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Tournament link: https://lichess.org/tournament/960dec22.

Yes, in fact any evaluation other than 0.0 or a mate score is "wrong", in the sense that it would be different if the engine could search the whole game tree until the end of every variation. The eval…

I was looking at the Hyperaccelerated Dragon, and found that after 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. c3 Bg7 4. d4 cxd4 5. cxd4 d5 6. e5 Bg4 (see study), the most common continuation in the master's database is 7.…

@doublecheck-j That might be interesting, but it raises the question which player should be the one to choose first. If we simply remove the option for one player to berserk after the other player has…

One should not get an extra point for winning a berserk game if the opponent also berserked. The way it is now, a double-berserk game is simply much better for both players than a normal game: the gam…

There is a bug in the opening explorer where the "Top games" seems to show a random selection of games (I'm sure it's not random but it's hard to tell exactly how the games are chosen), as opposed to …

It is only cheating if you use engine assistance. You are allowed to use an analysis board (click the microscope icon on the game page), and you are allowed to use an opening book. See https://lichess…

The Wikipedia page is quite good, with lots of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corresponding_squares.

I think the answer is that lichess (or whatever library lichess uses to handle dates and times) always rounds times down, instead of rounding to the nearest value. For instance, 1 hour and 34 minutes …

I'm not sure that 1. e4 is the right choice if you are looking for simple plans that your opponent cannot avoid. You might want to look into the London, Catalan, Nimzo-Larsen, King's Indian Attack.