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> One of the most optimal forms of compression is actually to evaluate the position, use an engine like Stockfish, and then store the index of the move. Computational cost apart, how would that work i…

@dboing: > It does more than that. It does not impose the constraint of knowing what is the population distribution of ratings in the pool. Sorry if I misunderstand you, but does not Glicko assume rat…

> perhaps it wasn't your turn? Do you really think multiple people in this thread and other similar threads all don't know when it's their turn?

I have the same issue: I get a game, the initial position is displayed but I can't make a move (or my move isn't displayed) as White, and see no move by White if I'm playing the black pieces. I cannot…

> In rare cases this can be difficult to decide automatically (forced lines, fortresses). It's not difficult. Just reuse @ambrona's code!

Disconnected, lagging, same difference... My question is, can't the client detect that and let the user know?

I've just lost a game on timeout. The funny thing is that, on my screen, it was still the opponent's turn and they eventually "timed out" while I still had 16s left. So naturally I thought I had won. …

Free version of ChessManager might be usable too depending on what you want to do.

Swips has a free version.

@ambrona said in #3: > Engines are not perfect oracles, they provide an approximated score for the position. From a more advanced position they might give a different score. Indeed. If they were perfe…