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Lichess Feedback - What does "n" as an unit mean?#7

A node is a term usually used when talking about graphs. In this context: chess engines usually perform some sort of graph / tree search. A node then corresponds to a chess position. So 2 MN/s roughly…


MoistvonLipwig
Lichess Feedback - Feature: computer assisted accounts - the best anti-cheating feature#6

That's fair. You don't need to go through the trouble of understanding that lichess-bot stuff, but I don't know if there's an easier way than this https://lichess.org/api#tag/Bot/operation/botAccountU…


MoistvonLipwig
Lichess Feedback - Feature: computer assisted accounts - the best anti-cheating feature#4

The entire premise is simply incorrect. BOTs can definitely be used with "human assistence", there have even been bot accounts that did twitch plays or similar things. So if you want cyborg chess, sim…


MoistvonLipwig
Lichess Feedback - Computation of tournament performance ratings#2

I agree that this is a more natural approach. It breaks down at the extremes but for those cases the concept of tournament performance does not make much sense anyway. With Elo this should be quite ch…


MoistvonLipwig
Community Blog Discussions - Comments on piece values#3

Interesting that the commoner value does not depend as much on the game phase as one might have thought. Though I suppose for the actual king, the fact that one less likely to get checkmated in the en…


MoistvonLipwig
Community Blog Discussions - Finding the value of pieces#11

The relevant question for the power of the king would be how much an additional king moving piece with no royal powers would be worth. If e.g. the Nb1 instead was a non royal king piece. I did try som…


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Lichess Feedback - BLack e5 bug#12

I thought the pawn bug had already been fixed! https://lichess.org/blog/XKJWmhAAACUAkPqT/the-pawn-bug-finally-fixed Maybe something broke it again recently.


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Lichess Feedback - Kein Teilnehmen Button bei Turnieren in der App auf Android#2

So weit ich weiß, ist das über die App nicht möglich. Generell wird empfohlen auch auf mobilen Endgeräten über die Website zu spielen. Zur Not kann man glaube ich aber auch über die Website dem Turnie…


MoistvonLipwig
General Chess Discussion - Who is alphazero?#16

@nooboss "It's not like Stockfish. Stockfish is a classical engine using alpha/Beta search and Alpha Zero is neural net trained with reinforcement learning." While this statement is not strictly wrong…


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Game analysis - was this sacrifice unsound?#11

Definitely agree that the exact name does not matter much. Just wanted to clarify in case people see the term in books or similar. And yeah, chess is a hard game unfortunately. Or fortunately, would b…


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