Questions tagged [database]
A set of chess games, distributed as a stand-alone product or as part of a bundle of chess software. For endgame databases, use the [tablebases] tag instead.
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Trapped Pieces (Games in DB) [closed]
I have CA 20, CB 17, Chess King 23 & SCID/ChessX/Fritz-18/Arena etc for chess games.
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1- How to find positions of a chess game (using CQL 3.2) within a mega base where one player can ...
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What are the commonest checkmating moves in the Lichess (or similar) database?
I'm curious what checkmating move is the most common in the Lichess database? That is, the properly algebraically specified move, for a given color, like "White plays Re8#".
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What's the maximum number of pieces attacking a single square?
I'm thinking about developing an optimized chess database file format. I can record a single move in 12 bits: two squares, each one with two coordinates, where each one is a number from 1 to 8.
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Training data retrieval
I am currently developing a chess engine which uses minimax algorithm to evaluate chess positions. In addition to this I want to improve my current static evaluation with reinforcement learning. I ...
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What is the shortest game that has never been played?
In the publicly available databases (at all levels of play, including Lichess), what is the shortest unique sequence of moves from the opening which has never occurred? (That is, if it were played, it ...
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What is this wide split in the Kmoch nimzo between stockfish's evaluation and master-level move choice?
In the Kmoch Nimzo Indian (sometimes called the f3 nimzo)
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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3 6. bxc3 c5 (6... dxc4!? 7. e4)
The move 6...c5 is the most popular ...
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Resources To Learn How To Use Chessbase
Chessbase comes up practically everywhere as key software to use for chess improvement, accessing and playing through games, researching etc. As an adult improver (1900 Chess.com), beginner chess ...
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The Most Frequent Checkmate Patterns
Of the main checkmate patterns which are the most frequent (in games that ended with a checkmate)? Based on chess literature the Back-rank mate is arguably the most common, I would expect the Queen ...
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How to access high level tournament game data
I am currently in need of data from high level tournaments for a project and the data needs to include information like each individual move, the engine evaluation after each move, and the time ...
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PGN viewer for large databases?
What are some of the PGN viewers available for viewing/saving/editing a large number of chess games (more than 5k games)?
I am aware of chessbase. What are the other available options?
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Where can I find past Titled Tuesday data
I'm hoping to create a dataset with Chess.com Titled Tuesday results.
I have found this link which has the tournaments https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/titled-tuesdays?&page=7 but for some ...
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Differences between normal chessbase and chessbase Steam
I just recently realised that the chessbase software is available on Steam, which would seem normal to me if it wasn't almost half the price compared to the version on the official website. I have ...
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Chess Match Neustadtl-Porges 1901 Prague
Where can I get the full list of moves in the match between Hermann Neustadtl and Moritz Porges played in Prague in 1901?
I want the moves from the whole match, not just the famous endgame analysis.
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How wide or how narrow should be the repertoire of a 1800 Elo player who still wants to continue to improve?
Should he have one defense against 1.e4 and one defense against 1.d4, or two defenses against 1.e4 and two defenses against 1.d4?
Should he always play the exact same sub-variation of the exact same ...
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What positions are there where the final actual outcome in real games contradict engine evalulation?
This question triggered by a position reached today round 9 in WCC 2023. According to lichess Masters DB that position was reached 17 times in which black won 3 times and the rest are drawn which is ...
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