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How can we ensure that "good-subjective" questions have a place in chess.se?
There is a wonderful page in the Stackoverflow blog which illustrates the spectrum from objective to subjective questions, and notes that the expertise we want to capture usually falls between those ...
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When I ask for motivations, what I really mean is an assumptions check
Why don't Hikaru, Fabi & Nepo buy out Liren so the 3 of them have a playoff to face Gukesh?
Like I already said:
It's most likely. 1 of my assumptions is wrong. I mean to ask which of the ...
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How is asking about the difference between 2 variants opinion-based?
Do chess960 and chess differ for reasons 'far beyond just opening theory'?
I'm simply asking what features of chess960 are there that make chess960 different from regular chess besides ...
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No [ratibg] requirement
I think we can safely delete the ratibg tag since we already have a perfectly functioning rating tag.
Usage:
ratibg: 0 questions
rating: 374 questions
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Out of date FIDE rating question/answers
There are many old questions about FIDE ratings that are now misleading.
If we edited them all, they would fill the front page for well over a week.
Many of them stil contains useful content, so a ...
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Bounty on the question
I have made so many changes to the question https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/45115/how-does-the-alapin-variation-help-in-avoiding-the-massive-amount-of-theory-behi after every comment. And ...
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Questions inappropriately closed are too hard to reopen
What are the commonest checkmating moves in the Lichess (or similar) database? has been closed by 2 people.
How is it that 2 people are sufficient to close a question, while 5 are required to reopen ...
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What should we do about the guess the password chess puzzles?
There have been a few of these posted lately. I have been down-voting and casting a vote to close. It's been pointed out that as puzzles, they are technically on topic, however, they aren't very ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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New FEN diagram changes?
I noticed diagrams seemed to have changed from gray and white to a much more vibrant tan and brown scheme as of today or so. What others change have been implemented, if any?
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Opinions vs statistics: Polls?
So, yesterday someone from my chess club claimed that he had problem with keeping the
overview of the real board - he was accustomed to online chess with "printed" boards.
Naturally, playing ...
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Should we allow questions about how to get away with cheating with an engine?
This question* asks how to avoid detection when a human player uses an engine to gain advantage against another human. What's the community consensus as to whether such questions are allowed or should ...
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What is our criteria for deciding opinion-based questions? Are they applied consistently?
What are the criteria for a question in this website to be considered opinion-based, and is it somewhat consistently applied?
Such criteria would be necessary for moderators for a topic like chess.
I ...
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Editing Questions for more inclusive language
There were suggested edits to the following question.
What is the status for EIGHT man endgame tablebases?
The edits were to replace "man" with "piece". The reason for the edit &...
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Answer deletion second opinion
I've answered this question with below, and it was deleted. I don't have much to say except to ask for a second look, as it appears the moderator hasn't read my answer past the first line. And, if ...
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Homepage Spammed - Again
Today, the home page was spammed (again) with edits or answers by "user 34927". It bumped a ton of questions and now the home page is quite crowded.
First, what happened?
Second, this is the ...
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June 5 Strike - Who, What, When, Why, and How to Join
Following from Stack Overflow, and as other sites will soon have to (if they don't already have them, I have decided, with some approval, to announce the upcoming June 5 strike on this child meta. It ...
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Homepage spammed
Today, the home page was spammed with edits by "alip" apparently but "alip" never seems to have made said edits. Regardless it bumped a ton of questions and now the home page is ...
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Why was this reopened?
This question was closed for being off-topic and better suited for community building by me, a bunch of other users, and a moderator (I think Brian Towers) yesterday. Then Federico Potoni removed some ...
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Why does spam get an upvote?
This question was pretty clearly spam. And yet, based on users reputation (5 currently) and this being there only post, there must of been an upvote? Why? Spam shouldn't get upvotes? I know it will ...
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Badges that I earned on other sites show up in Chess.SE style in the trophy dialog
For some reason, when on Chess.SE and checking my little trophy thing, the badges show like they would for Chess, even for other sites such as Space Exploration:
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Submitting multiple answers to a puzzle question
For puzzle questions / construction challenges like this one: Longest sequence of moves where number of available moves increases
one may first come up with an initial answer and then later come up ...
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Your new site design is live!
As you can see, the new design just went live!
At this point, we are done with major revisions to the design (although you can still report CSS/styling bugs by starting a new post and tagging it with ...
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Acceptability of ChatGPT generated answers on Chess SE
Chess is different when it comes to forms of artificial intelligence. We use chess engines all the time (except when playing serious games) and using them to answer questions is so normal that it is ...
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Preemptive close reason watch
Who can watch the close reasons for a question which has some, but not yet sufficient close votes? And how to watch? (Moderator tools, probably. For the obvious reason to preemptively improve the ...
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FEN diagram reader breaking on an answer
This is in regard to the only answer for this question.
Upon scrolling back on the FEN reader and then clicking on a specific move in the reader leads to this weird interaction where some pieces just ...
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Chess site design and logo — Draft
Chess community! I’m Chloe, the designer at Stack Exchange who’s working on the upcoming Chess site theme for you. I reviewed your responses to my initial post, and below you'll find the site design I ...
