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What is the worst opening move in Chess960 for White?

answered Jan 29, 2020 at 4:38

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Stockfish: What is the maximum (minimum) centipawn score that a position might be evaluated at?

answered Jan 20, 2020 at 10:52

15 votes

What is the origin/history of the traditional piece values?

answered Jul 3, 2019 at 20:41

14 votes

How should I play after, or refute, the Tennison Gambit?

answered Jun 22, 2019 at 7:59

12 votes

Is rotating a pawn so that it faces a different direction and then moves in that direction technically permitted according to the 2018 FIDE Laws?

answered Dec 10, 2019 at 17:52

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Can an Irwin Cheat Detector catch a user who is using a Leela chess bot for cheating?

answered Jun 13, 2019 at 17:38

7 votes

Arrange 5 non-attacking knights on a 5x5 toroidal board

answered Dec 12, 2019 at 18:54

6 votes

Is there an online database for the endgame KRPPKRP?

answered Jun 19, 2019 at 8:54

5 votes

What is an accurate way to evaluate chess positions?

answered Jun 30, 2019 at 23:48

5 votes

Long algebraic notation-piece promotion

answered Jun 13, 2019 at 17:54

5 votes

Why isn't chess played with flat pieces?

answered Jun 23, 2019 at 14:55

4 votes

How do generic game engines work?

answered Oct 17, 2019 at 20:41

4 votes

How do they determine the starting position for Fisher Random / Chess 960?

answered Nov 1, 2019 at 20:50

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What can I learn from my "80 average centipawn loss" game, which I thought I played well?

answered Dec 25, 2019 at 10:47

4 votes

Stockfish 10 working on only 1 core at a time

answered Jan 11, 2020 at 7:35

3 votes

Can engines use the current pawn structure to refine its search/eval?

answered Nov 13, 2019 at 14:23

3 votes

ChessBase Nalimov tablebases

answered Dec 22, 2019 at 14:54

2 votes

Why didn't Donald Byrne capture with the queen instead of pawn (against 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Game of the Century)?

answered Jan 11, 2020 at 13:11

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How many moves can be expressed with algebraic chess notation?

answered Oct 8, 2019 at 4:20

2 votes

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What do the numbers mean at the end of predicted variation opcode in and EPD entry?

answered Mar 3, 2020 at 7:01

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What are the maximum number of pieces that can be checking a king at once

answered Oct 9, 2019 at 1:21

1 vote

An objective measure of the difference in strength between top programs and top human players in the four most popular forms of chess?

answered Jun 27, 2019 at 18:18

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Chess software that enables you to set up a position from scratch?

answered Nov 8, 2019 at 5:23

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Why is Fritz 16 Grandmaster Playing Weak Endgames?

answered Dec 22, 2019 at 10:58

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What is the worst opening move in Chess960 for White?

Stockfish: What is the maximum (minimum) centipawn score that a position might be evaluated at?

What is the origin/history of the traditional piece values?

How should I play after, or refute, the Tennison Gambit?

Is rotating a pawn so that it faces a different direction and then moves in that direction technically permitted according to the 2018 FIDE Laws?

Can an Irwin Cheat Detector catch a user who is using a Leela chess bot for cheating?

Arrange 5 non-attacking knights on a 5x5 toroidal board

Is there an online database for the endgame KRPPKRP?

What is an accurate way to evaluate chess positions?

Long algebraic notation-piece promotion

Why isn't chess played with flat pieces?

How do generic game engines work?

How do they determine the starting position for Fisher Random / Chess 960?

What can I learn from my "80 average centipawn loss" game, which I thought I played well?

Stockfish 10 working on only 1 core at a time

Can engines use the current pawn structure to refine its search/eval?

ChessBase Nalimov tablebases

Why didn't Donald Byrne capture with the queen instead of pawn (against 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Game of the Century)?

How many moves can be expressed with algebraic chess notation?

What do the numbers mean at the end of predicted variation opcode in and EPD entry?

What are the maximum number of pieces that can be checking a king at once

An objective measure of the difference in strength between top programs and top human players in the four most popular forms of chess?

Chess software that enables you to set up a position from scratch?

Why is Fritz 16 Grandmaster Playing Weak Endgames?