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Why is this a “Brilliant Move”?

The move 8. e3 moves the pawn from e2 and allows the queen a clearer path to black's (undefended) knight on h5. Piggy-backing of Bansel's analysis 8... Bxg5 9. Nxg5 Qxg5, black is now open to the ...
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Examples of Computers failing

A good example is the following position from a study by William Rudolph (which is also in the posting linked to by ASTA): 3B4/1r2p3/r2p1p2/bkp1P1p1/1p1P1PPp/p1P4P/PPB1K3/8 w - - 0 1 1. Ba4+! Kxa4 2. ...
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Is there a way to use Stockfish to see tactics that aren't necessarily great?

Created a script that will detect the following tactical themes. pins forks double check undermine It will read the games in the pgn file. Visit each position in the game and run stockfish at ...
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Is there a way to use Stockfish to see tactics that aren't necessarily great?

I found something pretty cool, which I guess doesn't answer my question, but it's pretty close in nature: Lichess has a "Boris Trapsky" bot, in which it makes blunders, or sacs pieces that, ...
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What is the effect of the processor type for chess infinite analysis using the current version of Stockfish?

The way the question is stated seems to conflate two concepts: Does the accuracy of the engine reach an "asymptote" after depth 60 beyond which there are only "insignificant ...
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Is there a way to use Stockfish to see tactics that aren't necessarily great?

Using the "top n lines" approach, one way of finding tactics that "almost" work is to look for moves that are at the same time: Sacrifice material (a light officer or more) Get a ...
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Reasonable engines to test against (Not StockFish)

StockFish is extremely good, and even given extremely little time will perform well. This makes it difficult to see the changes in the engine's strategy which resulted from a change in the engine's ...
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Is there a way to use Stockfish to see tactics that aren't necessarily great?

If you use Stockfish via some sort of GUI, like Scid, Scid vs PC, Fritz or Chessbase, as most people do, then your GUI will have an option to show not just the best sequence of moves but the best n ...
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Is there a way to use Stockfish to see tactics that aren't necessarily great?

No. Stockfish is designed to always assume optimal play, so it treats all the moves it finds "equally" without any consideration for difficulty. Keep in mind that engines are a tool to ...
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Chess puzzles and gnuchess/xboard

Try increasing the ResignScore option Options ResignScore Default: 600 This is the score in centipawns that will trigger resign "counting".
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Can chess bots adapt to changes?

There are engines that can play chess variants when told the rules in some chess variant description language. I think Fairy-Stockfish is the most widely used one. The github page for it claims that ...
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Can chess bots adapt to changes?

No, at least if you're intending to use the rule change in your advantage. For instance, you could threat the enemy queen with pawns between them and there's no way for the computer to be aware of the ...
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How should I configure Stockfish if I want it to play as a 2800 ELO player without the UCI_LimitStrength value?

You can change the depth of the Engine, 10 depth is around 2400 ELO, and depth 18 is 3200 ELO. The highest depth 99 is around 4050 ELO(approx. 4023 ELO)
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