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@Ensigno "Let me give an analogy, it's like allowing a robber to enter your home and rob you, but you cannot do anything to that robber, except to report him to the cops. And "let the cops do their jo…

Hey @petri999 I've caught up now, and I'm still going to maintain that the motivation for minimax is that chess is a game of perfect information, like draughts (checkers) or noughts-and-crosses (tic-t…

@petri999, I appreciate your input -- there aren't many people in my life that would indulge me in a conversation that begins "let's talk about minimax". The Monte Carlo analysis you talk about (AFAIC…

@drwn , thanks for your reply. It is true that chess is a deterministic game and also one of perfect information. However there is an aspect of the game that renders both of these descriptions somewha…

Do chess engines generally use minimax to choose from candidate moves? Are there generic packages/libraries that implement this? Has anyone tried using other strategies (for example maximax or minimax…

@Polaku1703 (and @Cedur216) the odds of getting any three consecutive games of the same _colour_ are 1:4 -- that's going to happen pretty often (around 25% of the time, in fact). Aborting games becaus…

@Pashut It simply cannot be rude to point out when someone is being rude. If that were the case there could never be any criticism of rudeness. Still, I don't care if you were rude or not, I care that…

Logging out means that the personalisation of puzzle content is not possible -- and the ratings of the puzzles are centred around 1500, fair enough if that just happens to be your puzzle-rating, but o…

I forgot a couple: IThinkIKnowWhatFunIsTYVM IKnowThatALotIsTwoWords

You must all have been amused by this post : https://lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/unfair-advantage And no doubt many wish to profit from the insights therein. So I have compiled a short list of …