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Re:Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments... by modeless on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:40PM (#28767187)
Where did you source the commentary dataset?
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Re:Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments... by dmurray on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:33AM (#28771385)
Not the author, but ChessBase sell a product (Megabase) which includes 85,000 annotated games in a more-or-less machine readable format. [0]

To me it's probably OK to train a model on this, at least for hobby purposes, though some GitHub Copilot critics might disagree. And a large part of ChessBase's business model is based on ripping off other people's IP and presenting it as their own [1]. But still, I can see why the author might want to be coy about answering this question.

[0] https://en.chessbase.com/post/new-mega-database-2021

[1] https://lichess.org/blog/YCvy7xMAACIA8007/fat-fritz-2-is-a-r...

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Re:Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments... by shmageggy on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @03:56AM (#28770372)
Seconded. I looked around the writeup site for a bit and couldn't figure that out. That's arguably the most important piece of info about this project.
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