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Material that doesn't actually hang (Training)
To "keep him from running away to the local big club as long as possible" is morally wrong.
Forwarding him to another learning environment is not an oopsie Bxh2 and g3 wins your student. ...
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Material that doesn't actually hang (Training)
You could create any puzzle that lures a piece (rook?) away to back-rank mate.
Similarly, you could also create one that, if taken, loses protection for any other piece in the Mid-game and Opening. ...
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Anti-Tactics Chess Puzzles?
Dan Heisman wrote a book Looking for Trouble : Recognizing and Meeting Threats in Chess. I'd rate it as one of my better chess books & I believe it's still available as an ebook.
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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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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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