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Late closing of opinion-based post?
Post closed as late as 2023Jan20
What is it about Magnus Carlsen?
Even Brian Towers ♦ edited Jul 20, 2019 at 11:33 (I assume mod at the time? Or not?)
But only 3.5 years later
Post Closed as "...
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Question is about Kramnik Topalov how come there's an answer in general?
How do Kramnik and Topalov indicate a resignation when they play together?
The question:
Which raises the question - how do they go about resigning when playing each other without creating confusion ...
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How big of a problem is it that upvotes are received not by the quality of the answer but by the popularity of the question?
I noticed quite frequently already, that answers that I consider very good and where I (or others) have put in a lot of effort and research are not (only) rewarded by upvotes by their quality but by a ...
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How can I make a chances question not opinion-based? [duplicate]
Perhaps this is different for sports / gaming SE sites, but I notice similar questions on say Law SE or Academia SE eg
Asking the chances of a particular legal strategy: Would it be / have been ...
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Why was the analyse immortal draw question deleted an hour ago?
How do I analyse immortal draw?
I really don't get this game at all. 1 day I just heard about it. I plugged it into lichess. But apparently lichess analysis is getting it wrong. It says move X is a ...
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What is unclear here please?
Farmbitrage: Fixed starting rating for chess960 causes loophole to easily get 2000 rating?
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Why was the endgame post deleted 9 minutes ago?
Here's the post:
https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/35641/practical-endgame-resources-whats-next-after-josh-waitzkins-series-in-chess
I was just submitting an edit for re-opening after this ...
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Why was my shogi question closed and then later re-opened? Who was wrong, and why?
I did spend a lot of time to write that 2nd xiangqi post.
The Chess960 analogue in shogi, xiangqi, etc
The Chess960 analogue in xiangqi
Hope this site will not be so hasty in closing questions by too ...
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Are the people asking questions citing engine analysis without giving a diagram the same person?
They cite a game, describe a position in words, quote some inconclusive engine analysis, and ask for an answer. Examples:
Botvinnik vs Kholmov 1969: is the knight endgame riddle being solved?
Did ...
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Should this question be closed?
Computer science/chess related master's thesis [closed]
I want to link this person with a new initiative in mathematical chess problems which was started from an article in the Spanish magazine ...
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What should be the 1.e4 and 1.d4 tag info
1.e4 tag has a tag info as follows:
e4 is White's most common first move (except at the top grandmaster level). It tends to produce open games.
Do we have any sources that shows "except at the ...
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Replayer freezes the entire webpage
[fen ""]
1. g4 f5 2. gxf5 g5 3. h4 g4 4. h5 Kf7 5. f6 Ke6 6. fxe7 Kf6 7. e8=Q g3 8. Nf3 g2 9. Rh4 g1=B 10. a4 b5 11. axb5 a6 12. bxa6 Bb7 13. axb7 Nc6 14. bxa8=Q Qe7 15. Qeb8 ...
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Moderator deletion of critical comments: Abuse of Power?
This week, while browsing through the site, I happened to come across two of moderator Brian Towers' answers (1, 2). I disagreed with large parts (though not all) of the points raised within, and ...
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The Pgn reader controls are far down the page
When accessing the website on mobile, I find that the pgn controls are far down the page and it takes a second to scroll down, meaning that I can’t go through the moves while viewing the moves. I ...
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Custom Chess SE design and logo - Information gathering
Congratulations, Chess SE community! We’re going to be creating a custom site design for you that we hope will represent your subject and we want you all to really love it. You’ve been waiting three ...
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Proposal: replace current PGN viewer
If you look at pgn-viewer, there are quite a few bugs and feature requests that have never gotten resolved. I ran into one just now in an answer I posted. The last update to the code repo (https://...
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Replayer breaks when the first fullmove number is 10 or more
First fullmove number is 2:
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 2"]
2. Nf3
First fullmove number is 10:
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/...
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PGN Viewer not working for me- what have I done wrong?
I asked this question just now and the PGN viewer won’t appear. I have read some posts in meta under the tag pgn-viewer and specifically the thread Tool used to create chess analysis interactive ...
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Drawing arrows and coloring fields with a flipped board is broken
Normal orientation works:
[FEN ""]
[StartPly "2"]
1. e4 {[%draw arrow,e2,e4,red][%draw full,e1,green]}
Flipping sides doesn't move the drawings:
[FEN ""]
[Startflipped &...
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Related questions
Surely has an answer already (at least on another SE).
Asking more than one question in one post endangers you to "Maybe I could have been more focused" (Lloyd Cole) - but what if those two ...
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How to disable PGN viewer showing "NN - NN"?
If nothing is put in for the title, the PGN viewer shows "NN - NN" as the title, which is confusing and distracting. How can this be suppressed by default?
[FEN ""]
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Can board square letters and numbers be added to the PGN viewer? [duplicate]
I'm not completely familiar with all the squares by heart yet and I think having board square letters and numbers along the files and ranks is a good feature for beginners (who ask most of the ...
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