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Rough guide to #chess notation:

The first (capital) letter is the piece moved: (R)ook, k(N)ight, (B)ishop, (Q)ueen, (K)ing. If there's no first letter that means a pawn.

The letter/number pair refers to the destination square, so Ne6 means "knight to e6," c5 means "pawn to c5"

An x means a capture, so dxc4 would be pawn (on d file) takes at c4, and Bxc7 would be bishop takes c7

A "+" is a check, "#" is checkmate, "=Q" is pawn promotion to a queen, and O-O and O-O-O are castling

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To avoid eternal games, if we go five full moves with no pawn moves or captures, with 6 or fewer pieces on the board, the bot will query an endgame tablebase and adjudicate draws if one has become inevitable. https://github.com/niklasf/lila-tablebase#http-api

New game in about half an hour!

Well that was a good first game! Next game (in about 40 minutes) the computer will be a little bit easier, and we'll work to adjudicate clearly drawn games rather than have them drag on for 50+ moves or until we blunder.

Also, from now on all completed games will be available in a pgn archive at http://doc.petras.space/public/archive.pgn

I tend to use pychess or chessx to analyse games, but you can also look at them online, e.g. at https://www.chess.com/analysis

Choose a move to reply to 34. Re4:

Poll result: 33...Kxg5
Computer move: 34. Re4

Choose a move to reply to 33. Rxh4:

Poll result: 32...Kg6
Computer move: 33. Rxh4

Choose a move to reply to 32. Rf4:

Poll result: 31...Be6
Computer move: 32. Rf4

Choose a move to reply to 31. fxg5:

Poll result: 30...Qxg5
Computer move: 31. fxg5

Choose a move to reply to 30. Qg5:

Poll result: 29...Bxh3
Computer move: 30. Qg5

Choose a move to reply to 29. Ba5:

Poll result: 28...Re8
Computer move: 29. Ba5

Choose a move to reply to 28. Bxe1:

Poll result: 27...Rxe1+
Computer move: 28. Bxe1

Choose a move to reply to 27. Bd2:

Poll result: 26...Qg6
Computer move: 27. Bd2

Choose a move to reply to 26. Re1:

Poll result: 25...Re6
Computer move: 26. Re1

Choose a move to reply to 25. Rd1:

Poll result: 24...Bf5
Computer move: 25. Rd1