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Great work! I always imagined it could be quite useful to use Fairy/MV-SF search as an oracle for generating a solution tree for variants where the engine can not directly solve it in a single search …

Considering that their response to privacy concerns usually is ghosting I can't say I am surprised.

I think many variants can be good for your chess. Likely no training on chess variants will help your chess as much as training on chess itself though, but if you enjoy playing them and it still helps…

@WWWWWWWWWMWWWWWWWWWW said in #12: > Looks like that bishops are weaker than rooks is not simply due to the quirk of our boards being 8x8 then! Since nobody claimed this, I am not sure where you are g…

I think the core problem here is that in all other variants there is always a clear relation between which player reached a non-draw final position and who wins, in combination with the engine reporti…

@WWWWWWWWWMWWWWWWWWWW said in #5: > What if the board were something like 12x12 or 15x15, with the same starting pieces (but more distance between White and Black)? Good question, but hard to tell. If…

Yes, that's true. Unfortunately Fairy-SF doesn't really support different geometries, so I can't easily test it. The only thing it can do is to change geometry by excluding squares, so I did in fact t…

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If you want to practice this mindset I can highly recommend trying out Shogi. When the nature of the game makes draws almost impossible (~1%), it frees your mind of these distracting thoughts about dr…

The forum is basically the pychess discord server. If you join it you can e.g. also find there the original EPD file the alice puzzles were imported from https://discord.com/channels/63429868866319158…