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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 55. g7:

Poll result: 54...Kd3
Computer move: 55. g7

Choose a move to reply to 54. Kd6:

Poll result: 53...Bb3
Computer move: 54. Kd6

Choose a move to reply to 53. g6:

Poll result: 52...Ke2
Computer move: 53. g6

Choose a move to reply to 52. g5:

Poll result: 51...Ba4
Computer move: 52. g5

Choose a move to reply to 51. Rc5:

Poll result: 50...c2
Computer move: 51. Rc5

Choose a move to reply to 50. Re5:

Poll result: 49...Kf2
Computer move: 50. Re5

Choose a move to reply to 49. Kxc7:

Poll result: 48...Rxc7+
Computer move: 49. Kxc7

Choose a move to reply to 48. Kb7:

Poll result: 47...Bb5+
Computer move: 48. Kb7

Choose a move to reply to 47. Rxe6:

Poll result: 46...Rc5
Computer move: 47. Rxe6

Choose a move to reply to 46. Ka6:

Poll result: 45...Rb5+
Computer move: 46. Ka6