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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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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 ask stockfish from the command line if a position is "quiet"?
Stockfish supports an eval command which dumps the static positional evaluation (not in a format that is meant for computer parsing, but it's still doable). You can parse the output of that, and then ...
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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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