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The chess.com engine isnt very accurate in analysis. for example, it says that white has a decisive advantage when its clearly a draw and it even points out that i should play kf7 rather than kh8 so white will have a decisive advantage. besides this example, it lists openings such as the sicillian and caro kann as a mistake or inaccuracy and lists the french as the most equalizing move. i think this should be fixed

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I think in general engine evaluation algorithms can't be trusted in endgames.  That's why we have Nalimov tablebases.  Coding an evaluation algorithm that works for endgames, if possible, would likely weaken it's middlegame performance.

Perhaps the solution is for the chess.com analyzer / computer workout to use tablebases.

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Used to have a pretty decent analysis engine onsite, but whether the "book" is broken or they've downgraded to a simpler engine, it is hilariously missing in action.  Many many complaints over the last months about this....

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avi97 wrote:

The chess.com engine isnt very accurate in analysis. for example, it says that white has a decisive advantage when its clearly a draw and it even points out that i should play kf7 rather than kh8 so white will have a decisive advantage. besides this example, it lists openings such as the sicillian and caro kann as a mistake or inaccuracy and lists the french as the most equalizing move. i think this should be fixed

So do a lot of other members, but in the meantime I'm just using my own engines (Houdini 1.5, Fritz 13, Rybka 2.3 etc) which are far superior to the crappy software chess.com is providing. It's very easy to download and install free chess programs such as Arena and free chess engines that aren't a waste of time to use, although the one here is still good for pointing out tactical errors and blunders.

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the problem is these free engines work well according to your computers performance. I would say my computer is very fast and this is the result i got with it. 

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25 nodes in 10 minutes on one position

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avi97 wrote:

25 nodes in 10 minutes on one position

Nope. That's a depth of 25 plies and about 1.6 billion nodes.

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cll3 wrote:

speak of enigines i downloaded arena 3.0. Does anyone know how i can get it to display each candidate move and not just 1 mainline?

No hijacking, dude! {#emotions_dlg.yell}