chessroots

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   by chessroots 7y ago

   You're very likely correct. The Lichess dataset that we have used contains almost all live games played on the site. As fast time controls seem to be more popular on Lichess generally, and take less time to play, we do see a lot more o
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   by chessroots 7y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. I like the idea of adding position evaluations. Perhaps we could do this with a precomputed pass over the dataset, or possibly do a shallow analysis in the browser using a js port of stockfish, though this is probab
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   by chessroots 7y ago

   Our website is designed to be a more general viewer for these interesting chess datasets, although our main database is the Lichess one because of its size, we do also have other datasets from tournament games, and from chess engines playin
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   by chessroots 7y ago

   There are a few ways I find the graph representation of openings to be interesting: You can naturally view transpositions in a way that can be tricky with other opening explorers. I find coloring moves by player rating to be very helpful fo
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   by chessroots 7y ago

   Using the Lichess Database containing every live Lichess game ever played, we created a website to visualize chess openings. Each move on the graph is colored by the average Lichess rating of a player who makes it, you can use the graph to
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   Show HN: We used 890M chess games to make an interactive opening graph(chessroots.com)

   295 points by chessroots 7y ago|38 comments