Questions tagged [annotation]
For questions about annotated chess games and the symbols used when annotating chess games.
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Is there a way to get blunders, mistakes and inaccuracies using Stockfish?
Stockfish provides the best moves/lines but is there a command or technique to get inaccuracies, mistakes and blunders? How is this done by lichess or chess.com?
They also have the ability to show an ...
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Hamppe-Meitner, the final verdict?
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1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Bc5 3.Na4 Bxf2+
For those of you who never heard of Hamppe-Meitner. Now I dimly remember that a super engine somewhere found a White win, but even the bringer of the ...
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Where can Botvinnik's analysis of Botvinnik - Gligoric, Tel Aviv 1964 be found?
I have seen an old post in a chess forum referring to Botvinnik's own analysis of the game presented below. I have searched, but did not find it. Where can the analysis be found?
If you can provide a ...
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ChessBase and Scid vs Pc Annotation
I am legally blind, but I love to play chess. I like to annotate games. Chess.com does it right in my opinion, but only because the arrows are thick and opaque. I am wondering, is it possible to ...
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Why is this move into a simple forced mate annotated dubious and not a blunder?
In a recent game against a weak computer opponent on lichess, I (white) was in the following position:
[FEN "Q4k1r/p1Nbbppp/1pn1p3/8/5B2/5N2/P1K1nPPP/R6R b - - 0 1"]
The AI played the move ...
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Why is Tal talking about 10. Qf7 when 10.... N5f6 is possible?
I am picking from the book "Attack with Mikhail Tal" Chapter 1, pg 6. Tal annotates the steps and his thought process on the Tal-Larsen 1965 match.
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1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. ...
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Benefits of studying annotated grandmaster games
I've started reading about the 1960 Tal vs Botvinnik match and I'm planning on studying many annotated games like these. I was curious about what benefits I can get out of doing this. I've already ...
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Why don't people develop a annotation symbol for "best moves"? [closed]
In chess, exclamation points ("!") indicate good moves and the double exclamation point ("!!") is used for very strong moves. However, I do not know any symbol for "best moves&...
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Why aren't early opening moves generally given exclamation marks?
As the title above, why aren't early opening moves generally given exclamation marks? I see question marks for obvious opening mistakes from time to time, e.g. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6? or 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Bg4?! ...
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How to visualize variations clearly? [duplicate]
So,I'm reading some annotated games and analyzing them in some app.I feel too lazy to make separate moves for the variations give and tend to do them in my head,but i find it difficult to do after say ...
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Resources for annotated or commented games by level of audience
Similar questions have been asked before here or here. Still I think it would be more useful to have these resources listed by level. There is not much point for a beginner to listen to a GM ...
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Chess Annotation Software
I frequently use chess.com to self-analyze and annotate my games. Although it has a useful feature to save my annotated game as a url (which I then save as a bookmark), I'd rather switch to local ...
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Is this how to annotate your own chess games properly?
I created a Lichess study of a game I played the game an hour ago and have tried to annotate it. Would anyone care to have a look and see if I'm missing the point of I annotation all together? For ...
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What is an "artificial" move?
Sometimes I see a move or serial of moves described as "artificial" What does this mean? Here is one example, comments by Kasparov on move 10. ..cxd4. Taken from "Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, ...
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Penalty for violating FIDE rule 8.1.2 - writing moves in advance
At one of the chess league fixtures recently, one of the players was writing moves in advance of moving the pieces on the board.
As per the FIDE rule 8.1.2 it's forbidden to do so, but in practice ...
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PGN format and comments with tag pairs
Currently making a parser for PGN files. And wondering if there is any practice of using commentary in Tag pair section, like:
[Event "Tournament X"];hosted once a year
[Event "Tournament X"]{hosted ...
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Chessbase training annotation
I am using the training annotation function of ChessBase quite extensively but have now encountered a problem. I am using ChessBase 11. When I save a game with training annotation as a pgn-file and ...
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What does "Precision: White = nn%, Black = nn%" mean in a game broadcast by chessbase.com?
The game "Salgado L, Iván vs Arroyo R, Jesús, 83rd ESP-ch 1-0", shows this annotation after the last move:
Precision: White = 93%, Black = 18%.
What does that phrase mean?
Check https://es....
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Sites which provide annotated openings (preferably interactive)
I'm looking for a site that provides well-annotated openings, giving at least the first 15-20 moves of major openings and allowing me to explore their main variations and lines (by clicking on the ...
