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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 21. Rd2:

Poll result: 20...Bb5
Stockfish's move: 21. Rd2

Choose a move to reply to 24...f4:

Poll result: 24. Re2
Fruit's move: 24...f4

Choose a move to reply to 20. Nd5:

Poll result: 19...Ne5
Stockfish's move: 20. Nd5

Choose a move to reply to 19. Re2:

Poll result: 18...Nc4
Stockfish's move: 19. Re2

Choose a move to reply to 18. Rd2:

Poll result: 17...Ne3
Stockfish's move: 18. Rd2

Choose a move to reply to 23...Kb8:

Poll result: 23. Be6+
Fruit's move: 23...Kb8

Choose a move to reply to 17. Kb1:

Poll result: 16...Nc4
Stockfish's move: 17. Kb1

Choose a move to reply to 16. Nf4:

Poll result: 15...Rc8
Stockfish's move: 16. Nf4

Choose a move to reply to 15. O-O-O:

Poll result: 14...Bd7
Stockfish's move: 15. O-O-O

Choose a move to reply to 22...Bxf2:

Poll result: 22. Bxf7
Fruit's move: 22...Bxf2