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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 39...Ke7:

Poll result: 39. Rd6+
Computer move: 39...Ke7

Choose a move to reply to 38...Kd7:

Poll result: 38. Rb6
Computer move: 38...Kd7

Choose a move to reply to 37...Ke7:

Poll result: 37. Rd6+
Computer move: 37...Ke7

Choose a move to reply to 36...Kd7:

Poll result: 36. Rb6
Computer move: 36...Kd7

Choose a move to reply to 35...Ke7:

Poll result: 35. Rd6+
Computer move: 35...Ke7

Choose a move to reply to 34...Kd7:

Poll result: 34. f4
Computer move: 34...Kd7

Choose a move to reply to 33...Na5:

Poll result: 33. Rb6
Computer move: 33...Na5

Choose a move to reply to 32...Ke7:

Poll result: 32. Rxd6+
Computer move: 32...Ke7

Choose a move to reply to 31...cxd6:

Poll result: 31. Nxd6
Computer move: 31...cxd6

Choose a move to reply to 30...Nxb3:

Poll result: 30. Nf7
Computer move: 30...Nxb3