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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 5. Bb3:

Poll result: 4...b5
Stockfish's move: 5. Bb3

Choose a move to reply to 4. Ba4:

Poll result: 3...a6
Stockfish's move: 4. Ba4

Choose a move to reply to 44...Nd1:

Poll result: 44. Rf2
Fruit's move: 44...Nd1

Choose a move to reply to 3. Bb5:

Poll result: 2...Nc6
Stockfish's move: 3. Bb5

Choose a move to reply to 2. Nf3:

Poll result: 1...e5
Stockfish's move: 2. Nf3

Choose a move to reply to 1. e4:

New Game vs Stockfish
Stockfish's move: 1. e4

Choose a move to reply to 43...Kc7:

Poll result: 43. Rf8+
Fruit's move: 43...Kc7

The humans resign!
Current score: Mastodon 6.0, Stockfish 40.0

Choose a move to reply to 45...Nc5+:

Poll result: 45. Ke3
Stockfish's move: 45...Nc5+

Choose a move to reply to 44...Nd3+:

Poll result: 44. Kf4
Stockfish's move: 44...Nd3+

Choose a move to reply to 42...Kb8: