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I agree with the other two answers, but I feel like I also need to comment on the beginning of the game since there was A LOT more important stuff there than just the answer to why Qxg5.
This is very similar to a Kalashnikov Sicilian by transposition with the exception that the knight is on c3 instead of a pawn on e4, but the ideas are very similar. In ...
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In addition to Allure's comments. Two pieces is favourable to a rook in a position like this where there's no clear squares for the a8-rook to attack, but lot's of squares in the center for the two minor pieces to control.
Black is definitely better after the exchange.
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White does indeed fork the king & rook after Nc7+ - but after Nxa8, the knight is not escaping, so Black is at worst even on material.
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1. d4 c5 2. Nf3 cxd4 3. Nxd4 Nc6 4. Nc3 e5 5. Ndb5 Bb4 6. Bg5? Qxg5 7. Nc7+ Kd8 8. Nxa8
After something like ...b6 followed by Bb7, the knight's a goner. White can get at most one pawn for the knight (after ...
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I'm having the same issue and I know why it happens. When I have a game with comments/annotations after any of the moves that are within the annotation tags (as viewed in a text editor) like "1.e4 {this is normal} e5, then if I add a variation in the app such as "1. e4 this is normal 1...e5 (1... d5!?)" and then hit save, then stockfish app has saved the ...
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If after making a move the engine’s score for the position is virtually unchanged - it’s good move!
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Is there any way to find good moves that I made, rather than just non-mistakes?
Actually, in most cases, it's doing this already. The reason your moves aren't showing up is probably that they're not actually good moves!
the evaluation shows I made a suboptimal move even though against this particular opponent it resulted in me winning a piece
The ...
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Run Stockfish in multi-PV mode. This makes Stockfish suggest multiple moves. If the move you chose is preferred by Stockfish to others, then it's a "good move".
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Sorry, computer engines are not designed to think like a human. It's a machine, it's written to play strong chess. There is no intelligence in there to think like that.
The "good moves" you mentioned were actually bad moves at Stockfish's level.
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it doesn't seem to find any good moves that I've made
You are expecting too much is the real issue here, so don't be so hard on yourself. First, and I do not say this to be mean, but your level of play is going to contain mostly bad moves, but they look that much worse because you are being evaluated by a silicon beast. Keep in mind that Stockfish is FAR ...
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The Problem was p.communicate(), which kills the subprocess. The interaction with the engine works well with the following code:
def put(command, inf_list, tmp_time):
engine.stdin.write(command+'\n')
engine.stdin.flush()
time.sleep(tmp_time)
if command <> "quit":
engine.stdin.write('isready\n')
engine.stdin....
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