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This is an incredibly interesting post, especially as someone who has dealt extensively with opening data from Lichess (I run chessbook.com). I'm going to use the proposed method here in our next iter…

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@boxbeatsy said in #4: > Can you add the winrate for Stockfish against Stockfish, for each data set? I'd like to get a sense of what the objective winrate is for each data set. This would require a to…

Some answers: - This is blitz and longer, bullet is discarded - Winrate is just winrate, not winrate + draw*.5 - Elo rating == Lichess rating, I’m using it in the colloquial sense, even though technic…

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I’ve been working on a chess training site, and I’m looking to add some functionality around pawn structures - identifying them primarily, then eventually adding some info about what the various plans…

Oh, that makes so much sense... thank you guys!

I'm looking at the puzzles database CSV, and for example here's the first row: 00008,r6k/pp2r2p/4Rp1Q/3p4/8/1N1P2R1/PqP2bPP/7K b - - 0 24,f2g3 e6e7 b2b1 b3c1 b1c1 h6c1,1830,76,90,228,crushing hangingP…