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Comment/variation with different starting position
When annotating games, I sometimes want to add a comment which starts from a position that is different from the current position.
Like:
1. d4 d5 2.c4 { Our previous game went 1.e4 c5 ...}
Or:
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Unfamiliar with this move notation
I'm not even sure what to call this one. I'm reading Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation and Gambit System by Anatoly Karpov.
In the first chapter karpov mentions a move order:
e4 c6
d4 d5
f3
So ...
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Automated annotation of good moves
It is easy enough to use a chess engine to "annotate" a game to the extent of pointing out mistakes and blunders: when the evaluation function drops by greater than a certain amount, the move is ...
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How are chess variations meant to be read
This is a sample position from a book (no further details are given to avoid copyright issues).
I can read the first line and follow it in my mind, departing from the figure. But the continuation in ...
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What does the annotation symbol "TR" mean?
I've seen commentators use this symbol at the end of their analysis but I don't know what it means. Does anyone know?
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Enter non-game moves in ChessBase
One problem I have with ChessBase is that often I need to enter moves that are non sequential in a comment. For example, I might have a comment like "with the idea of g5 followed by Bb7". There is no ...
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Delete annotations in pgn games
Using ChessBase 13, I saved a bunch of games in PGN format. Is there a simple way to suppress the comments of all annotated games? I would like to avoid doing it one by one.
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What is the purpose of editorial comments in Informants?
I was browsing an old Informant today and came across an editorial comment, marked with RR. I've seen several of them at the beginning of a game that reference another game, involving a completely ...
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Calculate the first N unknown moves of a chess game
Greetings fellow chess friends,
Here is a quick idea that came to my mind.
I am interested in writing a software that is able to calculate and/or guess the first n unknown moves of a given chess ...
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Using Tarrasch Chess GUI to annotate
I just started using Tarrasch so I am learning how it works.
I usually play on chess.com and after the game I ask for the computer analysis which usually when an annotation is added it first adds the ...
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Java Library for PGN parser
I would like to find a Java library that will allow me to read a PGN file that could contain several chess games, probably with comments inserted also. But, it won't be used to generate moves or play ...
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Understand some of my positional mistakes
Would somebody mind taking a look at my game that I annotated below. I am having difficulty understanding a few of my mistakes. (Namely on moves 5,7,12,17). Thanks.
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What do D and +-- mean in chess annotation?
When using Stockfish to annotate some of my games, I will often get the symbols D and +--, which I can't find definitions for. I think that +- means “decisive advantage” for White, and that +-- might ...
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Chess Software for analysis and notes
I am looking for software that has chess engine analysis but also allows me to take notes and save games. I have used Scid in the past for this and liked it, but I just want to see if there is ...
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Commented games for beginners
I'm looking for a website where we can find annotated games for beginners. I mean games with basic comments and lenght of the game is short.
The best would be that we can see the pieces moving but ...
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Good resource for annotated games
I'm finding annotated chess games very handy to increase my level of chess knowledge.
Are there any recommendations on good online resources for annotated games?
I've found a few, but the annotations ...
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What should an arbiter do if a player has illegally stopped notating?
Situation: a standard game, 1 hour 40 minutes for the game with 10 seconds increment per move. FIDE rules. White has two minutes left and has stopped writing down his moves, as he is allowed to ...
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FIDE rules regarding use of foreign languages in algebraic notation
Article 8.1a states that:
In the course of play each player is required to record his own moves
and those of his opponent in the correct manner, move after move, as
clearly and legibly as ...
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What does "+-" mean in algebraic notation?
I'm familiar with chess notation, but this has left me scratching my head. Looking at this answer, I see two games ending with moves marked as "+-" or "-+" (plus-minus or minus-plus). What does this ...
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What does it mean to win "by force"?
I occasionally see annotations/commentary where a move / line is said to make (for example) white win "by force". I am unsure if it has the general sense of "this move initiates a forcing sequence ...
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Automatically annotating the beginning of my games
I play chess online and use an engine to review the game afterwards. This works well when I get out of the opening, but under my current configuration (Raptor GUI running StockFish) I don't get great ...
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Online personalized database resource
I'm searching for the possibility of having my personal database of annotated games in the cloud, my games included. I already read this post: 1) http://chessmicrobase.com/ looks nice, although basic, ...
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I would like an iPad app for annotating my games
I would like an app for annotating my games and/or replay others' games. Do you have any suggestions?
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