. Iterative deepening, transpositon tables, move ordering, quiescence search, piece square tables. Works with 7 piece types: K, Q, R, B, N, WP and BP. (White an…

@RavenEngine wrote:- Sidonia, Lichess will send a quit command to your engine when the game is over. Your bot should exit the program when it receives the quit command. Hope that helps. If it's not th…

I'm in. Might help though if someone can help me with this... If my opponent times out in a game, then I keep waiting for them to play a move and rejecting any new challenges. What's the little signal…

It is sometimes interesting to place a few pieces on a board and see what the endgame tablebases say, Win/Draw/Loss. Then maybe advance a pawn on the losing side and see if it changes the theoretical …

@Ajile Regarding the rules ... 2. The Classical rating of the lichess bots. 3. The average of the Classical rating and the Correspondence rating of the lichess bots. 4. The Correspondence rating of th…