Best-move arrows showing different moves than engine tab

[csaavedra]

Sometimes the best-move arrows fall out of sync with the best moves in the engine tab. I think this happens often when the position is still being analyzed by the engine and often when the best lines are updated, the arrows will sync correctly again, but when they fall out of sync after reaching depth 24 and the engine stops analyzing, they stay in a different position than what the engine tab is showing.

If you are not looking at the engine tab, you might not even notice this.

[veloce]

Are you sure about this? Here in the screenshot I see 3 arrows corresponding to 3 lines.

[jas14]

I don't see the 21... Bf5 line shown, but the other two seem to be right

[csaavedra]

Yes, the best line 21... Bf5 is the one missing. IIRC that line was not among the best lines as of a lower depth, so that's probably why it wasn't showing. At depth 24 it is the best line, but the arrows are not up-to-date. If you let the engine continue running through the + button, it will probably show up.

[csaavedra]

Here is another example where the best move Be7 has no arrow. This at depth 24:

Then if you let the engine go deeper, after the evaluations are updated the arrows show up correctly:

[veloce]

Thanks for all the details. I noticed that each time you have superposed arrows (here Nb4 for instance). This could lead to something.

[csaavedra]

Still happening:

[artiphishle]

is lichess dead? should I fork it? how can nobody address an issue in 2 years?

[jas14]

@phaebster https://lichess.org/blog/Y2Z47hEAAGUB7i7A/lichess-recruits-full-time-mobile-developer. You're welcome to create a fork and open a PR against this repository if you don't want to wait for the rewritten app.

[artiphishle]

@jas14 thank you so much! I'd love to join lichess. I've played over 48k games here and I am software developer for over 20 years, also in eLearning domains. (wrote another issue, was shocked. good to know there is news coming soon)

Are you recruiting more dev's? I would even offer you better conditions when I can work at lichess as it would combine chess with web development, just what I want to do for a living.

[jas14]

@phaebster lichess is a free, open-source project/organization powered almost exclusively by volunteers, such as myself. To my knowledge, they are not hiring more developers; veloce was a very special case because he was the creator of the mobile app and has been its maintainer since its inception, and the organization grew large enough to require a full-time mobile developer. If you'd like to donate your time or money, please read https://lichess.org/help/contribute 🙂

[jas14]

@scha-ch it sounds like you are working on a lot of cool projects and are certainly passionate about chess! That being said, I think you misunderstand - I'm just a volunteer. I don't even maintain this repository, I just contribute for free sometimes. I'm certainly not among the people who would decide to hire you.

This being said, please also understand that Lichess is its community of almost entirely volunteers, most of whom have jobs elsewhere and contribute to Lichess through code, moderation, and in other ways in their free time.

You're welcome to come check out the Lichess discord, but I'm afraid I can't help you re: employment.

[csaavedra]

@jas14 (I've changed my username, phaebster here hehe, it's my chess github account) Thanks for your reply. Let's find out if there can be two special cases then. Reasons would be:

This is a bug report in an issue tracker, not the appropriate place for applying for a job and it certainly hurts your case if you can't realize this. Please keep the discussion on-topic.