u/J0zif

I work as a data scientist and play chess badly in my spare time. I'm pretty guilty of finishing work, chilling out with some Chess, and then getting frustraited that I kept making stupid moves. So I'd review my game, feel like I'd learned something, then go lose the next game in exactly the same way.

The issue was I was reviewing one game at a time. At work I'd never draw a conclusion from a single data point — you look at the distribution, you find the pattern across the sample. I wasn't doing that at all with chess.

So I spent a few months building something that does it properly. You put in your Chess.com or Lichess username, it fetches your games, runs them through Stockfish, and instead of a list of blunders per game it shows you which mistakes keep coming back across all of them.

I ran it on my own games first. Turns out my most common mistake, in 33 out of 50 games, is that when I have a check or capture available, I don't take it. I play something passive instead and hand over the initiative. I genuinely did not know this about myself. I thought I was losing because of endgames.

Also found out my win rate in the Giuoco Piano is around 20%. I play it regularly and thought I was fine. The Kings Indian, which I always feel confused in, I'm scoring 58% in. Was about to spend time studying more Giuoco Piano theory. Very glad I didn't.

I don't want to break any rules here so if you want to check out your own games the lmk.

Edit: wow..really pleased with the response, glad so many people want to try it. Thanks to everyone and to avoid providing a link to every commenter I will add it here: https://nextmove-chess.com/

Mods, please let me know if this is not allowed and I'll remove it.

Edit 2: lots of users on it currently which I didn't expect that response so the server is struggling a little bit and so analysis is very slow. Will be monitoring it this afternoon and hopefully should hold up but if it does crash or is intermittent then I will be my best to up the server capacity to avoid any issues.

This is also raising some great information on bugs and other issues so if you find something, please feel free to report it and I'll add it to the list of fixes to make.

Thanks all!

Found this guy hanging out on a golf course today, after googling him I could only really identify him to be a painted turtle. However, I read that these are not native to Portugal and so am wondering if either this is wrong, or the little guy has managed to escape somewhere?

Location: Algarve, Portugal

Thanks!

Edit: location

Hi guys, brand new to this so this so I may be being very silly, but I am getting nothing but amp hum from this, I have tried with and without the resistor, all I am trying to do is sample my DIY pedal kit through a bread board before starting the soldering.