Questions tagged [analysis]
Questions relating to the objective assessment of a position. The assessment may entail which side has the advantage, or what the best move might be.
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Best interesting chess engine?
I've been wanting to use a chess engine for analysis to push myself to the next level as I'm coming back from a long chess hiatus. I have tried using Stockfish, but I want a chess engine with nasty ...
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What’s the origin of “!” & “?”
Who first started to annotate chess moves with “!” for good & “?” for bad?!
EDIT: Two data points:
(1) 1859 "The Book of the First American Chess Congress." The annotated games have no ...
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One-liner double zugzwang
Can you construct a position on a single file (double your points if it is the a or h file, triple if position is symmetric) which is a mutual full point zugzwang?
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Is "Pawn Pugilism" won for White or Black?
There might be another established word in English (in German it's "Bauernkloppe") for this training lesson for kids, but the rules are simple: Both sides have only the pawns at their usual ...
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A game I might have read about, Kasparov had to analyse an opening line from scratch and ended up winning anyway?
If my memory isn't tricking me, didn't Kasparov once get a game where early in the opening he didn't know the line, so he sat down for 45 minutes and worked out that the best move is Qc7, and went on ...
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Why not let players occasionally take back moves or try different variations in serious classical games?
Sorry if it sounds sacrilegious, you all probably know which move I'm talking about. (Edit: for future readers, it's the latest mate-in-2 blunder by the current World Champion Ding against Magnus ...
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How to analyze new opening, in a tournament time-frame, as an intermediate?
This is a hypothetical question as I'm not actually taking part in tournaments but the question is I think worth posing.
I was non-chalantly playing this as black against a chess.com bot:
[StartPly &...
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Is this what I should have done or should do next?
When I analyze my game, is the analysis machine (stock fish lite on chess.com) telling me what move or I should made instead of the one I just made, or is it telling me what move it thinks I should ...
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Why is this position so good for Black?
[Title "White to move"]
[FEN "4r1k1/pp3pb1/2r3pp/8/3R2PP/2N5/PP3P2/1K4R1 w - - 0 27"]
This position is from the TCEC Season 26 superfinal, game 21 with White to play. It looks ...
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What is the "main line"?
I often encounter this in tactic quizzes - the answer the defender plays
"in the main line" I don't even consider because I think there is something better.
(I'm a strong defender, but of ...
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How do you systematically analyze an arbitrary chess position?
I've recently been learning the fundamentals of the game using the chess.com lessons and game reviews, but the thing I can't seem to figure out is how to even know what to look for or focus when ...
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Are there Chess AIs that factor in moves’ practicality for humans?
Sometimes Chess engines identify the best move as a move that’s mathematically the best but would be difficult for a novice/intermediate to pull off because it must be followed up by a specific, ...
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Are there sites that specialize in engine checking old chess books?
I bought some old chess books from the 80's, 90's, early 2000's, and some even older ones. Certainly they are not engine proofed or checked.
Are there sites that are dedicated to checking these books ...
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Why is Ncxe5 more accurate than Ndxe5?
In a rapid game I played on Chess.com, I played the KID and got this position:
[Title "Black to Move"]
[FEN "r3qrk1/pppn1pbp/2n3p1/4P1B1/2P1P1b1/2N2N2/PP2B1PP/R2Q1RK1 b - - 4 12"]
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