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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 16. Be3:

Poll result: 15...Bxd4
Computer move: 16. Be3

Choose a move to reply to 15. Nxd4:

Poll result: 14...Nd4
Computer move: 15. Nxd4

Choose a move to reply to 14. Qb3:

Poll result: 13...Bf6
Computer move: 14. Qb3

Choose a move to reply to 13. cxd5:

Poll result: 12...Nxd5
Computer move: 13. cxd5

Choose a move to reply to 12. Rxd5:

Poll result: 11...Qh3
Computer move: 12. Rxd5

Choose a move to reply to 11. c4:

Poll result: 10...Rad8
Computer move: 11. c4

Choose a move to reply to 10. Rd1:

Poll result: 9...Qd7
Computer move: 10. Rd1

Choose a move to reply to 9. a3:

Poll result: 8...Qxc8
Computer move: 9. a3

Choose a move to reply to 8. Bxc8:

Poll result: 7...d5
Computer move: 8. Bxc8

Choose a move to reply to 7. O-O:

Poll result: 6...O-O
Computer move: 7. O-O