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#398 You spent so much time explaining opening theory to your friend who knows next to nothing about chess that your throat hurt the next day

I've learned chess on, and have almost entirely played, Rapid (10+0 specifically). OTB on 30-minute controls, I end up finishing with more than 20 minutes on my clock, even when I'm making conscious e…

@gbtami Also really useful, I was poking around the Lichess github earlier trying to find the exact numbers. Thank you!

@soloMidOrWillFeed that's super helpful, I didn't see those as I was still on 10. I can definitely use that, thanks!

For a school project, I'm making a simple chess application. I want to include the option to play against a computer at various levels. I really like the difficulty curve laid out for Stockfish levels…

If you're fine downloading stuff, you might do better to get your own Chess GUI for analysis. Arena is one I use, you're able to configure all sorts of stuff, like setting a specific depth, or a time …

My IQ is my rapid rating divided by 10 ;)

Funny, the game I just played was lost by a g4 move as well. https://lichess.org/iWuTM29c/white#55

just gonna try to slide into the contest

When I ran it on my laptop, Stockfish only prefered g4 until depth 4, then switched to Be4. This result was mirrored with Strelka and Fire, all three of which agree that it's clearly won for white. St…